Tear Jerker / Girls

• "Sit-In" is one big episode of this, as Hannah deals with the fact that Adam got a new girlfriend while she was in Iowa. Particularly heartbreaking is the conversation between Hannah and Adam at the end, when they manage to have an honest, heartbreaking conversation about their dead relationship.
  • "The Panic in Central Park." Marnie genuinely reconnects with Charlie by chance and sees him as a way out of her unhappy marriage, only to learn, after a romantic night together, that he's a heroin addict.
  • Hannah in Hello Kitty where she finds out that Jessa and Adam are going out and her boyfriend and Marnie are too obtuse and self-absorbed to be of any help. The look on her face, where she is Trying Not to Cry, is just heart-breaking.
  • Though she brought it on herself by letting down her friends and business partners at Jamba Jeans in order to chase a friendship with the cool, cultured Jessa, Shosanna's Trying Not to Cry expression is heartbreaking, after she realizes that she ruined her chances at the life she dreamed of for friends who don't care about her values or understand her at all (and a likely impetus for her absence from the following final season, where she does manage to find love, friendship and success by breaking away from the group).
  • The end of "What Will We Do This Time About Adam?" After a brief Hope Spot that the two will get back together again, Adam and Hannah break into quiet tears in a diner, realizing that there's just something missing and they're not going to get back together after everything they did to each other. Adam returns to Jessa, who's so lonely that she happily settles for being his second-best.
  • Hermie dying on Ray's couch, and Ray desperately trying to wake him up.
  • The final minutes of the penultimate episode, where after a cold speech by Shoshanna, Hannah cements her decision to leave New York and live her own life, and mutually ends her friendship with Jessa. Then crosses over into a Bittersweet Ending with the girls sharing one last happy moment with each other, dancing the night away at Shoshanna's engagement party with scenes intercut with Hannah finally growing up, moving out and setting up her new home for her baby.