# When Funny Shows Turn Poignant (Warning: Some Spoilers Possible)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-funny-shows-turn-poignant-warning-some-spoilers-possible/379393>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 7, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-funny-shows-turn-poignant-warning-some-spoilers-possible/379393 "2006-11-07T04:31:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-funny-shows-turn-poignant-warning-some-spoilers-possible/379393/101 "2006-11-15T01:06:05Z")

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I don’t know; I never saw that part of the episode. I have this quote: “Some felt the jokes tasteless, among them lines delivered at the party next door at Mike and Gloria’s, that the characters didn’t realized bore on Edith’s unfolding misfortune.”

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-funny-shows-turn-poignant-warning-some-spoilers-possible/379393/102 "2006-11-15T02:22:09Z")

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[QUOTE=ivylass]  
I really worry about John Goodman. He truly is a Big Ol’ Boy and I am just dreading the day he drops dead of a heart attack. That will be a very sad day.  
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My boyfriend just finished work as a PA on a movie he’s in - didn’t get to speak to him, but saw him a good bit and said he looked _rough_, really tired and ill looking. I’m worried - he’s one of my favorite actors and I always think he seems like such a nice guy.

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**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-funny-shows-turn-poignant-warning-some-spoilers-possible/379393/103 "2006-11-15T04:03:52Z")

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The thread made it to three pages and no one mentioned **Taxi**?

Their most tear jerking episode was when Alex got his old dog back from someone who did not want to take care of it anymore. The dog was really sick and the vet advised Alex to put the dog to sleep. Alex did not want to, insisting that the dog was still his old self again and tried to prove it to the rest of the garage by telling the dog to play dead. There was a long moment where everyone though that the dog wasn’t going to get up from his trick but he eventually did.

If that dog had died I would have cried myself to sleep that night.

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