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Tear Jerker / My Mad Fat Diary

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  • Rae's Imagine Spot where she unzips herself out of her fat body, revealing a much slimmer figure underneath. She then piles up the discarded fat and sets fire to it.
  • Whenever the usually sweet and soft spoken Tix gets upset and starts physically lashing out at her friends, especially because she genuinely can't help herself.
  • The 'What If' scenario that Rae watches with Tix, after she is hit by the car on the bridge. Particularly Finn sitting down and sadly talking to her grave about all the things he wishes they had done together.
    • Not only does Tix fall ill in this episode, but one of her best lines is made even more sad when you learn that she eventually died.
    Tix: What? Did you think you could just slip out of the world with nothing happening because of it? Do you think anyone can do that?
  • As Tix's eating disorder is getting worse, Kester suggests that he sets up a special dinner date with Rae in the cafeteria to try and get her eating again. Tix is almost too anxious to go, but Kester is eventually able to convince her. Only for Rae to not show up, because she had gone to the rave instead. Tix looks heartbroken and it triggers her into exercising excessively into the night instead of resting. She ends up having a heart attack that she's too weak to recover from and dies before Rae can reconcile with her.
  • Rae reading Chloe's diary and finding out how much Chloe really did care about her well-being.
  • The first time Rae sees her baby sister in the hospital and says to her "you are perfect" and "you are strong".
  • Rae and Finn's breakup - Despite the fact that they are very much in love with each other, neither one of them can scale each other's issues. Finn has trouble expressing his thoughts so he can't assure Rae how much he admires her and cares for her in a way that she can understand. And Finn doesn't understand how deep Rae's issues go, so as much as he tries to be there for her he doesn't understand that the outside influences are making more noise that his love and affection. He honestly cares for Rae and thinks she's downright awesome, so he can't understand how down on herself she is because to him, she's perfect. It's a sad case of romantic love not being able to solve it all.
  • When Danny recalls when his mother died. He didn't understand when his father told him she wasn't coming back, and thought she was just at pottery class. He then breaks down while explaining he thought he'd see her come back again, her hands covered in clay.
  • Rae's last 'session' with Kester. She waits until their meeting to open up her A-level results. She gets enough points to go to Bristol University and Kester gives her one last hug.
    Rae: See ya.
    Kester: No, not if I see you first...
  • The last scene of the show in Series 3, with Rae on the train going to Bristol, imagining and seeing all the people who have helped her life in the window, including Tix.

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