History TearJerker / TheWildThornberrys

** Eliza and Donnie find a trapped rhino at one point who claims that a poacher tried to catch him and take his horn. Elise flags down some people to help and for a minute everything seems okay. Later, however, it's revealed that those people were [[spoiler: the {{Evil Poacher}}s and you realize that they probably killed that poor rhino.]]

** The song "Father and Daughter" by Music/PaulSimon. Especially when it plays when Eliza says goodbye to her family as she's taken away to live in London. You can see it on their faces that the whole family is broken up by this.

** The song "Father and Daughter" by Music/PaulSimon. Especially when it plays when Eliza says goodbye to her family as she's taken away to live in London. You can see it on their faces that the whole family is broken up by this.
* The episode with the Galapagos tortoises, "Two's Company", had a part where the tortoises (said to be the last of their kind) were about to mate, but Eliza, thinking that one was hurting the other by biting their neck and not realizing it was normal, broke them up. Once she realizes what was really going on, she was horrified at herself, thinking that she had just wiped out a species. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the tortoises successfully mate with each other near the end of the episode.]] This one's particularly painful in the aftermath of Lonesome George's death and the resulting extinction of the Pinta Island tortoise.
* Sven breaking up with Debbie, she is completely heartbroken and angry because of her family's world traveling she doesn't really have the ability to date like a normal teenager.
* In the series finale, Marianne and Nigel film the sad sight a mother bear chasing away her cub (due to the cub being old enough strike out on its own) and it causes Marianne to break down in tears as she confesses her fears of her daughters no longer needing her after noticing how close they are now (due to Debbie being Eiza's SecretKeeper). Even when Nigel assures her that it means they will no longer fight, Marianne is still sad about the thought of losing her children as they grow up.

* In the series finale, Marianne and Nigel film the sad sight a mother bear chasing away her cub (due to the cub being old enough strike out its own) and it causes Marianne to break down in tears as she confesses her fears of her daughters no longer needing her after noticing how close they are now (due to Debbie being Eiza's SecretKeeper). Even when Nigel assures her that it means they will no longer fight, Marianne is still sad about the thought of losing her children as they grow up.

** The song "Father and Daughter". Especially when it plays when Eliza says goodbye to her family as she's taken away to live in London. You can see it on their faces that the whole family is broken up by this.

* "Forget Me Not", which has Eliza meeting an old elephant that her father befriended as a young man. She (the elephant) dies peacefully of natural causes at the end of the episode.

* Sven breaking up with Debbie, she is completely heartbroken and angry because of her family's world traveling she doesn't really have the ability to date like a normal teenager.

* The episode where Eliza and her father go hiking into the mountains. Eliza wants to explore more than just the trail, and finds her father's behavior--even if it's just them up there--highly embarrassing, so she sneaks away. She ends up too far, too high up, nearly succumbs to the altitude and cold, but wakes up in a cave, warm and safe. She ''thinks'' it's a group of Natives who saved her, but her llama friend tells her no, it was her ''father.'' Once he realized she was gone, he went right off the trail and didn't stop looking for her til he found her, and ''then'' kept carrying her til he found a place they could rest safely. Just...such a display of fatherly love...*sniff*

* The episode where Eliza and her father go hiking into the mountains. Eliza wants to explore more than just the trail, and finds her father's behavior--even if it's just them up there--highly embarrassing, so she sneaks away. She ends up too far, too high up, nearly succumbs to the cold dies, but wakes up in a cave, warm and safe. She ''thinks'' it's a group of Natives who saved her, but her llama friend tells her no, it was her ''father.'' Once he realized she was gone, he went right off the trail and didn't stop looking for her til he found her, and ''then'' kept carrying her til he found a place they could rest safely. Just...such a display of fatherly love...*sniff*

* The episode where Eliza and her father go hiking into the mountains. Eliza wants to explore more than just the trail, and finds her father's behavior--even if it's just them up there--highly embarrassing, so she sneaks away. She ends up too far, too high up, nearly suffocates and dies, but wakes up in a cave, warm and safe. She ''thinks'' it's a group of Natives who saved her, but her llama friend tells her no, it was her ''father.'' Once he realized she was gone, he went right off the trail and didn't stop looking for her til he found her, and ''then'' kept carrying her til he found a place they could rest safely. Just...such a display of fatherly love...*sniff*

* "Bad Company": It's a subtle one, but Donnie seems to start crying when the marsupials pick him up and put him on top of the tower of various things from the commvee, preparing to knock it down.

* The episode with the Galapagos tortoises, "Two's Company", had a part where the tortoises (said to be the last of their kind) were about to mate, but Eliza, thinking that one was hurting the other by biting their neck and not realizing it was normal, broke them up. Once she realizes what was really going on, she was horrified at herself, thinking that she had just wiped out a species. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the tortoises successfully mate with each other near the end of the episode.]] This one's particularly painful in the aftermath of Lonesome George's death and the resulting extinction of the Pinta Island tortoise.

* "Bad Company": It's a subtle one, but Donnie seems to start crying when the marsupials pick him up and put him on top of the tower, preparing to knock it down.

** The native boy Boko, whom Debbie befriended, getting knocked out by Sloan and Debbie's reaction.

* ''The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie''. To specify, [[spoiler: when viewers discover that his real parents were killed by poachers, and near the end where the whole family gotten too torn up to say anything.]]

* ''The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie''. To specify, [[spoiler: when viewers discover that his real parents were killed by poachers, and near the end where the whole family gotten to torn up to say anything.]]

* ''The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie''.

** The song "Father and Daughter" makes this troper tear up, every time.
*** Especially when it plays when Eliza says goodbye to her family as she's taken away to live in London. You can see it on their faces that the whole family is broken up by this.
* The episode with the Galapagos tortoises, "Two's Company", had a part where the tortoises (said to be the last of their kind) were about to mate, but Eliza, thinking that one was hurting the other by biting their neck and not realizing it was normal, broke them up. Once she realizes what was really going on, she was horrified at herself, thinking that she had just wiped out an entire species. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the tortoises successfully mate with each other near the end of the episode.]] This one's particularly painful in the aftermath of Lonesome George's death and the resulting extinction of the Pinta Island tortoise.

* The episode with the Galapagos tortoises, "Two's Company", had a part where the tortoises (said to be the last of their kind) were about to mate, but Eliza, thinking that one was hurting the other by biting their neck and not realizing it was normal, broke them up. Once she realizes what was really going on, she was horrified at herself, thinking that she had just wiped out an entire species. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the tortoises successfully mate with each other near the end of the episode.]]

* The episode where Eliza and her father go hiking into the mountains. Eliza wants to explore more than just the trail, and finds her father's behavior--even if it's just them up there--highly embarrassing, so she sneaks away. She ends up too far, too high up, nearly suffocates and dies, but wakes up in a cave, warm and safe. She ''thinks'' it's a group of Natives who saved her, but her alpaca friend tells her no, it was her ''father.'' Once he realized she was gone, he went right off the trail and didn't stop looking for her til he found her, and ''then'' kept carrying her til he found a place they could rest safely. Just...such a display of fatherly love...*sniff*

*** Especially when it plays when Eliza says goodbye to her family as she's taken away to live in London. You can see it on their faces that the whole family is broken up by this.

** The song "Father and Daughter" makes this troper tear up, every time.

** The song "Father and Daughter" makes this troper tear up, every time.

** The climax of the movie was pretty sad, considering that Eliza was unable to tell the herd that they were in danger. Had Eliza not remembered how to physically communicate with them, they would have run into the fence and been killed.

* "Marianne? Thank goodness you're here...come to Nigel. Oh, don't cry, sweet wife. Always remember that I love you and the children with all my heart." That he's delirious and saying this to a (displeased) little jungle mammal doesn't really diminish its emotional impact.