So Proud Of You / Live-Action TV

So Proud of You in Live-Action TV.

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• On The Amazing Race 31, Colin & Christie tell each other this after they win.
• At the end of American Horror Story: Coven, Myrtle Snow, the Head of the Witches' Council, decides that all of the evil committed and blood spilled on the quest for a new Supreme needs to be cleansed with her own death, as she was complicit in many of the crimes. To that end, she goes to the recently ascended Supreme (Cordelia, who loves Myrtle like a mother) and arranges her fatal sentencing on her own terms, namely death by fire. As she's tied to the stake and prepares to die, Myrtle has this to say:
  Myrtle: Delia, my sweet daughter... I've never been more proud...
• The A-Team Murdock discovers that former criminal A.J. Bancroft is Face's father. While talking to Face in one scene, Bancroft just can't work up the courage to tell him, but he manages this:
  Bancroft: Any father would be proud of you.
• The Barrier: When Luis takes his first real step towards distancing himself from the Police State's activities in favor of helping its victims, he praises his daughter Daniela for the fact that she's already been doing just that for a while.
• Bones: When Zach reveals his connection with the Gormogan.
  Zach: If you understood, you would be proud of me.
  Brennan: I have always been proud of you, Zach.
• Criminal Minds
  • After Reid shot the UnSub at the end of "LDSK", Gideon reassures him that he did the right thing. Clip can be seen here.
    Gideon: This is going to hit you, and when it does, there's only three facts you need to know. You did what you had to do, and a lot of good people are alive because of what you did.
    Reid: What's the third?
    Gideon: I'm proud of you.
• CSI: NY: Episode 9.12 "Civilized Lies". Just before getting shot while being mugged, an off-duty officer moonlighting at a check cashing joint is on the phone with his son, who's attending the Police Academy, and tells him how proud he is of him. At the hospital, the young man tells Lindsay and Jo that if his dad doesn't make it, at least he knew that. The cop dies in the OR, and at the end of the episode, Danny and Lindsay give the son his father's badge to wear once he graduates.
  Lindsay: I'd say "make him proud," but you already did.
• Doctor Who
  • After the Doctor saves his home planet from a Deadly Assassin, his former teacher (who just barely passed him out of school) has a word for the departing hero:
    Borusa: Oh, Doctor? Nine out of ten.
  • Years later, when Wilfred Mott was mistaken for the Tenth Doctor's father, the Doctor says that he isn't, but he would be proud if he was.
  • And before that, virtually every time Peter Tyler, of either universe, has with his daughter and acknowledges her as such.
  • Also, the scene from The Sarah Jane Adventures episode Death of the Doctor, when the Doctor tells Jo that just before his previous regeneration, he went back and visited every single companion. He rounds it off with this line:
    "And I was so... proud."
• At the end of Flash Gordon, as Ming is being led to his execution, he asks Aura if she would kill her father. With tears in her eyes, she tells him that she has to. He replies, "Finally, a daughter I can be proud of." This appears to follow from the episode, where he's upset she didn't kill him while he was incapacitated in order to seize power.
• Flashpoint. Parker says this to the team after a particularly difficult and exhausting mission, to which they were immediately interrogated by a investigator afterwards.
• Forever. To cap an emotional conversation in "The Last Death of Henry Morgan," Lucas quotes John Milton to Henry. He then admits he looked it up in anticipation of their conversation because he wanted to sound smart.
  Henry Morgan: You are smart, Lucas. I'm proud of you.
• Frasier: Frasier gives this as his speech to his son Frederick at his bar mitzvah, albeit in the Klingon language (It Makes Sense in Context).
• During the Full House episode "Up on the Roof", this is Jesse's reaction to D.J. (with help from Kimmy and Duane) pulling a prank on the high school principal that's bigger than the one Jesse himself pulled on the same high school principal during his own high school years.
  Jesse: I always knew, one day, some crazy, devil-may-care maniac would surpass my prank. I am proud to call that maniac my niece. Hug me!
  *Jesse and D.J. hug*
• Game of Thrones. Maester Luwin is filled with pride when Robb gives him the order to call the banners to rescue Ned Stark. Later, he demonstrates pride in Bran's administrative instincts as well as his and Rickon's composure during Theon's sack of Winterfell.
• Blair says this to Chuck a lot in Season 3 of Gossip Girl. Until he sells her to his uncle for a hotel, that is.
• Gotham: Fish Mooney gives a surprisingly sincere one of these to her sometimes enemy sometimes protege Oswald Cobblepot. Maybe not that surprising, since she'd said he was like a son to her before their feud. Penguin is so moved by this he spares her life in response.
  Penguin: Why didn't you just kill me?!
  Fish: Because you're mine. You were my umbrella boy, remember? You rubbed my feet when they tired. And now look at you, the terror of Gotham! Everything I've done in my life, possibly the best thing, was turn Oswald Cobblepot into The Penguin. (voice shakes) I couldn't destroy that.
  • Alfred gives a tear-inducingly heartfelt one of these to Bruce Wayne in the series finale, even calling Bruce the only son he wil ever have.
• A real life version appears in Holmes on Homes when Mike Sr, informs his son Mike Jr, who turned 19 the day the episode was filmed, in front of the entire crew how proud he is of him. Then he gives him his birthday present, a new pickup truck.
• In the final episode of Horatio Hornblower, Admiral Pellew tells newly-promoted Captain Hornblower that "it's very hard for a father to see his children grow up" after Hornblower disagrees with Pellew's (deliberately) bigoted statements about the Irish. It's plain as day what he means to everyone but Horatio, who seems to find it a non-sequitur.
• Interview with the Vampire (2022): Lampshaded by Lestat de Lioncourt in "Is My Very Nature That of a Devil" to his pupil Louis de Pointe du Lac, as he's impressed by how his fledgling had gruesomely carved up Alderman Fenwick so that the latter's entrails are exposed and dangling, and then displayed the corpse on the gates of St. Louis Cathedral like a public art piece.
  Lestat: I must confess, I'm very proud of you, Louis. It goes against much of my teaching, but you managed to execute it with such aplomb.
• Lucifer (2016): After Amenadiel returns from Heaven (and when Chloe has finally realized that he really is an angel), they discuss how things have been going since he's been gone. He is impressed with how she's handled things, and tells her that "it's no wonder your father is so proud of you." Her father who died years ago.
  Chloe: That's nice of you to say, but my father...
  Amenadiel: [smiles]
  Chloe: [crying slightly] Thank you.
• Al and Peg Bundy sometimes felt this way whenever their kids did something despicable on Married... with Children. Whether it was Al being proud of Bud beating up larger men in a bar fight, especially by playing dirty or Peg being proud of Bud and Kelly when they blackmailed her into sharing the money she would have made on selling the engine of Al's Dodge.
• Guinevere tells Arthur "I'm so proud of you," in the Season 3 finale of Merlin.
• Misfits brought out a rather unexpected example from Nathan, of all people. Over the course of this episode, Simon has ended up in a relationship with Jessica, who's believed to be a serial killer; naturally, the other Misfits do their best to try and keep him safe — even Nathan, who spent most of the first season bullying Simon. However, it turns out that the murders were all committed by the woman's overprotective father, and at the end of the episode, Simon actually explains that Jessica was never a psychopath- she was a virgin.
  Nathan: I knew there was something wrong with her.
  Simon: (grinning) Fixed that.
  ( Beat )
  Nathan: I'm proud of you, man!
  (He hugs Simon)
• In Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, this is practically a catchphrase as Fred Rogers regularly tells his viewers, "I'm proud of you just the way you are."
• Monk:
  • In "Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation", Monk continues investigating a seemingly non-existent murder case just because Benjy (his assistant Sharona's son) claimed he saw it happen. At one point, somebody mistakes him for Benjy's father, because assuming that Monk doesn't want to believe his son lied is the only way he can understand Monk's determination. Later, Benjy thanks Monk for taking him seriously, though he says he thinks it was just Monk being nice to him because his dad isn't in the picture. Monk (presumably referring to the earlier incident) answers that he doesn't need to be related to Benjy to believe his testimony or to be proud of him.
  • In the fourth season episode "Mr. Monk Meets his Dad," Adrian goes on a cross country trip with his father Jack after being reunited with him for the first time in years. During the episode Jack tells him of his other son ("Jack Jr.") who's a famous doctor. Near the end after the two wind up bonding and Adrian manages to figure out the murder of the episode, Jack eventually apologizes for how he treated Adrian and never being there for him, saying how horrible a father he's been. Adrian reminds him what he said about Jack Jr., but Jack reveals everything he said was a lie. When Adrian asks why he did made it up, Jack simply responds:
  Jack Monk: I wanted to have a son that I could be proud of. I didn't know I had one in San Francisco.
• On The Orville, Alara has spent her whole life estranged from her parents, who disliked her decision to go into military service. In "Home," she saves her entire family from being killed and gets from her father that he's proud of her. It's a big moment for her and ultimately prompts her to leave the Orville even after they find a solution that would allow her to remain and find the family life she never had before.
• Power Rangers
  • Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: In the Series Fauxnale "Doomsday Part 2", with Rita apparently out of tricks, Zordon offers the Rangers a chance to hang up their morphers. When they very firmly reject it, he has this to say:
  Zordon: I am very pleased to hear you say those things. The world is very lucky to have you, and so am I. May the Power protect you, always.
  • In the finale of Power Rangers Ninja Storm, Sensei Watanabe gives the Rangers (one of whom is his son) a similar speech.
  Sensei: I could not be more proud of the sacrifices you have made for your school — and, indeed, for your planet. The world is a better place today because of you.
  • In Power Rangers Super Megaforce, Wes says it on behalf of all the other Legendary Rangers who'd come to aid the current team to fight their final battle:
  Wes: You've more than lived up to the legacy we left you. We're all very proud of you.
• Psych: Although Henry Spencer rarely admits it, he's proud of what his son had accomplished over the years.
• In The Sarah Jane Adventures, the titular character often tells her kids that she is so proud of them. While she's only technically the parent of two of the gang, Clyde, Maria, and Rani all look up to her immensely, and they always light up whenever she expresses approval.
• Scrubs
  • After spending endless hours tormenting JD, Dr Cox tells him he's proud of him when JD's father dies (as they watch sports on the TV together with JD's brother, no less).
  • In an interesting reversal, JD tells Cox that he is proud of him because of his severe reaction to losing three patients in quick succession (which is actually the catalyst for Cox to recover, and hence heavily implies that JD's opinion is the only one that really matters to him).
  • An example occurs in the last episode. A running subplot in the episodes leading up to the final is Cox's inability to admit to missing JD. In the end, JD leaves, Cox say nothing, apparently because he was a teacher, albeit a good one, and JD was just another student. Of course, he is near-immediately tricked into singing JD's praises in a low-key Zany Scheme, which still manages to be a kind of totally platonic aw, look, they really do respect each other moment.
• Sherlock "The Sign of Three": Sherlock feels this way about John, and admits admiration for him in his best man's speech despite his awkwardness.
• Smallville:
  • In "Progeny", Clark reveals to Chloe that he told her mother everything he knows about Chloe before she goes completely catatonic and she is very proud of her daughter.
  • "Bizarro"
  Martian Manhunter: Your father would be proud. He did everything he could to prepare you, but bravery... is not something you can learn.
  • Aunt Nell tells Lana that she's proud of her on her wedding day to Lex Luthor, though doesn't specify why.
• Star Trek
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation:
    • Throughout the episode "Final Mission," Wesley has been struggling to get water and save the life of his mentor/father-figure Jean-Luc Picard. Near the end, when it looks as if he has failed Picard tells him:
      "Wesley, you remember...I was always proud of you."
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:
    • Garak spent his entire life seeking his father's approval and never getting it. It's only when his father is on his deathbed that he finally learns, with his father's dying breath, that his father's always been proud of him.
      Tain: Elim, remember that day in the country? You must have been almost five.
      Garak: How can I forget it? It was the only day.
      Tain: I can still see you on the back of that riding hound. You must have fallen off a dozen times, but you never gave up.
      Garak: I remember limping home. You held my hand.
      Tain: I was very proud of you that day.
  • Star Trek: Discovery:
    • Cruelly subverted where resident Big Bad Mirror Lorca praises the crew for becoming powerful warriors for their actions in the Klingon War.
    • Played straight in the series 1 finale where Sarek and Amanda both praise their adopted daughter Michael for finding a peaceful resolution to the Klingon/Federation war where neither Sarek or the Starfleet top brass could.
  • Star Trek: Picard: In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1", Picard says this to Elnor as he leaves his surrogate son with Seven of Nine to protect the xBs.
    Picard: El... I'm very, very proud of you.
• John Winchester says this to Dean in Supernatural's "In My Time Of Dying" right before he dies. Of course, he fucks up this very nice, well-deserved sentiment by also telling him that he'll have to kill Sam if he ever turns evil.
  • Dean also says this to Sam in "Scarecrow," and implies it often even if he doesn't outright say it.
  • Death doesn't OUTRIGHT say this, but he heavily implies that this is how he feels toward Sam in the Season 9 premiere, where Sam is dead and asks to not be able to be resurrected again. Death is so proud of them because even though they've messed up the natural order, they've stabilized it more often than not and they've reduced his workload by saving millions of people and even freeing Death himself from Lucifer's binding.
• Titus: The one time Papa Titus told Christopher that he was proud of him after he did a good job repainting his dad's truck, Chistopher was so taken aback by it that he thought Ken was actually dying.
• The Vampire Diaries had this when Bonnie was told this by her grandmother's ghost after she closes that gates to send all the ghosts back.
• Veronica Mars: Played with; in the first season episode "Meet John Smith", Veronica is trying to track down someone's birth father who's name is John Smith. Veronica, with Wallace's help, is sending letters to every John Smith in Neptune and the immediate area, telling them their son has won a scholarship to Stanford, and leaving the Mars' phone number as the number to the Stanford administration office. When she explains all of this to Keith, he responds, "Part of me is proud...and let's just leave it at that."
• The West Wing had the episode Ellie, where the president's middle daughter crossed horns with her father, telling him that she felt that she didn't know how to please him.
  Bartlet: The only thing you had to do to make me happy was to come home at the end of the day.
  • In the second season episode "Shibboleth", one of the plotlines is Charlie, President Bartlet's personal aide (and who at that point is dating Bartlet's youngest daughter Zoey), tracking down a carving knife for the President to use for a Thanksgiving turkey. When President Bartlet rejects all of the knives he brings, Charlie finally gets impatient and asks what the big deal is. President Bartlet explains it's a replacement for a knife he's giving away, and it turns out, he's giving that older knife — which was made for his family by Paul Revere — to Charlie.
  President Bartlet: I'm proud of you, Charlie.
  • In Season 7 after Leo, Josh's father figure dies Donna comforts Josh by telling him "He was so proud of you."
• Without a Trace's Martin Fitzgerald develops an addiction to painkillers after being shot. After he admits to his friend and fellow agent Danny Taylor that he's seeking help, Danny — himself a recovering alcoholic — shakes his hand in a gesture clearly meant as the physical equivalent of this trope.
• Young Sheldon: "A Launch Party and a Whole Human Being": George Sr. and Jim both smile approvingly when Georgie steps up and kicks everyone out of the delivery room.

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