History TearJerker / LooneyTunes

* ''WesternAnimation/FeedTheKitty'', a Warner Brothers animated short, has been known to reduce audiences to tears. Oddly, it was intended to be funny, considering the character another character believes has been killed is in fact perfectly safe. That sequence was so famous (and effective in conveying real human emotion) that it was recreated shot for shot in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', only with Sulley and Boo in place of Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot.

* From ''WesternAnimation/BroomStickBunny'', there's the famous climax scene of Bugs pulling a PuppyDogEyes on Witch Hazel just before he was about to get slaughtered. You can't help but feel sorry for him... and it even manages to be one InUniverse, as it causes Witch Hazel to drop the cleaver, retreat to her table, and burst into tears.

* From ''WesternAnimation/BroomStickBunny'', there's the famous climax scene of Bugs pulling a PuppyDogEyes on Witch Hazel just before he was about to get slaughtered. You can't help but feel sorry for him... and it even manages to be one InUniverse, as it causes Witch Hazel to drop the axe, retreat to her table and burst into tears.

* From ''Broom-Stick Bunny'', there's the famous climax scene of Bugs pulling a PuppyDogEyes on Witch Hazel just before he was about to get slaughtered. You can't help but feel sorry for him... and it even manages to be one InUniverse, as it causes Witch Hazel to drop the axe, retreat to her table and burst into tears.
-->'''Witch Hazel:''' ''(crying)'' You remind me of Paul.\\
''' Bugs:''' Paul?\\
'''Witch Hazel:''' [[BaitAndSwitch My pet tarantula.]]

-->'''Sylvester:''' ''(sobbing)'' I can't stand it! I gotta have a bird! I'm weak! I'm weak, but I don't care! I can't help it! After all, I am a pussycat!
** He has a similar breakdown in ''The Last Hungry Cat'' (even down to using StockFootage from the aforementioned cartoon), although the reason is different in that one: He's worried about going to jail when thinking he's eaten Tweety.

* The CruelTwistEnding of ''One More Time'', Foxy and Roxy's third and final short before Creator/WaltDisney [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope deemed them too close to Mickey and Minnie and put his foot down]]. Foxy has lured three of the robbers into the jail, but [[spoiler:the fourth shoots him down.]]

!!Meta
* When Creator/MelBlanc died, what did they write on his tombstone? [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/f4/5e/e9f45eb414897d8a0b0c9d317c240323.jpg "That's all, Folks"]].
** Also, the famous "Speechless" picture, with Bugs and the gang standing by a microphone with nobody beside it.
** There's also the Creator/FrizFreleng [[http://www.artlover.org/more_art/artist_bios/bio_images/friz_trib.jpg version]] with Bugs and friends standing around an empty artist's desk -- which would [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FRGVEdWF28A/W74zeSMFWQI/AAAAAAAACL8/KbOvA5SY-qQ4Qo838sRLJWiMWCDpAkNKQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/chuck.jpg also be used]] for Creator/ChuckJones, who passed away seven years later -- and [[https://ebid.s3.amazonaws.com/upload_medbig/1/3/1/uo_1511719018-25452-26.jpg another one]] with Yosemite Sam sadly riding away on his horse.
* Recurring voice actor Kent Rogers died in a training flight accident in 1944, aged only 20 years old. It hits even harder given his final role was "The Bashful Buzzard", where Beaky Buzzard, one of his most iconic characters, suffers a DisneyDeath, complete with Mama Buzzard fretting over him not returning home.
* Creator/JuneForay, the long-time voice actress of Granny, passed away on July 26th, 2017 just two months shy of her 100th birthday.
* Pepé Le Pew being kicked out from ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy''. Here's hoping Pepé makes more appearances soon.
* While "The Jet Cage" is your average Sylvester and Tweety short, there is quite a sad backstory behind it - Milt Franklyn died of a sudden heart attack while scoring the cartoon, and the rest of the score was given to Bill Lava, whose booming, ominous soundtrack [[ToughActToFollow couldn't match the iconic quality of Franklyn and his predecessor Carl Stalling]].

* There was one about a mutt falling in love with a sleek metal dog statue ("Ding Dog Daddy"). He had no idea that 'Daisy' wasn't real, and was completely gaga over her. At the cartoon's climax, however, her owners sell her to be melted down for scrap metal and reforged. The mutt takes off to save her, but ultimately fails and ends up left with the bomb her metal was used in. Completely wrecked, he cries "Daisy, what did they ''do'' to ya?" and gives her one last kiss -- causing the bomb to ''explode''. This being a Looney Tune, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments he survives and is even happily bouncing around at the end, thinking "She's still got it!"]].

Who says that [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes a cast of]] [[FunnyAnimal funny animals]] who rely on slapstick humor and violence can't tear you up? Well, as it turns out, they sometimes can.

Who says that a cast of [[FunnyAnimal funny animals]] who rely on slapstick humor and violence can't tear you up? Well, as it turns out, they sometimes can.

!!Golden Age Shorts

-->'''Sylvester:''' (sobbing) I can't stand it! I gotta have a bird! I'm weak! I'm weak, but I don't care! I can't help it! After all, I am a pussycat!

-->'''Witch Hazel''': ''(crying)'' You remind me of Paul.\\
''' Bugs''': Paul?\\
'''Witch Hazel''': [[BaitAndSwitch My pet tarantula.]]

* The CruelTwistEnding of ''One More Time'', Foxy and Roxy's third and final short before Creator/WaltDisney [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope deemed them too close to Mickey and Minnie and put his foot down]]. Foxy has lured three of the robbers into the jail, but [[spoiler:the fourth shoots him down]].
* A subtle one in ''Hamateur Night''. The ending is mostly a FunnyMoment, when a winner is chosen by the audience, they boo the performers selected until [[spoiler: Egghead]] is reached. Most of the losing contestants just have comical angry reactions, except the performing dog who pretty much just makes [[PuppyDogEyes the same look a real puppy does when yelled at]].
* ''90 Day Wondering'', one of the shorts made for the military, has a poignant tone to it. Ralph comes home from the Army and his family is excited to see him, but when he tries to re-enter civilian life, it's tougher than he realizes: All his old friends are gone, and his old girlfriends are either already married with kids or unreachable. [[labelnote:Note]](and while it isn't directly touched upon in the short, it's very possible he was having trouble finding work, too, as one of the incentives to re-enlist is financial security.)[[/labelnote]]
--> '''Ralph''': ''(on a park bench at night)'' What's wrong, anyway? Everybody... everything seems different. I wonder what my old G.I. buddies are doing.

* Good lord, "Stooge For a Mouse" is just hard to watch. The premise is that a mouse wants food so he sets to get his opposition, Sylvester and a dog, out of the way. Fair enough... until his methods are revealed to be [[BondBreaker slowly and surely ruining the friendship of Sylvester and the dog.]] We then have to watch as [[WithFriendsLikeThese the dog berates his friend for the mouse's antics.]] [[TheScapegoat What makes it worst is that every time Sylvester tries to explain himself, the dog just berates and later abuses him for things Sylvester didn't do.]] [[PlayedForLaughs While all of this is meant to be funny]] [[LaserGuidedKarma and the ending is somewhat worth it thanks to the dog and the mouse getting what they deserve,]] it still is a hard short to watch due to how much of it is spent listening to the dog berate Sylvester for doing nothing.

'''Porky''': B-b-b-but I--
-->'''Charlie Dog''': Good, clean, wholesome farm living! ''(sobs)''\\
'''Porky''': B-b-b-but I--\\

!!Other

* While “The Jet Cage” is your average Sylvester and Tweety short, there is quite a sad backstory behind it - Milt Franklyn died of a sudden heart attack while scoring the cartoon, and the rest of the score was given to Bill Lava, whose booming, ominous soundtrack [[ToughActToFollow couldn’t match the iconic quality of Franklyn and his predecessor Carl Stalling]].

* When Creator/MelBlanc died, what did they write on his tombstone? [[https://i.pinimg.com/236x/fb/c6/14/fbc614d1a266f546a910aa5a97937b9e--a-magazine-mel.jpg "That's all, Folks"]].

** He has a similar breakdown in ''The Last Hungry Cat'', although the reason is different in that one: He's worried about going to jail.

->'''Porky''': B-b-b-but I--
->'''Charlie Dog''': Good, clean, wholesome farm living! ''(sobs)''\\
->'''Porky''': B-b-b-but I--\\
->'''Charlie Dog''': And now... now that I got a chance to regain my health, you wanna send me back to the city. The city! I can see it all now. It's high towers! Cold, cruel, ominous! Closing down on ya! From every side till ya can't breathe! Closer! Closer! ''(begins to choke)'' Ya can't breathe...! The traffic! Ya can't think! BEEP BEEP! BEEP BEEP! LOOK OUT FOR THAT TRUCK! HONK HONK! LOOK OUT FOR THAT TAXI! BOINNNG! BREEP-BREEP! AROOOOGAH! HONK HONK! BEEP BEEP! Ah...! Hark. What's that? Look! It's the towers! THEY'RE FALLING! ''(screams, then collapses onto ground)''

'''Porky''': B-b-b-but I--
'''Charlie Dog''': Good, clean, wholesome farm living! ''(sobs)''\\
'''Porky''': B-b-b-but I--\\
'''Charlie Dog''': And now... now that I got a chance to regain my health, you wanna send me back to the city. The city! I can see it all now. It's high towers! Cold, cruel, ominous! Closing down on ya! From every side till ya can't breathe! Closer! Closer! ''(begins to choke)'' Ya can't breathe...! The traffic! Ya can't think! BEEP BEEP! BEEP BEEP! LOOK OUT FOR THAT TRUCK! HONK HONK! LOOK OUT FOR THAT TAXI! BOINNNG! BREEP-BREEP! AROOOOGAH! HONK HONK! BEEP BEEP! Ah...! Hark. What's that? Look! It's the towers! THEY'RE FALLING! ''(screams, then collapses onto ground)''

-->'''Porky''': B-b-b-but I--
-->'''Charlie Dog''': Good, clean, wholesome farm living! ''(sobs)''\\
-->'''Porky''': B-b-b-but I--\\
-->'''Charlie Dog''': And now... now that I got a chance to regain my health, you wanna send me back to the city. The city! I can see it all now. It's high towers! Cold, cruel, ominous! Closing down on ya! From every side till ya can't breathe! Closer! Closer! ''(begins to choke)'' Ya can't breathe...! The traffic! Ya can't think! BEEP BEEP! BEEP BEEP! LOOK OUT FOR THAT TRUCK! HONK HONK! LOOK OUT FOR THAT TAXI! BOINNNG! BREEP-BREEP! AROOOOGAH! HONK HONK! BEEP BEEP! Ah...! Hark. What's that? Look! It's the towers! THEY'RE FALLING! ''(screams, then collapses onto ground)''

* Good lord, "Stooge For a Mouse" is just hard to watch. The premise is that a mouse wants food so he sets to get his opposition (which are a dog and Sylvester.) out of the way. Fair enough... until his methods are revealed to be [[BondBreaker slowly and surely ruining the friendship of Sylvester and the dog.]] We then have to watch as [[WithFriendsLikeThese the dog berates his friend for the mouse's antics.]] [[TheScapegoat What makes it worst is that every time Sylvester tries to explain himself, the dog just berates and later abuses him for things Sylvester didn't do.]] [[PlayedForLaughs While all of this is meant to be funny]] [[LaserGuidedKarma and the ending is somewhat worth it thanks to the dog and the mouse getting what they deserve,]] it still is a hard short to watch due to how much of it is spent listening to the dog berate Sylvester for doing nothing.

* Good Lord "Stooge for a mouse." is just hard to watch. The premise is that a mouse wants food so he sets to get his opposition (which are a dog and Sylvester.) out of the way. Fair enough... Until his methods are revealed to be [[BondBreaker slowly and surely ruining the friendship of Sylvester and the dog.]] We then have to watch as [[WithFriendsLikeThese the dog berates his friend for the mouse's antics.]] [[TheScapegoat What makes it worst is that everytime Sylvester tries to explain himself, the dog just berates and later abuses him for things Sylvester didn't do.]] [[PlayedForLaughs While all of this is meant to be funny]] [[LaserGuidedKarma and the ending is somewhat worth it thanks to the dog and the mouse getting what they deserve,]] it still is a hard short to watch due to how much of it is spent listening to the dog berate Sylvester for doing nothing.

* Pepé Le Pew being kicked out from ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' and all subsequent ''Looney Tunes'' productions.

* ''WesternAnimation/PorkysRomance'' has the title character coldly rejected by a mean spirited Petunia Pig. He slinks away in tears before contemplating suicide ([[BungledSuicide and failing]]).

* The part in ''WesternAnimation/TheOldGreyHare'' where Bugs pretends to die. Him saying farewell to a sobbing Elmer while digging a grave can hit a little hard, knowing that both their voice actors and all the original artists who brought the characters to life are now gone.

** ''Hare Ribbin'' has a similar "gag" where Willoughby bites into a sandwich that contains Bugs, and cries about it. Plus, no matter which ending you get, it's a DownerEnding for Willoughby, as he gets shot in ''both'' versions. (in the original cut, Willoughby shoots himself with a gun supplied by Bugs, whereas in the "director's cut" version, Bugs shoots Willoughby himself and runs off)