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Most heart breaking moments on kid's TV????

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Floogal · 16/01/2024 17:26

What are your most heart breaking moments on kid's TV? It can be either from modern day kids TV or from when you were growing up. Mine are:
*On Topsy and Tim. When Tim goes to his 'friend' Tony Welsh house. Tony and his new mate completely ignored Tim. You can see him crying inside until Tony's dad invited him to help out in the garden.

  • On Old Jack's boat Christmas special. When he thinks all his friends are too busy to meet up to commemorate his dead wife. Yet they all surprise him at the end for a proper sing song
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Flippingfruitflies · 16/01/2024 23:23

Escape from the Dark? when they send Flash the pit pony down the pit to find the miners and he succeeded then it blows up before they get him out. I cried so much!

Lwrenagain · 16/01/2024 23:23

This thread has made me realise what an absolute fanny I am.

I've cried at most of them and cried when chuckies dead mommy was mentioned in rugrats.

Got carried out the cinema because I was screaming (I am not the sistine Chappel poster btw, although reading this back I'm clearly just as batshit) with pure fear poor quasimodo was getting stabbed.

My poor mother had to collect me from primary school because one Christmas they put beethoven on and I was traumatised. Can't even remember the story.

And once I was removed from an assembly for crying over geordie fucking racer. Someone trying to steal a pigeon egg or something equally shit and I hysterically broke down over the guilt of that mornings dippy egg.

The film coco I'm surprised didn't end up with me getting my antidepressants increased.

I'm so glad my kids aren't big fucking wetwipes like I was/still am 😂

scrivette · 16/01/2024 23:23

ColinRobinsonsFart · 16/01/2024 20:42

Animated film - Granpa

Came out at Christmas 1989 when DD was 2.

I sobbed my heart out

I was so upset when I saw this. As an adult I bought the book but I can't bring myself to actually read it!

MindHowYouGoes · 16/01/2024 23:34

Sammy in dance academy and Abigail’s reaction

Renamed · 16/01/2024 23:35

Flippingfruitflies · 16/01/2024 23:23

Escape from the Dark? when they send Flash the pit pony down the pit to find the miners and he succeeded then it blows up before they get him out. I cried so much!

Yes! That was it. Not just me then!

bendmeoverbackwards · 16/01/2024 23:39

Early 80s BBC children’s drama Break in the Sun. Utterly heartbreaking. Can still hear the theme tune.

‘Nobody wants me’, poor Patsy 😢

Dyra · 16/01/2024 23:39

@modgepodge Well that's a bit of childhood trauma that's come right back to the forefront. Even if it was a set up, the Toy Story movies makes me feel sad for the toy itself!

As for other traumas, Knightmare, and the knight from the chess game in the Incredible Games.

Not much of a crier as a kid, but a couple of things have "got" me as an adult. That final montage of all the Heeler family asleep in Sleepytime gets me misty eyed. But the one and only thing that has made me cry was Inside Out, when Riley reunited with her parents after she'd come back home. It resonated strongly with some experiences I'd had growing up, resulting in full blown sobbing in the movie theater.

Bookworm12345 · 16/01/2024 23:50

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 16/01/2024 22:51

@Heather37231 my DF told me that Bambi's mother was shot with a tranquilliser dart, taken to the vet and released in Richmond Park. He even pointed her out to me. It wasn't until I watched it with my own children that I realised what really happened!

Oh what a sweet Dad you have! ❤️

Bookworm12345 · 16/01/2024 23:54

Cuckoochanel80 · 16/01/2024 22:36

Henry getting bricked in on Thomas the Tank Engine😦😭😭😭-absolutely sadistic

Otherwise, I was gutted when they sacked Geoffrey from Rainbow and messed up the whole show when I was about 7. I remember I was fucking furious.

Yes, it's horrible what happened to Henry! DS used to cry whenever Thomas got lost in the fog, I think in the film Misty Island.

Cuckoochanel80 · 16/01/2024 23:54

Just thought of another one thanks to @thisbetheverse

Gets me every time- the mum/baby aspect but also the poor treatment and misery of the animals in the circus.

Dumbo's Mom

Mrs. Jumbo protecting her son at the circus.

https://youtu.be/dXRyak6N_sw

Cuckoochanel80 · 17/01/2024 00:07

@Bookworm12345 Awww wee pet 😊

LorlieS · 17/01/2024 00:33

Not a programme but a film... Mrs Doubtfire. As a mum without her kids the majority I can't watch it without it breaking my heart 💔

Haggisfish3 · 17/01/2024 00:36

SaulGoodmanIsTaken · 16/01/2024 17:41

Tottie The story of a dolls house - Birdie and Marchpane, still upsetting 40 years later

Omg I had forgotten about this until
now!!! You are absolutely right! B

AliceMcK · 17/01/2024 00:53

Macauley Culkin dying in My Girl, sobbed and sobbed even before I watched it as I knew it was going to happen. Also when Champ dies in The Champ, heartbreaking, though I was young I don’t think it was meant to be a child’s movie.

Onacuctustree · 17/01/2024 01:18

Abney and Teal.. Bops babies.

Lwrenagain · 17/01/2024 08:11

AliceMcK · 17/01/2024 00:53

Macauley Culkin dying in My Girl, sobbed and sobbed even before I watched it as I knew it was going to happen. Also when Champ dies in The Champ, heartbreaking, though I was young I don’t think it was meant to be a child’s movie.

My mum banned me from watching my girl 😭

Jb2182 · 17/01/2024 08:13

ColinRobinsonsFart · 16/01/2024 20:42

Animated film - Granpa

Came out at Christmas 1989 when DD was 2.

I sobbed my heart out

My mum still can't watch this. My Grandad, her dad, had died in the summer and my brother was only two and kept asking for him. She said it was like someone had animated her life and trauma 😞

ginandoreos · 17/01/2024 08:16

My girl and Goodnight Mr Tom 😢.

Fun fact, real life Zammo lives in the next town from me and owns a key cutting shop. He is a very nice man.

CharlotteStreetW1 · 17/01/2024 08:20

LoopyGremlin · 16/01/2024 21:34

When ET goes home 😢 can't even hear the music without welling up

I took my then eight year old niece to see ET. She sat on my lap and wept from start to finish. Not sure she even saw any of it!

Fulshaw · 17/01/2024 08:21

MammaTo · 16/01/2024 20:02

Also to add from other peoples answers of Toy Story 3, when Andy gives his toys to Bonnie at the end and drives off I felt like I was waving goodbye to my childhood completely.

Agree. Probably the most I’ve cried at anything. The end of the joy and innocence of childhood.

CrazyCatLady42 · 17/01/2024 08:31

When Freda the Blue Peter tortoise didn't wake up after hibernation 😭😭

knackeredcat · 17/01/2024 08:32

I cry at the end of The Snowman, which I've watched every single year since it debuted in 1982 (old)😢

Raymond Briggs material definitely pulled at the heartstrings with Granpa and When The Wind Blows (although the latter not pitched at younger children) 😨

YY to Birdie and Marchpane in Tottie, this is such a fabulous forgotten show, beautiful old doll's house and toys with a sinister edge

Can't watch Watership Down, Bambi or Dumbo any more, the latter two since my own Mum died in particular

CoffeeWithCheese · 17/01/2024 08:37

Iwouldlikesomecake · 16/01/2024 21:11

The Snowman is a deep source of trauma in our house to this day…

It's banned in this house. DD2 gets incredibly upset very very easily (she's autistic and struggles with being overly empathetic at the best of times) and she cried for fucking hours.

Mind you - she sobbed her heart out at Ash saying goodbye to Sliggoo the Pokemon the other day as well.

Dinkyboots · 17/01/2024 08:49

purplecorkheart · 16/01/2024 21:35

My parents tell me I watched a show where they showed that rhyme about with the Mommy duck and her little ducks swam away and at one point no little ducks came back. I apparently was distraught for days afterwards at them all being sad and worried that they may all get lost again.

I cried at the Ugly Duckling song when I was three, I was (and am) a total over-empathiser. I felt so bad for the ugly duckling being told to get out of town because he didn't fit in and I was quite outraged that once he looked like the others he was accepted. I knew none of this was right and I wasn't even at nursery then so wasn't influenced by peers. My mum had a record with nursery songs on it, that's how I heard it.

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