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- The latter part of "Waiting for the Bus"
, in a weird way. The saddest bit is the 50 mph Man loses the Indy 500 and soon becomes a total wreck, with alcohol abuse and smashing all his trophies. Eventually he robs a liquor store, ends up in jail and his wife is forced to divorce him. He soon becomes an old man sitting in the former stadium dedicated to him. Then one day, in a rainy night, he starts running again...only to be killed by crashing into a wall. Soon, the stadium becomes a memorial park. The Bus Driver stops and sees the sign...weeps...and then the bus explodes. What a Downer Ending. - The Barbershop Quartet fail to save a man.
- Grandpa's Storytime, It starts nice, pretty much with the perfect setup for an average C&H short. But it goes from horror and surprise to sadness and wondering what will happen to the kids after ridiculously quick.
- The short Missing Daughter goes from one Tear Jerker at the beginning to a completely different one halfway through.
- This video, with the Sarcastic Title of "La Comédie", features a clown being forced into prostitution. The look on the clown's face at the end says it all.
- Sad Larry, Sad, Sad Larry, and It's A Sad Christmas, Larry, from falling in love at some point to even his own birth!
- To elaborate, Larry is essentially depressed. Very depressed. So depressed that his co-worker fails to cheer him up... and promptly kicks Larry's food into his face and angrily leaves. The worst part is that this is Truth in Television.
- Sad, Sad Larry continues with Larry finally attempting suicide. Of course, the series would be over very quickly if he actually succeeded, so his first attempt fails by having his drop from a hundred-story building send him right into a conveniently-passing dump truck filled with pillows. Then, once regaining awareness of the situation, turns his head to see the building he works in being demolished, with no warning or reason. Cut to Larry being wished goodnight by his dad, thus revealing his status as a Basement-Dweller, and him sneaking into the garage to commit suicide by leaving the car running with exhaust pouring in. Cue his parents sneaking into the garage to have sex on the hood. Larry's expression says it all. Even worse is that even though they're fully aware their suicidally depressed son is watching, they keep doing it. In FRONT of him. Cut to the next day, where on the TV, the Delberry Dismemberer is on the loose with his chainsaw. Larry tries to hang himself in the living room, but fails once again when his weight yanks the ceiling fan out of the ceiling onto him... and then his father, eating a sandwich in the bathtub, falls through the ceiling on top of him... This leaves Larry hospitalized in a full-body cast, unable to move. Cue the Delberry Dismemberer rampaging through the hospital, hacking people to death. We finally see Larry show some hope in his eyes... The Dismemberer, however, decides to simply leave him there to watch the entire thing.
- "It's a Sad Christmas, Larry" begins with our favorite Cosmic Plaything being offered a gift by his friend, which turns out to be a pair of oversized fuzzy dice... for the car that was totaled in a recent accident. Larry tries to play it off - barely - and then takes a sip from a mug he was given that reads "Daddy's Boy." Cue exposition that his dad was fatally injured in the accident and is now on his deathbed. Larry's friend tries to console him by explaining that his own dad's in the hospital too, most likely not going to make it either... only for the hospital to call, confirming that his dad will be home for Christmas. Within the next few hours, the father arrives, and immediately yells "You're not my son!" at Larry, hitting a sore spot. Fast-forward to dinnertime, and Larry is all but forced to say grace and give thanks for all the good things in his life. After being stopped by his friend, the hospital calls once again to put Larry's father on the phone. Larry's dad is about to die, and decides to use his last words... to tell his son that he's pretty much to blame for the situation before flatlining. His friend says to feel free to dig in once he's done crying. Larry begins to zone out completely and have vivid flashbacks of the accident, before being asked a question by his friend about whether or not he would do "something like that." Larry's answer gets him promptly thrown out of the house into the snow. The screen pans out to show that he was in a wheelchair the entire time.
- "Sad Larry in Love" begins with Larry being in a movie theater watching a cheesy 40s romance film. The film has a cheesy ending, obnoxiously stating that anyone who lives alone with no love in their life is a loser. Larry decides to try and find a girlfriend, and first looks outside the theatre when he sees a girl in the rain. He gives her his umbrella, which she takes for herself and trots over to her boyfriend, leaving Larry in the rain. Cut to the next day, in which he tries using a dating app online, and promptly gets banned from the website for "harrassing"note members. Cut to a sombre walk in the park, where seemingly anything that breathes has a partner to cuddle with/bone, until Larry reaches the Diner. He's not even safe in there, since the food he orders is essentially in pairs. He then hears someone exclaim "Sad Mary?" He calls her over, and tries to deliver the same cheesy line from the movie he watched earlier to charm her. Mary assumes he's making fun of her and promptly slams his food in his face, before running off in anger. And in The Stinger? Larry's dating app says they found him a match. Himself. He continues bawling.
- "Sad Larry's Sad New Year" has Larry at Ty's place for New Years. A girl standing at the balcony across the building blows Larry a kiss. Unfortunately, Larry ends up stumbling and smashing a table trying to catch the kiss. Ty tells him directly that nobody loves him, and kicks a cake into his face. Another partygoer casually takes the "free kiss" on Larry's cheek.
- "Sad Larry's Day Off" has Larry working as a cashier for a grocery store, when Ty comes up saying that he's planning his birthday (through vague signs). Larry doesn't take any of his hints, knowing that pretty much all of his friends will snap at him for not being constantly upbeat. Ty eventually caves in and smashes all his party supplies into his face.
- Sad Larry Begins shows how Larry's perpetual sadness begins. Right from the moment he's born, he cries (like babies usually do after they're born). The doctor delivering him outright claims that babies aren't supposed to cry, since they should be "happy to be alive". His parents immediately begin scolding him for not being grateful of his life (his mom even states that she had to give up drinking for three, not nine, months). Never-ending torment had to begin somewhere.
- The most recent entry into the Sad Larry saga has our antihero learning that money can buy him happiness (from a video made by his friend). Larry learns that his entire family died in an accident, and now holds millions of dollars in their will. Larry buys a mansion, goes jet-skiing, and marries a supermodel, only to realize that his wealth will never be able to fill the hole left by his family's death. Larry invites Ty to his mansion to give him all of his wealth, leading him to celebrate with his wife and kids. Larry breaks down crying, and Ty kicks a roasted chicken into his face for "never being happy for him."
- The Depressing Episode. They are not kidding.
- Alone in the Universe: A man is asking another unseen person whether or not they are alone in the universe. The camera pans out to show that he is talking to a grave.
- The Bird: The opening of the show starts after with a bird flying around the title before crashing into the window as the man opens his door as the music becomes more somber. The man bends over to the bird, and as he watches the poor thing die, completely heartbroken, we are treated to a flashback to him as a child, where him and his mother find a similiar dead bird lying on the ground. As his mom comforts him, he hears a baby bird chirping from a nearby nest, and they adopt it as a pet, whom he raises. One day as he returns home, he sees an ambulance outside his home and, in the hospital, he is told that his mother had passed away. At her grave, the now adult bird flies off. We are then returned to the modern day, and the man now buries the dead bird next to his mother's grave (assumably the same bird from the flashback).
- The Tree: A tree has the words "Jimmy+Anna" with a heart shape carved around it. A man stumbles from behind the tree with a pocket knife and scratches the second name out. He then bursts into tears as the next shot reveals that his car had collided with the tree, killing Anna who had been in the passenger seat. Later in the episode, we go back into this skit with a memorial placed under the tree. Jimmy walks over to it with a bouquet of flowers that he places down next to a picture of Anna. He looks at the picture and smiles, then crosses his own name out and throws a noose over a branch...
- Suicide Note: A man returns home from a trip and thinks that a line of food is for a surprise party. His mother reveals that the food is for a funeral, as his father had committed suicide while he was away. Horrified, he looks over and sees his family grieving over a coffin. His mother then hands him a note saying that it was left for him, reading "Surprise - Dad".
- No Legs: A man and a woman are crossing the street, when the man notices a car headed straight at her. He quickly pushes her out of the way and the car stops in front of him. The concerned driver gets out, and we see that the woman is lying motionless on the ground. The implication is the man broke her neck by shoving her out of the way. The man cradles her and silently yells to a group of onlookers. The next scene is a pan-over of pictures and awards she had won before it's revealed that she's now wheelchair-bound and in a vegetative state, as the man glumly brushes her hair.
- Peas: An elderly woman in a nursing home just trying to eat the peas on her dinner plate, but her shaking hands won't allow her to pick them up long enough to eat them. Made even worse when she defiantly refuses help, and finds that she really can't do it by herself, leading her to collapse in sobs and pound the table.
- Tiny Face: A man has cancer, much to the dismay of both he and his newly pregnant girlfriend. The shots alternate between check-ups with his doctor and picking out a coffin (which depresses their moods, and with him looking worse in each shot) with check-ups on their baby in utero, picking out names among other things. At one point, the man is hospitalized and the woman gives birth. The baby doesn't live very long, and ultimately flat-lines as the father holds its tiny hand. Ending with a heartbreaking close up to his face.
- The scene of his wife going into labor and the man attempting to crawl after her, desperate to be there.
- After discovering he has cancer, the man sadly walks home. And his wife comes running up to him, showing she's pregnant. His reaction? Bursting into tears.
- Oddly enough, this is the only sketch with any sort of joke: his weirdly small face. One might even laugh at the beginning with the whole "if your hand is bigger than your face" routine, given the absurdity. The rest, however, is pure sadness.
- The tearjerking triples in season 3’s “Now That’s What I Call Depressing!”
- At an animal shelter, a dog named Legolas watches kids adopt all the cute little puppies. A boy tries to adopt him, but his mom refuses after noticing he only has 3 legs. The dog is left alone in the cages, but soon another boy arrives with a “lost pet” poster, showing that he’s Legolas’s original owner. The receptionist calls the shelter phone to reunite them, but a bored shelter volunteer ignores it as he takes Legolas to the back to be euthanized. The boy looks around for the dog, but ends up viewing his pet’s death through the window. The title screen shows him crying alone outside the shelter.
- A man comes home, throws his suitcase out the window, and tears off his clothes, only to find his father waiting. The man has flashbacks to his alcoholic father abusing and leaving his family. In the present, the dad shows his son a “two months” AA token, wanting to make amends. The son accepts him, and gives him the couch to sleep on after locking away all the alcohol. However, during the night, the father cannot resist the temptation. The son wakes up to find the lock broken, most of the drinks consumed and his father gone (possibly having jumped out the broken window.) The son drinks the last few drops left in a bottle, and later it’s shown he became an alcoholic himself.
- A young mother named Karen Rushmore dies and leaves behind her husband, Tim, and infant daughter, Shelley. From the start, the father struggles to connect to his daughter, who grows up angry and humiliated at him. It comes to a head when college-aged Shelley is about to move in with her boyfriend. When Tim voices his disproval, Shelley blows up at him, thinking that’s never considered her happiness or sacrificed anything for her. The father is left alone with her childhood toy, Mr. Blue Bear. When Shelley comes back to get a forgotten coat, her dad stops her to put on a VHS of him and her mother preparing for her birth. It’s then revealed that on their way to the hospital for the delivery, their car was hit by the alcoholic son, critically injuring Karen. The video shows one final clip of Karen in the hospital, where she says the only way she can survive is if Shelley doesn’t, and her parents chose to give their daughter life.
- "Shark Dad". A Spoiled Brat named Billy loves the Animal-Themed Superbeing Shark Rad, but disobeys his Shark Man father. Shark Rad is actually Billy's father. In an attempt to get his son to respect him, Shark Rad shows up to Billy's birthday party and reveals his secret identity to Billy. This causes Billy to respect and love his father, right? Wrong. Billy hates Shark Rad now and complains that his father ruins everything. Poor Shark Rad.
- In "Ted Bear 2", Ted gets fired just for refusing to bite his own penis off and staying safe like every proper workplace should prioritize on.
- High Noon starts with an old man digging and finding a hidden treasure, only to be accosted by a gunman who demands the treasure. Then another gunman lays claim to the treasure. Then the sheriff, a native American, a pirate, a pimp, and so on, going more and more outlandish up to an alien from the 4th dimension. One person brings the point that perhaps the real treasure is friendship, only for him to be shot dead. A shootout ensues, leaving everyone dead, but in his last breath, the old man opens the chest and reveals the treasure is a group photograph from the past, with everyone involved in the shootout smiling together as friends. We Used to Be Friends, indeed.
