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** Definitely YMMV for these two examples. I personally found Ray Kowalski very irritating in that scene, and Fraser very matter-of-fact and uncaring in his voiceover, which only made me sad because he seemed to have discarded Ray Vecchio as a friend!
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* Some of the episodes of ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition'' have Tear Jerker moments in them. The Wofford family, especially. If you don't tear up at least a little when the father starts whispering to the picture of his deceased wife, you have no soul.
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* Some of the episodes of ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition'' have Tear Jerker moments in them. The Wofford family, especially. If you don't tear up at least a little when the father starts whispering to the picture of his deceased wife, you have no soul.
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* One episode of ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' featured the last flight of a male Ornithocheirus (a [[GiantFlyer massive flying reptile]] ) on his way to the mating grounds: it ends with the male dying alone on a deserted beach over the course of several agonizing hours. Everything about the scene, from the heartwrenching music to the sight of the creature trying desperately to rise ''one last time.''
* In the sequel series ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'', when the young indricothere (a giant giraffe-like rhino) [[TheUnfavourite was violently abandoned by its own mother as she got a new baby]]. RL is such a CrapSackWorld...
*** What gets me every time isn't so much the ParentalAbandonment itself; that was strongly foreshadowed earlier on in the episode. Instead, it's the scene where the young indricothere is injured while on his own, prompting him to return to his mother -- except, now that she's suckling her new baby, she sees the previous one as nothing but a threat, and drives him away. It's worth noting that this practice occurs among modern-day rhinos as well.
* In the sequel series ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'', when the young indricothere (a giant giraffe-like rhino) [[TheUnfavourite was violently abandoned by its own mother as she got a new baby]]. RL is such a CrapSackWorld...
*** What gets me every time isn't so much the ParentalAbandonment itself; that was strongly foreshadowed earlier on in the episode. Instead, it's the scene where the young indricothere is injured while on his own, prompting him to return to his mother -- except, now that she's suckling her new baby, she sees the previous one as nothing but a threat, and drives him away. It's worth noting that this practice occurs among modern-day rhinos as well.
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* ''Fridays'' is a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' {{Expy}}-cum-{{Dueling Show}}s from the early 1980s that not that many people remember and hasn't been seen on television in a long time (prior to 2013, the only way you could see ''Fridays'' was on Website/YouTube or on the ''Seinfeld'' season three DVD set, which had clips of Michael Richards and Larry David, who were cast members on that show. Now, Creator/ShoutFactory and Hulu have released a collection of the best episodes of the series and Website/YouTube has a lot of sketches uploaded[[note]]some of which are from viewer tapings[[/note]]). Nonetheless, it still had its TearJerker moments:
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* ''Fridays'' is a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' {{Expy}}-cum-{{Dueling Show}}s {{Expy}}-cum-[[DuelingWorks Dueling Shows]] from the early 1980s that not that many people remember and hasn't been seen on television in a long time (prior to 2013, the only way you could see ''Fridays'' was on Website/YouTube or on the ''Seinfeld'' season three DVD set, which had clips of Michael Richards and Larry David, who were cast members on that show. Now, Creator/ShoutFactory and Hulu have released a collection of the best episodes of the series and Website/YouTube has a lot of sketches uploaded[[note]]some of which are from viewer tapings[[/note]]). Nonetheless, it still had its TearJerker moments:
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* ''Fridays'' is a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' {{Expy}}-cum-[[DuelingShows Dueling Show]] from the early 1980s that not that many people remember and hasn't been seen on television in a long time (prior to 2013, the only way you could see ''Fridays'' was on YouTube or on the ''Seinfeld'' season three DVD set, which had clips of Michael Richards and Larry David, who were cast members on that show. Now, Creator/ShoutFactory and Hulu have released a collection of the best episodes of the series and YouTube has a lot of sketches uploaded[[note]]some of which are from viewer tapings[[/note]]). Nonetheless, it still had its TearJerker moments:
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* ''Fridays'' is a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' {{Expy}}-cum-[[DuelingShows Dueling Show]] {{Expy}}-cum-{{Dueling Show}}s from the early 1980s that not that many people remember and hasn't been seen on television in a long time (prior to 2013, the only way you could see ''Fridays'' was on YouTube Website/YouTube or on the ''Seinfeld'' season three DVD set, which had clips of Michael Richards and Larry David, who were cast members on that show. Now, Creator/ShoutFactory and Hulu have released a collection of the best episodes of the series and YouTube Website/YouTube has a lot of sketches uploaded[[note]]some of which are from viewer tapings[[/note]]). Nonetheless, it still had its TearJerker moments:
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* One of the earliest was in the first season, with the sinking of the FV ''Big Valley''. Feature vessel ''Maverick'' and ''Cornelia Marie'' (then not a feature vessel; it was partnered with ''Maverick'' and only had cameras as a backup) were part of the rescue effort. Of six on-board, only one was found alive, and only two of the dead were recovered.
* Season five had a several of these, starting with the sinking of another boat. The episode is punctuated with home videos of the doomed crewmates, with one of them joking that "they oughta be on ''Deadliest Catch''."
* Later, upstart greenhorn Jake of the ''Northwestern'' (who was earlier burned in effigy on another boat for a prank he pulled - it was all in fun, they really just wanted to get rid of the effigy's ''Northwestern'' sweatshirt) got the devistating news that the youngest of his four older sisters had died after years of battling painful illnesses. Captain Sig and the cameraman decided not to film Jake getting the news but kept the audio, which is gut-wrenching. The episode ends at night, with Jake on an engineless boat crossing to another boat as the background music contains the lyrics "My sister and I..."
** In a follow-up episode Jake talked about how close he was with his late sister, who he talked to her every day he was back home, and that he also considers his crewmates the big brothers he never had.
** Likewise, the [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold seemingly hard-hearted]] Captain Sig considers Jake to be the son he never had. Aww.
* Word of Captain Phil's stroke making its way through the crab fleet, and the varied reactions of the other captains as the news makes it down the line. Captain Sig throws the radio handset, then throws away his cigarettes in anger while Captain Keith tearfully pleads to God, "Cut him some slack, Big Guy."
* The montage at the end of the episode "Redemption Day", alternating between scenes of Josh Harris at the hospital after Captain Phil has a setback and the fleet working and plowing through rough seas with Johnny Cash's "Redemption Day" playing in the background. And at the very end is Josh Harris' phone call to his younger brother Jake to let him know that their father has passed away.
* The last half of the episode Valhalla when the rest of the crabbing fleet learn of Phil's passing is heartbreaking in itself but watching each ship do a different method of tribute to him will leave you in tears.
** Time Bandit sets off fireworks in Phil's honor.
** When they leave harbor after learning of the passing the Northwestern makes a slow pass around the Cornelia Marie as they do one of crew salutes the ship, later Sig talks about the old fisherman's tale of how seagulls are fishermen passed on and how the seagull sitting on his bow at that moment just might be Phil. He also noted that, while Phil was in hospital (almost a month), the sea raged...and then after he died, it went dead calm.
** On the Wizard Captain Keith rings the bell eight times as his crew throws back a full crab pot, with its shot and buoys (one of which has In Memory of Captain Phil Harris written on it) inside so it stays submerged as a memorial, so he'd "always have some crab to come back to."
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* ''8 Simple Rules'' after John Ritter died. Just... those episodes. It's even worse if you've lost a loved one in real life.
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* ''8 Simple Rules'' after John Ritter Creator/JohnRitter died. Just... those episodes. It's even worse if you've lost a loved one in real life.
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* On the episode 'Change of Address' when Gobo sang 'Petals of a Rose.'
* "Marooned": It's episodes like this that make {{Media Watchdog}}s forbid children's shows from showing two main characters slowly suffocating to death in the dark, wondering what it will feel like to die...
** Despite this (or possibly ''because'' of this), "Marooned" is considered by many fans to be the overall [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome best episode of the series.]]
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[[folder:Frasier]]
* [[Series/{{Frasier}} "I'll miss the coffees."]]
** "While it's tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took." Damn you, damn you, ''damn you'' and your tear jerking abilities, Kelsey Grammer.
* Daphne's breakdown while Niles is in surgery.
* The home movies of Frasier and Niles' mother.
* "Take it from someone who knows... you don't want to spend half your life thinking about a chance you didn't take."
* At the end of the 2001-2002 season premier, these words appeared on the screen: "In loving memory of our friends Lynn and David Angell". The executive producer and his wife, killed aboard the first plane to hit the World Trade Center.
** When Niles & Daphne [[spoiler:named their baby David]] in the series finale.
* In the 9th Season, when Martin calls Eddie over for a hug after realizing how old he's gotten, and that he won't be around forever.
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[[folder:Freaks and Geeks]]
* ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' - Pick an episode. This was the most painful, aching example of growing up I've ever seen on television. "Carded and Discarded," "Kim Kelly Is My Friend," and "The Garage Door" are particularly painful examples. The bit when Neil told his mother that he didn't want to tell her what was bothering him because "he didn't want to ruin her life" was a real killer because it was so damn TRUE.
** "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers" has not one but ''two'' such plots. In the first, Bill (a character usually played for comic relief) has to come to terms with his mother's new sweetheart, who happens to be his [[JerkJock gym teacher]] and a leading cause of his isolation. In the second, Millie (a character usually played for comic relief) breaks down after her beloved dog is run over (unbeknownst to her, by Kim and Lindsay -- the latter being her best friend). Fortunately for viewers' souls, the second halves of both plots pay dividends of the [[FunnyMoments hilarious]] and [[HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]] varieties.
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[[folder:Friday Night Lights]]
* ''The Son''. Matt Saracen's father has died by stepping on a mine, and Matt is distraught with grief while agonizing over having not had the time to confess to his father exactly what he thought of him and felt about him.
--->''Matt'': I gotta get up there in front of everybody and say good stuff about this man. and all I really want to say is ‘Here lies Henry Saracen, his mother annoyed him, his wife couldn’t stand him and he didn’t want to be a dad so he took off to be in the army because that’s the only way he could come up with to get out of here and ditch all your responsibilities and no one could call you out on it and that worked out great so you just decided to enlist four more times and that ended up getting you killed and now here you are. And all you left behind is a mother with dementia, a divorced wife and a son that delivers pizza. Thank you for coming 100 people I do not know.’ You know what the worst part is even if I did get up and say all that I don’t even know if I’m saying it to him because I don’t know what’s in that damn box. It’s a closed casket might be someone else, someone funnier or a bunch of rocks.
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* On the episode 'Change of Address' when Gobo sang 'Petals of a Rose.'
* "Marooned": It's episodes like this that make {{Media Watchdog}}s forbid children's shows from showing two main characters slowly suffocating to death in the dark, wondering what it will feel like to die...
** Despite this (or possibly ''because'' of this), "Marooned" is considered by many fans to be the overall [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome best episode of the series.]]
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[[folder:Frasier]]
* [[Series/{{Frasier}} "I'll miss the coffees."]]
** "While it's tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took." Damn you, damn you, ''damn you'' and your tear jerking abilities, Kelsey Grammer.
* Daphne's breakdown while Niles is in surgery.
* The home movies of Frasier and Niles' mother.
* "Take it from someone who knows... you don't want to spend half your life thinking about a chance you didn't take."
* At the end of the 2001-2002 season premier, these words appeared on the screen: "In loving memory of our friends Lynn and David Angell". The executive producer and his wife, killed aboard the first plane to hit the World Trade Center.
** When Niles & Daphne [[spoiler:named their baby David]] in the series finale.
* In the 9th Season, when Martin calls Eddie over for a hug after realizing how old he's gotten, and that he won't be around forever.
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[[folder:Freaks and Geeks]]
* ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' - Pick an episode. This was the most painful, aching example of growing up I've ever seen on television. "Carded and Discarded," "Kim Kelly Is My Friend," and "The Garage Door" are particularly painful examples. The bit when Neil told his mother that he didn't want to tell her what was bothering him because "he didn't want to ruin her life" was a real killer because it was so damn TRUE.
** "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers" has not one but ''two'' such plots. In the first, Bill (a character usually played for comic relief) has to come to terms with his mother's new sweetheart, who happens to be his [[JerkJock gym teacher]] and a leading cause of his isolation. In the second, Millie (a character usually played for comic relief) breaks down after her beloved dog is run over (unbeknownst to her, by Kim and Lindsay -- the latter being her best friend). Fortunately for viewers' souls, the second halves of both plots pay dividends of the [[FunnyMoments hilarious]] and [[HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]] varieties.
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[[folder:Friday Night Lights]]
* ''The Son''. Matt Saracen's father has died by stepping on a mine, and Matt is distraught with grief while agonizing over having not had the time to confess to his father exactly what he thought of him and felt about him.
--->''Matt'': I gotta get up there in front of everybody and say good stuff about this man. and all I really want to say is ‘Here lies Henry Saracen, his mother annoyed him, his wife couldn’t stand him and he didn’t want to be a dad so he took off to be in the army because that’s the only way he could come up with to get out of here and ditch all your responsibilities and no one could call you out on it and that worked out great so you just decided to enlist four more times and that ended up getting you killed and now here you are. And all you left behind is a mother with dementia, a divorced wife and a son that delivers pizza. Thank you for coming 100 people I do not know.’ You know what the worst part is even if I did get up and say all that I don’t even know if I’m saying it to him because I don’t know what’s in that damn box. It’s a closed casket might be someone else, someone funnier or a bunch of rocks.
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* On the episode 'Change of Address' when Gobo sang 'Petals of a Rose.'
* "Marooned": It's episodes like this that make {{Media Watchdog}}s forbid children's shows from showing two main characters slowly suffocating to death in the dark, wondering what it will feel like to die...
** Despite this (or possibly ''because'' of this), "Marooned" is considered by many fans to be the overall [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome best episode of the series.]]
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[[folder:Frasier]]
* [[Series/{{Frasier}} "I'll miss the coffees."]]
** "While it's tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took." Damn you, damn you, ''damn you'' and your tear jerking abilities, Kelsey Grammer.
* Daphne's breakdown while Niles is in surgery.
* The home movies of Frasier and Niles' mother.
* "Take it from someone who knows... you don't want to spend half your life thinking about a chance you didn't take."
* At the end of the 2001-2002 season premier, these words appeared on the screen: "In loving memory of our friends Lynn and David Angell". The executive producer and his wife, killed aboard the first plane to hit the World Trade Center.
** When Niles & Daphne [[spoiler:named their baby David]] in the series finale.
* In the 9th Season, when Martin calls Eddie over for a hug after realizing how old he's gotten, and that he won't be around forever.
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[[folder:Freaks and Geeks]]
* ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' - Pick an episode. This was the most painful, aching example of growing up I've ever seen on television. "Carded and Discarded," "Kim Kelly Is My Friend," and "The Garage Door" are particularly painful examples. The bit when Neil told his mother that he didn't want to tell her what was bothering him because "he didn't want to ruin her life" was a real killer because it was so damn TRUE.
** "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers" has not one but ''two'' such plots. In the first, Bill (a character usually played for comic relief) has to come to terms with his mother's new sweetheart, who happens to be his [[JerkJock gym teacher]] and a leading cause of his isolation. In the second, Millie (a character usually played for comic relief) breaks down after her beloved dog is run over (unbeknownst to her, by Kim and Lindsay -- the latter being her best friend). Fortunately for viewers' souls, the second halves of both plots pay dividends of the [[FunnyMoments hilarious]] and [[HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]] varieties.
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[[folder:Friday Night Lights]]
* ''The Son''. Matt Saracen's father has died by stepping on a mine, and Matt is distraught with grief while agonizing over having not had the time to confess to his father exactly what he thought of him and felt about him.
--->''Matt'': I gotta get up there in front of everybody and say good stuff about this man. and all I really want to say is ‘Here lies Henry Saracen, his mother annoyed him, his wife couldn’t stand him and he didn’t want to be a dad so he took off to be in the army because that’s the only way he could come up with to get out of here and ditch all your responsibilities and no one could call you out on it and that worked out great so you just decided to enlist four more times and that ended up getting you killed and now here you are. And all you left behind is a mother with dementia, a divorced wife and a son that delivers pizza. Thank you for coming 100 people I do not know.’ You know what the worst part is even if I did get up and say all that I don’t even know if I’m saying it to him because I don’t know what’s in that damn box. It’s a closed casket might be someone else, someone funnier or a bunch of rocks.
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[[folder: Fringe]]
* In the season 3 finale, even knowing that it (probably) won't stick, [[spoiler: Olivia's funeral and Peter breaking down in their kitchen]] is absolutely heartwrenching.
[[folder: Fringe]]
* In the season 3 finale, even knowing that it (probably) won't stick, [[spoiler: Olivia's funeral and Peter breaking down in their kitchen]] is absolutely heartwrenching.
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* One episode of ''WalkingWithDinosaurs'' featured the last flight of a male Ornithocheirus (a [[GiantFlyer massive flying reptile]] ) on his way to the mating grounds: it ends with the male dying alone on a deserted beach over the course of several agonizing hours. Everything about the scene, from the heartwrenching music to the sight of the creature trying desperately to rise ''one last time.''
** In the sequel series ''Walking With Beasts'', when the young indricothere (a giant giraffe-like rhino) [[TheUnfavourite was violently abandoned by its own mother as she got a new baby]]. RL is such a CrapSackWorld...
** In the sequel series ''Walking With Beasts'', when the young indricothere (a giant giraffe-like rhino) [[TheUnfavourite was violently abandoned by its own mother as she got a new baby]]. RL is such a CrapSackWorld...
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* One episode of ''WalkingWithDinosaurs'' ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' featured the last flight of a male Ornithocheirus (a [[GiantFlyer massive flying reptile]] ) on his way to the mating grounds: it ends with the male dying alone on a deserted beach over the course of several agonizing hours. Everything about the scene, from the heartwrenching music to the sight of the creature trying desperately to rise ''one last time.''
** * In the sequel series ''Walking With Beasts'', ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'', when the young indricothere (a giant giraffe-like rhino) [[TheUnfavourite was violently abandoned by its own mother as she got a new baby]]. RL is such a CrapSackWorld...
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[[folder:Farscape]]
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. That show punishes its viewers almost as much as its characters.
** The Season 1 finale.
--->'''John:''' I have a job to do, and I am unafraid.
** Crichton seeing his child at the end of "Look at the Princess". I've always had mildly insane visions of Chricton somehow being alive or somesuch... * sniff*
** Many, ''many'' scenes from "The Way We Weren't," especially the scene where Aeryn tearfully relives taking part in the execution of Moya's former pilot.
** Stark's [[spoiler: temporary]] death in "The Ugly Truth." Brought home by Zhaan crying over his discarded mask.
** In "The Locket" when Aeryn has died of old age in Crichton's arms and Crichton starts to cry.
** Crichton, suffering a SplitPersonalityTakeover at the end of the "Liars Guns And Money" trilogy and begging D'Argo to kill him. Worse still, in the buildup to this moment, he's seen quietly singing "Daisy... daisy... give me your answer true..." as he tries in vain to shut out Scorpius' voice inside his head.
** In "Season of Death", when Crichton gives a gut wrenching "You're ''alive''!!" while sobbing when he realizes that Aeryn is alive thanks to Zhaan. I cry when I watch this *sob*.
** At the end of "Terra Firma" when John says goodbye to Olivia and Jack.
** The Season 2 finale: [[spoiler:Aeryn's funeral, including D'Argo giving her his Qualtar blade and Rygel giving her his pendant]].
** The death of [[spoiler:Zhaan]] in Season 3. The fact that even [[spoiler:Aeryn starts crying and begging her not to sacrifice herself somehow makes it much more real]].
** "Different Destinations." Dear god, SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong has never been so cruelly subverted. Perhaps the worst part was where D'Argo finds the inscription left by the eight year-old novice he befriended, knowing that she was murdered hours after making it.
*** That or the preceding scene with Crichton and Aeryn. Not only do they know what happened to those poor people, but the planet's unique properties and viewing masks allow them or anyone else to ''see'' what happened. Without even wearing the mask, Crichton and Aeryn can still hear the nurses' screams as they're being killed.
** The Season 3 episode where [[spoiler:one of the Crichtons dies]], particularly because Claudia Black doesn't cry prettily, making it seem far more real. It doesn't hurt that [[spoiler:the dying Crichton was the one in a blissful relationship with Aeryn]].
*** Every single second of "The Choice". Dear God, is Aeryn in pain.
*** The death of [[spoiler:Xhalax, Aeryn's mother]].
** Crais being forced to deactivate Talyn to stop him from growing any more homicidal until corrective surgery can be performed. The scene itself- intercut with the sorrowful reactions of Moya and Pilot- concludes with Crais leaving the darkened command deck in complete silence- no music, and no sound except for his footsteps fading into the distance.
** [[spoiler:Crais and Talyn's self-sacrifices]] near the end of Season 3.
--->'''[[spoiler: Crais]]:''' "Talyn, Starburst."
** Crichton's showdown with Scorpius during the [[CollapsingLair destruction of the command carrier]]: Scorpius wearily admits that destroying Earth for revenge would be meaningless, because the revenge he really cared about is permanently out of reach; he and Crichton deactivate their [[{{Synchronization}} I-Yensch bracelets]], and finally:
--->'''Crichton:''' If we're gonna get off this boat now would be a good time.
--->'''Scorpius:''' (softly) I may not be getting off this ship, John. (a pause) Goodbye, Crichton.
** ''Dog With Two Bones.'' Specifically the vision of Crichton returning to Earth with all his friends and marrying Aeryn... only for a squad of Peacekeepers to show up and kill ''everyone,'' including Aeryn.
*** [[spoiler: Talyn's]] funeral, where Chiana tries to give a eulogy, only to break down in floods of tears, leaving Rygel to give his own short but heartfelt eulogy for the dead [[spoiler: Leviathan]]
** Harvey's [[spoiler: first]] death during Season 4. Made even more saddening because of Harvey's genuinely hurt expression as he tries in vain to argue for his continued existence.
--->'''Harvey:''' How could I leave your mind? It's full of so many wonderous memories! Cool jazz piano, chocolate ice cream, women's perfume... Women! (A pause) How could you take that from me?
--->'''Crichton:''' (Coldly) You're not real.
--->'''Harvey:''' I'm real to ''you!'' I'm real to ''myself...''
** A lot of scenes in "Prayer," especially Aeryn's final breakdown under the influence of TruthSerum and violent beatings, because it's reduced her to the level of choking out her confession though a mouthful of her own saliva.
** The Season 4 finale. [[spoiler:Aeryn and Crichton embracing one last time and being blown apart, the ring in their remains, and D'Argo's animalistic howls of anguish]].
** Strangely enough, Scorpius [[spoiler: killing Sikozu for betraying Crichton and the others]] in ''The Peacekeeper Wars'' proved quite sad. It's in that moment, despite being a MagnificentBastard [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]], he actually sounds regretful [[spoiler: at murdering his lover]] when he says "You have ruined something... ''unique.''"
*** We're not quite sure she's dead.
*** She isn't dead. Later, we see Grunshlik call her a fool as she struggles to get up.
** And obviously [[spoiler: D'Argo's HeroicSacrifice]] in ''The Peacekeeper Wars''.
* [[spoiler: Harvey's]] death in Peacekeeper wars, lying on the bed next to Crichton. In spite of all he had done, it was still a beautifully made scene. [[spoiler:"Thank you... for your memories..."]]
* In "Kansas", the crew travels back in time to 1986 and has to correct a sudden change. (Crichton's father, Jack, is assigned the doomed Challenger mission, and they have to ground him to preserve the timeline.) Though they succeed, Crichton (in an understandable moment of weakness) unsuccessfully tries to warn his mother of her future death. "MOM, LISTEN! When you first feel the pain... ''(she's already gone)'' don't wait."
** In the same vein is "Won't Get Fooled Again." Very much off the wall humor and craziness... until Crichton is confronted with a recreation of his mother. Suddenly, the episode isn't so funny anymore, as Crichton is nearly broken by being reminded what happened to her.
* "Beware of Dog"--When the crew fatally injure the Vorc due to misunderstanding its nature, realizing too late that it really was doing its duty and tracking the parasite. The Vorc was a semi-intelligent creature, like a dog, who they could only very rudimentarily communicate with through the translator microbes. When it gasps "end" while dying in Aeryn's arms, one can't help but shed a tear.
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* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. That show punishes its viewers almost as much as its characters.
** The Season 1 finale.
--->'''John:''' I have a job to do, and I am unafraid.
** Crichton seeing his child at the end of "Look at the Princess". I've always had mildly insane visions of Chricton somehow being alive or somesuch... * sniff*
** Many, ''many'' scenes from "The Way We Weren't," especially the scene where Aeryn tearfully relives taking part in the execution of Moya's former pilot.
** Stark's [[spoiler: temporary]] death in "The Ugly Truth." Brought home by Zhaan crying over his discarded mask.
** In "The Locket" when Aeryn has died of old age in Crichton's arms and Crichton starts to cry.
** Crichton, suffering a SplitPersonalityTakeover at the end of the "Liars Guns And Money" trilogy and begging D'Argo to kill him. Worse still, in the buildup to this moment, he's seen quietly singing "Daisy... daisy... give me your answer true..." as he tries in vain to shut out Scorpius' voice inside his head.
** In "Season of Death", when Crichton gives a gut wrenching "You're ''alive''!!" while sobbing when he realizes that Aeryn is alive thanks to Zhaan. I cry when I watch this *sob*.
** At the end of "Terra Firma" when John says goodbye to Olivia and Jack.
** The Season 2 finale: [[spoiler:Aeryn's funeral, including D'Argo giving her his Qualtar blade and Rygel giving her his pendant]].
** The death of [[spoiler:Zhaan]] in Season 3. The fact that even [[spoiler:Aeryn starts crying and begging her not to sacrifice herself somehow makes it much more real]].
** "Different Destinations." Dear god, SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong has never been so cruelly subverted. Perhaps the worst part was where D'Argo finds the inscription left by the eight year-old novice he befriended, knowing that she was murdered hours after making it.
*** That or the preceding scene with Crichton and Aeryn. Not only do they know what happened to those poor people, but the planet's unique properties and viewing masks allow them or anyone else to ''see'' what happened. Without even wearing the mask, Crichton and Aeryn can still hear the nurses' screams as they're being killed.
** The Season 3 episode where [[spoiler:one of the Crichtons dies]], particularly because Claudia Black doesn't cry prettily, making it seem far more real. It doesn't hurt that [[spoiler:the dying Crichton was the one in a blissful relationship with Aeryn]].
*** Every single second of "The Choice". Dear God, is Aeryn in pain.
*** The death of [[spoiler:Xhalax, Aeryn's mother]].
** Crais being forced to deactivate Talyn to stop him from growing any more homicidal until corrective surgery can be performed. The scene itself- intercut with the sorrowful reactions of Moya and Pilot- concludes with Crais leaving the darkened command deck in complete silence- no music, and no sound except for his footsteps fading into the distance.
** [[spoiler:Crais and Talyn's self-sacrifices]] near the end of Season 3.
--->'''[[spoiler: Crais]]:''' "Talyn, Starburst."
** Crichton's showdown with Scorpius during the [[CollapsingLair destruction of the command carrier]]: Scorpius wearily admits that destroying Earth for revenge would be meaningless, because the revenge he really cared about is permanently out of reach; he and Crichton deactivate their [[{{Synchronization}} I-Yensch bracelets]], and finally:
--->'''Crichton:''' If we're gonna get off this boat now would be a good time.
--->'''Scorpius:''' (softly) I may not be getting off this ship, John. (a pause) Goodbye, Crichton.
** ''Dog With Two Bones.'' Specifically the vision of Crichton returning to Earth with all his friends and marrying Aeryn... only for a squad of Peacekeepers to show up and kill ''everyone,'' including Aeryn.
*** [[spoiler: Talyn's]] funeral, where Chiana tries to give a eulogy, only to break down in floods of tears, leaving Rygel to give his own short but heartfelt eulogy for the dead [[spoiler: Leviathan]]
** Harvey's [[spoiler: first]] death during Season 4. Made even more saddening because of Harvey's genuinely hurt expression as he tries in vain to argue for his continued existence.
--->'''Harvey:''' How could I leave your mind? It's full of so many wonderous memories! Cool jazz piano, chocolate ice cream, women's perfume... Women! (A pause) How could you take that from me?
--->'''Crichton:''' (Coldly) You're not real.
--->'''Harvey:''' I'm real to ''you!'' I'm real to ''myself...''
** A lot of scenes in "Prayer," especially Aeryn's final breakdown under the influence of TruthSerum and violent beatings, because it's reduced her to the level of choking out her confession though a mouthful of her own saliva.
** The Season 4 finale. [[spoiler:Aeryn and Crichton embracing one last time and being blown apart, the ring in their remains, and D'Argo's animalistic howls of anguish]].
** Strangely enough, Scorpius [[spoiler: killing Sikozu for betraying Crichton and the others]] in ''The Peacekeeper Wars'' proved quite sad. It's in that moment, despite being a MagnificentBastard [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]], he actually sounds regretful [[spoiler: at murdering his lover]] when he says "You have ruined something... ''unique.''"
*** We're not quite sure she's dead.
*** She isn't dead. Later, we see Grunshlik call her a fool as she struggles to get up.
** And obviously [[spoiler: D'Argo's HeroicSacrifice]] in ''The Peacekeeper Wars''.
* [[spoiler: Harvey's]] death in Peacekeeper wars, lying on the bed next to Crichton. In spite of all he had done, it was still a beautifully made scene. [[spoiler:"Thank you... for your memories..."]]
* In "Kansas", the crew travels back in time to 1986 and has to correct a sudden change. (Crichton's father, Jack, is assigned the doomed Challenger mission, and they have to ground him to preserve the timeline.) Though they succeed, Crichton (in an understandable moment of weakness) unsuccessfully tries to warn his mother of her future death. "MOM, LISTEN! When you first feel the pain... ''(she's already gone)'' don't wait."
** In the same vein is "Won't Get Fooled Again." Very much off the wall humor and craziness... until Crichton is confronted with a recreation of his mother. Suddenly, the episode isn't so funny anymore, as Crichton is nearly broken by being reminded what happened to her.
* "Beware of Dog"--When the crew fatally injure the Vorc due to misunderstanding its nature, realizing too late that it really was doing its duty and tracking the parasite. The Vorc was a semi-intelligent creature, like a dog, who they could only very rudimentarily communicate with through the translator microbes. When it gasps "end" while dying in Aeryn's arms, one can't help but shed a tear.
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* Occurred in ''Series/{{The Fresh Prince of Bel Air}}'' after Will reluctantly admits that the drugs which put Carlton in hospital came from his locker. There's a moment of anger and disbelief before Will all but starts crying and Uncle Phil hugs him. I've never seen a StudioAudience so quiet in my life.
** ''The Fresh Prince of Bel Air'' had a few Tear Jerkers that managed to be effective without being falling into the maligned {{Very Special Episode}} territory. The episode where Will reunites as an adult with his absentee father (played by Ben Vereen), only to have the latter abandon him again, gets me every time.
*** Oh God, the last scene, where excited Will realizes his dad ran out on him ''again'' and starts angrily saying he doesn't need him, he learned how to shave without him, to play basketball, etc., and he's crying by the end (Will Smith! Crying!), and finally he just breaks down and asks Uncle Phil why his dad doesn't want him, and Uncle Phil holds him, and THAT could be dealt with until the credits, where they show the present Will had bought for his father: a sculpture of a father holding his son. And it was all downhill from there.
----> '''Will:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3id-gBwnAJ4 How come he don't want me, man?]]
*** Will's reaction is sad enough, but it's the look on Uncle Phil's face that gets to me the most--he's absolutely furious with Will's father, yet clearly on the verge of tears himself.
*** And re: Phil being Will's father in every real sense, he tells him as much in the last episode.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScJ3ur3A9v0& final part]] of "Bullets over Bel Air" always got me. At the start of the episode, Will and Carlton are held up at gunpoint when they get some money for a camping trip they've got planned, and Will ends up [[TakingTheBullet diving in front of a bullet for Carlton]]. In the last act, Will, still in hospital and having barely escaped being paralyzed or killed, is confronted by a Carlton so shaken up by events and determined to prevent something like that happening again that he's bought a gun. Will's desperate attempt to keep it together while he orders Carlton to give him the gun, [[IOweYouMyLife in exchange for having saved his life]], is bad enough. But when he finally does and Carlton leaves, Will holds on just long enough to unload it before he finally breaks down, alone, terrified and injured in his hospital bed.
* The episode where Will and Carlton are driving a Mercedes for a business partner of Uncle Phil's and are pulled over and arrested after driving slowly through a wealthy neighborhood. At the end, Will and Carlton have an argument about whether it was racial profiling or the police just doing their job. Will leaves and Carlton asks Uncle Phil about it and Uncle Phil expresses his anger over it. That's not the tear jerker, though - it's Carlton sitting alone in the living room and saying, "I'd have pulled us over" again and again, trying to make himself believe it and accept the injustice.
* Trevor's death. At first [[TheDitz Hilary]] just passes it off, but [[CharacterDevelopment over time,]] she sees it as a real loss. Even when she tried to move on with another man, she still couldn't get over it since he died so suddenly, she never got to say goodbye. This leads to Will telling her it's never too late to say goodbye and he'll live on in her heart. This cheers her up and she is able to move on, but not before one final goodbye to her late lover.
-->"Goodbye, Trevor."
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* Occurred in ''Series/{{The Fresh Prince of Bel Air}}'' after Will reluctantly admits that the drugs which put Carlton in hospital came from his locker. There's a moment of anger and disbelief before Will all but starts crying and Uncle Phil hugs him. I've never seen a StudioAudience so quiet in my life.
** ''The Fresh Prince of Bel Air'' had a few Tear Jerkers that managed to be effective without being falling into the maligned {{Very Special Episode}} territory. The episode where Will reunites as an adult with his absentee father (played by Ben Vereen), only to have the latter abandon him again, gets me every time.
*** Oh God, the last scene, where excited Will realizes his dad ran out on him ''again'' and starts angrily saying he doesn't need him, he learned how to shave without him, to play basketball, etc., and he's crying by the end (Will Smith! Crying!), and finally he just breaks down and asks Uncle Phil why his dad doesn't want him, and Uncle Phil holds him, and THAT could be dealt with until the credits, where they show the present Will had bought for his father: a sculpture of a father holding his son. And it was all downhill from there.
----> '''Will:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3id-gBwnAJ4 How come he don't want me, man?]]
*** Will's reaction is sad enough, but it's the look on Uncle Phil's face that gets to me the most--he's absolutely furious with Will's father, yet clearly on the verge of tears himself.
*** And re: Phil being Will's father in every real sense, he tells him as much in the last episode.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScJ3ur3A9v0& final part]] of "Bullets over Bel Air" always got me. At the start of the episode, Will and Carlton are held up at gunpoint when they get some money for a camping trip they've got planned, and Will ends up [[TakingTheBullet diving in front of a bullet for Carlton]]. In the last act, Will, still in hospital and having barely escaped being paralyzed or killed, is confronted by a Carlton so shaken up by events and determined to prevent something like that happening again that he's bought a gun. Will's desperate attempt to keep it together while he orders Carlton to give him the gun, [[IOweYouMyLife in exchange for having saved his life]], is bad enough. But when he finally does and Carlton leaves, Will holds on just long enough to unload it before he finally breaks down, alone, terrified and injured in his hospital bed.
* The episode where Will and Carlton are driving a Mercedes for a business partner of Uncle Phil's and are pulled over and arrested after driving slowly through a wealthy neighborhood. At the end, Will and Carlton have an argument about whether it was racial profiling or the police just doing their job. Will leaves and Carlton asks Uncle Phil about it and Uncle Phil expresses his anger over it. That's not the tear jerker, though - it's Carlton sitting alone in the living room and saying, "I'd have pulled us over" again and again, trying to make himself believe it and accept the injustice.
* Trevor's death. At first [[TheDitz Hilary]] just passes it off, but [[CharacterDevelopment over time,]] she sees it as a real loss. Even when she tried to move on with another man, she still couldn't get over it since he died so suddenly, she never got to say goodbye. This leads to Will telling her it's never too late to say goodbye and he'll live on in her heart. This cheers her up and she is able to move on, but not before one final goodbye to her late lover.
-->"Goodbye, Trevor."
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** Almost the entirety of ''The Berrisford Agenda''. Damn JensenAckles for being so flipping good at the angst.
** And, on the subject of JensenAckles, the ending to "Pollo Loco", with its ''Of Mice And Men'' homage. "Tell me about the good place", he says. * sniffle*
** And, on the subject of JensenAckles, the ending to "Pollo Loco", with its ''Of Mice And Men'' homage. "Tell me about the good place", he says. * sniffle*
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** Almost the entirety of ''The Berrisford Agenda''. Damn JensenAckles Creator/JensenAckles for being so flipping good at the angst.
** And, on the subject ofJensenAckles, Creator/JensenAckles, the ending to "Pollo Loco", with its ''Of Mice And Men'' homage. "Tell me about the good place", he says. * sniffle*
** And, on the subject of
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* [[TheWorldAtWar The World At War]] is full of heartbreaking stories from various eyewitness accounts, but the speech from a [[http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_%28The_World_at_War_episode%29]]Hungarian who'd survived a concentration camp - made even sadder by the speakers almost completely emotionless narrative.
->You could say today I'm 27 years old. I was reborn when I left the camp. The years before didn't matter.
->You could say today I'm 27 years old. I was reborn when I left the camp. The years before didn't matter.
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* [[TheWorldAtWar ''[[TheWorldAtWar The World At War]] War]]'' is full of heartbreaking stories from various eyewitness accounts, but the speech from a [[http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_%28The_World_at_War_episode%29]]Hungarian who'd survived a concentration camp - made even sadder by the speakers almost completely emotionless narrative.
->You -->You could say today I'm 27 years old. I was reborn when I left the camp. The years before didn't matter.
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* {{The Fast Show}}. The sketch where Rowley Birkin talks about the only woman he truly loved who he lost due to his drinking and only utters his catchphrase after an long agonising pause
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* ''FreaksAndGeeks'' - Pick an episode. This was the most painful, aching example of growing up I've ever seen on television. "Carded and Discarded," "Kim Kelly Is My Friend," and "The Garage Door" are particularly painful examples. The bit when Neil told his mother that he didn't want to tell her what was bothering him because "he didn't want to ruin her life" was a real killer because it was so damn TRUE.
* ''FreaksAndGeeks'' - Pick an episode. This was the most painful, aching example of growing up I've ever seen on television. "Carded and Discarded," "Kim Kelly Is My Friend," and "The Garage Door" are particularly painful examples. The bit when Neil told his mother that he didn't want to tell her what was bothering him because "he didn't want to ruin her life" was a real killer because it was so damn TRUE.
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* Admit it, you cried [[spoiler:when Mark Greene died]] on ''Series/{{ER}}''.
** Yes. And when Lucy died, because even that bastard of a doctor Romano refused to give up on her when she was clearly beyond help.
** Perhaps the worst of Mark Greene's death was Corday's reaction. No screaming or wailing - just quiet, wordless, complete devastation. Bravo, Alex Kingston... bravo.
** The look on Carter's face after he finishes reading Mark's letter to the staff still gives me chills, as well as his near-breakdown as he reads Corday's
* "Time of Death", with guest star Ray Liotta as a dying alcoholic ex-con. The whole episode is in real-time, and goes back and forth between his subconscious and scenes in the hospital. He ends up refusing surgery that might save his life, and Pratt (who never knew his father) takes his final request to get in touch with his estranged son.
* The death of paramedic/firefighter Raul in season 2.
* "Love's Labors Lost," Season 1. That is all.
* Kerry telling a deaf patient about her miscarriage through sign language.
* [[spoiler:Sandy's death]] in season 10 was played for mass quantities of {{Narm}}, but largely saved by Laura Innes' performance. Kerry's quiet desperation as she pleads with the surgical team to let her into the OR ("You have to let me see her... that's my wife in there") is devastating, especially for a character who's spent her career being as abrasive and unlikable as possible. Especially at the very end of the OR scene, where blood begins running up Sandy's endotracheal tube(that's it in a surgical situation), Kerry's face freezes in position and she quietly tells Corday and Anspaugh: "You can stop. She's gone."
* [[TsukasaElkKite I]] cried buckets during the episode when [[spoiler:Dr. Pratt dies]] and also during the series finale.
* The Season 6 arc involving Weaver's beloved mentor Dr. Lawrence, who's developed Alzheimer's - specifically, his discussion with Weaver during his final appearance:
--->'''Lawrence''': I saw a woman this morning - dementia. She had no idea where she was, who she was. In ten years that'll be me. Bedridden...in diapers. Locked away in some home, nobody coming to see me.
--->'''Weaver''': I'll come and see you.
--->'''Lawrence''': But I won't know who you are.
* The ending of "The Storm, Part 2"
* Luckily, it's eclipsed by the happy tears when Carol and Doug reunited.
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* Admit it, you cried [[spoiler:when Mark Greene died]] on ''Series/{{ER}}''.
** Yes. And when Lucy died, because even that bastard of a doctor Romano refused to give up on her when she was clearly beyond help.
** Perhaps the worst of Mark Greene's death was Corday's reaction. No screaming or wailing - just quiet, wordless, complete devastation. Bravo, Alex Kingston... bravo.
** The look on Carter's face after he finishes reading Mark's letter to the staff still gives me chills, as well as his near-breakdown as he reads Corday's
* "Time of Death", with guest star Ray Liotta as a dying alcoholic ex-con. The whole episode is in real-time, and goes back and forth between his subconscious and scenes in the hospital. He ends up refusing surgery that might save his life, and Pratt (who never knew his father) takes his final request to get in touch with his estranged son.
* The death of paramedic/firefighter Raul in season 2.
* "Love's Labors Lost," Season 1. That is all.
* Kerry telling a deaf patient about her miscarriage through sign language.
* [[spoiler:Sandy's death]] in season 10 was played for mass quantities of {{Narm}}, but largely saved by Laura Innes' performance. Kerry's quiet desperation as she pleads with the surgical team to let her into the OR ("You have to let me see her... that's my wife in there") is devastating, especially for a character who's spent her career being as abrasive and unlikable as possible. Especially at the very end of the OR scene, where blood begins running up Sandy's endotracheal tube(that's it in a surgical situation), Kerry's face freezes in position and she quietly tells Corday and Anspaugh: "You can stop. She's gone."
* [[TsukasaElkKite I]] cried buckets during the episode when [[spoiler:Dr. Pratt dies]] and also during the series finale.
* The Season 6 arc involving Weaver's beloved mentor Dr. Lawrence, who's developed Alzheimer's - specifically, his discussion with Weaver during his final appearance:
--->'''Lawrence''': I saw a woman this morning - dementia. She had no idea where she was, who she was. In ten years that'll be me. Bedridden...in diapers. Locked away in some home, nobody coming to see me.
--->'''Weaver''': I'll come and see you.
--->'''Lawrence''': But I won't know who you are.
* The ending of "The Storm, Part 2"
* Luckily, it's eclipsed by the happy tears when Carol and Doug reunited.
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* [[{{Frasier}} "I'll miss the coffees."]]
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* ''Fridays'' is a ''SaturdayNightLive'' {{Expy}}-cum-[[DuelingShows Dueling Show]] from the early 1980s that not that many people remember and hasn't been seen on television in a long time (prior to 2013, the only way you could see ''Fridays'' was on YouTube or on the ''Seinfeld'' season three DVD set, which had clips of Michael Richards and Larry David, who were cast members on that show. Now, Creator/ShoutFactory and Hulu have released a collection of the best episodes of the series and YouTube has a lot of sketches uploaded[[note]]some of which are from viewer tapings[[/note]]). Nonetheless, it still had its TearJerker moments:
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* ''Fridays'' is a ''SaturdayNightLive'' ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' {{Expy}}-cum-[[DuelingShows Dueling Show]] from the early 1980s that not that many people remember and hasn't been seen on television in a long time (prior to 2013, the only way you could see ''Fridays'' was on YouTube or on the ''Seinfeld'' season three DVD set, which had clips of Michael Richards and Larry David, who were cast members on that show. Now, Creator/ShoutFactory and Hulu have released a collection of the best episodes of the series and YouTube has a lot of sketches uploaded[[note]]some of which are from viewer tapings[[/note]]). Nonetheless, it still had its TearJerker moments:
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* ''Fridays'' is a ''SaturdayNightLive'' {{Expy}}-cum-[[DuelingShows Dueling Show]] from the early 1980s that not that many people remember and hasn't been seen on television in a long time (prior to 2013, the only way you could see ''Fridays'' was on YouTube or on the ''Seinfeld'' season three DVD set, which had clips of Michael Richards and Larry David, who were cast members on that show. Now, Creator/ShoutFactory has released the entire series on DVD). Nonetheless, it still had its TearJerker moments:
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* ''Fridays'' is a ''SaturdayNightLive'' {{Expy}}-cum-[[DuelingShows Dueling Show]] from the early 1980s that not that many people remember and hasn't been seen on television in a long time (prior to 2013, the only way you could see ''Fridays'' was on YouTube or on the ''Seinfeld'' season three DVD set, which had clips of Michael Richards and Larry David, who were cast members on that show. Now, Creator/ShoutFactory has and Hulu have released a collection of the entire best episodes of the series on DVD).and YouTube has a lot of sketches uploaded[[note]]some of which are from viewer tapings[[/note]]). Nonetheless, it still had its TearJerker moments:
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** Another episode had a dramatic sketch in which a punk rocker (Michael Richards) returns home to his elderly father, who keeps asking who he is and telling the man that he has no son. The son takes this as a sign that his father wants nothing to do with him because of the generation gap and the fact that the son had been away from home for so long. The son then gives an impassioned speech about loving and accepting him, despite the mistakes he made -- [[spoiler: until it's revealed that the man is right -- the punk rocker really isn't his son]].
** Another sketch they had was one around the time of Ronald Reagan's assassination attempt where all of the cast members talk about where they were when they heard that a political figure was shot. Mark Blankfield's[[note]]Mark Blankfield is the cast member known for playing the overly-stressed, drug-abusing pharmacist who runs Drugs R Us[[/note]] story of how he was in school when the principal announced that John F. Kennedy was shot was the most heart-wrenching, as his teacher tried to continue with class, but Blankfield broke down and cried.
** Early in the second season, Bill Lee (one of the producers) was diagnosed with cancer, and the goodnights for most of the shows had the cast member with the microphone saying some variant of "Get well, Bill" or "We miss you, Bill". Sadly, Lee succumbed to his illness on February 3, 1981; that week's show (Valerie Bertinelli / The Jim Carroll Band) ended with John Moffitt (the other producer) eulogizing his professional partner and best friend before the credits ran over a black screen.
** Another sketch they had was one around the time of Ronald Reagan's assassination attempt where all of the cast members talk about where they were when they heard that a political figure was shot. Mark Blankfield's[[note]]Mark Blankfield is the cast member known for playing the overly-stressed, drug-abusing pharmacist who runs Drugs R Us[[/note]] story of how he was in school when the principal announced that John F. Kennedy was shot was the most heart-wrenching, as his teacher tried to continue with class, but Blankfield broke down and cried.
** Early in the second season, Bill Lee (one of the producers) was diagnosed with cancer, and the goodnights for most of the shows had the cast member with the microphone saying some variant of "Get well, Bill" or "We miss you, Bill". Sadly, Lee succumbed to his illness on February 3, 1981; that week's show (Valerie Bertinelli / The Jim Carroll Band) ended with John Moffitt (the other producer) eulogizing his professional partner and best friend before the credits ran over a black screen.
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** Another episode had a dramatic sketch in which a punk rocker (Michael Richards) returns home to his elderly father, who keeps asking who he is and telling the man that he has no son. The son takes this as a sign that his father wants nothing to do with him because of the generation gap and the fact that the son had been away from home for so long. The son then gives an impassioned speech about loving and accepting him, despite the mistakes he made -- [[spoiler: until it's revealed that the man is right -- the punk rocker really isn't his son]].
son, as in "He's not biologically related to him"]].
** Another sketch they had was one around the time of Ronald Reagan's assassination attempt where all of the cast members talk about where they were when they heard that a political figure was shot. Mark Blankfield's[[note]]Mark Blankfield is the cast member known for playing the overly-stressed, drug-abusing pharmacist who runs Drugs RUs[[/note]] Us and the extremely hypocritical fire-and-brimstone preacher, Pastor James Babbitt[[/note]] story of how he was in school when the principal announced that John F. Kennedy was shot was the most heart-wrenching, as his teacher tried to continue with class, but Blankfield broke down and cried.
** Early in the second season, Bill Lee (one of the producers) was diagnosed with cancer, and the goodnights for most of the shows had the cast member with the microphone saying some variant of "Get well, Bill" or "We miss you, Bill". Sadly, Lee succumbed to his illness on February 3, 1981; that week's show (Valerie Bertinelli/ with musical guest, The Jim Carroll Band) ended with John Moffitt (the other producer) eulogizing his professional partner and best friend before the credits ran over a black screen.
** Another sketch they had was one around the time of Ronald Reagan's assassination attempt where all of the cast members talk about where they were when they heard that a political figure was shot. Mark Blankfield's[[note]]Mark Blankfield is the cast member known for playing the overly-stressed, drug-abusing pharmacist who runs Drugs R
** Early in the second season, Bill Lee (one of the producers) was diagnosed with cancer, and the goodnights for most of the shows had the cast member with the microphone saying some variant of "Get well, Bill" or "We miss you, Bill". Sadly, Lee succumbed to his illness on February 3, 1981; that week's show (Valerie Bertinelli
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* Occurred in ''{{The Fresh Prince of Bel Air}}'' after Will reluctantly admits that the drugs which put Carlton in hospital came from his locker. There's a moment of anger and disbelief before Will all but starts crying and Uncle Phil hugs him. I've never seen a StudioAudience so quiet in my life.
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* J.R. Martinez's military tribute dance during Season 12. The most stunning moment in the show's history.
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* ''DarkAngel'': "X5-599. I've got a heart for you."
** Almost the entirety of ''The Berrisford Agenda''. Damn JensenAckles for being so flipping good at the angst.
** And, on the subject of JensenAckles, the ending to "Pollo Loco", with its ''Of Mice And Men'' homage. "Tell me about the good place", he says. * sniffle*
** The death of Diamond at the end of "Shorties in Love".
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[[folder:Deadliest Catch]]
* One of the earliest was in the first season, with the sinking of the FV ''Big Valley''. Feature vessel ''Maverick'' and ''Cornelia Marie'' (then not a feature vessel; it was partnered with ''Maverick'' and only had cameras as a backup) were part of the rescue effort. Of six on-board, only one was found alive, and only two of the dead were recovered.
* Season five had a several of these, starting with the sinking of another boat. The episode is punctuated with home videos of the doomed crewmates, with one of them joking that "they oughta be on ''Deadliest Catch''."
* Later, upstart greenhorn Jake of the ''Northwestern'' (who was earlier burned in effigy on another boat for a prank he pulled - it was all in fun, they really just wanted to get rid of the effigy's ''Northwestern'' sweatshirt) got the devistating news that the youngest of his four older sisters had died after years of battling painful illnesses. Captain Sig and the cameraman decided not to film Jake getting the news but kept the audio, which is gut-wrenching. The episode ends at night, with Jake on an engineless boat crossing to another boat as the background music contains the lyrics "My sister and I..."
** In a follow-up episode Jake talked about how close he was with his late sister, who he talked to her every day he was back home, and that he also considers his crewmates the big brothers he never had.
** Likewise, the [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold seemingly hard-hearted]] Captain Sig considers Jake to be the son he never had. Aww.
* Word of Captain Phil's stroke making its way through the crab fleet, and the varied reactions of the other captains as the news makes it down the line. Captain Sig throws the radio handset, then throws away his cigarettes in anger while Captain Keith tearfully pleads to God, "Cut him some slack, Big Guy."
* The montage at the end of the episode "Redemption Day", alternating between scenes of Josh Harris at the hospital after Captain Phil has a setback and the fleet working and plowing through rough seas with Johnny Cash's "Redemption Day" playing in the background. And at the very end is Josh Harris' phone call to his younger brother Jake to let him know that their father has passed away.
* The last half of the episode Valhalla when the rest of the crabbing fleet learn of Phil's passing is heartbreaking in itself but watching each ship do a different method of tribute to him will leave you in tears.
** Time Bandit sets off fireworks in Phil's honor.
** When they leave harbor after learning of the passing the Northwestern makes a slow pass around the Cornelia Marie as they do one of crew salutes the ship, later Sig talks about the old fisherman's tale of how seagulls are fishermen passed on and how the seagull sitting on his bow at that moment just might be Phil. He also noted that, while Phil was in hospital (almost a month), the sea raged...and then after he died, it went dead calm.
** On the Wizard Captain Keith rings the bell eight times as his crew throws back a full crab pot, with its shot and buoys (one of which has In Memory of Captain Phil Harris written on it) inside so it stays submerged as a memorial, so he'd "always have some crab to come back to."
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[[folder:Degrassi The Next Generation]]
* Smash Into you has Dave breaking down after Jacinta gets hit by a car.
* The ending of "Time Stands Still".
** ''Most'' of Time Stands still. When the paint and feathers spill on Rick. . .oh my ''god'', he looks humiliated.
* "Rock This Town". Especially because nobody saw it coming.
* "Venus", when Manny tells Emma just how badly she screwed up. "I lost my family... My reputation... and my best friend."
* "Shout."
* Riley's confession to Peter at the end of "Bad Medicine"..."I never wanted to be like this..." Any young gay person- Especially a straight gay- will know EXACTLY what he's talking about. It doesn't help that he goes back into denial right after this.
** "Beat It" Part One was just heart-wrenching.
** "Why Can't This Be Love." "...Sav....are you breaking up with me?"
* In "Degrassi Takes Manhattan" The scene where [[spoiler: Declan kicks Fiona out.]]
* "My Body is a Cage" Adam's scenes, especially the scene where [[spoiler: Clare sees "Gracie" burning herself.]]
* Liberty finally breaking down at [[spoiler: JT's memorial service]], proving that she's NotSoStoic.
* [[spoiler: Adam gets shot at prom in the shoulder.]]
* Ghost in the Machine:
--> '''Paige''': The truth? Paige went upstairs that night. She never came back.
* The Mini "Six months" where JT's friends gather to pay tribute to JT.
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[[folder: Dinosaurs]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTUA_wdp78 The last scenes of the series finale]] are ''' ''devastating.'' ''' The episode was fairly humorous despite an ongoing theme of [[GreenAesop out-of-control environmental catastrophe]], at least until Earl had to explain to his ''infant son'' that the world was coming to an end.
--> '''Baby''': Are we gonna move?
--> '''Howard Handupme''': And taking a look at the long range forecast, continued snow, darkness, and extreme cold. This is Howard Handupme, goodnight. (''{{beat}}'') Goodbye.
* Earl's reaction to Robbie wanting to keep fighting in "Nuts to War Part II":
---> '''Earl''': You're not a soldier, you're a kid! You're gonna go to school. You're gonna take girlfriends to dances. You're gonna drive me crazy like you always have. Until it's time for you to grow up.
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[[folder:Documentaries]]
* One section of the PBS documentary ''Carrier'' as the sailors stand on the deck while pulling into Pearl Harbor. The combination of Five For Fighting's "World" in the background and the sheer beauty of the execution of the scene sent her into a blubbering mess.
* The documentary series "Secrets of the Dead" also had one incredibly tear-jerking episode. The scientists were trying to identify several anonymous corpses recovered in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, nearly a century after they had been buried. When they exhumed the bodies however, they found to their horror that most of the graves had been filled with water and there was almost no DNA left they could use for identification. Only one grave wasn't flooded - the grave reserved at the top of the hill for the body of an unidentified baby boy. Incredibly, they found a tiny bone fragment that hadn't decomposed yet, and it contained just enough DNA so that they could finally identify the boy. The scientist who performed the identification was so moved that he seemed to be holding back tears, and could only say that "Someone wanted us to know who this child is."
** There's more. IIRC the reason why the bone fragment had been preserved was because of a copper plaque reading "Our Babe" that had been bought for the no-expense-spared funeral arranged by the men who found the body. These were big, tough men who had done the dangerous work of laying telegraph cables in the Atlantic; and because they were so moved by their discovery of the Unknown Child, and honoured him with that plaque, it was finally possible ninety years later to find out his identity.
** The episode ends with another incredibly tear-jerking scene. It was found that the boy had surviving relatives in Finland, they flew all the way to Halifax, Canada to visit his grave. They found that there were already flowers on his grave. It was then that they realized that ever since the baby died, the people of Halifax had been taking care of the boy as one of their own. It took nine decades and the love of countless strangers so that a baby boy could finally have a name.
*** Worse still, they spoke to a lady whose mother met the boy's mother, recalling seeing her panicking in the flooding stairwell, lamenting to God, 'Do they all have to die by water?!' Yes, it seems just months before, Our Babe's older sister had drowned in a pond.
* One episode of ''WalkingWithDinosaurs'' featured the last flight of a male Ornithocheirus (a [[GiantFlyer massive flying reptile]] ) on his way to the mating grounds: it ends with the male dying alone on a deserted beach over the course of several agonizing hours. Everything about the scene, from the heartwrenching music to the sight of the creature trying desperately to rise ''one last time.''
** In the sequel series ''Walking With Beasts'', when the young indricothere (a giant giraffe-like rhino) [[TheUnfavourite was violently abandoned by its own mother as she got a new baby]]. RL is such a CrapSackWorld...
*** What gets me every time isn't so much the ParentalAbandonment itself; that was strongly foreshadowed earlier on in the episode. Instead, it's the scene where the young indricothere is injured while on his own, prompting him to return to his mother -- except, now that she's suckling her new baby, she sees the previous one as nothing but a threat, and drives him away. It's worth noting that this practice occurs among modern-day rhinos as well.
* ''The Alzheimer's Project'' - just reading an article about it was enough to induce tears.
* ''China's Unnatural Disaster'' - The 2008 earthquake in China. All those children, almost all of them ''only'' children.... One mom: "I have no tears left" [[spoiler: and later you see her neighbors berating her for protesting the Communist Party. They just want some answers, dammit!]]
* CBS did a miniseries of the life of George Washington. At the end of the Revolution, just before Washington resigns his command of the Continental Army to go home, he has a meeting with all of his principal commanders and staff. After a short speech Washington asked that each one of them to come up so he can shake their hand before he leaves. These men had fought a war that lasted eight years, fought in tremendous battles and suffered great deprivation and as they passed Washington both he and them (and the viewers) were so overwhelmed with emotion that no one was capable of speech and wept unashamed as Washington embraced each one of them. This was also {{Truth in Television}}.
** In the History Channel's ''The Revolution'' series, the show mentions that after the Revolutionary War, many of the American generals and officers were unhappy with Congress refusing to pay them, and began considering a military coup to seize power from Congress. Washington, horrified at the idea, confronts his officers. He gathers them all in the room and prepares to give a speech, but before doing so, ''puts on a pair of glasses''. The officers are shocked, as they had never seen Washington wear glasses, and Washington explains that he had lost his vision over the course of the war. Realizing how much Washington had sacrificed to win the war, every single officer in the room breaks down in tears and the crisis is averted.
* [[TheWorldAtWar The World At War]] is full of heartbreaking stories from various eyewitness accounts, but the speech from a [[http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_%28The_World_at_War_episode%29]]Hungarian who'd survived a concentration camp - made even sadder by the speakers almost completely emotionless narrative.
->You could say today I'm 27 years old. I was reborn when I left the camp. The years before didn't matter.
* The documentary ''Mayday! Bering Sea'' on the sinking of the ''Alaska Ranger'', during Ed Cook talking about finding that his brother had died.
* History Cold Case is a programme which goes back in time and analyses dead bodies, finding out their history. One episode involved a Victorian prostitute, originally thought to be in her late 20s, racked with non-congenital, tertiary syphilis and likely to be utterly destitute, living in one of the most deprived areas of the country. That depressing enough for you? Then its revealed that the girls is in her late teens. This means that she would have had to have got her syphilis as a child, possibly when she was six/seven.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Nova}}'' documented a six-year attempt to identify a World War II-era submarine that had been found off the coast of New Jersey. It was finally identified as ''U-869''. The filmmakers found that one of the crewmembers' sisters had emigrated to the United States after the war and had settled in Maryland, a few hours from the New Jersey coast. She had been told that her brother's U-boat was presumed lost off Gibraltar. The filmmakers went to her home and filmed the moment that she was told that her brother was much closer than she had believed...
* ''[[http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/wild/big-cat-week/videos/leopard-queen/ Leopard Queen]]'' is a [[NationalGeographic Nat Geo Wild]] documentary about a man's seventeen-year friendship with a wild leopard. [[spoiler: Her death]] at the end is ''very'' sad.
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[[folder:Due South]]
* The "Victoria's Secret" arc in ''Series/DueSouth''. Especially at the end when Fraser chases the train to grab Victoria's hand and right when he reaches her [[spoiler:gets accidentally shot by his best friend]]. Then, [[spoiler:as he's lying on the platform bleeding]], he recites the poem. Full scene [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1FaSJjtZMo here]].
** Oh, man. The scene that does it for me is Fraser in the confessional, as he calmly/numbly explains how he and Victoria fell in love. It's the precision, the details, the absolute devastating ''clarity'' of Fraser's description... * bawl*
* Ray Kowalski's reaction when Ray Vecchio turns up again and his devastating fear when he thinks he'll lose Fraser which leads him to ask Meg Thatcher of all people the following: "You ever feel like you don't know who you are? Like if you weren't around somebody or that somebody wasn't around you, that you wouldn't be you or at least not the "you" that you think you are? Do you ever feel like that?" Heartbreaking. And then there was Fraser's final epilogue.
** Definitely YMMV for these two examples. I personally found Ray Kowalski very irritating in that scene, and Fraser very matter-of-fact and uncaring in his voiceover, which only made me sad because he seemed to have discarded Ray Vecchio as a friend!
* The final scene in "The Ladies Man," when Ray Kowalski breaks down in his car and starts to cry and Fraser awkwardly tries to comfort him.
* The final scene from "Juliet is Bleeding." Ray Vecchio is crying, or close to it, and Fraser never takes his eyes off him as a way of comforting his friend.
** Also, RayV's reaction earlier in the episode, when [[spoiler:Irene is shot and he carries her down the stairs]]
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[[folder:Eight Simple Rules]]
* ''8 Simple Rules'' after John Ritter died. Just... those episodes. It's even worse if you've lost a loved one in real life.
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[[folder:Einstein and Eddington]]
* ''Einstein and Eddington'', anyone? Eddington's best friend, William, is about to go off to fight in WWI and Eddington almost misses the train. Just when you think he's about to say goodbye to William, he's caught by a colleague seeing his son off and forced to make small talk. He cycles to the next station, but doesn't quite catch the train - he sees William on board, but William doesn't look out of the window. Later, inevitably, William dies at Ypres. Finally, Eddington breaks down and admits to his sister that he loved William, which is what he wanted to tell him at the station...and a few scenes later, to highlight the poignancy, the aforementioned colleague accuses Eddington of knowing nothing about grief.
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[[folder:ER]]
* Admit it, you cried [[spoiler:when Mark Greene died]] on ''{{ER}}''.
** Yes. And when Lucy died, because even that bastard of a doctor Romano refused to give up on her when she was clearly beyond help.
** Perhaps the worst of Mark Greene's death was Corday's reaction. No screaming or wailing - just quiet, wordless, complete devastation. Bravo, Alex Kingston... bravo.
** The look on Carter's face after he finishes reading Mark's letter to the staff still gives me chills, as well as his near-breakdown as he reads Corday's
* "Time of Death", with guest star Ray Liotta as a dying alcoholic ex-con. The whole episode is in real-time, and goes back and forth between his subconscious and scenes in the hospital. He ends up refusing surgery that might save his life, and Pratt (who never knew his father) takes his final request to get in touch with his estranged son.
* The death of paramedic/firefighter Raul in season 2.
* "Love's Labors Lost," Season 1. That is all.
* Kerry telling a deaf patient about her miscarriage through sign language.
* [[spoiler:Sandy's death]] in season 10 was played for mass quantities of {{Narm}}, but largely saved by Laura Innes' performance. Kerry's quiet desperation as she pleads with the surgical team to let her into the OR ("You have to let me see her... that's my wife in there") is devastating, especially for a character who's spent her career being as abrasive and unlikable as possible. Especially at the very end of the OR scene, where blood begins running up Sandy's endotracheal tube(that's it in a surgical situation), Kerry's face freezes in position and she quietly tells Corday and Anspaugh: "You can stop. She's gone."
* [[TsukasaElkKite I]] cried buckets during the episode when [[spoiler:Dr. Pratt dies]] and also during the series finale.
* The Season 6 arc involving Weaver's beloved mentor Dr. Lawrence, who's developed Alzheimer's - specifically, his discussion with Weaver during his final appearance:
--->'''Lawrence''': I saw a woman this morning - dementia. She had no idea where she was, who she was. In ten years that'll be me. Bedridden...in diapers. Locked away in some home, nobody coming to see me.
--->'''Weaver''': I'll come and see you.
--->'''Lawrence''': But I won't know who you are.
* The ending of "The Storm, Part 2"
* Luckily, it's eclipsed by the happy tears when Carol and Doug reunited.
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[[folder:Eureka]]
* [[spoiler: Nathan being erased from time]] at the end of "I Do Over".
* The end of the episode "Right as Raynes." After Callister and Zoey [[spoiler: skip town]], and Callister is leaning against the bus. [[spoiler: With tears all around, including Nathan, Callister asks if a machine can have a soul, just before he dies in his creator, and truly his father's, arms.]] Seeing Nathan, of all people, in tears, somehow makes it worse.
* [[spoiler: Kim 2.0 being melted in "Shower the People". Watching Henry keep himself from breaking down just makes it that much worse.]]
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[[folder:Extras]]
* Ricky Gervais' heartrending speech in the final episode. Damn you Gervais! Damn you and your incredible talent!
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[[folder:ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition]]
* Some of the episodes of ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition'' have Tear Jerker moments in them. The Wofford family, especially. If you don't tear up at least a little when the father starts whispering to the picture of his deceased wife, you have no soul.
** ''Some'' of the episodes?! Try '''''the whole frickin' series''''', period! They should've called this show "Tear Jerker: The Series!"
** The worst is the episode about the Kadzis family. Absolute soul-wrenching sobs.
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[[folder:FamilyTies]]
* The one where Alex's friend Greg dies in a car accident. The two-parter focuses solely on Alex reflecting on his past to a psychiatrist while coping with Greg's death.
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[[folder:Farscape]]
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. That show punishes its viewers almost as much as its characters.
** The Season 1 finale.
--->'''John:''' I have a job to do, and I am unafraid.
** Crichton seeing his child at the end of "Look at the Princess". I've always had mildly insane visions of Chricton somehow being alive or somesuch... * sniff*
** Many, ''many'' scenes from "The Way We Weren't," especially the scene where Aeryn tearfully relives taking part in the execution of Moya's former pilot.
** Stark's [[spoiler: temporary]] death in "The Ugly Truth." Brought home by Zhaan crying over his discarded mask.
** In "The Locket" when Aeryn has died of old age in Crichton's arms and Crichton starts to cry.
** Crichton, suffering a SplitPersonalityTakeover at the end of the "Liars Guns And Money" trilogy and begging D'Argo to kill him. Worse still, in the buildup to this moment, he's seen quietly singing "Daisy... daisy... give me your answer true..." as he tries in vain to shut out Scorpius' voice inside his head.
** In "Season of Death", when Crichton gives a gut wrenching "You're ''alive''!!" while sobbing when he realizes that Aeryn is alive thanks to Zhaan. I cry when I watch this *sob*.
** At the end of "Terra Firma" when John says goodbye to Olivia and Jack.
** The Season 2 finale: [[spoiler:Aeryn's funeral, including D'Argo giving her his Qualtar blade and Rygel giving her his pendant]].
** The death of [[spoiler:Zhaan]] in Season 3. The fact that even [[spoiler:Aeryn starts crying and begging her not to sacrifice herself somehow makes it much more real]].
** "Different Destinations." Dear god, SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong has never been so cruelly subverted. Perhaps the worst part was where D'Argo finds the inscription left by the eight year-old novice he befriended, knowing that she was murdered hours after making it.
*** That or the preceding scene with Crichton and Aeryn. Not only do they know what happened to those poor people, but the planet's unique properties and viewing masks allow them or anyone else to ''see'' what happened. Without even wearing the mask, Crichton and Aeryn can still hear the nurses' screams as they're being killed.
** The Season 3 episode where [[spoiler:one of the Crichtons dies]], particularly because Claudia Black doesn't cry prettily, making it seem far more real. It doesn't hurt that [[spoiler:the dying Crichton was the one in a blissful relationship with Aeryn]].
*** Every single second of "The Choice". Dear God, is Aeryn in pain.
**** The death of [[spoiler:Xhalax, Aeryn's mother]].
** Crais being forced to deactivate Talyn to stop him from growing any more homicidal until corrective surgery can be performed. The scene itself- intercut with the sorrowful reactions of Moya and Pilot- concludes with Crais leaving the darkened command deck in complete silence- no music, and no sound except for his footsteps fading into the distance.
** [[spoiler:Crais and Talyn's self-sacrifices]] near the end of Season 3.
--->'''[[spoiler: Crais]]:''' "Talyn, Starburst."
** Crichton's showdown with Scorpius during the [[CollapsingLair destruction of the command carrier]]: Scorpius wearily admits that destroying Earth for revenge would be meaningless, because the revenge he really cared about is permanently out of reach; he and Crichton deactivate their [[{{Synchronization}} I-Yensch bracelets]], and finally:
--->'''Crichton:''' If we're gonna get off this boat now would be a good time.
--->'''Scorpius:''' (softly) I may not be getting off this ship, John. (a pause) Goodbye, Crichton.
** ''Dog With Two Bones.'' Specifically the vision of Crichton returning to Earth with all his friends and marrying Aeryn... only for a squad of Peacekeepers to show up and kill ''everyone,'' including Aeryn.
*** [[spoiler: Talyn's]] funeral, where Chiana tries to give a eulogy, only to break down in floods of tears, leaving Rygel to give his own short but heartfelt eulogy for the dead [[spoiler: Leviathan]]
** Harvey's [[spoiler: first]] death during Season 4. Made even more saddening because of Harvey's genuinely hurt expression as he tries in vain to argue for his continued existence.
--->'''Harvey:''' How could I leave your mind? It's full of so many wonderous memories! Cool jazz piano, chocolate ice cream, women's perfume... Women! (A pause) How could you take that from me?
--->'''Crichton:''' (Coldly) You're not real.
--->'''Harvey:''' I'm real to ''you!'' I'm real to ''myself...''
** A lot of scenes in "Prayer," especially Aeryn's final breakdown under the influence of TruthSerum and violent beatings, because it's reduced her to the level of choking out her confession though a mouthful of her own saliva.
** The Season 4 finale. [[spoiler:Aeryn and Crichton embracing one last time and being blown apart, the ring in their remains, and D'Argo's animalistic howls of anguish]].
** Strangely enough, Scorpius [[spoiler: killing Sikozu for betraying Crichton and the others]] in ''The Peacekeeper Wars'' proved quite sad. It's in that moment, despite being a MagnificentBastard [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]], he actually sounds regretful [[spoiler: at murdering his lover]] when he says "You have ruined something... ''unique.''"
*** We're not quite sure she's dead.
*** She isn't dead. Later, we see Grunshlik call her a fool as she struggles to get up.
** And obviously [[spoiler: D'Argo's HeroicSacrifice]] in ''The Peacekeeper Wars''.
* [[spoiler: Harvey's]] death in Peacekeeper wars, lying on the bed next to Crichton. In spite of all he had done, it was still a beautifully made scene. [[spoiler:"Thank you... for your memories..."]]
* In "Kansas", the crew travels back in time to 1986 and has to correct a sudden change. (Crichton's father, Jack, is assigned the doomed Challenger mission, and they have to ground him to preserve the timeline.) Though they succeed, Crichton (in an understandable moment of weakness) unsuccessfully tries to warn his mother of her future death. "MOM, LISTEN! When you first feel the pain... ''(she's already gone)'' don't wait."
** In the same vein is "Won't Get Fooled Again." Very much off the wall humor and craziness... until Crichton is confronted with a recreation of his mother. Suddenly, the episode isn't so funny anymore, as Crichton is nearly broken by being reminded what happened to her.
* "Beware of Dog"--When the crew fatally injure the Vorc due to misunderstanding its nature, realizing too late that it really was doing its duty and tracking the parasite. The Vorc was a semi-intelligent creature, like a dog, who they could only very rudimentarily communicate with through the translator microbes. When it gasps "end" while dying in Aeryn's arms, one can't help but shed a tear.
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[[folder:TheFastShow]]
* {{The Fast Show}}. The sketch where Rowley Birkin talks about the only woman he truly loved who he lost due to his drinking and only utters his catchphrase after an long agonising pause
** And the slow zoom-out at the end instead of the usual jumpcut to the next sketch. Usually the catchphrase results in audience laughter - this one got a round of applause. And very well deserved it was too.
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[[folder:FraggleRock]]
* On the episode 'Change of Address' when Gobo sang 'Petals of a Rose.'
* "Marooned": It's episodes like this that make {{Media Watchdog}}s forbid children's shows from showing two main characters slowly suffocating to death in the dark, wondering what it will feel like to die...
** Despite this (or possibly ''because'' of this), "Marooned" is considered by many fans to be the overall [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome best episode of the series.]]
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[[folder:Frasier]]
* [[{{Frasier}} "I'll miss the coffees."]]
** "While it's tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took." Damn you, damn you, ''damn you'' and your tear jerking abilities, Kelsey Grammer.
* Daphne's breakdown while Niles is in surgery.
* The home movies of Frasier and Niles' mother.
* "Take it from someone who knows... you don't want to spend half your life thinking about a chance you didn't take."
* At the end of the 2001-2002 season premier, these words appeared on the screen: "In loving memory of our friends Lynn and David Angell". The executive producer and his wife, killed aboard the first plane to hit the World Trade Center.
** When Niles & Daphne [[spoiler:named their baby David]] in the series finale.
* In the 9th Season, when Martin calls Eddie over for a hug after realizing how old he's gotten, and that he won't be around forever.
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[[folder:FreaksAndGeeks]]
* ''FreaksAndGeeks'' - Pick an episode. This was the most painful, aching example of growing up I've ever seen on television. "Carded and Discarded," "Kim Kelly Is My Friend," and "The Garage Door" are particularly painful examples. The bit when Neil told his mother that he didn't want to tell her what was bothering him because "he didn't want to ruin her life" was a real killer because it was so damn TRUE.
** "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers" has not one but ''two'' such plots. In the first, Bill (a character usually played for comic relief) has to come to terms with his mother's new sweetheart, who happens to be his [[JerkJock gym teacher]] and a leading cause of his isolation. In the second, Millie (a character usually played for comic relief) breaks down after her beloved dog is run over (unbeknownst to her, by Kim and Lindsay -- the latter being her best friend). Fortunately for viewers' souls, the second halves of both plots pay dividends of the [[FunnyMoments hilarious]] and [[HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]] varieties.
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[[folder:Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]
* Occurred in ''{{The Fresh Prince of Bel Air}}'' after Will reluctantly admits that the drugs which put Carlton in hospital came from his locker. There's a moment of anger and disbelief before Will all but starts crying and Uncle Phil hugs him. I've never seen a StudioAudience so quiet in my life.
** ''The Fresh Prince of Bel Air'' had a few Tear Jerkers that managed to be effective without being falling into the maligned {{Very Special Episode}} territory. The episode where Will reunites as an adult with his absentee father (played by Ben Vereen), only to have the latter abandon him again, gets me every time.
*** Oh God, the last scene, where excited Will realizes his dad ran out on him ''again'' and starts angrily saying he doesn't need him, he learned how to shave without him, to play basketball, etc., and he's crying by the end (Will Smith! Crying!), and finally he just breaks down and asks Uncle Phil why his dad doesn't want him, and Uncle Phil holds him, and THAT could be dealt with until the credits, where they show the present Will had bought for his father: a sculpture of a father holding his son. And it was all downhill from there.
----> '''Will:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3id-gBwnAJ4 How come he don't want me, man?]]
**** Will's reaction is sad enough, but it's the look on Uncle Phil's face that gets to me the most--he's absolutely furious with Will's father, yet clearly on the verge of tears himself.
**** And re: Phil being Will's father in every real sense, he tells him as much in the last episode.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScJ3ur3A9v0& final part]] of "Bullets over Bel Air" always got me. At the start of the episode, Will and Carlton are held up at gunpoint when they get some money for a camping trip they've got planned, and Will ends up [[TakingTheBullet diving in front of a bullet for Carlton]]. In the last act, Will, still in hospital and having barely escaped being paralyzed or killed, is confronted by a Carlton so shaken up by events and determined to prevent something like that happening again that he's bought a gun. Will's desperate attempt to keep it together while he orders Carlton to give him the gun, [[IOweYouMyLife in exchange for having saved his life]], is bad enough. But when he finally does and Carlton leaves, Will holds on just long enough to unload it before he finally breaks down, alone, terrified and injured in his hospital bed.
* The episode where Will and Carlton are driving a Mercedes for a business partner of Uncle Phil's and are pulled over and arrested after driving slowly through a wealthy neighborhood. At the end, Will and Carlton have an argument about whether it was racial profiling or the police just doing their job. Will leaves and Carlton asks Uncle Phil about it and Uncle Phil expresses his anger over it. That's not the tear jerker, though - it's Carlton sitting alone in the living room and saying, "I'd have pulled us over" again and again, trying to make himself believe it and accept the injustice.
* Trevor's death. At first [[TheDitz Hilary]] just passes it off, but [[CharacterDevelopment over time,]] she sees it as a real loss. Even when she tried to move on with another man, she still couldn't get over it since he died so suddenly, she never got to say goodbye. This leads to Will telling her it's never too late to say goodbye and he'll live on in her heart. This cheers her up and she is able to move on, but not before one final goodbye to her late lover.
-->"Goodbye, Trevor."
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[[folder:Friday Night Lights]]
* ''The Son''. Matt Saracen's father has died by stepping on a mine, and Matt is distraught with grief while agonizing over having not had the time to confess to his father exactly what he thought of him and felt about him.
--->''Matt'': I gotta get up there in front of everybody and say good stuff about this man. and all I really want to say is ‘Here lies Henry Saracen, his mother annoyed him, his wife couldn’t stand him and he didn’t want to be a dad so he took off to be in the army because that’s the only way he could come up with to get out of here and ditch all your responsibilities and no one could call you out on it and that worked out great so you just decided to enlist four more times and that ended up getting you killed and now here you are. And all you left behind is a mother with dementia, a divorced wife and a son that delivers pizza. Thank you for coming 100 people I do not know.’ You know what the worst part is even if I did get up and say all that I don’t even know if I’m saying it to him because I don’t know what’s in that damn box. It’s a closed casket might be someone else, someone funnier or a bunch of rocks.
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[[folder: Fridays]]
* ''Fridays'' is a ''SaturdayNightLive'' {{Expy}}-cum-[[DuelingShows Dueling Show]] from the early 1980s that not that many people remember and hasn't been seen on television in a long time (prior to 2013, the only way you could see ''Fridays'' was on YouTube or on the ''Seinfeld'' season three DVD set, which had clips of Michael Richards and Larry David, who were cast members on that show. Now, Creator/ShoutFactory has released the entire series on DVD). Nonetheless, it still had its TearJerker moments:
** Faced with the daunting task of doing a live comedy show the Friday after John Lennon's death and not making light of the tragedy, ''Fridays'' did itself proud. The show went on with no mention of Lennon until just after the "Friday Edition" news segment. Then the screen went blank and the words to "Imagine" scrolled across the screen. It said all that needed to be said.
** Another episode had a dramatic sketch in which a punk rocker (Michael Richards) returns home to his elderly father, who keeps asking who he is and telling the man that he has no son. The son takes this as a sign that his father wants nothing to do with him because of the generation gap and the fact that the son had been away from home for so long. The son then gives an impassioned speech about loving and accepting him, despite the mistakes he made -- [[spoiler: until it's revealed that the man is right -- the punk rocker really isn't his son]].
** Another sketch they had was one around the time of Ronald Reagan's assassination attempt where all of the cast members talk about where they were when they heard that a political figure was shot. Mark Blankfield's[[note]]Mark Blankfield is the cast member known for playing the overly-stressed, drug-abusing pharmacist who runs Drugs R Us[[/note]] story of how he was in school when the principal announced that John F. Kennedy was shot was the most heart-wrenching, as his teacher tried to continue with class, but Blankfield broke down and cried.
** Early in the second season, Bill Lee (one of the producers) was diagnosed with cancer, and the goodnights for most of the shows had the cast member with the microphone saying some variant of "Get well, Bill" or "We miss you, Bill". Sadly, Lee succumbed to his illness on February 3, 1981; that week's show (Valerie Bertinelli / The Jim Carroll Band) ended with John Moffitt (the other producer) eulogizing his professional partner and best friend before the credits ran over a black screen.
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[[folder: Fringe]]
* In the season 3 finale, even knowing that it (probably) won't stick, [[spoiler: Olivia's funeral and Peter breaking down in their kitchen]] is absolutely heartwrenching.
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[[folder: DancingWithTheStars]]
* J.R. Martinez's military tribute dance during Season 12. The most stunning moment in the show's history.
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[[folder:DarkAngel]]
* ''DarkAngel'': "X5-599. I've got a heart for you."
** Almost the entirety of ''The Berrisford Agenda''. Damn JensenAckles for being so flipping good at the angst.
** And, on the subject of JensenAckles, the ending to "Pollo Loco", with its ''Of Mice And Men'' homage. "Tell me about the good place", he says. * sniffle*
** The death of Diamond at the end of "Shorties in Love".
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[[folder:Deadliest Catch]]
* One of the earliest was in the first season, with the sinking of the FV ''Big Valley''. Feature vessel ''Maverick'' and ''Cornelia Marie'' (then not a feature vessel; it was partnered with ''Maverick'' and only had cameras as a backup) were part of the rescue effort. Of six on-board, only one was found alive, and only two of the dead were recovered.
* Season five had a several of these, starting with the sinking of another boat. The episode is punctuated with home videos of the doomed crewmates, with one of them joking that "they oughta be on ''Deadliest Catch''."
* Later, upstart greenhorn Jake of the ''Northwestern'' (who was earlier burned in effigy on another boat for a prank he pulled - it was all in fun, they really just wanted to get rid of the effigy's ''Northwestern'' sweatshirt) got the devistating news that the youngest of his four older sisters had died after years of battling painful illnesses. Captain Sig and the cameraman decided not to film Jake getting the news but kept the audio, which is gut-wrenching. The episode ends at night, with Jake on an engineless boat crossing to another boat as the background music contains the lyrics "My sister and I..."
** In a follow-up episode Jake talked about how close he was with his late sister, who he talked to her every day he was back home, and that he also considers his crewmates the big brothers he never had.
** Likewise, the [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold seemingly hard-hearted]] Captain Sig considers Jake to be the son he never had. Aww.
* Word of Captain Phil's stroke making its way through the crab fleet, and the varied reactions of the other captains as the news makes it down the line. Captain Sig throws the radio handset, then throws away his cigarettes in anger while Captain Keith tearfully pleads to God, "Cut him some slack, Big Guy."
* The montage at the end of the episode "Redemption Day", alternating between scenes of Josh Harris at the hospital after Captain Phil has a setback and the fleet working and plowing through rough seas with Johnny Cash's "Redemption Day" playing in the background. And at the very end is Josh Harris' phone call to his younger brother Jake to let him know that their father has passed away.
* The last half of the episode Valhalla when the rest of the crabbing fleet learn of Phil's passing is heartbreaking in itself but watching each ship do a different method of tribute to him will leave you in tears.
** Time Bandit sets off fireworks in Phil's honor.
** When they leave harbor after learning of the passing the Northwestern makes a slow pass around the Cornelia Marie as they do one of crew salutes the ship, later Sig talks about the old fisherman's tale of how seagulls are fishermen passed on and how the seagull sitting on his bow at that moment just might be Phil. He also noted that, while Phil was in hospital (almost a month), the sea raged...and then after he died, it went dead calm.
** On the Wizard Captain Keith rings the bell eight times as his crew throws back a full crab pot, with its shot and buoys (one of which has In Memory of Captain Phil Harris written on it) inside so it stays submerged as a memorial, so he'd "always have some crab to come back to."
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[[folder:Degrassi The Next Generation]]
* Smash Into you has Dave breaking down after Jacinta gets hit by a car.
* The ending of "Time Stands Still".
** ''Most'' of Time Stands still. When the paint and feathers spill on Rick. . .oh my ''god'', he looks humiliated.
* "Rock This Town". Especially because nobody saw it coming.
* "Venus", when Manny tells Emma just how badly she screwed up. "I lost my family... My reputation... and my best friend."
* "Shout."
* Riley's confession to Peter at the end of "Bad Medicine"..."I never wanted to be like this..." Any young gay person- Especially a straight gay- will know EXACTLY what he's talking about. It doesn't help that he goes back into denial right after this.
** "Beat It" Part One was just heart-wrenching.
** "Why Can't This Be Love." "...Sav....are you breaking up with me?"
* In "Degrassi Takes Manhattan" The scene where [[spoiler: Declan kicks Fiona out.]]
* "My Body is a Cage" Adam's scenes, especially the scene where [[spoiler: Clare sees "Gracie" burning herself.]]
* Liberty finally breaking down at [[spoiler: JT's memorial service]], proving that she's NotSoStoic.
* [[spoiler: Adam gets shot at prom in the shoulder.]]
* Ghost in the Machine:
--> '''Paige''': The truth? Paige went upstairs that night. She never came back.
* The Mini "Six months" where JT's friends gather to pay tribute to JT.
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[[folder: Dinosaurs]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTUA_wdp78 The last scenes of the series finale]] are ''' ''devastating.'' ''' The episode was fairly humorous despite an ongoing theme of [[GreenAesop out-of-control environmental catastrophe]], at least until Earl had to explain to his ''infant son'' that the world was coming to an end.
--> '''Baby''': Are we gonna move?
--> '''Howard Handupme''': And taking a look at the long range forecast, continued snow, darkness, and extreme cold. This is Howard Handupme, goodnight. (''{{beat}}'') Goodbye.
* Earl's reaction to Robbie wanting to keep fighting in "Nuts to War Part II":
---> '''Earl''': You're not a soldier, you're a kid! You're gonna go to school. You're gonna take girlfriends to dances. You're gonna drive me crazy like you always have. Until it's time for you to grow up.
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[[folder:Documentaries]]
* One section of the PBS documentary ''Carrier'' as the sailors stand on the deck while pulling into Pearl Harbor. The combination of Five For Fighting's "World" in the background and the sheer beauty of the execution of the scene sent her into a blubbering mess.
* The documentary series "Secrets of the Dead" also had one incredibly tear-jerking episode. The scientists were trying to identify several anonymous corpses recovered in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, nearly a century after they had been buried. When they exhumed the bodies however, they found to their horror that most of the graves had been filled with water and there was almost no DNA left they could use for identification. Only one grave wasn't flooded - the grave reserved at the top of the hill for the body of an unidentified baby boy. Incredibly, they found a tiny bone fragment that hadn't decomposed yet, and it contained just enough DNA so that they could finally identify the boy. The scientist who performed the identification was so moved that he seemed to be holding back tears, and could only say that "Someone wanted us to know who this child is."
** There's more. IIRC the reason why the bone fragment had been preserved was because of a copper plaque reading "Our Babe" that had been bought for the no-expense-spared funeral arranged by the men who found the body. These were big, tough men who had done the dangerous work of laying telegraph cables in the Atlantic; and because they were so moved by their discovery of the Unknown Child, and honoured him with that plaque, it was finally possible ninety years later to find out his identity.
** The episode ends with another incredibly tear-jerking scene. It was found that the boy had surviving relatives in Finland, they flew all the way to Halifax, Canada to visit his grave. They found that there were already flowers on his grave. It was then that they realized that ever since the baby died, the people of Halifax had been taking care of the boy as one of their own. It took nine decades and the love of countless strangers so that a baby boy could finally have a name.
*** Worse still, they spoke to a lady whose mother met the boy's mother, recalling seeing her panicking in the flooding stairwell, lamenting to God, 'Do they all have to die by water?!' Yes, it seems just months before, Our Babe's older sister had drowned in a pond.
* One episode of ''WalkingWithDinosaurs'' featured the last flight of a male Ornithocheirus (a [[GiantFlyer massive flying reptile]] ) on his way to the mating grounds: it ends with the male dying alone on a deserted beach over the course of several agonizing hours. Everything about the scene, from the heartwrenching music to the sight of the creature trying desperately to rise ''one last time.''
** In the sequel series ''Walking With Beasts'', when the young indricothere (a giant giraffe-like rhino) [[TheUnfavourite was violently abandoned by its own mother as she got a new baby]]. RL is such a CrapSackWorld...
*** What gets me every time isn't so much the ParentalAbandonment itself; that was strongly foreshadowed earlier on in the episode. Instead, it's the scene where the young indricothere is injured while on his own, prompting him to return to his mother -- except, now that she's suckling her new baby, she sees the previous one as nothing but a threat, and drives him away. It's worth noting that this practice occurs among modern-day rhinos as well.
* ''The Alzheimer's Project'' - just reading an article about it was enough to induce tears.
* ''China's Unnatural Disaster'' - The 2008 earthquake in China. All those children, almost all of them ''only'' children.... One mom: "I have no tears left" [[spoiler: and later you see her neighbors berating her for protesting the Communist Party. They just want some answers, dammit!]]
* CBS did a miniseries of the life of George Washington. At the end of the Revolution, just before Washington resigns his command of the Continental Army to go home, he has a meeting with all of his principal commanders and staff. After a short speech Washington asked that each one of them to come up so he can shake their hand before he leaves. These men had fought a war that lasted eight years, fought in tremendous battles and suffered great deprivation and as they passed Washington both he and them (and the viewers) were so overwhelmed with emotion that no one was capable of speech and wept unashamed as Washington embraced each one of them. This was also {{Truth in Television}}.
** In the History Channel's ''The Revolution'' series, the show mentions that after the Revolutionary War, many of the American generals and officers were unhappy with Congress refusing to pay them, and began considering a military coup to seize power from Congress. Washington, horrified at the idea, confronts his officers. He gathers them all in the room and prepares to give a speech, but before doing so, ''puts on a pair of glasses''. The officers are shocked, as they had never seen Washington wear glasses, and Washington explains that he had lost his vision over the course of the war. Realizing how much Washington had sacrificed to win the war, every single officer in the room breaks down in tears and the crisis is averted.
* [[TheWorldAtWar The World At War]] is full of heartbreaking stories from various eyewitness accounts, but the speech from a [[http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_%28The_World_at_War_episode%29]]Hungarian who'd survived a concentration camp - made even sadder by the speakers almost completely emotionless narrative.
->You could say today I'm 27 years old. I was reborn when I left the camp. The years before didn't matter.
* The documentary ''Mayday! Bering Sea'' on the sinking of the ''Alaska Ranger'', during Ed Cook talking about finding that his brother had died.
* History Cold Case is a programme which goes back in time and analyses dead bodies, finding out their history. One episode involved a Victorian prostitute, originally thought to be in her late 20s, racked with non-congenital, tertiary syphilis and likely to be utterly destitute, living in one of the most deprived areas of the country. That depressing enough for you? Then its revealed that the girls is in her late teens. This means that she would have had to have got her syphilis as a child, possibly when she was six/seven.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Nova}}'' documented a six-year attempt to identify a World War II-era submarine that had been found off the coast of New Jersey. It was finally identified as ''U-869''. The filmmakers found that one of the crewmembers' sisters had emigrated to the United States after the war and had settled in Maryland, a few hours from the New Jersey coast. She had been told that her brother's U-boat was presumed lost off Gibraltar. The filmmakers went to her home and filmed the moment that she was told that her brother was much closer than she had believed...
* ''[[http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/wild/big-cat-week/videos/leopard-queen/ Leopard Queen]]'' is a [[NationalGeographic Nat Geo Wild]] documentary about a man's seventeen-year friendship with a wild leopard. [[spoiler: Her death]] at the end is ''very'' sad.
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[[folder:Due South]]
* The "Victoria's Secret" arc in ''Series/DueSouth''. Especially at the end when Fraser chases the train to grab Victoria's hand and right when he reaches her [[spoiler:gets accidentally shot by his best friend]]. Then, [[spoiler:as he's lying on the platform bleeding]], he recites the poem. Full scene [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1FaSJjtZMo here]].
** Oh, man. The scene that does it for me is Fraser in the confessional, as he calmly/numbly explains how he and Victoria fell in love. It's the precision, the details, the absolute devastating ''clarity'' of Fraser's description... * bawl*
* Ray Kowalski's reaction when Ray Vecchio turns up again and his devastating fear when he thinks he'll lose Fraser which leads him to ask Meg Thatcher of all people the following: "You ever feel like you don't know who you are? Like if you weren't around somebody or that somebody wasn't around you, that you wouldn't be you or at least not the "you" that you think you are? Do you ever feel like that?" Heartbreaking. And then there was Fraser's final epilogue.
** Definitely YMMV for these two examples. I personally found Ray Kowalski very irritating in that scene, and Fraser very matter-of-fact and uncaring in his voiceover, which only made me sad because he seemed to have discarded Ray Vecchio as a friend!
* The final scene in "The Ladies Man," when Ray Kowalski breaks down in his car and starts to cry and Fraser awkwardly tries to comfort him.
* The final scene from "Juliet is Bleeding." Ray Vecchio is crying, or close to it, and Fraser never takes his eyes off him as a way of comforting his friend.
** Also, RayV's reaction earlier in the episode, when [[spoiler:Irene is shot and he carries her down the stairs]]
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[[folder:Eight Simple Rules]]
* ''8 Simple Rules'' after John Ritter died. Just... those episodes. It's even worse if you've lost a loved one in real life.
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[[folder:Einstein and Eddington]]
* ''Einstein and Eddington'', anyone? Eddington's best friend, William, is about to go off to fight in WWI and Eddington almost misses the train. Just when you think he's about to say goodbye to William, he's caught by a colleague seeing his son off and forced to make small talk. He cycles to the next station, but doesn't quite catch the train - he sees William on board, but William doesn't look out of the window. Later, inevitably, William dies at Ypres. Finally, Eddington breaks down and admits to his sister that he loved William, which is what he wanted to tell him at the station...and a few scenes later, to highlight the poignancy, the aforementioned colleague accuses Eddington of knowing nothing about grief.
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[[folder:ER]]
* Admit it, you cried [[spoiler:when Mark Greene died]] on ''{{ER}}''.
** Yes. And when Lucy died, because even that bastard of a doctor Romano refused to give up on her when she was clearly beyond help.
** Perhaps the worst of Mark Greene's death was Corday's reaction. No screaming or wailing - just quiet, wordless, complete devastation. Bravo, Alex Kingston... bravo.
** The look on Carter's face after he finishes reading Mark's letter to the staff still gives me chills, as well as his near-breakdown as he reads Corday's
* "Time of Death", with guest star Ray Liotta as a dying alcoholic ex-con. The whole episode is in real-time, and goes back and forth between his subconscious and scenes in the hospital. He ends up refusing surgery that might save his life, and Pratt (who never knew his father) takes his final request to get in touch with his estranged son.
* The death of paramedic/firefighter Raul in season 2.
* "Love's Labors Lost," Season 1. That is all.
* Kerry telling a deaf patient about her miscarriage through sign language.
* [[spoiler:Sandy's death]] in season 10 was played for mass quantities of {{Narm}}, but largely saved by Laura Innes' performance. Kerry's quiet desperation as she pleads with the surgical team to let her into the OR ("You have to let me see her... that's my wife in there") is devastating, especially for a character who's spent her career being as abrasive and unlikable as possible. Especially at the very end of the OR scene, where blood begins running up Sandy's endotracheal tube(that's it in a surgical situation), Kerry's face freezes in position and she quietly tells Corday and Anspaugh: "You can stop. She's gone."
* [[TsukasaElkKite I]] cried buckets during the episode when [[spoiler:Dr. Pratt dies]] and also during the series finale.
* The Season 6 arc involving Weaver's beloved mentor Dr. Lawrence, who's developed Alzheimer's - specifically, his discussion with Weaver during his final appearance:
--->'''Lawrence''': I saw a woman this morning - dementia. She had no idea where she was, who she was. In ten years that'll be me. Bedridden...in diapers. Locked away in some home, nobody coming to see me.
--->'''Weaver''': I'll come and see you.
--->'''Lawrence''': But I won't know who you are.
* The ending of "The Storm, Part 2"
* Luckily, it's eclipsed by the happy tears when Carol and Doug reunited.
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[[folder:Eureka]]
* [[spoiler: Nathan being erased from time]] at the end of "I Do Over".
* The end of the episode "Right as Raynes." After Callister and Zoey [[spoiler: skip town]], and Callister is leaning against the bus. [[spoiler: With tears all around, including Nathan, Callister asks if a machine can have a soul, just before he dies in his creator, and truly his father's, arms.]] Seeing Nathan, of all people, in tears, somehow makes it worse.
* [[spoiler: Kim 2.0 being melted in "Shower the People". Watching Henry keep himself from breaking down just makes it that much worse.]]
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[[folder:Extras]]
* Ricky Gervais' heartrending speech in the final episode. Damn you Gervais! Damn you and your incredible talent!
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[[folder:ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition]]
* Some of the episodes of ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition'' have Tear Jerker moments in them. The Wofford family, especially. If you don't tear up at least a little when the father starts whispering to the picture of his deceased wife, you have no soul.
** ''Some'' of the episodes?! Try '''''the whole frickin' series''''', period! They should've called this show "Tear Jerker: The Series!"
** The worst is the episode about the Kadzis family. Absolute soul-wrenching sobs.
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[[folder:FamilyTies]]
* The one where Alex's friend Greg dies in a car accident. The two-parter focuses solely on Alex reflecting on his past to a psychiatrist while coping with Greg's death.
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[[folder:Farscape]]
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. That show punishes its viewers almost as much as its characters.
** The Season 1 finale.
--->'''John:''' I have a job to do, and I am unafraid.
** Crichton seeing his child at the end of "Look at the Princess". I've always had mildly insane visions of Chricton somehow being alive or somesuch... * sniff*
** Many, ''many'' scenes from "The Way We Weren't," especially the scene where Aeryn tearfully relives taking part in the execution of Moya's former pilot.
** Stark's [[spoiler: temporary]] death in "The Ugly Truth." Brought home by Zhaan crying over his discarded mask.
** In "The Locket" when Aeryn has died of old age in Crichton's arms and Crichton starts to cry.
** Crichton, suffering a SplitPersonalityTakeover at the end of the "Liars Guns And Money" trilogy and begging D'Argo to kill him. Worse still, in the buildup to this moment, he's seen quietly singing "Daisy... daisy... give me your answer true..." as he tries in vain to shut out Scorpius' voice inside his head.
** In "Season of Death", when Crichton gives a gut wrenching "You're ''alive''!!" while sobbing when he realizes that Aeryn is alive thanks to Zhaan. I cry when I watch this *sob*.
** At the end of "Terra Firma" when John says goodbye to Olivia and Jack.
** The Season 2 finale: [[spoiler:Aeryn's funeral, including D'Argo giving her his Qualtar blade and Rygel giving her his pendant]].
** The death of [[spoiler:Zhaan]] in Season 3. The fact that even [[spoiler:Aeryn starts crying and begging her not to sacrifice herself somehow makes it much more real]].
** "Different Destinations." Dear god, SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong has never been so cruelly subverted. Perhaps the worst part was where D'Argo finds the inscription left by the eight year-old novice he befriended, knowing that she was murdered hours after making it.
*** That or the preceding scene with Crichton and Aeryn. Not only do they know what happened to those poor people, but the planet's unique properties and viewing masks allow them or anyone else to ''see'' what happened. Without even wearing the mask, Crichton and Aeryn can still hear the nurses' screams as they're being killed.
** The Season 3 episode where [[spoiler:one of the Crichtons dies]], particularly because Claudia Black doesn't cry prettily, making it seem far more real. It doesn't hurt that [[spoiler:the dying Crichton was the one in a blissful relationship with Aeryn]].
*** Every single second of "The Choice". Dear God, is Aeryn in pain.
**** The death of [[spoiler:Xhalax, Aeryn's mother]].
** Crais being forced to deactivate Talyn to stop him from growing any more homicidal until corrective surgery can be performed. The scene itself- intercut with the sorrowful reactions of Moya and Pilot- concludes with Crais leaving the darkened command deck in complete silence- no music, and no sound except for his footsteps fading into the distance.
** [[spoiler:Crais and Talyn's self-sacrifices]] near the end of Season 3.
--->'''[[spoiler: Crais]]:''' "Talyn, Starburst."
** Crichton's showdown with Scorpius during the [[CollapsingLair destruction of the command carrier]]: Scorpius wearily admits that destroying Earth for revenge would be meaningless, because the revenge he really cared about is permanently out of reach; he and Crichton deactivate their [[{{Synchronization}} I-Yensch bracelets]], and finally:
--->'''Crichton:''' If we're gonna get off this boat now would be a good time.
--->'''Scorpius:''' (softly) I may not be getting off this ship, John. (a pause) Goodbye, Crichton.
** ''Dog With Two Bones.'' Specifically the vision of Crichton returning to Earth with all his friends and marrying Aeryn... only for a squad of Peacekeepers to show up and kill ''everyone,'' including Aeryn.
*** [[spoiler: Talyn's]] funeral, where Chiana tries to give a eulogy, only to break down in floods of tears, leaving Rygel to give his own short but heartfelt eulogy for the dead [[spoiler: Leviathan]]
** Harvey's [[spoiler: first]] death during Season 4. Made even more saddening because of Harvey's genuinely hurt expression as he tries in vain to argue for his continued existence.
--->'''Harvey:''' How could I leave your mind? It's full of so many wonderous memories! Cool jazz piano, chocolate ice cream, women's perfume... Women! (A pause) How could you take that from me?
--->'''Crichton:''' (Coldly) You're not real.
--->'''Harvey:''' I'm real to ''you!'' I'm real to ''myself...''
** A lot of scenes in "Prayer," especially Aeryn's final breakdown under the influence of TruthSerum and violent beatings, because it's reduced her to the level of choking out her confession though a mouthful of her own saliva.
** The Season 4 finale. [[spoiler:Aeryn and Crichton embracing one last time and being blown apart, the ring in their remains, and D'Argo's animalistic howls of anguish]].
** Strangely enough, Scorpius [[spoiler: killing Sikozu for betraying Crichton and the others]] in ''The Peacekeeper Wars'' proved quite sad. It's in that moment, despite being a MagnificentBastard [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]], he actually sounds regretful [[spoiler: at murdering his lover]] when he says "You have ruined something... ''unique.''"
*** We're not quite sure she's dead.
*** She isn't dead. Later, we see Grunshlik call her a fool as she struggles to get up.
** And obviously [[spoiler: D'Argo's HeroicSacrifice]] in ''The Peacekeeper Wars''.
* [[spoiler: Harvey's]] death in Peacekeeper wars, lying on the bed next to Crichton. In spite of all he had done, it was still a beautifully made scene. [[spoiler:"Thank you... for your memories..."]]
* In "Kansas", the crew travels back in time to 1986 and has to correct a sudden change. (Crichton's father, Jack, is assigned the doomed Challenger mission, and they have to ground him to preserve the timeline.) Though they succeed, Crichton (in an understandable moment of weakness) unsuccessfully tries to warn his mother of her future death. "MOM, LISTEN! When you first feel the pain... ''(she's already gone)'' don't wait."
** In the same vein is "Won't Get Fooled Again." Very much off the wall humor and craziness... until Crichton is confronted with a recreation of his mother. Suddenly, the episode isn't so funny anymore, as Crichton is nearly broken by being reminded what happened to her.
* "Beware of Dog"--When the crew fatally injure the Vorc due to misunderstanding its nature, realizing too late that it really was doing its duty and tracking the parasite. The Vorc was a semi-intelligent creature, like a dog, who they could only very rudimentarily communicate with through the translator microbes. When it gasps "end" while dying in Aeryn's arms, one can't help but shed a tear.
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* {{The Fast Show}}. The sketch where Rowley Birkin talks about the only woman he truly loved who he lost due to his drinking and only utters his catchphrase after an long agonising pause
** And the slow zoom-out at the end instead of the usual jumpcut to the next sketch. Usually the catchphrase results in audience laughter - this one got a round of applause. And very well deserved it was too.
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* On the episode 'Change of Address' when Gobo sang 'Petals of a Rose.'
* "Marooned": It's episodes like this that make {{Media Watchdog}}s forbid children's shows from showing two main characters slowly suffocating to death in the dark, wondering what it will feel like to die...
** Despite this (or possibly ''because'' of this), "Marooned" is considered by many fans to be the overall [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome best episode of the series.]]
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[[folder:Frasier]]
* [[{{Frasier}} "I'll miss the coffees."]]
** "While it's tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took." Damn you, damn you, ''damn you'' and your tear jerking abilities, Kelsey Grammer.
* Daphne's breakdown while Niles is in surgery.
* The home movies of Frasier and Niles' mother.
* "Take it from someone who knows... you don't want to spend half your life thinking about a chance you didn't take."
* At the end of the 2001-2002 season premier, these words appeared on the screen: "In loving memory of our friends Lynn and David Angell". The executive producer and his wife, killed aboard the first plane to hit the World Trade Center.
** When Niles & Daphne [[spoiler:named their baby David]] in the series finale.
* In the 9th Season, when Martin calls Eddie over for a hug after realizing how old he's gotten, and that he won't be around forever.
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* ''FreaksAndGeeks'' - Pick an episode. This was the most painful, aching example of growing up I've ever seen on television. "Carded and Discarded," "Kim Kelly Is My Friend," and "The Garage Door" are particularly painful examples. The bit when Neil told his mother that he didn't want to tell her what was bothering him because "he didn't want to ruin her life" was a real killer because it was so damn TRUE.
** "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers" has not one but ''two'' such plots. In the first, Bill (a character usually played for comic relief) has to come to terms with his mother's new sweetheart, who happens to be his [[JerkJock gym teacher]] and a leading cause of his isolation. In the second, Millie (a character usually played for comic relief) breaks down after her beloved dog is run over (unbeknownst to her, by Kim and Lindsay -- the latter being her best friend). Fortunately for viewers' souls, the second halves of both plots pay dividends of the [[FunnyMoments hilarious]] and [[HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]] varieties.
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[[folder:Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]
* Occurred in ''{{The Fresh Prince of Bel Air}}'' after Will reluctantly admits that the drugs which put Carlton in hospital came from his locker. There's a moment of anger and disbelief before Will all but starts crying and Uncle Phil hugs him. I've never seen a StudioAudience so quiet in my life.
** ''The Fresh Prince of Bel Air'' had a few Tear Jerkers that managed to be effective without being falling into the maligned {{Very Special Episode}} territory. The episode where Will reunites as an adult with his absentee father (played by Ben Vereen), only to have the latter abandon him again, gets me every time.
*** Oh God, the last scene, where excited Will realizes his dad ran out on him ''again'' and starts angrily saying he doesn't need him, he learned how to shave without him, to play basketball, etc., and he's crying by the end (Will Smith! Crying!), and finally he just breaks down and asks Uncle Phil why his dad doesn't want him, and Uncle Phil holds him, and THAT could be dealt with until the credits, where they show the present Will had bought for his father: a sculpture of a father holding his son. And it was all downhill from there.
----> '''Will:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3id-gBwnAJ4 How come he don't want me, man?]]
**** Will's reaction is sad enough, but it's the look on Uncle Phil's face that gets to me the most--he's absolutely furious with Will's father, yet clearly on the verge of tears himself.
**** And re: Phil being Will's father in every real sense, he tells him as much in the last episode.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScJ3ur3A9v0& final part]] of "Bullets over Bel Air" always got me. At the start of the episode, Will and Carlton are held up at gunpoint when they get some money for a camping trip they've got planned, and Will ends up [[TakingTheBullet diving in front of a bullet for Carlton]]. In the last act, Will, still in hospital and having barely escaped being paralyzed or killed, is confronted by a Carlton so shaken up by events and determined to prevent something like that happening again that he's bought a gun. Will's desperate attempt to keep it together while he orders Carlton to give him the gun, [[IOweYouMyLife in exchange for having saved his life]], is bad enough. But when he finally does and Carlton leaves, Will holds on just long enough to unload it before he finally breaks down, alone, terrified and injured in his hospital bed.
* The episode where Will and Carlton are driving a Mercedes for a business partner of Uncle Phil's and are pulled over and arrested after driving slowly through a wealthy neighborhood. At the end, Will and Carlton have an argument about whether it was racial profiling or the police just doing their job. Will leaves and Carlton asks Uncle Phil about it and Uncle Phil expresses his anger over it. That's not the tear jerker, though - it's Carlton sitting alone in the living room and saying, "I'd have pulled us over" again and again, trying to make himself believe it and accept the injustice.
* Trevor's death. At first [[TheDitz Hilary]] just passes it off, but [[CharacterDevelopment over time,]] she sees it as a real loss. Even when she tried to move on with another man, she still couldn't get over it since he died so suddenly, she never got to say goodbye. This leads to Will telling her it's never too late to say goodbye and he'll live on in her heart. This cheers her up and she is able to move on, but not before one final goodbye to her late lover.
-->"Goodbye, Trevor."
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[[folder:Friday Night Lights]]
* ''The Son''. Matt Saracen's father has died by stepping on a mine, and Matt is distraught with grief while agonizing over having not had the time to confess to his father exactly what he thought of him and felt about him.
--->''Matt'': I gotta get up there in front of everybody and say good stuff about this man. and all I really want to say is ‘Here lies Henry Saracen, his mother annoyed him, his wife couldn’t stand him and he didn’t want to be a dad so he took off to be in the army because that’s the only way he could come up with to get out of here and ditch all your responsibilities and no one could call you out on it and that worked out great so you just decided to enlist four more times and that ended up getting you killed and now here you are. And all you left behind is a mother with dementia, a divorced wife and a son that delivers pizza. Thank you for coming 100 people I do not know.’ You know what the worst part is even if I did get up and say all that I don’t even know if I’m saying it to him because I don’t know what’s in that damn box. It’s a closed casket might be someone else, someone funnier or a bunch of rocks.
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[[folder: Fridays]]
* ''Fridays'' is a ''SaturdayNightLive'' {{Expy}}-cum-[[DuelingShows Dueling Show]] from the early 1980s that not that many people remember and hasn't been seen on television in a long time (prior to 2013, the only way you could see ''Fridays'' was on YouTube or on the ''Seinfeld'' season three DVD set, which had clips of Michael Richards and Larry David, who were cast members on that show. Now, Creator/ShoutFactory has released the entire series on DVD). Nonetheless, it still had its TearJerker moments:
** Faced with the daunting task of doing a live comedy show the Friday after John Lennon's death and not making light of the tragedy, ''Fridays'' did itself proud. The show went on with no mention of Lennon until just after the "Friday Edition" news segment. Then the screen went blank and the words to "Imagine" scrolled across the screen. It said all that needed to be said.
** Another episode had a dramatic sketch in which a punk rocker (Michael Richards) returns home to his elderly father, who keeps asking who he is and telling the man that he has no son. The son takes this as a sign that his father wants nothing to do with him because of the generation gap and the fact that the son had been away from home for so long. The son then gives an impassioned speech about loving and accepting him, despite the mistakes he made -- [[spoiler: until it's revealed that the man is right -- the punk rocker really isn't his son]].
** Another sketch they had was one around the time of Ronald Reagan's assassination attempt where all of the cast members talk about where they were when they heard that a political figure was shot. Mark Blankfield's[[note]]Mark Blankfield is the cast member known for playing the overly-stressed, drug-abusing pharmacist who runs Drugs R Us[[/note]] story of how he was in school when the principal announced that John F. Kennedy was shot was the most heart-wrenching, as his teacher tried to continue with class, but Blankfield broke down and cried.
** Early in the second season, Bill Lee (one of the producers) was diagnosed with cancer, and the goodnights for most of the shows had the cast member with the microphone saying some variant of "Get well, Bill" or "We miss you, Bill". Sadly, Lee succumbed to his illness on February 3, 1981; that week's show (Valerie Bertinelli / The Jim Carroll Band) ended with John Moffitt (the other producer) eulogizing his professional partner and best friend before the credits ran over a black screen.
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[[folder: Fringe]]
* In the season 3 finale, even knowing that it (probably) won't stick, [[spoiler: Olivia's funeral and Peter breaking down in their kitchen]] is absolutely heartwrenching.
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