History TearJerker / MaryPoppins

* The twins forgetting how to talk to animals as they turn into one.

* The twins forgetting how to talk to animals as they turn one.

*** In fact that cathedral scene is easily the biggest tearjerker in Disney history.

* When Mary Poppins [[spoiler: watches Jane and Michael go off with their parents without a backwards glance. Just because something is right and correct doesn't automatically make it less sad]].

* When Michael and Jane run away from the bank and run into Bert who comforts them and he tells them their father loves him, and they say that he doesn't love them at all. Bert explains their father to them, and how no one is there for him, at the end of the day, and how Bert feels sorry for Mr Banks having a dead end job

* Mary's departure and [[spoiler: the moment when she says goodbye to Bert and kisses him on the cheek]].

*** Oh, balderdash. Her umbrella didn't buy that line, and neither should anyone else. At least she receives a warm farewell from Bert as she flies away, and smiles knowing that a good friend is waiting for her next time.

*** Oh, balderdash. Her umbrella didn't buy that line, and neither should anyone else.

*** As [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Doug Walker]] pointed out, there is a not-small implication by the absence of the bird lady is that she passed away and that by denying his children to give their money to her and telling them to ignore her, they'll never be able to show the woman kindness ever again. That not only did Mr. Banks take his children for granted, but life itself.

--> '''Michael:''' Father? in a cage

** But before that, the sequence where Mr. Banks walks alone through London at night, knowing he is about to be fired, is haunting.

** While it is a sad song, the ''Simpsons'' version on the season eight episode where the family hires Sherri Bobbins pretty much ruined any chance of anyone ever taking the song seriously again (as the parody was about Barney Gumble begging for booze and Moe about to shoot him until Barney conveniently finds two dollars in the street).

* Every time Mary Poppins leaves the Banks family, especially when she leaves the children mementos and reminds them that nothing lasts forever.

** P.L. Travers claimed that even she cried when Mary Poppins left the Banks children for good in ''Mary Poppins Opens the Door''.

* The [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome song]] "Feed The Birds". Just...the song "Feed The Birds".

* Ultimately, the story of Mr Banks. He's a cold and selfish misogynist looking to be remembered in the world of banking. His life is turned upside down by the introduction of Mary Poppins, who brings fun to his family until he realises what a failure in life he's been. He is ridiculed before his peers, sacked from his job, and then [[HappyEnding reconciles with his family, intending to spend more time with his children]].

** Oh dear god yes. This troper gets teary just thinking about it.

** What makes it worse is [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=zYsSyCtjuNI#t=1m52s when Mr. Banks goes past the cathedral]] as he makes his way to getting fired; a DarkReprise (or perhaps regular reprise, since it sounded dark anyway) swells as he looks at the utterly empty steps of cathedral, then up into the air. There's no sign of the bird lady or her birds... am I the only one who's assumed that the bird lady ''died''?
** Yes, you are. It was nine in the evening and the birds were asleep. Why would she be there if there was nobody to sell to ''and'' nothing to feed?

** Yes, you are. It was nine in the evening and the birds were asleep. Why would she there if there was nobody to sell to ''and'' nothing to feed?

* Mary's departure and [[spoiler: the moment when she says goodbye to Bert and kisses him on the cheek]] in [[TheMusical the musical]] can also be concidered tear jerkers.

* In the original books, the twins forgetting how to talk to animals as they turn one.

* TearJerker: The [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome song]] "Feed The Birds." Just...the song "Feed The Birds."

*** And triply so when you learn, years later, that the bird lady was played by Jane Darwell, already no spring chicken when she won the Best Actress Oscar for playing Ma Joad in ''The Grapes of Wrath'' a quarter of a century earlier. It was her last film role.
** Mary's departure and [[spoiler: the moment when she says goodbye to Bert and kisses him on the cheek]] in [[TheMusical the musical]] can also be concidered tear jerkers.
** Ultimately, the story of Mr Banks. He's a cold and selfish misogynist looking to be remembered in the world of banking. His life is turned upside down by the introduction of Mary Poppins, who brings fun to his family until he realises what a failure in life he's been. He is ridiculed before his peers, sacked from his job, and then [[HappyEnding reconciles with his family, intending to spend more time with his children]].
** In the original books, the twins forgetting how to talk to animals as they turn one.