Saddest moments in children's television shows

[4000Foals]

Does Press Gamg count?
The awful suicide in the first series was pretty searing, but the episode where the record shop blows up contains the most painful scene where Spike is talking to a girl who is buried beneath him whilst he tries to excavate the debris.

The look on his face as he removes rubble from over a pipe and realises she is far far deeper down, only amplified through it, is devastating for a kids show.

[Toki]

Oh yeah, that was upsetting. I never want to hear it referenced again, for the rest of my life.

[Senior Baiano]

I don't get sad about things in kids shows, I'm not a fucking little baby

[Toki]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Senior Baiano]

I'm fucking rock

[4000Foals]

Oh yeah, that was upsetting. I never want to hear it referenced again, for the rest of my life.

Hat tipped.

[Mr_Simnock]

that epsiode of rosie and jim where they are forced in to moving a county lines gang drugs using the canals

[Senior Baiano]

That Postman Pat episode where Mrs Goggins gets sent to prison for fraud because of failings with the Horizon IT system bit of satire ladies and gentlemen

[Senior Baiano]

Peppa Pig takes the red pill and wakes up in a filthy overcrowded holding pen about to be slaughtered

[horse_renoir]

That Postman Pat episode where Mrs Goggins gets sent to prison for fraud because of failings with the Horizon IT system bit of satire ladies and gentlemen

Nah, she was guilty - how else could the Special Delivery Service afford all the wacky drones & helicopters?

[horse_renoir]

The episode of Bluey ('Onesies') that deals with infertility is a bit of a gut punch.

[idunnosomename]

D'ya remember The Flumps, eh? What were all that about, dick 'ead?!



For any of you lotus eating lithe young CaBbers who can still get up from their sofas without making a noise like a wounded elk, that's them up there. They were sort of Northern stereotype talking testicles with hats. I have a clear memory of being suffused with melancholy (I was obviously that kind of child, a right wan little milksop) at one episode when all the other Flumps decide to play a trick on Grandad Flump (second from right) by pretending to forget it's his birthday. What a bunch of cunts. "Eeee, do you all know what day it is today?" the doddery old article kept saying to which all the others replied "It's the day we make onion soup, Grandad." He then spends the remainder of the episode getting increasingly upset and pathetic, shuffling about in an "I...I...thought they.....loved me?" manner. I expect at the end they all put him out of his misery. I mean told him they knew it was his birthday all along, not shipped him off to Dignitas but it felt like it was going that way. What stayed with me was the pathos of the poor old bastard, though. It felt like a sneak preview of how life might turn out. What if one day everyone you love just....stops giving a shit?

They only made one series of 13 episodes of The Flumps in 1977 but by god the BBC ragged those into the ground for years afterwards and every time that one came round again I'd find an excuse to do something else. My mum cottoned on and said "You don't like that one where they pretend to forget his birthday, do you?" and I got all angry and defensive and cried. 28 years old I was.

Never understand why the forgotten birthday/surprise party became such a plot trope in episodic childrens shows. Surprise parties are bad enough (in the sense you say you're just having a small gathering for someones birthday but youve invited loads of people from their past without telling them), but how could you possibly even think that pretending you've forgotten being a good idea to heighten the surprise? At the very least, the person is probably going to just say "it's my birthday, you cunt" or at worst, run off and cause a massive worrisome search while they have a completely unnecessary dark night of the soul (a TMNT episode with Michelangelo I recall). Just inconcievable.

Although I suppose in the context of The Flumps its alright because they're just tormenting an elderly relative who no longer serves any practical purpose.

[Glebe]

That Postman Pat episode where Mrs Goggins gets sent to prison for fraud because of failings with the Horizon IT system bit of satire ladies and gentlemen

https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=98567.0

[Kankurette]

Surprise parties can get in grave tbh.

[kalowski]

Does Press Gamg count?
The awful suicide in the first series was pretty searing, but the episode where the record shop blows up contains the most painful scene where Spike is talking to a girl who is buried beneath him whilst he tries to excavate the debris.

The look on his face as he removes rubble from over a pipe and realises she is far far deeper down, only amplified through it, is devastating for a kids show.

Fuck me, that was an amazing episode. I'm sad again.

[Incy Wincy Mincey]

The best episode was "Where's Grandfather?" That one had real promise, until they found him.

Proper LOLed at this

[Underturd]

Me too, through my tears.

[Catalogue Trousers]

Maybe not saddest, but definitely left me tearful: the ghosts, having saved the lighthouse, walking out of it in procession at the end of the first series of Round The Twist.