What's the most ridiculous thing you've cried at?

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At the end of Spellbound, the documentary about plucky geeks in the National Spelling Bee, I started welling up, partly out of obscure pride, and partly because it seemed likely that for many of them it was downhill from here. Not necessarily forever, but for a while. It was still very strange, and hardly the reaction the film makers would have expected.

So what's the thing you've cried at/about that surprised you the most?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Ween's "Buenos Tardes Amigo".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh god. Um, look for the "ambushed by unexpected emotion" thread on ILM. I'm too embarassed to link it. Phil Collins and Independance day both feature.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

my mom cried at the video for Time After Time when Cyndi gets separated from her family or whatever..

― Vic (Vic), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The "Manpurse" thread. Although it was tears of joy.

I also found Spellbound to be incredibly sad.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

my eyes got misty at one point in Mystic River

ooh i have no pride

― Vic (Vic), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The ending credits of the (not so grebt) Russell Crowe movie "For The Moment" got me all misty, perhaps because they filmed it in my hometown and I saw a lot of familiar names roll by.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

my mom cried at the video for Time After Time when Cyndi gets separated from her family or whatever..

I did too! Mind you, I was 9.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I once cried watching this kid win some skateboarding thing on ESPN2. It's just...he's got so much potential!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

OK: The most ridiculous thing that gets me mistiest is the ending of the South Park movie.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Given the right mood, I will cry at nearly any cheesy display of sentiment. There are really too many examples to name.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

As noted on the unexpected outbursts of emotion, I got kind of choked up (but didn't cry) when Gareth broke down about David Brent leaving on episode 6 of The Office.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I cried because I thought a woman was leaving her comfy chair in a cafe where I was meeting someone (it was standing room only) and she told me she was saving it for someone.

― isadora (isadora), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i felt too silly to put this on the 'unexpected emotion' thread, so i'll put it here: once, many years ago, i was watching an episode of that animated tasmanian devil show, and taz's little brother was crying about something, and something abt it (maybe it was the actual sound of the weeping, or... or...) just kilt me. i can't remember if i actually managed to fight back the tears myself. i suspect not.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Every medal ceremony at every Olympics, ever. And when one contestant beats another up the travelator in Gladiators.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Jana Navotna throwing the Wimbledon Women's singles final away, in whatever year it was. Mike?

― Tag (Tag), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

My 4-year-old former roomate (now 5) would cry when there wasn't enough chocolate in his chocolate milk. I miss that kid.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I once cried watching this kid win some skateboarding thing on ESPN2. It's just...he's got so much potential!

I'm pretty certain I started crying at some point during Dogtown & the Z Boys. Probably when they showed footage of Jay Adams at that first competition, when he's just so ridiculously talented (and this is probably after the film started superimposing "DOOMED" on his face every time it's onscreen)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i got misty when i first heard the Zambonis' cover of "The Hockey Song", when I realized the song had a narrative that climbed to a climax, which reminded me of all the Univ of Michigan games i'd attended for 6 years, the emotion they engendered.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I cried in that Carphone Warehouse advert about the unwanted mobile phone that was thrown in the road. It was sad :(

― C J (C J), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, the zamboni's rule!

sorry, still haven't cried in years.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I know exactly what you're talking about in Dogtown... Andrew. I was really surprised at how much I was moved by that movie; I was expecting nothing but skateboard buffoonery (well, there was that too).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I cry watching television/films all the time, so I hardly know hwere to start... I've also cried at Spellbound, The Office (last episode of season 2) and that Cyndi Lauper video. I regularly cry at Kilroy, Trisha, Pop Idol and Fame Academy. I cried on the final night of Big Brother 4 when Steph came out, even though I'd not been particularly following BB and didn't know much about her, just because her Mum seemed so proud. I've also cried at the video to 'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World' by Prince (I have no idea why) and an episode of This Is Your Life with some woman I'd never heard of, but who seemed to have had a really amazing life.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Given the right mood, I will cry at nearly any cheesy display of sentiment. There are really too many examples to name.

Ditto.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Once we got home late and I was blitzed and flipped on the TV and some channel was showing the very end of Apollo 13 where they're coming back on re-entry and all the engineers on the ground are waiting all tense-like for them to come back from radio silence and then they survive and there's all the cheering and happiness and I starting choking up because it's guys like Gary Sinise and his emo-glasses geek posse who do all this hard work to get our boys home and they never get enough credit boo hoo. My middle name is Wimptito apparently.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 27 October 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

heh. similar to Tombot's, i cried at a docu of the Apollo 13 mission, when Gene Kranz(who is/was a MAJOR fuckin' stoic) pretty much broke down on camera expressing his emotion over his friends making back alive.

also, i am a space geek and spent several years getting my aero engineering degree, so this was extra special to me.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I cried in Monsters Inc. The bit where Sully took Boo home.

― C J (C J), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh CJ, I did, too

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

When Challenger exploded. Isn't silly, but I still cried (and I rarely do)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Pixar movies are so sad. The closest I've recently come to crying at a movie was Toy Story 2 when they have the part with the cowgirl doll being abandoned by her owner.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

a couple of weeks ago i cried about the spice girls breaking up. stupid PMT.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Pixar movies are so sad. The closest I've recently come to crying at a movie was Toy Story 2 when they have the part with the cowgirl doll being abandoned by her owner.

Okay, I cried there too.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I cried a lot during that bit of Toy Story 2, and about a week ago during the "cry now" bit of Lilo & Stitch, but I wasn't really surprised by either of them: it was clear (and expertly done) emotional manipulation.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The last like 30 minutes of Finding Nemo = animated film emotional manipulation at it's finest.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Cool Runnings. I can't remember which bit.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I also cried at Cool Runnings. Maybe it's quite a sad movie?

The most ridiculous thing I've ever cried at was my job. I'm pretty close to it right now, I think I should watch Cool Runnings instead of come to work tomorrow.

― Allyzay, Monday, 27 October 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Of course, I don't think that's weird...

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The first West Wing Christmas episode, where Toby arranges a funeral for the homeless vet, and meets his mentally-handicapped brother.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I cried after my brother picked me up back the back of my shirt and pants and threw me across the room to seem how many times I would bounce.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Wuss.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I cry tears of joy

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

BUT WHAT WOULD PATRICK SWAYZE THINK?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

He would agree with me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i cried when i spilt food on my new silk tie recently

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

my parents asked me to mow the lawn after i'd been out raving all night, i cried but i had to do it anyway.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably not the most ridiculous but the most reecent: I cried at a scene in a Bollywood movie, where everybody is happy that it finally rained and there's a beautiful shot of a girl swinging with the camera attached to the swing. Anybody know what that movie is?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

'I cried after my brother picked me up back the back of my shirt and pants and threw me across the room to seem how many times I would bounce.'

Well, how often did you?

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was about 13 - 14, I would cry whenever I heard Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time", the song -- the video would make me cry harder. I once cried when I saw the crucifixion scene in King of Kings, when they showed the video to us in first grade, curiously also the same day I was found to have chicken pox. In fourth grade, I would cry at the holiday-themed commercials for Folger's coffee, the one where the male who looked to be a college student (I think his name was Jeremy) surprised his family by coming back home for the holidays. As for now, I don't cry that much, but I do feel a great deal of sadness when I hear "New Moon On Monday", for all too personal reasons I can't get into.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

That first season episode of '24' where Jack's in the hospital with his wife. The baddie, Gaines, calls Jack's mobile and tells him that he's being watched through the hospital's CCTV and that if he ever wants to see his daughter alive, he has to follow his instructions. There's this long shot of Jack Bauer fumbling around pretending to get a reception on his phone whilst walking away from his wife that sets me off every time I see it.

In fact, a lot of '24' makes me weep like a silly billie. I clearly don't have enough real tragedy in my own life. Something to be thankful for, I guess.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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Well, how often did you?

Twice. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I cried a couple of times during the film but I think your reaction at the end is exactly what the filmakers were looking for. It was a documentary after all - rather than a Hollywood bad story turns good. The girl who won was too 'normal' (by comparison) to inspire real feeling. Poor Ashley from DC will be fried by her mother before her fourteenth birthday. I wanted her to win or for something good to happen to her, rather than having to watch her catch the train home with the babble of under-achieving, tunnel-visioned women she calls her family.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I have without fail burst into tears at every single office birthday party for the past year and a half. This includes just now.

― allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally stole my e-mail!

I am basically over-emotional (in fact,

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanted her to win or for something good to happen to her, rather than having to watch her catch the train home with the babble of under-achieving, tunnel-visioned women she calls her family

Similarly the first girl (Angela?) who has to look forward to "hanging around the theatre" in Texas the rest of her life.

Myself and the lady I saw it with had a heated discussion afterwards about whether April or Neil would need therapy first.

But this is not the place for that, this is the place for supporting Barima, who appears to have dissolved into tears mid-sentence.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

(I'll do the whole thing)

Ally stole my e-mail!

I am basically over-emotional (in fact, I have gone so out of my way to act like a bastard every so often that no one will ever know I'm on the verge of tears in actuality), so there's probably lots of ridiculous shit I've cried at. Right now, knowing I practically still tear up watching Optimus bite it in the Transformers Movie (Tycho and Gabe to thread) is about the most ridiculous I can muster.

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, that didn't work, did it?

And I cried buckets, Kate.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

while listening to T-Pain's "Reasons". Had a rough evening the night before which kept me up to all hours of the morning (and involving a lady)...felt better in the morning, but when I heard that song, for whatever reason I started bawling.

― III IV V (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:17 (sixteen years ago)

too embarassing to even tell

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:23 (sixteen years ago)

Cried this afternoon at joint from Hairspray soundtrack but I'm a weeping machine tbh.

― Retreat Sound Boy (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:27 (sixteen years ago)

mufasa, forrest gump, when the beautiful ethiopian girl comes onstage at live 8.

― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:29 (sixteen years ago)

near enough any version of "gracias a la vida" by Violeta Parra.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:37 (sixteen years ago)

Crying right now cos I swear I left a kebab round here somewhere but I can't find it

― Retreat Sound Boy (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:39 (sixteen years ago)

i was ready for crying there because I have a bottle of bombay saphire but no tonic.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:40 (sixteen years ago)

sapphire

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:40 (sixteen years ago)

rachel getting married

― kamerad, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:44 (sixteen years ago)

rachel getting married

^^^^^^^^^

― ljubljana, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:52 (sixteen years ago)

gin without tonic is barely a crying offence cos you can always improvise a mixer for gin e.g. by straining the nearest geranium

― Passantino Complexion (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:54 (sixteen years ago)

no flowers up in here. And I'm defo not trying to make this robinson's orange and mango in to a mixer.

Not like Gin on its own is a nightmare or anything, I just would like the refreshing drunkening flavour of a G&T.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:55 (sixteen years ago)

Mr. Holland's Opus

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:55 (sixteen years ago)

Dreyfuss is dead, right, or am I hallucinating Porkies V?

― Passantino Complexion (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:57 (sixteen years ago)

rivaldo's last minute of the season goal against valencia in 2001, except that's not ridiculous at all.

― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 04:11 (sixteen years ago)

I cried when watching Meet the Parents because I felt sorry for Ben Stiller when Robert de Niro treated him so badly.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:04 (sixteen years ago)

lol

― buttslam is a pretty good move (circa1916), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:06 (sixteen years ago)

I want to believe

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:08 (sixteen years ago)

also lol@ "buttslam is a pretty good move (circa1916)"

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:09 (sixteen years ago)

Seeing the spaceship in the opening scene of Serenity.

― turnover is validating, profit is salivating (ledge), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:11 (sixteen years ago)

Tim Horton's commercials - almost every time :(

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 14:40 (sixteen years ago)

after seeing the third lord of the rings movie. i was incredibly hungover and tired and about a week away from moving from virginia to chicago and i think i was just overstimulated and exhausted and couldn't deal with all that CGI death

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 14:49 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

a video clip they aired during the Tony Awards. I don't remember what it was about.
Speaking of which, I just googled Tonys to see if that is what it is called and and would you believe it but Neil Patrack Harris is going to host the Tony Awards in 13 days 20 hours.

― people come from a can (Mulvaney), Monday, 25 May 2009 03:18 (sixteen years ago)

Mr. Holland's Opus
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc)

also this

― people come from a can (Mulvaney), Monday, 25 May 2009 03:20 (sixteen years ago)

Tim Horton's commercials - almost every time :(

Cosign big time. The one where college dude in Scotland misses Canada, writes to Tim Horton's, and they send him mountains of free coffee...well...sniff...oh here it is:

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 25 May 2009 07:21 (sixteen years ago)

The trailer for "Up", when the balloons, which are majestic, playful and benevolent, go past the little girl's window making the room all colorful.

― death from abroad (lukas), Monday, 25 May 2009 15:57 (sixteen years ago)

Ok, that's not ridiculous at all, I just had to share.

― death from abroad (lukas), Monday, 25 May 2009 15:59 (sixteen years ago)

armageddon

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Monday, 25 May 2009 16:10 (sixteen years ago)

Barbershop 2

― wear a latex or you might be getting that late text (stevie), Monday, 25 May 2009 16:15 (sixteen years ago)

armageddon

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Monday, May 25, 2009 12:10 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya me too :/

― horseshoe, Monday, 25 May 2009 16:29 (sixteen years ago)

LOL probably me too. That said I'm a big softy so have cried at many ridiculous things tbh.

― TAT THY SAD EAGLE (ENBB), Monday, 25 May 2009 16:36 (sixteen years ago)

Does Ani DiFranco concert beat Armageddon? I think it might? I teared up during an encore at an Ani show years ago because it was so ~moving~. Ha!

― TAT THY SAD EAGLE (ENBB), Monday, 25 May 2009 16:37 (sixteen years ago)

i had just broken up w/gf and i think i went by myself or something??? high school, jesus

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Monday, 25 May 2009 16:38 (sixteen years ago)

Seeing the spaceship in the opening scene of Serenity.

I'd never seen Firefly when I watched Serenity at the cinema, but this is totally otm - that pan back from the ship's name as the beautiful theme starts, followed by the glowing planetary re-entry gives me the prickly neck every single time I watch it. The final scene with Mal and River at the controls always makes me mist up too.

― Bill A, Monday, 25 May 2009 17:35 (sixteen years ago)

Just remembered that I cried during Lilo and Stitch so in the following order then:

Ani DiFranco show
Armageddon
Lilo and Stitch

― TAT THY SAD EAGLE (ENBB), Monday, 25 May 2009 17:42 (sixteen years ago)

Can we count laughing-until-crying? I've had a couple of delirious laughs in the past few days. Like this image of Lenin Pops. Just went hysterical over that -- heaving, sobbing laughter. I was really sleepy.

Even weirder -- lost it for a good five minutes over Will Ferrell as Robert Goulet starring in Red Ships of Spain. It's not an especially funny bit, so I don't understand why I ended up puffy-eyed and weeping.

― the outlaw Yellow Flab (kenan), Monday, 25 May 2009 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

last time i laughed-til-cried was the first time i watched the shredding videos on youtube i think

― when an old mousketeer leaves the crease (donna rouge), Monday, 25 May 2009 18:54 (sixteen years ago)

wait no, it was the bar mitzvah video on the n0ize board lolz thread

― when an old mousketeer leaves the crease (donna rouge), Monday, 25 May 2009 18:54 (sixteen years ago)

laughed-til-cried - this happens too often for me to count but lately it has been youtubes. thank go for that n0ize board thread

― people come from a can (Mulvaney), Monday, 25 May 2009 20:56 (sixteen years ago)

go is the god of monopoly and not a typo

― people come from a can (Mulvaney), Monday, 25 May 2009 20:57 (sixteen years ago)

the bar mitzvah one was great.
this one (from that n0ize board thread) probably made a tear. the song and dance moves are also quite catchy

little ateve: "wait a minute you're uh..."
big steve: "that's right I'm you in a few years. I'm Steve too."
little steve: "wait, if you are an older me why don't I have any hair on my chest, is there something the matter with me or what."
big steve: "yeah there's something the matter with you. what kind of kid wishes he has chest hair."

and then 3:00 onward is just hilarious. too bad I've already watched this video 10 times or I would still have real LOL.

― people come from a can (Mulvaney), Monday, 25 May 2009 21:15 (sixteen years ago)

"listen mr. confidence, can I ask you something else"

― people come from a can (Mulvaney), Monday, 25 May 2009 21:35 (sixteen years ago)

When the fires are lit on the mountaintops in Return of the King film. I tend to tear up over triumph more easily than despair...

― Nate Carson, Monday, 25 May 2009 22:42 (sixteen years ago)

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