History TearJerker / DeadLikeMe

* In an early episode where [[spoiler: George goes to visit her family and decides to tell her mother who she really is. She plans to tell Joy a story about a moment the two of them shared when George was little, because then she will surely realize that this is her daughter! And everyone will be happy! George walks confident up to the door, but when a mourning, angry Joy opens, she freezes up and the little of her story that she manage to stutter out is barely coherent. Joy ends up screaming at her to get the hell away from here then slams the door in her face. Shocked and saddened by the reality of the situation, finally realizing that she can't ever go back to her family, makes George cry her heart out later on the same day. Rube consoles her despite the fact that she went against his wishes, and the implications, vague as they may be, that Rube had tried the same thing makes it even sadder]].
** Also, [[spoiler: she lost the memory]]
* In "Reaping Havoc", [[spoiler:Betty's ascension into a higher plane of existence.]] George is very crushed by her leaving, and later, when talking about her alter ego Millie she says she had a sister (meaning Betty) "who was fearless".
-->'''George:''' Why do I keep losing all the things and people that I care about?
-->'''Rube:''' That's what life is, Peanut.

** The loss of [[spoiler: JD]]. So soon after losing her sister, Reggie loses her best friend.
* The scene where they revealed Daisy's last thought - [[spoiler: "Why did no one ever love me?"]] It really puts her boasting about all the celebrities she's slept with into a new perspective. Mason's reaction only sealed the deal.
* Meeting Charlie the pet reaper at the vet's office. Not only is his own backstory pretty heartbreaking (struck by a drunk driver), but we see him reap [[spoiler:a random patron's pet, "Eddie Rabbit", who is said to like kids but is being very quiet at the moment, despite his owner having just been told the doctor couldn't find anything wrong with him. At least Charlie tells Dolores her cat will be okay.]]

* In season 2 episode 5, Daisy attends a speed-dating event. Afterward, she finds the quiet man who made the biggest impression on her standing at the edge of a building's roof, despairing that nobody wrote his name down. She talks him down, explaining that she wrote his name down, and offering to go on a date. [[spoiler:He accepts, and then looks down over the edge to see people clustering around his body, and he says, "I didn't jump... I slipped."]]
* In "Hurry", Rube gets an 80-year-old package at the post office, from the dead letter office. It's hundreds of dollars ($100 in 1924 would be $1,468 in 2018). The letter inside indicates [[spoiler: he sent it to his wife and daughter, but either they never got it or they sent it back, and he didn't even know all this time.]]

* In the season two episode "Always", [[spoiler:Rube goes to see his daughter, who is now very old, in a nursing home right before she dies]].
* In the episode "Haunted" when [[spoiler: George and Mason go to a house on Halloween to reap a soul (who's going to be killed by a serial killer) to find it's a little boy who was too sick to go trick-or-treating and that his father was off getting him medicine. Heartbroken, they reap his soul and Mason starts piling his own trick-or-treat candy into the boy's arms.]]

* In the episode "Haunted" when [[spoiler: George and Mason go to a house on Halloween to reap a soul (who's going to be killed by a serial killer) to find its a little boy who was too sick to go trick-or-treating and that his father was off getting him medicine. Heartbroken, they reap his soul and Mason starts piling his own trick-or-treat candy into the boy's arms.]]

* George gives Reggie a WorldOfCardboardSpeech when convincing her not to kill herself. She says that WeAllDieSomeday, so her little sister should go out and live. That is fall in love with someone who isn't a dick and will love her openly, travel to places she wants to see and find a job that won't crush her soul. This convinces Reggie to let go of George, and vice-versa.

* In the season two episode "Always", [[spoiler:Rube goes to see his daughter, who is now very old, in a nursing home right before she dies]].

* Piper Laurie's portrayal of an Alzheimer's patient who didn't realize she was dead in "Forget-Me-Not".

* In season 2 episode 5, Daisy attends a speed-dating event. Afterward, she finds the quiet man who made the biggest impression on her standing at the edge of a building's roof, despairing that nobody wrote his name down. She talks him down, explaining that she wrote his name down, and offering to go on a date. [[spoiler:He accepts, and then looks down over the edge to see people clustering around his body, and he says, "I didn't jump... I slipped."]]

* A man's WhatTheHellHero speech to Mason for ruining his daughter's birthday party in the season 2 premiere. It was so bad that Mason broke his sobriety.

* The scene where they revealed Daisy's last thought - [[spoiler: "Why did no one ever love me?"]] It really puts her boasting about all the celebrities she's slept with into a new perspective. Mason's reaction only sealed the deal.

* Meeting Charlie the pet reaper at the vet's office. Not only is his own backstory pretty heartbreaking, but we see him reap [[spoiler:a random patron's pet "Eddie Rabbit", who is said to like kids but is being very quiet at the moment, despite his owner having just been told the doctor couldn't find anything wrong with him. At least Charlie tells Dolores her cat will be okay.]]

* In the episode "The Bicycle Thief" Mason reaps a gay couple. After the first dies by slipping in the kitchen, he starts begging Mason to make sure his partner doesn't kill himself, all the while Mason knows he has to. Finally the dead man tells Mason that the suit his partner changed into was his favorite and that there were pills in the medicine cabinet that could be used for suicide. Mason, choking up, tells the partner "Slitting your wrist is messy, and that's such a nice suit. Maybe pills?"

* The loss of [[spoiler: JD]]. So soon after losing her sister Reggie loses her best friend.

* From the Season 2 episode "The Shallow End", the scene in the church with Daisy and the transgender woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0NjcpfzAUY
* In the season two episode "Always", [[spoiler:Rube goes to see his daughter, who is now very old, in a nursing home right before she dies]].

* Reaper Madness, when George's mom gave her those written notes for her teeth instead of cash. Disappointed by the lack of loot, young George tosses the note saying "You are loved" into the trash. Later, her mom finds the crumpled up note. She just falls apart.

* From the Season 2 episode "The Shallow End": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0NjcpfzAUY

* The scene in the church with Daisy and the transgender woman.

* Seeing how this show deals with ''death'' and often its impact on others, the Tear Jerkers are bound to come in heaps at times. In an early episode where [[spoiler: George goes to visit her family and decides to tell her mother who she really is. She plans to tell Joy a story about a moment the two of them shared when George was little, because then she will surely realize that this is her daughter! And everyone will be happy! George walks confident up to the door, but when a mourning, angry Joy opens, she freezes up and the little of her story that she manage to stutter out is barely coherent. Joy ends up screaming at her to get the hell away from here then slams the door in her face. Shocked and saddened by the reality of the situation, finally realizing that she can't ever go back to her family, makes George cry her heart out later on the same day. Rube consoles her despite the fact that she went against his wishes, and the implications, vague as they may be, that Rube had tried the same thing makes it even sadder]].
** Also, [[spoiler: she lost the memory]]
* From the Season 2 episode "The Shallow End": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0NjcpfzAUY

* The scene in the church with Daisy and the MTF transsexual.

* Daisy's last thought.

* The loss of [[spoiler: Betty]] and then this is said:

* In the episode "The Bicycle Thief" Mason reaps a couple. After the first dies by slipping in the kitchen, he starts begging Mason to make sure his partner doesn't kill himself, all the while Mason knows he has to. Finally the dead man tells Mason that the suit his partner changed into was his favorite and that there were pills in the medicine cabinet that could be used for suicide. Mason, choking up, tells the partner "Slitting your wrist is messy, and that's such a nice suit. Maybe pills?"

** Rube meeting with his daughter in "Always".
* Mason taking the soul of a gay man and helping his partner deal with his grief in "The Bicycle Thief".

* A few episodes end with the slow, sad song "Que Sera, Sera". That song ended the first episode, where George has to reap [[spoiler:a five year old girl on her way to see relatives. She asks the girl if she'd ever been to Disney, and she said she hadn't. When she had to go beyond, she went to an amusement park.]]

* Seeing how this show deals with ''death'' and often its impact on others, the [[{{TearJerker}} Tear Jerkers]] are bound to come in heaps at times. In an early episode where [[spoiler: George goes to visit her family and decides to tell her mother who she really is. She plans to tell Joy a story about a moment the two of them shared when George was little, because then she will surely realize that this is her daughter! And everyone will be happy! George walks confident up to the door, but when a mourning, angry Joy opens, she freezes up and the little of her story that she manage to stutter out is barely coherent. Joy ends up screaming at her to get the hell away from here then slams the door in her face. Shocked and saddened by the reality of the situation, finally realizing that she can't ever go back to her family, makes George cry her heart out later on the same day. Rube consoles her despite the fact that she went against his wishes, and the implications, vague as they may be, that Rube had tried the same thing makes it even sadder]].

* George's first reap, of a little girl.
** And if the sequence didn't reduce you to a quivering puddle, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBIdw7e4jg0 music it was set to]] pretty much made sure there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

* In "Reaping Havoc", [[spoiler:Betty's ascension into a higher plane of existence. George is very crushed by her leaving, and later, when talking about her alter ego Millie she says she had a sister (meaning Betty) "who was fearless."]]

* In the episode "The Bicycle Thief" Mason reaps a couple. After the first dies by slipping in the kitchen, he starts begging Mason to make sure his partner doesn't kill himself, all the while Mason knows he has to. Finally the dead man tells Mason that the suit his partner changed into was his favorite and that there were pills in the medicine cabinet that could be used for suicide. Mason, choking up, tells the partner "Slitting your wrist is messy, and that's such a nice suit. Maybe pills?" It might not seem sweet, but it just kills you.

* A man's WhatTheHellHero speech to Mason for ruining his daughter's birthday party in the season 2 premiere. It was so bad that Mason broke his sobriety.

Seeing how this show deals with ''death'' and often its impact on others, the [[{{TearJerker}} Tear Jerkers]] are bound to come in heaps at times. In an early episode where [[spoiler: George goes to visit her family and decides to tell her mother who she really is. She plans to tell Joy a story about a moment the two of them shared when George was little, because then she will surely realize that this is her daughter! And everyone will be happy! George walks confident up to the door, but when a mourning, angry Joy opens, she freezes up and the little of her story that she manage to stutter out is barely coherent. Joy ends up screaming at her to get the hell away from here then slams the door in her face. Shocked and saddened by the reality of the situation, finally realizing that she can't ever go back to her family, makes George cry her heart out later on the same day. Rube consoles her despite the fact that she went against his wishes, and the implications, vague as they may be, that Rube had tried the same thing makes it even sadder]].