What was the saddest TV sitcom/series moment?

[LynneSin]

For me it was the last episode of M*A*S*H with Cnl Henry Blake. Radar runs into the OR and reads off the telegram that announces Henry had died in a plane crash. They said that even Gary Burghoff had no idea what he was about to read.

[Toby109]

1. That's the first one I thought of, too.

[Drifter]

9. Wow ... I'm reliving that scene right now.

It spun in .... there were no survivors.

Cheers
Drifter

[Wickerman]

2. When Archie Bunker finally made friends with the African American

and they blew him up in his car.

Shocked the crap outta my 10 year old mind.

I agree the MASH scene was tough, too.

[bmovies]

11. Wasnt that a white Jewish guy

that got blown up in his car?

I remember that episode. Where Archie opens his door one morning to find a Nazi Swastika painted on it. (It turned out to be an accident The haters who painted the swastika meant to paint it on the door of a Jewish homeowner down the street) It attracts the attention of a militant Jewish group, one of whom, (a guy named Paul), stations himself at Archie's house, waiting for the neo-nazis to return so that he can give them a little payback. It's Paul who gets into his car, which gets blown up.

[benburch]

3. Ditto.

That's what I thought when I say the title.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. That one and when Edith Bunker died. When Archie sat down on

the bed, holding an errant slipper of hers that he had just found and cried. I still sob like a baby.

[kick-ass-bob]

10. I didn't see either of these Archie Bunker ones

or I might choose one of those, but I saw the M*A*S*H ones. So I would have to say Blake's death followed by the last M*A*S*H episode.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. Oh, yes!!!!

Nothing comes close to that moment. It haunts me.

[meegbear]

15. Me too ...

TVLand is showing All In The Family and a couple weeks ago, the last episode was on (when he awakes and finds her, they consider the frist episode of "Archie Bunker's Place").

Edith sick and her and Archie goto sleep and the scene fades out. Knowing that she's going to be dead aches me.

But then, let's face it, you wouldn't want a soul like Edith to go any other way.

[Jamastiene]

5. Not because of what happened in the show, but

the last episode of X-Files. It was a great show and I hated to see it end. The episode itself wasn't sad, just the end.

[Spacemom]

6. I'm gonna totally reveal myself as the nerd I am

The one that always get me is the episode of Star Trek Next Generation where Data creates a daughter. He makes her with the ability to experience emotion. At the end where her brain is shutting down and she says that she loves him. He says that he's unable to feel that and she says "that's okay, I'll love enough for both of us."

That one gets me every time.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. I forgot that one! I am not a Star Trek freak, but I married one and we

watched this one together...and my chest hurt, I was crying so hard. That and when Kess (sp) left the show.

[NomoBreaks]

25. More about that episode

There is a great scene in "Ten Forward" when LOL is learning about human interaction.

She sees two crew members nuzzling at a table and then they kiss and LOL says:

"Look, father, he is BITING that female."

That cracks me up every time.

ps...I guess you notice that all the Soong androids have clever names?

Data/Lore/B4?

[WI_DEM]

7. the final Lucy-Desi hour

taped on March 3, 1960, "Lucy Meets the Mustache" (played by Ernie Kovak) it was the last Lucy and Ricky adventure. Apparently it was a very sad set during the the week of rehearsing and taping. The final scene has the following exchange:

Lucy: Honestly honey I was just trying to help.
Ricky: Well, you can help me by not trying to help me. Come here.
(they kiss for several seconds, Lucy with her eyes shut--both clutching each other).

Desi was directing the episode and apparently Lucy said, "Arent' you going to say cut?" and Desi finally called out, "Cut...damn it cut."

The next day Lucy went to filed for divorce. Apparently they remained friendly and in love, but they couldn't live with one another.

[deutsey]

17. I found that scene very poingnant because of what was really going on

Just the juxtaposition of the "happy ending" with Ricky and Lucy in love and the reality of Desi and Lucy breaking apart.

Still, I think the Blake dying in MASH was the saddest that I can think of.

[GOPisEvil]

12. Another nominee: when James dies on "Good Times"

"Damn, damn, damn!"

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Ohhhhh. I forgot that one. So many times that show could make me

cry...but that was a heartbreaker. As a child, we used to drive down I-94 past the tenements in South Chicago (they're tearing them down now) and I'd think of this show and look at boarded up and broken windows, fire scorches on the outside walls and wonder how it would feel to live there. This show did a good job of making it a bit real...in a cleaner, more comfortable way albeit.

[JitterbugPerfume]

16. Jeez you guys

reminding me of all of this stuff~~~~~~ I will be in a puddle all day long

[lpbk2713]

18. Hill Street Blues when Phil Esterhaus died.

Real life actor Michael Conrad actually died during the filming of the series and Bochko and the writers handled it just right.

Another touching moment was when Joe Coffey was shot and killed and how Lucy Bates reacted to it.

I miss Hill Street Blues. It was always interesting to watch.

[Merope215]

19. When CJ's Secret Service guy died

at the end of the third season of "The West Wing." Does anyone else watch it? It was so good for the first few years...

[Lavender Brown]

20. yes.. and the music they played

:cry:

[Merope215]

23. the music on that show

is terrific. I cried so hard, it was kind of embarrassing.

[Magrittes Pipe]

21. "We're not supposed to move the body!"

:cry:

[11 Bravo]

22. The untimely death of Chuckles the Clown

on the Mary Tyler Moore show. "A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants."

(Just trying to lighten things up a little.)

[Nikia]

24. Dr. Who

When Andrik dies, saving Earth. I cried about that one for weeks.