Sometimes you just need to...

Two nights ago I watched one moment that fits into a special, small club of moments in cinematic and television history. Most people know of these moments as tearjerkers. They are those special moments in movies and TV where you just cant help but ball your eyes out. Well the one I watched very easily fits into this category and as I predicted I just started balling away. The episode is Goodbye Radar Part 2 from M*A*S*H. Instead of just going on and on about that I've got a list of sure-to-make-you-ball-your-eyes-out moments.

1. Old Yeller gets Shot
This is the moment where if you are seen not crying while watching it, you will be known as having a heart of stone for the rest of your life. It has become like The Wizard of Oz and Casablanca in the sense that it is no longer just a movie, but a cultural icon. You hear that phrase, "who cried when Old Yeller died?" everywhere. In Bill Murray's famous monologue from Stripes and Friends the One Where Old Yeller Died to name a couple. It has become almost house hold knowlegde that if you didn't cry you have no heart.

2. Abyssinia Henry M*A*S*H
Every M*A*S*H head knows this episode. has the third season came to a close Radar walks into the O.R and informs his C.O that he's going home. The episode is incredibly happy. Hawkeye, Trapper, Radar, and Henry get drunk. Henry kisses Hot Lips full on the mouth. Then he leaves. Everyone got a little teary eyed when that happened, but then they pulled a fast one on all of us. with less than a minute left in the episode Radar walks into O.R sans mask. He then rips this out, "Lt Colonel Henry Blake's Plane was shot down over the sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors." Once he finishes that they circulate around the room and show that everyone is crying. Of course any true M*A*S*H head would have been to teary eyed to notice it. There is a second reason that this moment is so famous. Up until that point, except for a few episodes, M*A*S*H was a sit com. A very happy show. But once Henry died, it really shot the point that war is hell across.

3. Terms of Endearment
Okay I have to admit that I did not cry when Debra Winger died, but that does not take away from the fact that this movie is regularily a bona fide tearjerker. I was not really a fan so that's all I'l say.

4. Goodbye Radar Part 2
Ah hell. Even thinking about this makes me get a bit weepy. First it seems like it'll be happy and nice. Then the wounded arrive and all of Radar's goodbyes get cut short. Then right before he leaves he walks into the Pre-Op area and Hawkeye salutes Radar (a rare occasion to say the least). Then he hops in the jeep and you think that you can recover peacefully. Sorry, they threw in a curve ball at the last moment. After surgery, Hawkeye, BJ and Colonel Potter go back to the swamp for a belt and they see Radar's teddy bear sitting on Hawk's Bed. All I can say is that that is the only scene that make me tear up to this day.

Well there are some others but those are the main ones in my opinion. So until next time.