Yes, even a show about a moon and her circus friends learning about world culture can be tearjerking.
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- In "Not Home on the Range", there's Leo crying when tells the others that he's scared to ride horses, and fears that if his uncle finds out, he won't be his favorite jackaroo anymore. The song featured in the episode does not help matters. Luckily, things get better after that.
- Another one involving Leo, there's "Me And My Elephant", where Leo grows a bond with Maktao the baby elephant, and cries when he has to leave.
- In "Beat the Beat", pretty much everyone in the Circo (except Carmen) are so heartbroken for various reasons: Andy being told he's been stomping too loud, Leo's brownies getting burnt in the oven (Leo and Andy are too sad to perform "Luna Come and Play" right), and worst of all, the shrews being too sad to perform (due to having a hangnail, a pebble in a shoe, and too tired to perform) in front of the Nairobi Watchers Club (who have HIGH watching standards and are VERY snobbish). As soon as the Watchers Club leave, Señor Fabuloso breaks down crying, exclaiming that the Circo is suffering from a case of Bad-Day-itis. Even Luna is sad because when someone's sad nearby, it hits her too.
- "Blue Orleans": The majority of the episode has the normally-cheerful Luna heartbroken over the fact that one of her oldest friends, a 150-year-old alligator named Bessie (who's a jazz singer) had just died that day. What doesn't help is that when Luna's only memento of Bessie, one of her jazz records, flies out of Luna's hands and she and the kids try and fail to catch it, since the record ended up shattering on the ground into a million pieces. Luna gets even more heartbroken and runs off crying. Even though she gets better eventually after getting a pep talk from Bessie's spirit who comes to life as her picture on the record cover, this episode really makes you wanna cry. Anyone who's lost a loved one or best friend can definitely relate.
- There's some Fridge Sadness as well when you realize that Luna has been shown to have friends all over the world and throughout different eras. Even if Luna's usually upbeat and optimistic, she must have lost many friends over her long life, and she's probably had to go through the same thing she experienced with Bessie at least a few other times. It'll likely happen again with Andy, Carmen and Leo.
- In "Meet the Strongs", Leo, Luna, and Salami Strong go visit Salami's family (his mother Mortadella and two older sisters Pancetta and Capicola) and Salami attempts to demonstrate his toe-of-steel trick on the family lunch table, but ends up injuring his toe and destroying the table. His older sisters laugh at his failed attempt and he runs off to his room crying. When Leo comes into Salami's room to check up on him, Salami sings about how his sisters have always been picking on him ever since they were little. Fortunately, when Salami puts his foot down at his sisters, they make up admitting they never actually wanted to hurt him (plus Mama Mortadella put them on time out and punished them for laughing at Salami by making them clean up the mess).
- "Gaja's Birthday": Today is Gaja's 10th birthday in Delhi, India. Andy, Carmen, and Leo are eager to go, and beg Senor Fabuloso to take them, but he breaks down at the prospect of a child's birthday party. He doesn't enjoy himself at the party and then ends up bursting into tears when he sees the cake. The reason for this is Fabuloso's deep-seated childhood trauma related to children's parties. At his own 10th birthday, he tripped on a rock and ruined his own birthday cake, permanently mortifying him and making children's birthday parties a major trigger for him.
- In "The Wrong Clothes", Andy wants to make friends in Croatia, but people keep rejecting him. After he gets caught up in a Kolo dance troupe, Andy is still being ignored. He gets separated from Leo, Luna, and Carmen, and is in tears on the troupe bus.
- In “Everything’s Irie Mon”, Senor Fabuloso experiences a series of bad luck that leads to a storm cloud hanging above his trailer (and later the Circo). First, he wants to read his favorite book but he forgot he lent it to Hockbar and he can’t get it back because it’s Hockbar’s day off. Because of that, Senor Fabuloso is forced to do ALL the paperwork Hockbar usually does. When he tries to stamp one of them, he accidentally stamps his beak and he cries out in pain. In fact, Senor Fabuloso is so upset with this bad luck that he threatens to CLOSE DOWN THE CIRCO. When the kids try to cheer him up by bringing the beach to the Circo, he ends up getting hurt in various ways that he goes back to being sad, and the sadness spreads to the kids, who believe they’ve failed.
