Heartwarming moments in ''Series/DesperateHousewives''.
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* From the episode "Guilty", after a genuine WhamEpisode of drama, it ends on a sweet note, as Lynette, who earlier in the episode had a fever dream/hallucination in the midst of her prescription pill addiction of Mary Alice handing her a gun to kill herself. Instead after reassuring words from Susan and Bree of the shared anxieties of motherhood, Lynette has a dream of her playing with her children in the park with Mary Alice now smiling proudly at her for overcoming her demons, with Lynette happily showing off Penny to her friend.
-->'''Mary Alice''': There are those who pray for forgiveness for their transgressions. Sometimes...their prayer's are answered.
* Doubling with TearJerker is Mary Alice's ending narration for "Bang!" Normally, she acts as a detached omniscient narrator. In this instance, she says that this would be the last time Lynette would dream of her, and that she is glad for it, a rare gesture of emotion on Mary Alice's part.
* Again doubling with TearJerker, in 'Welcome to Kanagawa' when the Scavos are [[spoiler: pulled out of the rubble]] and [[spoiler: Ida Greenberg]] is nowhere to be found, Edie reaches out with a silent gesture of friendship as she slips her hand into Karen's moments after biting her head off.
* Carlos spends years blind due to an injury, and is able to regain his sight. Notably, Carlos was unable to see the births of either of his children. When Gabrielle returns home, she finds him on his knees hugging his children.
-->'''Carlos''': Gabby...I can see them!
* When Lynette sees her son's friend, whom she just invited, be verbally abused by his angry alcoholic mother, she jumps to his defence in traditional Lynette fashion. The mother snaps back, arguing that Lynette just sees her son as a project and feels smug about inviting him and giving him dinner from time to time. Lynette takes her words to heart. Later in the episode, she comes see Edie and proposes he move in with her family to escape his abusive home life. The scene is awash with MoodWhiplash for typical Desperate Housewives reasons, but it's very sweet.
* A very sweet touching scene comes in Season 8, at the funeral of [[spoiler: Chuck Vance.]] Bree tells Renee that she will always be her closest friend, even if she's known the other girls longer, simply because [[spoiler: she was there to save her life.]]
* In Season 8, Gabby is trying to keep Carlos' boss from finding out Carlos is drunk. He does but rather than be upset, he shows his own sober chip, revealing he's been in AA for years. He tells Carlos he knows exactly what he's going through and is giving him the same chance someone once gave the boss by letting him get himself cleaned up rather than just fire him and make things worse.
* Bree takes Andrew back after finding him homeless on the street and finally makes peace with Danielle in the final season.
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