The saddest moments in TV
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kaaatieI have been re-watching The West Wing, and I just watched the episode Posse Comitatus. It makes me cry every time. It got me thinking about the other episodes that have left me utterly inconsolable.
(WARNING: There could be spoilers here for Futurama, Angel, Sports Night, ER, SG1, & The West Wing).
Futurama
The first one that comes to mind is the episode of Futurama with Fry's dog. Fry discovers his fossilised dog of the 20th century in a museum. When he learns that his dog lived for another 12 years after Fry was frozen, he thinks that his dog would have forgotten about him. Later, we discover that the dog waited in front of the pizza place every day until he died... just waiting for Fry to return. Seriously, I'm crying now just typing about this episode.
Angel
The episode Hero when Doyle died. *cries*
Sports Night
The episode The Apology had me in tears. Dan is making a public apology for a comment about drugs, and then he pauses. After a long pause, he tells the story of his younger brother. When he was younger, Dan enjoyed getting high... his brother copied him, and drove when drunk and on drugs. Dan says:
"He never saw that red light that he ran. And he probably never saw the 18-wheel truck that put him in to the side of a brick bank, either. *pause* That was 11 years ago tonight. And I'd just like to say, I'm sorry , Sam. You deserved better in my hands. And I apologize."
The way the speech is delivered, and the expression on Dan's face just about killed me.
ER
I don't remember most of the details of this one... I just remember that the head doctor's son died, and they played the Greenday song, Good Riddance (Time of your Life). I cried like a baby!
SG1
I also cried like a baby in the episode where Daniel Jackson 'died' (Meridian).
The West Wing
And finally, the episode of The West Wing that started this post: C.J. had been getting death threats, and had been assigned a secret service agent (the guy from NCIS). To cut a long story short, the guy is killed in an armed robbery, and its just incredibly sad. They play Jeff Buckley's version of hallelujah,... and its just... too sad...
So, in your opinion, what are the saddest moments in television?
(WARNING: There could be spoilers here for Futurama, Angel, Sports Night, ER, SG1, & The West Wing).
Futurama
The first one that comes to mind is the episode of Futurama with Fry's dog. Fry discovers his fossilised dog of the 20th century in a museum. When he learns that his dog lived for another 12 years after Fry was frozen, he thinks that his dog would have forgotten about him. Later, we discover that the dog waited in front of the pizza place every day until he died... just waiting for Fry to return. Seriously, I'm crying now just typing about this episode.
Angel
The episode Hero when Doyle died. *cries*
Sports Night
The episode The Apology had me in tears. Dan is making a public apology for a comment about drugs, and then he pauses. After a long pause, he tells the story of his younger brother. When he was younger, Dan enjoyed getting high... his brother copied him, and drove when drunk and on drugs. Dan says:
"He never saw that red light that he ran. And he probably never saw the 18-wheel truck that put him in to the side of a brick bank, either. *pause* That was 11 years ago tonight. And I'd just like to say, I'm sorry , Sam. You deserved better in my hands. And I apologize."
The way the speech is delivered, and the expression on Dan's face just about killed me.
ER
I don't remember most of the details of this one... I just remember that the head doctor's son died, and they played the Greenday song, Good Riddance (Time of your Life). I cried like a baby!
SG1
I also cried like a baby in the episode where Daniel Jackson 'died' (Meridian).
The West Wing
And finally, the episode of The West Wing that started this post: C.J. had been getting death threats, and had been assigned a secret service agent (the guy from NCIS). To cut a long story short, the guy is killed in an armed robbery, and its just incredibly sad. They play Jeff Buckley's version of hallelujah,... and its just... too sad...
So, in your opinion, what are the saddest moments in television?
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Date: 2007-07-08 07:59 pm (UTC)The Doctor saying "Goodbye" to Rose in the parallel 'verse was definitely a hankie job. Firefly-they killed Wash *WAAH*!..and poor Zoe saying "Baby, get up!" When she knew he wasn't going to. *blubbers*
Have you seen a British Comedy called "Blackadder". There were 4 series, each one set in a different time period, starring Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean). The last was set in WW1 in the trenches in France, and for all of the series except the last 5 minutes was played as broad farce as Blackadder and his greasy henchman Baldrick try to cunningly plot their way out of certain doom by "going over the top".
Finally they *can't* wriggle out of it, they shake hands and go out.
Colour fades to B+W and the whole thing becomes a cinema verite recreation of the Flanders fields, the two of them still charging forwards into slowmo and then disappearing into a misty fadeout onto what appears to be actual footage of an empty battlefield. Colour fades in as does sound. Birdsong comes up as you see the poppies waving in what seems to be the present-day version of the same field. They ran the credits in silence.There was *no* more.
I can honestly say that I have *never* been hit so hard by televisual imagery.It was shown nearly 17 years or so and I still tear up when I think about it.