Silliest thing that made you sad

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26100

What silly things tug at your heart-strings?

John Lewis adverts at Christmas don't count, because obviously they make everyone cry.

Currently, I keep getting sad at the name and picture on my bag of sweets. I have a bag of lovely "Veggie Colin The Caterpillar becomes a beautiful butterfly' sweets, and I am concerned that Colin spent his whole existence as a caterpillar not realising that he was beautiful. He didn't need painted wings to be a beautiful creature.

I bet Colin was a great friend. He made great sweets, so I am sure that he was all sorts of lovely.

So, yes, I was feeling a bit sad about it in the car, and today I keep thinking about it so I am trying to eat them all quickly so that I stop worrying bout Colin's sad existence before he became a butterfly.

Next time I shall stick to Percy's Pigsty. He's just a messy piglet with a house full of underpants, so that's fine.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Season 2, episode 2, The West Wing. When Josh wakes up right at the end. Makes me cry every time I watch it.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:17

Mimi wrote:

John Lewis adverts at Christmas don't count, because obviously they make everyone cry.

They make me cry with frustration.

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:22

The ending to Klonoa on the PS1. I can't remember much about it now but when I completed it when it first came out, it really tugged at my heartstrings.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26100

Cras wrote:

Season 2, episode 2, The West Wing. When Josh wakes up right at the end. Makes me cry every time I watch it.

I've never watched The West Wing - I think it should be the next thing we sit down to after we finish The Wire.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26100

TheVision wrote:

The ending to Klonoa on the PS1. I can't remember much about it now but when I completed it when it first came out, it really tugged at my heartstrings.

Oh man... I cried loads when I starved my goat to death on Harvest Moon because I wanted room in my barn for another cow.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:38

This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs

And more recently, this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgPTVEEsF7g

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14417

"To The Moon" on PC made me well up and Shadow of the Collosus on PS2 made me feel sad.

That's why I rate them as great games.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 11:30

Yeah, Shadow of the Colossus got me.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 12:00

http://youtu.be/myyWXKeBsNk

Gets me every time.

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

I rarely cry with films or books (or games, for that matter), but both "Brothers: a tale of two sons" and "The Whispered World" made me shed a tear. And i played them almost next to each other.

And based on all the reviews and comments, and with my recent experience at being a softie, i was expecting to cry rivers with "the walking dead", but of course i didn't. The game just isn't very good at all.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 12:04

Grim... wrote:

This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs

And more recently, this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgPTVEEsF7g

Wow, both got me....

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38663

That fucking Renault advert with the Dad watching his daughter drive off to uni.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 12:19

The "pink ladies" advert sets Mrs Grim... off.

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

The plastic bag scene in American Beauty. Although it's not really sadness, I guess.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38663

Grim... wrote:

And more recently, this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgPTVEEsF7g

Man, did it get dusty in here, or what?

Jem · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 12:38

Whhhhy did I click any of these things at work?!

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 12:39

Luckily I am in a hotel..

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 12:57

Grim... wrote:

The "pink ladies" advert sets Mrs Grim... off.

Your wife cries about apples?

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 12:59

Future Warrior wrote:

Grim... wrote:

The "pink ladies" advert sets Mrs Grim... off.

Your wife cries about apples?

Probably.

It's this advert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdOUHEf6Xd4

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 13:00

Future Warrior wrote:

Grim... wrote:

The "pink ladies" advert sets Mrs Grim... off.

Your wife cries about apples?

Depends on how hard your throw them, i am sure being hit with one would make my eyes water

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 13:41

That Kiwi! thing gets me every single fucking time. It's just the tinkling piano music, and it's the same in many films - if they use a sad piano track, you may as well just pass me the tissues.

The bit in Independence Day where the President's wife dies and he comes out of the hospital room and tells their daughter that "Mommy's sleeping now" is the scene that I first noticed this in. I've watched that scene without the music and with, and it's only with the music that I look like I've just dived headfirst into a room full of cut onions.

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

The music is certainly a major part of the scene I mentioned.

Achilles · **Joined:** 15th Nov, 2008 **Posts:** 484

..........................................

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

Hunchback of Notre Dame is an amazing film.

Bear or Bust · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 16:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doz1QJ7LwjA
Never fails to get me.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

That bit at the end of Babe where the pig and the farmer are stood together after the sheepdog trials always makes me blart - I empathise with Hogget way way too much.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Mar 11, 2015 0:13

DavPaz wrote:

Grim... wrote:

And more recently, this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgPTVEEsF7g

Man, did it get dusty in here, or what?

Not just me then?

Zio · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6093

I think I can beat all of you for "silliest thing to make me upset", because for some stupid reason the ending to Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan always gets me. Especially when I decided to watch the movie again last weekend.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

http://youtu.be/Y6vCMOv73fY

Cat Stevens - 'How can I tell you?' This is the original vinyl album version. Unfortunately, what you probably won't hear is the sighing intake of breath before the first chord is struck, but you can hear it on the actual LP, and for me it sets the tone for the whole song.

MrD · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2139

A claymation dog running away from home in the rain because he feels his best friend no longer cares for him.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4840

I cried at the music at the end of 'In the Night Garden' once.

I was a bit ill and feeling miserable beforehand. :metul:

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2015 9:57

Oh.. That reminds me. There's a programme on Cbeebies called Old Jacks Boat. It stars Bernard Cribbins (amongst others) who is an old sailor who walks through his town and has a chat with his co stars before going onto his boat to tell a lovely story. I think you'll agree that Cribbins is brilliant and tells a fantastic story.

The Christmas episode featured Bernard walking through his town asking his friends if they can make the annual carol concert. They all say that they're busy so a forlorn Bernads gets to his boat and tells his story. This story is about himself as a young man and how he comes to get married to Sailor Sue. We haven't seen Sailor Sue before and we haven't seen her since. It's a lovely story of how she proposes to him and he didn't see it coming. It finishes with Bernard looking at the camera, with a tear in his eye saying "I miss Sailor Sue every single day"

Then his friends all start singing carols outside his boat and they all say that they miss her too.

The wife and I were in floods of tears at this. It was written by Russell T Davies and It was beautiful. It must have been totally lost on the children it was aimed at.

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

I cried when i heard the news on the tv that a lynx was found dead with gunshot wounds.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4357

TheVision wrote:

Oh.. That reminds me. There's a programme on Cbeebies called Old Jacks Boat. It stars Bernard Cribbins (amongst others) who is an old sailor who walks through his town and has a chat with his co stars before going onto his boat to tell a lovely story. I think you'll agree that Cribbins is brilliant and tells a fantastic story.

The Christmas episode featured Bernard walking through his town asking his friends if they can make the annual carol concert. They all say that they're busy so a forlorn Bernads gets to his boat and tells his story. This story is about himself as a young man and how he comes to get married to Sailor Sue. We haven't seen Sailor Sue before and we haven't seen her since. It's a lovely story of how she proposes to him and he didn't see it coming. It finishes with Bernard looking at the camera, with a tear in his eye saying "I miss Sailor Sue every single day"

Then his friends all start singing carols outside his boat and they all say that they miss her too.

The wife and I were in floods of tears at this. It was written by Russell T Davies and It was beautiful. It must have been totally lost on the children it was aimed at.

that sounds excellent, will look out for it at xmas.

And it reminded me of Steve Coogan's Sunshine, which left me and my wife in floods of tears. It reminded me because i thought that starred Bernard Cribbins too. Turns out it's someone called Bernard Hill. Who I've spent years thinking is Bernard Cribbins. And they look pretty similar. Funny old world, eh?

Slightly Green · **Joined:** 26th Aug, 2010 **Posts:** 2069

This one?

Warning it is only the end of the episode (can't find the full ep on youtube or vimeo)

And yes it had both my better half and myself complaining the room was dusty....

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2015 13:15

That's the one! They've shown it two years in a row now and both times, I've just happened to be cutting onions while watching it.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38663

Just now on reddit. "The Syrian Girl thought the photographer's camera was a weapon, so she surrendered"

Fucking dusty office. Fucking shitty world.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26100

Oh man

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26100

I'd just like to point out that none of you actually ever answered the question in the first post.

This was about silly things that made you cry, whereas I think that pretty much every single post here is either understandably heart-wrenching or made to tug on the emotional strings (I saw that Kiwi short a few years ago. I'll never watch it again. Gosh, even thinking it about it as I write this has made me cry. Also, I had never seen the 'Pink Ladies' advert, so I looked for that... thanks, Grim...! :'(

)

Anyway, I like that a fair few of you are a soppy lot. sometimes bravado and internet personas can make everyone seem so tough and angry, I like that most people are real underneath.

:luv:

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4840

My wife cried when one of the aliens in Falling Skies got killed.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4357

I actually answered a similar question a few years ago:

Inappropriate Sobbing

Summary: Status Quo, Chico from the X Factor, my daughter eating her dinner, Portal 2.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38663

The General Election Thread is making me sad.

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:29

I delved into it for the first time ever yesterday and I'm inclined to agree.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:38

DavPaz wrote:

The General Election Thread is making me sad.

It only makes me sad when people don't quote BeexCunts properly. Then I have to read half a dull conversation.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26100

I'm trying to chill out at work with a biscuit and a cup of tea, so I put some music on.

so, me and Puff The Magic Dragon, we're having a great time until he sadly slips into his cave.

Little Jackie Paper. What a shit. I can't believe he made Puff's scales fall off. Like Rain. Whyyyyyy? He gave puff a skin condition. Horrible little git.

Anyway, it makes me cry. Shouldn't listen to it in the office, really.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:30

Watched Guardians of the Galaxy, it must have been dusty as the scene when Groot dies made my eyes water... FFS

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38663

Spoilers man!

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:56

DavPaz wrote:

Spoilers man!

Alas, It is a bit late for those of us who have not seen it.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:45

It has been out for over a year...

Be Excellent To Each Other

Silliest thing that made you sad
...or even cry.

Who is online

Be Excellent To Each Other

Silliest thing that made you sad ...or even cry.

Who is online

Silliest thing that made you sad
...or even cry.