History TearJerker / DesperateHousewives

'''Lynette''': ''(crying)''' Isn't there anything I can do?\\

* Gabrielle breaking down into tears and screaming while [[spoiler: Lily is brought away by her biological mother]].

--> '''Bree:''' I lov you once.ed Can I love you again? I don't know. But I would like to recapture what we once had. How can we do that if you're not here? So I'm asking you again: Please stay.

There are ''plenty'' of reasons the word "Desperate" is part of the series' title.

** Not only that, Rex died believing that [[spoiler:Bree had been poisoning him (it was really her crazy stalker George's doing)]], so his last act is to write her a note saying he understands her and he forgives her.

There are ''plenty'' of reasons the word "Desperate" is part of the series' title .

* Also in the final episode, when Susan leaves the lane [[spoiler: for the last time]] and she sees the ghost of [[spoiler: Mike]] watching over her. Amplified as other ghosts appear to send her on her way, particularly [[spoiler: Mary Alice appearing last on the word 'wonderful', looking serene and at peace]].

* The one-hundredth episode is about a handyman named Eli dying and the housewives looking back on how he touched their lives in various ways. Mary Alice's flashback in particular was what got to this troper: Eli helped Mary Alice repair a vase when she first moved on. In a second flashback, she gives Eli the same vase and tells him to go. In her hands, we see her unfolding the blackmail note she got that caused her to commit suicide in the very first episode. It is then revealed her suicide was what caused Eli to try to change people's lives.
* The death of [[spoiler: Edie. Her]] tribute episode is also sad, especially at the end when [[spoiler: the housewives spread her ashes around the neighbourhood, and right before when they use one word each to describe the kind of person Edie was. Susan ends up choosing four words: "one-of-a-kind".]]

* Bree is at her lowest, [[DrowningMySorrow drinks]] and prepares to commit suicide, and has a vision of Mary Alice before her attempt, telling her "how wonderful things used to be in Wisteria Lane", wondering why everything fell apart. Mary Alice just tells her that "Things change" and that she's not unhappy in death. If not for Renee's arrival, Bree would have shot herself. Then Renee takes her in her arms and she cries.

* Bree is at her lowest, [[DrowningYourSorrows drinks]] and prepares to commit suicide, and has a vision of Mary Alice before her attempt, telling her "how wonderful things used to be in Wisteria Lane", wondering why everything fell apart. Mary Alice just tells her that "Things change" and that she's not unhappy in death. If not for Renee's arrival, Bree would have killed herself. Then Renee takes her in her arms and she cries.

* Bree is at her lowest, [[DrowningYourSorrow drinks]] and prepares to commit suicide, and has a vision of Mary Alice before her attempt, telling her "how wonderful things used to be in Wisteria Lane", wondering why everything fell apart. Mary Alice just tells her that "Things change" and that she's not unhappy in death. If not for Renee's arrival, Bree would have killed herself. Then Renee takes her in her arms and she cries.

* The centerpiece of the final episode was the death of [[spoiler: Karen [=McClusky=].Her actress passed away only a few weeks after airing.]]

* Death of [[spoiler: Edie Britt]] [[spoiler: her]] tribute episode is also sad, especially at the end when [[spoiler: the housewives spread her ashes around the neighbourhood, and right before when they use one word each to describe the kind of person Edie was. Susan ends up choosing four words: "one-of-a-kind".]]

There are multipe reasons the word "Desperate" is part of the series' title .

* The centerpiece of the final episode was the death of [[spoiler: Karen [=McClusky=].Her actress passed away only a few weeks after airing.]]

--> '''Bree:''' I loved you once. Can I love you again? I don't know. But I would like to recapture what we once had. How can we do that if you're not here? So I'm asking you again: Please stay.

* "Bang", just..."Bang". Especially [[spoiler: Lynette promising to take care of Nora's daughter, then yelling at Carolyn for shooting Nora in spite of the fact that up until this point, Lynette and Nora had been ''enemies'']] and Mary Alice's end narration: "This was the last time Lynette would dream of me. And for that, I am glad."

* The end of the tornado episode, when Lynette thinks her family died in the tornado (note how nearly every tear jerking moment on the series involves Lynette). This troper personally did not cry, but it was enough of a punch to the gut to effectively be considered a true tear jerker.

* In the season five premiere, after seeing Bree as being ultra-dominant and overall bitchy, we learn why: During the five-year jump, Danielle came to take back her son, and she does so ''viciously'', knowing full well that by this time Bree has bonded with the boy enough to consider him her own son. When Bree tries to tell her that the boy is all she has, she harshly responds, "Well, you're just going to have to find something else." That was the moment this troper stopped feeling any sympathy on Danielle's behalf.

* This troper honestly never expected herself to be crying over the death of, of all people, [[spoiler: Edie Britt]] but [[spoiler: her]] tribute episode sure did it, especially at the end when [[spoiler: the housewives spread her ashes around the neighbourhood, and right before when they use one word each to describe the kind of person Edie was. Susan ends up choosing four words: "one-of-a-kind".]]

* After spending most of the season having marital problems, Tom and Lynette decide to [[spoiler: separate]]. They're crying both in show and for the audience.

* The centerpiece of the final episode was the death of [[spoiler: Karen [=McClusky=]. To add to the tears, her actress passed away only a few weeks after airing.]]

* The centerpiece of the final episode was the death of [[spoiler: Karen McClusky. To add to the tears, her actress passed away only a few weeks after airing.]]

* After spending most of the season having marital problems, Tom and Lynette decide to [[spoiler: separate]]. They're crying both in show and for the audience.