History TearJerker / Creepshow

--> '''Pete:''' I wish we had known each other longer, Skeet. (''giving the boy a hug'') I love you, little brother.

* Zeller from "Within the Walls of Madness" just can't catch a break, as his lover is slaughtered by a cosmic horror that he goes mad upon seeing, the head of security is inches from blowing his head off, his deranged superior orchestrated the phony containment breach to frame him for the killings as a plot to summon the horror and its breatheren to destroy the world, and his appointed attorney clearly couldn't give two shits about what happens to him, only interested in taking his case for the ancillary rights.

* Elmer's situation in "Okay, I'll Bite", where he's locked in prison and treated as the resident punching bag after euthanizing his dying mother in an act of mercy. There's also the scene where Bullet and Polish Frank torture him by breaking his fingers and watching as his pet spiders are crushed one by one. After the torture, Elmer picks up his dead pet and tells the body that they won't die in vain.

** Late in the episode is when Jack discovers that Beth was not only lying to him about his mother, but was his father's lover on the side, who tipped him off about Bloom's plan to run away with her son. The first thing he does is race to the backyard and sob into his hands.

* Angela from "Doodles" keeps getting rebuked by Roger and has her art stolen from her by Sonia, but she's clearly traumatized from learning that they've died when she doodled on their pictures. The ending has both her and Calvin meeting the same death by doodle she's subjected to the former two.

** April's younger sister Jean shares how April took her in after she was assaulted in college at one point. The next scene has April, acting horrifically unlike herself as her transformation progresses, calling her younger sister a freeloader and demands that she get the hell out, notably leaving her teary-eyed. Further along in the episode, Richard ends up throwing Jean to the monstrous April, who no longer recognizes her and ferally devours her.
* Lyle's entire life in "The Parent Deathtrap", which he spent entirely alone, being a universally-hated creepy loner in school, and being rebuked by his horrifically abusive parents. Just when it looks like the ending throws him a bone, with his parents genuinely showing him affection and him getting married to Violet, it's revealed that she only married him for his inheritance and didn't out grow her AlphaBitch personality at all. The last scene has Lyle pleading as he's thrown into prison, the ghosts of his parents, Violet's parents, and Violet herself following after him, never leaving him alone again.

--> '''Monster:''' After the mouse, she had trouble sleeping, trouble eating, started losing time at work, at home; it was grief. Her father had died about a month before. After the mouse thing, she tried calling her mom, but her mom didn't pick up because... because she died, alone. Heart disease, they say, but Cassie knew; she knew it was loneliness. Cassie promised herself that she wouldn't go like that, but she still needed some kind of connection. So she started getting to know people for a few days, and then vanish. And the sadness she would leave behind made her feel monstrous. So... she made ''me''. Not knowing, or trying to put the mice she captured out of their misery. Can't be a monster if you're ''running'' from one, right?\\

* The confrontation Bloom and Hank have in full-view of Jack in the opening scene of "Mums", the boy being forced to watch his mother get hauled off to the police station, after which Hank and Beth (who Hank was cheating on Bloom with) gaslight the boy by telling him that Bloom is gone without remorse.

* In "Model Kid", there's the abuse Joe gets from both his bully and his uncle. After getting smacked bt Kevin when he loses his job, Joe sits in bed wearing a skull mask to hide the potential bruise and looking at an old photo of him and his mom.

* "By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain" is a ''significantly'' dark episode compared to the rest of the series. There's no comedy or {{Bathos}}, protagonist Rose has recites her dialogue listlessly and on the verge of tears, Leigh and her daughter are growing apart, and not to mention Chet and his abuse. Thankfully, there's a happy ending.

-->'''Aunt Bedelia:''' ''(quietly)'' Happy Father's Day. ''(sits down)'' I didn't know l had it in me! I'm your daughter, right? You bootlegger! Killer! ''Murderer!'' UngratefulBastard. You shouldn't have killed Peter! He was a man, see, a ''real'' man! Everything I wanted, he wanted ''for me!'' You stupid bastard! [[BigScrewedUpFamily You screwed it all up. You screwed up my mother, you screwed me up.]] You got me so mad, you drove me crazy. "I want my cake, Bedelia, you bitch!" ''(near sobbing)'' You called me a bitch! Sylvia fixed it all! Ashtray back in place! Chair overturned! ''(calm)''A fall, Daddy, a bad fall. Nobody could catch us. Nobody! You taught me, you taught Sylvia! [[ALessonLearnedTooWell You taught us all]].

* "By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain" is a ''significantly'' dark episode compared to the rest of the series. There's no comedy or{{Bathos}}, protagonist Rose has recites her dialogue listlessly and on the verge of tears, Leigh and her daughter are growing apart, and not to mention Chet and his abuse. Thankfully, there's a happy ending.

* "By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain" is a ''significantly'' dark episode compared to the rest of the series. There's no comedy, no {{Bathos}}, protagonist Rose has recites her dialogue listlessly and on the verge of tears, Leigh and her daughter are growing apart, and not to mention Chet and his abuse. Thankfully, there's a happy ending.

* The title of "Smile" is notably ironic, since after letting a South American man and his father drown in a river so he can take photos of their suffering, James is haunted by the spectre of the man in question, who haunts him and his wife as a photographer with magic, future-telling pictures. The ending of the episode has him being duped by the spirit into drowning his pre-teen son Max in his pool as Sarah can only sob in agony, the spirit photographer's camera displaying a photo of him holding his dead son in his arms, a shellshocked look on his face.

* "Time Out"; While some may have seen it coming a mile away, it's still sad to see Tim banging on the doors while inside of the armoire as he ages into dust with his son on the outside trying to catch on. It's largely because unlike many horror victims, the audience grows to sympathize with Tim. Apart from his ambitious legal career, he seems to be a good guy who loves his wife and son. It only took one hole in the pocket of his sweater to ruin it all. And worse yet, his son walks straight into the armoire once his dad crumbles away, dropping the key outside and thus readying him for the same fate that befell his father.