History TearJerker / AmericanHorrorStoryFreakShow

* This episode is pretty much one huge one for Gloria, and it paints her as one of the biggest [[TheWoobie woobies]] of the season.
** It reaches its zenith in the scene where [[spoiler: Dandy kills her]]. Just listening to her voice during that scene is so heartbreaking. She just sounds so broken down and defeated.

[[AC: General]]

[[AC: Massacres and Matinees]]

[[AC: Edward Mordrake (Part 1)]]

[[AC: Edward Mordrake (Part 2)]]

[[AC: Pink Cupcakes]]

[[AC: Bullseye]]

[[AC: Test of Strength]]

[[AC: Blood Bath]]

[[AC: Tupperware Party Massacre]]

[[AC: Orphans]]

[[AC: Magical Thinking]]

* "Blood Bath" is pretty much one huge one for Gloria, and it paints her as one of the biggest [[TheWoobie woobies]] of the season.

* Dot's confession of love to Jimmy in "Tupperware Party Massacre", which results in her getting rejected (though not unkindly).
** Pretty much everything having to do with Bette and Dot in the above episode, crossing with [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] when they affirm their love for each other, in stark contrast to the bitterness and anger that existed in earlier episodes.
* "Orphans" is almost an hour and half of utter heart-wrenching. [[spoiler:Watching Pepper go from happy in the freakshow, to framed for murder by ''her sister'' and dumped in [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum Briarcliff.]]]]

* Jimmy waking up in the hospital with [[spoiler: no hands]]

** The implication that Elsa [[spoiler: sent her away to prevent her from being killed and put in a museum makes it even worse. She was trying to save her.]]

* "Orphans" is almost an hour and half of utter heart-wrenching. [[spoiler:Watching Pepper go from happy in the freakshow, to framed for murder by ''her sister'' and dumped in [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum Briarcliff.]]]]

** Pretty much everything having to do with Bette and Dot in the above episode, crossing with [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] when they affirm their love for each other, in stark contrast to the bitterness and anger that existed in earlier episodes.

** Pretty much everything having to do with Bette and Dot in the above episode, crossing with [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming]] when they affirm their love for each other, in stark contrast to the bitterness and anger that existed in earlier episodes.

* "Blood Bath" is pretty much one huge one for Gloria, and it paints her as one of the biggest [[TheWoobie woobies]] of the season.

* [[spoiler: Ma Petite's murder by the hands of Dell]] - he lures her into a false sense of security by giving her a nice dress as a present, and she thanks him with a hug. [[spoiler: This allowed Dell to crush Ma Petite's neck, and even his tearful remorse didn't make any sympathetic ''at all''.]]

* What [[spoiler: Dell does to the doctor's hands]] the poor man was only trying to help.

* Hate or Love Elsa [[spoiler:The backstory of how she lost her legs to a snuff film is pretty heartbreaking. Especially since it ruined any hopes she had of stardom. .]]

-->'''Dandy:''' I wish you could be inside my body for one minute to know what it feels like to be me. It's like when I had tuberculosis and you took me out to the Utah desert, and there was nothing but dry, open space for hundreds of miles around us. ''That'' is what is inside of me. Those girls were a cool stream of glacier water. My heart bloomed as they nourished it. And now it's all gone. There is nothing left but the dust, and the scorpions inside of me. I was never destined to feel love. The desert knows no mercy. Anything you try to plant out there dies.

* The audience being visibly uninterested in Elsa's heartfelt performance, and even booing her.

* What [[spoiler: Dell does to the doctor's hands]] the poor man was only trying to help.

* Gloria revealing to [[spoiler: Dora's Daughter ]] how she feels she has failed as a mother and the moment Dandy stopped calling her for help when he needed it as a child.

* Desiree revealing her struggle as intersex individual is really awful. Especially worse considering the state Dell has left her in.

* Hate or Love Elsa [[spoiler:The backstory of how she lost her legs to a snuff film is pretty heartbreaking. Especially since it ruined any hopes she had of stardom. .]]

* In what has high money for surprise tear jerker of the season, [[spoiler:Twisty's backstory. From KindheartedSimpleton who loved entertaining kids, to disfigured and mentally broken SerialKiller.]]

* In what has high money for surprise tear jerker of the season, [[spoiler:Twisty's backstory. From KindheartedSimpleton who loved entertaining kids, to deformed and mentally broken SerialKiller.]]

* Bette's despair at Dot's insistence on getting 'surgery'.

* Ethel's trip to the doctor and [[spoiler:subsequent diagnosis of fatal siroccos of the liver.]] Creator/KathyBates really knocks the scene out of the emotional park.

* The fate of poor [[spoiler:Meep.]] Who is framed for murdering Detective Bunch and killed in a jail cell.

* Pepper's inevitable fate. We know from Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum that she'll be unfairly framed and sent to Briarcliff.

* Pepper's inevitable fate. We know from Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum that she'll be unfairly framed sent to Briarcliff.