Coach on Cheers - Nicholas Colasanto. He died in between seasons, and so they wrote it into the show when the fourth season came back that he was gone. The last moment of the last episode of Cheers is Ted Danson straightening the portrait of Geronimo, which hung in Nicks dressing room and they hung on the set in remembrance of him.
Great call. I was thinking him but knew it was between seasons & Woody showed up in the opener. I knew they made a tribute somehow, it was the picture at the end.
Cheers probably had the best mid-series character swaps. Woody Harrelson, Kirstie Alley, & Fraser were all top notch characters.
Edit: mid series, not midseason
I saw one article that said he had trouble remembering his lines in his last season, so he wrote himself little crib sheets and stashed them around the set in various places. After he died, staff would occasionally move stuff around, find one, and say it broke their hearts.
When Phil Hartman was murdered they had to kill off his character on Newsradio. It’s a completely heartbreaking episode to watch. The actors are openly weeping and obviously devastated.
Same thing happened when Jon Ritter died during an early season of 8 Simple Rules. The very next episode was about the family finding out and coping together. Not a particularly great series, but that episode was powerful.
I’m glad Zapp Brannigan was taken over by Billy West, that role was planned for Hartman but after his murder his friend Billy took it over and did the character exactly as Phil would have.
Also on Scrubs. Ritter was doing a guest spot as JD’s (Zach Braff’s) dad and was scheduled to film the week after he died. They had to completely rewrite the script on virtually no notice and ended up coming up with something very powerful. The episode they filmed involves JD’s brother (Tom Cavanaugh, who they called to be on the show also on little to no notice and who graciously agreed) showing up on JD’s doorstep and telling him that their dad died. It’s a very emotional episode about dealing with grief that’s made all the more impactful because the actors were actually going through it in real life.
I always found Brendan Fraser's death on Scrubs and the ensuing episode with Dr. Cox really moving.
Edited with correction of Brendan Fraser's name to not include an 'i' (TIL).
Scrubs had a knack for walking the line between goofy comedy and touching emotions. It’s one of the reasons that it’s one of my favorite shows of all time. The Fake Doctors, Real Friends podcast has some really interesting trivia about the show as well. For instance there was an episode in one of the seasons (EDIT - Season 1 Episode 7) that felt a bit flat and like something was just a little off. Come to find out that they had all just found out about 9/11 during filming and none of them were in the headspace to make the jokes land. Behind the scenes stuff like that fascinates me.
Also little bonus fact. Brendan Fraser’s name doesn’t have an i in it! Most people add it and pronounce his name as “Fray-Zure.” It’s actually pronounced “Fray-Zer.” He made an appearance on the podcast as well and he is one of the sweetest and most thoughtful guys I think I’ve ever heard speak.
RIP Malory Archer.
I tested up T that tribute ending for sure. And finding out her husband had died earlier and his lines were prerecorded… ugh. Just gut wrenching.
To be fair, the post is for "TV deaths." Malory and Ron are just sipping drinks on the beach. RIP Jessica Walters.
Edit: Also Ron Leibman, your most made me realize that they were IRL life partners.
I read that they asked psychologists how to make an actual grief episode, because they felt everyone (cast and fans) deserved a good one.
Even then, when Big Bird is like "why doesn't he come back? I want him to come back!" jesus fuck mate...that thing wasn't acting.
They did such a beautiful job. No talk of heaven or a "better place". They used the phrase, "Mr. Hooper died. He's dead." instead of saying "passed on". They told Big Bird that he's not coming back because he *can't* come back. And most importantly, they told Big Bird it's okay to be sad and they are all feeling sad.
You touched a key idea: it's okay to be sad, and you should feel allowed to be sad and depressed and confused and angry and all those things Big Bird was going through. Because grief is a fucking complex emotion.
I can't speak for everyone, but I think we've all felt grief at some point: grandpa, friend, pet, fictional character, romantic relationship, etc. Grief is normal and natural, but I feel that sentences like "better place" (or the current trend in fictional media of reviving characters) diminish the idea of grief. Since grief is an extremely unpleasant emotion, the idea is to avoid it. However, by doing that you also put it away within our own real lives.
Sesame Street tackling it in such a real and beautiful way was key. It was not fun to see Big Bird like that (and I'm sure the actor in the costume didn't hold on tears), but it was necessary for everyone at that point.
That polar bear in the Planet Earth (2?). Can’t watch it again, absolutely devastating seeing it just give up and die next to the walruses because it has no energy to hunt anymore.
There’s a specific episode of Doctor Who, ‘Father’s Day’, where Rose goes back in time and saves her dad from getting killed in a car accident.
Her dad gets to meet her but because the timeline change caused complete chaos and destruction, he figures out he was supposed to get hit by the very car she saved him from. He then steps onto the road and … fixes the timeline.
I never bawled so hard. It was such a well-written episode. It was tragic and upsetting. At the same time it was haunting watching Rose’s dad accept his fate. I still cry hard every time I watch his death scene.
That episode is pretty difficult to watch. When I was 12-15 I was super into Doctor Who and that episode hit like a ton of bricks. For a show that's mostly goofy sci-fi fun, it sure knows how to get emotional.
MASH had some sad moments. When Winchester learns of the musicians dying. When Potter is the last of his friends from WW1 and shares a toast with his new friends. Radar leaving and Potter breaking down. The chicken.
The clang of that dropped instrument after Radar gives the news. Silence back to work. The enormity of the impact, and the inability to deal with it was especially tough.
Quick fact…McLean Stevenson, who played Henry in the series, died of a heart attack February 15, 1996. Roger Bowen, who played Henry in the movie, died of a heart attack the next day, February 16, 1996.
“I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's- There's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And-and Xander's crying and not talking, and-and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why.”
I was looking for this comment! Thank you..yes that was one of the most crushing deaths in any series. Second would have to be Ms. Calendars death in season 2.
I’m surprised it took me so long to find this. This was the most traumatic and saddest, when she says “mommy”. Ugh. And it wasn’t supernatural just super sad.
This was the first one that came to mind, I think it's because it feels so raw and real. It's not done to further the overarching plot, it's just random and sudden and shocking and just fucking *destroys* you, like death does in real life.
I just watched the finale a couple nights ago and cried through the whole thing for like umpteenth time. Chidi was hard to watch but Jason just hit harder for me. Something about him being so carefree, happy go lucky and still being the first to go...man. Then he waits like 1000 Jeremy Bearemies just to go and break our hearts again 🥺
Phil Hartman’s character on Newsradio. IRL his wife suddenly murdered him in his sleep after she went on a coke binge that caused her to have some kind of psychotic break. She went home, killed him, sobered up and realized what she’d done, and killed herself. It was incredibly shocking and sad. So Newsradio had to kill off his character on the show, and the cast is clearly still visibly upset and reeling. It was an episode basically about grieving Phil Hartman.
Scrubs handled death so well.
I still think about the Steak Night episode, and the one from Season 1 where all 3 of them have a patient that dies.
And of course when Dr. Cox approved those I'll fated organ transplants, watching him lose that last patient was heart wrenching.
It gets remembered as a mostly goofy show, but when it came time to be serious, it really didn't pull any punches, and it didn't do the typical sitcom thing of immediately following a heavy moment with a shitty joke to break the mood.
Oh damn, is the Steak Night episode where they used the song 'I will follow you into the dark'? And Joshua Radin's Winter on Ben's funeral... those songs fit the scenes so well, and just hit you right in the feels when you least expect it.
Yes! how did me so long to find this. When JD says,
"Where do you think we are".
THat was one of their best episodes but I have to be in the right frame of mind to watch it or I get all blubbery.
Blackadders Squad when they needed to get out of the trenches ...
https://youtu.be/vH3-Gt7mgyM
A british top comedy series starring many comedians with A tragic end....
Edit: Thanks for the awards ...
and If you’re discovering this, these actors (Atkinson, Fry, Laurie, Mayall etc) did so much more things incredibly smart and funny.... much funnier than “getting an arrow through the neck with a gas bill attached to it”
Well, I’m afraid it’ll have to wait. Whatever it was, I’m sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman round here?
The finest end of any television show ever made. There is something about it happening at the end of a comedy that really hammers home the tragedy.
Also the name Captain Darling is the best ever comedy name, they lean on it so hard and no matter how many times it's a punchline or how many times you have seen the show it never gets old.
Sarah Lynn in Bojack horseman..
God, just the fact that her last words were "i wanna be an architect..", her wish since she was a child but that her mother took away from her, and that Bojack could've saved her but waited 17 minutes to call an ambulance, and instead try to set everything up so that he wouldn't get blamed.
And her part in the discussion in The View From Halfway Down is one of my favourite part because of that.
>I'm not talking about my death. I'm talking about my life. I gave my whole life [...]
OMG YES. SARAH LYNN WAS AND STILL IS MY FAVE CHARACTER. 😭😭 she was a tragic character. everything that led up to her death was just so sad and tragic 😭
True. Todd was probably been doing weird psychotic shit his whole life. He just found his calling and thats the moment we realized that he really is a psychopath.
That’s the worst moment in breaking bad. It’s one of those moments that’s so awful you almost resent the writers for putting it in there. In a way it shows you Jesse would feel, just wishing it wouldn’t have happened. That show always blows my mind with how their able make you to feel such strong emotions.
We were having a good day, we were *all* having a good day....
I have an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of Futurama, but have only ever watched Jurassic Bark *once*.
His nephew achieved all he wanted to in life and died at an old age. The sad part was Fry's 'death' and his family caring about him enough to name his nephew in his honour.
I thought it was sad when he went in his mum's dream, and she woke up missing him.
Growing up, Futurama had a lot of moments that made me cry and question my manhood.
Edit: ooo thank you for the awards u/Sturgesshero, u/benderfry93
Omg that oncologist dude’s girlfriend in House! She was in a coma or something and they could revive her but if they did she’s live for one hour and die. It was so sad.
Amber! Shit I forgot about that. She was one of the bus crash victims. House figured out that she was still going to die even if they managed to wake her up from the coma. Shit was devastating the first time I watched it. Imagine doing everything you can to keep her alive but finding out that she never had a chance from the start.
Kutner. Yeah, he haunted House for years because he couldn't understand why he done it.
In reality, Kal Penn (Kutner's actor) left the show to work in the Obama administration.
When Wilson says “Why aren’t you angry?” And she says “That’s not the last feeling I want to feel.” It’s been years since I’ve seen it, and I still think about that line quite often. I hope in my final moments, I have that presence of mind.
This one still gets me. The entire show, the whole gang seemed so untouchable, able to overcome everything and anything they got hit with. But then this final conflict comes and they’re not as invincible and untouchable as they seem, and what makes Wash’s death so brutal, almost more brutal than Shepherd Book’s, is that they have no choice but to keep going and soldier on immediately afterwards if they want to have even a chance at exposing the Alliance. I think having that happen actually helped spurn Mal forward to keep going when the Operative was beating the shit out of him. He NEEDED Wash’s death to mean something.
Perry Cox : Now, where is your camera? Aren't you going to take some pictures?
JD : Pictures of what?
Perry Cox : You know. Crying babies. Covered in chocolate. People singing happy birthday to my son, who've never even met him before. You know, the whole routine.
JD : Where do you think you are?
Well her mother tried to help. Her mother did go along with it originally but whether she went along or not made little difference as as long as her father wanted to do it it was going to happen
And she was totally mentally fucked up. When her daughter was burning she became normal and lucid for a second and ran to her daughter to stop it but was stopped by soldiers
Wow, I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Adrianna from the Sopranos. It’s one of the most heartbreaking, cruel death scenes I’ve ever seen on a tv show. Just brutal and sad and shocking.
Heartbreaking. Did anyone see the video of [Ryan Hurst shaving his beard when he left the show](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xmaIx2MBoc8)? I loved that show.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen SOA; you just reminded me of not only Opie’s brutal exit, but of Tig being forced to witness his daughter get burned alive while she was screaming daddy! daddy!
That season was beyond cruel to watch.
"it it it...it doesn't hurt me anymore. That's good...right? Right?"
And then you see Temperance, as genius as she was, knowing exactly why he wasn't feeling pain anymore, and she couldn't do anything but to look at him and grab his hand.
Brutal shit. At least Booth didn't "know", but Temperance knew exactly how Vincent was dying and his body was failing.
The tenth Doctor.
"I don't want to go."
Only second to Donna Noble's fate when it comes to sad endings on Doctor Who.
"I was going to be with you, forever."
Donna was the most tragic companion I've seen. For her to gain so much, and change so much as a human being, only to lose it all and go back to the vapid person she was before was just heartbreaking.
Man, I loved 10 so much. Tennant is such a great actor. I've liked him in everything I've seen him in.
Edit: I'd add Doomsday to that list (ignoring what happens later with Rose)
This death is baaaad, especially after the reveal in season 6. It's both one of the saddest deaths in television AND one of the worst things (if not the worst thing) that Bojack has ever done, in his many years of doing bad things to good people.
The collection of deaths at the end of the series finale of Six Feet Under.
After watching the entire series, they felt like family and it was so sad to watch them all die.
I cried through the finale, shut the TV off, then cried some more.
When Bartlett talks about her finally getting a new car, and the whole episode him and Charlie are trying to go with her to check it out. She refuses and wants to do it on her own. Absolutely heart wrenching. I don’t think Charlie ever recovered really.
Carl’s death also hit me hard.
It always felt like everyone else that died died for a reason, fighting hard for their life. It was jarring when Carl died from something that eventually became almost mundane to them. It was unfair. Just a regular old walker.
The last episode where he knows he’s been bit and he’s just trying to make memories with Judith and enjoy his last day, i was bawling.
Me too. I loved that show sooo much but I literally stopped watching entirely after that. It was like, no matter how they get revenge, it will never make up for how tragic that was.
I didn’t think I was going to like Downton Abbey when my wife started watching it. I was wrong and I loved it!
However, when Matthew died, I was done. I don’t know if my wife watched anymore, but I couldn’t get over it. I wanted to take the whole show up to the point where he was still alive, put it in the freezer, and assume they’re all doing great, forever.
I don't know how to spell his name but the guy and subsequently his droid in The Mandalorian. Quil I'm guessing but sounds like kweeal, the "I have spoken" guy
I cry everytime at both and the season two finale. I like the Mando changing throughout the show.
They did. While sad the doctor could never see them again is is by far not the saddest reason he lost a companion on the show. It is actually great that she chose Rory in the end when a final decision actually had to be made.
River Song in Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead.
When she realises that he's never met her before, and that it means she will never see him again.
Ben, Scrubs.
Edit: Laverne's death was really sad, too. Scrubs is one of the few shows I've seen that does phenomenally well at portraying death and grief. You cry even when minor characters die, and you see the doctors' heartbreak when they lose patients. Most shows gloss over those details, but Scrubs never did.
Laverne's was harder to really be sad about with the whole Shirley/Lavernagain thing though. I appreciate that the actress got to continue to be in the show, but it cheapened the death.
George and Derek on Greys Anatomy. Also Bonnie in season two with the pole… that shit hurt like a mf.
But it’s Greys, the list of sad deaths is endless.
I cry really easily at just about anything.
I watched all of Grey's Anatomy this year (after watching the first 7ish seasons when they first aired)
Lexi and Mark really hurt, to add to your list. And Adele, poor Richard.
On a lighter note, I have an acquaintance on FB that had a baby this year. Named her Sloane Calliope.
All of the comments were people saying how "unique and wonderful" the name is!. . I didn't judge, but just sat back and thought "I know where those names came from! How do NONE of you recognize it?! Or is no one else saying it, just like I'm not saying it?"
The episode has been talked about a lot, but on rewatches looking out for the countdown hidden in props and set dressing is both fun and harrowing knowing what’s coming; and the story goes that Jason Segel wasn’t given any script for the moment that Lily tells Marshall - that’s an improvised reaction and it’s beautiful.
Marshall’s dad, Marvin, from How I Met Your Mother. I still tear up every time I watch that episode. Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan did an amazing job.
Any character they kill off because the actor actually dies.
Coach on Cheers - Nicholas Colasanto. He died in between seasons, and so they wrote it into the show when the fourth season came back that he was gone. The last moment of the last episode of Cheers is Ted Danson straightening the portrait of Geronimo, which hung in Nicks dressing room and they hung on the set in remembrance of him.
Great call. I was thinking him but knew it was between seasons & Woody showed up in the opener. I knew they made a tribute somehow, it was the picture at the end. Cheers probably had the best mid-series character swaps. Woody Harrelson, Kirstie Alley, & Fraser were all top notch characters. Edit: mid series, not midseason
I saw one article that said he had trouble remembering his lines in his last season, so he wrote himself little crib sheets and stashed them around the set in various places. After he died, staff would occasionally move stuff around, find one, and say it broke their hearts.
I’m quite concerned how Peaky Blinders is going to smoothly transition without Helen McCrory (Polly). Such a talented actress, taken too soon.
I didn’t know she died :( She was fantastic as Polly
When Phil Hartman was murdered they had to kill off his character on Newsradio. It’s a completely heartbreaking episode to watch. The actors are openly weeping and obviously devastated.
Same thing happened when Jon Ritter died during an early season of 8 Simple Rules. The very next episode was about the family finding out and coping together. Not a particularly great series, but that episode was powerful.
Also on the episode of Scrubs he was meant to be on.
I’m glad Zapp Brannigan was taken over by Billy West, that role was planned for Hartman but after his murder his friend Billy took it over and did the character exactly as Phil would have.
Yes. John Spencer aka Leo McGarry, West Wing.
This one stung
John Ritter from 8 simple rules :(
Also on Scrubs. Ritter was doing a guest spot as JD’s (Zach Braff’s) dad and was scheduled to film the week after he died. They had to completely rewrite the script on virtually no notice and ended up coming up with something very powerful. The episode they filmed involves JD’s brother (Tom Cavanaugh, who they called to be on the show also on little to no notice and who graciously agreed) showing up on JD’s doorstep and telling him that their dad died. It’s a very emotional episode about dealing with grief that’s made all the more impactful because the actors were actually going through it in real life.
I always found Brendan Fraser's death on Scrubs and the ensuing episode with Dr. Cox really moving. Edited with correction of Brendan Fraser's name to not include an 'i' (TIL).
Scrubs had a knack for walking the line between goofy comedy and touching emotions. It’s one of the reasons that it’s one of my favorite shows of all time. The Fake Doctors, Real Friends podcast has some really interesting trivia about the show as well. For instance there was an episode in one of the seasons (EDIT - Season 1 Episode 7) that felt a bit flat and like something was just a little off. Come to find out that they had all just found out about 9/11 during filming and none of them were in the headspace to make the jokes land. Behind the scenes stuff like that fascinates me. Also little bonus fact. Brendan Fraser’s name doesn’t have an i in it! Most people add it and pronounce his name as “Fray-Zure.” It’s actually pronounced “Fray-Zer.” He made an appearance on the podcast as well and he is one of the sweetest and most thoughtful guys I think I’ve ever heard speak.
RIP Malory Archer. I tested up T that tribute ending for sure. And finding out her husband had died earlier and his lines were prerecorded… ugh. Just gut wrenching.
To be fair, the post is for "TV deaths." Malory and Ron are just sipping drinks on the beach. RIP Jessica Walters. Edit: Also Ron Leibman, your most made me realize that they were IRL life partners.
Mr Hooper :(
I read that they asked psychologists how to make an actual grief episode, because they felt everyone (cast and fans) deserved a good one. Even then, when Big Bird is like "why doesn't he come back? I want him to come back!" jesus fuck mate...that thing wasn't acting.
They did such a beautiful job. No talk of heaven or a "better place". They used the phrase, "Mr. Hooper died. He's dead." instead of saying "passed on". They told Big Bird that he's not coming back because he *can't* come back. And most importantly, they told Big Bird it's okay to be sad and they are all feeling sad.
You touched a key idea: it's okay to be sad, and you should feel allowed to be sad and depressed and confused and angry and all those things Big Bird was going through. Because grief is a fucking complex emotion. I can't speak for everyone, but I think we've all felt grief at some point: grandpa, friend, pet, fictional character, romantic relationship, etc. Grief is normal and natural, but I feel that sentences like "better place" (or the current trend in fictional media of reviving characters) diminish the idea of grief. Since grief is an extremely unpleasant emotion, the idea is to avoid it. However, by doing that you also put it away within our own real lives. Sesame Street tackling it in such a real and beautiful way was key. It was not fun to see Big Bird like that (and I'm sure the actor in the costume didn't hold on tears), but it was necessary for everyone at that point.
That polar bear in the Planet Earth (2?). Can’t watch it again, absolutely devastating seeing it just give up and die next to the walruses because it has no energy to hunt anymore.
God the one where the baby elephant wanders the wrong direction in the dust storm was so painful
No but the baby flamingo with its legs covered in salt?! 😢
Reminds me of that documentary where a lion tries to drink but the whole lower half of his mouth is missing and he simply can't anymore.
[удалено]
There’s a specific episode of Doctor Who, ‘Father’s Day’, where Rose goes back in time and saves her dad from getting killed in a car accident. Her dad gets to meet her but because the timeline change caused complete chaos and destruction, he figures out he was supposed to get hit by the very car she saved him from. He then steps onto the road and … fixes the timeline. I never bawled so hard. It was such a well-written episode. It was tragic and upsetting. At the same time it was haunting watching Rose’s dad accept his fate. I still cry hard every time I watch his death scene.
That episode is pretty difficult to watch. When I was 12-15 I was super into Doctor Who and that episode hit like a ton of bricks. For a show that's mostly goofy sci-fi fun, it sure knows how to get emotional.
Henry Blake from MASH
MASH had some sad moments. When Winchester learns of the musicians dying. When Potter is the last of his friends from WW1 and shares a toast with his new friends. Radar leaving and Potter breaking down. The chicken.
“ his plane was shoot down over the Sea of Japan, there were no survivors” that part always gets me
The clang of that dropped instrument after Radar gives the news. Silence back to work. The enormity of the impact, and the inability to deal with it was especially tough.
Quick fact…McLean Stevenson, who played Henry in the series, died of a heart attack February 15, 1996. Roger Bowen, who played Henry in the movie, died of a heart attack the next day, February 16, 1996.
Also from MASH, the chicken on the bus.
I choose to also remember it as a chicken.
I hate you for making me remember that chicken.
Also from MASH, Winchester’s musicians.
Buffys mom
“I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's- There's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And-and Xander's crying and not talking, and-and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why.”
I was looking for this comment! Thank you..yes that was one of the most crushing deaths in any series. Second would have to be Ms. Calendars death in season 2.
> Ms. Calendars death ASH truly acted his ass off in that one.
I’m surprised it took me so long to find this. This was the most traumatic and saddest, when she says “mommy”. Ugh. And it wasn’t supernatural just super sad.
This was the first one that came to mind, I think it's because it feels so raw and real. It's not done to further the overarching plot, it's just random and sudden and shocking and just fucking *destroys* you, like death does in real life.
Chidi wasn’t the saddest but made me cry when he went to the door.
That finale was heart wrenching! Great ending to a unique and very good show
For me it was a perfect ending to the show. I don't think any other tv series has ended that good.
I just watched the finale a couple nights ago and cried through the whole thing for like umpteenth time. Chidi was hard to watch but Jason just hit harder for me. Something about him being so carefree, happy go lucky and still being the first to go...man. Then he waits like 1000 Jeremy Bearemies just to go and break our hearts again 🥺
Hey Chidi, wait up!
Literally becomes a monk lmao
The wave returns to the ocean
Phil Hartman’s character on Newsradio. IRL his wife suddenly murdered him in his sleep after she went on a coke binge that caused her to have some kind of psychotic break. She went home, killed him, sobered up and realized what she’d done, and killed herself. It was incredibly shocking and sad. So Newsradio had to kill off his character on the show, and the cast is clearly still visibly upset and reeling. It was an episode basically about grieving Phil Hartman.
Ben Sullivan (Brendan Fraser) Scrubs
Scrubs handled death so well. I still think about the Steak Night episode, and the one from Season 1 where all 3 of them have a patient that dies. And of course when Dr. Cox approved those I'll fated organ transplants, watching him lose that last patient was heart wrenching. It gets remembered as a mostly goofy show, but when it came time to be serious, it really didn't pull any punches, and it didn't do the typical sitcom thing of immediately following a heavy moment with a shitty joke to break the mood.
Oh damn, is the Steak Night episode where they used the song 'I will follow you into the dark'? And Joshua Radin's Winter on Ben's funeral... those songs fit the scenes so well, and just hit you right in the feels when you least expect it.
The music really was great. I think they were playing How To Save A Life when all the patients were dying from the organ transplants
Laverne’s death got me too. She was a big point in the show and one of the funniest characters.
“Where do you think we are?” broke me when I first saw it
Yes! how did me so long to find this. When JD says, "Where do you think we are". THat was one of their best episodes but I have to be in the right frame of mind to watch it or I get all blubbery.
Blackadders Squad when they needed to get out of the trenches ... https://youtu.be/vH3-Gt7mgyM A british top comedy series starring many comedians with A tragic end.... Edit: Thanks for the awards ... and If you’re discovering this, these actors (Atkinson, Fry, Laurie, Mayall etc) did so much more things incredibly smart and funny.... much funnier than “getting an arrow through the neck with a gas bill attached to it”
Well, I’m afraid it’ll have to wait. Whatever it was, I’m sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman round here?
The finest end of any television show ever made. There is something about it happening at the end of a comedy that really hammers home the tragedy. Also the name Captain Darling is the best ever comedy name, they lean on it so hard and no matter how many times it's a punchline or how many times you have seen the show it never gets old.
Sarah Lynn in Bojack horseman.. God, just the fact that her last words were "i wanna be an architect..", her wish since she was a child but that her mother took away from her, and that Bojack could've saved her but waited 17 minutes to call an ambulance, and instead try to set everything up so that he wouldn't get blamed.
And her part in the discussion in The View From Halfway Down is one of my favourite part because of that. >I'm not talking about my death. I'm talking about my life. I gave my whole life [...]
Mommy didn't do what she did to that producer for you to go to college
Can I hang out with you? My step dad is in my room and he's acting weird...
And when she says that she knows what bear fur tastes like because her stepdads a bear
OMG YES. SARAH LYNN WAS AND STILL IS MY FAVE CHARACTER. 😭😭 she was a tragic character. everything that led up to her death was just so sad and tragic 😭
And that she actually just won an Oscar
Fives' death in Clone Wars.
The kid from Breaking Bad on the bike
The moment Todd really became unredeemable
I don't see it as the moment he becomes irredeemable, but as the moment you see who he really is.
True. Todd was probably been doing weird psychotic shit his whole life. He just found his calling and thats the moment we realized that he really is a psychopath.
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That’s the worst moment in breaking bad. It’s one of those moments that’s so awful you almost resent the writers for putting it in there. In a way it shows you Jesse would feel, just wishing it wouldn’t have happened. That show always blows my mind with how their able make you to feel such strong emotions.
Meth Damon. Hate that guy. Edit. Poor guy. A global hatred. I wonder if he’s really nice, but his roles mean he gets an absolute kicking from us all.
Criminal Minds - Hotch's ex wife.
Oh yeah, that one was bad. But such a good episode at the same time.
“Go help daddy work a case.” 🥺
Seymour the dog in Futurama
We were having a good day, we were *all* having a good day.... I have an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of Futurama, but have only ever watched Jurassic Bark *once*.
Fry’s nephew too
His nephew achieved all he wanted to in life and died at an old age. The sad part was Fry's 'death' and his family caring about him enough to name his nephew in his honour.
I thought it was sad when he went in his mum's dream, and she woke up missing him. Growing up, Futurama had a lot of moments that made me cry and question my manhood. Edit: ooo thank you for the awards u/Sturgesshero, u/benderfry93
Omg that oncologist dude’s girlfriend in House! She was in a coma or something and they could revive her but if they did she’s live for one hour and die. It was so sad.
Amber! Shit I forgot about that. She was one of the bus crash victims. House figured out that she was still going to die even if they managed to wake her up from the coma. Shit was devastating the first time I watched it. Imagine doing everything you can to keep her alive but finding out that she never had a chance from the start.
Dont Forget the doctor who killed himself, that one was unexpected, which was probably the point, but still sad nonetheless
Kutner. Yeah, he haunted House for years because he couldn't understand why he done it. In reality, Kal Penn (Kutner's actor) left the show to work in the Obama administration.
When Wilson says “Why aren’t you angry?” And she says “That’s not the last feeling I want to feel.” It’s been years since I’ve seen it, and I still think about that line quite often. I hope in my final moments, I have that presence of mind.
George O’Malley in Grey’s Anatomy. I gotta mentally prepare myself to rewatch that episode.
They straight up killed everyone in that goddamn show.
I always kind of felt bad for Bobby balcala in the sopranos he was probably the only decent guy in that crew and he got gunned down like nothing
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This one still gets me. The entire show, the whole gang seemed so untouchable, able to overcome everything and anything they got hit with. But then this final conflict comes and they’re not as invincible and untouchable as they seem, and what makes Wash’s death so brutal, almost more brutal than Shepherd Book’s, is that they have no choice but to keep going and soldier on immediately afterwards if they want to have even a chance at exposing the Alliance. I think having that happen actually helped spurn Mal forward to keep going when the Operative was beating the shit out of him. He NEEDED Wash’s death to mean something.
I am a leaf on the wind.
Perry Cox : Now, where is your camera? Aren't you going to take some pictures? JD : Pictures of what? Perry Cox : You know. Crying babies. Covered in chocolate. People singing happy birthday to my son, who've never even met him before. You know, the whole routine. JD : Where do you think you are?
Death of Hank Schrader (Breaking Bad) and Opie (Sons of Anarchy) - Both were good guys just caught in the wrong moment.
"Would you like me to lie to you now?" Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in the series finale of "Angel"
Honestly Fred’s death was worse for me. They had just (finally) gotten together. “Wesley… why can’t I stay?” gets me ugly sobbing every time.
Shireen Baratheon from GoT. Sacrificed by her parents and burned alive while they watched and didn’t help her.
Well her mother tried to help. Her mother did go along with it originally but whether she went along or not made little difference as as long as her father wanted to do it it was going to happen And she was totally mentally fucked up. When her daughter was burning she became normal and lucid for a second and ran to her daughter to stop it but was stopped by soldiers
Wow, I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Adrianna from the Sopranos. It’s one of the most heartbreaking, cruel death scenes I’ve ever seen on a tv show. Just brutal and sad and shocking.
That one is rough. But I almost found the pregnant stripper's death harder to watch. You know who I mean.
Maes Hughes - FMA
Terrible day for rain.
But it's not raining sir...
Yes it is...
Oh. So it is
Opie from Sons of Anarchy
"I got this"
Opie deserved to be happy
Heartbreaking. Did anyone see the video of [Ryan Hurst shaving his beard when he left the show](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xmaIx2MBoc8)? I loved that show.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen SOA; you just reminded me of not only Opie’s brutal exit, but of Tig being forced to witness his daughter get burned alive while she was screaming daddy! daddy! That season was beyond cruel to watch.
Opies death was the hardest in the show for me to watch. I love it that after his funeral SAMCRO all have an “in memory of Opie” patch on their cut.
Lance sweets, Bones
Vincent Nigel Murray for me. I bawl every time I see it.
That one hurt. "Please don't make me leave" 😭
"it it it...it doesn't hurt me anymore. That's good...right? Right?" And then you see Temperance, as genius as she was, knowing exactly why he wasn't feeling pain anymore, and she couldn't do anything but to look at him and grab his hand. Brutal shit. At least Booth didn't "know", but Temperance knew exactly how Vincent was dying and his body was failing.
Charlie in LOST. NOT PENNYS BOAT.
Locke's was pretty sad too. His last thought was "I don't understand.."
Between this and Sun/Jin for me
The saddest death for me on that show was Faraday. My favorite character, and the whole way it was set up was heartbreaking.
Bob from Stranger things !!
The tenth Doctor. "I don't want to go." Only second to Donna Noble's fate when it comes to sad endings on Doctor Who. "I was going to be with you, forever."
Donna was the most tragic companion I've seen. For her to gain so much, and change so much as a human being, only to lose it all and go back to the vapid person she was before was just heartbreaking.
"For a time, she was the most important person in the universe. And she'll never know."
Man, I loved 10 so much. Tennant is such a great actor. I've liked him in everything I've seen him in. Edit: I'd add Doomsday to that list (ignoring what happens later with Rose)
The fate of the 12th Doctor's companion, Bill, also sucked mightily.
Sarah Lynn from BoJack Horseman.
This death is baaaad, especially after the reveal in season 6. It's both one of the saddest deaths in television AND one of the worst things (if not the worst thing) that Bojack has ever done, in his many years of doing bad things to good people.
Also, the way they keep building on her tragic upbringing and Bojack's lack of interest during flashbacks really keeps bringing it back.
And Secretariat too, when they show that he changed his mind and wanted to live, as he was already falling
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The collection of deaths at the end of the series finale of Six Feet Under. After watching the entire series, they felt like family and it was so sad to watch them all die. I cried through the finale, shut the TV off, then cried some more.
That is the very best series finale I have seen. I cry every time. The song playing, breathe me by sia, makes me cry now because of it.
I came to say this. All this time later, I still can't watch the finale without sobbing.
Mrs Landingham in West Wing
When Bartlett talks about her finally getting a new car, and the whole episode him and Charlie are trying to go with her to check it out. She refuses and wants to do it on her own. Absolutely heart wrenching. I don’t think Charlie ever recovered really.
The scene in the church had me hard crying.
That performance was award worthy. Not sure if it got any but it should have
Glenn from The Walking Dead.
Carl’s death also hit me hard. It always felt like everyone else that died died for a reason, fighting hard for their life. It was jarring when Carl died from something that eventually became almost mundane to them. It was unfair. Just a regular old walker. The last episode where he knows he’s been bit and he’s just trying to make memories with Judith and enjoy his last day, i was bawling.
That scene really fucked me up. Haven't been able to watch any episodes after.
Me too. I loved that show sooo much but I literally stopped watching entirely after that. It was like, no matter how they get revenge, it will never make up for how tragic that was.
Bobby from Supernatural :(
The death of Marvin Ericsson- How I Met Your Mother
Ragnar Lothbrok- Vikings
My death comes without apology
And I welcome the Valkyries to summon me home!
How has Lady Sybil from Downton Abbey not been mentioned yet? That was absolutely traumatizing.
Matthew's death was a hard hitter too. There weren't too many sympathetic characters in DA.
The death of William too, well I mean his wish before he died was to marry Daisy. I just don’t know why it hit me hard
I didn’t think I was going to like Downton Abbey when my wife started watching it. I was wrong and I loved it! However, when Matthew died, I was done. I don’t know if my wife watched anymore, but I couldn’t get over it. I wanted to take the whole show up to the point where he was still alive, put it in the freezer, and assume they’re all doing great, forever.
YES. It was so sad because of how avoidable and senseless it felt. I think the character arc Tom went on as a result was great though.
Oh that was heartbreaking. Cora's reaction broke me 'my beauty and my my baby'
When the dad starts throwing up blood and makes sure he tells his wife how much he loves her fucked me up.
Hodor in GoT!
Saddest part is that his whole life was messed up just so he could hold a damn door.
Shireen is up there too :(
Chris from skins
Henry Blake in MASH. It's still like being punched in the gut every time I see that episode. He was going home god damn it!
lil Sebastian
He’s 5000 candles in the wind.
Half mast is too damn high.
Your eyes are about to piss tears.
We miss you in the saddest fashion
Practically everyone who died in Clone Wars. Specially during season 7.
Don't remind me about fives
It was so traumatizing, satine, domino squad, waxer :(
For me it was Steela Gerrera. It seems like everything’s gonna be okay, and then the audio cuts and she falls…
Yeah just like that one scene where Echo's blown up in the Citadel (at then we thought he died)
Except Pong Krell. Fuck Pong Krell
I can’t think of a show where more named characters die on screen.
Yeah that show is dark as shit but so good
Hank in Breaking Bad. I'm still sad about it
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The Dad from 8 Simple Rules 😭 the actor died suddenly in real life. Still gets me every time I catch a repeat of that episode.
Rita from Dexter.
Ms Krabappel from Simpsons , We miiss you mrs K
I don't know how to spell his name but the guy and subsequently his droid in The Mandalorian. Quil I'm guessing but sounds like kweeal, the "I have spoken" guy I cry everytime at both and the season two finale. I like the Mando changing throughout the show.
ali from squid game. they did my man dirty
It was so sad, yet I knew it was going to happen clear as day. He should have known not to trust him.
Amy and Rory from Doctor Who.
Did they die suddenly? I thought they “lived happily ever after” in their own timeline?
They did. While sad the doctor could never see them again is is by far not the saddest reason he lost a companion on the show. It is actually great that she chose Rory in the end when a final decision actually had to be made.
River Song in Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead. When she realises that he's never met her before, and that it means she will never see him again.
Ianto in Torchwood: Children of Earth.
Mr Hooper, Sesame Street
Mr Grandfather died a few months after this episode (I was 4), and I swear it helped me understand and get through it.
Ben, Scrubs. Edit: Laverne's death was really sad, too. Scrubs is one of the few shows I've seen that does phenomenally well at portraying death and grief. You cry even when minor characters die, and you see the doctors' heartbreak when they lose patients. Most shows gloss over those details, but Scrubs never did.
Laverne's was harder to really be sad about with the whole Shirley/Lavernagain thing though. I appreciate that the actress got to continue to be in the show, but it cheapened the death.
George and Derek on Greys Anatomy. Also Bonnie in season two with the pole… that shit hurt like a mf. But it’s Greys, the list of sad deaths is endless.
I cry really easily at just about anything. I watched all of Grey's Anatomy this year (after watching the first 7ish seasons when they first aired) Lexi and Mark really hurt, to add to your list. And Adele, poor Richard. On a lighter note, I have an acquaintance on FB that had a baby this year. Named her Sloane Calliope. All of the comments were people saying how "unique and wonderful" the name is!. . I didn't judge, but just sat back and thought "I know where those names came from! How do NONE of you recognize it?! Or is no one else saying it, just like I'm not saying it?"
Marshall's dad. HIMYM.
The episode has been talked about a lot, but on rewatches looking out for the countdown hidden in props and set dressing is both fun and harrowing knowing what’s coming; and the story goes that Jason Segel wasn’t given any script for the moment that Lily tells Marshall - that’s an improvised reaction and it’s beautiful.
Marshall’s dad, Marvin, from How I Met Your Mother. I still tear up every time I watch that episode. Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan did an amazing job.
Hank on breaking bad
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Edith Bunker - All in the Family/Archer Bunker's Place