TV Finales That Made You Cry

[Free-Man]

I watched the final episodes of Code Geass this morning, and it got me thinking. Has there ever been a finale to a TV show that realy moved you?

[El Lousith]

both the endings to code geass and scrubs moved me somewhat..

great shows :'(

[K-DoG7p7]

Black Adder Goes Fourth , its set in the first world war and in the final episode they go over the top..
The final episode on youtube
Part 1
Part 2
Part3

[K-DoG7p7]

both the endings to code geass and scrubs moved me somewhat..

great shows :'(

scrubs isn't over... yet
but Zach Braff is only going to be in 6 episodes next year.. as a guest only

[joe27]

It wasn't the actual finale, but was engineered in such a way that it could have been, since it was questionable whether the show would return the following year.

Anyway, it was the fifth season finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and makes me cry everytime. Giles "she's a hero you see, she's not like us" line, followed by Buffy easily knocking Doc off the tower mid-line, her last moments with Dawn and her great speech set against her friends reacting to her death, and closing with a shot of her tombstone. I think the funny, deadpan epitaph makes it even sadder.

I didn't really get into season five at the time, but I love it now and I think this is actually my favorite episode of the series.

[Free-Man]

both the endings to code geass and scrubs moved me somewhat..

great shows :'(

The scene of Nunally craddling her dying brother in her arms at the end really got to me. When she was screaming for him not to die, because she finally understood that the horrific things he had done were all to save the world, that was one of the most powerful scenes I've ever watched.

[joe27]

I'm also partial to the finale of The Facts of Life, where Blair finally lets Jo eat her out "for friendship's sake".

[fireSTRIKE!]

the goodbye scene between Hawkeye and BJ in the final ep of M*A*S*H was kinda touching, I thought...

[fireSTRIKE!]

I also just remembered... it wasn't the final episode, but the episode of M*A*S*H where Radar announced to everyone that Col. Henry Blake's helicopter, which was taking him to catch a flight back home to the States, was shot down and there were no survivors, REALLY stunned me and got to me when I first saw it...

[Calvin Government]

Doesn't make me cry, but the end of Freaks and Geeks almost always has me welling up.

Most of the episodes that bring me to or near to tears are actually in the middle of seasons, really. It seems like every other episode of seasons 1 and 3 of Friday Night Lights has seen me get all emotional, but the finales generally weren't as powerful as some of the midseason stuff. That's true for most shows.

[Pink Bat Maxine]

Johnny Carson's final Tonight Show.

[Pink Bat Maxine]

I'm also partial to the finale of The Facts of Life, where Blair finally lets Jo eat her out "for friendship's sake".

Brought a tear to my eye, that did.

[Free-Man]

I also just remembered... it wasn't the final episode, but the episode of M*A*S*H where Radar announced to everyone that Col. Henry Blake's helicopter, which was taking him to catch a flight back home to the States, was shot down and there were no survivors, REALLY stunned me and got to me when I first saw it...

I saw the Family Guy parody of that scene, and it made me cry.

[Free-Man]

I don't know why, but the ending to Dragonball GT always made me well up a bit. Maybe that's just because of how I grew up on the show and all.

[Charles RB]

Blackadder Goes Forth got me.

Angel did it when Wesley bought it, and finally asks Illyria to lie to him that Fred is still around. When you consider both characters know she's not and it's just Illyria in a wig, it's quite a brutal scene.

I saw the last scene of the last SM:TV Live on Youtube, where we see the janitor turn out the studio lights. That got me, embarrassingly - that's part of my youth he was turning off!

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Only Fools And Horses got me multiple times (I'm talking about the real finale in 1996, not the abortive 2003 one). There's something that gets me about the montage of the characters being successful, finally making it rich, only for a visually frustrated Del Boy to finally leave and go to the flat they used to live in. A flat that's now empty and dark, with him hearing the voices of his dead mum and Granddad.

And then that's followed up with Del admitting he doesn't know what to do anymore. And then the twist of the knife, a phone call to the flat that Del picks up - and it's someone who's got some stock for them! He'll let them have it cheap, they can make 100% profit! And he has to be reminded they aren't in the black market anymore, and Del can only give an upset, trailing-off sales pitch about what a good deal this is, before he himself realises it's over.

"Trotter's Independent Traders... has stopped trading."

As a result of seeing that episode, the song Our House is now burnt into my brain.