Best death scene of a star in a TV series...

[WillParkinson]

I'm going for either Tasha Yar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Sb9BHmaxU

or

Anyone from Buffy/Angel: Cordelia Chase, Jenny Calendar, Doyle, Tara.

[CBGLuthier]

1. John and Anna Sheridan from Babylon 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-enNj3gnZk

[WillParkinson]

18. Wow...

That was strong stuff. I never much got into Babylon 5, but this was very good.

[pokerfan]

52. Nothing says, "it's over..."

quite like dropping a ship with a couple of 500 megaton bombs.

[WinkyDink]

2. Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits): NYPD Blue.

[Mad_Dem_X]

12. THIS. I've never cried so hard at a TV show.

Even remembering the episode brings tears to my eyes. :cry:

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. Agreed. My eyes were a mess the entire day from crying that hard.

Although Dr. Greene on ER is a close second.

[SeattleGirl]

66. I've seen that episode several times, and bawl my eyes out

every single time. :cry: :cry: :cry:

[mockmonkey]

3. Dr. Romano in ER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFcBVAwYXes&feature=related

[peekaloo]

5. I burst out laughing when that first aired.

poor dude and helicopters

[redirish28]

49. That was kind of cruel to kill him that way.

[cynatnite]

72. I quit watching ER after that...

It wasn't the actual dying that did it...it was the horrible goodbye he got at his wake.

[Bucky]

4. The behated Nikki and Paulo from Lost had the best death of the whole series.

[XemaSab]

9. I think Locke's death scene brought it

You know, the first time.

[sarge43]

6. Didn't happen on screen, but

Col Blake's death, MASH.

[Bertha Venation]

7. + 1

[Brickbat]

10. Yup. Devastating.

[edbermac]

13. Same with Edith Bunker.

Very sweet final scene with her and Archie.

[WinkyDink]

28. "Scene".

[Alexander]

8. Blake's 7.

Just watch the final episode and you'll know what I'm talking about.

[Aristus]

11. Randy "Doc" Matsuda in 'Tour Of Duty'.

Probably no one here knows what I'm talking about...

Great character. Such a sad and unexpected death.

Although, in retrospect, I should have known something was up early in the episode when his story arc became: "Hey guys! Guess what I'm going to do when I get home from Vietnam?"

That was the death sentence right there...

[InvisibleTouch]

58. I remember the show...

...but don't have a clear memory of the character/death scene. Now that you mention it, though, it's familiar. Of course the cliche is always the guy that's going home or almost ready to retire....

[Aristus]

62. The first time "Tour Of Duty" killed off a major character, they announced it beforehand.

Not so with Doc Matsuda.

It was an episode in which the company gets a new CO, an ambitious staff flunky who requests a combat command in order to further his career. He turns out to be hopelessly incompetent.

The firebase is besieged by NVA regulars who overrun the base at the end killing Matsuda (total surprise; didn't see it coming) and many other supporting characters. Most of the other major figures survived the siege.

[InvisibleTouch]

63. Wasn't there also an episode where one guy was ready to go home...

...and everyone (especially himself) was sure he'd be killed at the last moment - but he survived and went home?

[Aristus]

68. Not unless it was in the 2nd or 3rd seasons, which I barely watched.

The first season was not only the best, but it was the only good season of the show. It went rapidly downhill in the second season trying to appeal to a broader audience, including women.

There was an episode in the first season in which Marcus Taylor was preparing to go home when he finds out his girlfriend has dumped him and his Detroit neighborhood has been demolished due to urban renewal. A fast-talking recruiter convinces him to re-enlist. When his platoon buddies find out about it, they manage to steal the re-enlistment papers and destroy them, allowing Taylor to go home. Taylor, however, changes his mind and stays for a second tour.

[InvisibleTouch]

69. Maybe that was the one I was thinking of.

Thanks!

[kentauros]

14. William Shatner in Police Squad!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blHwaFzzbkQ

:P

[whistler162]

15. Or William Shatner in any of his series......

oh wait that was supposed to be acting!

[myrna minx]

16. The last 5 minutes of the series finale of Six Feet Under.

That or Lorne Greene in Battlestar Galactica. :D

[Auggie]

30. Six Feet Under: +1

[wickerwoman]

55. Not a star, but the cold open in Six Feet Under

involving blow up sex dolls and Rapture Ready woman = the single best death scene even committed to film and possibly the best death scene ever conceived by the human mind.

[TheMightyFavog]

17. Gaeta and Zarek's execution

Great TV.

[Yavin4]

19. This Pug!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk1pOUb8a_g

Acting! Genius!

[jobycom]

20. Okay, that's adorable! nt

[Yavin4]

42. Did You See How He Slowly Lets His Ear Collapse?

It's a very, very nuanced performance.

[jobycom]

21. One I've always remembered was Lt Norman Buntz from Hill Street Blues.

Dennis Franz played a cop transferred from another precinct who never fit in, for several seasons. The captain kept making crazy demands on him, like delaying an undercover sting until the bad guy cut his finger off. So he went dirty and stole drugs or money (I forget which), and through a sequence of events I can't remember, he wound up held up in a bank vault with the rest of the precinct surrounding him, about to arrest him. He started the normal "reflect on the sadness of life before killing yourself" bit, and while most of the cops tried to talk him out of it, JD (the off-and-on alcoholic with his own problems) yelled out "Do the right thing!" A moment later you hear the gun shot.

Powerful scene, I always thought.

[CBGLuthier]

26. Your memory is a little fuzzy

Franz played a very bad cop, Sal Benedetto who offed himself on Hill Street Blues but then they brought him back as Norman Buntz.

Buntz's HSB storyline ended by his punching out the chief and then spinning off with Sid (Peter Jurasik) the Snitch to his own show Beverly Hills Buntz.

[jobycom]

34. That's what I get for watching it in syndicate.

I didn't know what order I was watching it. Didn't realize it was a different character and that the suicide came first. :)

[eShirl]

22. Diana Muldaur on "L.A. Law"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov7aTXqMKfY

[Locrian]

23. Supernatural Jo and Ellen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2H1hmX5MxI&feature=related

[flvegan]

24. The Stig from Top Gear.

The original Stig, of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eiJkQzpzRc

[JonLP24]

25. Several (spoiler if you haven't seen the show)

from the Wire. Stringer Bell, Omar,...

[Taverner]

27. Jin and Sun's death on L O S T

One of the few times a TV show made me cry

[XemaSab]

35. Not to mention

Sayid in the same catastrophe. :(

[Taverner]

46. Ah but Sayid sold his soul to the devil...

So he had it coming...

[Xithras]

45. Yep. Though Charlies death is a close second.

I never did understand why he didn't step through and close the door from the OUTSIDE though.

[XemaSab]

51. OMG I totally blocked that one out

I was BAWLING. Just BAWLING.

[wickerwoman]

56. Jin's first "death" on the freighter got me

even though I knew it wasn't permanent. The actress who played Sun is really amazing.

Second best Lost death was Charlie.

Most of the rest just pissed me off.

[Faygo Kid]

29. Just watched Sarek on ST:TNG. Mark Lenard was an extraordinary actor.

He was dying at the time he filmed that, and it was remarkable.

[Auggie]

31. Bobby Bacala Baccalieri in the Hobby Shop; the Sopranos

Ralph Cifaretto's undoing was also quite memorable... the fight with Tony and the subsequent dismemberment of his remains.

[fishwax]

33. my first thought was Christopher's death after the car crash

I'd forgotten about Bobby's death in the Hobby Shop, but that was another good one. As were the deaths of the various thorns in Tony's side--Ralph, Ritchie Aprile at Janet's hand, and Tony Uncle-Al on the porch ...

[fishwax]

32. Christopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU8nJE6z4DM

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. Dr. Greene on ER (with his daughter and "Somewhere over the Rainbow")

runs a close second to Jimmy Smits for me.

[Lil Missy]

38. Rita on Dexter

[NV Whino]

57. I just watched that

Probably the best season ender I've ever seen.

[dmr]

39. When the sniper killed Kate on NCIS

Boy, did that make me cry. And, mad that they did that. x(

[redirish28]

50. That was a good Death also Jenny Shepard NCIS

[6000eliot]

40. Rosalyn Shays down the elevator shaft on L.A. Law

[tigereye]

41. that show certainly had some bizarre death and other scenes...

it set the standard at the time for unusual (and often hilarious, offbeat) happenings.

[brendan120678]

43. After that, I've always made sure...

to check that the elevator is really there before getting on.
I was young and impressionable when I saw that. 12 or 13 I think. It was one of my parents favorite shows.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

44. Maude Flanders.

OK, not a star but a regular character.

[Lucian]

73. That one made me LOL.

Just because of the way it happened.

[RandomThoughts]

47. In the series Yar was not killed that way.

It was in a poison knife fight, but as many star trek fans know, that was not her end.



Star Trek: TNG "All Good Things"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqe1m2p1BVM

[jmowreader]

48. I'll go with Col. Blake in MASH...

where they sent him off to a fine new life in civilian practice in the States, and his plane got shot down over the Sea of Japan.

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

53. Mikkos Cassadine, General Hospital 1981

Freezes to death in his own psychotic weather machine. :rofl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMkUmKtd0ek

[InvisibleTouch]

59. Oooh, I remember that too! n/t

[Orrex]

64. Oh my God! You've killed the original Baltar!

[Iggo]

77. A-ha!

I'd forgotten why we called him Mikkos Colicos.

Thanks for the memory nudge!

[Biker13]

54. Serenity....

In the movie "Serenity", made to wrap up the story of "Firefly", they killed off Wash! I'll never forgive them for that!

Biker's Old Lady

[ElboRuum]

60. BSG Kallie gets flushed out of a launch tube.

[jg10003]

61. Chuckles the Clown

Chuckles the Clown on the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

[ScreamingMeemie]

65. Hey there...

Welcome to DU

[KT2000]

67. Pratt on ER

:cry: really did not want his character to go that way.

[rbnyc]

70. My friend Amy's character got cut in half...

...on third watch. Actually, I think she got blown in half. I don't remember. I just remember her landing and her legs landing next to her. She said it was freezing that day and took hours to shoot.

[cynatnite]

71. Castiel on Supernatural...

He was blown up...listerally blown up and bits of him went everywhere. It was disgusting and a total shock.

[LostInAnomie]

74. Chef on South Park

[Initech]

75. *spoilage alert* Dexter

Rita, the used car salesman, the first guy Dexter kills in the pilot, the corrupt DA, and even Doakes all had memorable deaths.

[siligut]

76. Kenny, from Southpark

Series, we have to include him here, at least a few of his deaths were pretty spectacular.