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• Commencement off, yes there is a Bond parody episode (and a sequel episode to that) called "Tearjerker" where Roger plays a character named Tearjerker, but that's not what nosotros're talking about here, though the flick he produced in the get-go episode, while deliberately over the top depressing, IS pretty tear jerking in its own right.
  • The films that Roger's persona Tearjerker produced. The outset film, Oscar Gold, was about a mentally retarded alcoholic Jewish kid whose cancer-ridden puppy dies during the Holocaust. The other? Six hours of a baby chimp trying to revive his dead mother! Because those films were deliberately designed to get audiences to cry themselves to death...
• This brief moment from "Pulling Double Booty" when Hayley is outlining her three-style with Stan (posing as his trunk double) and a waitress (though it is more funny than depressing, it does get a footling sad when yous realize that one time upon a fourth dimension, Stan really did love Hayley and wants her to be the sweet, obedient girl she used to be).
• "Weiner of Our Discontent", when Roger realizes that he was sent to World as a crash examination dummy and not on some important mission and goes through a month-long depression (though it can be argued that Roger deserved information technology because of his rude beliefs — which spanned from the 1950s to the present — earlier discovering his true intentions of being put on Earth).
• Francine facing the facts that Steve is growing up and moving on in "Iced, Iced Babies" (until Steve comes home crying over Debbie breaking up with him and Francine'south creepy, "You can stay with Mommy. Forever" line).
• "Man in the Moonbounce", where Stan has silly, carefree fun for the commencement time in his life, and then breaks down sobbing. Hell, that whole episode, and the revelation that Stan's begetter leaving meant that Stan had to forego his own babyhood to wait after his mother, which probably played a big role in turning him into the emotionally stunted jerk he is in adult life.
• Stan being Driven to Suicide in "Every Which Way But Lose", saying that he'southward a large fat loser who doesn't deserve to alive considering he lost one game in life.
• Stan's All-time Friend: The story of how young Stan was forced to kill his dog because he thought he had a final disease (Turns out it was because his mom was moving into an flat that didn't allow dogs or cats. Rabbits, nevertheless, were only allowed on a instance-past-case basis). Fifty-fifty Stan said the story was so lamentable, that he wasn't going to undercut the flashback with a joke.
  • The entire episode is a Tear Jerker with Stan being determined to keep Kisses, the family'southward new puppy, alive afterwards it gets critically injured by a group of pirate cats that crushed information technology with their hot air balloon's handbasket. The vet tells the family unit that Kisses would non terminal much longer, but Stan refuses to let Kisses dice, and then he puts the dog on life back up, and then decides to steal Kisses from the hospital, taking him to a non licensed veterinarian to proceed Kisses live. She does and then, but winds upward making Kisses a complete Frankenstein-like freak that barely resembles a dog and seems to be in even more pain than always. Steve spends several scenes crying his eyes out seeing that his new pet is on the verge of death.

  Francine: (screams in horror)

  Steve: (wails loudly) Oh, my God! Please, kill this domestic dog!! End this!!!!

  Stan: I know he'south difficult to wait at now but he's notwithstanding Kisses! Look deep into his eyes which are now his assurance and you'll see—

  Francine: Okay, any that is, it's not Kisses.

  • The biggest tearjerker comes from Stan slowly accepting the fact that his puppy volition never be the aforementioned. Stan tries to ignore his dog's suffering, but he then sees his one-time domestic dog from his childhood in a dream that tells him to let Kisses go because the poor puppy isn't a puppy anymore and can no longer do annihilation that a dog loves to exercise. Stan tearfully agrees and decides to put him out of his misery. But Stan beingness Stan, he decides to blow up Kisses with TNT.
  • Klaus on the brink of tears afterward Roger rudely tells him that he's non a pet because nobody loves him.
• In "I Am The Walrus" Stan, inspired by a walrus documentary, proves himself to Steve that he's the existent human being of the house by doing the 1 affair Steve tin can't nonetheless: have sexual practice. Roger invites Steve to a party at the prospect of getting laid but it ends in failure and the poor male child has a mental breakup. Stan arrives but in time to run across his son crying. Roger congratulates Stan, telling him that now Steve will never challenge him over again and he won't have any son of his own challenging him since he'll never take children. Stan realizes that he'southward made Steve inept and apologizes for trying to make him live like a walrus and helps him with one other way of being a man: shaving.
• The subplot from "Delorean Story-an" parodying The Tortoise and the Hare. A bit of careless driving by Stan leaves a sleeping Steve leaning out of the car, causing his head to striking a running hare (named Andy). We and so run into a tortoise approach the now dead hare and weep, saying that he always respected him. The tortoise then decides that he and the hare should finish the race together, so he drags the hare'south corpse down the route.

  Tortoise: OH, GOD! Oh, no, no, I wanted to win, but not like this! Oh, we had different approaches sure, merely I e'er respected the hell out of you!

  • The episode ends with the tortoise dragging the hare'south mangled trunk over the finish line before breaking down crying.

  Tortoise: We did it, Andy! We did it, erstwhile friend!

• Stan not winning the respect of his neighbors in "I Can't Stan You". While Stan is a Jerkass for most of the fourth dimension, he just wants to be loved.
• The subplot with Lindsay dying from staph infection after breaking her leg in soccer on "Adventures In Hayley-Sitting".
• National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She'due south Doing Well: The Hole Story puts a depressing new low-cal on all the previous Francine-centric episodes where she either tries to find a career or some new form of fulfillment beyond what she has. Considering she was saved from a well when she was younger, and a firefighter died though not really so she could live, Francine'south previous attempts at jobs and careers were all to prove that her life really was worth saving. She'southward felt that she's done nothing with her life, meaning that firefighter died for nothing and it'south on her head.
• The flashback of Roger'south about memorable moments on "Naked to the Limit: One More Time" when Roger is about to go back to his home planet (in the end he doesn't just it still hits domicile) set to Suicide is Painless (best known as the theme song to Thousand*A*S*H, both the movie and the TV show).
  • Stan giving Roger the American Flag pin he e'er wears on his lapel, right before the latter is about to go out.
• A big amount of the episode "Lost in Space", just peculiarly the Royal musical number. Jeff is being shown supposed proof that he never loved Hayley at all, and he cries and falls to his easily and knees at the footage of him not appreciating his married woman plenty, at present with the cognition that he may never run across her again. Scrappy or not, you'll just want to requite Jeff a hug after that.
  • When Jeff confronts the Majestic, he finds out Emperor Zing is forcing information technology to show only bad memories, or else he'll get killed.
  • Also take into account of the Fridge Horror, all the alien slaves are being kept from their true love, and probably took the test and failed. Ane alien is seen crying at the beginning and another was so depressed he hit the canteen (although the latter was also a funny moment), and information technology's understandable. As well during the start of the revolution, Roger'south people and the slaves were all angry at Emperor Zing for his lies to them most dearest, that they were separated from their loved ones for cypher.
• The family believing that Steve and Roger died when their treehouse was struck by lightning in "Irregarding Steve," from Hayley leaving flowers by what'south left the tree and crying to Francine screaming at Stan for not letting Steve and Roger come dorsum within during the storm until both of them are in tears hugging on the floor. It's one of the few times the show isn't trying to be funny in the slightest.
  • The b-plot of What's Eating Gilbert Grape as reenacted by squirrels recreates the scene of Arnie finding out that his obese mother died in her sleep a little too faithfully.
• Steve's prom clone Glitter'due south "expiry" in "Steve and Snot'southward Test-Tubular Adventure".
  • That episodes end credits are played over the image of Snot crying side by side to Honey's trunk (Pictured In a higher place), holding the macaroni necklace she fabricated him.
• "Daddy's Gone". The song Steve and Roger sing in "Hot Water" when Stan kicks his family out and chooses his new hot tub over them. The episode itself, really, as it ends with Stan and nearly likely Francine being murdered by said sentient hot tub. Even worse, this was written as a possible serial finale.
• In "Function Spaceman", when Steve and Hayley notice out about Francine'southward hatred of left-handed people stemming from her upbringing at a Christian orphanage, they try to talk her into acceptance of lefties. When that fails, they testify her a fish just like the 1 she was repeatedly smacked with to comply with the nuns' teachings. At that moment, Francine breaks downwards crying in total shame.

  Francine: (sobbing) Information technology'south true! Information technology'S ALL TRUE! Oh what yous must call up of me!

• In the "Ricky Spanish... (Ricky Castilian)" episode, Steve's pet butterfly who, in a jar, had been dropped off the port and into the sea... while still in its cocoon. How it then exits the cocoon, only to find itself trapped until death, is an extremely depressing scene.
• Altough a parody of contained movie cliches, the story in Contained Film is actually fairly tearjerking on its own.
• The whole of "Independent Moving-picture show". The jokes are few and far between, the master story existence a genuine attempt by Steve to help Snot come to terms with his estranged dad's death and when the ending hits.
• Roger's lamentable vocal about his bond with Steve changing and breaking in "A.T. The Abusive Terrestrial". For all the shitty things Roger's done information technology's hard non to feel bad for the guy.
• Stan still going through with altruistic his kidney to Hayley in "The Kidney Stays in the Picture," despite the take chances that Hayley may not be biologically his.
• The scene where Francine accidentally kills a bird that had been 3 days sober. Sadist Bear witness or not, that's but barbarous.
• "The Full Cerebral Redaction of Avery Bullock by the Coward Stan Smith" becomes very melancholic towards the end, when Stan realises that Bullock is suffering from dementia except not really and decides to kill him rather than permit the CIA plow him into a vegetable. It winds up becoming deeply depressing watching Bullock having a clear mental breakup, and watching Stan trying to give the deputy director the best solar day of his life before going to Mercy Impale him.
• Rapture'due south Please. Sure, Stan acts like a selfish dick just afterwards the Rapture happens which causes Francine to finally get out him for Jesus, merely seven years later, he's a cleaved man who is bullheaded in one heart and lost his left hand and is forced to fight a battle he doesn't care about for the man who stole his married woman. At the end of the episode, he sets an explosion to blow up the edifice and takes a bullet for Jesus which causes him to slowly bleed out internally and with his last words, he apologizes to Francine for his words earlier she left him, and tells her that she deserves happiness with Jesus. He begs Jesus to escape without him unraptured (and to drag a tearful Francine with him) before dying in the exploding building.
  • Then, we come across Stan'due south personal sky: His life earlier The Rapture. It's not one were he has all the money and power in the globe, it's but his normal life (with the exception that Klaus is still dead, and then the poor guy still gets the short end). Call up about that for a second.......
• In "Minstrel Krampus", Krampus doesn't punish naughty children because he enjoys it, but because he wants to fix them direct, and "We've Been Bad" is about how bad he feels about his job.

  Krampus: When I'm breakin' the finger, lord, it breakin' my centre / and every Christmas Eve my soul is always torn autonomously!

• Longest Distant Relationship: Hayley finds out Jeff is going back to Earth and is going through a wormhole to make it in that location, and she agrees to wait. After going through the wormhole, he does arrive lx years later on. She has been waiting for threescore years and everyone in her family is worse off. After on, she suffers a heart attack and is at the hospital, and Jeff decides to become back and tell Hayley to motion on, ending their relationship.
  • To brand things worse, he ended their human relationship because he believed that she'd end upward with a nice millionaire. The ending makes it seem like in the end, she'll at least be happy with someone again, but for Roger to kill him, leaving her heartbroken and alone again.
• Sidney Hoffman's sub plot in "The One That Got Away". Convinced he stole from his credit carte, Roger conspires to ruin his entire life, spreading lies to become him fired, dumped by his girlfriend and sabotaged his beautiful garden. It turns out Sidney is in fact a persona of Roger'southward that took a life of his own to deal with the trauma of his outset unselfish thought, Roger ultimately "kills" him after he hires an assassin to stop his conspiracy.
• In "Seizures Suit Stanny", Stan's smartphone lists Jeff as "idiot son-in-law" while Jeff's phone lists Stan as simply "Dad", surrounded by hearts. A major tearjerker considering Jeff'south relationship with his ain father, and how much Jeff must want to be best-selling and appreciated by Stan.
• In "Holy Shit Jeff's Back!", Hayley learning that Jeff is dead (after existence dissected past the Collectors AKA the Dissectors); thankfully he gets better at the end.
• Even though Sergei Kruglov didn't care much about Steve, and he should have, information technology'due south difficult not to feel bad for him. He believed in the Communist Party and was raising his son to exist a Communist like him. Then, when Communism vicious, his wife, who he loved, left him for a Capitalist, then his son became the very thing he hated, a CEO, a capitalist. Since Commercialism stole his son, he wanted to steal Stan'southward son.
• In "Tiptop of the Steve," Stan breaks downward crying on two occasions due to missing Steve, who ran abroad to boarding school. Also his excitement when he thinks Steve is abode when the door bell rings, but to take his hopes dashed when it turns out non to be him.
• "The Long March" starts out with a hell of an Adult Fright with Hayley being promoted to Assistant Manager at a sandwich shop. She fears that she will spend the balance of her life stuck at that stressful, monotonous job — a fear that a misguided Stan cheerfully confirms when he happily tells her that her life will revolve entirely around her employment until the day she dies. He even bluntly tells Hayley that he never really respected or cared about her equally a person before she got that task. The fact that Stan never loses his cheery demeanor despite how depressing his words clearly are is merely icing on the cake.

  Stan: Oh, Hayley, I've been and so disappointed in you for so long; completely given up on you as a begetter!
  Hayley: You what?
  Stan: Yeah! Only at present that you've turned things around, [he pulls out a day planner and easily it to her] I got you a souvenir!
  Hayley: A day planner?
  Stan: Yes, and the best function: I've already filled it out for you!
  [Hayley opens the day planner; every page has "9:00 Become to Work —> 5:00 Go Home" written on it]
  Hayley: [reading aloud] Become to piece of work. Go dwelling house. [turns page] Become to work. Get home.
  Stan and Hayley: Go to work. Go home. Go to work. Become dwelling.
  Stan: Welcome to the long march! Oh, I envy yous: simply starting out on a task you'll practise for the next 40 years! The turbulent wave of life'southward joy and despair will go... a flatline! [he mimics a flatline sound effect]
  Hayley: What?
  Stan: Presently, you'll exist marching to piece of work, clocking in and out, marching abode... over and over and over! You'll be 30! 40! 50! 60! [does flatline sound once again] The march ends at the grave!
  Hayley: [clearly horrified] It'southward... merely a promotion...
  Stan: There's that vacant stare of a fellow marcher! Aw, man! The march!

  • Disturbingly for real when she tries to go out of the task by becoming a instagram star, she and so obsessed by avoiding work, that she just working without Whatsoever breaks whatsoever (Not to mention outright slave-labor later in the episode).
• "Flirting With Disaster" brutally shows the consequences of Roger's shoddy fabricated birdhouses. Nosotros get a supposedly cartoony scene of an anthropomorphic family of birds, earlier the house suddenly begins to fall autonomously around them, with the husband screaming in horror every bit support beams crush both his wife and children and he gets engulfed in fire and debris. This lone, in spite of the intentional Narm is morbid, but then we get a perspective shot from Steve subsequently who finds the broken birdhouse with the corpses of two realistic birds and their crushed eggs. Steve is understandably heartbroken and furious at Roger.
• Stan's final monologue in "The Adventures of Twill Ongenbone And His Boy Jabari."

  Steve: So, who was president when you lot were a child?

  Stan: Oh, I don't know, I judge I think most killing myself pretty often. And why not? What'southward and then nifty virtually living? Y'all know when I'm happy? For virtually five seconds in the forenoon when I start wake up, before I recollect who I am and what my life is all nigh- (phonation breaks) anxiety, disappointment, diarrhea by and large. (sighs) I don't, I don't know if in that location's an afterlife, but who cares? Nothingness couldn't exist any worse than this meaningless march through my empty days.

  • And to top it off, Steve'south teacher ends up so depressed that he declares "Life dismissed" and jumps out a window.
• In Into the Forest Stan realizes he didn't carelessness a kid beingness bullied when they were children just was left behind by the other child and he was simply and so traumatized he switched the scenario. Then Francine tries to make him feel meliorate past doing a middle school reunion, merely everyone turns out to be doing better than him, including one guy who found money in the woods that Stan was hiding out in literally a day before the reunion. Then to actually make matters worse when the bullies that led to Stan's trauma evidence up and ask Francine if she is Stan's wife and... she pretty much calls him a loser and says she doesn't know him. Stan runs out ashamed, merely when he and Francine are driving domicile and she's apologizing Stan switches the scenario in his head once again and apologizes and Francine just accepts it. He's that traumatized that he copes by playing it off equally if information technology's his fault.
• "Dauntless N00b Globe" ends with Steve and Stan ultimately causing the end of the earth and all of them dying... again, merely and so the world is sort of 3D printed back into existence except at that place'due south a small change and Stan doesn't take the telephone call and just wants to hang out with Steve for father-son day... this is so unnerving to Steve that he realizes the world is imitation and goes insane from it... substantially Stan is such a terrible father that the mere thought of him being loving to his kids in a sure style even for a 2d is so out of identify that information technology'southward out of character and makes y'all realize the world is simulated!
  • What's worse? Even as the world is most to be consumed in a nuclear Holocaust? Stan can't even BARE to say he loves Steve! No matter the circumstances, even the END OF THE Globe, Stan refuses to give his son 18-carat common respect or affection.
• "Little Bonnie Ramirez" really tips the calibration on Roger's level of cruelty. To put it plain, Roger has Francine arrested and falsely imprisoned for abducting a kid persona of his simply because she said he was losing his border. That itself is Played for Laughs, just afterwards on, he gets her out of it by swapping her with a television actress who played Francine in a reenactment. What'south so sad about this is that the extra was a genuinely kind and caring individual who helped the Smiths throughout the episode for literally nothing. The Smiths are visibly uncomfortably as she is dragged away crying.

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