This one's not so much warm and fuzzy, but it was an Aww... moment anyway:

Saw WW's The Drop-In last night for the first time in a couple years; I had forgotten how much I loved that ep. It is one of the best Toby/Sam eps, in my opinion, even if Toby treats Sam like shit for most of it. Anyway, Sam convinces the President to give a speech to the environmentalists, Toby is pissed, and convinces Leo and POTUS to put in a drop-in , admonishing the enviros. Sam works his ass off, but Toby keeps him completely in the dark. Long story short, Sam storms off to a bar , Toby follows him. They argue over all the reasons it was a good/bad idea; however, the real reason Sam's pissed soon comes out:
"You left me out."
"...Yeah."
Toby explains why he did it; Sam seems to understand, but is nowhere near ready to forgive.
Toby:"Look, I've got this beer here.."
Sam:"Yeah."
T:"I was just gonna sit here and drink it."
S:"Yeah."
T: "We don't have to talk or anything."
And they just sit there silently; Sam looking hurt, Toby looking like "How the hell am I gonna fix this?'

Maybe it loses something typed out; certainly a big part was Richard Schiff and Rob Lowe's expressions and delivery. But it's an aww moment becuase the Toby/Sam relationship was so big brother-little brother/hero-worship, at least until then; and you sit there watching that moment ,realizing that significant damage has been done, and the relationship's not gonna be able to go back to the way it was.

Mine are from the season finale of season 3 of Six Feet Under, when Ruth's about to get married and it seems like none of her children are going to be there, but then Claire turns up saying she hopes she isn't too late and gives Ruth some antique earrings she's bought for her.

Then, later on when Claire's dancing around at Ruth's wedding reception with baby Maya. It's just such a cute moment.

One of the latest moments, from Lost, was when Michael and Walt- an estranged father and his ten year old son- are trying to reconnect. Michael, the dad, shows all the hand-drawn birthday cards that were sent, but Walt's mom never showed him. Cards from the time Walt was two.

The one that we had seen earlier was for Walt's second birthday:

Cover- a guy head-to-toe in bandages (not too different from Michael at the time)
Inside front cover: What's Black and White and red all over?
Inside back cover: (picture of a penguin with sunglasses on a beach) A sunburned penguin!

Walt calls his dad on the corniness of the joke and Michael's all "yeah, yeah". We pull back as they continue talking and....scene.

I may have taken longer to write about it than the scen played out, but it was a nice scene between these guys who are having a really hard time relating to each other.

I've got a couple from Freaks & Geeks that make me tear up just thinking about them, let alone when I watch them:

The final scene in the pilot when Lindsay watches her awkward little brother get the courage to ask cheerleader Cindy Sanders to dance, then leads her out to the center of the floor to the strains of Come Sail Away by Styx. By the time he's found the perfect spot on the dance floor, it turned into a fast song from a ballad.

In the Garage Door episode, when Sam's parents present him with an Atari just for being a good kid and he bursts out crying and hugs his dad, I go to pieces as well. It's more because Sam seems so emotional that his parents aren't cheating on each other like his friend's parents, and he's so happy, but it's a great Awww moment.

And I'd like to state for the record that no matter how many times the audience said AWWWW during episodes of Full House, there are no Aww moments on that show.

Oh sing it! I know it's coming, but everytime I see this ep re-run, I get choked up (and always hold my breath, 'cause it really looks like she's going to say "no" to him).

There was an early episode of All in the Family when Gloria discovers she is pregnant. At first, Archie is, in typical Archie fashion, irritated at the fact that she and the Meathead are having a baby while he is still in school and still living in Archie's house.

But he finally comes around and, happy as could be, comes home form work with a giant Panda. As he is talking over Edith telling her how happy he now is about his new grandchild, she has to tearfully interrupt him to say that Gloria lost the baby.

He just stops and repeats, "She lost the baby?" Pause. "She lost the baby."

Archie then goes upstairs to visit with Gloria, resting in bed.

Gloria: I didn't do a very good job, did I?

Archie: Ahh, who said that? Some dopey doctor?

Gloria: No, Daddy.

He then holds her hand.

Gloria: You love me.

He nods

Gloria: I love you too, Daddy.

Gets me every time. Carroll O'Connor and Sally Struthers nailed that scene.

Someone mentioned baseball/sports Awwww... moments a couple pages back, and I have to mention mine.
This was blink and you'll miss it, amongst the sheer euphoria of the Red Sox winning the World Series. The cameras were jostling around the crowd of screaming players, and they cut to one of the cameras at the edge. And you see Jason Varitek, longtime Sox catcher, and leader of the team, just drop to his knees, overcome by the emotion of the moment, and looking absoutely dazed. Then Kevin Millar (first baseman) comes over and puts his arms around Tek's shoulders, hugging him and rocking him. Something about the World Series turning big tough manly athletes into happy little boys just gets me.

How about the last few minutes of NYPD Blue this week.

Andy finally got his promotion to sergeant. At the end of the shift, he was in the locker room putting on his dress uniform for the big ceremony. When he steps into the squad room, everyone is gone except the Lieutenant and John, at the desk. Andy asks where the others were, and is told they probably went ahead to get seats.

He walks out and goes down the stairs. He looks up and sees his friends and all the detectives and officers standing there. Someone calls "Attention!", and they line up in formation, and give him a well deserved formal salute as he passes by.

Awwwww. (I'm gonna miss that show.)

I have one from King of the Hill.

Peggy is feeling insecure about her big (size 16!) feet. A lady at a shoe store sees her crying and gives her the number of someone who will make her feel better about herself. The guy, a podiatrist, tells her that her feet are beautiful and that she should make an instructional video to help other women with big feet.

As it turns out, the guy is making foot fetish videos and selling them on the internet. When Peggy finally figures it out, he calls her feet big and ugly.

Peggy is inconsolable. Hank tries to comfort her, but only makes it worse. She's hiding in the bedroom, crying.

Enter Bobby....

She tells him what's wrong. Bobby says, "Mom, I'm fat."

"No you're not. You're husky. It says so on your jeans."

"No Mom, I'm fat. So what? Bobby Hill is fat. But, Bobby Hill is nice. Bobby Hill is funny, has friends, a girlfriend. Now I'm gonna go outside and squirt her (with a super soaker). What are you going to do?"

Of course, at this point I was really boo-hooing. I'm tearing up right now. So sweet.

That speech was doubly great because it came at a time in the show where I don't think any of the fans thought that the show could really still hit them that hard, emotionally.

And it did.

I was blown away by it.

All from Scrubs

1.) Carla is complaining that the doctors never listen to her. When she makes a suggestion on why a patient might be sick, Cox and JD mock it. Towards the end, she makes another suggestion and they realize she's right. Cox sincerely says, "Great catch there, Carla," to which she smiles, suprised, and says, "Thank you."

2.) Cox and JD are treating a patient, who they only spend fifteen seconds with at a time before running off. They can't figure out how she got pesticides in her system. Finally, they think about what she was actually saying when she was talking and realize she did it to herself. They catch up to her as she's leaving and really ask her how things have been. When she starts to choke up, they lead her back into the hospital.

3.) After being unable to console JD over the death of this father, Cox recruits JD's equally ineffectual big brother, Dan, and the two of them show up at JD's place to watch the football game with him. They alternate between telling JD how proud they are of him and yelling at the game.

4.) Turk finds out he has diabetes and tries to hide it from Carla. When he tells her, she feigns surprise and presents a box she had put together called "Turk's Diabetes Box."

The ending of The Office, aka the second instalment of the two-part Christmas specials. Maybe it's just in contrast to the unrelenting bleakness of the rest of the series, but the last little bit played out like one big "awww":

Tim's gift of oil paints to Dawn with the note "Never give up," the fact that she left Lee and came back to Tim. I cried through that whole segment. I also thought David finding a nice, intelligent woman and not screwing it up completely was also very "awww"-worthy, if only for the smidgen of redemptive hope offered.

The end of Joan of Arcadia's "Queen of the Zombies" where Joan goes up to her father and whispers, "I love you, pappa."

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Hal goes to Francis' military school awards ceremony and is upset that his son doesn't get a single award. He bawls him out. Later, Francis sticks up for one of his fellow cadets, and the guy in charge informs Hal that this happens over and over and no punishment ever seems to make a dent. Hal says something along the lines of, "He does? Then good for you, son." Last scene: Francis is digging a trench or something, and Hal gives him the thumbs up as he drives away.

In Band of Brothers, when Nixon and Winters are by the lake and Nixon offers Winters the job back home in New Jersey, in the same tone a high school boy would ask, "Uh, you wanna go the spring dance with me...uh...I mean, if you wanted to go...I thought we could go...uh..together." From Heathen's wonderful recap.

I think everyone's confessions during this weeks Road To Stardom with Missy Elliot were touching. Specifically the one about the abortion.

I also realize I am a Stupid Gullible Whore, but when Tyra banks was consoling one of the girls in the early rounds of Cycle 3, the one with the really Kelly Osbourne-esque hair. She was like "You should try mine. Cuz we all know it's not real." I was like AWWW!!!, and so true.

On The OC, the "The Gamble" from Season 1, Kirsten and Sandy decide to take in Ryan for good after much back and forth and jerking Ryan around. When Ryan learns of their decision, he says, "I guess I'll go unpack now" trying so very hard to play it cool and not weep with happiness. Any time after that where its taken for granted that Ryan is a member of the Cohen family guarantees an "Awww!" from me. See also, "The Ties That Bind" when Sandy tells him that just because he's leaving, "it doesn't me we're letting you go."

Favorite "Awww" moments from American Dreams that haven't devolved into downright tears would have to be:

1.) Meg Pryor and Danny O'Connor (one of her older brother's best friends) meet randomly on the street. Danny tries to play it cool, like "yeah... you're JJ's little sister." Bandstand comes up in the conversation and Danny's all "oh, wait you dance on TV? On Bandstand? Never realized that." Then one of his buddies outs him and says, "are you kidding me? you watch Bandstand every day just to see Meg." Awww! I heart Danny, even though he is a tertiary character. Unrequited love is the best.

2.) anytime Jack Pryor acts fatherly toward Roxanne or Beth, because he's such a hardass the rest of the time, like taking Meg and Roxanne to the Father-Daughter Bandstand Dance. I especially loved Beth asking Mr. Pryor if he would do her the honor of walking her down the aisle and giving her away at her and JJ's wedding.

3.) Beth putting on her wedding ring (she had previously broken off the engagement) when she hears that JJ is MIA in Viet Nam.

4.) Jack is running for City Council and the race is close. The only way he can win is if he reaches out to the black voters in Henry's (his black employee) neighborhood. He does so, even though he is warned that in doing so he'll estrange other (white) voters, even his friends. Election Day comes and the powers that be have blocked transportation from leaving the black section of town, making sure they can't vote. I think they stopped the buses, or something like that. Anyway, without those votes it doesn't look like Jack can win and the situation is bleak. The Pryors and Co. are tallying the votes as they come in over the phone and Jack wins, somewhat surprisingly considering that the black voters, his core supporters really, couldn't get to the polling places. Cut to Henry who says simply, "We walked." Awwwww-some. Damn it all that the show won't be on for a month! For my money, its the warmest, fuzziest (but not in a cheesy, saccharine way) show on TV.

There was this episode of Happy Days where Joanie has a crush on Potsie, and sets up a secret meeting.

He obviously turns her down, as she's just a kid, and he leaves. Richie shows up, and Potsie tries not to let him know it's Joanie (so as to not embarrass Joanie), but Richie sees her jacket.

He calls out to her in her hiding spot, and she won't come out. He then says, "I hope you don't think I'm going to laugh at you, do you?"

And she comes out and says, "You're not?"

And he puts her coat on her, and says, "No." He then puts his arm around her and walks her out of Arnold's.

Pretty sweet, eh?

"The Wonder Years"

Paul goes on a "date" with Kevin's mom (it's innocent), and when she comes downstairs all dressed up, Kevin is jealous but then realizes that his mom must sometimes feel taken for granted by the rest of the family. Later when Norma comes home, she and Kevin have a heart-to-heart talk together alone.


Also the scene in "Full House" when Becky shows DJ how to put on makeup and tells her that everyone feels awkward in junior high. I know "Full House" is just one massive ball of warm, fuzzy moments, but that one stands out maybe because it comes across as sincere.

I still tear up and say "awwwww" when Harry gets down on his knee to propose to Charlotte. Every. Time.

And when Rob and Amber get married. Just one big awwww for this cute couple.

Here's my ticket to the sap train.

Woo-hoo, someone brought back this thread!:)

A big warm fuzzy moment for me was when Chandler and Monica's twins were born in the "Friends" series finale. From the reaction they had when their son came out to when Chandler was talking to them about the apartment being their first home in the last scene. They just can't stop looking at them and always have big smiles on their faces and it's so sweet! As a Mondler fan I thought that was a great ending to their story.:)

I almost hate to confess it, but sometimes I watch Unsolved Mysteries repeats on Lifetime, and I get warm fuzzies whenever they show updates of stories in which people were looking for lost loves (long lost siblings or birth parents, for example) and they show the families being reunited or even meeting each other for the 1st time. I get misty every time.

Another AWWW moment was early in this past season of Gilmore Girls, when Lorelai is upset because the snow (which she usually loves) is screwing up her day. Just so that she will feel good about snow again, Luke, the best TV boyfriend since Ed Stevens, builds an ice rink right in her front yard. Such a sweetie!

I'm a sucker for warm fuzzies. Some of my favorites:

In the Wonderfalls episode "Caged Bird," Jaye's sister comes to see her at work to get an opinion on an anniversary gift for their parents. Jaye is trying to hold her shit together, having told the guy she's fallen for that she's happy he's back with his ex-wife, all the standard crap one says when all you want to say is, "You moron, I love you." Her sister sees that she's upset and hauls her into the office to ask what's wrong. Jaye - who, when the series started, couldn't stand to be in the same room as anyone in her family - all but falls into her sister's arms crying, and her sister convinces her to call him and tell him the truth. (And then we see Jaye making said call with her sister coaching: "Okay, you're sounding a little retarded." God, I miss that show.) Both actressed rocked the hell out of that scene.
Another awww moment from that show was from "Crime Dogs," in which Jaye and her brother accidentally reunite their housekeeper with her parents - and the housekeeper who did most of the work in raising her. There's a scene where their housekeeper, Cindy, is telling her parents off and she says, "What was the word I spelled to win the fifth grade spelling bee?" At their blank faces she says something to the effect of, "I can't expect you to remember something you never knew." It's really nicely done. As they're leaving, they're stopped by Cindy's family's housekeeper, who hugs her goodbye and says, "'Oblique.' That was the word you spelled." They hug and she goes back into the house. It's so fucking sweet, nicely played by the actors, and manages to not induce cavities.

All in the Family had some great moments. Archie stuck in the elevator with a Hispanic woman who's in labor and he ends up delivering the baby, and he gets this look when he's holding the little girl...yeah, he could be a racist schmuck at times, but he was a good guy. And the episode where Archie and Meathead are stuck in a storeroom together and Archie's telling Meathead about his father, and we suddenly get a good idea of why Archie is the way he is, and there's so much unspoken bonding. Archie stealing Joey away for his baptism also gets to me...it could have easily been offensive, but Carroll O'Connor was so wonderful, you could always see clearly how Archie was just trying to do right by the people he loved, even if he was set in his ways about what was best.

The best part of the storeroom episode, IMHO, is wordless. Archie has talked about how his father was the king in their household, and he's kind of bewildered that he doesn't seem to have Gloria's respect. Anyway, he falls asleep and Mike reaches over and carefully spreads a blanket over him. It was a beautiful moment.

OK. I just realized I already said all this in an earlier post. So, never mind.

Jordan Catalano pubicly acknowledging his relationship with Angela Chase by walking down the school hall with her(in dramatic slow mo), holding her hand while everybody watched, as Buffalo Tom's "Late at Night" plays over the scene.

A few years back one of those Dateline-type shows aired a story about a Korean? man who had been separated from his mother at birth. I don't remember the circumstances but he had grown up in the U.S. All these years later, the man went back to Korea and was reunited with his mother...and they couldn't communicate. He couldn't speak her language, and she couldn't speak his, so she just sat there and stroked his face. Such a bittersweet moment.

And doesn't he say softly, 'Good night, shoebooty.' Or am I confusing episodes?

I'm pretty sure you've got the right episode there...

Not every time, but there are a couple that get me. Specifically the one where the girl's grandmother was hit by a car and killed and she wanted to find the strangers who stayed with her all night, and the one where the girl with polio wanted to find her junior-high best friend, and found not only her but the boy they had both dated when they were young.

I'm surprised no Joan of Arcadia fan has mentioned the first season episode Jump in this thread yet.

Early in that episode Adam (not yet Joan's boyfriend, though it's already clear he's gonzo for her) tells Joan that when his mother committed suicide two years earlier she left a note that he has never gotten up the nerve to read for fear of learning that he was somehow the reason she killed herself.

Later in the episode he brings the note over to Joan's house for her to read to him. Joan takes a look at it, then hands it over to *her* mother to read to Adam. She does, and Adam's relief when he gets what turns out to be good news is looking for a satisfactory word and not finding it.

I'm getting a bit wet eyed just thinking about it.

I loved that scene. And, the end, where Joan says "the ripples were good," still gets me as well.

Speaking of "Jump," I still bawl when Joan's speaking at Rocky's funeral, and yet...when she gives up on trying to say something proper and just starts talking to Rocky's mom and saying what she wants to say...there's such a sweetness there, despite the gut-wrenching sadness.
I also get a major case of the "aww"s at the end of "State of Grace," when Grace is...well, for Grace, it's apologizing. Great moment for character growth, and both actors really brought it. And it was very, very sweet. (I'm also a total J/G shipper, so my inner fangirl was squeeing mightily. Heh.)

A few years ago, I watched a nature special about elephants in captivity. They can live quite a long time, and the show followed a pair of female elephants who started out in the same place over the course of a few decades, through zoos, circuses, etc. One of them was an early resident at one of the first "elephant sanctuaries." The show ended with the second elephant being transported to the same sanctuary, and the handlers weren't sure whether or not they'd remember each other. But the minute the second elephant was unloaded, the first one came running from the other side of the santuary (acres and acres away, well out of sight), calling for her friend. They hadn't seen each other in something like thirty years, and they remembered! It was so cool -- I'm sitting here crying just writing about it.

"Jump" owns this thread, Brahmsian. Every single bit of that episode makes me go "awwwwww" and get warm fuzzies (espeically the end. Best. Ending. Ever!).

Although now it just makes me sad (stupid CBS)...

Does anyone here watch Numb3rs? Rob Morrow(FBI agent) and David Krumholtz(genius math professor) play brothers and Judd Hirsch is Dad. They're sitting in a bar at the end of the episode. Charlie(DK) was wrong about the case and Don(RM) was right, so he's sitting there brooding/sulking. Dad and big brother start to try to cheer him up. He resists. Don, knowing this will set him off, mentions Occam's Razor as to how he knew the answer to the case. Charlie grabs a napkin, starts doodling and chattering away a million miles a second, as Dad and Don smirk at each other. Aww. Nice fuzzy family moment in a show filled with them.

The family stuff is the best thing about Numbers, no contest, scair. Though I must say I'm a bit disappointed to learn that Sabrina Lloyd won't be returning to it next season, since she was the second-best thing about it.

I know! Are they going to replace her I wonder? She and Don had a nice friendly ex/possibly more thing going on. And her character brought the profiling side too. Sigh. She DOES seem to have bad luck with shows, between Sliders, Sports Night and now Numb3rs.

And Sharon desperately calls out, "Angela! Don't forget about...geometry review," and Rayanne, smirking, says, "Forget it. She already has."

The end of "So-Called Angels" in the church makes me all warm and fuzzy inside, too.

Now I need to go watch my DVDs again...

Buffy at her senior prom, when she got the class protector award. Get's me every time.

And me. I'm getting teary even sitting here thinking about it.

...and then Angel shows up, and he's wearing a tux, and aw, damn, where's my tissue....

Oh, Putli Bai, I saw this and my God, the waterworks. I can tear up right now, just thinking about that moment.

Speaking of the elephant reunion program, you can actually watch a short movie about the two elephants and their reunion in this video from the PETA web site...remember, this is PETA, so there's also footage of circus elephant abuse before you get to the lovely reunion scene...just consider yourself warned if you're likely to be upset by that kind of thing:

Elephant Reunion

And, count me as one of those who nearly wept when watching the two elephants at the end.

Amen, to everyone who mentioned Joan of Arcadia's "Jump."

Now, no one can laugh at this next one, but I thought it was great. In the series finale of "Boy Meets World" the gang (Cory, Shawn, Topanga, and Eric) is moving to New York to finally start their adult lives. They meet in their old high school classroom to say goodbye to their mentor Mr. Feeny (who got me teary-eyed several times throughout the series). Anyway, they ask him to tell them he loves them, but he refuses. He says he cannot say it because it would be showing favoritism. They let it go and each one says their own personalized goodbye. After they leave the room, Mr. Feeny runs his finger along the desk and looks around. And then, in a barely audible and slightly choked up voice:

"I love you all. Class dismissed."

I totally lost it. I still choke up thinking about it.

That broke me up, too! I'd completely forgotten about that until just now. The other episode of that show that made me cry was when Shawn's guardian was in the hospital in a coma after a motorcycle accident and Shawn was telling him he had to come out of it because Shawn wasn't done screwing up yet and he needed him. Killed me.

Oh god, that was one of my favorite episodes of a television show ever. I bought the DVD just for that episode.

This wasn't exactly a "warm and fuzzy" moment, but on Freaks and Geeks, in the ep "Discos and Dragons" (the finale) when Daniel is good at Dungeons and Dragons, it is such a sweet moment. He finally found something he was good at, and people who are nice to him. Plus, it was hilarious with his charcter's name, Carlos the Dwarf.

I think my biggest "aww" moment was the Gilmore Girls season four finale, when Luke kisses Lorelai. I was just so so happy, and I awwed.

I went "Aww" for Joey at the end of TOW Joey Dates Rachel from Season 8 of Friends .

Rachel (watching Cujo ): How can you stand this, aren't you scared?
Joey (watching Rachel): Yeah...terrified.

Some opinions may vary, but I thought Joey's crush on Rachel while she was pregnant was sweet, and Matt Le Blanc did a great job of showing Joey's conflicted feelings of being in love with Rachel but at the same time feeling bad about those feelings. (Does that make sense to anyone but me?)

I just finished watching the Jeeves and Wooster episode CBC showed on Monday, and I have to say the warm-fuzzometer was seriously slamming into the red during the two scenes where Jeeves and Bertie were playing piano together. It's just two friends, in real life and on the series (man of leisure/gentleman's gentleman relationship aside) playing a duet on the old ivories, but it's an utterly sweet moment that I just loved to see. I'm quite sure that the actors were actually playing the song - no hand doubles - which ups the awww factor considerably.

Alias, first episode of season 3: When Jack replies to Syd's news that Vaughn is married, with "Michael Vaughn is just a boy, who was never good enough for you."

Haunted, end of second episode: When the two ghost sisters, united again, leave for wherever ghosts leave to.

All which has been said about "Jump", I totally agree with.

Also, when Jack was reunited with Kim and Teri in the first season of 24 after they had been kept in that barn for 5 hours