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Saddest TV moments ever

There were some sad episodes of Due South.
 
Most of the 2nd half of the last season of The West Wing, specifically the 8 episodes from "Running Mates" through "Requiem."

John Spencer had filmed a bunch of scenes for future episodes when he died suddenly in December 2005, so his character was able to live a full 4 months longer than he did, finally dying a few hours before winning the Presidential election as Santos' VP candidate.
 
it gets me sad when i see how retarded guys get on tv and how everyone is retarded enough to think they (the guys on tv) are not retarded
 
The disappearence of Shakespeare the Meerkat
 
And Deadliest Catch fans out there? I don't watch the show but I saw "the episode"...
 
I'm not saying his death wasn't sad, but, to be honest it didn't (to me) have much impact. I mean, my dad died. People have strokes. It wasn't show related. I don't want to see anyone die, but on that show it would only have been truly sad (IMO) if one of them had been lost at sea.
 
Conchaga said:
I don't know why people reference any M*A*S*H episode other than the series finale. That was almost horrifically sad.
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Sure that was sad, but only because it was an ending. The departure of something you'd loved for 11 years (which, for the time, was insanely long for a sitcom to survive, even if it wasn't particularly hilarious its last 6 seasons) is bound to leave a massive hole in your heart. But to be perfectly honest, the only thing I can remember clearly about that entire 2-hour finale was Hawkeye taking off in the helicopter to see the word "GOODBYE" spelled out in stones by BJ.

Henry Blake's death was definitely sadder, but that was more like a kick in the nuts --you try to get over it as quickly as possible. I think the Radar finale is so much worse. He'd been gone for much of that season, then reappeared, only to find a) his innocence gone and b) his irreplaceable role as the unit's fixer...replaced. And everybody's too busy in the O.R. to even say goodbye. That final single-camera closeup shot of him getting in the Jeep & riding away, stone faced, his trademark wool cap replaced with an Army one, is just devastating in a way I can't fully relate.
 
I think the Henry Blake thing was much more profound because at that point the show was still a comedy; it hadn't become the overwrought melodrama Alan Alda turned it into, where every week was a "very special episode". Once the show started taking itself too seriously and trying to deliver a message every show, it turned to shit, everybody had to experience some kind of personal growth... the finale was just more of the same.

But when Radar interrupted the OR at the end of what was already kind of a bittersweet comedy "farewell" episode...that was powerful and unexpected.
 
Maybe it was just that I hadn't watched the show from the inception and I've been a casual watcher for years. TBH, I have never seen the Blake episode. The last episode, to me, was that it's difficult for veterans to deal with war. I have quite a few friends and family who are vets, myself included. That show just struck very close to home for me.
 
You should seek out the Blake ep. It's the final episode of season 3, if you're scanning for torr--thingies.
 
"Abyssinia, Henry" is the name of the episode. I just watched the scene where Radar comes into the OR and TEARED UP, lol. One of the things that makes it so sad is that they can't stop what they're doing to grieve, they're all choking on tears and operating.

really crappy quality video, but here it is (there's an annoyingly jarring commercial at the end) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY4qSh3UWIU

I was hoping to find the clip of McLean Stevenson on The Carol Burnett Show that aired the next day, but I can't find it and I'm tired of looking :rwmad:
 
FUCKING DOUBLE POST :rwmad:
 
When Vincent came running over to Jack in the final scene of Lost.
 
When Neil Armstrong said "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." and the Buzz Aldrin shot him in the back of the head and said "HA! Who's #1 now f**ker!"
 
The sucky bit about Stevenson leaving, was he was going off to do his own show.. which did not last long.
 
Are you talking about Trapper John?
 
Trapper John, MD was Pernell Roberts, from Bonanza. Stevenson's show was called "Here's Larry" and was set in present day. He played a radio host or something, IIRC. It was really bad.
 
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Yeah, "Hello Larry" usually makes every list of top bonehead moves by tv stars, right along with "Suzanne Somers holds out for $$$", "Farrah leaves the angels", "Valerie gets kicked out of Valerie's Family," and "David Hasselhoff stars in "Baywatch Nights".
 
Donovan said:
Yeah, "Hello Larry" usually makes every list of top bonehead moves by tv stars, right along with "Suzanne Somers holds out for $$$", "Farrah leaves the angels", "Valerie gets kicked out of Valerie's Family," and "David Hasselhoff stars in "Baywatch Nights".
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David Caruso leaving NYPD Blue to launch his movie career...
 
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