# Saddest single episodes of TV series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571 "2008-09-21T19:00:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/41 "2008-09-22T02:46:09Z")
Ivanova was **pissed**! She was really, really annoyed, and said something about “If I’d known he was going to do something stupid like this, I’d have given him some.” ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/42 "2008-09-22T02:48:48Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Which was…? Complete emotional breakdown. You rarely see a character react that strongly to a death. Especially from someone like her who usually puts on a tough-girl appearance. **Silenus** , I believe the exact term she used was ‘boffed him once’. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/43 "2008-09-22T02:49:47Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Which was…? [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW5F4fTCDgA) is a youtube clip of it. And I had to stop the clip from running as soon as I had copied the url, because I can’t stand to hear it again. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/44 "2008-09-22T02:53:56Z")
A little bit of a hijack but the final few minutes of Mr. Sprinkles from Acceptable TV. The speech he give his son is so poignant. To watch the entire series less than half an hour and can be seen [here](http://acceptable.tv/browse/search/videos). ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/45 "2008-09-22T02:58:11Z")
I can’t decide which episode of **Angel** is sadder–_A Hole in the World_ or \*_Not Fade Away_. On the one hand we have, “Please, Wesley, why can’t I stay?” On the other we have, “Would you like me to lie to you now?” “Please.” Either way, I blubbered like a baby, and I can’t really stand to rewatch the episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/46 "2008-09-22T03:20:04Z")
The episode of _Quantum Leap_ where Sam returns home as a teenager. He spends the entire time trying to fix the lives and futures of those he loves before realizing that he’s pretty much powerless in that respect. He accepts this and has a peaceful and happy Thanksgiving dinner with his family. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/47 "2008-09-22T03:27:38Z")
Oh, wait, how could I forget the final episode of _Six Feet Under_? I just watch the last scene on YouTube whenever I feel like spending an afternoon weeping into a whole box of tissues. (Don’t worry, I don’t feel like that often.) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/48 "2008-09-22T03:33:03Z")
_The Inner Light_ from **STNG** ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/49 "2008-09-22T03:33:38Z")
Bosda: > [@](#): > > The episode about Fry’s lucky clover was up there, too. That’s “Luck of the Fryrish”, and it gets my vote as well, rather than Jurassic Bark. Maybe just because I’ve never had a pet, but I have had a brother. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/50 "2008-09-22T03:44:05Z")
The very last episode of BABYLON 5. My dad died a couple days before that aired and to this day I haven’t been able to watch it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/51 "2008-09-22T04:20:30Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > ER: Love’s Labor Lost - the episode where the woman needs a Cesarean, and no one from the OB/GYN staff is available. I was going to say the death of Dr. Green . . . but this one was even sadder, especially since that was exactly how one of my grandmothers died. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/52 "2008-09-22T04:56:11Z")
😕 There’s a television show named “Jurassic Bark”? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/53 "2008-09-22T05:04:25Z")
It’s the title of an episode of “Futurama”, where Fry’s pet dog from 1000 years prior is found fossilized. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/54 "2008-09-22T05:07:38Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > 😕 > > There’s a television show named “Jurassic Bark”? It’s a Futurama episode. Luck of the Fryish is sadder. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/55 "2008-09-22T05:36:11Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > ER: Love’s Labor Lost - the episode where the woman needs a Cesarean, and no one from the OB/GYN staff is available. That also qualifies as the most horrifying show ever. I had a nightmare that night and stopped watching the show after that. I don’t even like to think about the episode today. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/56 "2008-09-22T15:30:23Z")
The episode of _Band of Brothers_ where they find the concentration camp. I cried when they had to lock everyone back up to stop them from eating themselves to death. The episode of _CSI_ where the baby is left in a hot car. I’ll never be able to watch that one again. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/57 "2008-09-22T15:37:51Z")
The episode of **Magnum P.I.** in which Magnum’s old war buddy come to him and asks his help in committing suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/58 "2008-09-22T15:42:24Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Go here: > [Science Fiction-Media in Transition](http://web.mit.edu/m-I-t/science_fiction/transcripts/jms_jablokov_index.html) > > and then scroll down about 3/4 of the way–it’s a bit of a slog–to the red section called Creativity and Communities, then look under that to see J. Michael Straczynski himself comment on the dispute with the network over “The Cold Equations.” > I knew I hadn’t dreamed that up. Oh good grief, **viva**. Here I went and spared Las Vegas from a well-deserved\* plague last week, (it was going to be a rain of flaming mongooses just so you know), just to be nice to you, and you repay me by again bothering me with EVIDENCE. I’ll say it once more. Facts are for chicks, the ACLU, and cheese-eating surrender monkeys. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/59 "2008-09-22T15:46:54Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > I can’t decide which episode of **Angel** is sadder–_A Hole in the World_ or \*_Not Fade Away_. On the one hand we have, “Please, Wesley, why can’t I stay?” On the other we have, “Would you like me to lie to you now?” “Please.” > > Either way, I blubbered like a baby, and I can’t really stand to rewatch the episodes. Far, far sadder is Angel dismantling his son’s crib when he thinks baby Connor is lost forever, and the look on Cordelia’s face as she watches him do it. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571/60 "2008-09-22T15:52:14Z")
All Our Yesterdays and it’s more famous identical story, City on the Edge of Forever. Both are the same story, one with Kirk falling in love with Edith Keelor and then he has to stop McCoy from saving her life. “Do you know what you just did?” Spock “He knows Doctor. He knows.” Then later the guardian tells them "Many suck journeys are possible. You can visit any time in history.’ Kirk “Let’s get the hell out of here.” But for me, the end of All our Yesterdays is even more tragic. Spock and McCoy have been trapped in the Ice Age of a planet. There they meet a woman, who was sentenced to live there alone. Spock, being thurst into the past, starts to ‘devolve’ into what Vulcans were like 5K years ago. He gets emotions. He falls in love with her. When the find the way to get back, Spock tries to send McCoy and stay with her. But he can’t. McCoy can’t get back unless Spock goes as well. So Spock must leave the woman he loves alone in a barren wasteland. When they return to the present, Spock returns to ‘himself’. McCoy “But she’s still back there Spock.” Spock “She’s dead, dead and buried for five thousand years.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-single-episodes-of-tv-series/464571.md?page=4)