House (TV series)/Tear Jerker

"Stacy: We've got to let him cut the leg off.
 * The season finale for the fourth season. This troper had a hard time getting through it.
 * There were a lot of tear jerking scenes, but the scene that did it for this troper had to be when  that's what I call petting the dog!
 * The whole episode was heartbreaking but those four lines made this troper bawl like a little girl.
 * It didn't help that the music selection used as the bed for that scene was Iron & Wine's "Passing Afternoon", which is a haunting song that, by itself, is usually enough to get this troper to weep.
 * For this troper, it was both and.
 * This troper had all of those, plus Truth be told, he spent half the episode somewhere sniffling.
 * Don't forget the scene where.
 * And, God, the dialogue from the above scene, especially,  and
 * Just the fact that it was  showing such raw emotion when he's usually cast as the straight man is what did it for me.  's breakdown left me absolutely speechless.
 * How about House's recovered memory of what happened? The part when
 * This troper was sobbing all the way through the ending. For her it was the bit where all the team comes to say goodbye, the bit where they were clinging to each other and having their last conversation, the bit where Thirteen's Huntington's test shows positive, and the bit where Wilson reads Amber's last note. Fuck, I'm starting to cry just by writing that.
 * The look on Cuddy's face when House wakes up in the Season 4 finale did this troper in completely.
 * This troper found the end to the season finale really sad, with all of the scenes mentioned above. She cried when Wilson looked at House who had just woken up after having possible brain-damage, and just walked away without a word too. And the beginning of the first season when he told House they'd never been friends? Hugh Laurie makes House look like a kicked puppy at times.
 * Ok. Find me someone who didn't cry during the finale. (If they spent their viewing time struggling to hold in the tears, that's cheating.)
 * Because House is usually such a Jerkass, the moments when he's vulnerable/human always somehow get to this troper. Take, for instance, the scene in Skin Deep where he's asking Cuddy for some morphine. He drops his trousers and cane, shows her the ugly scar and says, near tears, "I could swear I remember a thigh muscle being here". Damn you, Hugh Laurie.
 * Or how about the end of Honeymoon? If you managed to not feel a massive wave of sympathy in the scene where he tries to walk properly but instead collapses on a nearby chair in agony, then you're a stronger woman than I am.
 * Have we mentioned the episode with the idiot savant concert pianist ? This troper spent approximately forty-five minutes of the hour bawling like a baby. ""
 * The end of House Training. Foreman has just managed to kill a patient (she died of a fricking bra infection!) and goes home to his mother, who has Alzheimer's, for some reassurance. It's all going along swimmingly as she seems to recognize him but then she says "I had a little boy named Eric." His face crumpled about the same time mine did.
 * The episode "Histories", where a homeless woman sent to the hospital after collapsing. At the end
 * The two-parter "Euphoria", especially the second half. For so many reasons.
 * Three Stories... just Three Stories. Especially this piece of heartbreaking conversation in one of the flashbacks:

House: (in massive amounts of pain) It's my leg. It's my life.

Stacy: Would you give up your leg to save my life?

House: Of course I would.

Stacy: Then why do you think your life is worth less than mine? If this were any other patient, what would you tell them to do?

House: I would say it's their choice.

Stacy: What? not a chance! You'd browbeat them until they made the choice you knew was right. You'd shove it in their face that it's just a damn leg! You don't think you deserve to live? You don't think you deserve to be happy? Not let them cut off your leg? (They're both near tears.)

House: I can't, I can't, I'm sorry."

"Wilson:The operation is in two hours and I'd like you to be there.
 * This troper can't bear to watch the treadmill scene in Cane and Able. He suffers from chronic pain himself and to see House like that - close to crying because of all the pain he's in but still running anyway - is just too painful to see.
 * Soon after the beginning of the Season Five episode Simple Explanation, This troper was holding back tears from that point onwards, but the biggest Tear Jerker comes at the end of the episode,  The troper had to go off and cry into a pillow for a while after that.
 * This troper actually found that ad at the end touching, but right afterwards, when they're like "GO TO THIS WEBSITE AND LEAVE YOUR FEELINGS" I found completely distasteful.
 * Hugh Laurie, why did you have to make "Under My Skin" so painful? Why?!
 * The last 10 or so minutes of the season five finale, especially the very end,
 * This troper teared up a little at the end of "Son of a Coma Guy."
 * The season 2 finale, "No Reason." Four words: "You're miserable for nothing."
 * "Wilson? My dad's dead."
 * House starting to crack when he's speaking at the funeral.
 * Which is completely fake.
 * The scene in the Wilson episode where :

House: No.

Wilson: ...why?

House: Because if you die, I'm alone."


 * And then he goes anyway. It shows that in the end, House cared for Wilson's feelings more than his own.
 * The first season episode "Babies and Bathwater" features two successive impossible choices for a pregant mother and her husband. Having just had our first child, my wife and i were torn apart as we watched  the epitome of the tear jerker.
 * It gets even worse in "Forever". . If you wanted to slit your wrists at that, then we won't blame you.
 * The episode Maternity, because it featured the first paitient to actually die on the show . Then there's the scene right afterwards, when.
 * There are a few moments in the episode One Day, One Room but the one that really did me in is at the end when House says, "It was true."
 * "Lockdown" got me when House's would-be patient calls his daughter and leaves his message.
 * Let's not forget "Joy" when after all the stuff Cuddy went through
 * In the season 5 episode, "Emancipation," when the poor girl reunites with her parents.
 * In season 7, when  The whole episode was a massive tearjerker, what with
 * In season 1 in Histories, the patient's backstory is a major tearjerker. Two years before the episode, her baby and husband died in a car crash, she survived with a broken arm and blamed herself ever since. When she was laying on her deathbed in the hospital due to rabies in it's later stages, Foreman pretends to be her husband and comforts her by saying he forgives her. The patient just breaks down crying and saying she was sorry repeatedly.
 * "I have cancer."
 * Made even worse by the fact that
 * The following episode, where
 * The penultimate episode, where
 * A meta Tear Jerker: this wildly beloved show is ending tonight (21st May 2012) after 8 seasons. The amount of fans sobbing all over the world is truly staggering.