History TearJerker / AdventuresInOdyssey

* Dyllan seeing Mr. Whitaker falsely imprisoned in "A Shadow of Doubt" can be utterly ''heartbreaking'', when you consider how important a mentor Mr. Whitaker is to him and many of the other kids, and how he's being exposed to highly unjust treatment of the nicest man he knows for the first time in his life. It only gets more difficult when he's in the shed at his house looking at pictures of Mr. Whitaker, wondering what in the world happened that made him deserve such a harsh punishment.

* Dyllan seeing Mr. Whitaker falsely imprisoned in "A Shadow of Doubt" can be utterly ''heartbreaking'', when you consider how important a mentor Mr. Whitaker is to him and many of the other kids, and how he's being exposed to highly unjust treatment of the nicest man he knows for the first time in his life. It only gets more difficult when he's in the shed at his house looking at pictures of Mr. Whitaker, wondering what in the world happened that made him deserve such a harsh punishment.

* Seeing the [[spoiler: false]] BadFuture in "A Twist in Time" with the normally lively Whit's End a decrepit mess, Eugene being a broken old man trying to keep it standing, and Whit being implied to have passed away in poor health is two parts shocking, two parts heartbreaking. [[spoiler: You'll be every bit as relieved as Dylan and Sal are when the whole thing is revealed to [[AllJustADream have been just a simulation produced by the Room of Consequences]].]]

* The series of episodes following the death of Connie Kendall's mother, June.

** Even more heart-wrenching is the visitation and the funeral in "Where is Thy Sting?", especially with an instrumental version of "It Is Well" as a {{Leitmotif}}.

* The aftermath of the earthquake in Hollywood in "The Fifth House on the Left, Part 2", particularly the scenes where Eugene comforts a crying woman whose apartment building caught fire and where Bernard helps a man dig out his son from their house.

* Whit's departure in "Gone..." is often regarded as a tear-jerker on its own, especially for younger audiences. However, when you know the full story behind the episode, and indeed one particular scene, it hits even harder: Since [[CharacterOutlivesActor Whit's actor had died]], his few lines were all lifted from previous episodes, save for his heartfelt farewell speech which Eugene and Bernard see on tape about a week after the fact. ''That'' came from a real-life appearance of Hal Smith himself, thanking everyone for the cards sent to him after his wife died. Whatta guy.

* Jack's story in "A Question About Tasha", when he tells Connie that as an immature believer, he married a non-Christian, had an event occur that spurred him to rededicate himself to God, and spent the rest of his wife's life either trying to convince her to come to Christ or attend church with her knowing that she didn't believe. She suffered a stroke that robbed her of movement and speech, and Jack won't know until heaven if his last attempt to lead her to Jesus was successful. The way his voice cracks as he talks about her and how much he loved her is absolutely agonizing to hear.

* Jack's story in "The Time Has Come", when he tells Connie that as an immature believer, he married a non-Christian, had an event occur that spurred him to rededicate himself to God, and spent the rest of his wife's life either trying to convince her to come to Christ or attend church with her knowing that she didn't believe. She suffered a stroke that robbed her of movement and speech, and Jack won't know until heaven if his last attempt to lead her to Jesus was successful. The way his voice cracks as he talks about her and how much he loved her is absolutely agonizing to hear.

* The entirety of "It Is Well", but especially the scene where Horatio Spafford sails over the place where his daughters drowned and begins speaking what would become the lines of what is considered one of the greatest hymns in Christian history.
* Whit's departure in the ''AdventuresInOdyssey'' episode "Gone..." is often regarded as a tear-jerker on its own, especially for younger audiences. However, when you know the full story behind the episode, and indeed one particular scene, it hits even harder: Since [[CharacterOutlivesActor Whit's actor had died]], his few lines were all lifted from previous episodes, save for his heartfelt farewell speech which Eugene and Bernard see on tape about a week after the fact. ''That'' came from a real-life appearance of Hal Smith himself, thanking everyone for the cards sent to him after his wife died. Whatta guy.

* Something similar much more recently when voice actor Walker Edmiston died. There was a special tribute track to him on the disk set.
* AdventuresInOdyssey really is good at {{Tear Jerker}}s. Another one that comes to mind is [[spoiler:Mitch's "death"]] in "Plan B", as well as the scene where Mitch and Connie [[spoiler:decide that they really aren't mature enough to get married and call their wedding off... the night before they were supposed to get married]]. Another would be Katrina's father's [[spoiler: death, and how Katrina and Eugene were married quietly by his bedside, because he was too sick to leave the hospital.]]
* The episode when Whit tells Lucy the story of Horatio Spafford, who lost his son to an illness, a vast amount of property to the Great Chicago Fire, and then his four daughters to a shipwreck. The catharsis comes as the episode ends with the RealLife scene of Spafford sailing over the coordinates where his daughters died, praying, and saying the words that he would eventually put into the song, which is sung by a choir at the very end, "It is well with my soul."
* The series of episodes following the death of Connie Kendall's mother, June.
* "Forever, Amen" is often said to be one of the most heart-breaking episodes of the entire series, wherein a little boy named Danny believes that he was responsible for his mother's miscarriage when he wished he wasn't getting a younger sibling. The fact that he's blaming himself for this makes it extra heart-rending for parents as well.

* Connie's grandmother's death in "A Touch of Healing, Part 2". Especially this exchange:

* "Forever, Amen" is often said to be one of the most heart-breaking episodes of the entire series, wherein a little boy named Danny believes that he was responsible for his mother's miscarriage when he wished he wasn't getting a younger sibling. The fact that he's blaming himself for this makes it extra heart-rending for parents, as well.

* The series of episodes following the death of Connie Kendall's mother, June.

* The episode when Whit tells Lucy the story of Horatio Spafford, who lost his son to an illness, a vast amount of property to the Great Chicago Fire, and then his four daughters to a shipwreck. The catharsis comes as the episode ends with the RealLife scene of Spafford sailing over the coordinates where his daughters died, praying, and saying the words that he would eventually put into the song, which is sung by a choir at the very end, "It is well with my soul."

** Something similar much more recently when voice actor Walker Edmiston died. There was a special tribute track to him on the disk set.
** AdventuresInOdyssey really is good at {{Tear Jerker}}s. Another one that comes to mind is [[spoiler:Mitch's "death"]] in "Plan B", as well as the scene where Mitch and Connie [[spoiler:decide that they really aren't mature enough to get married and call their wedding off... the night before they were supposed to get married]]. Another would be Katrina's father's [[spoiler: death, and how Katrina and Eugene were married quietly by his bedside, because he was too sick to leave the hospital.]]
** The episode when Whit tells Lucy the story of Horatio Spafford, who lost his son to an illness, a vast amount of property to the Great Chicago Fire, and then his four daughters to a shipwreck. The catharsis comes as the episode ends with the RealLife scene of Spafford sailing over the coordinates where his daughters died, praying, and saying the words that he would eventually put into the song, which is sung by a choir at the very end, "It is well with my soul."