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@@mohdsuliemanbinabdullah2551 It made me cry... it should have been on here. I also think that Kings Tide from The Owl House should be on here. If you watch it you should know why...
Interesting fact about Uncle Iroh’s voice actor after Mako died. Greg Baldwin (Iroh’s second VA) always politely refuses to sing the song Leaves From The Vine at conventions because in his own words, “Leaves From The Vine is Mako’s song, not mine.”
The Tom and Jerry episode where both of them sit on the train tracks waiting for their death after both got their hearts broken has got to be the saddest thing in cartoons ever. You cannot tell me there is anything worse than that.
The Mothers Day episode in the Rugrats is heart wrenching. The thing that got me was how even after being told about his mum and what she wrote before she died, he was still oblivious to the concept of life and death, only ecstatic that he has a mother "in the trees and the clouds and in the wind".
That’s a healthy way for a toddler to understand death, I’m sure that’s why the show depicted it that way. It establishes the truth in a healthy way that he can grow into. He does still have a mother, in his heart and his family’s memory.
Back then, I don’t think Nickelodeon was allowed to actually say that someone died-on second thought, in the episode I Remember Melville, the babies mentioned several times that Chuckie’s pet bug Melville died.
bruh thats what I say. the last scene wasnt the bad part, it was all the weird music and the creepy vet and his parents getting taken. everything about the episode is traumatizing
seriously, that justice league unlimited scene should go up more, the moment she said "will you stay with me?" my heart crumbled, that scene has never failed to make me emotional
It's not that I disagree with Futurama's Jurassic Bark being at the top, but the fact that I agree with the list that I also have to go and cry for another 24 hours again because of how sad it was.
Because of my large amount of siblings, and because fire is a dumb, forgetful, dude who lost his family and constantly mentioned how his brother made life hell for him, luck of the frirish is more sad in my opinion. Also, there’s a comment in frie’s fantasy about life being a arcade game where he mentions that his brother used ot help mim defeat the final boss was heartwarming. 17:19
I wholeheartedly agree! I Will Wait For You by Connie Francis is a huge selling point that makes Jurassic Bark the most emotionally powerful episode of Futurama. Honestly i can’t help but cry every time i watch it on dvd. #RIPSeymour 😢🐶🌹
I can't remember the episode but the one where fry "goes back in time" through his memories and spends time with his mother had me weeping. What I would give to speak to mine again
I know the episode because there’s a refrence to it in Fallout New Vegas’ Lonesome Road DLC, where if you have Wild Wasteland, you can find a fossilized dog called Seymour
honorable mention: the hey arnold episode Arnold's Christmas, we learn about Mr Hyunh's backstory about giving up his daughter to a soldier on the last helicopter out of vietnam to save her life, then reuniting with her at the end
Heart of Ice is so sad; people wonder why do the villain do what they are doing, but in Victor Freeze’s case he wanted to save his wife from an illness.
The Wild Thornberrys gave us another tear-jerker: Forget Me Not. Rebecca's death was one of the few times I cried to a Nickelodeon show, the other being SpongeBob. Gary, Come Home made me sob so hard first time
Mother Simpson and the following episodes with Mona was incredibly sad. Particularly when (spoiler alert) she passes just as Homer was gonna say sorry for being mad at her. 😢
I knew that the Seymour episode would be #1 before clicking! Batman comforting a dying Ace hits even more once you consider that he named his dog after her.
The hardest part about Requiem is is that we literally see the impact on screen with the blade protruding at all. There may be no blood but we see the blade going through splinter which is one of the darkest moments I have ever witnessed in any animated show, kids or not
@@thecodester6669 Though to be fair, the symbolic nature of the episode and the fact that Beast Boy was the only one who believed Terra was still alive implies that Terra was never actually there and only was a figment of his imagination. Which makes the episode even more depressing.
I can understand how sad the mother's day episode of Rugrats is but to me, the saddest episode has to be 'I remember Melville' where we see Chuckie suffer the loss of his pet bug Melville and the stages of grief he goes through. I can never watch this episode without tearing up as it's so heartbreaking seeing Chuckie actually go through such a sad moment in his life.
I know I was heartbroken when my dad passed away unexpectedly in 2016 haven't been the same since that warm June night oh and he wasn't alone my grandma join him that night
Yeah jurassic bark deserved that top spot definitely. Honestly one of the saddest things I've ever seen throughout tv, films, hell all of it. Bloody devastating even today it really is. Especially if you've got a dog.
@@youkai3785 yeah that too. Honestly I'm fucking dreading that day when it comes. Ours is nearly 12 now but still doesn't do too bad for his age. Just enjoy as much time with him as he's got now though.
"Code of Hero" - Beast Wars I recall watching the reruns before school every morning and seeing this episode hit me hard. Hard to swallow feeling, teary eyed, and then having to push it aside to face the school day. "Life of Brian" - Family Guy Although in the back of my head I kept thinking they'd bring Brian back somehow, I couldn't help but shed a tear or two. "Mother Simpson" - The Simpsons I can't say I cried, but it was emotionally a lot to digest at once. "Jurassic Bark" - Futurama All the feels. Like holy guacamole I could not handle it. Honorable mention: "The Terror Beyond: Part 2" - Justice League When you take a one-note almost joke of a c-list villain and give them a tragic backstory as well as one of retribution, you have my attention. I was binging JL episodes on Netflix many years ago for a few back to back to back days and when Solomon Grundy sacrificed himself plus the funeral scene at the end with Hawk Girl deliverying the eulogy at the end played, I was in TEARS. I couldn't even play the next episode. There's an episode down the road in the Unlimited continuation of JL where his body is resurrected and Hawk Girl puts him, essentially her friend, down. It didn't make me cry, but I definitely needed a few minutes to stop and breathe after.
And to think they say that the dad episodes are some of the best episodes of these particular shows, because you know they add such depth to the characters and all that.
You say “murder” but Courage’s parents were kidnapped. Kinda the same thing you said for Harold thinking he “injured” his dad in The Umbrella Academy. He killed his dad. Major difference from those words
I agree with most of them in the list. But what about blue cat blues from tom and jerry. One cannot forget that final track scene. Also it shows us that emotional pain hurted the duo more than than the physical pain.
I think there are three that you didn't mention, but really needed to be on this list, and a reason why honorable mentions was especially needed for this top 20: The first one is that episode from Tom and Jerry which's name I unfortunately forgot, the one all about Tom's flashbacks on how he tried to impress a lady cat but miserably failed. And that ending scene, man... The horror it brought to me as a 5-year old watching the episode could not be understated. The other one is finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Other ones I can excuse, but this one I straight up can not, because you have covered this series _multiple times._ Seriously, not only it is one of the saddest episodes of any Animated Series ever created, it also elevates the OG Order 66 scene from Revenge of the Sith, because you got to know all the characters that got brutally assassinated throughout the runtime of the series, not to mention the ''soulless'' killers that turned against their masters as well. And the final one... Do I even need to say it? It's obviously The Hardest Thing, from Amphibia. I got genuinely baffled on how this one wasn't included on the list, for it is one of the only pieces of cinematic content, together with the ending scene of The Iron Giant, that managed to make tear me up a bit. I won't even dare to spoil a thing about this magnificent finale, because it needs to be experienced by oneself to be fully appreciated. Not even a single comment says a thing about it, how's that so?..
Jurassic Bark never fails to bring the tears. Especially that scene when he’s waiting for Fry to come back😕. Mother Simpson is also up there as well. This list may be one of their best lists.💯
I love turtles, and I actually SCREAMED when Shedder killed Splinter Seeing those former brothers fight to the point one dies just destroyed my heart Mikey whimpering, "Papa" will forever make me want to cry-
And it's even worse, because that was the SECOND time he died during the show The turtles managed to bring him back, only to loose him *again* soon after. And this time it was permanent
Was surprised that not one episode of "Hey Arnold" was featured here despite them having a good deal of hard hitting and solemn episodes. Neglectful, psychological and emotional abuse, theme of being ostracized by society, family forced apart by war, addiction, depression, the list goes on.
Yep, Jurassic Bark definitely deserves to be number 1. I still can't watch that episode. I'm not even gonna watch that segment of this video. I just can't.
Appas lost days was an episode that was sad from start to finish. Yet the song Leaves from the vines was the saddest moment. I think they equally deserve to be on this list.
@@donder91 true. They are going for episodes tho and the majority of Tales is uplifting and fun. Even Iroh's bit is predominantly hopeful until the end.
She does. I watched the entire seasons of Steven Universe. Pearl went through so much with Rose aka Pink Diamond. I can’t imagine the heartache she did to fake Pink Diamond’s shattering
Pink made Pearl feel like her own being for the first time, but unfortunately she didn’t care enough to realize that made her Pearl’s whole world. Maybe none of them were familiar enough with emotions to know how careless they were being with themselves and each other.
All of these episodes have had time to marinate in sadness. But I would have loved to see a mention of Coven Of The Dammed from Gendy Tartakovky's Primal.
Thundercats(2011) remake has a great episode called The song of the Petalars. It is very emotional and impactful. Sad that the show got cancelled. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!
One thing that makes me feel sad is when Bunny from Powerpuff Girls was living temporarily, and exploded after saving the three adorable girls from being pummeled.
I was thinking of the Bunny PPG episode too! While kid me didn't cry, adult me did. I probably realized what actually happened then. Kid me was just here for the show, didn't realize the hints of gore and blood then. Or the rather gross close ups from certain episodes, lol. Now I notice. XD
I can’t decide which King of the Hill episode is worth getting an honorable mention. The episode were Bill gets so depressed around Christmas over Lenor leaving, that he eats the Hills every night, adopts an iguana and names it Lenor, attempts suicide, and starts to act like he is Lenor. The episode were Bobby falls in love with a girl named Marie, only to have her crush his heart, that they aren’t in a romantic relationship. The episode Boomhauer falls in love and wants to marry a woman, only to discover she is just like him. Someone who sleeps with other men and dumps them. Or were Cotton Hill is struggling to support DeeDee and GH and it’s costing him marching in Veterans Day parade.
Dinobot's death got me as he was my favourite character in Beast Wars and Optimus' words "he lived a warrior, he died a hero" are etched in my brain to this day.
Without watching I already know number one is Jaurassic Bark. I can’t even explain the episode to people without crying. Second should be Game of Tones.
I'm honestly surprised they picked the Christmas episode to represent Charlie Brown when there was a Charlie Brown story about a girl suffering from Leukemia. Other sad episodes not on this list include "Forget Me Not" from the Wild Thornberrys, an elephant that was close to Eliza and her father passes away. "Edge of the World" from The Owl House, King thinks he's found his family, only to realize he's the last of his kind. and "Cookie Chomper" from Alvin and the Chipmunks, the boys find a stray cat, adopt him, love him, and watch him die.
Honestly, as one of the many people who get weirdly depressed around Christmas, Charlie Brown's Christmas always spoke to me on a personal level. It's always heart-wrenching when he describes it as "Not feeling how I'm SUPPOSED to feel". Because it just drives home how many people with mental illness are expected to act or feel happy; even during times when we're just trying to hang on and get through the next few hours. It also points out that things like commercialism totally ruins the holiday vibe.
The Gravity Falls finale was and is iconic. It has horror, comedy, and tragitty all mixed into one. It was a perfectly executed display of the weird and the wacky that the show was. A perfect way to end an absolutely incredible series.
I’m so pissed about the fact that they mention Jurassic Bark so much in “Saddest Scenes” but *never* mention the ending scene of that episode where it was revealed he waited for Fry to return
Futurama is one of my favorite shows, but I do not have it in me to ever watch "Jurassic Bark" again. I couldn't watch it until I saw "Bender's Big Score," and I knew there was a duplicate of Fry to live with Seymour. Even so, I cried my eyes out when I saw the episode, this is no doubt the number 1 saddest episode.
Even if Courage didn't know, his parents weren't technically murdered as they appear alive on whatever alien planet the vet is sent to, along with all the other dogs who proceed to beat him up
I lost my mother to a car accident when I just turned 13 in 1997 and her wake was on Mother’s Day. Even though it’s been over 25 years it still feels like the day I lost her. I was then hit by a brain tumor in 2009 and thankfully my little one was born and saved my life from self destruction later that year. He has helped me through every darkest time I’ve endured and I’m so blessed to have him with me.
Here are some honorable mentions: - The Return of Hydro-Man: Part 2 (Spiderman: TAS) - Graduation Day (X-Men: TAS) - Twisted Sister (The Powerpuff Girls (1998)) - Forget Me Not (The Wild Thornberrys) - Apokolips... Now!: Part 2 (Superman: TAS)
Eda finally accepting the presence of her curse and comforting the entity in The Owl House will always leave me in tears. The fact that she was able to turn something that caused so much fear and trauma into something great was just such a powerful and bittersweet moment. I'm really hoping that it's on this list, given that I haven't finished the video yet. Edit: I'm super bummed that it wasn't included, TOH is so underrated :c
The episode with Marcelline and Ice King makes me cry without even seeing the whole thing. Marcelline’s whole story expands the world in a really deep way.
Fry's dog got me at the time because I knew thats what my dog (a very smart Kelpie x dingo) would be like if something happened to me. He died Dec 2020 aged 18. I miss my Muttley.
Honorable Mentions *The Hardest Thing and The Final Episode(Amphibia) *Understanding Willow,Agony Of A Witch,Echoes Of The Past,Yesterday's Lie,Reaching Out,Hollow Mind,Edge Of The World and King's Tide(The Owl House) *Ozzie's(Helluva Boss)
That Futurama episode always gets to me. The last few minutes is just tear jerking seeing Seymour wait in that spot until his death, us knowing Fry will not return.
Either Life of Brian should be in the lower part of this list, or it shouldn't be on this list at all. Yeah, his death was emotional, but they did make an episode where it offsets this moment.
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What about Amphibia Finale that was good episode
The fact that Seymour waited for fry his whole life made that episode even sadder😭❤️🐾🐕
@@mohdsuliemanbinabdullah2551 It made me cry... it should have been on here. I also think that Kings Tide from The Owl House should be on here. If you watch it you should know why...
@@charlimander5683 sorry about I did watch owl house in king tide episode, yes agree is should in list. I also fan Owl House too
@@mohdsuliemanbinabdullah2551 There was just so many emotional parts excluding kinds final words 😭
Interesting fact about Uncle Iroh’s voice actor after Mako died. Greg Baldwin (Iroh’s second VA) always politely refuses to sing the song Leaves From The Vine at conventions because in his own words, “Leaves From The Vine is Mako’s song, not mine.”
I didn’t know that when I was a kid but it broke my heart
At least it’s respectable.
I love that
@@olvialee7221 I know, me too
@@berandom2000 agreed
The Tom and Jerry episode where both of them sit on the train tracks waiting for their death after both got their hearts broken has got to be the saddest thing in cartoons ever. You cannot tell me there is anything worse than that.
It would've been if we saw any aftermath, like the duo floating up to heaven (or down to hell), or meeting up in the thereafter...
What about The Owl House, Kings Tide? That made me cry ALOT
Sad? Yes. Disturbing? YES!!!
The opening montage to Disney and Pixar’s “Up” (2009)!
I thought the episode was a little funny tho
Batman: The Animated Series gave us a few hard hitters. Baby-Doll and Heart Of Ice both immediately come to mind
As a child I always respect the heroes but as an adult I feel bad for the villains 😔
You mean the two episodes they mention in the video?
@@louiscyphre2267 yup. sometimes people type out comments before watching the whole video
Uh-huh...
Sounds like bullshit to me.
@@louiscyphre2267 ....why would I make that up? What would I have to gain?
The final flashback where Symore was waiting for Fry to come back was heartwretching, with the background music to boot. 😭
Hurts even more when you realize that symore led fry’s parents to him but they didn’t even care to notice
@@smokeworlld Those were Fry's parents?
@@mojo3318 yea those were his parents that were walking him
The Mothers Day episode in the Rugrats is heart wrenching. The thing that got me was how even after being told about his mum and what she wrote before she died, he was still oblivious to the concept of life and death, only ecstatic that he has a mother "in the trees and the clouds and in the wind".
That’s a healthy way for a toddler to understand death, I’m sure that’s why the show depicted it that way. It establishes the truth in a healthy way that he can grow into. He does still have a mother, in his heart and his family’s memory.
Back then, I don’t think Nickelodeon was allowed to actually say that someone died-on second thought, in the episode I Remember Melville, the babies mentioned several times that Chuckie’s pet bug Melville died.
@@COMPFUNK2 But still, even if they didn't mention death in an on the nose manner, kids all knew what it meant.
@btamamura 😭
The Rugrats in Paris movie shows how Chuckie later understands that his mom is gone and isn’t coming back. That’s why he tries to find a new mom.
The screaming of Courage’s parents begging for help as they were being carried away by the vet was absolutely traumatizing
The entire show was traumatizing fr
bruh thats what I say. the last scene wasnt the bad part, it was all the weird music and the creepy vet and his parents getting taken. everything about the episode is traumatizing
@@mirandabullard4809 return the slaaaab...or suffer my curse.
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At least they were still alive at the end and got to give the vet a major ass kicking or even killing!
seriously, that justice league unlimited scene should go up more, the moment she said "will you stay with me?" my heart crumbled, that scene has never failed to make me emotional
I agree and where was Young Justice? That show does grief and loss better than most live action shows.
@@daneaki Exactly like Kid Flash being gone (although that episode got put in the turbine as Young Justice went through a serious on and off periods)
It's not that I disagree with Futurama's Jurassic Bark being at the top, but the fact that I agree with the list that I also have to go and cry for another 24 hours again because of how sad it was.
Futurama had a few episodes that really hit me in the feels. Such a great show!
@@lindsayeller8649 especially if your own dog had just passed a month prior. I almost had to change the channel.
I just realized you have the same name as the mystic force red ranger
Because of my large amount of siblings, and because fire is a dumb, forgetful, dude who lost his family and constantly mentioned how his brother made life hell for him, luck of the frirish is more sad in my opinion. Also, there’s a comment in frie’s fantasy about life being a arcade game where he mentions that his brother used ot help mim defeat the final boss was heartwarming. 17:19
Nothing can top “Jurassic Bark”. It is truly a gut punching episode from Futurama.
"The Luck of the Fryrish" comes close. Also The Owl House also gets an honorable mention from me for "Yesterday's Lie"
I wholeheartedly agree! I Will Wait For You by Connie Francis is a huge selling point that makes Jurassic Bark the most emotionally powerful episode of Futurama. Honestly i can’t help but cry every time i watch it on dvd. #RIPSeymour 😢🐶🌹
I can't remember the episode but the one where fry "goes back in time" through his memories and spends time with his mother had me weeping. What I would give to speak to mine again
As someone with a pet approaching that age, he just turned 15, that episode hits anytime I think about it.
I know the episode because there’s a refrence to it in Fallout New Vegas’ Lonesome Road DLC, where if you have Wild Wasteland, you can find a fossilized dog called Seymour
honorable mention: the hey arnold episode Arnold's Christmas, we learn about Mr Hyunh's backstory about giving up his daughter to a soldier on the last helicopter out of vietnam to save her life, then reuniting with her at the end
Holy hell you unlocked a deep memory
Omg! I remember that! Damn..... 🤯 I loved Hey, Arnold
I was convinced pre watching this video that the Hey Arnold episode was going to be on this list! Unforgettable cartoon moment.
Me too and it be suprised if you see what I put in my other comment
The death of Homer's mom, Garry come home, Iroh's tribute to his son, were among the saddest
As sad it is, I have Glenn Close’s autograph (voice of Homer’s mom)
The ending of the Simpsons episode Mother Simpson was very emotional 😭
That SpongeBob episode is actually called: Have You Seen This Snail?
@@jasonrandom372 ik but the episode is still pretty sad
Seymour waiting for Fry and Iroh mourning his son are on my list of my saddest moments 😢
Heart of Ice is so sad; people wonder why do the villain do what they are doing, but in Victor Freeze’s case he wanted to save his wife from an illness.
Number one on this list made me shed too many tears. Even now I get a bit teary eyed...thanks Futurama
@@thegamingcook785 that's where the tears finally started falling 🥲
The Wild Thornberrys gave us another tear-jerker: Forget Me Not.
Rebecca's death was one of the few times I cried to a Nickelodeon show, the other being SpongeBob. Gary, Come Home made me sob so hard first time
Mother Simpson and the following episodes with Mona was incredibly sad. Particularly when (spoiler alert) she passes just as Homer was gonna say sorry for being mad at her. 😢
Which Season, episode was that?
I knew that the Seymour episode would be #1 before clicking!
Batman comforting a dying Ace hits even more once you consider that he named his dog after her.
And the fact that like Ace, Batman never really had a childhood either
Ace deserved to be higher up on the list.
The hardest part about Requiem is is that we literally see the impact on screen with the blade protruding at all. There may be no blood but we see the blade going through splinter which is one of the darkest moments I have ever witnessed in any animated show, kids or not
Absolutely. Requiem was the only episode I wish I never saw.
Pops will never be forgotten. Jolly good show.
I still occassionally think about Pop's death. It's almost surreal that it even happened.
Thx for the laugh at the end it really made my day after remembering waiting for that episode to see that
I thought the Teen Titans episode where Terra couldn't recognize BB could have made the cut ...
Oh yeah the last episode? Yeah that was sad.
@@Cacowninja and then it just ends. Like that? Are we sure we couldn't had 1 last season and then the movie and then the trash years later?
@@thecodester6669 Though to be fair, the symbolic nature of the episode and the fact that Beast Boy was the only one who believed Terra was still alive implies that Terra was never actually there and only was a figment of his imagination. Which makes the episode even more depressing.
Man Teen Titans Tera dies man no if ands or buts straight up sad man
"Jurassic Bark" broke my heart when I first watched it. Even now, years later, just seeing a clip of the episode gets me tearful.
I can understand how sad the mother's day episode of Rugrats is but to me, the saddest episode has to be 'I remember Melville' where we see Chuckie suffer the loss of his pet bug Melville and the stages of grief he goes through. I can never watch this episode without tearing up as it's so heartbreaking seeing Chuckie actually go through such a sad moment in his life.
I always felt bad for Chuckie as a kid. Which is why he's one of my favorites among the babies.
I know I was heartbroken when my dad passed away unexpectedly in 2016 haven't been the same since that warm June night oh and he wasn't alone my grandma join him that night
Yeah jurassic bark deserved that top spot definitely. Honestly one of the saddest things I've ever seen throughout tv, films, hell all of it. Bloody devastating even today it really is. Especially if you've got a dog.
Or had one.....or a couple throughout your life.
@@youkai3785 yeah that too. Honestly I'm fucking dreading that day when it comes. Ours is nearly 12 now but still doesn't do too bad for his age. Just enjoy as much time with him as he's got now though.
That episode, and the M*A*S*H episode "Alybesinya Henry" are like the two most depressing tv episodes of all time
"Code of Hero"
- Beast Wars
I recall watching the reruns before school every morning and seeing this episode hit me hard. Hard to swallow feeling, teary eyed, and then having to push it aside to face the school day.
"Life of Brian"
- Family Guy
Although in the back of my head I kept thinking they'd bring Brian back somehow, I couldn't help but shed a tear or two.
"Mother Simpson"
- The Simpsons
I can't say I cried, but it was emotionally a lot to digest at once.
"Jurassic Bark"
- Futurama
All the feels. Like holy guacamole I could not handle it.
Honorable mention:
"The Terror Beyond: Part 2"
- Justice League
When you take a one-note almost joke of a c-list villain and give them a tragic backstory as well as one of retribution, you have my attention. I was binging JL episodes on Netflix many years ago for a few back to back to back days and when Solomon Grundy sacrificed himself plus the funeral scene at the end with Hawk Girl deliverying the eulogy at the end played, I was in TEARS. I couldn't even play the next episode. There's an episode down the road in the Unlimited continuation of JL where his body is resurrected and Hawk Girl puts him, essentially her friend, down. It didn't make me cry, but I definitely needed a few minutes to stop and breathe after.
No way you included fucking life of Brian lmao
And to think they say that the dad episodes are some of the best episodes of these particular shows, because you know they add such depth to the characters and all that.
You say “murder” but Courage’s parents were kidnapped. Kinda the same thing you said for Harold thinking he “injured” his dad in The Umbrella Academy. He killed his dad. Major difference from those words
Master Splinter's Death were truly one of the most saddest moment I ever got into tear when looking back on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.
Of all the TMNT shows and series made over the years, I never thought there would be one that would have Master Splinter die. Quite shocking.
Splinters death broke my heart 🥺
But at least Shredder got what was coming to him.
Yeah that was really damn sad.
Was it from the original tv series from the late 1980s or the one from the early 2000s?
@@Cacowninja the 2012 one
I agree with most of them in the list. But what about blue cat blues from tom and jerry.
One cannot forget that final track scene. Also it shows us that emotional pain hurted the duo more than than the physical pain.
I think that was meant to be more dark humor than actually flat out sad
they both survived.
I think there are three that you didn't mention, but really needed to be on this list, and a reason why honorable mentions was especially needed for this top 20:
The first one is that episode from Tom and Jerry which's name I unfortunately forgot, the one all about Tom's flashbacks on how he tried to impress a lady cat but miserably failed. And that ending scene, man... The horror it brought to me as a 5-year old watching the episode could not be understated.
The other one is finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Other ones I can excuse, but this one I straight up can not, because you have covered this series _multiple times._ Seriously, not only it is one of the saddest episodes of any Animated Series ever created, it also elevates the OG Order 66 scene from Revenge of the Sith, because you got to know all the characters that got brutally assassinated throughout the runtime of the series, not to mention the ''soulless'' killers that turned against their masters as well.
And the final one... Do I even need to say it? It's obviously The Hardest Thing, from Amphibia. I got genuinely baffled on how this one wasn't included on the list, for it is one of the only pieces of cinematic content, together with the ending scene of The Iron Giant, that managed to make tear me up a bit. I won't even dare to spoil a thing about this magnificent finale, because it needs to be experienced by oneself to be fully appreciated. Not even a single comment says a thing about it, how's that so?..
Jurassic Bark never fails to bring the tears. Especially that scene when he’s waiting for Fry to come back😕. Mother Simpson is also up there as well. This list may be one of their best lists.💯
I love turtles, and I actually SCREAMED when Shedder killed Splinter
Seeing those former brothers fight to the point one dies just destroyed my heart
Mikey whimpering, "Papa" will forever make me want to cry-
It shattered my soul into pieces (imitating glass breaking)
@@matrixmaster9616 Felt that
I used to watch that show every day when I got home from school. When Requiem aired and I watched it, it was the only one I wished I hadn't.
@@graphitebendy I know, everything about it just shattered the viewers. Like, it was beautiful, but horrifying
And it's even worse, because that was the SECOND time he died during the show
The turtles managed to bring him back, only to loose him *again* soon after. And this time it was permanent
I always found luck of the fryish more upsetting tbh. I wasn't good to my brother when I was younger and I feel terrible to this day about it
Futurama: Jurassic Bark what's truly sad is Fry never learns how loyal Seymour was or how long he waited for him. 🐕
Tales Of Ba Sing Se is just heartbreaking.
Was surprised that not one episode of "Hey Arnold" was featured here despite them having a good deal of hard hitting and solemn episodes. Neglectful, psychological and emotional abuse, theme of being ostracized by society, family forced apart by war, addiction, depression, the list goes on.
I always cry at that episode where Chuckie finally knows his mom.
In the Simpsons, the heartbreaking episodes were Round Springfield and Season 11 episode 14 because of Bleeding Gums Murphy’s and Maude’s deaths
Maude’s death wasn’t sad to me.
“Oh look a bobbie pin.”
The writers kinda gave her the finger.
Lowkey Life of Bart is sad to
The rugrats episode made everyone in my family cry when we watched it.
Yep, Jurassic Bark definitely deserves to be number 1. I still can't watch that episode. I'm not even gonna watch that segment of this video. I just can't.
It was sad that Homer's mom had to leave again.
Twice. The first time for being on the run, and the second time for good, as she dies in her second episode.
@@nevaehhamilton3493 yes that is sad but true.
Three words; Appa's Lost Days.
Omg much sadder than leaves from the vine
Appas lost days was an episode that was sad from start to finish. Yet the song Leaves from the vines was the saddest moment.
I think they equally deserve to be on this list.
@@donder91 true. They are going for episodes tho and the majority of Tales is uplifting and fun. Even Iroh's bit is predominantly hopeful until the end.
I didn’t remember that episode until you mentioned it.
Leaves From the Vine is a bigger standout.
Especially since Mako died.
@@jaycarrillojc They're both sad in their own rights, but this was the first thing that came to mind since I've only seen the show twice now.
Glad to see other folks remember Dinobot's heroic final stand.
Dinobot's was combat sad fought it out won but still didn't make it combat sad earned a spot up there.
Sometimes it's good to happy cry and these shows proved it.
Rose’s Scabbard broke my heart. Pearl deserved so much better than what she got, and the love she had for Rose was truly unmatched.
She does. I watched the entire seasons of Steven Universe. Pearl went through so much with Rose aka Pink Diamond. I can’t imagine the heartache she did to fake Pink Diamond’s shattering
Pink made Pearl feel like her own being for the first time, but unfortunately she didn’t care enough to realize that made her Pearl’s whole world. Maybe none of them were familiar enough with emotions to know how careless they were being with themselves and each other.
@@BunnyQueen97 This. Gems truly didn’t know how to be human.
@MeltedVelveeta CheeseSauce Pearl will always have a soft spot in my heart.
don't forget the steven universe future movie
Thank goodness they didn't show Seymore waiting by the door aging to the point he's old. That's the real gut puncher!
If Jurassic Bark wasn’t where it was I would have quit. Just hearing the episodes name gets be bawling my eyes out.
This whole list was sad but the one show that actually made me cry was Ninjago when Nya turned into the sea and left
The only time I have ever cried during a TV show.
My first girlfriend turned into the sea.
That's rough, buddy.
@@chickensandwich1432 it'll go down as one of the most underrated cartoons ever.
NINJAGO IS NOT UNDER RATED
Also zanes sacrifice was the only thing that can make me cry and zanes death was in the extra 2
Top Ten Saddest Plot Twists Ever
Alice is Masquerade Bakugan Battle Brawlers.
Great idea
Stan pushed his brother away
All of these episodes have had time to marinate in sadness. But I would have loved to see a mention of Coven Of The Dammed from Gendy Tartakovky's Primal.
I’d add the Samurai Jack episode when he finds the ruins of his home.
Or worse, the ending of the last episode of season 5 and the serie as a whole. 😢
Jeez that Ninjago season 3 finale was gut wrenching seeing a beloved character sacrifice himself to save his friends and then cut to his funeral.
The Color Ruckus From The Boondocks the story behind Uncle Ruckus's self bigotry is a heartbreaking one at best great job Aaron McGruder
"Leaves from the vine" makes me cry EVERY time
Same. 😭😭😭💔💔💔
Vine*
it's vine dude.... smh
Thundercats(2011) remake has a great episode called The song of the Petalars. It is very emotional and impactful. Sad that the show got cancelled. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!
One thing that makes me feel sad is when Bunny from Powerpuff Girls was living temporarily, and exploded after saving the three adorable girls from being pummeled.
Lmbo. I guess it could have been a little sad.
I was thinking of the Bunny PPG episode too!
While kid me didn't cry, adult me did. I probably realized what actually happened then.
Kid me was just here for the show, didn't realize the hints of gore and blood then. Or the rather gross close ups from certain episodes, lol.
Now I notice. XD
the scene where bunny popped is terrifying.
I can’t decide which King of the Hill episode is worth getting an honorable mention. The episode were Bill gets so depressed around Christmas over Lenor leaving, that he eats the Hills every night, adopts an iguana and names it Lenor, attempts suicide, and starts to act like he is Lenor.
The episode were Bobby falls in love with a girl named Marie, only to have her crush his heart, that they aren’t in a romantic relationship.
The episode Boomhauer falls in love and wants to marry a woman, only to discover she is just like him. Someone who sleeps with other men and dumps them.
Or were Cotton Hill is struggling to support DeeDee and GH and it’s costing him marching in Veterans Day parade.
The episodes regarding Buckley's passing even hurts
The one where Buckley’s angel start jumping on the trampoline
Batman has a heart of pure gold 🥹
R.I.P Ace
I've seen Futurama countless times, but it was several years before I could watch Jurassic Bark again. I was an absolute mess.
Dinobot's death got me as he was my favourite character in Beast Wars and Optimus' words "he lived a warrior, he died a hero" are etched in my brain to this day.
Without watching I already know number one is Jaurassic Bark. I can’t even explain the episode to people without crying. Second should be Game of Tones.
Man the Rugrats mother's day special still tears me apart 😭
I'm honestly surprised they picked the Christmas episode to represent Charlie Brown when there was a Charlie Brown story about a girl suffering from Leukemia.
Other sad episodes not on this list include "Forget Me Not" from the Wild Thornberrys, an elephant that was close to Eliza and her father passes away.
"Edge of the World" from The Owl House, King thinks he's found his family, only to realize he's the last of his kind.
and "Cookie Chomper" from Alvin and the Chipmunks, the boys find a stray cat, adopt him, love him, and watch him die.
I think the Christmas special is more well known.
I didn’t even think about the girl with leukemia until you mentioned it.
Finally someone mentions The Owl House
Charlie Brown Christmas is more emotional than sad. I agree, "Why Charlie Brown, Why?" Is the better choice for this list.
i believe the Charlie Brown one was called snoopy come home.
@@dawg065 "Why Charlie Brown, Why?"
"Snoopy Come Home" also had a girl in the hospital but it was totally different.
Was gonna say. Dinobot's sacrifice hit me in the feels
His Sacrifice in Kingdom made me saddened when he said Maybe and please help me
You forgot the saddest part of number 1, where his dog is just waiting outside the pizza shop for years.
Just like Haichi did at the train station
"Heart of Ice" was the first time I felt extremely sorry for an animated villain.
Yeah same here. The two other villains in Batman TAS where I had compassion for when I saw what they were undergoing, are Baby Doll and Two-Face.
Ditto. The poor devil just wanted to heal his wife.
Zane’s death broke me when I was a kid. He was my favorite
Didn't he come back tho?
@@dereklednicky8590 I think so
Honestly, as one of the many people who get weirdly depressed around Christmas, Charlie Brown's Christmas always spoke to me on a personal level.
It's always heart-wrenching when he describes it as "Not feeling how I'm SUPPOSED to feel". Because it just drives home how many people with mental illness are expected to act or feel happy; even during times when we're just trying to hang on and get through the next few hours.
It also points out that things like commercialism totally ruins the holiday vibe.
The Gravity Falls finale was and is iconic. It has horror, comedy, and tragitty all mixed into one. It was a perfectly executed display of the weird and the wacky that the show was. A perfect way to end an absolutely incredible series.
I’m so pissed about the fact that they mention Jurassic Bark so much in “Saddest Scenes” but *never* mention the ending scene of that episode where it was revealed he waited for Fry to return
If you know what happened there’s no reason to be pissed.
It's so sad, they can't even bring themselves to say it.
He lived a warrior died a hero
Let his spark join the Matrix. The greatest of Cybertron.
For me, the most heartbreaking animated episode was Phineas and Ferb’s “Act Your Age”. I still bawl at “What Might Have Been”.
Futurama is one of my favorite shows, but I do not have it in me to ever watch "Jurassic Bark" again. I couldn't watch it until I saw "Bender's Big Score," and I knew there was a duplicate of Fry to live with Seymour. Even so, I cried my eyes out when I saw the episode, this is no doubt the number 1 saddest episode.
Even if Courage didn't know, his parents weren't technically murdered as they appear alive on whatever alien planet the vet is sent to, along with all the other dogs who proceed to beat him up
Justice league unlimited and Batman the animated series had some heart breaking moments
I lost my mother to a car accident when I just turned 13 in 1997 and her wake was on Mother’s Day. Even though it’s been over 25 years it still feels like the day I lost her. I was then hit by a brain tumor in 2009 and thankfully my little one was born and saved my life from self destruction later that year. He has helped me through every darkest time I’ve endured and I’m so blessed to have him with me.
Here are some honorable mentions:
- The Return of Hydro-Man: Part 2 (Spiderman: TAS)
- Graduation Day (X-Men: TAS)
- Twisted Sister (The Powerpuff Girls (1998))
- Forget Me Not (The Wild Thornberrys)
- Apokolips... Now!: Part 2 (Superman: TAS)
Eda finally accepting the presence of her curse and comforting the entity in The Owl House will always leave me in tears. The fact that she was able to turn something that caused so much fear and trauma into something great was just such a powerful and bittersweet moment. I'm really hoping that it's on this list, given that I haven't finished the video yet. Edit: I'm super bummed that it wasn't included, TOH is so underrated :c
There will never be a Transformers episode like Code of Hero ever again.
Final Space: Avocado sacrificing himself to save Gary & his son.
Are we going to see more episodes like these in the future? Which one of these episodes do you think is the most depressing?
Lmbo
The episode with Marcelline and Ice King makes me cry without even seeing the whole thing. Marcelline’s whole story expands the world in a really deep way.
13:54 excuse no way this is number 7. Just how could you there's nothing depressing than this episode
The Futurama episode where Fry appears in his Mothers dreams is a very touching and emotional scene. Its hard not to shed a tear in that scene.
Star Wars The Clone Wars: The Wrong Jedi. Star Wars The Clone Wars: Victory and Death. Cried during both finales mostly due to the music.
Goddamn you. I knew you were gonna do the Futurama episode! It’s to early to be crying WatchMojo!
14:47. He always comes back and resurrects himself. Kenny is immortal
Also, how is a Charlie Brown Christmas sad? It has a good ending!
Exactly! That made no sense. That wasn't even so much an episode in a TV series as much as it was a holiday special.
Some classics in there 💯
Fry's dog got me at the time because I knew thats what my dog (a very smart Kelpie x dingo) would be like if something happened to me. He died Dec 2020 aged 18. I miss my Muttley.
they were fighting against Shredder's goons, not the Mighty Mutanimals. The Mighty Mutanimals were the turtle's allies.
The ending to Amphibia's season 2 episode 'Hopping Mall' had gotten me tearing up
Exactly where was that!
My grandma had the Rugrats movie where Chuckie finds the box of his moms things I never really understood that until my own mom passed away....
Fry hugging his mom on futurama
When I saw this list pop up as a video suggestion this morning, I immediately thought "well, somebody from WatchMojo is rewatching Futurama..."
Honorable Mentions
*The Hardest Thing and The Final Episode(Amphibia)
*Understanding Willow,Agony Of A Witch,Echoes Of The Past,Yesterday's Lie,Reaching Out,Hollow Mind,Edge Of The World and King's Tide(The Owl House)
*Ozzie's(Helluva Boss)
That Futurama episode always gets to me. The last few minutes is just tear jerking seeing Seymour wait in that spot until his death, us knowing Fry will not return.
Life with Louie: Louie Learns his Grandmother died.
Camping from Bluey deserves a mention. That episode will destroy anyone who had to say goodbye to a childhood friend.
You should have included the Ninjago Zane Sacrifice Moment
Exactly, why did they showed footage of that if they're not gonna even include it at least in the honorable mentions ?
@@stormtrooper5947 IKR like FR
Nothing ever broke me like Futurama's Jurassic Bark.
Either Life of Brian should be in the lower part of this list, or it shouldn't be on this list at all. Yeah, his death was emotional, but they did make an episode where it offsets this moment.