What TV Shows Or Episodes Put Tears In Your Eyes

[Parche]

Mine is Band of Brothers final episode 10

At the end of the episode they tell what happened to most everyone in the series in real life
but at the very end Major Winters talks and is ask by his grandson......

Grandson :"Grandpa, were you a Hero in the war"
Major Winters: "No Grandpa was not a Hero, but I served with a Company of Hero's"








101st Airborne
Easy Company
CURAHEE!!!!!

[soleft]

1. The L Word unexpectely got me this year

When the ghost of Dana Fairbanks appeared and told Alice to get off her ass and go to her GF's farewell party before being deployed to Iraq.

[swimboy]

2. An old one

"One for the Angels" episode of The Twilight Zone, starring Ed Wynn. It's perfect and the first time I described it to someone (my aunt and cousin) I went to pieces AGAIN!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734609/

[Bake]

3. West Wing: "Shibboleth"

This one involves the Thanksgiving turkey(s), and Chinese immigrants coming to the US and seeking asylum.

Seen it multiple times, and it ALWAYS brings a tear.

Bake

[Aristus]

5. For me, it's The West Wing: Holy Night.

When President Barlet scolds Toby for using the White House to get a military funeral for a homeless vet.

Bartlet: "Don't you think this is going to bring every homeless vet out of the woodwork?

Toby: " I can only hope."

Followed by the funeral, accompanied by "The Little Drummer Boy".

I cry every time.

[huskerlaw]

14. That's actually

In Excelsis Deo, season 1.

Holy Night is the 4th season Christmas episode...where Toby's father comes to visit.

[Aristus]

18. Yeah, that's right. Thanks. I can't believe as big a TWW fan I am

that I should forget an episode title like that. :dunce:

[huskerlaw]

23. I was actually a little disturbed

that I read the description and instantly went "In Excelsis Deo!" LOL

Hello, my name is Huskerlaw and I'm addicted to The West Wing...

:hi:

[Aristus]

26. Hi, Huskerlaw!

It's okay, you're among friends here. No one is going to judge you; just let it out. Tell us: when did you first start to watch "The West Wing"?

When did you realize it was getting out of control?

Remember, just take it one day at a time...

B-)

[huskerlaw]

27. Well...

I started watching The West Wing in 1999, but it wasn't a problem until last year. I realized I had a problem when I could quote entire episodes without even stopping to think about it. :blush:

But I think I'm getting better. I refrained from paying $200 for the boxed set of DVDs that I already owned. Even though the box is VERY pretty. And shiny. Shiny things distract me. Oh look, the presidential seal in silver... *wanders off to Amazon.com*

:P

[elocs]

13. That one got me big time and still does.

Especially the ending when the Chinese refugees were allowed to walk away. God, I wish we had a president like President Bartlett.

[AngryOldDem]

68. Two West Wing episodes

From Season 1:

"In Excelsis Deo" (perhaps the best television episode written, EVER)
"Take This Sabbath Day" (if that doesn't make you stop and think long and hard about capital punishment, then I don't know what)

Plus, there is an episode from the final (I think) season of "The Waltons." John Boy wanted to publish excerpts of Mein Kampf in his newspaper and the locals rebelled and had a book burning. John Boy fished a book out of the pile and gave it to one of the locals to read. It was the Bible, written in German, which was read by someone who no one knew had come from Germany. Whenever I come across that episode it is still so powerful that it almost knocks me over.

[charlie and algernon]

4. Lost - the reunion episode

when the two groups of survivors meet for the first time and a certian husband and wife are reunited. :cry:

[lost-in-nj]

6. The one show I always cry at

is Extreme makeover Home Edition....
Good thing Americas Funniest Videos is on before it so I also laugh....

As far as crying at TV shows I also cried at that lost episode and to be honest the last 15 minutes or so of a few Ugly Bettys makes me tear up, not cry per say but tear up


lost

[bigwillq]

40. So does my mom

:cry:

[charlie and algernon]

7. Also, the Breaking Point episode of Band of Brothers

at the church when lipton is going through the roster as you see all the soldiers that were killed as the women's choir is singing in the background.

[Parche]

73. Breaking Point

Also when the shell hits Muck and Pinkalla and when Buck Compton sees the shell hit Guarnere
and Toye

[SeattleGirl]

8. An older one:

The NYPD episode where Bobby Simone dies. I've seen it more than once, and I bawl my eyes out every time.

[datasuspect]

9. the NYPD blue episode where we are treated to a view of Sipowicz's ass brings tears to my eyes

[SeattleGirl]

10. LOL.

You're so bad! :rofl:

[datasuspect]

11. sipowicz is indifferent to what we think about his ass

[fizzgig]

43. me too

and the one when sylvia dies kills me

[SeattleGirl]

49. Oh, jeez, I forgot about that one.

When she's laying in the hallway of the courthouse, and looks at Andy and says, "Take care of the baby," that just really got to me.

I loved what followed, though, when "Gay John" and Andy hugged (in a following episode), and Andy ended up taking care of Theo a lot. That's what I love about Andy; he's a gruff guy with some wrong ideas, but he always finds his humanity.

[Mad_Dem_X]

71. YEP (see my post below)

[huskerlaw]

12. West Wing

Two Cathedrals
The Women of Qumar
Isaac & Ishmael
In Excelsis Deo
In the Shadow of Two Gunmen (Parts I & II)
Posse Comitatus
Gaza
The Birnham Wood
Requiem

[melliyna]

47. Agrees

I cry at all of those also - plus Tomorrow. And now I really want to rewatch all those episodes despite having assignments still do to *disregards assignments and goes to dig out West Wing season three DVD's anyway*

[huskerlaw]

48. Hey there!

You weren't kidding when you said you were a lurker, lol.

Come out and play more often, we don't bite. Well, most of us don't...

[RFKHumphreyObama]

55. Agree with all those choices and I'd also agree with "Tomorrow"

Which aired in our country on Sunday

Also Election Day (Part 2) after Santos has won and is delivering his speech and Josh is alone at the hotel and he looks at a picture of Leo and says "Thanks Boss"

[hellbound-liberal]

15. When Gloria lost her baby on All in the Family

It was a very moving episode with Archie showing a different side of himself than we were used to seeing.

[Calliope]

16. Wonder Years

When the seventh grade puts on Our Town with Winnie Cooper as Emily. Saw it Friday night. Cried again.

[GalleryGod]

21. The Wonder Years was a National Treasure.

I met Dan Stern at a party three summers ago...We talked of his part in "Diner"...but I thanked him for his narration of the "Wonder Years".

He's very proud of that work.

[Exiled in America]

39. The Wonder Years episode that gets me is:

The one where Kevin's older brother Wayne's friend comes back from vietnam.

And near the end his sitting outside without any clothes on and Wayne finds him and his friend says, "they don't fit anymore" and wayne starts to undress and says "then take mine."

[Mojambo]

42. GREAT episode.

Great show.

I wish it was on in syndication here.

[SaveElmer]

17. Last 10 minutes of the "Six Feet Under" finale...

I don't actually cry, but I was thinking about that one for a long time...

[racaulk]

41. That was my first thought also.

But I will admit, I cried like a baby for the last half hour of that episode...and probably for another hour after it ended. I got so wrapped up in those characters and the stories that were being told, that I was really sad to see it all end. That show was one of the best I have seen on television in a long time. Brilliant writing, incredible acting, a unique concept...that show had it all. And the finale was just amazing.

[misanthrope]

51. I didn't get choked up until...

...Keith came back for David at the picnic. It still gets me a little.

[AngryOldDem]

69. I know what you mean

That was SO well done.

One question: What was the song that was playing as a backdrop? I've heard it before, but can't place it.

[racaulk]

74. "Breathe Me" by Sia Furler

I'm not surprised that you've heard it before, apparently it's been used for episodes in several television series. Check here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sia_Furler#Trivia

Beautiful song, isn't it? I can't think of a more perfect song to end SFU with. Damn, I still miss that show. :(

[u4ic]

19. The last episode of Blackadder Goes Forth

[Shakespeare]

20. The episode of ER when Dr. Green dies.

Gets me every time. :cry:

[RoyGBiv]

22. M*A*S*H - Final Episode

And a lot of other ones, but the final one especially.

[mtnester]

29. The one where Colonel Blake gets killed on his way home

sobfest

[MountainLaurel]

35. I always remember that one

Because of the raw emotion on the part of the actors: Until Radar broke the news, they hadn't known what was going to happen. The last page of the script had been hidden from them all.

[SeattleGirl]

60. Definitely a sobfest.

:cry:

[Mad_Dem_X]

72. That one was very sad

When Radar came into the operating room and told everyone the news. :cry:

[Left Is Write]

38. I cannot watch the "chicken" scenes. It's just so painful.

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. 'The Wonder Years' did it a few times

I especially remember the end of the first episode, when Kevin and Winnie kissed for the first time to the strains of "When A Man Loves a Woman."

There was another one where Kevin was riding his Sting Ray down his street just as the sun was starting to set. It was an aerial pull-away shot of the whole block, with kids out playing, guys mowing lawns, etc. I don't remember the music or what the narrator said, but it just got to me.

Kevin was 12 in 1968; so was I. They were my Wonder Years, too.

[Dr Fate]

25. "Opie's Birds" - an episode of The Andy Griffith Show.

The one where Opie kills the mother bird with his sling-shot- and Andy "punishes" him by making him raise the baby birds. Andy was PISSED- but instead he uses it as an opportunity to teach Opie valuable lessons about kindness & responsibility.

Sorry, but if you don't get all misty at the end of THAT one-when Opie releases the full grown birds back into the wild, then you probably don't have soul. Hell, it makes my misty just to write about it...

Doc

[CottonBear]

28. That gets me everytime. It's so sad when Opie tries to revive the momma bird.

:cry:

The ending is great. :)

[Dr Fate]

34. I was hoping someone would know that episode. What a great lesson in that one.

All the more intense when you put it together that Opie & Andy also lost the mother in their family...

[CottonBear]

63. When Andy leaves Opie in the room to listen to the babies crying for their mother

"who won't ever be back because you killed her...so you just sit here and think about that..." :cry:

Both sides of my family are from Western NC so that show has a special place in my heart. Mayberry reminds me of the NC mountain town where my grandparents lived. I love Andy's North Carolina accent. My paw paw and great uncles sound like that.

[Dr Fate]

67. Yup- I grew up in N.C. too. Vance County.

It's funny, b/c some people think that the show makes fun of Southerners- but most Southerners see it as a tribute...

It's probably my favorite show- certainly on the list...

[misanthrope]

52. "Yeah, but don't the trees seem nice and full"...

...Completely agree with that. The first time I showed that one to my wife, it was all I could do to keep from choking up at that point.

[Frank Cannon]

64. "The cage looks so empty now, Pa."

"Yeah, but don't the trees sound full!"

:cry:

[hughee99]

30. Surprisingly there was an episode of Futurama on the other night...

Frye (the main character, who gets frozen for 1000 years) was looking through the wreckage of "old" New York and finds his petrified dog. At the end they show his poor dog (in the past) waiting and waiting for him to come home until it dies.

[scrinmaster]

44. That, and the one with Fry's brother and the 7 leaf clover.

"Luck of the Fryish", I think it was called.

[misanthrope]

53. I HATE THAT EPISODE!!...

...It seemed so inordinately cruel that I still can't bear to think about it. I held on to my 14-year-old dog for about 20 minutes after I saw that. It never fails to depress me just thinking about it.

[pokerfan]

56. Yeah, I posted a youtube of it a while back

Jurassic Bark is the name of the ep.

[datasuspect]

31. the episode where corky told becca that he "wants to be like normal kids"

[datasuspect]

32. the episode where arnold and gordon jump play "gladiator" at the bicycle shop

and gordon jump made arnold take his shirt off

[datasuspect]

33. the roller disco episode of "CHiPs" where ponch wins the roller disco championship

[MorningGlow]

36. Studio 60 when the New Orleans musicians played

:cry: :cry: :cry:

I'm gonna miss that show.

[SeattleGirl]

62. That was a great episode.

And a great show. I'm gonna miss it too.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

37. Holy Shit...

Last night we were watching the Futurama where Fry decides not to clone his dog, and they show that he just sat outside waiting for him in front of the pizza place for 12 years. I was bawling. It was depressing.
Duckie

[fizzgig]

45. this is the one i was gonna post

good gods i can't watch it. it's sitting on my dvr, but i can't watch it.

i bawl like a little girl every time

[misanthrope]

54. See post #53**nm

**

[Wetzelbill]

59. OMG, that was sad, here's the clip....

oh wow..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akf-H0OVpLA

[fizzgig]

46. the last episode of rome

that one had me crying pretty good.

other posters have mentioned other ones, mostly west wing, but also six feet under and the wonder years.

[Wetzelbill]

61. That one is awesome too

You complete me! :)

[Blue_In_AK]

50. Six Feet Under, several times. n/t

[Wetzelbill]

57. There are some Cold Case and Without A Trace episodes

that are flat out tearjerkers. Not that I ever would cry or anything. Being a man's man and all.

[KeepItReal]

58. "Good Times" when James Evans passed away

We thought he had died for real!


"Damn....damn....damn, James!!" - Florida Evans

(Best quote ever.)

[MissMillie]

65. The West Wing - "Han"

Oh, and the Christmas episodes of The West Wing in seaons 1 and 4 (both involve Toby--my heart).

[Frank Cannon]

66. The Starsky & Hutch when Starsky's girlfriend passed away

Following her funeral, she has them both open presents that she left for both of them. Starsky gets some little thing; I can't remember what. But she leaves Hutch her beloved teddy bear, as well as a note that she is leaving him with the two things that she loved most in the world, and to take good care of them both.

Brilliantly acted by David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser.

[Mad_Dem_X]

70. Bobby Simone's death on NYPD Blue

Never cried so hard at a TV show in my entire life!

Also, the final episode M*A*S*H.