The most tear-jerking Muppet moment...

[TheJimHensonHour]

for me it would now be
1)muppets celebrate jim henson
2)the end of muppet family christmas with jim (yes it makes me cry to see him)
3)the muppets take manhatten "saying good bye" thats sort of my theme song.
4)gonzos song in the muppet movie
5)in the emmet otter movie when they sing "when the river meets the sea"
that song makes me think of watching the movie with my mother as a very young boy...
6)scooter singing six string orchestra for some reason
7)gonzo singing with madline cohn "i dont have a coat of silk"

 

[TheJimHensonHour]

Right after Henson died, I was on a shoot at a student's apartment. On his refrigerator was a cartoon he'd done. Bert is hanging out with Ernie, Ernie is driving him crazy as usual. Then Ernie begins to fade away. Bert then wakes up in his bed and looks around the apartment, at the empty soap dish on the tub, the sweater folded on the bed with the "E" on the headboard. The last panel is Bert with his head in his hands. I've never seen that cartoon posted anywhere - this was before the internet was as big as it is now - and I'd love to have a copy of it. Just thinking about it chokes me up.

Mike Watt

wow that just made me tear up reading it!

 

[flyingpenguin]

Without a doubt the saddest scene is when Piggy is walking home in the GMC, after Kermit finds out that she's not really Lady Holiday.

Sob

 

[superboober]

I'd also have to go with the "It's Time for Saying Goodbye" number in The Muppets Take Manhattan. The Muppeteers went to great lengths to make their characters look genuinely dejected over spliting up, and as a result I couldn't bear to watch that part for years.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Ok, I've been trying hard to find something to top "Saying Goodbye" but I think that's pretty much the big one. Actually, The Muppets Take Manhattan is very touching and emotional overall. The Great Muppet Caper was great but quite cynical; in contrast Muppets Take Manhattan is all about the deep friendship these characters have. It's really a good example of how The Muppets were not afraid to be sweet and slightly mushy now and then.

Another tear jerking moment I can think of comes from Muppet Babies. There was an episode where Gonzo pulls a dangerous stunt with a Vacuum cleaner and accidently damages Camilla (who's a toy chicken on this show of course). There's a sad, horrible moment when Nanny lifts the Vaccum to reveal Camilla with the stuffing literally ripped out of her. She tells him, "It will be a miracle if I can sew Camilla back together."

I remember running upstairs to my mother crying about what had just happened. I didn't want to but Mom insisted I watch the rest of the episode to see what happens. Of course, in the end Nanny is able to put Camilla back together and Gonzo learns a valuable lesson. Acting recklessly is wrong not only because it can hurt us, but the people we love as well.

 

[Marky]

The special after Jim Henson died. I well up thinking about it.

See, my whole Drama class in high school started weeping that day in 1990. For those too young to remember, it was one of those things where people remember exactly what they were doing when they found out.

 

[CensoredAlso]

I remember watching The Muppets Farewell to Jim Henson, though I must have been 7 at the time. It was so sweet when they sang at the end and suddenly Kermit walks in. It was funny, when Kermit started talking it seemed perfectly normal, I completely forgot for a minute that Jim was gone. It was only later that I thought, "Oh wait a minute!" (Nice job, Steve).

I suppose that's what Jim would have wanted, that Kermit would continue even after he'd gone.

 

[wes]

I remember When Jim Died, I was 10 years old and he was my hero, it was a either a Wednesday or Sunday Because I remeber comming home from church with my grandparents, we were watching the news I remeber clearly, " Jim Henson Creator of the Muppets has died due to Pnumonia." It was like I was slapped in the face. I remebering being very sad, that i would never get to meet the greatest puppeteer that ever lived. Even going to school the next day my teachers and friends knew how much i looked up to Jim and the were very sensitive and so was my family. My Grandmother knew how much this ment so she kept all the news artical she could find and had her friends due the same, she also taped all she could about the Jim's celebration, to this day i still feel a deep sadness and loss.

 

[misspiggyinoz]

it was the wedding for me

my most tear jerking moment was in the muppets take manhattan. the end musical really makes me weep!! and laugh as you watch miss piggy take matters into her own hands and finally nab that Frog!!

 

[Ealdain]

Im not sure if this one has been mentioned but in the muppet show Statler and Waldorf do a song together. Im not sure of the name but it says " when i was 21 it was a very good year... it was a very good year for girls that lived up the stairs...with perfumed hair... that came undone... when i was 21." that may not be totally right but it has always hit me hard. That the 2 grumpy old men can still look back on their long lives with such fondness.

" but now the days are short ...im in the autumn of the year ..........."

To Jim and Frank and all the crew both with us and not. When i look back at my childhood and adolescence with your presence and influence. It was a very good year

Aaron B.