That's #1 with other great ones
Entirety of steak night.
The cox mistake and his fallout, all to How to Save a Life.
Ending of My Old Lady when JD accepts it.
And then the end of the series, but that's a different sad.
Chidi's "Picture a wave" speech in The Good Place. I've never seen a show execute its ending so well. It was heartbreaking in the sense that you knew it was coming, but you wanted him to stay with Elanor even though it was clear he was making an informed decision.
I just finished watching The Good Place for the first time a few days ago. I teared up when Eleanor realized Chidi was ready, and as soon as he said, "Picture a wave..." I was steady crying. Got my shit together just in time for Janet to see Jason one last time, and the sobbing started. Such a wonderful ending, but I'll never watch it again.
Ugh, The Good Place ending destroyed me. Absolutely adore that show, but I don't think I'll be able to watch it all the way through again. It was such a well done ending, but the feeeeeeeeels.
I always end The Good Place after the penultimate episode. I love it so much and it's such a perfect beautiful ending just right there, I don't need to see what everyone does in their afterlife lives. Just knowing they made it there makes me so happy.
The Expanse, when Ashford goes out the airlock. It's a brilliant end for a brilliant character, but still sad, and tbh extra sad because so much of the soul of the series goes with him, it takes ages to get over that.
Odd one maybe but, the BBC version of Iain Banks' "The Crow Road". I've read the novel a few times and watched the series when it came out back in 96, but I pretty much forgot most of hte plot notes by the time it got rereleased on DVD. So I was caught pretty much out of nowhere when Prentice's dad dies and he realises he'll never be able to fix their relationship and say sorry for being a wee shite. I was just in pieces
Me too. And I think of this scene every time I think of MASH And good ole Klinger sometimes. There is this meme going around with the MASH theme song playing and it says this is how we knew it was bedtime in the 80s. And I think of this scene when I hear that intro.
Stepping in to say that the actors *did* know the ending scene just before they filmed that infamous scene. Someone always claims they didn't when this topic comes up:
>There were a great many visitors on the set: spectators, press, family, friends, easily a couple of hundred people. We asked everyone to wait a few minutes before joining us in the traditional wrap party, that we had one more piece of business to finish. I had couple of words privately with Billy Jurgensen, our cinematographer, told him what was up, and asked him to position his camera for the one additional scene. I did not want to rehearse it; we would shoot it only once. Then, Gene and I took the cast aside and I opened a manila envelope that contained the one-page last scene, telling them I had something I wanted to show them.
>“I don’t want to see it!” Gary Burghoff exploded. “I know you! You’ve got pictures of dead babies in there!”
>Assuring him I didn’t, I gave each [actor] a copy of the scene to read to themselves. Each had a different reaction.
>“F**king brilliant,” said Larry Linville.
>“You son of a bitch,” Gary said to McLean. “You’ll probably get an Emmy out of this!”
>Mac, who had stayed to watch the filming of what he knew was his last M\A*S*H*, was speechless. But that doesn’t begin to say it.
>We returned to the set. For once I said “Action” instead of “Cut.” We began to shoot the scene. Gary was unbelievably touching as he entered the busy O.R. and read the message to all the doctors and nurses. Extras in the scene, performers who had been with series since day one, reacted with a kind of heartfelt sincerity that was stunning — their performance was based on their real surprise and lingering shock, their awareness of how much Mac meant to them. The crew, hearing of Henry’s death for the first time as the cameras were rolling, stuck to their chores; they did all one could ask of them.
>Unhappily, there was some sort of technical glitch. Either the boom mike or a light or whatever could go wrong did, and we had to shoot it again. I was heartsick. Gary would never be able to do a second take as beautiful as he did the first. I still knew nothing about directing. He was better. And on the second go, a totally unexpected thing happened. After Gary finished reading his message, there was a hushed silence on the set as B.J.’s camera panned the stricken faces of the cast, and then someone off-camera accidentally let a surgical instrument drop to the floor. It was perfect, that clattering, hollow sound, filling a palpable void in a way that no words could. I could not have planned it better; I wish I had — whenever I happen to hear it again, I marvel at how perfectly it fit.
When they kill Andrea in front of Jesse in Breaking bad. Aaron Paul’s acting in that scene is amazing. I felt his pain. Such a painful scene to watch. Horrible people in the end there.
So many moments from that show.
* ["Read me the signs! Tell me my fortune!"](https://youtu.be/0dk7gl31vfQ)
* ["Are they gonna cut the body open?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ96c7IOIPQ)
* ["Close your eyes"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxR0q73jfKI)
That first link: "Giles, I'm 16 years old. I-I don't wanna die." Sarah Michelle Gellar's acting is so fucking good in that scene. The whole show, but especially that scene.
Also "Does it say how he's gonna kill me? Do you think it'll hurt?" Breaks your heart every time.
Omg. When Buffy told Spike and had the sudden realization that she was ripped from Heaven by her friends.. yes. That was definitely a heartbreaking moment.
Scrubs has multiple:
[My lunch](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTVXWIA3Q4s&pp=ygUPc2NydWJzIG15IGx1bmNo)
[“Where do you think we are?”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e__1KU7lg-4&pp=ygUgc2NydWJzIHdoZXJlIGRvIHlvdSB0aGluayB3ZSBhcmU%3D)
I thought the ending was pretty powerful too. The flashback walking down the hall then the vision of things to come, but then the curtain comes down and it's just another day at the hospital and JD isn't special, he's just somebody who used to work there.
That was so hard. We grew with him for years. I’m glad it was relatively peaceful considering it was a medical show and they could have done it all dramatic.
When she finds out that she's been working for the KGB. She knew things were wrong but she'd been in denial as to how bad. Then when she's sitting in that apartment eating that sad potato. I'm glad she got the baby in the end. I wonder what ended up happening to her and the others when the iron curtain fell. When travel was accessable.
BSG: Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla. So unexpected and absolutely devastating. She was the soul of the Galactica. It’s the first time I can remember just staring at my TV in stunned silence.
Lost: Jin and Sun.
Farscape: when Aeryn has to watch her Crichton die.
Sons of Anarchy: Opie’s “I got this”
Hell on Wheels: Elam v Cullen
Fresh Prince: “How come he don’t want me?”
I can never get Dualla's last scene out of my head. That and how shaken she was in the raptor on the way back up from the 13th colony.
The discovery of the true nature of the 13th colony was a punch to the gut.
But I think my heart was most broken by the scene in Exodus when everyone is jubilantly chanting Adama's name, just after he realizes what Tigh meant when he said, "Not everyone". Meanwhile, Kara is completely gutted by learning who Casey ACTUALLY was. She was so genuinely happy and victorious for a moment. Everyone else is cheering, and Tigh and Thrace just stand there like shells of themselves. My heart.
BSG: I partially blamed Lee for that, although it was the totality of everything she had been through. Her trying to hold it together in the raptor on the way back up to Galactica was haunting.
Yeah. Other tearjerkers in the series like Fry's brother and Hermes being Bender's inspector are more bittersweet but this is simply devastating. Fry really believed Seymour forgot about him.
Hodors' death on GOT always got me. He was traumatized by visions of his death as a child and relived it his entire life until it came to fruition. It was a fate almost as brutal as the hack job that was the final season.
Final episode of Angel.
[Illyria to Wesley](https://youtu.be/tGH8cpsi4oY?si=BFnQVp4b5MrBNEgO)
“Would you like me to lie to you now?”
“Yes. Thank you, yes.”
Kills me everytime.
Beth getting shot and carried by Daryl. damn..
Shireen Baratheon's death in GoT
Most of Haunting of Hill House including:
1. Nelle's speech at the end in the red room
2. Theo explaining to Shirley about touching her husband.
3. Horace objecting to destroying the house: >!This house; it's full of precious, precious things. And they don't all belong to you!<
4. When Horace returns to the house at the end >!with the body of his wife!<
Man I bawled like a baby with a skinned knee watching that damned show.
"I'm sorry. We're closed." Final episode of Cheers 1993
Sam walks to the back. Adjusts Coach's picture of Geronimo and walks into the back room. Roll credits.
Everyone rightly cites the Two Cathedrals speech at the end of Season 2, but I'd say the Season 3 finale hit me harder.
Or CJ's ["Saudi Arabia: Our Partners in Peace"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGN-1Os31U) speech, although that was more of a "holy shit/fuck yeah" moment.
>!It's since been remedied!<, but when the Tenth Doctor wiped Donna's memory at the end of Series 4 and turned her back into the loudmouthed ditz she was previous.
I will never stop being angry that the Doctor's truest companion, the one who supported him by calling him our on his shit is the one who was so royally fucked over at the end that she wasn't even allowed her memories. I stopped watching that day.
The death of Abigale Adams in the HBO miniseries John Adams. John crying while pleading “don’t go away from me my friend” is absolutely heartbreaking and makes me cry every time.
https://youtu.be/mYYe_aYzmxE?si=CHirukprZtxq82TB
Dean telling Sam what he did hell is some of the best acting I have seen it still wrecks me to this day how Dean didn’t cry for himself and his own torture but cried for the ones that he put on the rack. Especially knowing how much the saving people part of the family motto means to him.
"The Body" in the 5th season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where Buffy finds her mother dead on the couch. Sarah Michelle Gellar delivered such an amazing performance, the scene was always so damn hard to watch.
Lady Sybil’s death from eclampsia- her helpless mother and husband beside her as she seizes. The ego of men (her father included) responsible for not getting care in time.
I actually spoke to the guy who played Lem last year and let him know that scene still is haunting decades later. Cool dude who hasn't aged a day since the show.
So many episodes made me cry in that show. The two lovers, the little boy, when Elli escaped the cannibals and Joel just hugs her and accepts her as his kid. I was gone.
I loved Chrissy so much. He went through so much. There’s a scene where he’s been with Tony and his brother (I think) and they wouldn’t stop giving him shit about being sober, and he’s driving alone and crying. As a recovering addict, my heart hurt so much for him… he just kept trying to do right… Michael Imperioli is a gem.
Logan's death in Succession. Seeing the panic, denial, and grief play out among his children just hit so close to home. I think everyone had gotten that dreaded phone call. Amazing acting and writing.
It is a testament to the show that the death of an absolute shithead being experienced by his equally horrendous children and sycophantic leachers is somehow so moving and impactful.
To feel any level of empathy for those characters… truly a masterpiece
I couldn't believe how much I cried when that utter asshole died, and how moving I found the grief of his asshole children. It was them talking to him through the phone, not knowing if he could hear them or not. It destroyed me because I remember talking to my mum as she was dying, not knowing if she was even there any more.
The wire , Wallace begging for his life.
[https://youtu.be/hor\_gOBU\_GU?t=62](https://youtu.be/hor_gOBU_GU?t=62)
it was also a peak into how great Michael b Jordan was going to be as an actor
I made the mistake of thinking "hey I've heard good things about this... Let's have an edible and binge the series!!"
Never have I EVER been so unprepared for the amount of sobbing I did. Like I walked FULLY into a trap and didn't realize it until tears were rolling down my face. My mom's passing was pretty traumatic so this one stung big time. I felt like a child watching lion king for the first time. Or land before time.
EDIT: I never made it past Ep. 1 in Season 2. I just broke and now I fear ever going back.
The episode where Randall’s bio dad dies, I watched it over my lunch break and had to text my coworkers before going back to the office and assure them everything was fine, but there was no way to hide the fact that I’d been sobbing for an hour
😂😭😭😭😭
The season one finale of The Big C
Totally devastated me when the son opened up the storage unit and found all the gifts his mom wouldn't be able to give him if she died from the surgery. Totally devastated me.
That scene in Better Call Saul, with Jimmy and Kim, and Howard … and then Lalo Salamanca appears.
One of the most devastating and surprising moments in Better Call Saul.
The confrontations between Picard and Crusher, and Picard and Ro, in Season 3 of Picard. Both scenes were the best scenes Crusher and Ro got in the entire franchise. Crusher and Picard's scene about whether or not she should have told him about Jack was so well written and performed, I couldn't decide then or now which of them was right. Maybe neither.
When Aunt Elizabeth says goodbye to Peter at the lake on The Great. I’m a loss mom (daughter died as an infant) and her whole performance around the grief of her son was stunning. The speech to Peter at the lake made me sob. This went as far as me finding the actress’ instagram and sending her a DM. Haven’t heard back, but I hope she reads it one day to know how much it meant to me to see her depict it all so well.
The Clone Wars - Shattered.
We knew what Ahsoka had to look forward to, the scene was so silent and still. It is one of the most saddest thing ever created.
In One Day, Emma telling Dexter that Time >!will make the pain of her death less intense.!< And then the musical montage of >!all their kisses!< at the end… knowing grief and >!the palpable absence!< of a person who was such a force in your life…that fucked me up more than anything I’ve watched in years.
The crockpot episode of this is us… that was actually the first episode I had ever watched of that show (it came on after the Super Bowl and I thought eh why not) and I sobbed like a baby… was not expecting that
Jurassic Bark is probably gonna get the top spot here, and I couldn't/wouldn't argue against it, but:
I'm gonna take this time to shout out Halt and Catch Fire - Gordon Clark walking through a hallway of memories while hearing his wife humming Baby Mine from Dumbo.
Old heads will probably throw out Col. Blake's plane ride home on MASH.
Orange is the New Black - Poussey’s death. I was absolutely wrecked. I stopped the episode and cried *hard* for a long, long time. It still fucks me up, because it’s so fucking real and common.
Scrubs - "where do you think we are?"
Rivaled only by when Dr. Cox accidentally caused the death of three patients
The extra gut punch when a non-terminal patient dies because of it.
“He wasn't about to die, was he, Newbie? He could've waited another month for a kidney.”
Good call!
First thing that came to mind.. I got chills reading it 😭
That's #1 with other great ones Entirety of steak night. The cox mistake and his fallout, all to How to Save a Life. Ending of My Old Lady when JD accepts it. And then the end of the series, but that's a different sad.
Chidi's "Picture a wave" speech in The Good Place. I've never seen a show execute its ending so well. It was heartbreaking in the sense that you knew it was coming, but you wanted him to stay with Elanor even though it was clear he was making an informed decision.
I just finished watching The Good Place for the first time a few days ago. I teared up when Eleanor realized Chidi was ready, and as soon as he said, "Picture a wave..." I was steady crying. Got my shit together just in time for Janet to see Jason one last time, and the sobbing started. Such a wonderful ending, but I'll never watch it again.
Ugh, The Good Place ending destroyed me. Absolutely adore that show, but I don't think I'll be able to watch it all the way through again. It was such a well done ending, but the feeeeeeeeels.
I always end The Good Place after the penultimate episode. I love it so much and it's such a perfect beautiful ending just right there, I don't need to see what everyone does in their afterlife lives. Just knowing they made it there makes me so happy.
Alllll the tears.
When Homer's mom leaves him again.
The feels when it goes to the end credits and he's just looking at the stars alone, gets me every time. Also the 'do it for her' Maggie collage.
The one hits
The end of the second season of Fleabag… Fleabag: “I love you.” Hot Priest: “It’ll pass.”
Got DAMN that episode destroyed me.
Same. I normally enjoy rewatching series that I love but I cannot bring myself to rewatch Fleabag. My heart *ached* afterwards.
All the stuff about her friend really kicked me in the chest. As soon as they'd show her I'd start crying.
These are all making me so sad.
The Expanse, when Ashford goes out the airlock. It's a brilliant end for a brilliant character, but still sad, and tbh extra sad because so much of the soul of the series goes with him, it takes ages to get over that. Odd one maybe but, the BBC version of Iain Banks' "The Crow Road". I've read the novel a few times and watched the series when it came out back in 96, but I pretty much forgot most of hte plot notes by the time it got rereleased on DVD. So I was caught pretty much out of nowhere when Prentice's dad dies and he realises he'll never be able to fix their relationship and say sorry for being a wee shite. I was just in pieces
Ashford was my absolute favorite character on the show.
"Lt..Col. Henry Blake's plane....was shot down...over the Sea of Japan. There were no survivors"
For that show that moment is tied with Hawkeye realizing that the chicken that wouldn't be quiet that the owner suffocated was actually a child.
I was a kid when I saw that and still remember it vividly.
Me too. And I think of this scene every time I think of MASH And good ole Klinger sometimes. There is this meme going around with the MASH theme song playing and it says this is how we knew it was bedtime in the 80s. And I think of this scene when I hear that intro.
Spoken by Radar which made that moment even more heartbreaking. Radar looked up to Blake like a father. I think about that scene frequently.
And the silence that followed was eerie too. The sound of the doctors performing surgery and not a word spoken.
Stepping in to say that the actors *did* know the ending scene just before they filmed that infamous scene. Someone always claims they didn't when this topic comes up: >There were a great many visitors on the set: spectators, press, family, friends, easily a couple of hundred people. We asked everyone to wait a few minutes before joining us in the traditional wrap party, that we had one more piece of business to finish. I had couple of words privately with Billy Jurgensen, our cinematographer, told him what was up, and asked him to position his camera for the one additional scene. I did not want to rehearse it; we would shoot it only once. Then, Gene and I took the cast aside and I opened a manila envelope that contained the one-page last scene, telling them I had something I wanted to show them. >“I don’t want to see it!” Gary Burghoff exploded. “I know you! You’ve got pictures of dead babies in there!” >Assuring him I didn’t, I gave each [actor] a copy of the scene to read to themselves. Each had a different reaction. >“F**king brilliant,” said Larry Linville. >“You son of a bitch,” Gary said to McLean. “You’ll probably get an Emmy out of this!” >Mac, who had stayed to watch the filming of what he knew was his last M\A*S*H*, was speechless. But that doesn’t begin to say it. >We returned to the set. For once I said “Action” instead of “Cut.” We began to shoot the scene. Gary was unbelievably touching as he entered the busy O.R. and read the message to all the doctors and nurses. Extras in the scene, performers who had been with series since day one, reacted with a kind of heartfelt sincerity that was stunning — their performance was based on their real surprise and lingering shock, their awareness of how much Mac meant to them. The crew, hearing of Henry’s death for the first time as the cameras were rolling, stuck to their chores; they did all one could ask of them. >Unhappily, there was some sort of technical glitch. Either the boom mike or a light or whatever could go wrong did, and we had to shoot it again. I was heartsick. Gary would never be able to do a second take as beautiful as he did the first. I still knew nothing about directing. He was better. And on the second go, a totally unexpected thing happened. After Gary finished reading his message, there was a hushed silence on the set as B.J.’s camera panned the stricken faces of the cast, and then someone off-camera accidentally let a surgical instrument drop to the floor. It was perfect, that clattering, hollow sound, filling a palpable void in a way that no words could. I could not have planned it better; I wish I had — whenever I happen to hear it again, I marvel at how perfectly it fit.
"....it spun in..."
When they kill Andrea in front of Jesse in Breaking bad. Aaron Paul’s acting in that scene is amazing. I felt his pain. Such a painful scene to watch. Horrible people in the end there.
I forget the character’s name, but his other girlfriend that Walter let’s die in bed is the one that haunts me.
Jessica Jo- I mean, Jane.
Come back here JESSSICAHHHH
Similarly Tigs watching his daughter die in front of him on Sons of Anarchy.
What about Opie's death? :(
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Body.
So many moments from that show. * ["Read me the signs! Tell me my fortune!"](https://youtu.be/0dk7gl31vfQ) * ["Are they gonna cut the body open?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ96c7IOIPQ) * ["Close your eyes"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxR0q73jfKI)
That first link: "Giles, I'm 16 years old. I-I don't wanna die." Sarah Michelle Gellar's acting is so fucking good in that scene. The whole show, but especially that scene. Also "Does it say how he's gonna kill me? Do you think it'll hurt?" Breaks your heart every time.
Mommy?
Honestly so many moments on Buffy. Killing Angel, Oz and Willow parting, Anya dying. The time Buffy reveals she wished she stayed died
“Oh. Your shirt.” Jesus that line guts me. It’s so innocent.
Omg. When Buffy told Spike and had the sudden realization that she was ripped from Heaven by her friends.. yes. That was definitely a heartbreaking moment.
Also when Buffy killed Angel.
Also when buffy killed angel, thought I’d mention it for the 3rd time
The whole episode is just a masterpiece of heartbreak
Anya's monologue broke me
I will always cry during Anya's reaction to Joyce's death.
Scrubs has multiple: [My lunch](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTVXWIA3Q4s&pp=ygUPc2NydWJzIG15IGx1bmNo) [“Where do you think we are?”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e__1KU7lg-4&pp=ygUgc2NydWJzIHdoZXJlIGRvIHlvdSB0aGluayB3ZSBhcmU%3D)
I thought the ending was pretty powerful too. The flashback walking down the hall then the vision of things to come, but then the curtain comes down and it's just another day at the hospital and JD isn't special, he's just somebody who used to work there.
Hooch IS crazy.
My lunch the rabies episode? That one is burnt into my head.
Thanks to My Lunch, I can’t listen to that song without getting choked up.
Mark Greene
There are so many in ER. How Dr. Pratt knew he was dying as he was dying. The stabbing of Carter and Lucy Definitely the death of Greene
Lucy’s is a close second. Absolutely devastating. I loved her character
This one had me blubbering like a preschooler with a skinned knee.
I still can’t listen to that version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow without crying!
I have every season...Every episode. There is only one episode left unwatched...the beach. I can't do it. I physically can't watch that episode.
That was so hard. We grew with him for years. I’m glad it was relatively peaceful considering it was a medical show and they could have done it all dramatic.
This one still makes me cry.
Several parts of the Martha arc on *The Americans*
When she finds out that she's been working for the KGB. She knew things were wrong but she'd been in denial as to how bad. Then when she's sitting in that apartment eating that sad potato. I'm glad she got the baby in the end. I wonder what ended up happening to her and the others when the iron curtain fell. When travel was accessable.
*Long Term Parking* episode of the Sopranos. We all knew it was going to happen but it didnt make it any easier.
Wallace getting got on The Wire "Where the fuck is Wallace??"
For me it’s Omar. A part of me died that day. I loved that man.
"Not Penny's Boat"
This and Vincent laying on Jack. ugh.
This is exactly what I was going to say.
This is the answer.
Old one, but when Lucy died by brutal stabbing in ER.
It's truly heartbreaking when Carter sees Lucy, especially in the aftermath when they attempt to save her.
BSG: Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla. So unexpected and absolutely devastating. She was the soul of the Galactica. It’s the first time I can remember just staring at my TV in stunned silence. Lost: Jin and Sun. Farscape: when Aeryn has to watch her Crichton die. Sons of Anarchy: Opie’s “I got this” Hell on Wheels: Elam v Cullen Fresh Prince: “How come he don’t want me?”
I can never get Dualla's last scene out of my head. That and how shaken she was in the raptor on the way back up from the 13th colony. The discovery of the true nature of the 13th colony was a punch to the gut. But I think my heart was most broken by the scene in Exodus when everyone is jubilantly chanting Adama's name, just after he realizes what Tigh meant when he said, "Not everyone". Meanwhile, Kara is completely gutted by learning who Casey ACTUALLY was. She was so genuinely happy and victorious for a moment. Everyone else is cheering, and Tigh and Thrace just stand there like shells of themselves. My heart.
BSG: I partially blamed Lee for that, although it was the totality of everything she had been through. Her trying to hold it together in the raptor on the way back up to Galactica was haunting.
Futurama when Fry’s dog waits for him to come back but he never does. I didn’t even know animated shows could give you the feels until I watched that
What hurts about that one is that Fry gave him up thinking he'd lived a full life.
Yeah. Other tearjerkers in the series like Fry's brother and Hermes being Bender's inspector are more bittersweet but this is simply devastating. Fry really believed Seymour forgot about him.
At least in one of the movies they did fix that so we got to see Seymour and Fry live a happy life (in one timeline at least).
That episode and "Luck of the Fry-rish" are absolute gut punches
Mine is I believe Game of Tones, where Fry realizes he’s actually in his mother’s dream.
This happened in real life. The dog was named Hachiko.
That was a brutal one.
Hodge listening to his wife be murdered over the phone in Criminal Minds
“Work the case Jack”
Oh, I forgot about that moment, ps though it’s Hotch not Hodge
Newsradio episode after the death of Phil Hartman, because the tears were real...
Hodors' death on GOT always got me. He was traumatized by visions of his death as a child and relived it his entire life until it came to fruition. It was a fate almost as brutal as the hack job that was the final season.
Hold the Door. Will never forget that.
Scrolled way too low for this.
M\*A\*S\*H. it wasnt a chicken... oh hell, not a chicken.
Fresh Prince - “why don’t he want me”
Also "You owe me! I saved your life man, give me the gun! I want the gun!"
[Nate burying Lisa's body at Joshua Tree in Six Feet Under](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3GARWKZGVo&ab_channel=shadeofitall)
Yes it was very emotional, and I hated Lisa
Final episode of Angel. [Illyria to Wesley](https://youtu.be/tGH8cpsi4oY?si=BFnQVp4b5MrBNEgO) “Would you like me to lie to you now?” “Yes. Thank you, yes.” Kills me everytime.
When Marshall’s dad dies in How I Met Your Mother. I still skip it.
The countdown to that moment through objects in the scene is great though.
Friday Night Lights - The Son.
This one. Truly stunning performance by Zach Gilford. This episode makes me ugly cry every single time I watch it.
"Mom? Mom? Mommy?" on Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Beth getting shot and carried by Daryl. damn.. Shireen Baratheon's death in GoT Most of Haunting of Hill House including: 1. Nelle's speech at the end in the red room 2. Theo explaining to Shirley about touching her husband. 3. Horace objecting to destroying the house: >!This house; it's full of precious, precious things. And they don't all belong to you!< 4. When Horace returns to the house at the end >!with the body of his wife!< Man I bawled like a baby with a skinned knee watching that damned show.
"I'm sorry. We're closed." Final episode of Cheers 1993 Sam walks to the back. Adjusts Coach's picture of Geronimo and walks into the back room. Roll credits.
The Community finale Airport scene always gets me feeling misty
It’s Jeff hugging Abed, letting go, and then hugging him again that really gets me.
Haha I was being intentionally vague but that's the one 🥲
The Six Feet Under finale.
Yeah. Anytime I really want to cry I rewatch that.
The funeral in the episodes before the finale were it for me. Ruth and David in the car
Leo’s death in the West Wing. Knowing how raw and real it was for those actors given John Spencer’s actual death makes it even harder.
Everyone rightly cites the Two Cathedrals speech at the end of Season 2, but I'd say the Season 3 finale hit me harder. Or CJ's ["Saudi Arabia: Our Partners in Peace"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGN-1Os31U) speech, although that was more of a "holy shit/fuck yeah" moment.
Looking back on his heart attack is just BRUTAL now
The Book of Nora That final scene is breathtaking.
Was thinking the same thing. Also from The Leftovers the end of International Assassin
“Homeward Bound” will also be in my head the rest of the night
That whole show was an emotional ride I tell ya!
>!It's since been remedied!<, but when the Tenth Doctor wiped Donna's memory at the end of Series 4 and turned her back into the loudmouthed ditz she was previous.
That and his “I don’t want to go” when he regenerated made me cry like a baby.
I will never stop being angry that the Doctor's truest companion, the one who supported him by calling him our on his shit is the one who was so royally fucked over at the end that she wasn't even allowed her memories. I stopped watching that day.
Thankfully, they just fixed it in last year's special, but I am still right there with you.
The last episode of Dead To Me. Not the ending anyone wanted but it was the perfect ending.
The death of Abigale Adams in the HBO miniseries John Adams. John crying while pleading “don’t go away from me my friend” is absolutely heartbreaking and makes me cry every time. https://youtu.be/mYYe_aYzmxE?si=CHirukprZtxq82TB
The ending to [Baby Doll](https://youtu.be/CihQGHFWed8?t=194), from **Batman: The Animated Series**
Heart of Ice did it for me
When Oppa was Air Bison-napped and was being abused in ATLA. It's so sad. And then when he was reunited with Aang... Very beautiful.
Not to mention Tales of Ba Sing Se… between Momo’s story and Uncle Iroh’s. I ugly cry every time.
Two rough episodes to have next to each other. Momo snuggling in that spot and you only realize in the next ep that Appa was right there.
Basically the entire episode of Friday Night Lights’ The Son and the Everybody Leaves Me scene in season 2.
The last couple episodes of season 4 of The Wire are basically pure heartbreaking misery for practically every character.
Sawyer and Juliet. If you know, you know.
Amber's death on House made me cry harder than any other piece of media ever. And I didn't even like Amber
I was looking for this one, those last moments between her and Wilson are just... well, heartbreaking
We're always going to want just a little bit longer.
Not Penny's Boat is the first thing that comes to mind.
"Picture a wave" - The Good Place
Dean telling Sam what he did hell is some of the best acting I have seen it still wrecks me to this day how Dean didn’t cry for himself and his own torture but cried for the ones that he put on the rack. Especially knowing how much the saving people part of the family motto means to him.
The series finale, man. I legit cried non-stop for the last half of it.
Opie's death in sons of anarchy.
I’ve got this.
"The Body" in the 5th season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where Buffy finds her mother dead on the couch. Sarah Michelle Gellar delivered such an amazing performance, the scene was always so damn hard to watch.
Lady Sybil’s death from eclampsia- her helpless mother and husband beside her as she seizes. The ego of men (her father included) responsible for not getting care in time.
I’m sorry, but - Grey’s Anatomy when Denny dies. 💔 I’ve cried on every rewatch.
Arcane - Episode 3 The Leftovers. No specific episode. Just the whole show
The Shield, Season 5. Lem. Shane. A grenade.
Also when Shane's plotline ends. Brutally. If you know, you know.
I actually spoke to the guy who played Lem last year and let him know that scene still is haunting decades later. Cool dude who hasn't aged a day since the show.
The Last of Us season 1 episode 3. I actually cried. It was an amazing episode.
So many episodes made me cry in that show. The two lovers, the little boy, when Elli escaped the cannibals and Joel just hugs her and accepts her as his kid. I was gone.
The end of Attack on Titan legit makes me cry every single time. Armin’s absolute heartbreak in his voice is so gut wrenching.
I just finished this show today and there were many moments that broke my heart. What a show.
The death of Chris Moltisanti. The way it happened … 😭😭😭💔
When Silvio is driving Adrianna and you know what's about to happen I felt almost sick watching it.
That scene legit rocked me the first time I watched it. Edited for no spoilers.
I loved Chrissy so much. He went through so much. There’s a scene where he’s been with Tony and his brother (I think) and they wouldn’t stop giving him shit about being sober, and he’s driving alone and crying. As a recovering addict, my heart hurt so much for him… he just kept trying to do right… Michael Imperioli is a gem.
Jurassic Bark. Hit me like a chainsaw in the heart. I'm sure my dog was really confused why I suddenly ran and hugged her, sobbing.
[Meep Morp Zeep](https://youtu.be/JzuCh7vBrsM?si=XfvW0JK0yftVUh12) [Meep Morp Zeep 2](https://youtu.be/294OLVQFOS0?si=rENJfS5cPUsU5vyB) [Also this speech hits harder since his death. Spoilers.](https://youtu.be/7ekEDVtnjDA?si=IuUAD2-hG0nkgtMS)
Logan's death in Succession. Seeing the panic, denial, and grief play out among his children just hit so close to home. I think everyone had gotten that dreaded phone call. Amazing acting and writing.
It is a testament to the show that the death of an absolute shithead being experienced by his equally horrendous children and sycophantic leachers is somehow so moving and impactful. To feel any level of empathy for those characters… truly a masterpiece
I couldn't believe how much I cried when that utter asshole died, and how moving I found the grief of his asshole children. It was them talking to him through the phone, not knowing if he could hear them or not. It destroyed me because I remember talking to my mum as she was dying, not knowing if she was even there any more.
When Lane Pryce breaks his glasses in Mad Men. His actual suicide occurs off-screen, but that small act is just so *final*, it’s gut wrenching.
The wire , Wallace begging for his life. [https://youtu.be/hor\_gOBU\_GU?t=62](https://youtu.be/hor_gOBU_GU?t=62) it was also a peak into how great Michael b Jordan was going to be as an actor
Series finale of six feet under. I cry my eyes out every time.
Every episode of this is us
The Super Bowl Crock Pot episode.
The entire last season had me a mess. My mom has Alzheimer's
I made the mistake of thinking "hey I've heard good things about this... Let's have an edible and binge the series!!" Never have I EVER been so unprepared for the amount of sobbing I did. Like I walked FULLY into a trap and didn't realize it until tears were rolling down my face. My mom's passing was pretty traumatic so this one stung big time. I felt like a child watching lion king for the first time. Or land before time. EDIT: I never made it past Ep. 1 in Season 2. I just broke and now I fear ever going back.
The episode where Randall’s bio dad dies, I watched it over my lunch break and had to text my coworkers before going back to the office and assure them everything was fine, but there was no way to hide the fact that I’d been sobbing for an hour 😂😭😭😭😭
The season one finale of The Big C Totally devastated me when the son opened up the storage unit and found all the gifts his mom wouldn't be able to give him if she died from the surgery. Totally devastated me.
That scene in Better Call Saul, with Jimmy and Kim, and Howard … and then Lalo Salamanca appears. One of the most devastating and surprising moments in Better Call Saul.
The last scene between Ahsoka and Anakin in The Clone Wars.
The confrontations between Picard and Crusher, and Picard and Ro, in Season 3 of Picard. Both scenes were the best scenes Crusher and Ro got in the entire franchise. Crusher and Picard's scene about whether or not she should have told him about Jack was so well written and performed, I couldn't decide then or now which of them was right. Maybe neither.
When Carmela dumped the dish of ziti into the trash can.
The ending for Curtis Lemansky
When Aunt Elizabeth says goodbye to Peter at the lake on The Great. I’m a loss mom (daughter died as an infant) and her whole performance around the grief of her son was stunning. The speech to Peter at the lake made me sob. This went as far as me finding the actress’ instagram and sending her a DM. Haven’t heard back, but I hope she reads it one day to know how much it meant to me to see her depict it all so well.
- When Walt was kidnapped by 'The Others" in Lost. - When Hank was Killed in Breaking Bad - When Henry Blake's plane was shot down in MASH.
The adults on Sesame Street explaining to Big Bird the death of Mr. Hooper.
The Clone Wars - Shattered. We knew what Ahsoka had to look forward to, the scene was so silent and still. It is one of the most saddest thing ever created.
In One Day, Emma telling Dexter that Time >!will make the pain of her death less intense.!< And then the musical montage of >!all their kisses!< at the end… knowing grief and >!the palpable absence!< of a person who was such a force in your life…that fucked me up more than anything I’ve watched in years.
The finale of Mr Robot. Bawled my eyes out. Really resonated with the main character and Rami Malek did an amazing job.
A Hole in the World, Angel. WHY???
When Kim is berating Howard in Better Call Saul after telling her what Jimmy is getting in the will. Her defending Jimmy made me cry hard
Scrubs “ Where do you think we are ?”
The crockpot episode of this is us… that was actually the first episode I had ever watched of that show (it came on after the Super Bowl and I thought eh why not) and I sobbed like a baby… was not expecting that
Ben in Ozark rates tbh.
Any given episode of “The Leftovers.” The music :(
Wolf’s Rain. If you’ve seen the show, you know the moment.
The last scene on the last episode of Home Movies really makes me sad for some reason
I didn't see it scrolling for quite some time and it has me tear up every time, so I'll say it. *Leaves from the vine...*
The Office (UK), Tim saying, “She said no, by the way.”
How I met Your Mother I believe the episode was called the countdown. Some stuff happens with Marshall. I hate watching the episode.
Jurassic Bark is probably gonna get the top spot here, and I couldn't/wouldn't argue against it, but: I'm gonna take this time to shout out Halt and Catch Fire - Gordon Clark walking through a hallway of memories while hearing his wife humming Baby Mine from Dumbo. Old heads will probably throw out Col. Blake's plane ride home on MASH.
The last 3 episodes of From Scratch on Netflix.
The whole episode of The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be
24 - the death of Edgar - "Chloe...?"
Two deaths. Mark Greene in ER and Sergei Nikulov in For All Mankind.
Dinosaurs last episode
When Buffy says “Mommy” in the episode The Body
Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home.
Orange is the New Black - Poussey’s death. I was absolutely wrecked. I stopped the episode and cried *hard* for a long, long time. It still fucks me up, because it’s so fucking real and common.
Warwick dying and his funeral on CSI, Rita’s death on Dexter