Tear Jerker / Jake and Amir

• Amir's lone birthday montage.
• Girlfriend Pt. 7: "I'm sad. You made me sad."
• Fourth of July Scroll: "I think you need to die. No, seriously. It's been six years and you're getting worse. The world would just be an infinitely better place if you weren't in it."
  • If you thought he was bluffing, "Standing Desk" almost begs him to back down (starting with the following conversation and then cumulating in Amir almost choking, to which Jake attempts Murder by Inaction).
    Amir: That's, like, a lot of times you've asked me to die.
    Jake: I know, and I mean it every time.
    Amir: It's so...sad.
    Jake: Trust me, I know.
    Amir: It's sad to me that you want me dead.
    Jake: I feel bad as a person that I want so badly for you to be dead and gone, but I—
    Amir: Yeah. You're not even hiding it anymore.
    Jake: No, I think I'm just gonna be open with it.
• "Date Night" (alternatively known as "Amir Faces the Harsh Reality of Dating"), an episode which pulls back from the show's usual format and gives us some insight into Amir's life outside the office. On a date which is clearly going badly, he offers the girl 500 dollars on the condition that she leave immediately and never see him again, meaning to test her commitment. She leaves without hesitation and he laments, "Nobody's ever not taken the cash." The rest of the video depicts him walking silently and miserably home, eating fast food in a lonely apartment decorated with pictures of Jake and crying himself to sleep. The last few seconds shift to the usual office setting with Amir sitting across from Jake, at the point where an episode would typically begin.
  Amir: Got laid last night!
• "My Boy" shows Amir pulling a stupid stunt, to laughter and a hug from Jake...cue Daydream Surprise. Amir then, in real life (and far more awkwardly) pulls the same stupid stunt, earning Jake's scorn per usual. It's not only sad in itself but arguably makes every Jake and Amir video a Tear Jerker by depicting the reaction Amir is aiming for, or possibly fully believes he's actually getting.
• The original ending of "Sick Day Part 3 (Goodbye)" is so heartbreaking that you have to wonder if CollegeHumor's YouTube channel cut it off just for being such a downer. Notable for Amir's Inelegant Blubbering being, for once, not Played for Laughs.
  Amir: So...have fun, and good luck.
  Jake: Thank you, and I just...
  Amir: (voice breaking) —You know what? What if I don't do the high-pitched voice anymore? Then will you stay?
  Jake: Don't do this.
  Amir: (high-pitched voice, crying) This'll be the last time! This'll be the last time! Jake, this'll be the last time—
  Jake: —"This'll be the last time," I got it. No. Amir, buddy, I gotta go.
  Amir: You don't have to sit across from me anymore.
  Jake: Come on, man—
  Amir: —I'll go talk to Ricky! You don't have to sit across from me anymore, I know you hate that!
  Jake: I don't hate it! I don't hate it.
  Amir: Then stay!
• References to Amir's abusive background usually err on the side of Black Comedy, but sometimes they get a little too real:
  Jake: Why do you want [your father's] affection? It sounds like he's a terrible person.
  Amir: (subdued) He means well.
  Jake: No, he doesn't! How could he possibly mean well?
• Amir finding out he's been dumped by Jake's cousin Diana is first-heartbreak personified.
  Jake: It happens to everybody.
  Amir: Nobody should ever outlive a relationship with somebody else, especially her.
  Jake: I'm trying really hard—
  Amir: Can I be serious with you for a second?
  Jake: Probably not.
  Amir: I thought she was the one.
  Jake: God, I was right.
  Amir: I'm sure she was.
  Jake: All right, what do you mean by "the one"?
  Amir: What do you mean?
  Jake: What is "the one"?
  Amir: "The one," whatever! The...I dunno, you just say it! You just say it and the girl smiles, she kisses you on the cheek...oh GOD, THIS SUCKS!
• Amir's visible breakdown in "Movie Debate" when, even after Jake figures out that Pat has been using instant messages to feed him a "normal" conversation, he can't bring himself to stop reading the messages out loud and a disgruntled Pat won't stop writing them. It only stops when Jake himself intervenes.
  Amir: Patrick, you FUCKED me on this! No I didn't. Any retard would have stopped reading this by now. You're still reading. This is insane—PATRICK, STOP! I'm still reading this, like an idiot. I'm the biggest idiot in the wor—PATRICK, STOP IT! Jake will never be friends with me. Jake will never like me. Jake will never like me!
• "Dog" details how Amir adopted an already-vicious rottweiler, Rotem ("I said, 'Look, no one's gonna love you. Including me'") and kept her in his basement for two or three weeks subjecting her to brutal Behavioral Conditioning to teach her to hate the sight of other dogs ("punching her in the throat, kicking her in the schnozzle"), apparently just so he could unleash her on his coworkers at Bring Your Dog To Work Day. It definitely Crosses the Line Twice, but it's separated from standard Black Comedy Animal Cruelty in that Jake is really affected by it:
  Jake: You know the worst part, man? When Animal Control got here, and told you that you had to put her down, you told them "Go ahead." You didn't even go with them to the shelter to give her the needle!
  Amir: I couldn't.
  Jake: You couldn't be there for that dog?
  Amir: Nah, I couldn't.
  Jake: Don't say it like that. Don't say "I couldn't" like you care about the dog.
• Both office moves (from the "old" New York office to the new one in "Moving Part 2" and from there to the LA office in "Last Day") are emphasized by a last lingering shot of Jake's and Amir's empty desks.
• The "Road Trip" arc, which sees Jake driving Amir to his new job at the company's LA office after he's selected to leave the New York office in a rigged "random" draw, with the assumption that their relationship will end after Jake drops him off. Throughout the story Amir acts out even more than usual because he's deeply upset and scared, while Jake struggles with his complicated feelings for his constant irritant and companion of the past eight years, cumulating in a moment where Amir leaves him a paper bag full of items that refer to their history together, spurring him to join Amir at the LA office instead of going back to New York. The letter Amir writes and reads to Jake at the Grand Canyon stop is worth quoting in full (or almost full, since he had an angry letter on the back in case the conversation went differently):
  "Thanks for everything. Uh, I know I've been a diva roach, and, uh, while I respect the shit out of you, I rarely show it. I don't know if you've noticed, but I don't—I don't have a single friend, and my family life is, um... not. You are the one bright spot in my otherwise dismal life, and even though you get short-tempered with me, I know that at the end of the day, you have my back. I just want to say thank you for that. I appreciate you."
  • The use of the Julia Nunes song "Lullaby" while Jake is going through the bag of stuff Amir left him, with the memories he associates with the items represented by clips from prior episodes.
• In light of the fact that it's one of the last episodes, "Song of You" is kind of a bummer, from the sheer futility of Amir's attempt to impress Jake with a song he wrote for him to his inarticulate attempt to express how crushed he is by this ("I just wanna do shit that makes me smile of you!"), which leads Jake to conclude that his intelligence is actually deteriorating, to the inevitable conclusion:
  Jake: I have to work from home.
  Amir: Of course! And you can't give me a ride home because—
  Jake: I dislike being with you.
  Amir: —my guitar won't fit. Exactly right.
• In "The Last Jake and Amir Episode Ever!", Jake and Amir, clearing out their desks after being fired from CollegeHumor, lament not going more simple with the web series idea and impulsively shoot the script for the early episode "Beer" with a digital camera. The exchange is intercut with footage from the actual episode representing the footage they're filming. The two then decide that it's not very good and abandon the idea of filming more, leaving their future uncertain. The lighting of the scene, taking place after-hours, is unsettlingly stark and somber in contrast to the typical setting of the office by day.
  • The show's final line:
    Amir: Dinner tonight?
  • The extended end credits sequence for the series as a whole, originally set to My Chemical Romance's "Welcome to the Black Parade" in a nod to the early episode "Song."