Tear Jerker / Bear in the Big Blue House

• The Goodbye Song is this combined with Awesome Music.
  • Bear's ending speech. When he ends with a "see you soon", remember that the show has actually been off the air for years.
    • The episode "Big Blue Home of the Brave" is dedicated in memory of a young fan Dean "Brent" McCune Jr who sadly died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (S.I.D.S) in 2002. If one were to view Dean's grave on Find a Grave, one can see some of the lyrics of The Goodbye Song inscribed on his headstone 'Waiting for you to come and play'
  • After Lynne Thigpen passed away in 2003, Noel MacNeal gave a speech at the celebration of her life. Here's an excerpt:
    When Lynne read the part of Luna with me, that was it. She was perfect, all the warmth and comfort and nurturing you'd expect from the moon. [...] She never saw this as just another job. She loved playing Luna and knew how so many children and adults loved Luna. Once on the set of The District, a crew guy found out Lynne was Luna and asked if she'd mind talking to his kid. And of course she didn't. He handed her the phone and I can only imagine the kid's expression knowing that Daddy was on location with the moon.
• "A Beary Bear Christmas" has the song where Tutter sings about what it would be like if he was homeless like the dog he had just seen on the street. Also, according to Word of God, the writer of the song originally intended for the song to be mainly performed by Bear and not Tutter (of course, the main reason why this wasn't the case was because Bear was supposed to be the reassuring adult figure on the show). In the song, the closest Bear comes to personal sadness is the line, "I wish we could bring their [homeless people] troubles to an end."
  • Partway through the song, Bear assures Tutter “The Big Blue House isn’t going anywhere”. If you’re watching this in 2020 (and beyond), the waterworks start at this point.
  • Jack the Dog’s introduction being homeless until he moves in with Dr Hogg. This two-part episode is especially poignant given that the character is performed by Dave Goelz. Yes, the Dave freaking Goelz!
• "First Day of Mouse School" has Bear reminiscing during the episode about how much Tutter is growing up. It's the first and only episode we've ever seen Bear cry (although that particular moment is slightly played for laughs).
• Tutter's letter song to Grandma Flutter in "What's in the Mail Today?" counts as both this and heartwarming.
• Ojo feeling sad in "Lost Thing" when she has trouble finding her Snow Bear.
• Treelo feeling sad in "Friends for Life" when it seems that Ojo is too busy to play with him.
• Ojo surveying the the damage of the library (having been hit by a tree due to a big storm) in the first part of the Season 4 premiere "Welcome to Woodland Valley".
  • The fact that this and the second part were made partially as a response to the September 11th attacks, and can easily be seen as a tribute to all of the lives that were lost that day.
• From the Series Finale "This Is Your Life, Bear!":
  Will you sing the Goodbye Song with us... one more time?
  • If you listen closely, you can hear Noel MacNeal choke up a little reading the line.
  • "By the way... I hope I've been one of the nicest parts of your life, because you are one of the nicest parts of mine. I'll see you back at the Big Blue House. Bye!"
  • Also, this quote by Luna, perhaps a great representation of Jim Henson and his life philosophy:
  One life touches many others, Bear. We should make sure that each life we touch, we touch in as positive a way as we can.
  • This was also the last of the classic Playhouse Disney shows to end before the rebrand with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. So it wasn’t just the end of a show, it was also the End of an Era.

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