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* The folk tale "Literature/The Three Sillies" begins when the hero's girlfriend goes to the cellar to draw some ale, sees an axe stuck in the ceiling, and says to herself, "What if I marry my boyfriend and we have a son and we send him downstairs to draw some ale and the axe falls from the ceiling and hits him in the head and kills him?" She sits down and starts to weep. A few minutes later her mother goes down to find out why her daughter hasn't brought up the ale, and upon hearing her daughter's what-if lament, sits down beside her and starts weeping. A few minutes later her father goes down, hears the what-if, and also sits down and starts weeping. Finally the boyfriend goes downstairs to find them all weeping and asks what the matter is. Upon hearing the what-if, he pulls the axe out of the ceiling and leaves, declaring he will come back only when he finds three people even sillier than his girlfriend and her parents.

For this to work, all the characters have to be crying the same way (small crying sounds or [[InelegantBlubbering out right bawling;]] either one works) and/or have tears flowing down the cheeks, not just held within the eyes (or, at least, wiping them from their eyes). And if everyone is CryLaughing, it is not this trope.

** A Season 2 skit featuring a baseball player (Skip Hinnant) who is called out on a play at the plate ... and doesn't take it too well, to say the least. Neither do the umpire, the catcher ... or the radio announcer (Jim Boyd)!

* ''Free To Be ... You and Me'': The 1972 TV special featured the song "It's All Right To Cry," a {{Tearjerker}} ballad by former Los Angeles Rams defensive lineman Rosie Grier, whose lyrics imply just that ... everyone cries at some point for one reason or another.

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': Near the end of "iQuit iCarly", Carly and Sam ([[FeudEpisode who spent most of the episode having a fight]]) have just been rescued from falling from the apartment building while trying to film an iShorts video in a window washer platform. [[TemptingFate They claim that they were brave and didn't cry the whole time]]...only to start crying moments later, prompting Spencer to guide the girls into a hug with each other as they reconcile. This causes Dave and Fleck (who also spent most of the episode having a fight) to start crying as well as they hug and reconcile too. After seeing those unfolding moments, Freddie and Spencer happily decide to share a hug themselves while remaining composed. A moment later, the janitor of the apartment building, Morris, arrives with harnesses for Carly and Sam's video and is left confused when he sees all the hugging and crying.

** The final moments of the famous "I'll Miss You, Mr. Hooper" scene, where Big Bird finally comes to terms that his beloved Mr. Hooper isn't coming back and, as the camera pulls back, the adults embrace Big Bird. Those tears from the adult cast members shed in those moments were very real ... and if they hadn't already, it showed the audience (especially children) that even adults sometimes cry and that in real life, indeed often is the case where everybody in the family cries, often together, when a loved person dies.

* The entire Muppets and the audience (including Statler and Waldorf) does so with Creator/SylvesterStallone as he and The Muppets sings a sad tale of ''A Bird in a Gilded Cage'' on ''Series/TheMuppetShow''
* Occurs in the ''Series/FraggleRock'' episodes "Catch a Tail by the Tiger" and "A Friend in Need". The latter occurs upon Gobo's DisneyDeath.
* ''Series/BetweenTheLions'': Occurs in the episode "A King and His Hawk" when everybody in the library was reading sad stories, no less.
-->''[as Theo is reading ''Literature/TheOldManAndTheSea'']''\\
'''Theo:''' [[ComicallyMissingthePoint Oh, that poor fish]]!

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* Really, any emotionally overwhelming situation or event - a graduation, the final performance of a play, a funeral, a wedding, or even just a really sad scene in a movie or play - will result in the majority getting choked up.
* This is how Creator/{{Socrates}}' friends reacted at his execution when they witnessed him drink the fatal cup of hemlock. Socrates finally had to ask them to restrain themselves so he could die in peace.
* Everybody in Manhattan NY during the September 11th terrorist attack.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', after Mei initially refuses to turn into a panda at Tyler's birthday party, Miriam, Priya, and Abby [[HeroicSacrifice volunteer to stay with Mei and not to attend the 4*Town concert]], since neither of them have enough money for 4 tickets. However, immediately after doing so, the three of them are on the verge of tears, showing how clearly upset they are about it.

->''Everybody had to cry. Not a single eye was dry.''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'': In ''Invasion of the Tinysauruses'', Petrie, Ducky, and Spike all cry TearsOfRemorse after giving Littlefoot a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and the cold shoulder for lying about the Tinysauruses knocking off all the tree-sweets, which caused Littlefoot to walk out on them in frustration. The only one who doesn't cry is Cera when she shows up, instead voicing her disapproval at the sight of her friends crying before getting them to decide that they must apologize to Littlefoot.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', after the Angel of Death took away all the firstborn children's lives, all the Egyptian mothers begin to wail after seeing their dead children, breaking the silence of the night. Rameses mourns for his own son silently. Moses cries along with the sounds of the wailing mothers. Not because he lost a firstborn child, but because he lost his relationship with his foster brother and nephew, not to mention all the destruction in Egypt that happened due to Rameses's stubbornness and pride.

* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', All of the Sugar Rush racers start crying after Vanellope [[spoiler:(in her princess form)]] announces that they'll be executed.
* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'', After Papa Smurf can't find the ingredients to bring Smurfette back to life, All of the smurfs cry over Smurfette's {{Disney Death}} but the other smurfs in the Village and the Selfie-Bug join in the crying as well.