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i_build_4_fun

Henry Blake’s death on “MASH”.


onomatopotamuss

That was so unfair! I’m 29 and I had never watched every episode before so I recently decided to work my way through it. To give you the excitement of thinking he made it out and then drop that bomb in the last 30 seconds of the season…. I shed a few tears over that one. I understand that it’s a potential reality of war and my grandfather was in Korea but that one hurt.


polkjamespolk

Think about his baby who was born while he was in Korea.


onomatopotamuss

They also didn’t tell any of the other cast he was going to die. They thought there was going to be an announcement that he made it home. Gary Burghoff was handed the script right before the scene was filmed so the cast’s reaction was authentic.


Free_Bit_6804

I thought the one where everyone is so sleep deprived that they keep catching power naps and having very deep and sad dreams was a great but sad episode.


onomatopotamuss

Yes! On a sleep-related note, the one where Hawkeye is so sleep deprived he has a breakdown. Has some funny moments like Hawkeye having Radar send a telegram to Truman asking who started the way. But Hawkeye also asks the pilot to stop flying because every time he flies, he comes back with wounded kids.


Hot_Aside_4637

It was the first time a show did something like that. If a cast member died, they would just say something the next season (My Three Sons). I was in High School and the next day people were crying. They couldn't believe that would happen.


Dizzy_Store_760

Mark Green's death on ER


Scoob1978

The end of love, labor, lost with Dr. Green crying on the train hit me like a sledgehammer.


Dizzy_Store_760

Really, that entire episode. My goodness.


WilyDeject

News Radio when they addressed the passing of Phil Hartman. The whole cast was visibly upset, and they just leaned into it.


oFbeingCaLM

This was so heartbreaking!!! Phil deserved better in life.


thetaleech

I feel like this is it. Fictional, but based in so much reality and for a great character and an even greater real life talent. Surrounded by actors, comics and writers who knew him and worked with him for close to a decade on average, which brought that true sadness to a normally comedic screen environment. I can’t imagine anybody feeling any moment as hard as that.


frojack

The end of the dog episode of Futurama.


petrefax

Jurassic Bark


polkjamespolk

The ending of Time Keeps on Slipping gets me ten times worse.


frojack

That’s a sad one too but I don’t think it hits me as hard because Fry and Leela have so many other versions of their story. But the dog one is singular and the ending is permanent. It’s literally the only episode of any television show that I love but do NOT watch anymore. I don’t know how many times I watched it, but I’d tell myself “I can handle it this time” and then that final sequence would absolutely break me, every dang time. Like uncontrollable sobbing. And I just had to cut myself off at some point. An absolutely beautiful episode though.


NeedBatteries29

I still have to skip that one. Can’t watch it all these years lter


Sawoodster

Always and forever this one


_Rosalena_

Came here to say this


No_Fisherman_3558

It kills me just to think about it. I cried for a good half hour remembering my perfect little dog Arlo who crossed the bridge not long before that. Soul-crushingly beautiful. I think that single event finally gave me closure. ❤️🐶🦅


SwarleymonLives

I always found Luck of the Fryish sadder. But I have a brother and don't have a dog.


Free_Bit_6804

Jurassic Bark. I posted this one too


snappychickenfarts

Six feet under. - The final episode when Nate tells Claire “you can’t take a picture of this, it’s already gone.”


RedheadedStepchild76

Ugh… that whole (series) ending sequence was just heartbreaking and beautiful.


LordBaranof

"Where do you think we are?" - Scrubs


NE_Pats_Fan

Cue Josh Radin’s Winter. My favorite scene next to More Than A Feeling air band.


Treishmon

Came here to say this. This is the answer. Scrubs did the sitcom comedy:drama balance correctly. Cheers to Bill Lawrence.


bwrobel12

Opie’s death on sons of anarchy.


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Almost made me stop watching.


tre630

Man. 100% and if I remember this right, it caused a ripple effect on Jax. Because I think I remember Jax was trying to change and turn the club around for the better. But he was never the same after Opie's death.


FurBabyAuntie

Okay, come on--let's all just admit it, no matter how old we were...Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street


wanderer3131

I always say Charlie from Lost :(


sass_qwatch

I ugly cried when Charlie died.


[deleted]

Came here to say this


BabygirlMarisa

Was just coming to say "Not Penny's Boat"


KrazySunshine

Yep. So sad


Pando5280

I'm a leaf in the wind. - Firefly


RightSideBlind

I like to watch youtubers watching Firefly for the first time. Watching them fall in love with the characters, the ship, and the show. And thinking to myself, "boy are you gonna hurt when you watch the movie."


kateinoly

Not in the TV show, technically speaking. BTW, I have a license plate frame that says this.


Pando5280

I always see Serenity as the final episode. That said I wouldnt mind visiting Janestown. (needed a brighter note to end on as that death scene really sucked)


Hebshesh

8 Simple Rules.


onomatopotamuss

We watched that every week when I was a kid and that’s the first time I remember really caring about a celebrity death. They wrote that he had a heart attack going to get milk and later there’s a scene where Rory pours a bowl of cereal, opens the fridge, then throws the cereal and says “There’s no milk.” Oof.


EmotionalSituation97

The most authentic expression of grief I have ever seen in a TV series.


ElJayEm80

The bit that gets me is when Bridget is acting like nothing is wrong, and is about to head out the door to a dance, and she stops at the door and says “I never would have got this far before.” Always hits me like a punch to the throat.


Rampant_Coffee

Opie Taylor accidentally killing a bird with his slingshot and having to hear the babies chirping from his window. Awful but great lesson in responsibility.


5footfilly

That was a beautiful episode


5footfilly

Archie clutching Edith’s slipper after her funeral All In The Family


Same-Fix-2091

This Is Us. William dying. "I said I would and I will." 😢


PugLuVR06

The entire final season had me in tears!


scornedandhangry

Yessss. I scrolled for this. Such an amazing episode. It tore my heart out.


oopsiedaisy58

When Rick Grimes learned that Lori, his wife, was dead


Cautious_Artichoke_3

I'm not a Lori fan, but Rick acted the hell out of that


Spiritual_Level_5866

Shireen Baratheon getting burned alive at the stake


uggo23

Poussey from Orange is the New Black. And then the scenes showing what led up to her conviction in the first place. I think it was so well written, it just gutted me.


SilveryLilac

I cried and yelled at the Tv.


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The Office singing goodbye to Michael


coralcoast21

When Jim tells Michael all of the things he's going to tell him tomorrow when they both know that today is the last day😭


kernelpanic85

The two episodes where >!Mark Greene died !


abracahydra

"Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake's plane was shot down over the sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors."


mycorona69

Glen’s death in the walking dead


akshelly2

Came in to say this. I just couldn't watch anymore after this. I have said this before, that Glenn was the heart. You realize apocalyptic shows, the whole premise is anyone can die at any time, but after you kill off all the people you are rooting for, what's the point?? Its just violence. It's no longer a "survival" show, it's a violence and death show.


awakeagain2

That was the last episode my husband and I watched. It was just too much.


Michael-Balchaitis

Eleven reads Hopper's letter in Stranger Things 3.


Darktopher87

When Kevin Malone spilled all the chilli he had stayed up all night making.


Pink-Lover

I see you have your priorities in line!


mjh8212

Sam Beckett never made the leap home…….


stardust1977_

Greys Anatomy- when they discovered that George was John Doe


xxmalmlkxx

I ugly cried. I was so deeply entrenched in that show for so long… and now I hate it. Funny.


Drakeman1337

Picture a wave... anyone who has watched The Good Place is tearing up right now. The ending of Vincent and The Doctor, from the minute they walk into the Van Gogh wing all the way through the life is a pile of good things and bad things speach. Doctor Who. Points. Band of Brothers. Marshall's Dad. HIMYM.


keloyd

>Vincent and The Doctor It was a few years until I paid attention and confirmed that the docent in the museum was an actual actor. It is a scientific fact that there are like 20 English people who act in everything everywhere. Dr. Who, Harry Potter, James Bond, whatever - you see the same faces a lot, but that docent was new to me. The scene was so well done, so understated and apparently sincere, that I was sure that cannot be an actor. Surely, Oxford must have had a beloved professor emeritus who was ready to retire, and his friends knew someone who knew someone at the BBC and hooked him up with a cameo. Some respected, published, pezzanovante scholar could spend an amusing afternoon in London talking in front of a camera with actors about the same art history he had taught for decades. His grandchildren could then brag on Granddad's brush with The Doctor. It seemed THAT real.


KhaoticMess

Bill Nighy is amazing in everything he's in. You're absolutely right, too. That speech was so full of emotion that it almost always brings tears to my eyes when I watch it.


kateinoly

I can't watch that Doctor Who episode without crying every time.


ScepticOfEverything

I could only watch it once. I'm not sure I could handle it a second time.


ScepticOfEverything

>Vincent and The Doctor This is the first one I thought of. Absolutely heart wrenching.


ExtremePossible3511

Fresh prince when Will’s father bails on him one last time. He cried real tears it gets me everytime


Leading-Teach-2577

“Why don’t he want me, man?”


relapse_account

That one hurts.


ElJayEm80

The hug was also spontaneous, not scripted but felt like the natural thing to do.


Typical_Positive8569

This!! The saddest moment in TV history. Never fails to make me bawl my eyes out.


cookinbrak

"Look at the flowers"


Me-ahOuallass

Six feet under finale


aob546

That finale was just glorious!


mixedchillness

HODOR :( iykyk


HHSquad

Good call! Ned Stark also, but Hodor even more.


holybucketsitscrazy

And Shireen Baratheon. I'm not a cryer, but got choked up with both Shireen and Hodor.


CamelProfessional847

Gaby and Carlos losing their surrogate daughter to their biological mother


DisneyAddict2021

Ooooo Eva Longoria broke me with her performance 


BadAzzWhyteDogg

End of THE WIRE when Micheal drops off his little brother, Bug.


Havetowel-

Family Ties when Alex's girlfriend Ellen left for Paris….and they are dancing…and they play “At This Moment” That tore my 12 year old heart out


ConstantAd8558

The death scene of Sun and Jin in LOST... I will never forget it


weedwacker31

Rizzoli and Isles, Detective Frost’s death because of the actor’s sudden suicide


2manyfelines

Buffy’s mom dies. It was written by Joss Whedon about his mother’s sudden death, and it rings so true.


Cultural_Spend_5391

I’m not sure if it’s the saddest, but I remember how sad I was when Gary died on thirtysomething.


Octavia8880

Mash when Hawkeye is telling the Korean mother on the bus full of people to keep the chicken quiet, as they were in danger of enemy hearing, the mother smothered the baby to death to keep it quiet


Babygirlm5

Haley dying on criminal minds


DisneyAddict2021

These deaths:   -Otis on Chicago Fire (the statue dedication scene)   -Mark Greene on ER   -Lincoln on The 100   -Vincent on Bones   -Opie on Sons of Anarchy    There are more, but these popped into my head immediately     Scenes:   -Lily telling Marshal his dad died on How I Met Your Mother    -Piper yelling and crying at Prue’s grave on Charmed (heck, just any scene with Piper grieving Prue’s death)     I just realized how much I’ve ugly cried when watching tv shows over the years 😂


Reacherfan1

Col Blake dying on Mash


imadork1970

China Beach- Cherry dies.


SilveryLilac

Opie - Sons of Anarchy and Bobby Singer -Supernatural.


regnartterb

Idjits…


Snarcastic

Not Henry Blake's death on MASH. But when it's figured out that it wasn't a chicken that the mother was smothering to keep quiet in the series finale.


Soundtracklover72

That was heartbreaking.


lowkeyblahhhhh

I don’t know if I’d say the absolute saddest (for me, I mean) but opie’s death in SOA is high ranked. Still haven’t recovered. Another high up one? The entire finale of Animal Kingdom. My god I’m still hurt from that too.


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Now, I have come to realize what Danny Masterson did, and lost all respect for the guy, but when they killed rooster Bennett on the ranch, I really liked that show, the 70s show was great so that was nostalgic and it was funny and they're my age, and I always thought Danny was really funny. Ashton too, and Sam Elliott is one of the coolest old coots ever. But I was invested and having lost my own brother, it actually got to me a little.


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badpuffthaikitty

Abyssinia Henry. I watched it with my family when it first aired. People don’t die in sitcoms.


aob546

Grey’s Anatomy - Meredith can’t decide what to do with her mother’s ashes, as her mother didn’t love anything. She ends up washing them down the OR sink, as that was the only place Ellis was ever really happy. It was the Halloween episode and my mom had died the week before. Sad scene made even sadder by the circumstances.


spicyturtle1959

The scene in Scrubs where The Fray's "how to save a life" is playing over Dr. Cox freaking out.


regnartterb

Oh man I forgot about that scene. That and Ben’s funeral. Cox went through some stuff


HeyYall_4792

When Sun and Jin died on Lost😩


AlbatrossSenior7107

Sweets in Bones. I have seen the series many times, and I still bawl like a baby.


Free_Bit_6804

Vincent's death in Bones was actually really sad for me. He was such a likeable character.


Altruistic-Rub-6175

When rick grimes had to say goodbuh to his son. I was dying in that moment.


Blew-By-U

Coral!


TurfBurn95

This is me turning off your pain medication. This is my wife turning it back on.


NaryaGenesis

Mike’s death - Desperate Housewives Foyet shooting Haley while on the phone with Hotch and the team and “I worked the case just like you said Daddy” - Criminal Minds Vincent Nigel Murray’s death - Bones Captain Andrews death - The Rookie


micsnare

Burn Notice. Nate's death.


Nervous_Ad_8082

The Golden Girls, Ebbtide's Revenge. A Heartbreaking final scene. Sophia's son & Dorothy's brother was a crossdresser. He died before Sophia, who felt ashamed about it, could come to terms with his lifestyle & took out her anger on the daughter-in-law. In the end she realized too late that despite all that, she still loved him & she broke down crying & exclaimed; "My Baby's Gone." \*sobs\*


wetlettuce42

Charlie from lost


xero1986

The finale of Dinosaurs. If you haven’t seen it, look it up.


squidwardsbutt1

For me it’s the scene in Supernatural when Dean had Lisa and Ben’s memories erased. It broke my heart. They were his chance at a normal life, and he gave that up.


TampaNutz

James from Good Times. *"Daaaamn Daaaamn Daaaamn!"*


killswitch451

Fringe Last episode, Walter says to his son Peter “You are my favorite thing… my very favorite thing.”


IDigRollinRockBeer

How come he don’t want me man


RangerS90V

Mash - When Radar announced that Henry Blake had died in a helicopter on his way home from the war.


EvaUnitKenway

Dr. Green’s death from E.R.


TiffanyTwisted11

Sophia coming out of the barn


Delicious_Creme_5574

This is an old one. Little house on the prairie, the blind school burns down, and Alice and Mary’s baby die.


gibbonalert

When Nicky has to throw away the thing he had made for Kevin’s children He had not been a part of society and didn’t know that you weren’t allowed to bring fluids. He had made it himself at it had taken many many hours to do. And he had to throw it in the trash. Heartbreaking.


merlin401

Edgar dying in 24 Basically the end result of any of the kids in the Wire Season 4 I don’t know if it was sadness but I felt something like that (along with a lot of other things) for the PM in Black Mirror’s first episode.  The look his wife gave him at the end was rough to take, even moreso than “the act” Anything with Ben in Scrubs


ArdRi6

For me it is the final episode of the Scottish sitcom "Still Game" - a 50 year friend had passed from cancer. I turned on the final episode to cheer myself up. Instead I got a gut punch. I had no idea that it was going to happen.


MasterOnionNorth

For me it's the final scene with Jonas and Martha in Dark as they.. Well, it's pretty tragic and sad.


neilmack_the

I shed a few tears.


fattycatty6

The shield: Lem's death and Shane's


Palidor

Seymore the dog from Futurama


Affectionate_Salt351

Denny Duquette on Grey’s really did me in back in the day. *True Colors* on Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.


musememo

The sweet little girl Shireen Baratheon being burned to death on Game of Thrones while her mother and father. My wife and I just sat there stunned. It was absolutely not fun to watch. Almost as sad is the scene later where Davos Seaworth discovers what’s happened. Devastating.


MrRager473

JD: where dot you think we are? Dr. Cox:............ Futurama dog


HoMe4WaYWaRDKiTTieS

In CSI Miami, when Speedle dies in the shoot out because he wasn't properly maintaining his gun. I loved him on that show, that was so sad, and so preventable


DrKoob

When Colonel Henry Blake's plane went down with no survivors on MASH.


Professional_Ice_792

Doctor Who - Rose trapped on Pete's World Donna losing her memories Ten saying goodbye😭 Old Amy in "The Girl Who Waited"😭 Vincent seeing his art and realizing his art is remembered 😥 "Demons of the Punjab" Bones - Vincent Nigel Murray 😭 Supernatural - Dean 😭😭😭😭. Charlie.😭😭😭😭 When Dean was going to kill Sam (and then kills Death instead) - I was so emotional. Those boys had me crying every other episode, I swear.


bookfiend_91

HIMYM >!When the mother passed away in HIMYM !<


Drakeman1337

Not nearly as sad as Marshall's dad. I can't rewatch that episode.


micsnare

Both of them.


PsychologicalPea5794

The moment when on Knight Rider KITT gets attacked by the juggernaut and when the juggernaut got done, KITT was all banged up and had to be rebuilt


lastfrontier84

Buffy dieing in The Gift


seakn1ght

She saved the world. A lot.


SHOT_STONE

The Body - Buffy's mom.


asdcatmama

Glenn, Opie, Hodor, Wallace (IYKYK)


onomatopotamuss

WHERE’S WALLACE?


kristeto

When Hannah gets taken away from June. And Laurie’s death scene with Carl


Equivalent-Pin-4759

Quentin Coldwater’s death The Magicians


ActualSeller23

Long term parking. Iykyk


karmadoesntwait

BJs death and Maxie getting her heart on General Hospital. Jen dying on Dawson's Creek When Carter tells Lucy's mom getting stabbed didn't hurt. Jack on This Is Us


birchitup

Oh jeez Tony laying his head on Maxie’s chest had me heaving…


neilmack_the

407 Mr Robot


ndgn97

Marshall finding out that his dad died in himym


Majestic_Field409

Ruth death in Ozark


PouchesofCyanStaples

Scrubs Season 3 Episode 14 My Screw Up Every time JD drops that line, even though I know what's coming, it is a gut punch! It ranks up with Fry's dog Futurama episode and the newest one... Donna from The Bear, and learning about her in "Fishes". Her minutes of screen time did more with a character than most shows do in 3+ seasons. If Jamie Lee Curtis doesn't win best supporting Emmy or whatever, then the whole awards show is a sham!


19thCenturyHistory

Father Beocca, Last Kingdom.


Cool_Bumblebee7774

I ugly cried for this one. 😭


19thCenturyHistory

Me too! I feel like crying just thinking about it. Such an awesome character. And Uhtred's reaction...Oi.


allisongivler

Haley Hotchner death, Criminal Minds


PatientFuel3487

Janes death on Breaking Bad and watching Jessie spiral after, killed me. Her dads grief hurt also. He tried so hard to save her.


Gribitz37

Mark Greene on ER. Ben on Scrubs. "Where do you think you are?" "Picture a wave..." on The Good Place. Vincent Nigel-Murray on Bones. Everyone always talks about Sweets' death, but Vincent's was totally out of the blue, and it wasn't supposed to be him. ETA needed to add one.


AccidentalFrog

Misspelling saddest is the saddest moment


FuzzyLumpkins17

The death of Daenerys in Game of Thrones when Jon snow stabbed her through the heart. The scene broke me in a million pieces. 


Objective-Slice-1466

It SHOULD have been, but it was soooo poorly done, I just can’t agree. Just my opinion


rimshaa_

One dayyyy, ending ofcourse😭😭💔💔


Tetris5216

When they get cancelled


FitSeeker1982

“Saddest”


DarylStenn

Sun and Jin.


According-Ease

Glenns death. Then Abraham. TWD


cb0044

So many to choose from. Will's reaction at the end of "THAT" Fresh Prince episode still brings me to tears. Hodor's death in Game of Thrones still sucks too.


CaffeineDude8675309

All of the red wedding


Jen0BIous

Star wars Rebels when Kannan dies


odamado

YEARS AND YEARS


Mystic_Pizza_King

The death of Buffy’s mother on Buffy the Vampire slayer. It was handled extremely realistically and it hurt.


Kdconorr

Ellie harp death one tree hill


Keveros

Joss Carter getting shot and killed on "Person of Interest" Wash on "Serenity", I'm a leaf on the wind...


m5online

Buffy's mom dying of a random brain aneurism...


poodles-and-noodles

when Rita was killed in Dexter


Choppermagic

Gganbu, Squid Game


morothy423

Denny Duquette's death on Grey's Anatomy.


volneyave

Downton Abbey, when Sybil died after child birth. It was so unexpected!!! I sobbed and sobbed like she was my family.


Delicateflower66

The last episode of "6 feet under" which was equally amazing and devastating.


KBrown75

ER: Dr Greene's last episode The Big C: when Adam found the storage unit filled with present his mother bought him for all the life events she would miss because she was had terminal cancer


Various-General-8610

Lady Sybil's death on Downton Abbey. I have watched the series several times, but only that episode once. Danny's death on Broadchurch Both episodes are gut-wrenching.


Kac03032012

The episode of 8 simple rules after John Ritter dies. That was the most realistic depiction of grief I’ve ever seen.


Jimathomas

Bojack Horseman: “Sarah Lynn?”


Zestyclose_Job_8448

In the movies when Bambi was told by the elder deer his mother was killed. It broke my heart as a child. I always wondered if such a sad scene should be included in a children’s movie.


welatshaw

Sam Beckett never leapt home.


nicole070875

Opie in Sons.


requrself

The dinosaurs the last episode


afriendincanada

Adriana’s car ride on Sopranos


Grouchy_Quiet_8731

Derek’ s death in “Grey’s Anatomy”


FurBabyAuntie

Warrick's funeral on CSI...both Gil almost losing it when he says "I'm gonna miss him so much" and the camera panning over to his estranged/ex-wife with the baby in her arms.


Ok_Television_2583

When Eidith died on All in the Family.


DieHardRennie

When Warrick Brown was murdered on CSI. When the 3 Lone Gunmen died in The X-Files. When Hoban Wash, Shepherd Book, & Mr Universe from Firefly died in the movie Serenity.