Long time reader here, and I just HAD to register and post after reading this thread!

My choices are:

Realitivity, I cant remember the episode or character names, but when the poor families Dad left for an out of town job, the leads teenage brother (Julie's rapist on Felicity) breaks down and crys outside their apartment as his dad gets into a van and leaves his kids. Was unexpected and SAD.

The Tribe Plenty sad moments on this show. When Ebony confessed her love to Bray and when he rejects her, she falls out as he walks away. Later that day Saline does the same thing, only she drops her clothes, and Bray rejects her too! LOL Another sad moment happened when Bray found amber alive and she INSTANTLY told him to take a hike. Another from season 4 happens when Ram tells Java he has to live in reality space because his body is dying.

East Enders Too many to count on this show! Number one would have to be David leaving his crazy son Joe screaming for him to to leave as he drives off in tears
David does a RUNNER!. Another was when Tony told Simon he always loved him but couldnt stay in Walford around anymore. Then when Dot help Ethel commit suicide, soooooo sad. Ethel's death. Then there was Bianca's affair with Dan. Poor Ricky cries over a hangnail, but this really put him over the edge. And Carol's reaction was THE best soap response to the "daughter sleeping with the mother's man" storyline EVER! You're Dead to Me!

Yes! I was shocked at how... stirring, I suppose I found that.

I think it was the original "Superman" theme that really made it work.

I just got done watching "The Yearling," on TV. I think it was mentioned way back on this thread. So, I felt the need to come here and share my experience; that being my complete and utter lack of exhibiting any sort of behavior remotely resembling that of a 23 year old grad student.
I. Could. Not. Stop. Crying.

I knew the story--kind of--going in, but I only had the vaguest memories of what actually happens. I cried throughout, but what really killed me was the very, very end, after the boy and his family made peace with his growing up and losing his innocence, and 'becoming a man,' he drifts to sleep and dreams of his Flag.

Damn if that isn't one of the saddest things about life.

Things on TV that should never be watched often include movies that have children and animals. This includes Bambi, The Yearling and Old Yeller. Unless you watch the Phoebe Buffay version in which Old Yeller has babies.

My worst one? A movie where 2 dogs and a cat are with a family of 3 kids, each with their own favorite pet. Somehow they lose their humans and have to make it back. One of the dogs is old and has the "voice" of Don Ameche. One hour and twenty minutes of kid-appropriate dangerous trevails later, the kids are on the lawn and the young dog runs up and the youngest boy loves it and hugs it and is all happy. Then comes the cat and the girl repeats same scene. The oldest boy just stares at the edge of the woods, but nothing. Then the mom comes up to him and says, "You know, he was an old dog, it would have been too hard for him" Blah blah blah cryingcakes. I was sobbing.

Then the old dog comes bounding out of the woods. It was a saddest moment fake out. I spent the rest of the day mad at myself getting all emotional over a movie.

And the show Benji always upset me too, because the dog would roam into town and help someone but would always leave. I really wanted Benji to find a home.

Too true about the animal movie watching caveat, Beelzebubba; I am certainly putting The Yearling the my list of not-to-watch-because-they-will-run-you-down-for-the-rest-of-the-day-due-to-
all-of-the-tears-they-force-you-to-shed movies.

And I believe that the movie you're referring to is "Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey," which is based on the book, "The Incredible Journey." It's excellent, though just as sad--if not more--than the movie, so be careful if you decide to read it.

Don't forget Charlotte's Web. Dear Lord, that movie depresses the hell out of me to this day, and the stupid thing is, I don't even like spiders! I've discovered that there are two different kinds of animated movies: those that cater to kids with no attention span, and those that are so depressing that they ruin your day.

Johnny Cash's "Hurt" video breaks my heart.

And 75% of all Joan of Arcadia's get me verklempt

I broke a personal record and got teary three times watching Alias last night. And then someone had to make fun of me because my voice cracked when I whispered "she's right there" during the funeral.

There was an Animaniacs episode which followed a piece of gold wrapping paper around, as it was blown through the streets of a city, playing a part in different scenarios. Eventually, it ends up in a backalley, where it's picked up by a man who uses it to wrap a small toy. He then gives it to his child, and we see that it's a family who lives in the back of a car. Wow.

I have to say the saddest animal movie EVER was My Dog Skip-which is on TBS all the time so it counts as tv. I can't even tell you how hard I cried at the end-maybe because I also had my own dog growing up and had to leave him behind for college as well. The scene that gets me is when the dog is getting really old and he can't climb on the bed any longer and the mom helps him up. He then curls up and "goes to sleep" But, anyways, tears,tears everywhere. It choked me up the next day when I was telling someone about the movie. To this day I cannot watch it again.

[whispers]I thought the episode of SBTB where Zack and Kelly broke up was sad.[/whispers]

The first time I saw TLC's Waterfalls, I thought it was hearbreaking (with the ghost mother who sees her son die).

Also, the episode of Cowboy Bebop when Ed leaves and Faye sleeps in the outline of her bed in the ground.

I watch a lot of tv and didn't think that I could get teary but a few shows and a few people have made me shed a tear or two.

Ally McBeal- When Billy died. The scene in the courtroom and when Ally told everyone at work just got me. The whole show was great.

[B]Everwood- Normally I don't watch this show but I was sucked into the season premiere. I teared up when I realized Colin had died. The last scene when he just disappears got me.

Nip/Tuck- I am a huge fan of the show. Best one had to be Adelle Coffin when Meagn dies. Her sucide to "Rocket Man" and funeral had me bawling.

Life Goes On- The episode when the mom finds out she is pregnant and has visions of her little boy. Best scene is when the little boy says he has to go get ready and he won't remember her or the song he likes. The mom promises him that she will sing it to him every night and she won't forget him.

Silk Stalkings- I will admit it. I was a huge fan of Chris and Rita. The scene where Chris is dying in the hospital gets me every time. He wakes up and tells Rita he will never leave her and then they kiss. He then goes into cardiac arrest and he dies. The most effective part is the scene at the end where Riat is looking at the bed where Chris died and she doesn't say anything. She just looks at the bed and then turns away. There is no noise or anything and the scene fades to black. The next episode is his funeral and Rita holds up through the funeral. Then she has a little break down at work when the captain tells her that he misses him to. The big break down comes when she goes to his burial site to tell Chris why she is leaving Palm Beach and she has her big breakdown with tears. I was bawling when she gave the captain her badge and said bye.

Charmed- One person has a special place in my heart for making me cry. It takes a real touching moment to get me to cry but Holly Marie Combs manages to do it to me every time. Any true fan of Charmed will tell you that it is hard not to be effected when Holly has a scene that involves tears. She has had to many to single out as her best tear-induced scene. Two that stand out though are Hell Hath No Fury and All Hell Breaks Loose. Anytime it looks like she is going to cry have some tissue nearby.

That's how Silk Stalking's ended? Chris died?

So sad.

I hope that TV movies are allowed in this catagory.
If so, then I would say that "A Sensitive, Passionate Man", with David Janssen and Angie Dickinson was a tearjerker for me. Maybe the subject matter hit too close to home, as it was about an alcoholic father taking it out on his wife and two sons.

"Unnatural Causes" with Alfre Woodard and John Ritter (who should have been nominated for an Emmy for this one). It was about a Vietnam veteran and his having to deal with contracting Agent Orange in his system and trying to get help from the Veteran's Administration.

"After The Promise" with Mark Harmon, dealing with a father having his sons taken away from him in the Depression and then trying to get them all back together.

Another one was "Who Will Love My Children" with Ann-Margret. Now THAT one was almost unbearable to watch, but I did and still do when it comes on.

I am sure that there are others that I have seen and made me sad or cry, but these are the ones that stand out the most!!

Beelzebubba- you mean Homeward Bound. Great movie. Michael J. Fox was the other dog and the cat was Sally Field. That movie freaks me out b/c that lost little girl they help looks exactly like I did when I was little. Gah.

The entire episode of SV called Asylum. Lex abuse galore.

Lifetime movie "Homeless to Harvard" where Thora Birch's mom dies and she curls up on the coffin, and the bulldozer starts up to throw dirt on it.

Any scene in a Lifetime movie where the kids get separated from their parents and thrown into foster care/JD facilty. And I don't even like kids that much.

How about Ice Age? Anyone else feel a tear on their cheek during the scene where they show the cavemen drawings come to life, showing what happened to the mammoths family?

Kudos to TheDoc87 for mentioning Brian's Song--I wept through that, too.

Other tear-jerking moments:

NewsRadio: "Bill Moves On", after Phil Hartman's death--especially the last scene with the empty chair.

Third Watch:
a) "A Hero's Rest"--the cop killer episode; the funeral afterwards brought me to tears.
b) "Unfinished Business"--Bobby's death felt like someone kicking me in the throat. I can't watch that episode anymore; if it's on, I switch channels.

NYPD Blue: "Heart and Souls"--(broken record) Bobby's death (/broken record) at the end, especially Andy kissing him on the forehead before he died.

ER: "All In The Family"--Lucy's death--right after she regained consciousness after the procedure.

The book was slightly more depressing but much better quality, and not cartoony. The cat was also much cooler (in an oddly believable way) and that they changed HIS gender confused me when I first saw the movie.

Edited because I am a moron.

I must admit that I am not a follower of Buffy, on a scale of fandom for the show I'm probably a four. I just saw "The Body" episode yesterday on FX, and damn, the tears were falling. When Buffy first refers to her mother as the body (to Giles), when she tells Dawn and then when Anya cries. Damn!

So last night I cried at a show about elephants. It was so moving. I missed about the first 15 or 20 minutes but basically it was a show about captive elephants. It was part of the Nature series and the episode is titled "Urban Elephants" or something similar. These 2 circus elephants who end up at a sanctuary at the end just killed me. When Shirley's trainer is giving her the last bath before they have to part he says something along the lines of "I don't know who put the first chains on her but I'm glad to know I'm the last one who'll be taking 'em off." I am crying right now thinking about it. I was crying during the last 5 minutes of the show when they were showing Shirley finally free. I want to send gobs of money to the people who run this sanctuary. It's being rerun this weekend on our local PBS station (KCTS 9) and it is definitely worth watching.

Gracelessly, I never watched the show until just a few episodes before that, and I think it may be the reason I continued (that and the funny one-liners). That is one of the saddest episodes of tv I've ever seen. It makes me want to cry just thinking about it, and believe me, I am not a crier.

I think the show that sends me into hysterics the most often is Buffy - Prophecy Girl, Becoming pt.2 (that was the first episode I ever saw and I bawled my eyes out), Wild at Heart (Oz leaving Willow just KILLED me). The part of The Body that really gets me is Anya's speech. Oh God. Buffy's counterpart, Angel, has been known to send me into fits of tears as well. Namely 'Hero'. For some reason, I got so attached to Doyle in season 1, and...God. "I guess we'll never have the chance to find out if this is a face you could learn to love." Guh. Tears.

Some people far, far upthread were talking about the Sesame Street movies. I thought the "If I ever get home, I'll never leave home again" song was from 'Big Bird Goes to Japan', or whatever it was called. At any rate, those movies traumatized me. I cried rivers when I was a kid.

Thanks guys. Now I'm getting all teary and depressed.

Oh man. I have that on tape. John Ritter was so good in it.

watch2much--I've seen that show. It was definitely worthy of tears, even though it was about a happy ending. When Shirley met up with her old friend Jenny--they were in the circus together and still remembered each other years later--it was very moving. In fact, I think it was mentioned on this thread a long time ago, but I'm not sure. So, you're not alone.

Shirley lives at The Elephant Sanctuary and you can check up on her there.

Buffy and Angel have both got me in tears before. The first time I ever cried at a TV show was the second season finale of Buffy, when she has to kill Angel RIGHT AFTER he gets his soul back. I still cry every time I see the repeats of this.

The only time I remember crying at Angel was when Buffy came to visit in the first season and Angel became a human. I cried at the end when he told her that he had to make her forget it all.

This wasn't really a moment, but my mom tells me that when I was little, I used to get upset and cry when no one could see Snuffalupogus except for Big Bird. Apparently, I wasn't the only one, b/c a few years ago I read in TV Guide that a lot of parents complained about it. That's why they decided to make Snuffy a real person instead of just Big Bird's imaginary friend.

Speaking of Sesame Street, has anyone mentioned the death of Mr. Hooper? When they try to explain to Big Bird why Mr. Hooper won't be at his shop anymore, I was confused as a kid, but my mother was crying her eyes out. I saw it again some time back, and even though I am not an emotional person, I just had tears silently running down my face. Like right now as I'm typing this.

Wherever you are Mr. Hooper, thanks.

Oh, God...I hadn't thought about Mr. Hooper in years. Being the masochist that I am, I went searching for a transcript of that episode and found this. Now I'm sobbing...

Wow, shouldn't have read the transcript from the Mr. Hooper episode. That picture is still up in Big Birds nest. The Sesame Street episode from a few years ago where Big Birds nest is destroyed makes me cry every time. I sobbed when I saw the Sesame Street Biography. I also cried buckets when I watched the Mr. Rogers Biography the day he passed away.

Awwww, BoE, that is so sad. I miss Mr. Hooper! *sobs*

I just finished watching the Mac Cory funeral episode of Another World. The scene that touched me the most was when Matt and Ada were holding each other, crying. Ada tried to be strong but she was crumbling, too. I could have done without all the Iris, though.

100th episode of Angel. Reshowing the Doyle tape. I miss him, oh so much. Glenn Quinn... dead. Not going to see again. I'm crying just thinking of Hero. And then The Body on Buffy. Didn't help I saw it 4 days after my dad died. It was realistic. And then the other night on Smallville, with the guy that could see the future, when I saw Bo Kent.. my heart like.. dropped. Didn't cry, but it was a drop.

Oh yes, I cried much on the 100th episode of 'Angel'. Oh dear.

Another soap memorial: Mona Kane's on All My Children. There was a scene where Mona was sick in the hospital, and Erica said Mona was going to lick her illness, and then she hugged her.

Erica: I love you.
Mona: I love you, baby.

Cut to the funeral. They're about to put her in the ground, and Erica slowly crumbles. She hugs the coffin and wails "Don't put my mom in the ground! Don't leave me!" Normally I'd be like, oh, it's Lucci overacting, but you could see her slowly break away, and I felt it was so genuine.

I caught the Eve Plumb episode of Family Affair a few years ago and I still well up just thinking about it. Then I just get angry that such a dorky show can still get to me. Let's see if it gets to you as well...

Buffy and Jody have a friend played by Eve Plumb. I can't remember the character's name, so let's call her Eve.

Eve has a disease and can't leave her room, so Buffy visits her often to play word games. Eve's mother thanks Uncle Bill for having such a nice niece and nephew and lets him in on the fact that Eve doesn't have much time to live. She'll probably die before Christmas. They decide to have an early Christmas in Eve's room and Buffy and Jody are more than willing to celebrate Christmas with Eve, although they aren't told the reason.

The Christmas party is fun and that night Uncle Bill and Cissy are discussing the situation and how nice it was of Buffy and Jody, "even though they don't know that Eve doesn't have much time left."

The camera pans through the house until it gets to the closed door of Buffy's room.

Behind the door, we hear Buffy crying.

That sad story would have been a lot funnier had you named her Jan.

I was so close to doing just that!

Damn thread. Why do I read it work?

Yeah, I haven't watched Angel in months but heard Cordelia came out of her coma so I thought I'd tune in. I'm spoiled for a lot of shows but not this one. It was a very quiet ending and very, very sweet.

The episode of Ally McBeal where Haley Joel Osment dies of cancer. I didn't cry until Ling told off Ally about the kid and then she goes outside the hospital and cries. I was bawling after watching Ling cry.

That episode made me cry, too, StephenTrendy, especially since it aired the same day I found out one of my friends got cancer. I was a wreck during that one. I just might cry now.

The episode of L&O:SVU they showed last night, Shaken, where Stabler basically ends up on a crusade to find out who shook a baby into a coma. (And that's not even the saddest part.) It turns out to be the mother, but then the issue becomes not who did it, but whether to force the mother to turn off life support. They do, and we see Stabler in a bar at the end, drowning his sorrows. Cragen turns up to drive him home; Stabler's looking at a baby picture of his own daughter, and gradually falling apart as he tells of when he slapped her for misbehaving and spilling juice on the carpet. "As I reached back to slap her a second time...I just looked at her." He starts crying in earnest. "I could've killed my kid...over a lousy carpet."

Chris Meloni plays Stabler as so strong and so in control most of the time; it was heartbreaking to see that facade just crumble.

I was thinking the same thing as I watched it last night, GoldfishGirl. I think Meloni is way too underrated as an actor. He sure does bring the pretty, but he's got some chops to go with it.

Another sad cop show moment: second season of Homicide, when Crosetti is found in the river and they rule his death a suicide - which means no honor guard at his funeral. As they bring the procession past the police department, there's Pembleton, alone, on the front steps of the building, standing at attention and saluting the casket.

I bawled my freaking eyes out.

This week's Without a Trace had what you could call a happy ending, but the build up to it (the awful things that happened to a jr. high student one week) were so tremendously bad that I cried buckets at the end.

Oh, word on the WAT teen suicide story. I bawled my eyes out. Without A Trace also got me with last year's Egyptian doctor plot. I also keep tissues handy for any episode of Joan of Arcadia or Cold Case (which usually gets me in the last scene music montage. Sheesh, I'm turning into such a sap.

Cried last night over Cold Case... that poor little boy. I was horrified for the majority of the show, because I thought (stupidly, of course, because it was so early in the show) that a nun had beaten him to death. I think the pictures of him dressed and propped up were the worst; I almost lost my dinner.

And the radiation testing? I shake my fist at the government. Seriously. Shaking it now.

File under "Episodes you hesitate to rewatch because you know they'll make you cry, but watch anyway":

Enterprise's Similitude, the clone ep. Maybe it's my love for Connor Trinneer. Or my susceptibility to melancholy quasi-Irish flute music. But I rewatched this one on squinty vision, and damn if I didn't start sniffling again. Even on my first viewing, it was the first Star Trek ep to do that since DS9 went off the air. The last ten minutes were pitch perfect. Archer and Sim's fight, and subsequent reconciliation. Sim petting Porthos. His goodbye kiss from T'Pol, and telling Phlox he was a damn good father. " You owe me one." Sim looking frightened but resigned to his fate at the same time. And then the pan over to a haggard Trip at the funeral.
Damn it , why couldn't they have done more stuff like that in the first and second seasons.

GoldfishGirl42, I know. I've watched my tape of that episode, and the reruns, so that I must have seen it 6 times. It is, for me, always that scene of Sim petting Porthos that does it. Just the thought of spending one's last minutes of life with a loyal dog, and otherwise alone ... poor Sim. I get the sniffles every time.

This one is more bittersweet than sad, but it's my all-time favorite.

There was a show called Cupid in 1998 about a guy who thinks he's Cupid and starts matching people up - to the ire of his psychiatrist, who is trying to figure out who he really is.

In this episode, Cupid meets a woman. Later, he meets a hockey player. Cupid is really excited because he found a perfect match, and they don't happen often. Eager and excited, he tells the woman about the guy. She refuses to date him because she's dying. After much pestering, Cupid finally gets the two to go out on a date. The woman changed her mind. She likes the guy and is getting a little excited at the prospects for love. Cupid goes on with life.

A few weeks later, Cupid sees woman while walking in public and she's LIVID. She's angry at him for fixing her up with the hockey player because it gave her hope for a relationship - and now the hope and the relationship are both gone. Cupid asks what the guy did to upset her. He died. Cupid is shocked. She's shocked. We're all shocked. Cupid starts to wonder if he got it all wrong. He says he could have sworn they were a perfect match, destined to be happy together forever.

The next day, the woman gets a call from her doctor. They found a heart for her, so she'll live after all. The heart came from the hockey player. He was a perfect match.