Saddest TV Moments

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Caroma said:

In HOMICIDE, there were so many moments:

Pembleton's salute, in full dress blues, to the casket in 'Crosetti'.


Robin William's tourist character in 'Bop Gun' finally breaking down when he sees the slip his wife had dropped in the hotel room the night after she's been murdered, and his children hearing him and silently hugging each other. Kay hearing the confession of the hapless boy killer and walking out of the jail, with the camera focused on the gun on her hip.


The biker funeral in 'Cradle to Grave', as the wife and daughter of the victim flee into Witness Protection and Meldrick drops into the grave the picture of the vic's daughter, so her father won't be alone down there.


Michael Michelle, Callie Thorne, and <shudder> Jon Seda walking INTO the station house instead of Bolander, Howard, and Felton in the sixth season opener.

And the absolute, gold-medal winner...

The moment in 'A Doll's Eyes' when the brain-dead child, killed by a stray bullet fired by some mook in a mall, is disconnected from life support as his mother talks calmly to him about how much she loves him and then, as the heart monitor goes into its flatline tone, emits one long wail as she and his father cradle the boy in their arms...

Pembleton at Crosetti's funeral is why Andre Braugher is an amazing actor.

The scene that killed me in "Bop Gun" aka the Robin Williams episode is when he's talking to Howard after the trial, and telling her that he's joined this club--that there are no meetings, and nobody wants to be a member...it's a club of people who have lost someone they loved to a random homicide...just kills me.

That cemetary with the Bikers, I worked near there, and that was what I would think of when I drove past.

The Foul One arriving in Homicide, after practicing unhygenic, un-natural acts on Kay's asprin bottle. Ew. I still to this day can no longer eat a peach because of that man. Blech! Don't even get me started on Callie Thorne, or that block of wood known as Michael Michelle. Blah.

For me it's Lewis trying to talk Kellerman into handing over his gun, yelling that he's not going to lose another partner to suicide. Then when he gets the gun, walking with Kellerman, and telling him it'll all be okay as soon as he gets ahold of a coat.

Bayless talking to G, asking when it's okay to let go.

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For me, my saddest moment is the finale of Boy Meets World. I know, super cheesy, but I grew up with this show and it still gets me every single time. The whole episode is pretty sad, and I swear I'm usually in tears for the last half, but the worst part is the very end when they go talk to Feeney. They tell him to say he loves them, and he says that he won't, but then after they leave he says "I love you all. Class dismissed." and turns out the light.

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Another sad moment? Diana Rigg's last episode as Emma Peel...as she drives off with her long-lost husband who looks like....well, you know.

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The final episode of Sex And The City

I just felt like I'd known these girls for years, and gone through so much with them, and suddenly they were leaving me.

Sign of a really good show, I guess!

ETA: Oh, and that episode of Scrubs with Brendan Fraser in a superb cameo

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When Mr. Hooper died on Sesame Street.

(I know I just aged myself, if I haven't already. *LOL*)

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I may not have the details totally correct with this, but there was an episode of Roseanne. Roseanne thought she was pregnant and it turns out she was the only one the least bit happy about it. One person (probably Dan) was upset about the extra expenses of a new baby. One of the kids felt this was going to jeopardize her chances for college. Darlene was angry because she predicted she'd get stuck with all these additional chores, including baby-sitting. I'm not sure about DJ but it was probably some nasty attitude about no longer being "the baby" of the family.

Anyhow, it turned out she wasn't pregnant. She announces this to the family. There was this long, awkward scene where they could all see she was devastated -- They all muttered, "Sorry, mom," when they knew and she knew they'd all had their selfish reasons for desperately hoping that, in fact, she wasn't pregnant. But they all had to go through this phony, "Gee, sorry," thing and were ashamed of themselves, and she just stared at them, knowing the score.

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glitterbug said:

The final episode of Sex And The City

I just felt like I'd known these girls for years, and gone through so much with them, and suddenly they were leaving me.

Me too. I bawled throughout the last 15 minutes, starting with the scene where Charlotte and Harry get notice that they will be parents.

And does it make me a loser that I cried in the episode of The Golden Girls where Rose flashed back to baking herself a cake, pretending it was a surprise, and then talking to her dead husband? I love that episode.

And the episode of Ally McBeal where they sue the boy's church to get money for an operation, only to see him die before the surgery. And Ling acted all unemotional towards everyone, saying something like "We knew he was going to die!", and then as she left the hospital she broke out into tears.

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The episode on Family Ties when Ellen breaks up with Alex. He's devastated, the Billy Vera "What Would You Do" song is playing and my sister and I are bawling like babies.

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For years, I couldn't watch the final scene of 'Blackadder Goes Forth' when, having failed to get out of the final suicidal push, Captain Blackadder and the others go over the top of the trench, and there's the machine gun fire and explosions before it fades to a peaceful scene of poppies, without completely falling apart.

There's one scene in the final episode of the second series of 'Frasier' that never fails to get me. It's Martin's birthday, Frasier's looking forward to the party and a relaxing weekend of fun with his friends and family, but everyone's really bad-tempered and sniping with each other, and to top it off there's a citywide blackout. Finally, Frasier has a private conversation with all of them and makes them feel better, but by this time an impromptu party has started downstairs and everyone, now feeling better, wants to leave Frasier's party and go to that one. Frasier, by now a little disappointed, doesn't want to go, and Martin makes a sneery little comment about how 'he's always been like that' when someone calls him a party pooper. Frasier just snaps and delivers this really sad speech (to me, anyway) about how he spends his entire life trying to make people feel better without them asking him in return and just wanted one evening away from that to enjoy himself with his family and friends, but even gave that up to make them feel better - and to make things even worse, not one of them has even said thank you, and now they're all happy they're quite prepared to run out on him. I always felt for Frasier during that scene.

There's also an episode of 'Law and Order' where a mother's been put on trial for murdering her severely mentally handicapped son in an arson which never fails to tear me up. The scene where she breaks down on the stand under McCoy's cross-examination and tearfully blurts out that she thought he was dead before the fire because he'd had a seizure and that she didn't give him his medication because she couldn't stand seeing him suffer any more, and that she set the fire to kill herself with him but couldn't go through with it because of her daughter, and that she'd have never set the fire if she'd known he was still alive because she didn't want him to suffer is just heart-breaking, especially because the actress gets the hiccups while she's crying.

And I can't believe no one's mentioned Fry's brother and / or dog in 'Futurama' yet.

P.S Crikey, that's a lot of spoiler space. Still, better safe than sorry.

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swanflake said:

And the episode of Ally McBeal where they sue the boy's church to get money for an operation, only to see him die before the surgery. And Ling acted all unemotional towards everyone, saying something like "We knew he was going to die!", and then as she left the hospital she broke out into tears.

That one was really sad, and Ling really brought the emotion (as much as I don't like Lucy Liu, in that episode she was amazing). I also cried when Billy died.

One of the saddest moments on TV was Ella's funeral in The District, probably because she had died IRL. But the hommage they paid to her in the series was beautifully sad.