most heartbreaking episode of a comedy series?

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tthor

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Impluse_101 said:
This...this one..


When I was sitting down on the couch watching this....I just bawled out my eyes.
He...he didn't know that they were bad organs..but...but...it's not like...geez!

...geez...god dammit now I'm gonna bawl it out again...
.....I need a hug...please.
crap...
I.. I just got something in my eye, ok,...
 

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darkapothem2000 said:
My three initial nominees:

"Jurassic Bark" from Futurama S3 (the one with Fry's dog from the 20th century)
Well, since thats gonna be about /thread for a lot of people, hm....

When Optomis Prime dies of Prostate Cancer on RC
 

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I know scrubs has a lot of episodes like that but i cant rember them, the one previously posted is a good example.

There's also that episode of eight simple rules of dating my teenage daughter when john ritter died. Wich btw i just noticed that the girl is Kaley Cuoco.
 

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Amazed noone's mentioned the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth. Must be a timezone thing.


Also, just for sheer u-turn tonal shift, the 'Old Holmes' sketch from that Mitchell and Webb look. It's more upsetting than heartbreaking, but there was utter silence in my house for ten minutes after it aired.


It makes you think though, how many times have you seen the same joke and laughed it off without realizing what you were laughing at?
 

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BaronFelX said:
I'm glad to see "Jurassic Bark" got mentioned like a million times, but I'd also think "Luck of the Fryrish", also from Futurama, is pretty powerful for people with brothers.
Those for sure. And

AnimatedAmbiguity said:
I think "The Sting" was another emotionally driven episode of Futurama. Leela blaming herself for Fry's death, nobody really believing her when she claims to have seen and or heard him, and the end when she eventually loses her mind and turns out comatose with Fry weeping alongside her bed the whole time.

Nothing that made me tear up, but was still quite sad all the same!
That episode always makes me sadface but not cry as well.
Wow, my big three choices were already mentioned and all from the same show.(all other sad scenes that spring to mind for me are from action/adventure series that dabble in comedy/drama)
 

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Impluse_101 said:
This...this one..


When I was sitting down on the couch watching this....I just bawled out my eyes.
He...he didn't know that they were bad organs..but...but...it's not like...geez!

...geez...god dammit now I'm gonna bawl it out again...
.....I need a hug...please.
Seconded.

That was one of the moments that I really liked of Scrubs, actually.
 

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Definitely Jurassic Bark. *cries*
Seriously, I had to turn the TV off for an hour and sit, hugging my dog.
And from Torchwood series 2, the episode Out of Time. Go and watch it now. It's the saddest sci-fi episode ever. No action, no monsters. Just romance, and drama.
Right, I have to go hug my dog again.
 

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Tankichi said:
Rylot said:
Tankichi said:
1 million internet points for using Clone High, god I love that show.
Show is epic. I love how that episode ended.
If MTV brought that show back it would single handedly redeem them from the years of absolute garbage they've been airing. Sadly Jersey Shore will get another season while CH is relegated to dustbin.
 

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Jurassic Bark would be on my list too.

The episode of Scrubs "My Screwup" when Dr Cox's friend Ben, (Brendan Fraser,) dies due to leukemia complications, (it was in remission,) and the fact that he's dead is revealed at the end showing that Dr. Cox has been in denial the whole time, only accepting it when arriving at Ben's funeral. They play "Winter" by Joshua Radin too. Holy Hell, it made me sad that Brendan Fraser was dead, that's a massive accomplishment right there.

On second watching there are all these visual cues that Ben's dead, (despite the fact he keeps turning up for the rest of the episode,) but I didn't actually click until the funeral as I imagine most others did. It was masterfully done.

Then they play the banjo-happy Scrubs theme right afterwards, it's like "What the Hell are you doing? Dr. Cox is sad!"

Some Simpsons episodes tear me up, the first and last ones with Homers Mum were tear-jerkers.

And yeah, another million points from me Tankichi - Clone High is awesome.
 

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The entire third season of Moral Orel, as BaronFelX said.

It's just... man, they just keep breaking every character down.
 

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As people have said, Scrubs does this well. I'll cast my vote with everyone else for "My Lunch", as well as the episode Superior Mind mentioned, "My Screwup". The guy who plays Dr Cox is an amazing actor.
Jurassic Bark, obviously... I don't watch much comedy apart from Scrubs and animated shows though...
freakydan mentioned Buffy. I haven't seen it in a while but if that's the episode I'm thinking of... Also when they find out they pulled her from heaven. Oh man, not cool. Don't know if I'd call Buffy comedy though... It's funny, but (especially towards the later seasons) it's also quite serious.
 

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Gah! Why did you have to bring up Jurassic Bark? Now I need to go look at pictures of kittens to cheer me up.