Tear Jerker / Bedknobs and Broomsticks

• "The Age of Not Believing", while a song about growing up and losing the imagination you once had isn't really sad as there is a ray of hope at the end. The sad fact was that the studio was having trouble carrying on after Walt Disney died and the lack of imagination that followed.
• When Mrs. Hobday tells Miss Price that she found a new home for the children, mainly because she didn't want children to begin with, she admits that she has grown attached to them.
• When Mr. Browne decides not to remain with Eglantine and the children mainly because he is scared of commitment, while the boys are a little disappointed, Carrie is in tears.
• When the film was restored to the original runtime in 1996, these extra Tearjerkers were found:
  • At their first dinner Miss Price asks the children to write letters to their parents, Carrie admits that they are orphans and that their guardian, Aunt Bessie, died in an air raid which hit their home, and the children survived only because they chose to sleep in the Underground.
  • "Nobody's Problems" a song Eglantine sings after Emelius leaves for London is about how she chose never to marry, feeling she didn't want the burden of being a wife, but she ends it trying to convince herself that it's right.
  • As Mr. Browne tries to sleep at the train station, he seems near tears as he mentally berates himself, his inner voice dripping with self-loathing. "Emelius Browne, do you know you could be warm and cozy in that house at this very moment? For once in your useless life, you really seem to have been needed. You're a failure, Emelius Browne, and a coward."
• It's brief, but there's something strangely sad about watching the armor deflate and become lifeless again once Miss Price's house is blown up. After all the awesomeness of watching the armor rise and march forward, England's very history coming alive to protect it in a dark time, now once again piles of metal and cloth. If you watch, a few of the knights actually "die" so they're lying on their backs solemnly clutching their weapons to the chest, as if they were about to be buried.
  • This all happened because Miss Price's store of magical ingredients was destroyed. Something the children all lament themselves after the battle is over. Though the magical bedknob still appears to work, so it is possible that they might be able to acquire more ingredients and restore her magical abilities.