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  • America's Saddest Home Videos. You'd expect a parody of America's Funniest Home Videos showcasing some of the most tragic incidents caught on tape to have at least a few laughs in it, but it plays the title straight. Although it's probably the fact that the three candidates for "saddest home video" came in with a three way tie for last.
  • DuckTales Theme Gone Horribly Wrong. Scrooge dies, Huey, Dewey and Louie can't cope and end up in jail, and Donald contemplates suicide as he faces financial ruin.
  • Honest Graduation Song is a pretty sad demonstration about how we tend to lose our old friends as we move on with our lives. The ending can also be sad because the guy who ditched his best friend apologizes, after losing his job in Los Angeles and realizing what a great friendship the two had. The last shot shows the ditched friend driving away in a fancy car while the guy who ditched him leaves on a cheap scooter, and it's implied that the two will never be as close as they were.
  • When the cheery rendition of "Summer Nights" stops in Grease Dilemma, you're left with the sobering tale of the T-Birds realizing that one of their own is a Serial Rapist. By the time Rizzo is breaking down in tears as the Pink Ladies try to help her cope with what happened, it's impossible to laugh.
  • Stop Saying "It Ruined My Childhood" can be considered somewhat sad.
  • Stop Saying "I'm So Broke", especially a poor Latino spent his savings to call his wife in Honduras for ten minutes with discovery from a message that it's no longer available.
  • "If You're Only 20-Something, Stop Saying You're Old" contrasts 20-somethings discussing their "age" with utter horror ("Do you guys realize we were out of college almost as long as we were in college?!") with an old man and woman unemotionally discussing dementia, outliving spouses and family members, and being unable to sleep at night due to joint pain.
    Old Man: I want to get a dog to be less lonely, but I think I'd die first and then he'd be lonely.
  • The Really, Really Giving Tree changes the boy from innocently selfish into an all-round Jerkass whose relationship with the tree is downright abusive. In the end he frames the tree for a mass murder that he committed and has the nerve to demand that it give him $50 while it's being chainsawed to death.
  • The poor nerd in "X-Box Girls Strike Back" gets threatened with rape and sexual torture until he vomits all over himself and breaks down sobbing while his tormentors laugh at him. It's pretty sad, and an accurate reflection of what women have to put up with when online.
  • Discussed in this article from Geek Girl Authority. The list includes several of the aforementioned videos from here and a few focusing on "Sad" Katie Marovitch.
  • "Five Tips on Cooking for One" gets gradually sadder through the Stepford Smiler act until it's just Grant talking in a dimly lit living room about why would he want to inflict himself on anyone else. The final recipe has the pop-up graphics only, as Grant is sporting a Thousand-Yard Stare while barely keeping himself together.
  • While most of the CEO-skits are funny commentaries on the company in question's business practices, the GoFundMe-episode is a brutal commentary on the American healthcare-system, and how a third of GoFundMe's campaigns are people begging for money to pay for medical treatment.
    Person offscreen: Are you okay? Do you need a... minute?
    Dan Spoon: I run a website that hosts popularity contests where if you lose, you die. Would you be doing alright?
    • Two campaigns are explicitly laid out, and, while they seem ridiculous, many commentors said they couldn't tell the difference between the fake campaigns and the real ones.
      • The first one is a woman who was initially asking for 200 dollars to fund cat trees at her animal rescue, but had to up it to 850,000 dollars after she AND her cats were all diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphomanote  due to the asbestos mill upstream dumping chemical waste into the river by her house. Her insurance refuses to cover the bill, claiming she chose to be poisoned by the mill, and on top of that, the mill is suing her for damaging their brand image.
      • The second one is a group of guys going kayaking out into sea... so they can cross the Mexican border and sell their kidneys to the Sinaloa Kartel, to pay for their friend's surgery after his pancreatic cancer metastasized.note 
  • "No, I don't deserve nice things". While it is played for laughs, Rekha's insistance that she doesn't deserve to treat herself to anything can make it seem like she's suffering some major self-doubt issues.
  • "College Essay Tips For School Shooting Survivors" is bit examination of how terrible USA's problem with school shootings is. Particularily when Raph informs us that shootings have become so common that law enforcement no longer counts them unless they happen specifically at schools in school hours. The end is also depressing, with Raph is taken aback by the realization that shootings are not limited to school, and people will most likely fear for their lives in offices as well.
    ... oh god...
  • Some of the "Prank War" videos are emotionally extreme enough to be painful to watch even after Streeter and Amir's admission in the If I Were You podcast that the entire series was staged. "Prank War 5: Amir's Big Break (With Human Giant)" has an especially devastating performance from Amir. The premise of the video is that Amir is tricked into thinking he's going to appear in a Human Giant episode, but the team berate his acting at every turn and finally take him out of the sketch. When Streeter tells him he's been pranked, he happily asks if they're going to take the whole thing from the top, only to be informed that the situation itself is a setup and that the season wrapped months ago. Instead of brushing it off, Amir gets visibly choked up.
    Streeter: Dude, I got you so good!
    Amir: You didn't "get me good"! This is not—this is f—what are you doing? You didn't "get me." This isn't "getting me."
    Streeter: Come on, man.
    Amir: What? ...I'm serious! This isn't "getting me."
    Streeter: You...
    Streeter: I mean...

Alternative Title(s): College Humor

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