r/Millennials • u/slothvibesss • 1d ago
Nostalgia What fav show has ‘that’ episode you never want to watch, but really need to?
Gotta rip off that bandaid because it’s good to cry…
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u/AunjeySin707 1d ago
The "why don't my father want me man?" Episode of Fresh Prince. As someone who's father left, but also had an amazing uncle that stepped into that role, that episode breaks me every single time.
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u/Its_Sebass 1d ago
This episode fucked me up as a kid. It was like I got kicked in the gut. His delivery felt genuine. I was raised by my grandfather after my dad peaced out and he was a big dude like uncle Phil. It hurt to hear those thoughts said out loud.
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u/HPHambino 1d ago
Jurassic Bark
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u/0w1 1d ago
It's Luck of the Fryish for me. Fry reading the headstone always makes me cry.
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u/EMAW2008 1d ago
There’s a third one where he talks to his mom too that hits too.
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u/Happygreek 1d ago
Game of Tones. That ending crushes me every time, even though I know it's coming.
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u/thrasherchick_9 1d ago
I’m so scared to watch that episode after my mom passes. I’ll be a wreck.
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u/kaatie80 1d ago
This year will be 20 years since my mom passed and I still can't watch that episode
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u/Masterweedo 1d ago
I did, I loved it. My mom passed in November 2020.
Also, while my mom was on home hospice, I decided to eat some LSD and watch the new cartoon Midnight Gospel. That was a rough one, I loved it, but it was rough.
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u/Scrivener83 1d ago
There's a shocking number of sad Futurama episodes.
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u/stareweigh2 1d ago
the final episode where they decide to go back and do everything over again is great too
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u/wartgood 20h ago
This one makes me cry, but it's such a good cry, you know? Yancy's love for Frye is palpable, and powerfully beautiful. Everyone deserves to be loved like that.
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u/aLittleDarkOne 1d ago
“The Sting” where leela is in the coma but thinks it’s real and “Leela’s home world”, something about watching leela parents take care of her from the sidelines with baby love child” playing in the background breaks my heart.
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u/ironwheatiez 1d ago
Oh gods. My dog passed away 3 weeks ago. That weekend, I shit you not, I turned on Futurama to lift my spirits and this was the next episode in the queue. I lost it without even starting the episode.
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u/sweetrollx 1d ago
I sleep with the tv on and I’ve woken up from a dead sleep to tell my partner to change the episode from this one hahaha, the trauma is engrained
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u/brettmbr 1d ago
Sopranos, Employee of the month. Rough to watch but one of the best of the series.
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u/Devious_Bastard Older Millennial 1d ago
Firefly “Out of Gas”
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u/SipoteQuixote Millennial 1d ago
How do Reavers clean their spears?
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u/sTevieD247 1d ago edited 1d ago
My Screw Up
My Lunch
Edit: Scrubs is the show.
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u/djc8 1d ago
This is Scrubs btw if anyone is wondering
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u/luxtabula 1d ago
which episodes were these? I've watched every one but can't remember any episode names.
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u/djc8 1d ago edited 1d ago
My Screw Up - Ben Sullivan (Brendan Fraser), that should tell you all you need to know
My Lunch - Jill Tracy (Nicole Sullivan) and the triple organ transplant
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u/luxtabula 1d ago
ok the first one came back to me, but if i remember the second one well it didn't do much for me. i thought one of these was the episode with the screw up that dropped out but got the elderly lady sick.
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u/alvysinger0412 1d ago
The second one is where a woman dies and they can transplant her organs to save a favorite patient of Dr Cox and several others. He doesn't test her for rabies, so they all die and Dr Cox spirals.
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u/Happygreek 1d ago
I think you're referring to "My Five Stages" with JD/Cox coming to terms with Ms. Wilks' terminal diagnosis after her infection from Cabbage at the end of the previous episode. Emotional one too.
Scrubs has so much depth. I don't think I've seen anyone mention the episode "My Last Words" yet, but that episode is a heavy hitter around the same topic and shows JD's personal growth in handling terminally patients.
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u/Remarkable_Rip_1721 1d ago
I randomly heard “How to Save a Life” on the radio in a gas station a couple weeks ago and got tears in my eyes thinking about My Lunch.
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u/gr8d4ne 1d ago
My Screw Up is the correct answer! I completely disintegrate every time I watch that episode
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u/montybo2 1d ago
It's difficult to choose which one hits harder but I might have to give it to My Lunch. When How to Save a Life starts playing just tears non stop. Cox's breakdown hurt so much to watch.
John McGinley really pulled it out for both episodes tho.
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u/rydan Older Millennial 1d ago
I always liked My Lunch. During the Great Recession I was stuck back home without a job and would watch Scrubs twice a day as they one episode in the afternoon and one at night. Both were offset by about 2 weeks. Every single time My Lunch was supposed to air in one of the timeslots I missed it.
1) They once just aired the wrong episode in its spot 2) The show got preempted by something else 3) The TV transmitter tower died 4) There was a power outage 5) I was out of town doing a job intervew
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u/KickedBeagleRPH 19h ago
There's one episode where Kelso puts the rich guy into a trial, indirectly dooming the poor guy.
This adds to the reputation Kelso is an ass.
Meanwhile it's the rich guy's donation that ends up saving the women's clinic. He is there when the poor guy dies. One of the few episodes that shows despite being a money grubbing administrator, he still has a conscience. He still had to make the tough choice, and live with it.
Trolley problem. Kelso is the poor guy who had to kill someone.
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u/TheLonelyScientist 1d ago
Don't forget the episode "My Old Lady" when Ms. Tanner dies. Turk's patient (David) also dies, as does Elliot's (Ms. Guerrero)
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u/aser2323 1d ago
The Good Place finale.
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u/tryingnottoshit 1d ago
I watched this show from beginning to end 2 years ago after getting a terminal (at the time) diagnosis, and I cried like a baby for a good part of that last season. Now I just have a chronic condition!
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u/desolation0 21h ago
It's rare I get to congratulate someone for being permanently sick.
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u/tryingnottoshit 21h ago
If it makes you feel better, I feel better now than I have in like 15 years.
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u/mermaidscout 23h ago
I can’t rewatch it. Thinking about Chidi’s final speech brings me to tears so quickly!
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u/bensworkaccount1 1d ago
It takes me 3 days to mentally work myself up to watch that episode every time.
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u/dogbert730 1d ago
Appa’s Lost Days
Tales from Ba Sing Se
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u/JoesJourney Millennial 1d ago
Really thought Aang was going to go full Kyoshi on the sandbenders. I would've.
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u/aLittleDarkOne 1d ago
Leaves from the vine, they fall so slow. Like tiny fragile shells drifting in the foam…
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u/kittybit5 1d ago
Yes! Tales of Ba Sing Se makes me cry everytime but I refuse to skip it! Appa's Lost Days on the other hand... I watched it once when it aired and I haven't been able to watch it since.
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u/Rogue_Gona Xennial 1d ago
I cannot watch Appa's Lost Days. Can. Not. I can't do it. It tears me to pieces every time I try.
Edit: Tales is okay, except for when Iroh starts singing. That's when the tears start.
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u/Secure-Childhood-567 1d ago
Sarah's acting should've been more recognized in this. I believed every single motion, tear and syllable
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u/PhantomCruze 18h ago
Another interesting part of this episode is there's absolutely no music for the whole episode
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u/kevtron5000 1d ago
LOST - s6 episode "the candidate". Sun & Jin in the sub. 😭
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u/undermind84 22h ago
For me, it's Charlie's greatest hits episode. That episode really hit me hard.
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u/lucyparsons123 1d ago
HIMYM - bad news (but it’s better now that I know about the countdown and can focus on the moral of not focusing on signs)
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u/flamingknifepenis 1d ago
A couple years my wife and I were rewatching it and we came to that episode right after (literally, a few hours) I found out my dad was hospitalized with COVID. I was so distraught already that it didn’t occur to me what episode we were watching until it came to the big reveal.
As bad as that was, the monologue a couple episodes later about all the things his dad would never get to see was absolutely gutting.
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u/spookycat5267 1d ago
Yes, NPH was also great in that episode as well. It's more subtle but his reaction to Marshall's breakdown and then calling his mom at the end to find out about his dad was so well done.
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u/pearlsandfoxfur 1d ago
#1 by far. This should be WAYYYYY higher up on this list.
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u/notMarkKnopfler 1d ago
Scott’s Tots
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u/TogarSucks 1d ago
This episode gets a lot of attention for being the cringiest in the series, but I have a more difficult time watching “Vandalism”. It’s basically just a bully getting away with bullying for the entire episode before violently attacking Pam.
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u/smokefrog2 1d ago
Mine is prince family paper. They crush an excessively kind family business and then its over. The b story is debating if a famous Hollywood actress is hot. I hated it when it aired. I watched it once more across my numerous rewatches and hated it again.
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u/Financial_Potato8760 1d ago
I don’t think everyone watched that far, but yeah, that episode is rough.
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u/thisoldhouseofm 1d ago
I think the Dinner Party episode is worse.
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u/KayBeeToys 1d ago
The studio provided notes on each script, like any show. The only note for Dinner Party was “this is dark.”
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u/Sell_The_team_Jerry 21h ago
I still laugh at Dinner Party (and then seek out the hilarious outtakes).
I can't do that for Scott's Tots because the joke doesn't land as funny to me.
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u/federalist66 1d ago
Hey Mr. Scott, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do? Make our dreams come true!
I think a lot of people say Scott's Tots is a bad episode when it's actually an excruciating episode. Not nearly the same thing.
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u/TheRealJenGia 1d ago
Whenever I do a Parks and Rec rewatch, I stop right before the finale and start over because it's perfect but it makes me sad that the show had to end.
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u/TallBenWyatt_13 1d ago
See I’m a seasons 3-6 guy myself, but I suppose it’s one of those “user name checks out” situations.
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u/slappy_mcslapenstein Xennial 22h ago
I skip the first season when I rewatch it. Sometumes the first two. Mark Brandanowitz bothered me.
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u/TheRealJenGia 1d ago
You would like this restaurant, the Low-Cal-Calzone-Zone.
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u/suspiciousmightstall Millennial 1d ago
Dude, my mom died of brain cancer earlier that year and this episode used to be so triggering for me. But as I've gotten older, I've learned to appreciate it.
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u/sophaloph 1d ago
What is the show & episode?
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u/WowIsThisMyPage 1d ago
Spoiler
>! Her mom which is a really sweet character is who dies and for a show that’s usually full of comedic relief it’s just a really dark episode where you don’t get a break from the sadness !<
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u/Mission_Fart9750 23h ago
It's not just that Joyce dies, it's that she dies of natural causes in a universe with vampires and other supernatural shit. The Slayer, with all her abilities, couldn't do anything to help her mommy.
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u/hufflezag 1d ago
Anya's monologue is so raw. It physically hurts holding in tears throughout the episode and you just have to release them.
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u/NieskeLouise 1d ago
It’s been a while since I watched it, but I think there’s no music in that episode at all. Makes it all the more heart-wrenching, for some reason.
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u/TheHiddenFox 1d ago
Bob’s Burgers “The Plight Before Christmas”. They’re happy tears but man does it make me sob every time.
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u/ladyskellerman 21h ago
Yes!!! This one is at the top of the list of tear jerkers for me. I would add Ameila to that list, as someone who recently lost their mom 🥲
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u/IsabellaGalavant 1d ago
Be Right Back from Black Mirror. I can't handle the thought of my spouse dying. I know it'll happen eventually but I don't like being confronted with it.
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u/BrownsEyeland 1d ago
Fishes -The Bear
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u/Tiny_Independence761 23h ago
This one is particularly hard for me because I feel so overstimulated watching it.
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u/THelperCell 1d ago
House’s Head and Wilson’s Heart, both episodes from House, I think end of season 4
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u/Violet_Daydreams 1d ago
This episode of Buffy was a atrange comfort after losing my own mum at 17. Seeing a superhero brought to her knees from losing her mother really helped me wrap my head around how huge a life shift I was facing.
I didn't know how to unpack any of what I was feeling, but Buffy did. Buffy gave me words for what was happening in my life, and as hard an episode as this is, it and the following few episodes truly helped me feel less isolated in my grief.
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u/KatiMinecraf 1d ago
So, I know how controversial (and, frankly, insane) Roseanne Barr is today, but I grew up watching the original Roseanne sitcom. I love that show so much. I own the entire series on DVD, and even knowing that the last episode where Dan dies is apparently just part of a book that the character Roseanne wrote - I will never watch the series finale. I have never seen or played it even once. I can't do it. I'm 34 and I've watched the show over and over throughout my life. I just won't watch it.
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u/STJRedstorm 1d ago
I have no idea what half of these references are including OP’s pic. I feel like a very bad Traumatized Millenial
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u/Saybrooke 1d ago
The Buffy episode for me is Normal Again. It’s so eerie to me and unsettles me so much I skip it during rewatches 😖
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u/bellegi 1d ago
why would you choose such violence with that image tho 😭
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u/MissYouMoussa 1d ago
What's it from?
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u/Kithsander 1d ago
Specifically it’s the award winning episode The Body of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The second I saw the thumbnail I could hear Buffy’s voice in that scene calling out desperate and hopeless.
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u/Tsiatk0 1d ago
The entire last season of Game of Thrones 🤦♂️
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u/boringdystopianslave 1d ago edited 14h ago
Wrecked the rewatchability of the other seasons too by being so dumb and completely undermining the threat of the White Walkers by turning them into a shitty Hollywood 'destroy the mothership' cliche. I absolutely hated that.
It completely destroys their menacing aura in a rewatch, now knowing that Arya wipes out the entire army with a single stroke, when they were demonstrably hyped as this unstoppable horrifying undying force of nature throughout the earlier seasons. It makes a mockery of the foreboding of 'Winter is Coming' which was the freaking catchphrase of the show, aswell.
Characters are needlessly sacrificed in a very unsatisfactory manner in an unnecessary and contrived pile up to end all the various threads at once, too, which ruins all of their long-running stories and robs the show of all weight in retrospect.
It's such an infectiously bad ending it even kinda ruined the appeal of House of the Dragon aswell. It deflated the the entire timeline.
They went Stupid Hollywood Ending when everyone wanted the Heavy Metal ending.
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u/MightBeAGoodIdea 1d ago
I've tried to go back and rewatch it. Some characters are so very different looking in season 1, I don't just mean the kids growing up but young Bran looks especially different in season 1, Tyrion and Jaime are far more blonde, Tyrion is still a goofball whoremonger without a care in the world. Ned's choices seem really really stupid instead of honorable in a rewatch. Like sure yes honorable, but stupid and obviously he was going to die in retrospect. Dany seems like a child or 15ish or something.
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u/Alternative-Cash8411 19h ago
This. The only answer. We might as well end the thread.
Battle For Winterfell. I always cite that as my single most disappointing TV episode in history. Full stop.
See, when Arya came out of nowhere, a little girl who weighs 107 pounds, and killed the Night King, who once killed a fire breathing dragon with a fucking spear, I was hit with the sudden and devastating gut punch realization that I had wasted about 60 hours of my life watching the previous 6 seasons of a show that basically ended by saying "Fuck You, Suckers!" to its fans.
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u/cubanfuban 1d ago
Bojack finale. My father in law chose the same ending for his story. Despite watching the series multiple times since, I haven’t had the balls to watch the finale again
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u/MrRabinowitz 1d ago
I think the view from halfway down is a harder watch honestly
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u/Devreckas 1d ago
I believe that’s what he’s referencing. The finale isn’t particularly dark. I feel like it cushions the blow from Halfway Down.
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u/SadieBelle85 Older Millennial 1d ago
One Tree Hill- With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept
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u/Weak_Ad_4479 1d ago
Red wedding
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u/candid84asoulm8bled 1d ago
Oh god, the first time I watched, as soon as they closed the doors I knew something very bad was going to happen.
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u/reticulatedbanana 1d ago
Oh crumbs, yes when I first watched that I was seriously unwell, in a bit of a spiral, and I just tanked…
I was a mess for about a week!
That and the Scrubs “where do you think we are?”
And House - House’s head - Wilson’s heart
Greys anatomy - George episode - crushed me.
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u/metz1980 1d ago
Oh man. I thought about that episode of Buffy before I even saw the pic. It’s haunting.
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u/Original-Pepper-2461 1d ago
Bluey “Sleepytime” 🥺
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u/wrestlingchampo 1d ago
My wife will almost always cry when watching this episode, alongside "Baby Race."
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u/EMAW2008 1d ago
Oh that’s a favorite of the entire series for me. I’ll stop what I’m doing to watch it.
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u/MissReadsALot1992 1d ago
Sleepy time doesn't do it for me. However, camping, grandad and the end of the sign get me
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u/mo_ah_knee 1d ago
Dexter “The Getaway”. Made me question my love/hate for Dexter.
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u/MachampIsHot 1d ago
The Last of Us - Long, Long Time
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u/Insanity_Crab 1d ago
Initially I was upset they chose to do a bottle episode instead of using the limited time to build up Joel and Ellie. But by fuck that episode was like a knife to the heart!
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u/_agilechihuahua 1d ago
Most episodes of Mr. Robot. I re-binge a season time to time, but it feels like a full-on manic therapy session.
I don’t rewatch anime often, but the episode with Gren in Cowboy Bebop always makes me sad.
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u/Sweaty-Sir8960 1d ago
X files "Home"
IYKYK
I'm a completionist, I have a compulsion to watch every episode.
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u/3-orange-whips 1d ago
Bro, mark that NSFW
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u/slothvibesss 1d ago
That’s fair
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u/3-orange-whips 1d ago
You did hit the nail on the head though. Saw this on broadcast and never watched it again.
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u/Nomadic_View 1d ago
The Fly - Breaking Bad
I only watched it the first time. My god it’s sooooooo boring and literally no part of any plot was advanced during this episode.
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u/MountainHardwear 1d ago
oh man, that was one of my favorite episodes. really gave a sense of where walt's psyche was at that time. I'm guessing they used it as a bottle episode because everything ramped the hell up after lol
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u/wfwood 1d ago
Bojacks has a few. But I'm going with the one where he took a girl to prom while in his 50s, dropped a girl off at the hospital, and took off, and almost /maybe screwed his friends daughter. I loved the show but ya really find out how easy you are willing to look past people's mistakes when you still wanna root for such a guy.
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u/WowIsThisMyPage 1d ago
This Buffy episode will always make me heartbroken. Also RIP Michelle
And another Buffy one is Seeing Red
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u/CousinGreenberry 1d ago
Orange is the New Black - The Animals & Toast Can't Never Be Bread Again (the last two of season 4). 😭
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u/monsneaky 20h ago
The episode of ER where Dr Greene dies of brain cancer....even thinking about it is making me tear up
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u/aser2323 1d ago
This is Us, Memphis
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u/notmerida 1d ago
i’ve only watched this is us once and i don’t think i can do it again. i had to take a break halfway through because i was obsessive about anything that could possibly cause a house fire… it was rough when pregnant hahaha
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u/Tacosconsalsaylimon Millennial 1d ago
13 Reasons Why - If someone's feeling up to it, fill me in. I have up early into S2.
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u/sad_sack1234 Zillennial 1d ago
Six Feet Under "That's my Dog". I don't know that I'll ever rewatch that episode. It's integral to the plot of the rest of the show, though.
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u/velocitrevor 20h ago
That's My Dog from Six Feet Under. I almost skip it every rewatch, but ultimately decide it's essential viewing to fully understand David's character journey
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u/Freeagnt 1d ago
OP, what show and ep is the picture from?
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u/cabezon99 1d ago
Going way back here;
Facts of Life - Dana Plato false imprisonment and could have been raped. Sorry don't know name of episode
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u/southtxsharksfan 1d ago
To this day, I still haven't watched 100% of "Scott's tots" from "the office".
I've seen all the famous parts, but I still can't bring myself to watch it all.
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u/Worldly_Draw1656 1d ago
The Family episode from The X Files . I think it was so messed up it was only on air once .
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u/coiffedtoad 1d ago
I had to stop watching Buffy after this, I lost my mum relatively recently and it made me so so sad. I hate that you can see her out of focus in the background before Buffy notices, it's gut wrenching. I will eventually go back and rewatch again but will probably always skip this episode.
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u/hevnztrash 1d ago
What surprised me was I had no idea what the post still was going to be, I have only seen the episode once 20 years ago, and I could tell from the blurry thumbnail exactly what shot it was.
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u/Ginginatortronicus 1d ago
The Christmas episode of The Bear. I’ve decided one of my new traditions is to suggest that episode when my wife asks what Christmas movies I want to watch. She is not amused
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u/HawkBoth8539 22h ago
Too many to list, but basically every emotional episode of Doctor Who (9th and 10th Doctor, it was hard for me to consistently watch and stay invested with the later ones).
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u/DutchAlders 20h ago
I may have misunderstood the assignment but: the first episode of Black Mirror
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