# No, I am NOT crying at Gilligan's Island! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081 "2007-07-09T19:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/81 "2007-07-12T02:40:02Z")
[QUOTE=BaneSidhe] EDIT TO ADD: The last episode of Season 2 of Dr Who, when Rose gets trapped in the alternate universe. I bawled like a baby even though I never liked Rose that much. [/QUOTE] Yeah, that one was rough, just because you knew it was coming from the episode before and you just kept waiting for it and waiting for it… Oh, for me it’s the last line of the UK “Coupling” series. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/82 "2007-07-12T03:39:14Z")
[QUOTE=BaneSidhe] Mine is the final episode of “Babylon 5.” It was shown the same night my dad died and I still can’t watch it. . [/QUOTE] Me too, though I did not lose a loved one around that time. Two moments move me to tears in that episode. One is when Sheridan says, “…the brightest star in my sky,” to Delenn while saying goodbye. Second, I tear up when they show Marcus’ frozen cryogenic unit. It says it should be frozen until a cure can be found…by order of Ivanova. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/83 "2007-07-12T07:02:26Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Ever find yourself improbably and inexplicably moved by a movie, tv show, or other entertainment outlet that otherwise doesn’t deserve anything your middle finger? Tell us about it. [/QUOTE] That commercial that aired during the superbowl when the robot was fired for dropping a bolt on the ground , and his decent into hell, eventually ending with suicide. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/84 "2007-07-12T11:53:14Z")
Watching Greatest American Inventor last night. There was a guy on who was eighty-something and cute as kitten britches. His son had come along with him as an assistant. The guy’s invention (a push lawnmower with flexible steering) got a yes, and when they were being interviewed afterward, the son just tried to say that he loved his dad and he was proud of him and he got all choked up. Wahh! ---
**Author:** ![dannyness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b77776/32.png) [@dannyness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dannyness)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/85 "2007-07-12T13:57:55Z")
> [@](#): > > The “Jurassic Bark” episode of Futurama. Every…fucking…time. The episode with Fry’s brother gets me sometimes, too. But nowhere near as much as the end of “Jurassic Bark.” ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/86 "2007-07-12T19:47:49Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] I think LadyHawke is a warranted movie to cry at, though. And laugh, and laugh at the end. It’s a wonderful movie. [/QUOTE] Agreed! And besides, a young Rutger Hauer? Rowr! I cry at all kinds of stupid things (and I’ve _never_ been pregnant). I’ve cried at McDonald’s commercials, Kleenex and Kodak commercials…and I’ve also got a baaaad tendency to anthropomorphize all sorts of things…like that damned lamp. And cars. And of COURSE, animals. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/87 "2007-07-12T19:53:05Z")
[QUOTE=Greywolf73] That old Hallmark card commercial where the old lady across the street goes to her mailbox every day, smiling and hoping that this will be the day that she finally gets some mail from someone who cares about her and then gets nothing every single time until the little girl across the street notices and asks her mom to mail the old lady a Hallmark card…yeah, that one. _Sniff_ The latest thing that’s been making me tear up, okay, BAWL is this: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kerMm0HG1mk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kerMm0HG1mk) Gah. I can’t even hear the music play without welling up. Actually, I can’t even think of the video now without wanting to cry. [/QUOTE] That commercial made me cry, too. And Gaw Damn, I’m sorry I clicked that link. It is SO not professional for a 41 year old manager of 10 people to be sitting in her office bawling like a baby! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/88 "2007-07-12T19:56:31Z")
[QUOTE=TroubleAgain] Agreed! And besides, a young Rutger Hauer? Rowr! [/quote] Yes, I adore him. It also depends on what time of the month you get me. The thing that makes me cry three days before my period probably won’t make me cry 3 days after. Sucks, but there it is. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/89 "2007-07-12T20:14:33Z")
[This video.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXHP-6yWTOo) I had to find it to copy the link, and the first 30 seconds of this 4+ minute video killed me. I’m going home now. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/90 "2007-07-12T20:20:52Z")
[QUOTE=flight] If I remember right something happens like a lightning bolt or falling rocks that collapses the cave and would have killed anyone still in there. [/QUOTE] Huh. Now I know where the Simpsons writers got the ending of Bart’s Comet. By the way, **Jurassic Bark** doesn’t deserve anybody’s middle finger. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/91 "2007-07-12T22:02:10Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] By the way, **Jurassic Bark** doesn’t deserve anybody’s middle finger. 😉 [/QUOTE] Right…I didn’t want to say anything because it’s not my thread, but I think what **Skald** was asking for was weepy moments that sneak up on you in movies or shows that are normally lighthearted, irreverent, or otherwise **not** sentimental. So **Jurassic Bark** does not count, unless you’re placing it in the context of the entire series, like you never thought there’d be any episode of **Futurama** that would make you cry. Likewise, I think there’s only one of these commercials that qualifies. Most of them, like the Hallmark ad and “I’m at Dieppe…Thank you…” were calculated to bring tears. But I think the makers of the suicidal robot ad honestly did not predict that it would hit people so hard. Two more of my own: The wedding scene, at the very end of **Clueless** , makes me tear up, and I have no. idea. why. It’s not like it’s a redemption or something! It’s a very frivolous movie, and it even starts with the fakeout of “So Josh and I…Duh, as IF! This is California, not Kentucky!” But somehow, the portrayal of everyone being with the one they’re meant to be with gives me a jolt. I’ve seen a zillion movie weddings, and that’s the only one that makes me cry. Second, **Revenge of the Nerds** , when there’s silence after Gilbert’s speech, broken by Betty sobbing, “Lewis…” and running across the lawn to him. It’s another out-of-nowhere moment, because for the first hour or so, it was just another raunchy '80s comedy, and then something happened that was so truly awful that it almost doesn’t belong in any comedy. But then that moment, when she acknowledges him publically after he thought she never would…I have something in my eye again. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/92 "2007-07-13T01:03:30Z")
Ok, Jurassic Bark made me cry. And I’ve never even seen Futurama. I cried at the soldier and his son, and then I got mad. Why was the media even there? Why was their reunion so public? Why do we have to show everybody? It seems like the worst kind of attention-whoring to me. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/93 "2007-07-13T01:16:12Z")
While I place both shows leagues beyond _Gilligan’s Island_, there are eps of _All in the Family_ and _Good Times_ that, if I’m in the predisposed mood already, can make me mist a tad. With _Good Times_ of course it’s the _Damn! Damn! Damn!_ moment with Florida, which though it’s been rebroadcast so many thousands of times it’s become more meme than memorable it was still well acted and you know how Florida’s feeling. The other _Good Times_ moments are 1= when Penny’s mother returns eager to take Penny back, blackmailing Willona, etc., and it’s not Penny’s “You’re my mama now, Willona” syrupy declaration, but the look on her birth-mother’s face when she nearly becomes violent again and realizes that she really hasn’t changed. The actress did a great job of showing self-loathing and self-terror. 2= when the Evans family is held up for a winning lottery ticket and the thief (a girl Thelma’s been tutoring), realizing she’s going to jail, says “at least I’ll smell rich”. _All in the Family_- there are several, but the ones that come to mind are -Archie when Mike & Gloria leave New York -Archie in the episode where Edith almost dies of phlebitis -Archie and Mike are trapped in a store room getting drunk and Archie tells about his childhood as “Shoe-booty” (an episode that was largely improvised) Of course last night was the Sammy Davis, Jr., episode and that one still makes me laugh. (Occasionally they show the “sequel” from _Archie Bunker’s Place_ where Archie meets Sammy again, an episode that ends with Archie kissing Sammy- too affected to be funny.) ---
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/94 "2007-07-13T01:42:20Z")
I just remembered one because it came on the TV. The Avril Lavigne song, When Your Gone, made me cry the first time I saw the video - its about couples who cant be together for a variety of reasons. I’ll go now ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081/95 "2007-07-13T01:54:33Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] I cried at the soldier and his son, and then I got mad. Why was the media even there? Why was their reunion so public? Why do we have to show everybody? It seems like the worst kind of attention-whoring to me. [/QUOTE] And I just tried to tell my SO about it and started crying again. I’m such a dork. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-am-not-crying-at-gilligans-island/411081.md?page=4)