Anybody else ever seen a sad TV episode that made you cry?

[Brigid]

Earlier tonight I saw a rerun of a "Law and Order: SVU" episode from last year. To make a long story short, an attempt to rescue a kidnapped boy goes horribly wrong. Maybe it was because I'm in a blue mood today anyway, or maybe it was the performance of the actress who played the boy's mother -- I don't know -- but for some reason it really got to me.

[ChoralScholar]

1. the episode of ER where Dr. Greene dies makes me sad

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. A Little House On The Prairie episode with Jill "The Stepfather" Schoelen.

In a series known for its tear-jerkers, this was a real weeper.

Season 9, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/29/1982
Love

Laura's childhood friend, Jane Canfield, comes back to Walnut Grove. Despite her blindness, she develops a fondness for Isaiah Edwards (who is twice her age), and the two gradually fall in love. Jane's vision is restored when she receives the rare opportunity to have eye surgery, and Isaiah is hopeful about building a future with her, but negative input from his friends may turn this into one of the most difficult decisions of his life.

http://www.tv.com/little-house-on-the-prairie/love/episode/80474/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary

[KT2000]

3. episode of ER when Pratt died

that was horribly sad.

[lukasahero]

11. Definitely

ER was epic for jerking tears...

[XemaSab]

4. The episode of LOST

right when you KNEW Charlie was going to get it. :(

[lukasahero]

9. LOST had me balling half a dozen times a season

But Charlie was the worst - pretty sure I was outright sobbing over that one...

[Taverner]

27. Death of Jin and Sun did it for me

[CBGLuthier]

5. Babylon Five, Homicide:Life on the Streets

3rd season finale of B5 Z'ha'dum. There is a moment where the music is swelling and different people are shown and so much happens it is overwhelming. To say more would be telling.


Homicide had an episode called Bop Gun where Robin Williams played a tourist whose wife was gunned down in a mugging gone wrong. Chilling and so sad when it was new. Now it is a bit of trivia as one of Williams' children was played by an 8 year old Jake Gyllenhaal (his father directed the episode).

I also some times tear up just because a work of film or yes, even television, is very well done.

[kentauros]

6. Also, on Babylon 5

when Susan is talking with her father, and later when she has the "sitting shiva" part (don't know the spelling of that.)

The other one that leaves me devastated, is the final scene of the last episode. JMS even comments that he asked Christopher Franke to "break his heart" on the music composition, and it does.

[Zephie]

7. I cried when the 10th Doctor said his final line...

"I don't want to go..." :cry:

[lukasahero]

8. Angel "A Hole in the World" when Fred died

"Please, Wesley, why can't I stay?" :cry:

Of course, if I were to list all the times I've cried watching television, we'd be here all night. At least I've stopped crying at Hallmark commercials. ;)

[Brickbat]

10. "Abyssinia, Henry."

Devastating.

[charlie and algernon]

12. ER's "Love's Labour Lost" episode and the West Wing episode of Leo's FIRST heart attack

When John Spencer died for real and the West Wing had to write his death into the show wasn't nearly as emotional when they gave his character a heart attack a season earlier. John Spencer's death was probably the only time a celebrity's death caused me to cry. So by the time the West Wing wrote his character off the show I had already gotten over it.

But, a season earlier, they gave his character a heart attack and had him stumbling through the woods in pain and that was VERY hard to watch.


Of course "Love's Labour Lost" will make ANYONE cry. If you haven't seen that particular episode, have a box of kleenex handy.

[Rhythm]

14. West Wing episode "In Exelcesis Deo"

The intercuts of the Arlington funeral that Toby and Mrs. Landingham (who lost her only children in Vietnam) attend for the homeless Korean war vet contrasted with the choar at the White House singing "The Little Drummer Boy."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXlPSXuJFDQ

I bawled like a baby.

[elleng]

28. Yup, and about to begin AGAIN rerunning entire series (netflix.)

[sarge43]

18. West Wing's Two Cathedrals

When Barlett and staff take the long march through the WH halls to the presser to announce his decision. The background music of "Brothers in Arms" was tough enough. The heartbreaker was Charlie offers Barlett a raincoat, Jedd waves it off, Charlie takes off his and then the pan to Mrs Langingham's empty desk. That's story telling.

[BlueIris]

29. TWW "Bartlet for America."

"I take a bullet for the president, he doesn't take one for me."

[Rhythm]

13. One episode of "Glee" particularly...

The one at the beginning of the season where Kurt's dad had a heart attack.

For those who don't watch the show, Kurt is the openly-gay kid being raised by his nurturing, supportive dad (his mom died when he was very young). The other choir kids had been trying to be sympathetic to Kurt's distress about his father's condition, but had been doing so by injecting religion into the situation, when Kurt is atheist. He shares this song with them, along with the memory of holding his father's hand at his mom's funeral.

This version of this song--and the flashback scenes--had tears streaming down my face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhGWC4yq_Yg

[bigwillq]

31. That episode was so sad.

I cried as well.

[madmom]

15. Criminal Minds..when Hotch finds his murdered wife, ..the

scene was heartbreaking.:cry:

[Lindsey]

16. Too many to even say but off the top of my head, ER-Love's

Labour Lost, Charlie dying in LOST, Glee - Kurt's father episode with him singing "I wanna Hold your Hand."

[sarge43]

17. Battlestar Galactica

Final episode: After the desperate FTL jump, Saul checks the status board and says, "She's broke her back. She'll never jump again." Gave all to bring her people home.

[yurbud]

23. Final episode in a couple of places: death of Roslyn, giving up tech & ''going to ground,''

but most of all, when Hera falls and it fast forwards 150,000 years. They had brought the mother of all mankind, so in that sense, they survived, but they were entirely forgotten.

[bookworm65t]

19. Twilight Zone's Time Enough At Last

This is the episode in which Burgess Meredith, a bullied bank teller, finds himself the sole survivor of an atomic bomb. Then he finds he is able to read in peace for a change, until fate decides to laugh at him.

This is the only TZ episode I can't watch because I start crying.

:cry:

[Phoonzang]

20. Last episode of Six Feet Under made me cry

and I never cry.

[masmdu]

21. Californication - Episode wherein Hal Ashby dies...maybe it was the wine?

[ceile]

22. The Killing a few weeks ago and Dr Who when Rose

ends up in the parallel universe...
I'm sure there's more- I cry at tv shows all the time.
Oh! The episode of Friends when Rachel finds out that Ross cheated.

[Divameow77]

24. I cry all the time while watching TV

but the first to come to mind was the Grey's Anatomy episode when Denny died :cry:

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. NYPD Blue-- when Bobby (Jimmy Smits) died. It was gutwrenching.

[Mad_Dem_X]

42. +1

[Taverner]

26. Six Feet Under. Last scene of the finale. I was crying buckets.

Sia's "Breathe Me" is the perfect background music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwARV9tPUw

Even watching it over does it for me

[progressoid]

37. Absolutely.

I won't click on that link because that will do me in for the next hour or so.


LOVED that show.

[Taverner]

38. Out of all the deaths, Keith's was the one that sent me over the edge

[BlueIris]

30. Although it became an ugly farce, early eps of "24" made me cry a few times.

Especially the one where Jack Bauer confronts Nina Myers about the pain she caused his family by murdering Teri. "The Sunday before you killed my wife..."

[JonLP24]

32. Two weeks ago

Friday Night Lights. Most of the characters and stories were very interesting. I only turned it there because there was nothing else interesting on(airs Friday night). However, Michael B. Jordan blows everyone off the set on that show. Great acting at the finale of that episode. In had me in tears, I hate to admit.

[Godhumor]

33. Oddly enough, the "Futurama" episode about Fry's dog

My wife won't even watch it anymore--incredibly written episode.

[hifiguy]

39. +1 on that

The ending is just too hard to watch anymore.

[Phentex]

34. I watch Lifetime...

nuff said.

[Heidi]

35. Yes. M*A*S*H. (nt)

[OhioChick]

36. When Kutner commits suicide on "House."

:(

[BlueIris]

40. One more I forgot--the episode of "Saving Grace" where Leon Cooley is executed.

Man, that was sad.

[Mad_Dem_X]

41. "NYPD Blue" - Bobby Simone's death

Never cried so hard at a TV show in my life. I still can't watch any part of it without starting to cry.

[WinkyDink]

43. Seconded. Also, for me, the finale of "The Wonder Years."

[RobinA]

45. For Me,

quite a few Wonder Years, because Kevin was my age. And M*A*S*H

[RandomThoughts]

44. Although it did not make me cry.

When on the episode of West Wing, the NK piano player returns to his home to help his people, even though it could be dangerous for him.

Where I learned the word Han.

"Sadness so great no tears will come."

Often I wonder if that is where the name Han Solo came from, and much of my thoughts on if that is where the inspiration of the Star Wars movies came from, the expressing of feelings of the smuggler that got those movies out.

[cbdo2007]

46. The "Survivor" family visit episode gets me to cry every time.

And I don't cry at anything, but for some reason that gets me and I imagine being out there and seeing one of my family members after a month away from home on an island.