Top 11 Saddest Moments

NC: Hello I'm the Nostalgia Critic, I remember it so you don't have to. People, there's nothing wrong with getting in touch with your feminine side. Unless you're a guy, in which case that makes you a pussy. But everyone has at least one movie that they've cried at. And for the most part, they were shown to us when we were little kids for crying out loud! There's no doubt about it: kids films have some of the saddest and most depressing scenes in cinema history. Clips from the Animaniacs "Slappy the Squirrel" segments, with her nephew crying at a movie NC (voiceover): For films that were supposed to be family friendly, there's a lot of emotionally tormenting stuff that we were shown in our childhoods.

NC: Which is why today, I am bringing you the Top 11 Saddest Movie Moments from our childhoods. Why Top 11? Because I like to go one step beyond. So, women get out your tissues, men prepare your sleeves, this is the Top 11 Saddest Nostalgic Moments.

The said title appears over a clip of the kids crying from The Addams Family

Number 11
Interlude NC (voiceover): Number 11--Saying Goodbye, from Muppets Take Manhattan The words "11. 'Saying Goodbye Song'" over footage of the scene NC (voiceover): You wouldn't think the Muppets would ever be able to get you teary eyed, but at the scene where they all have to go their separate ways, it's pretty damn depressing! Short sample of the song NC (voiceover): Out of all the Muppet songs that were sung, this is by far the saddest, making us feel bad for a bunch of talking socks for crying out loud! That's the sign of good storytellers when the movie had you feeling emotionally attached to an amphibian and a hog. Get ready for lip to quiver in... The countdown is displayed over the scene NC (voiceover): 3, 2, 1! Cut briefly to NC, lip all a-quiver, then back to the song, then NC simply busts out crying

Number 10
Interlude

NC (voiceover): Number 10--The Blue Bird Song from Follow That Bird  Again, footage of the scene labeled with the list item NC (voiceover): This takes place after Big Bird is captured by two carnie folk who want to parade him around as a circus attraction. The guys masquerade him off as the Bluebird of Happiness.

NC: Oh boy, Bluebird of Happiness? That sounds uplifting!

Big Bird, painted blue, begins singing, very depressingly; NC gets progressively more saddened as the song goes on NC: (trying to sound cheery) Sunny days...

NC (voiceover): I mean jeesh, this is pretty damn depressing for a Sesame Street movie. All that's missing is for a single tear to fall down Big Bird's eye- ''Oh yeah. They go there.'' NC (voiceover): OH THAT'S JUST TOO MUCH! If you're not crying by the end of this blue bird song, get your eyes checked. NC breaks down crying

Number 9
Interlude

NC (voiceover): Number 9--Death of Little Foot's mother from The Land Before Time. ''This time, the list item is shown right over footage of Little Foot's mother dying. Yeesh. Awkward!'' NC (voiceover): Let's face it, dinosaurs are always gonna be cool, but who would've thought you could actually feel sorry for them? The Land Before Time had a lot of depressing moments, but the saddest one of all is when Little Foot's mother fights off the evil Tyrannosaurus Rex and sacrifices her life in the process.

Mother: Dear sweet Little Foot. Do you remember the way to the Great Valley?

Little Foot: I guess so... NC again looks as if he's about to break into tears Little Foot: But why do I have to know, you're gonna be with me!

Mother: I'll be with you...even if you can't see me.

Little Foot: Mother...mother?

NC: Oh for crying out loud, how can a movie make me feel bad for something that died eons ago? ...(he starts crying again) Like this!

Little Foot: It's not fair!

Number 8
Interlude

NC (voiceover): Number 8--An American Tail. Footage of the movie NC (voiceover): Just...just An American Tail! Everything about this movie is depressing! I'm surprised everybody didn't get depression just from watching it. The story is about a little mouse who gets separated from his family while moving to America. The family thinks he's dead, but the mouse continues to look for them anyway. And the rest of the movie IS A FUCKING TEASE! He thinks he hears his father's violin, but it's a record player. He thinks some other mice can help him out, but they don't help him out at all. He thinks he's found his family's house... It turns out to be a house of gangster rats, as Fievel is grabbed by a big, burly rat with a cigar NC (voiceover): JESUS! And on top of that, every other second he walks right past his family as they just barely miss each other.

NC: Just turn your head to the left, dammit!

Fivel: Papa!

Papa: Fivel?

NC: No no no, go back go back go back! The mice run toward each other NC: No no, the other way! Just get together! They finally do NC: Oh thank God!

NC (voiceover): This movie was directed by Don Bluth, the same guy who directed The Land Before Time. His philosophy was that children can handle just about anything as long as you attach a happy ending.

NC: Fuck you, Mr. Bluth! I may be able to take it, but my therapy pills won't! Fivel sniffles while crying, and NC breaks down again.

Number 7
Interlude

NC (voiceover): Number 7--The ending of "What's Opera, Doc?" Footage from that famous Bugs Bunny cartoon NC (voiceover): This is considered one of the best cartoon shorts of all time. It was epic, beautiful and, of course, funny as hell! It was satirizing all the Wagner operas in both music and scope, but it takes a real surprising turn near the end when Elmer Fudd, the god of lightning here, tries to strike down Bugs Bunny with all his lightning bolts.

Elmer: Strike lightning! Strike the wabbit! Mountains crumble at the touch of his power

NC: Ooh, what, is he gonna be all crispy and black or something? The scene shows Bugs, draped limply over a rock, motionless NC: ...that's not funny.

Elmer: What have I done?

NC: That's not funny at all....

Elmer: I killed the wabbit!

NC: Actually that's quite depressing....

Elmer: Poor wittew bunny! Poor wittew wabbit... He lifts up Bugs' body and begins crying; NC does too

NC: Oh what the hell, this is Looney Tunes! They're supposed to make me laugh, not sob my eyes out! Bugs Bunny made me cry-hihi!

Bugs: Well what did ya expect from an opera, a happy ending?

NC: NO! But I expect it from a fucking Bugs Bunny cartoon!

Number 6
Interlude

NC (voiceover): Number 6--The "Going Away" party from Snoopy, Come Home. Scenes of the party NC (voiceover): It's not like Charlie Brown was a very upbeat cartoon to begin with, so the idea of doing a whole section of the movie that was MEANT to make you feel sad is just downright cruel. The movie involves Snoopy, as he decides to leave home and go live with his original owner. So the kids decide to throw him a going away party. A joyful, charming, heartwarming going away part- ''Snoopy and all the Peanuts are crying as Schroeder plays a song; the word "Jesus!" plays over the scene at one point'' NC (voiceover): As if that's not bad enough, Charlie Brown sings about what it's like to say goodbye right after this scene. Charlie Brown sings

NC: What is up with these people? They're supposed to entertain our kids, not depress the fuck out of them! Snoopy and Charlie Brown scream in anguish, and then NC follows suit

Number 5
Interlude

NC (voiceover): Number 5--The Drowning of Artax, from The Neverending Story.

Scenes of The Neverending Story NC (voiceover): This is one of the cleverest fantasy movies that ever came out of the 80s. But with all its imagination and creative characters, it's the death of a fucking horse that we all remember. Apparently they're going through the Swamp of Sadness, where only those who let the sadness and depression get the best of them sink into the swamp. Thank God Steven Wright doesn't go there. But wait a minute, the horse Artax starts sinking. Well what the hell does that mean?

NC: The horse has depression? What the hell do you have to be depressed about?

Atreyu: Artax! You're sinking!

Artax: (dubbed by NC, sounding like Mr. Ed) Sorry, Wilbur, I just don't think my mother ever loved me.

Atreyu: Come on!

Artax: Just found out my business went bankrupt.

Atreyu: Artax...

Artax: My girlfriend just left me...

Atreyu: You're letting the sadness of the swamp get to you.

Artax: Took all the oats...

Atreyu: You have to try!

Artax: And I lost my sister to the glue factory.

Atreyu: Come on, please.

Artax: Eh, life's a bitch and then you sink.

Atreyu: ARTAX! Aiiiiieeee!!!!! The screen blacks out, and comes back to Atreyu, alone in the swamp

Artax: (sputtering) Sorry Wilbur...

NC: Yeah, like I said, makes no fucking sense. ...(starts crying) BUT IT'S SO SAD!

Number 4
Interlude NC (voiceover): Number 4--The death of Charlotte, from Charlotte's Web. Scenes from the cartoon version of Charlotte's Web NC (voiceover): Okay, so maybe all spiders don't look quite as cute and lovable as Charlotte did. Picture of a real spider for comparison purposes NC (voiceover): But that doesn't mean we weren't all affected when she spent the last few days of her life helping out a damn pig. It wouldn't be so bad, except she talks about her death like she's going out to the store.

Charlotte: I'm done for, Wilbur. In awhile, I'll be dead.

NC: Oh well I guess that's cool and-WHA?!

NC (voiceover): As if that isn't bad enough, she actually sings a song before she dies. Charlotte sings NC (voiceover): Now that's the sign of a true, hardworking entertainer: Working behind the scenes, never taking any credit and leaving on a song, what a showman. Er, show...spider.

Wilbur: Charlotte?! CHARLOTTE!!! Wilbur cries

NC: I'll never use a can of RAID again...(he cries too)

Number 3
Interlude NC (voiceover): Number 3--The funeral scene, from My Girl Footage of My Girl NC (voiceover): After the success of Home Alone, McCauley Culkin was America's hottest child actor. Which is why it's so shocking any film, let alone a kids film, had the balls to actually kill him off. This girl has a lot of grief to live with. Not only is her only friend in the entire world dead, but she's the one that knocked down the beehive that caused him to get stung to death, it's because of her mood ring that Culkin went back, her dad is the undertaker of Culkin's body, the funeral is held at HER house and she finds out the teacher she had a crush on is getting married ON THE EXACT SAME DAY.

Teacher: She and I are getting married this fall A nuke going off is superimposed over the scene

NC: I don't know what medicine they gave her to stop her from turning into a psychopath...but I need some!

Anna Chlumsky: Where's his glasses? He can't see without his glasses! Put his glasses on! Put on his glasses!

NC: I need some! (cry...again...)

Anna Chlumsky: He was gonna be an acrobat!

Number 2
Interlude NC (voiceover): Number 2--The Death of Spock from Star Trek 2. Footage of the movie NC (voiceover): Okay, I know this is a bit of a stretch, but a lot of kids DID watch Star Trek back then. And even if we didn't, we all knew who Mr. Spock was--the pointy-eared guy. So when we saw him sacrifice his life for the team, you can rest assured every Vulcan was crying green tears that day.

Spock: Live long...and prosper.

NC: (giving Vulcan salute) Rock on man.

NC (voiceover): The idea of killing off a main character in a Star Trek movie was unpredictable, but to kill off Mr. Spock, the most popular character on the show? That was just fucking insane. I mean NOBODY saw that coming. Now granted a lot of us know he comes back in the following sequels, but we didn't know that at the time! We thought he was really dead, especially when Kirk makes his big hammy speech at the end.

Kirk: Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... Both Kirk and NC's lips quiver

NC: Marketable.

Kirk: Human.

NC: Oh that too.

NC (voiceover): And to top it all off, Scotty plays Amazing Grace on the bagpipes no less. This is so corny, and yet somehow so friggin' sad.

NC (singing to tune of Amazing Grace): Oh good Spock is dead, goodbye dead head, come back in Star Trek 3 and see meeeeeee!(starts crying)

Number 1
Interlude NC (voiceover): And the Number 1 Saddest Nostalgic Moment is--Every single goddamn Disney movie ever made!*


 * He did not put not put the death of Optimus Prime in the Top 11 Saddest Nostalgic moments as #1 becuase of the most famous saddest scene, the death of bambi's mom.

Various scenes from various Disney movies NC (voiceover): I mean, what the hell is wrong with this company? In every other film, someone dies, someone leaves, someone is in a deep depression...

NC: I thought this was supposed to be Disney! The happiest place on Earth! Happy like a bullet to the head!

Scene of Old Yeller being euthanized by a gun

NC (voiceover): Like remember this happy moment?

Simba:  ...help. (Cries)

NC (voiceover): How about this picker-upper?

Alice: But I very seldom follow it! (Cries)

NC (voiceover): And let's not forget this cheerful memory! The 7 Dwarves cry around Snow White NC (voiceover): Disney is always associated with family entertainment, child-friendly fun. But I think they hold the record for most number of crying scenes than any other studio! Montage of crying scenes

NC: Oh...God!

NC (voiceover): I think the saddest moments are probably the death of Simba's father...the killing of Old Yeller...and of course...

NC: BAMBI'S MOM!

NC (voiceover): This scene is so famous that people will still talk about it, even to this day. In fact there's a famous Animaniacs episode that satirizes this emotionally crippling scene.

Skippy: But Bumbie's mom is....(he breaks down crying)

NC (voiceover): Actually, the funny thing is, have you watched this scene recently? I mean okay, you got the mother shot, the kid looking for her and the father saying--

Bambi's father: Your mother can't be with you anymore.

NC (voiceover): But watch what comes immediately after. A scene of bright colors, people singing, birds chirping, etc.

NC: What the hell? It's like, we can't let reality set in TOO deep, so here's some pretty birdies!

NC (voiceover): Ooh, the birdies, nobody's dead, nobody's dead hey birdies birdies...

NC: You still sad? You still sad? Oh look at the keys! He pulls out keys NC: Look at the keys, the pretty little keys

More of the bird scene, with the words "Death isn't a big deal" over it

NC: Can you imagine if they did that with OTHER Disney films? Cut to Simba's dad falling to his death, cut to the bird scene; cut to Old Yeller being shot, cut to the bird scene

Epilogue
NC: Sorry guys, it isn't that simple. When somebody dies, birds and flowers don't always pop up to make everything better! You have to deal with it like everyone else in this cruel, depressing, kid-friendly, world! I'm the Nostalgia Critic, I remember it so you don't-

He is shot through the head, then cut to the bird scene