Saddest TV Moments

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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.

Becky was upset because she wanted to get a car. Darlene was upset because of the extra work. DJ was pretty cool with it and was upset because Darlene said he was an accident. When Roseanne annonced that she wasn't pregnant both Darlene and Becky shouted "Yes! Yes! Yes!" in jubilation. Jackie told the girls to cut it out. Roseanne and Dan just looked at each other. Crystal was there and she offered her sympathies. That's what made it so sad, that the girls just didn't understand that it was the loss of a beautiful possibility. The girls appologised to Roseanne a little later...."I'm sorry" says Becky. "No you're not" says Roseanne.....and it was sad because we all knew it was true. Roseanne didn't want to be pregnant but fell in love with the idea once she thought about it...then she wasn't and her daughters just acted like jerks about it. Yes...sad episode.

The Mother's Day episode of Roseanne was sad too...You know the one where Darlene and Becky want to stay over night in Chicago to go to a concert and they try to butter Roseanne up but giving her a make over day. Roseanne catches on to what they are doing (I think she over hears Becky saying something about spending this time with her would be worth it if they go what they wanted), and Roseanne was crushed.

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I am lame, lame, lame but the finale of Dawson's Creek, when Jen is speaking into the camera to make the memorial video for her daughter gets me every time. A little less painful, but I still tear up, is the scene where Jen, mom, Jack, and Grams get in the cab to leave for NYC. So reminiscent of Jen's intro scene.

The episode of ER when Lucy died also brings on the waterworks, mostly because the viewer has to relive it as each character or group learns about it - Weaver/Romano, the gang at the diner, Carter, etc.

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Believe it or not it was an episode of Laverne & Shirley where Ted Danson played a fireman who was Laverne's love interest for two episodes. In the final episode Ted's character was supposed to take Laverne out to dinner and told her to wear her best clothes because he had something to ask her when he was called for a fire emergency.

While she was getting dressed, Lenny and Squiggy sadly barged in and told her Ted's character died in the fire. She refused to believe it and stayed in her room waiting for him to come pick her up for the date. Shirley called Laverne's father who was away on a fishing trip, she showed him the newspaper article and he read it to Laverne who broke down in his arms.

"Why did it have to be him?" she said.
"I know. I said the same thing about your mother when she died" said Laverne's dad. After he comforted her, he put her to bed.

The final scene was Laverne dressed in black at the firehouse after the funeral speaking in front of his locker saying "my answer would've been yes."

I normally don't break down but every time I would see that episode I get all choked up.

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doctornemesis said:

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...

I know! It's hilarious, funny--light and then...that.

Sniff.

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The final scene was Laverne dressed in black at the firehouse after the funeral speaking in front of his locker saying "my answer would've been yes."

I normally don't break down but every time I would see that episode I get all choked up.

Man I'd forgotten all about that! Your whole post brought back the sad and choked me up. That really really was sad.

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MASH when the first Major left to go home and they heard he'd been killed en route. That was my all time saddest, until......

The last episode of Six Feet Under. That's my new #1 of all time.

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caribou said:

MASH when the first Major left to go home and they heard he'd been killed en route.

Actually, Henry Blake was a colonel.

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garnet927 said:

caribou said:

MASH when the first Major left to go home and they heard he'd been killed en route.

Actually, Henry Blake was a colonel.

Thank you! I tried to remember his name and rank but failed. Glad somebody remembers ;D

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caribou said:

garnet927 said:

Actually, Henry Blake was a colonel.

Thank you! I tried to remember his name and rank but failed. Glad somebody remembers ;D

I remember way too much MASH trivia. A co-worker accidentally (she was thinking of someone else)
mentioned the name Donald Penobscot & I immediately knew that that was Hot Lips' ex-husband.

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I recall reading that viewers were seriously angered about that episode where his plane goes down, and wrote furious letters to the show about it. I think it was the brief joy of believing, after all that time, that someone was getting to go home. Then he didn't make it home after all and people felt manipulated and like the rug had been pulled out from under them. But I guess that just shows how effective the episode was.