History TearJerker / AvenueQ

-->'''Christmas Eve:''' Rod, you special. Rod, you safe.

** Even sadder, the song they sing? "Saying Goodbye" from ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan''. Nicky is the character who sings the final verse (sung by Fozzie Bear in the original performance), and even ''sniffles'' briefly before he sings, "Wanna cry..."

** Even sadder, the song they sing? "Saying Goodbye" from ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan''.

* Original puppet designer Rick Lyon made [[https://youtu.be/V6CvU-h1x3g this video]] on the last day of the Off-Broadway run, in which the puppets sing their goodbyes before being packed away for good. Unlike most ''Avenue Q'' videos, there's really no joke, it's just a very short, very bittersweet sendoff.

* Original puppet designer Rick Lyon made [[https://youtu.be/V6CvU-h1x3g this video]] on the last day of the Off-Broadway run, in which the puppets sing their goodbyes before being packed away for good.

* The show's [[https://twitter.com/avenueqmusical/status/1125510108027457537 final Easter Bonnet Competition entry in 2019,]] in which the actors and puppets sing and slow-dance to Semisonic's "Closing Time" and give their farewells before the closure of the off-Broadway run. It does have some comedic moments in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, but knowing the show is leaving Manhattan for good after so many years (especially those who have seen [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments their previous entries in the BC/EFA competitions]]) is heartbreaking for any fan.

* The show's final Easter Bonnet Competition entry in 2019, in which the actors and puppets sing and slow-dance to Semisonic's "Closing Time" and give their farewells before the closure of the off-Broadway run. It does have some comedic moments in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, but knowing the show is leaving Manhattan for good after so many years (especially those who have seen [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments their previous entries in the BC/EFA competitions]]) is heartbreaking for any fan.

[[KidsAreCruel Poking and pulling at me fur...]]''

* The scene where Rod comes out to Christmas Eve. It's one of the few scenes played completely serious as the puppet quietly breaks down into tears.

--> Each time you smile
--> it'll only last a while
* And then it ends with a sad, slow, lyrical reprise of the opening Avenue Q Theme, as if to say that, for everything that you'll try to do, in the end we all must resign to our ultimate fate and break our own spirits. * sob*

--> Nicky: ''But, if''\\

--> Christmas Eve: Rod, you special. Rod, you safe.

-->'''Trekkie''': School for monsters...
-->School for lonely little monsters!
-->When me little, going to school
-->[[AllOfTheOtherReindeer Other children think me not cool]]
-->[[KidsAreCruel Poking and pulling at me fur...]]

** [[DownerEnding And then the lights come up for intermission]].

* In the reprise of "The Money Song", Trekkie, of all people, becomes a giant woobie.

-->Poking and pulling at me fur...

--> Christmas Eve: Rod, you special. Rod, you safe.

* The scene where Rod comes out to Christmas Eve. It's one of the few scenes played completely serious as the puppet quietly breaks down into tears.

* Surprisingly, the end of the first act of AvenueQ can do this. With "Fantasies Come True", the DistantDuet based around Rod hearing his crush Nicky's affections for him ends with him realising it was AllJustADream. The few seconds before Rod's heartbroken line "Good night, Nicky" is one of the only parts of the musical where the audience will be totally silent. The sadness lifts for Rod's HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday song, then dives straight back in for the last song of the act, "There's a Fine Fine Line", a ballad to Kate's realisation that she'd be better off if she broke up with Princeton.

---> Each time you smile
---> it'll only last a while

Avenue Q is mostly comedic, but it could trench your heart.

** This troper will admit that he's never seen Avenue Q, only listened to the soundtrack, and yet he never fails to choke up while listening to 'Fine, Fine Line.'
* This troper has also only been exposed to the soundtrack of Avenue Q, and finds "For Now", the finale of the show, heart-wrenching, despite a couple hilarious lines interspersed.

** This troper finds it a tearjerker because she's in college and... not exactly having the time of her life, but this song brings up feelings that she should be enjoying and appreciating this more.
** Cheer up: Listen to the lyrics again, and it's pretty clearly a whole ton of NostalgiaFilter being set into place.

* It's bittersweet but... it's not meant to be doom and gloom. "Everything in life... is only for now." It means the good AND the bad are brief and it doesn't matter if you have a purpose or lived a good life: All that matters is that you LIVED. Even if the good moments are short, it means that the bad moments will pass too.
* ** ''I Wish I Could Go Back To College'', in which about half the cast sings about how the time they'd spent at college [[GloryDays was the best time of their lives]]...until real life hit them in the face and killed off their hopes and dreams. Doubly painful in that the idea of going back to the life they miss is rather brutally rejected by Nicky.

''These kids are so much younger than me...''

---> it'll only last a while''There's A Fine, Fine Line''. Yes, right in the middle of a hilarious comedy is one of the saddest songs ever.

* This troper will admit that he's never seen Avenue Q, only listened to the soundtrack, and yet he never fails to choke up while listening to 'Fine, Fine Line.'

---> it'll only last a while

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut6YtMXjaZY&feature=related "I Wish I Could Go Back College"]]

* It's bittersweet but... it's not meant to be doom and gloom. "Everything in life... is only for now." It means the good AND the bad are brief and it doesn't matter if you have a purpose or lived a good life: All that matters is that you LIVED. Even if the good moments are short, it means that the bad moments will pass too.