What is the saddest a cartoon has ever made you?

[Carolinas Identity*]

Cartoons are, by in large, meant to be funny and silly and let you escape the real world for 30 mins. But sometimes they can be downright sad.

I recently binge watched a bunch of Futurama episodes, one of which happened to be "Jurassic Bark"

If you are unfamiliar with the episode, Fry finds the fossilized remains of his old adopted dog, and the professor says he has the technology to restore him to life, so the whole episode is flash backs of when they were together, and how excited he is to get his dog back.

Very touching moment and everyone, including the audience, is glad that he is going to get his best friend back. Then at the last second, while the machine is just about to start, Fry breaks it, saying that Seymour (his dog), lived for 15 years after he was gone and wouldn't remember him, and didn't want to tarnish his memory by bringing him back when the dog wouldn't know who he was.

Then......

This happens:



I have never felt so emotionally sucker-punched in my life as I did the first time I saw that. To this day, that still makes me tear up, and I bet actors who need to cry for a scene, probably watch that just before going out on set.

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[aleshemsky83]

Futurama is good but it never really made me actually sad let alone cry, I dont really have a connection to dogs.

I was real sad about his brother and in a more recent season his mom.

But when Cotton Hill died in King of the Hill I did actually cry for most of the episode.

 

[aleshemsky83]

But when I was a young boy I did cry when Ash let butterfree go.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

that futurama episode made me go upstairs and literally bear hug my cat

 

[Siamese Dream]

When Ash dies in Pokemon the first movie

 

[Bones Malone]

Jurassic Bark and The Luck of the Fryrish (when Fry finds out about his nephew, his brother's son) get me every time.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Apples and Oranges.

Luck of the Fryish and Game of Tones, and a few others were sad, but also had happy aspects to them that you would make you smile afterwards.

The ending of Jurassic Bark is the most soul crushing thing ever put on film

 

[Bones Malone]

True, Fryrish wouldn't make the list if not for that Breakfast Club song/montage at the end

 

[tony d]

The end of "Mother Simpson" where Homer's sitting on the car looking up to the sky.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

The end of "Mother Simpson" where Homer's sitting on the car looking up to the sky.

This.

It's the music you hear that does it.....

 

[tarheelhockey]

I'm not sure whether anyone here is old enough to have seen the old Transformers cartoon movie in the theater.

Just imagine a cartoon/toy franchise roughly as popular as Pokemon at the time. They come out with a movie, which was a HUGE deal at a time when home video was just becoming popular. So obviously you and every single not-weird kid you know was going to be at that movie ASAP.

In the opening sequence, they show the bad guys ambush and straight-up murder several NAMED good guys. That is followed by an attack on the good guy home planet and outright slaughter of their people, followed in turn by the introduction of a bad guy who proceeds to EAT a ****ing populated planet. Later we are treated to explicit scenes of surviving civilians being melted down in a foundry.

By this time you can hear a pin drop in the theater and the parents are probably wondering if they've traumatized their children for life.

And then they ****ing kill Optimus Prime right in front of everybody.

Yep, that was the breaking point for many a young boy's innocence.


Edit: I mean imagine the Pokemon equivalent to this:

 

[captaincheese]

Made me really sad.

 

[Teemu]

Up.

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[ArGarBarGar]

"I was just trying to ask you 'Where's the bus stop?'"

 

[Ozz]

Jurassic Bark, 'nuff said

 

[tarheelhockey]

Up.

Yep. First 15 minutes of Up are easily the saddest cartoon I've seen as an adult.

 

[Mantis]

Made me really sad.

For Always Sunny that actually was pretty sad.

 

[New Jersey]

Referring to a currently running cartoon, it's gotta be the ending of the Rick and Morty episode "Auto Erotic Assimilation" when Rick thaws out the little mutant creature he had frozen and euthanizes/vaporizes it with his laser lamp thing, right before he uses his second charge to try and kill himself, only to pass out on the desk at the last possible second due to drinking the rest of the lab chemical he used to thaw out said creature. The music compliments the mood perfectly, as well.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

I'm not sure whether anyone here is old enough to have seen the old Transformers cartoon movie in the theater.

Just imagine a cartoon/toy franchise roughly as popular as Pokemon at the time. They come out with a movie, which was a HUGE deal at a time when home video was just becoming popular. So obviously you and every single not-weird kid you know was going to be at that movie ASAP.

In the opening sequence, they show the bad guys ambush and straight-up murder several NAMED good guys. That is followed by an attack on the good guy home planet and outright slaughter of their people, followed in turn by the introduction of a bad guy who proceeds to EAT a ****ing populated planet. Later we are treated to explicit scenes of surviving civilians being melted down in a foundry.

By this time you can hear a pin drop in the theater and the parents are probably wondering if they've traumatized their children for life.

And then they ****ing kill Optimus Prime right in front of everybody.

Yep, that was the breaking point for many a young boy's innocence.


Edit: I mean imagine the Pokemon equivalent to this:

I always cheered for the Decepticons, so Optimus dieing never really hit me that hard.

But yeah. I can go for this

 

[John Price]

When Ash dies in Pokemon the first movie

What the ****?

 

[cjerina]

"I was just trying to ask you 'Where's the bus stop?'"

Go figure, in looking for that on YT, its under this title:

"Funny Ass Clip from Hey Arnold"

 

[irunthepeg]

But when I was a young boy I did cry when Ash let butterfree go.

so true

 

[tarheelhockey]

Go figure, in looking for that on YT, its under this title:

"Funny Ass Clip from Hey Arnold"

Almost half the comments mention crying or at least feeling terrible when watching that clip as a child

 

[Siamese Dream]

What the ****?

Don't worry, Pikachu tears magically revive him

 

[xtra]

I always cheered for the Decepticons, so Optimus dieing never really hit me that hard.

But yeah. I can go for this

Who the heck cheers for the decepticons