History TearJerker / Rugrats

* While I did not shed tears, there is one scene that hit home for me as a kid. It's the plane trip in the second movie. It did not help that the first time I saw it, my own mother had just died three months earlier.

* Emika's song from ''All Growed Up'', and the montage that accompanies it. It lampshades the fact the show was going to end soon, plus in hindsight it's a depressing nostalgia trip.

* While the episode was intended as NightmareFuel, "The Mysterious Mr. Friend" is one of the most depressing episodes in the series. This toy clown named Mr. Friend merely wants to play with Tommy and his buddies, but he ends up killed in the end. Anyone see TheWoobie?

* Anyone who grew up with this show and loves toys along with cute babies are bound to cry during ''The Curse Of Reptar's'' ending (All Grown Up). Basically [[spoiler: It has a flashback at the time they were still babies and playing with Reptar. The end of the flashback has them sleeping under a tree with the Reptar doll with Tommy holding the doll and sucking his thumb. Cut flashbacks and have grown-up Tommy get a all rusted up Reptar, the same one I might add, and take it back inside to keep in his box.]] [[BeyondTheImpossible The final words really made this troper CRY!]] Not even Toy Story 3's incinerator scene can say that!

* "Regarding Stuie" manages a pretty impressive MoodWhiplash, ending an episode-long string of [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moments of Funny]] with a TearJerker climax. In a nutshell: Stu gets a head injury that briefly lets him communicate with the babies, but also screws up his memory and makes him ''act'' like a baby. "Stuie" then spends most of the episode wearing a diaper and palling around with Tommy and the gang. At first, Tommy is thrilled to have an adult-sized baby as a friend, but it all falls apart when he realizes that even the coolest baby can never replace his dad. The climax has Tommy silently weeping while looking at old pictures of himself playing with his dad, with "Stuie" (who still can't acknowledge the fact that he's Tommy's father) coming in to comfort him as he realizes how much Tommy misses his "daddy".

* Anyone who grew up with this show and loves toys along with cute babies are bound to cry during ''The Curse Of Reptar's'' ending (All Grown Up). Basically [[spoiler: It has a flashback at the time they were still babies and playing with Reptar. The end of the flashback has them sleeping under a tree with the Reptar doll with Tommy holding the doll and sucking his thumb. Cut flashbacks and have grown-up Tommy get a all rusted up Reptar, the same one I might add, and take it back inside to keep in his box.]] [[BeyondTheImpossible The final words really made this troper CRY!]] Not even Toy Story 3's incinerator scene can say that!

* Anyone who grew up with this show and loves toys along with cute babies are bound to cry during ''The Curse Of Reptar's'' ending (All Grown Up). Basically [[spoiler: It has a flashback at the time they were still babies and playing with Reptar. The end of the flashbacks hasthem sleeping under a tree with the Reptar doll with Tommy holding the doll and sucking his thumb. Cut flashbacks and have grown-up Tommy get a all rusted up Reptar, the same one I might add, and take it back inside to keep in his box.]] [[BeyondTheImpossible The final words really made this troper CRY!]] Not even Toy Story 3's incinerator scene can say that!

* Anyone who grew up with this show and loves toys along with cute babies are bon to cry during ''The Curse Of Reptar's'' ending (All Grown Up). Basically [[spoiler: It has a flashback at the time they were still babies and playing with Reptar. The end of the flashbacks hasthem sleeping under a tree with the Reptar doll with Tommy holding the doll and sucking his thumb. Cut flashbacks and have grown-up Tommy get a all rusted up Reptar, the same one I might add, and take it back inside to keep in his box.]] [[BeyondTheImpossible The final words really made this troper CRY!]] Not even Toy Story 3's incinerator scene can say that!

* Anyone who grew up with this show and loves toys along with cute babies are bon to cry during ''The Curse Of Reptar's'' ending (All Grown Up). Basically [[spoiler: It has a flashback at the time they were still babies and playing with Reptar. The end of the flashbacks hasthem sleeping under a tree with the Reptar doll with Tommy holding the doll and sucking his thumb. Cut flashbacks and have grown-up Tommy get a all rusted up Reptar, the same one I might add, and take it back inside to keep in his box. The final words really made this groped CRY!]] Not even Toy Story 3's incinerator scene can say that!

* Anyone who grew up with this show and loves toys along with cute babies are bon to cry during ''The Curse Of Reptar's'' ending (All Grown Up). Basically [[Ispoiler: It has a flashback at the time they were still babies and playing with Reptar. The end of the flashbacks hasthem sleeping under a tree with the Reptar doll with Tommy holding the doll and sucking his thumb. Cut flashbacks and have grown-up Tommy get a all rusted up Reptar, the same one I might add, and take it back inside to keep in his box. The final words really made this groped CRY!]] Not even Toy Story 3's incinerator scene can say that!

** My now 14-year-old sister once told me, and I quote, "Oh, that episode is ''so'' sad! And it's not a fake sad like, 'Oh, [[DeathByNewberyMedal my dog died]]!' or, 'Oh, the dog has cancer!' It's ''really'' sad!"

** Until they made an absolutely awful spinoff of Rugrats based off that episode.

* Regarding Stuie. Just...regarding Stuie.

* The ''FlowersForAlgernon'' WholePlotReference episode where Chuckie gets an experimental treatment to get rid of his allergies [[spoiler: only to have them come back]].

* Acorn Nuts and Diapey Butts, the scene at the cemetary.

* While I did not shed tears, there is one scene that hit home for me as a kid. It's the plane trip in the second movie. It did not help that the first time I saw it, my own mother had just died three months earlier.

** My now 14-year-old sister once told me, and I quote, "Oh, that episode is ''so'' sad! And it's not a fake sad like, 'Oh, [[DeathByNewberryMedal my dog died]]!' or, 'Oh, the dog has cancer!' It's ''really'' sad!"

** The ''FlowersForAlgernon'' WholePlotReference episode where Chuckie gets an experimental treatment to get rid of his allergies [[spoiler: only to have them come back]].
** The crowner of all of them, though, has to be the "All Growed Up" special, where it shows them as preteens. The whole special has a certain air of maturity and the pressures of growing up and experiencing new things. It then culminates at the concert scene, where Tommy and Angelica duet with some big popstar over a ballad that then flashes back to the series as a whole, showing scenes from multiple episodes. The creators did, indeed, write the special as an emotional look at the series...and this troper was definitely shedding some ManlyTears.
*** Until they made an absolutely awful spinoff of Rugrats based off that episode.
** Acorn Nuts and Diapey Butts, the scene at the cemetary.

* Emika's song from ''All Growed Up'', and the montage that accompanies it. It lampshades the fact the show was going to end soon, plus in hindsight it's a depressing nostalgia trip.

* The movie's climatic scene involving monkeys, rain, and bananas.

** Acorn Nuts and Diapey Butts, the scene at the cemetary.

** Long before that one there was the episode "I Remember Melville," in which Chuckie's [[BetterThanItSounds pet bug dies.]]
*** The ''FlowersForAlgernon'' WholePlotReference episode where Chuckie gets an experimental treatment to get rid of his allergies [[spoiler: only to have them come back]].

** Acorn Nuts and Diapey Butts, you know the scene.

* TearJerker: The Mother's Day episode, which explains what happens to Chuckie's biological mom: [[spoiler: She died of an [[SoapOperaDisease unexplained but terminal illness.]] It culminates with [[DeadManWriting a letter the dying woman wrote to her son for him to read when he was older.]]]]

* Chuckies Biological Mom's Death Storyline.

* Chuckie's reaction to the dance at the beginning of the movie. It doesn't help how nostalgia-inducing and saddening the song is.

* This troper honestly teared up a little during the crying scene in the episode where Angelica thought she was going to move away. Sure, you know it won't happen, but I just ''love'' moments like this in shows where the {{Tsundere}}s that are normally the meanest people in the show soften up into a spongey puddle and show how much they care.