Things sadder than 'Jurassic Bark'

[DrVanNostrand]

What is the screen cap from?

The final episode of ALF. The poor guy gets captured by the FBI just before he was about to depart earth. Did a real number on me as a kid.

 

[DivideandMultiply]

Grave of the Fireflies.

 

[placebo]

The final episode of ALF. The poor guy gets captured by the FBI just before he was about to depart earth. Did a real number on me as a kid.

It's really an incredibly depressing ending when you think about it. Experiments, anal-experiments, dissection, anal-dissection. Poor ALF.

 

[vast]

In six feet under when nate buried his wife, it was brutal. Also nates own funeral.
Buffy ep "the body" and the Angel ep " a hole in the world" bith written and directed by Joss Whedon.

Smallville "the reckoning" well above the average quality if the show.

Im in the minority but I was happy when charlotte died coz she was a freaking spider.

 

[Jentleman Geff]

What is the screen cap from?

EDIT-Was really hard to make out ALF in that picture for some reason.

Yeah, I thought it was a small child.

Second Watership Down, and there's another cartoon movie made about a Richard Adams book called Plague Dogs which is even worse.

 

[Smoooothy]

has the final episode of the wonder years been mentioned? although it wasn't really "sad", finding out kevins father died only 18 months later was pretty sad

teared up majorly as a 14 year old watching repeats of A Country Practise when Molly died

 

[Bennett.]

more so because I am such a marshmallow of a dad to my daughter

 

[Bennett.]

 

[Bennett.]

 

[The Prosecutor]

Alfred crying at the end of the Dark Knight Rises, standing at Bruce's parents graves telling them he failed them.

 

[Matching Mole]

more so because I am such a marshmallow of a dad to my daughter

Amazed this moment hasn't been mentioned. Absolutely kills me. Maybe "sadder" is the wrong word. But moving, and then some.

 

[THRILLHO]

more so because I am such a marshmallow of a dad to my daughter

Fantastic moment. I rank it behind do it for her, You are Lisa Simpson, and Homer saying goodbye to his mother.

The emotional moments in The Simpsons are glossed over, while Futurama's are loudly extolled, but I think The Simpsons hit higher marks in the emotional stakes when they wanted to do it.

 

[fairdinkum]

The emotional moments in The Simpsons are glossed over, while Futurama's are loudly extolled, but I think The Simpsons hit higher marks in the emotional stakes when they wanted to do it.

The earlier Simpsons contained some wonderful storylines and scenes. I'm talking 'earlier' as in right from Season One (which seems, along with Season Two, to get overlooked by many posters around here [and elsewhere] when discussions about 'classic Simpsons' take place). Back then, the parental relationships between Homer/Marge and Bart/Lisa/Maggie were developed/illustrated with genuine depth and in a way that resonated with the time the show was made (late eighties/early nineties, a whole generation of dads who felt underappreciated by their own fathers but seemed to lack the ability to form proper bonds with their own children, or to even teach them the basic skills their own fathers never taught them).

In 'Bart the Genius', we see Homer taking genuine pride in his son's achievements, to the point where he even bathes his son. Bart keeps up the charade just to keep his father happy and when he finally spills the beans on the lie, explains to his dad that he thinks that the lie has been for the best, as it brought the two closer together. Of course, in classic Simpsons style, Homer then chases a naked, green Bart around the house - but the sentiment had already been established.

In 'Simpsons roasting on an open fire', Homer attempts to teach Bart the responsibility of the man of the house to provide for the family - especially for Christmas - even if that means taking an embarrassing job as a Centro Santa. When that fails, he mans up and prepares to tell his family of his failure, only for his valiant efforts to prove worthwhile as Santa's Little Helper (which he only found when he took his son to a dogtrack) makes the Christmas a happy one.

In 'Moaning Lisa', Marge gives Lisa the advice that she was no doubt given by her own mother: smile, act like you are happy, you will be more popular if you try to fit in, etc. When she sees that this is not working - just like it mustn't have worked for her - she throws off the shackles of her own underdeveloped mother/daughter relationship and tells Lisa to simply 'be herself', which is all Lisa needed to hear to get over her melancholy.

These episodes are all from Season One.

I shudder to think of how bad The Simpsons must be these days in comparison to the wonder years. I haven't watched a new season in about a decade, and the few new episodes I have seen in the interim were diabolical.

 

[Northworth]

Thank you for this thread guys
It delivers.

 

[The Sultan]

Molly in a country practice was memorial death scene..

Toy story 3 where the toys are just about to go into the furnace at the tip and buzz looks at Jessie knowing all was hopeless and just reaches out and holds her and in preparation of their inevitable demise, kids watch TS3 all the time at that scene gets me all the time

 

[Tiff]

What the **** is wrong with you campaigners? Have you not seen Milo and Otis?

Milo and Otis destroyed me.

Looking at this pains me bra. I need hug.

 

[Tiff]

I also remember crying like an idiot when that ant died on Honey I Shrunk The Kids I think?

I remember my Mum was like, wtf is wrong with my child.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Madge Bishop dying in 2001.

She never got to see Paris :'''''''(

 

[Dont be a lemon]

It's not purely sad but the last few minutes of Six Feet Under show the future events and deaths of the remaining main characters. Great music choice helps a lot.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Madge Bishop dying in 2001.

She never got to see Paris :'''''''(

I bet she's glad.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Lol.

For the record, 13yo me wasn't really crying when Madge died.

The writers were probably crying when they wrote this:

 

[djrossie16]

This doco about Terry Fox had me running for the tissues

 

[djrossie16]

This one was too

 

[Brad Goodman]

That and Cool Runnings are the only two movies I've cried during.

 

[simmo41]