This moment from the Simpsons never seems to be mentioned.
In the episode "Lisa's Pony", Homer watches old tapes of Lisa while reminiscing on the good ol' days. It then turns really dark when he realized how neglectful he was. It really hits me in the gut when he says
I raise your Vegeta one and give you this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj1V24sLsE8
Personally i'm rather fond of Vegeta, i know DBZ couldn't live to todays standards but as a kid watching that show and then watching it now and seeing all the subtle things is quite heartwarming.
Watching Parks and Recreation, I had a tear running down my face
During the funeral for Lil' Sebastian.
It was one of the most moving scenes I have watched recently. The music was perfect, the cast was outstanding and everything came together perfectly to touch dem feels.
I think it was that combination of silly and serious that made Scrubs such a phenominal show. When it comes to shows where I've learned the most about life I think I'd have to put in my #1 spot, and for shows that made me laugh my ass off I'd have to put it at #2... nothing beats Arrested Development
Community may be a comedy first and foremost, but it has a ton of these kinds of scenes. So many feels from such a funny show. Hopefully it'll still be great even after Troy leaves (he is my favourite character).
Avatar the legend of aang. Tales of bah sing se. Iroh. Just. Yeah... You know what I'm talking about. I cried. Honest to goodness cried. And I have no shame of this.
I learned to play that leaves from the vine song. I still kinda get misty eyed when I play it and sing along. Jegus that was a moving scene. Theres a reason Iroh/Zuko are my favourite characters of all time from anything.
I too shed a single manly tear during that scene. From both eyes. Several times.
Loudly.
For an extended period of time.
I was hoping the Legend of Korra would be able to move me the way that scene in the old Avatar did, but no such luck...
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Watmote got me a couple times in the later episodes. I just felt so bad for the girl being THAT bad at human interaction. The pity led to a couple pretty sad moments.
Y'know I felt the same way but after thinking about it more she really is a shitty person. She's so arrogant and the things she says about other people she knows nothing about... but I suppose crippling anxiety can do weird things for you.
Thats one of the few animes I actually liked, mainly because I can actually relate to the main character. It's not that the main character is a shitty person or trying to be shitty, it's that when you fail at understanding something that comes naturally to what seems to be everyone else, you start trying to rationalize it. You aren't broken, its EVERYONE ELSE who's malfunctioning! You don't commit social faux pa's, it's everyone else who isn't acting like a normal human being! Knee Jerk mental defenses is all it is.
If anything you should be pissed off at her family. Their daughter is clearly suffering, and they would know that if they were at all involved in her life.
The first thing that pops into my head is Hatoful Boyfriend, the pigeon dating sim. It's called the "Bad boys love" route, and, well, to quote the letsplayer Angie Gallant: "AND THEN HAPPINESS WAS OVER FOREVER"
Oh! and "You're the Inspiration" in Elite Beat Agents. The episode is about a little girl at christmas who only wants her father back. do I need to say more?
Also, the joke ending for lambda in Blazblue: Continuum Shift, to put it simply, it isn't funny, at all.
One last one, TT-TT
For me I have to say, Sisterhooves Social from MLP. My sisters don't get along and that episode crushed me.
Also in GTO, which isn't a terribly lighthearted show,
The end of the anime. Everything else usually works out for Onizuka through his ridiculous luck or just plain being heartwarming, but having to leave the school is probably the biggest downer ending to any of the plot threads/arcs in that show.
Futurama does the touching moments absurdly well. Jurassic Bark, The Sting, and the final episode of the series (presumably) Meanwhile. All of these episodes were masterfully written and executed. Would recommend them to anyone.
That moment when the music dropped and Twilight was crying for Celestia... Wow. It could've been a much stronger scene if it lasted longer and the episode ended there.
The time traveling show about a young man who is in the continuous act of a mad scientist has a life of the bizarre and silly maintained in his life in order to keep things interesting, however he has some sobering moments where in his explorations of time travel...
Mayuri (Mayushii) keeps getting killed, as though it was a fixed point in time that she MUST die, no matter what.
Moeka (Shining Finger) is a CERN agent working for a mysterious FB...who eventually kills her when exposed.
Suzuha (Part-Time Warrior) is a time traveler from the future who's trying to prevent a disaster caused in the past.
Makise Kusiru (Lab Assistant) falls in love with him, but is destined to die because he has to put time back to normal.
This show is largely very silly, but you have some really serious moments even in here. For instance...
Celty's 'life' as a Dullahan deprived of her head is fairly dramatic, turning her from urban legend to a real person, just about. Her endless search is actually pretty damn serious, despite all the weirdness around her and just BEING strange herself.
Let's not forget when Saika appears, taking control of people that she has cut and they have cut, and that there's an army of people turned kill-crazed roaming about town. Heh, and THEN we find out that the REAL Saika is Anri...who inherited the blade when her father was killed by her mother, who then killed herself. All this and her ability to actually go sword-wielding badass on people.
How about the whole Yellow Scarves thing, where Kida is forced back into gang life...and then as leader realizes that his gang's been slowly repopulated by his old enemies, the Blue Squares. We knew something was going wrong there, but that turned out to be a brilliant "Fuck you" moment on Kida, who's suddenly very alone at that moment.
Okay, the show even plays up drama with comedy, but can you honestly say no tears are shed for the death of Ace Rimmer? I mean...what a guy!
This isn't tragic or anything, but it made a character who was specifically designed from the outset to be an obnoxious arsehole sympathetic, if only for a moment. So it definitely qualifies.
The ending to 30 Rock (my favorite recent sitcom) was kinda bittersweet. The ending song was actually a reference to a much earlier joke, and they kept it funny right up until the very end.
In the first arc of JoJo?s Bizarre Adventure, Jonathan Joestar?s
death. A poignant sequence of scenes for this newlywed gentleman hero who remained optimistic despite the hardships he?d suffered in his life because of his jealous and vindictive stepbrother Dio. It?s too bad Araki later spoiled it by creating a plothole in which Dio somehow survived the incident, stole Jonathan?s body, and stole his Stand too?
Pretty much all of Fullmetal Alchemist (the original manga and Brotherhood version; nothing against the first anime, but I just don?t like how it seemed to try too hard to tug at my tearducts and ended up with major Jump-the-Shark syndrome by the final episode).
My favourite episode of Family Guy: when Brian and Stewie are locked in a vault, and Brian eventually admits to Stewie that he keeps said gun in the vault in case he ever finds it too difficult and commits suicide. And then Stewie persuades him otherwise by saying that he?s the only one he considers a friend and he wouldn?t know what to do without him. Those two work so well together, and Brian is pretty much the best character in that hit-and-miss show, so I refuse to believe that they?re not reviving him from the dead.
The final parts of the final episode of Scrubs (season 8, that is). Scrubs really is my favourite sitcom, because it can make you laugh and it can make you almost cry for all the stuff the characters go through (even the dickish ones, like Dr. Cox & Kelso).
The scene in Alan Moore?s Lost Girls where Wendy confronts the paedophilic Captain with his fear of growing older, and then later, their innocence destroyed by said Captain, sees Peter as a hardened hustler. Remember, this is pornography I?m talking about. The majority of the book is just Rule 34 versions of The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, and Alice in Wonderland, but the most ?Oh, let?s get back to real-life and how sex without boundaries, like incest and child abuse, can fuck up relationships? moments happen towards the conclusions of the three protagonists? backstories.
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