History TearJerker / CloneHigh

[[folder: Season 3]]

* From the first episode: poor Van Gogh calls a teen crisis hotline as he's alone in his room, curled up in a TroubledFetalPosition. He pours his heart out, only for Ghandi to put him on speaker and declare his secrets to what looks like the ENTIRE student body, who laugh as Van Gogh admits the only thing keeping him holding on is that nobody knows how lonely he is. The tears of rage Van Gogh cries as he asks Ghandi how he could do something like that are just icing on his {{Woobie}} cake.
* Abe refusing to high five Gandhi in front of Cleo. While Gandhi saying that he "[[ARareSentence never thought the world would see Abe Lincoln dissing Mahatma Gandhi]]," and the two of them having kitschy friendship lockets, is hilarious, Ghandi [[SincerityMode looks and sounds genuinely hurt]] that his best friend finds him embarrassing.

* Joan telling Cleo that she never had a mother to teach her how to do normal "girly things", like put on makeup. Even [[AlphaBitch Cleo]] is moved.

* The way Gandhi is written out of the show come season 2 is pretty upsetting, as the poor guy is seemingly left to languish on ice indefinitely - combine that with a [[FreezeFrameBonus brief shot of his redacted name on a file in the new opening]], and it creates the impression that the SBSF actively chose not to thaw him out because they considered him [[YouHaveFailedMe a failure to live up to the standard set by his clonefather]]. Sure, the guy was a bit of an obnoxious oaf, but he certainly didn't deserve ''that''.

** It's worse than that: it's hinted that Candide had Toots ''killed''.

* "For Your Consideration" reveals Mr. Butlertron's DarkAndTroubledPast. It turns out that he calls everyone Wesley not as a reference to ''Series/MrBelvedere'', but because it was the name of his adoptive human brother, who died trying to baptize him.

** Joan admits that she became a cynical, angst-filled, atheist {{Goth}} because she felt that she could never live up to the real Joan's image. When she hears what she believes is the voice of God (really [[spoiler:broadcasts from a Christian rock station that her bent retainer was picking up]]), she's ''thrilled.''

* At the end of the final episode, [[spoiler: Abe throws away his opportunity to have sex with Cleopatra when he realizes that he's in love with Joan, only to find Joan in the quick freezer with JFK post-coitus. She and Abe share a heartbroken gaze as he's about to profess his love for her, only to be cut off by Scudworth freezing them where they stand with the Board of Shadowy Figures and virtually everyone else.]] The end.
** Then there's the FridgeHorror of what's to become of [[spoiler:Scudworth and Mr. B., now that they have to live with the fact that they've left dozens of people in suspended animation]].

** It's worse than that: it's hinted that [[spoiler: Candide had Toots ''killed'']].

* "Clone Alone" ends with Candide showing the ''entire class'' the footage of Joan [[spoiler: sabotaging them in the death maze and nearly killing them]], which causes everyone to turn on her. The season began with Joan dating JFK, at the top of the social ladder, and seemingly happy for the first time in her life; when it ends, she and JFK have broken up and she's lost every friend she has, with not even Abe coming to her defense.

*** The fact that not once Ghandi was mentioned in this episode. When Joan and Abe are talking about memories of hanging out and eating at the Grassy Knoll, not once was Ghandi mentioned despite being close friends with both of them in Season 1 and him also hanging out at the restaurant with them. While Joan was not the closest to Ghandi and could be annoyed with him, they were still friends, and it is heartbreaking that she would not even remember him when a place she used to hang out with him is being destroyed, and the fact that Abe, Ghandi's best friend did not mention him (especially when he did in the first episode of that season) is also heartbreaking. [[spoiler: Then it's revealed that Candide erased all memory of Ghandi from the first patch of Clones heads...]]

*** The fact that not once Ghandi was mentioned in this episode. When Joan and Abe are talking about memories of hanging out and eating at the Grassy Knoll, not once was Ghandi mentioned despite being close friends with both of them in Season 1 and him also hanging out at the restaurant with them. While Joan was not the closest to Ghandi and could be annoyed with him, they were still friends, and it is heartbreaking that she would not even remember him when a place she used to hang out with him is being destroyed, and the fact that Abe, Ghandi's best friend did not mention him (especially when he did in the first episode of that season) is also heartbreaking.

* "Clone Alone" ends with Candide showing the ''entire class'' the footage of Joan [[spoiler: sabotaging them in the death maze and nearly killing them]], which causes everyone to turn on her. The season began with Joan dating JFK, at the top of the social ladder, and seemingly totally happy for the first time in her life; when it ends, she's single and has lost every friend she had, with not even Abe coming to her defense.

* "Clone Alone" ends with Candide showing the ''entire class'' the footage of Joan [[spoiler: sabotaging them in the death maze and nearly killing them]], which causes everyone to turn on her. The season began with Joan dating JFK and at the top of the social ladder, seemingly happy for the first time in her life; it ends with her single and losing every friend she has, with not even Abe coming to her defense.

* "Clone Alone" ends with Candide revealing to the ''entire class'' the footage of Joan [[spoiler: sabotaging them all in the death maze and nearly killing them]]. The season began with Joan dating JFK and at the top of the social ladder, seemingly happy for the first time in her life; it ends with her single and losing every friend she has, with not even Abe coming to her defense.
-->'''Joan''': ...Can we try the mind-erasing ray again?

* "Clone Alone" ends with Candide revealing to the ''entire school'' that Joan [[spoiler: sabotaged them all in the death maze, and nearly got them killed]]. The season began with Joan at the top of the social ladder; it ends with her losing every single friend she has, with not even Abe coming to her defense.

** Worse than that: it's hinted that Candide [[spoiler: ''had Toots killed'']].

*** What makes this worse is that Abe really ''did'' try to do the right thing. It would've been so easy to just reveal the kiss to Joan because of his feelings for her, to use this opportunity to break up JFK and Joan to get together with Joan. But Abe never even ''considered'' doing that; he was just concerned about her health, and deciding to keep the secret despite his reservations. Unfortunately for Abe, Joan felt more betrayed about him keeping the secret than JFK and Harriet kissing in the first place, to the point that despite feeling understandably betrayed by JFK and Harriet, she was able to forgive ''them'', but could not forgive Abe for keeping their secret. It is heartbreaking that Abe tried to do the right thing and be a good friend to Joan by keeping the secret for her, only for it to backfire on him in the worst way possible. You really want to give Abe a hug after losing his best and only friend in this episode.

As the theme song said, [[WesternAnimation/CloneHigh these teenage clones]] will make you [[WaxingLyrical laugh and shiver and]] '''[[WaxingLyrical cry]]''', especially with these moments:

* "For Your Consideration" reveals Mr. Butlertron's DarkAndTroubledPast. It turns out that he calls everyone Wesley not as a reference to ''Series/MrBelvedere'', but it was the name of his adoptive human brother Wesley, who died trying to baptize him.

As the theme song said, these teenage clones will make you laugh and shiver and '''cry''', especially with these moments:

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[[caption-width-right:350:You’ll be crying as hard as JFK after watching these moments.]]