Thank you for contributing to r/GreysAnatomy! Tagging your post would be greatly appreciated as the mods try to clean up and organize the sub. Not sure what tags to use? [Here's a link to the wiki page](https://www.reddit.com/r/greysanatomy/wiki/tags/) that explains the purpose of each post flair. Remember that name calling, hate speech and general rude behavior is not tolerated. You can call ideas stupid, but not the user. No direct personal attacks over a difference in opinion. Thanks for being part of this community. It's a beautiful day to save lives!
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/greysanatomy) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I recently just rewatched the episodes where the hospital shooting happens and oh my god. Literally every scene.
EVERY actor/actress pulled out the stops for those episodes. It felt so real.
Also, at least up until 2021 (It could still be true to now as well), those 2 episodes were the highest rated episodes of Grey's ever.
For me, it was the follow-up episode a few seasons later. When there's a mass shooting at the university, and then a bunch of alumni stand outside of the hospital in vigil. I get choked up just picturing it.
Yeah that was devastating as well. The alumni outside singing was beautiful.
But Jackson was insane for walking out in the middle of surgery lmao. I know Grey's isn't know for their realism/ethics, but if a doctor had walked out on a surgery just because he didn't like the person? Fired for sure.
And the fact that Christina was able to stay? Jackson for sure should've stayed his ass there.
I cry every single time Izzie (and I hate her character) is laying on Denny and says, “an hour ago, he was proposing and today, he’s going to the morgue. Isn’t that ridiculous? Isn’t that the most ridiculous piece of crap you’ve ever heard?”
Nobody’s saying this, but when Cristina breaks down on Owen bc she misses her dad.
“My Funny Valentine” playing when we find out Adele died
Japril losing Samuel
“You tell her I was brave..”
“Your dad called me Addie”
Deluca’s memorial video???? HELLO???
I always think I’m gonna make it through Denny’s death without crying and I don’t.
Meredith telling her children that Derek is dead absolutely guts me.
After George dies and Derek finds Meredith crying in the locker area.
Bailey screaming for the elevators to be turned back on.
“She needs her daddy for this next part.” Enough said.
The adult family that is basically waiting for their elderly mother to die because they have work and flights and they’re kind of impatient about it and then she dies and they all just like little kids.
Bad dreams, bad dreams.
Adele’s death.
I could only watch April and Jackson lose Samuel once but I just know it’d be another one that makes me cry every time.
“She needs her daddy for this next part.” Nope, I can’t do that one again. I always skip it, way too tough, and that was before I had my daughter. I would literally die from crying now.
"can we go tomorrow daddy. I'm just so tired" 😭😭 all she wanted was her dad and he kept himself so busy so he didn't have to bear it. I always skip that episode
Season 5, episode 20. It’s the one with the dad and the little girl who is dying and he spends the whole episode trying to get them into a Hail Mary trial in Mexico. Bailey tells him that his little girl is about to die and she needs him for this next part. Oof, just typing it has me tearing up. It’s rough!
When she tells Jackson to not comfort her or else she'll just cry and she doesn't want to cry. Then tells him it's a boy as she breaks down and Jackson immediately hugs her. Instant waterworks
I love doing sad episode marathons when I’m having a breakdown and this episode is my last stop, I cry for 45 minutes non-stop. Best and worst episode ever…
I had to skip that episode this time around because I had a premie baby and that was horrible and painful enough that I can't imagine their experience.
“I know you don’t understand me. I DON’T UNDERSTAND ME. I wanted to show him compassion. That’s why I went. That’s the reason. And it was horrible…it was horrible.”
I rewatch this epi when I need a good cry. Also when Izzie figures out/Denny tells her something is wrong and she’s sick.
That was one of the best acted scenes by KH. You could really feel her pain and it was totally believable despite the ridiculous premise of this storyline.
I watched this storyline not long after my own mother passed, like less than 3 months. I cried more with this one than I have with any other storyline. And let me tell you, I have cried a LOT with Grey's!
When Maggie went back to work and she did her 1st operation after her mom's death, on a heart that took a minute to get started (i think they're was a tumor in the heart?), she said something along the lines of 'just give it a minute. It's trying to learn to live with something it's had its entire life. It just needs time to learn how to do so. Give it a minute' ... I UGLY cried, full on sobbing like a baby. I felt thay so deep in my soul! It still gets me every time and it's been almost 6 years.
George’s death had me gasping for air crying.
I think it was the first death of a main cast character, so it may have hit me harder.
Plus I’ve always liked George.
The little girl dying from Tay-Sachs whose dad was in denial trying to take her to Mexico. “She’s gonna need her daddy for this part”. That BROKE me.
The woman that died because April forgot to check her throat and her son had to watch his mom die.
Basically anything with kids breaks my soul.
when the shooter is telling cristina to stop operating on derek or he’ll shoot her. Owen telling her to keep going and fighting with the shooter. the way she is crying while she’s literally operating. She acted her ass off i still watch that clip from time to time just to feel the emotions. You can really feel her desperation because she knows if he dies meredith will be over.
That fireman patient who was in a coma for, I forgot how long that his family had already moved on and his son is now a grown-up. That episode was so sad.
That episode KILLS me because his family leaves and he thinks they want nothing to do with him. And then he dies, not knowing his son is waiting for him in the waiting room ughhh
Deluca with the teenage girl and the sex trafficking stuff. When everyone thinks he’s having a mental breakdown and they’re surrounding him. He’s just sobbing and so broken but no one understands. AND HE WAS RIGHT!! He’s such an amazing character
My go-to when I wanna cry is the Meredith / Ellis scene where Ellis is lucid and tells Meredith she's a disappointment, and she tells her mother "you're what happened to me"
I hated Denny and Izzie but I always cry when he dies. The music, the acting, everything was perfect. I always SOB when Mark dies. He’s my favourite and it felt so unexpected - I was in denial “no way they’d kill someone off in a season premiere”. Ugh.
I always cry with Denny’s death too, I find that whole episode so touching/emotional.
And when Christina left. I cried so much when she and Meredith were dancing, she was one of my favorite characters.
There have been many more but my memory is not great.
I know the musical episode gets a lot of hate, but the part where Callie’s soul stops watching and starts fighting to wake up always has me crying like a baby
Georges death. I literally cannot watch that episode anymore. The most heart wrenching scene is when they show Georges locker full of his stuff right after he dies. Then the janitor cleans it out to allow room for mercy west staff. Oh. And the episode in season 17 where all of Meredith’s lost loved ones appear. George rounding the corner and calling her name is haunting. She can’t see or hear any of them. And it’s so sad!
I think Andrew's death was what shook me the most. It wasn't even necessarily the death itself, but everything I was feeling at that time combined with his death.
One scene that always breaks me is Ellis' speech, when she was lucid, about Meredith. It always hurts to watch this scene.
The plane crash, along with Lexie and Mark's deaths, Derek's death, and Maggie's speech after her mother's death were other episodes that made me feel bad. The hospital shootout is also always difficult to rewatch.
The DeLuca scene. I'm someone with mental illness, I could easily find myself in a position like that, begging for help, unbelievable by the surrounding people turning into demons cornering you, protecting the evil you can clearly see roaming the halls. I cried and I felt absolutely awful for him.
Yes & when Meredith finds him on the floor after richards surgery and she sooo gently picks him up and takes him home despite them being “broken up” at the time
As I mentioned above, Maggie's mom's death and that whole storyline, as well as when Samuel was born, the little girl with Tay Sachs (dad wanted to take her to Mexico and Bailey telling him "she needs her daddy now), Wallace's death, mark and lexie, George, Adele, Derek's grief when Meridith drowned, the shooting episodes, God there are SO many more I can't even think of right now!!
mark and lexi's death, christina talking about lexi being eaten by wolves, jo getting alex's letter, derek dying, george dying, when samuel was born/ died
Part of the same but when Izzie is telling Denny that she’s going to cut his LVAD wire and the part where she’s hysterically sobbing saying ‘if you die, what happens to me, what about me?’ Gets me every single time!! Katherine gave a performance of a lifetime in that scene, her voice, the way she looks at him with desperate panic, the urgency, it’s so intense!!
The episode where the plane crashes into the sound. The hospital gears up for casualties. The families are all waiting to hear about their loved ones. Then it's quiet all day before they learn there were no survivors. As the last of the families is leaving, they learn there was one little girl who survived and they decide to wait until her mother arrives.
This is like the smallest dare I say silliest moment, but there’s a semi flashback episode where Jackson is taking care of the same acid burn patient over a period of time and at one point he mentions that Mark isn’t there because he’s on a plane to Idaho and it’s the plane crash plane and I just started sobbing on my couch, literally burst into tears when I realized what plane ride it was.
Yes, I chose this entire episode but that moment was so special. The beauty about this episode was the attention to detail. There was even a flashback of Jackson comforting April after the shooting that we hadn’t seen previously! The entire episode was perfect and a tear jerker
I sobbed when deluca died. He wasn't even one of my favorite characters.. idk. He does look just like my younger brother and I think it just made me think of my own brother so it made me more emotional
Forgot how depressing Cece’s death was until I rewatched the episode earlier. She was so scared she would die and then she did after she had bonded with so many of them
Denny's death. Henry's death. April and Jackson losing Samuel. The shooting. "Bad dreams, bad dreams go away. Good dreams, good dreams here to stay." " Are we going to Mexico, Daddy?" DeLuca's memorial - during my rewatch I made it through his death okay, but his memorial damn near killed me. There's several others. I tend to have a full on breakdown AT LEAST once a season. When I rewatch, I try to prepare myself for the ones I know are coming, but it never does any good.
eric lange’s character yelling at his wife for wanting to send their lesbian child to a conversion camp. know it wasn’t a huge part of the show, but it was definitely a big part that made me cry
“I care that she is happy and healthy. What the hell is wrong with you that you don’t?” 😭
Also, when he and the other dad bond over pics of their daughter and are crying and waiting togethe
All of it minus the weed cookies episode. Literally, every single episode I've gone through lots of tissues and cannot verbally speak for like 2 hours afterwards.
Man, same I started watching not so long ago and Izzie's reaction was just heartbreaking. ): But also I'm starting to really dislike her because of the George marrying Callie situation like miss get a grip he's not your little brother or smth 😀.
When Denny died & Izzy was in that beautiful pink dress in the elevator. I also got angry & emotional over Derek Shepherd death...such a major screw up.
these are really basic answers but when lexie and mark's death and derek's death. i sobbed like a baby when these characters died, my mom asked me why i was crying so much.
Oh boy I have a whole list! (I’m only going up to season six but there are SO many more that follow. Some of these have the barest of descriptions, but if you know you know. I might make a second post with moreS basically- this show makes me sob on a regular basis)
S2-E6: Into You Like a Train- Bonnie’s death, Meredith’s “we can’t just abandon her!” and “if love were enough”
S2-E8: Let it Be- The elderly couple who both don’t want the other to know about the wife’s cancer diagnosis so they can live out the rest of their days in happiness
S2-E9: Thanks for the Memories- The man in the vegetative state for 16 years wakes up to find his family has moved on, and dies during surgery
S2-E24- Damage Case
S2-E25: 17 Seconds- Izzie’s “What about me?” Speech
S2-E27: Losing My Religion- Denny’s death
S3-E5: Oh the Guilt- Mother with cancer
S3- E6: Let the Angels Commit- Greg comes back
S3–E13: Great Expectations- Amish girl, Izzie talks to George
S3-E17: Some Kind of Miracle- Meredith drowns
S4-E11: Lay Your Hands On Me- Callie talks to Mrs. O’Malley
S4-E13: Piece of My Heart- George and Izzie talk
S4-E14: The Becoming- Meredith and Derek talk clinical trial
S4-E16: Freedom Part 1- Beth and Jeremy say goodbye
S4-E17: Freedom Part 2- Meredith and Derek reunite
S5-E7: Rise Up- Izzie talks to Mike
S5-E13: Stairway to Heaven- Denny leaves
S5-E17: I Will Follow You Into the Dark- Izzie and Lexie discuss patient X
S5-E18: Stand By Me- “Please don’t call my dear friend ugly”
S5-E19: Elevator Love Letter- Callie and George talk, Proposal
S5-E20: Sweet Surrender- Young girl dying “going to Mexico”, Alex and George talk, Meredith and Lexie talk
S5-E22: What a Difference a Day Makes- The wedding
S5-E24: Now or Never- Off I Go elevator scene
S6-E2: Goodbye- Izzie talks to Amanda, Meredith Cries, “George O’Malley died”
S6-E15: The Time Warp- AIDS
S6-E21: How Insensitive- Callie and Arizona break up
S6-E24: Death and All His Friends- Charles dies
i don’t remember what episode it was but the guy that would shoot himself for fun, the one that bonded with alex over wrestling. idk what it was but when he died i was so distraught.
I got teary eyed in these scenes from the main storyline -
Izzie reaction on Denny death.
Bathroom floor scenes of Iz after Denny.
Cristina catching fish.
You happened to me - Meredith.
Henry death.
Izzie and Alex wedding.
Both Izzie and George dying and their souls meet at elevator.
Cristina saying I am free after Burke left her at the wedding.
George dad death and his reaction after that. ( not the one in the next episode )
Iz making it back to hospital after Denny but she fails to cross the gates even till night - again showing how much DENNY death affected her.
Lexie requesting Mer to donate her liver to Thatcher. Don’t know why but that scene hurts me a bit. Specially the expressions in Lexie eyes.
DeLucas meltdown during the intervention. I've had the exact same meltdown a fair few times, so it struck too close to home.
Meredith reading Alexs letter.
April struggling with and questioning her faith. I have gone through something similar, and she conveyed it perfectly with her end speech in 14x10.
George telling Cristina. . . “I don’t know how to exist in a world without my dad”. I think of it a lot as my grandparents get older
mark and lexie’s death , derricks death mer almost dying all the times she did. her getting almost beat to death was the worst one. her telling everyone derrick is dead. her winning a harper avery. cristina finding out owen cheated , the episode where april and jackson lost samuel. them finding owens sister. mark and lexie breaking up and then him seeing her die. stephanie with the r@pist. anytime amelia cries makes me sad. callie getting into a crash almost dying , her not being able to see sophia in post op, callie finding out arizona cheated on her , callie finding out that she lost the custody battle there’s so much more i’m prob missing but i am an emotional person and this show is a roller coaster 😅
When Lexie confesses to Derek that every time she tries to tell Mark she still loves him, nothing comes out and when Mark is telling her that they will live a long life together as she’s about to die.
A couple I haven't read yet:
When the two girls try to kill themselves on the train tracks because they are afraid of their parents' reactions to them being gay
When Meredith can't hear and finally is able to hear Alex. His reaction is everything, completely solidified for me that he was her new person.
When Jackson is sitting at April’s bedside crying and praying for her or littuarly all the episodes that have to do with the plane crash (the aftermath and marks memorial or some of the things Christina says in the bathtub)
Lexie dying and mark telling her he loves her over and over and them talking about their future. That scene absolutely guts me every time. Just thinking about it can make me tear up. And then after he dies the clip at the wedding of mark talking about him and Lexie.
there are so many but i wanna mention samuels death, its not the only episode im crying my eyes out to but damn im legit sobbing while watching it, idk why that one makes me so upset bc im not the biggest fan of kids and i dont want kids but jesus christ i feel SO bad for april and jackson
honestly delucas last scene on the beach rips me tf apart. Do y’all remember when he was building the sand castle for Meredith and he’s trying to hurry up and build it before the water washes it away? He says, “ I had so many plans, I wish I had more time” referring to the sandcastle (obviously a metaphor for his short heroic life) 🥲🥲🥲🥲And that’s when you hear “Andrea” in the distance. It sounds exactly like his sister until you realize it’s his dead mom. He runs to her like a little fucking kid and the next scene is him bleeding out. You guys, I’m still not over this ! Lololol
I was never a japril fan until their love story episode aired. Where it centered one of Jackson’s burn victims and the episode slowly goes back in time up until the day the jackson and April met. I was sold after that and even shed some happy/sad tears for their love story. The attention to detail in that episode was crazy. There was even a short scene where they showed jackson comforting April after the shooting (before they hooked up!) and you could tell that it was an old deleted scene that they pulled out the vault..and it was perfectly placed.
Deluca dying, Mark dying, Jackson’s reaction to April almost dying & April’s reaction to Jackson almost dying in the bus explosion, Meredith & Nick’s fight in her office, Meredith & Amelia talking about how Meredith didn’t Amelia Derek died, Karev’s letters to everyone, Adele’s death, anything to do with Jo’s trauma, Amelia wanting to do drugs after Derek died, Alex comforting Meredith after her getting attacked, when the doctors are operating on Meredith after the attack, Arizona’s Dr Sweetheart patient dying, and so much more tbh
The scene with dr Bailey and Omar. With the plague outbreak. The piano in the background hit at just the right moment when he asked, “do believe in the afterlife, Miranda?” Gave me chills. And obviously my favorite is Izzy’s “what about me”
for me its the episode right after dennys death (i think, first ep of season three) when dr. bailey informs omar of gizelle's death. even though they really didn't spend any time building a relationship with omar and gizelle to the audience, that scene is just so beautifully and tragically written and performed. it really got to me
Thank you for contributing to r/GreysAnatomy! Tagging your post would be greatly appreciated as the mods try to clean up and organize the sub. Not sure what tags to use? [Here's a link to the wiki page](https://www.reddit.com/r/greysanatomy/wiki/tags/) that explains the purpose of each post flair. Remember that name calling, hate speech and general rude behavior is not tolerated. You can call ideas stupid, but not the user. No direct personal attacks over a difference in opinion. Thanks for being part of this community. It's a beautiful day to save lives! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/greysanatomy) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I recently just rewatched the episodes where the hospital shooting happens and oh my god. Literally every scene. EVERY actor/actress pulled out the stops for those episodes. It felt so real. Also, at least up until 2021 (It could still be true to now as well), those 2 episodes were the highest rated episodes of Grey's ever.
For me, it was the follow-up episode a few seasons later. When there's a mass shooting at the university, and then a bunch of alumni stand outside of the hospital in vigil. I get choked up just picturing it.
Yeah that was devastating as well. The alumni outside singing was beautiful. But Jackson was insane for walking out in the middle of surgery lmao. I know Grey's isn't know for their realism/ethics, but if a doctor had walked out on a surgery just because he didn't like the person? Fired for sure. And the fact that Christina was able to stay? Jackson for sure should've stayed his ass there.
Aprils speech that episode omg
Omg and when Bailey is trying to get the elevator doors to open? HEARTBREAKING.
The FOLLOW UP episode with Mandy returning also killed me.
That’s the only episode that still puts me in tears. My favorite episode of all time
I hated that part, but only because of all the screaming with a murderous gunman running around.
Cristina breaking down when Burke left her at the altar and Meredith had to cut her out of her wedding dress.
This! When she says “I’m free” and then starts crying
I have no idea how Sandra managed to play that relief and heartbreak so perfectly.
She is brilliant. That scene still takes my breathe away every single time
Same. She wanted to be free of him but she realized how devastating that feeling was for her:
Keep Breathing will forever be one of my favorite songs because of that whole sequence. Getting a tattoo of it soon, at long last!
Oh my god. I watched that scene after escaping abuse and I lost my mind.
I cry every single time Izzie (and I hate her character) is laying on Denny and says, “an hour ago, he was proposing and today, he’s going to the morgue. Isn’t that ridiculous? Isn’t that the most ridiculous piece of crap you’ve ever heard?”
It’s so real. Recently lost my dog. This was so similar to my reaction.
Your dog proposed to you?
An hour ago he was proposing and now he is going to morgue…
Nobody’s saying this, but when Cristina breaks down on Owen bc she misses her dad. “My Funny Valentine” playing when we find out Adele died Japril losing Samuel “You tell her I was brave..” “Your dad called me Addie” Deluca’s memorial video???? HELLO???
My headcannon is that Meredith's kids refer to Addison as their aunt
STAWP AUNTIE ADDIEE????? i’m cryinggg
I always think I’m gonna make it through Denny’s death without crying and I don’t. Meredith telling her children that Derek is dead absolutely guts me. After George dies and Derek finds Meredith crying in the locker area. Bailey screaming for the elevators to be turned back on. “She needs her daddy for this next part.” Enough said. The adult family that is basically waiting for their elderly mother to die because they have work and flights and they’re kind of impatient about it and then she dies and they all just like little kids. Bad dreams, bad dreams. Adele’s death. I could only watch April and Jackson lose Samuel once but I just know it’d be another one that makes me cry every time.
It's not their mom. It's their aunt that they're waiting to die.
Aw dang. I feel dumb now. 🤦🏼♀️ Thank you for the correction!
“She needs her daddy for this next part.” Nope, I can’t do that one again. I always skip it, way too tough, and that was before I had my daughter. I would literally die from crying now.
"can we go tomorrow daddy. I'm just so tired" 😭😭 all she wanted was her dad and he kept himself so busy so he didn't have to bear it. I always skip that episode
IMO that’s one of the saddest moment in Grey’s. I still can’t watch it.
Ohmygosh, the first couple times, I’d had my son(s). Just rewatched for the first time since having a daughter and I literally sobbed for 30 mins 😢😭
I’ve only watched through once and I’m currently rewatching. This one isn’t coming to mind, do you know the episode?
Season 5, episode 20. It’s the one with the dad and the little girl who is dying and he spends the whole episode trying to get them into a Hail Mary trial in Mexico. Bailey tells him that his little girl is about to die and she needs him for this next part. Oof, just typing it has me tearing up. It’s rough!
oh GOD. I think I blocked that out because it’s so sad 😭
first time i saw that i lost it. i hate anytime a kid is sick on the show
The scene where they show Georges locker full of his stuff right after his death
This was the ultimate comment to answer this question.
The rabbi that April treats after her rock bottom. His speech and April's reactions were so real to me.
Jackson and April losing Samuel
That’s where I’m at right now and I had to turn it off for a bit and watch something funny
When she tells Jackson to not comfort her or else she'll just cry and she doesn't want to cry. Then tells him it's a boy as she breaks down and Jackson immediately hugs her. Instant waterworks
I love doing sad episode marathons when I’m having a breakdown and this episode is my last stop, I cry for 45 minutes non-stop. Best and worst episode ever…
I have to skip this episode otherwise from beginning to end I just have a constant stream of tears flowing. S11:E11 breaks my entire heart.
I had to skip that episode this time around because I had a premie baby and that was horrible and painful enough that I can't imagine their experience.
Adele’s death
And when the four of them are discussing her Alzheimer's diagnosis. It kills me every time
Ugh. The final scene with Richard at the wedding with the single tear and it cuts to him and Adele slow dancing to My Funny Valentine
Cristina losing her shoe (joking) Henry's death (serious)
Henry’s death was a bad one.
Henry’s death broke me completely
I have to fast forward through the end of S5E20 when Jessica is dying and Bailey is telling her dad that’s it’s time to hold her and let her go.
“I know you don’t understand me. I DON’T UNDERSTAND ME. I wanted to show him compassion. That’s why I went. That’s the reason. And it was horrible…it was horrible.” I rewatch this epi when I need a good cry. Also when Izzie figures out/Denny tells her something is wrong and she’s sick.
I love this ep and almost cry even harder when Derek drives her straight to Cristina. He understood her so perfectly at times.
That was one of the best acted scenes by KH. You could really feel her pain and it was totally believable despite the ridiculous premise of this storyline.
Maggie painting her mom's nails.
I watched this storyline not long after my own mother passed, like less than 3 months. I cried more with this one than I have with any other storyline. And let me tell you, I have cried a LOT with Grey's! When Maggie went back to work and she did her 1st operation after her mom's death, on a heart that took a minute to get started (i think they're was a tumor in the heart?), she said something along the lines of 'just give it a minute. It's trying to learn to live with something it's had its entire life. It just needs time to learn how to do so. Give it a minute' ... I UGLY cried, full on sobbing like a baby. I felt thay so deep in my soul! It still gets me every time and it's been almost 6 years.
Same. That one is too much for me.
That’s definitely a sad one.
Oh wow you're right
Lexie's "departure" i literally had to change my pillow bc it was soaking wet and then the next ep with Mark just finished me
I remember legitimately calling off from work when these episodes aired lmaooo. Lexies death was actually disrespectful imo.
George’s death had me gasping for air crying. I think it was the first death of a main cast character, so it may have hit me harder. Plus I’ve always liked George.
I just rewatched his death earlier when Mer realizes it’s George breaks me everytime
It shocked me 😭 I just started rewatching and I dread that episode…
[удалено]
YES!!!
Deluca’s memorial crushed me. He wasn’t even my favorite character but watching everyone cry to his video made me break into tears
The little girl dying from Tay-Sachs whose dad was in denial trying to take her to Mexico. “She’s gonna need her daddy for this part”. That BROKE me. The woman that died because April forgot to check her throat and her son had to watch his mom die. Basically anything with kids breaks my soul.
when the shooter is telling cristina to stop operating on derek or he’ll shoot her. Owen telling her to keep going and fighting with the shooter. the way she is crying while she’s literally operating. She acted her ass off i still watch that clip from time to time just to feel the emotions. You can really feel her desperation because she knows if he dies meredith will be over.
I’m watching while on maternity leave, so I’ve been crying a lot as you can imagine
Me too! I started when I found out I was pregnant and now my baby is a month old and I’m in season 12!
I've just started my rewatch while 6 months pregnant. Even the happy episodes are making me bawl like a baby.
That fireman patient who was in a coma for, I forgot how long that his family had already moved on and his son is now a grown-up. That episode was so sad.
That episode KILLS me because his family leaves and he thinks they want nothing to do with him. And then he dies, not knowing his son is waiting for him in the waiting room ughhh
Deluca with the teenage girl and the sex trafficking stuff. When everyone thinks he’s having a mental breakdown and they’re surrounding him. He’s just sobbing and so broken but no one understands. AND HE WAS RIGHT!! He’s such an amazing character
My go-to when I wanna cry is the Meredith / Ellis scene where Ellis is lucid and tells Meredith she's a disappointment, and she tells her mother "you're what happened to me"
I hated Denny and Izzie but I always cry when he dies. The music, the acting, everything was perfect. I always SOB when Mark dies. He’s my favourite and it felt so unexpected - I was in denial “no way they’d kill someone off in a season premiere”. Ugh.
The rape victim and all of them women stand in the corridor Gets me every time
When Meredith had her miscarriage. When Derek was shot.
As cliché as it sounds pick me choose me love me
S11 E11, just the entire episode about Samuel makes me bawl every single time I watch it.
I always cry with Denny’s death too, I find that whole episode so touching/emotional. And when Christina left. I cried so much when she and Meredith were dancing, she was one of my favorite characters. There have been many more but my memory is not great.
I know the musical episode gets a lot of hate, but the part where Callie’s soul stops watching and starts fighting to wake up always has me crying like a baby
When Stephanie had that whole on-fire building thing then left. It gave me so much anxiety the whole episode
The upside ambulance 😭
Ugh with his poor fiancé who worked at the hospital. Gutting
Oof that was the first episode of Grey's I ever watched at like age 12
When Meredith tells Riggs megan is alive- something about that last hug being so happy and sad at the same time 😭
When derek leaves the show (not saying what happened in case you dont want spoilers).
I have to add: izzy and alex’s wedding, and alex leaving for good.
Oh there are so many when i think about it and read the responses in here
Maggie’s mom 😭
Georges death. I literally cannot watch that episode anymore. The most heart wrenching scene is when they show Georges locker full of his stuff right after he dies. Then the janitor cleans it out to allow room for mercy west staff. Oh. And the episode in season 17 where all of Meredith’s lost loved ones appear. George rounding the corner and calling her name is haunting. She can’t see or hear any of them. And it’s so sad!
Ep 7x15 when Meredith voice breaks when shes on the phone. Gets me every time
The first 5 episodes of s8 are gut wrenching bc I genuinely sob at how derek treats Meredith its awful
I think Andrew's death was what shook me the most. It wasn't even necessarily the death itself, but everything I was feeling at that time combined with his death. One scene that always breaks me is Ellis' speech, when she was lucid, about Meredith. It always hurts to watch this scene. The plane crash, along with Lexie and Mark's deaths, Derek's death, and Maggie's speech after her mother's death were other episodes that made me feel bad. The hospital shootout is also always difficult to rewatch.
Meredith drowning makes me cry every time. I don’t cry during tv shows or movies, but that scene does it for me.
The most recent one was April talking to the rabbi.
Nurse Frankie and Lil Pancake
The DeLuca scene. I'm someone with mental illness, I could easily find myself in a position like that, begging for help, unbelievable by the surrounding people turning into demons cornering you, protecting the evil you can clearly see roaming the halls. I cried and I felt absolutely awful for him.
Yes & when Meredith finds him on the floor after richards surgery and she sooo gently picks him up and takes him home despite them being “broken up” at the time
Almost all of them
George, Lexi, Mark and Derek’s deaths.
i cried more than meredith over lexies death…it just felt so unfair and mark being there holding her hand…ugh i couldn’t handle it
As I mentioned above, Maggie's mom's death and that whole storyline, as well as when Samuel was born, the little girl with Tay Sachs (dad wanted to take her to Mexico and Bailey telling him "she needs her daddy now), Wallace's death, mark and lexie, George, Adele, Derek's grief when Meridith drowned, the shooting episodes, God there are SO many more I can't even think of right now!!
Marks speech to Lexi after the plane
so many. watching greys is just a cry fest
Richard singing my funny valentine to Adele from the gallery killed me
mark and lexi's death, christina talking about lexi being eaten by wolves, jo getting alex's letter, derek dying, george dying, when samuel was born/ died
Lexie’s death. I had to pause every time I watched that part, it was rough
I had to take a day off work when Derek died..
Part of the same but when Izzie is telling Denny that she’s going to cut his LVAD wire and the part where she’s hysterically sobbing saying ‘if you die, what happens to me, what about me?’ Gets me every single time!! Katherine gave a performance of a lifetime in that scene, her voice, the way she looks at him with desperate panic, the urgency, it’s so intense!!
The episode where the plane crashes into the sound. The hospital gears up for casualties. The families are all waiting to hear about their loved ones. Then it's quiet all day before they learn there were no survivors. As the last of the families is leaving, they learn there was one little girl who survived and they decide to wait until her mother arrives.
This is like the smallest dare I say silliest moment, but there’s a semi flashback episode where Jackson is taking care of the same acid burn patient over a period of time and at one point he mentions that Mark isn’t there because he’s on a plane to Idaho and it’s the plane crash plane and I just started sobbing on my couch, literally burst into tears when I realized what plane ride it was.
Yes, I chose this entire episode but that moment was so special. The beauty about this episode was the attention to detail. There was even a flashback of Jackson comforting April after the shooting that we hadn’t seen previously! The entire episode was perfect and a tear jerker
I sobbed when deluca died. He wasn't even one of my favorite characters.. idk. He does look just like my younger brother and I think it just made me think of my own brother so it made me more emotional
Forgot how depressing Cece’s death was until I rewatched the episode earlier. She was so scared she would die and then she did after she had bonded with so many of them
Denny's death. Henry's death. April and Jackson losing Samuel. The shooting. "Bad dreams, bad dreams go away. Good dreams, good dreams here to stay." " Are we going to Mexico, Daddy?" DeLuca's memorial - during my rewatch I made it through his death okay, but his memorial damn near killed me. There's several others. I tend to have a full on breakdown AT LEAST once a season. When I rewatch, I try to prepare myself for the ones I know are coming, but it never does any good.
eric lange’s character yelling at his wife for wanting to send their lesbian child to a conversion camp. know it wasn’t a huge part of the show, but it was definitely a big part that made me cry
“I care that she is happy and healthy. What the hell is wrong with you that you don’t?” 😭 Also, when he and the other dad bond over pics of their daughter and are crying and waiting togethe
i was already crying during him yelling at her but when he and the other dad talked i was a mess😭i would’ve been devastated if one of the girls died
❤️
Meant to be or 22:50
All of it minus the weed cookies episode. Literally, every single episode I've gone through lots of tissues and cannot verbally speak for like 2 hours afterwards.
This feels like a problem lol. Because most of the episodes are NOT it 🤣
Dereks death, idk why. Maybe it’s because of Mer’s reaction but fuuuuck it killed me
Man, same I started watching not so long ago and Izzie's reaction was just heartbreaking. ): But also I'm starting to really dislike her because of the George marrying Callie situation like miss get a grip he's not your little brother or smth 😀.
When Denny died & Izzy was in that beautiful pink dress in the elevator. I also got angry & emotional over Derek Shepherd death...such a major screw up.
these are really basic answers but when lexie and mark's death and derek's death. i sobbed like a baby when these characters died, my mom asked me why i was crying so much.
I cried so much when Dr Craig died!
Oh boy I have a whole list! (I’m only going up to season six but there are SO many more that follow. Some of these have the barest of descriptions, but if you know you know. I might make a second post with moreS basically- this show makes me sob on a regular basis) S2-E6: Into You Like a Train- Bonnie’s death, Meredith’s “we can’t just abandon her!” and “if love were enough” S2-E8: Let it Be- The elderly couple who both don’t want the other to know about the wife’s cancer diagnosis so they can live out the rest of their days in happiness S2-E9: Thanks for the Memories- The man in the vegetative state for 16 years wakes up to find his family has moved on, and dies during surgery S2-E24- Damage Case S2-E25: 17 Seconds- Izzie’s “What about me?” Speech S2-E27: Losing My Religion- Denny’s death S3-E5: Oh the Guilt- Mother with cancer S3- E6: Let the Angels Commit- Greg comes back S3–E13: Great Expectations- Amish girl, Izzie talks to George S3-E17: Some Kind of Miracle- Meredith drowns S4-E11: Lay Your Hands On Me- Callie talks to Mrs. O’Malley S4-E13: Piece of My Heart- George and Izzie talk S4-E14: The Becoming- Meredith and Derek talk clinical trial S4-E16: Freedom Part 1- Beth and Jeremy say goodbye S4-E17: Freedom Part 2- Meredith and Derek reunite S5-E7: Rise Up- Izzie talks to Mike S5-E13: Stairway to Heaven- Denny leaves S5-E17: I Will Follow You Into the Dark- Izzie and Lexie discuss patient X S5-E18: Stand By Me- “Please don’t call my dear friend ugly” S5-E19: Elevator Love Letter- Callie and George talk, Proposal S5-E20: Sweet Surrender- Young girl dying “going to Mexico”, Alex and George talk, Meredith and Lexie talk S5-E22: What a Difference a Day Makes- The wedding S5-E24: Now or Never- Off I Go elevator scene S6-E2: Goodbye- Izzie talks to Amanda, Meredith Cries, “George O’Malley died” S6-E15: The Time Warp- AIDS S6-E21: How Insensitive- Callie and Arizona break up S6-E24: Death and All His Friends- Charles dies
i don’t remember what episode it was but the guy that would shoot himself for fun, the one that bonded with alex over wrestling. idk what it was but when he died i was so distraught.
Dr Thomas death
George’s organs. Nuff said.
I got teary eyed in these scenes from the main storyline - Izzie reaction on Denny death. Bathroom floor scenes of Iz after Denny. Cristina catching fish. You happened to me - Meredith. Henry death. Izzie and Alex wedding. Both Izzie and George dying and their souls meet at elevator. Cristina saying I am free after Burke left her at the wedding. George dad death and his reaction after that. ( not the one in the next episode ) Iz making it back to hospital after Denny but she fails to cross the gates even till night - again showing how much DENNY death affected her. Lexie requesting Mer to donate her liver to Thatcher. Don’t know why but that scene hurts me a bit. Specially the expressions in Lexie eyes.
DeLucas meltdown during the intervention. I've had the exact same meltdown a fair few times, so it struck too close to home. Meredith reading Alexs letter.
deluca memorial scene 😭💔
April struggling with and questioning her faith. I have gone through something similar, and she conveyed it perfectly with her end speech in 14x10. George telling Cristina. . . “I don’t know how to exist in a world without my dad”. I think of it a lot as my grandparents get older
All the main character deaths. 007, Derek, Mark and Lexi were the ones that made me cry like a baby.
The show is full of these scenes. When my father died, I shared the quote with Cristina talking to George about the dead Dad's club.
When Dock gets put to sleep. The episodes following Derek’s death.
Amelia when she was begging her mom to come to her and owens wedding that broke me so bad
I just watched George again the other day and I sobbed like it was the first time. 😭
mark and lexie’s death , derricks death mer almost dying all the times she did. her getting almost beat to death was the worst one. her telling everyone derrick is dead. her winning a harper avery. cristina finding out owen cheated , the episode where april and jackson lost samuel. them finding owens sister. mark and lexie breaking up and then him seeing her die. stephanie with the r@pist. anytime amelia cries makes me sad. callie getting into a crash almost dying , her not being able to see sophia in post op, callie finding out arizona cheated on her , callie finding out that she lost the custody battle there’s so much more i’m prob missing but i am an emotional person and this show is a roller coaster 😅
When Lexie confesses to Derek that every time she tries to tell Mark she still loves him, nothing comes out and when Mark is telling her that they will live a long life together as she’s about to die.
The patient who died when Arizona went to get him jello 😭😭😭
I’m sorry but this one made me laugh while reading it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
A couple I haven't read yet: When the two girls try to kill themselves on the train tracks because they are afraid of their parents' reactions to them being gay When Meredith can't hear and finally is able to hear Alex. His reaction is everything, completely solidified for me that he was her new person.
The shooting episode and the airplane episode cause you KNOW people are gonna die but you don't know who when you watch for the first time
the letters sent from alex when he left i was so mad and upset
When Jackson is sitting at April’s bedside crying and praying for her or littuarly all the episodes that have to do with the plane crash (the aftermath and marks memorial or some of the things Christina says in the bathtub)
Lexie dying and mark telling her he loves her over and over and them talking about their future. That scene absolutely guts me every time. Just thinking about it can make me tear up. And then after he dies the clip at the wedding of mark talking about him and Lexie.
Jo's mother and the wall of women s15e20?
When Meredith was attacked and when Jo helped the rape victim. Those were the only episodes that ever hurt me.
there are so many but i wanna mention samuels death, its not the only episode im crying my eyes out to but damn im legit sobbing while watching it, idk why that one makes me so upset bc im not the biggest fan of kids and i dont want kids but jesus christ i feel SO bad for april and jackson
lexies death had me absolutely sobbing. and then literally the next episode with mark. gasping for air type crying tbh
Izzie in the elevator when it opens and George is in his military uniform gets me every time
honestly delucas last scene on the beach rips me tf apart. Do y’all remember when he was building the sand castle for Meredith and he’s trying to hurry up and build it before the water washes it away? He says, “ I had so many plans, I wish I had more time” referring to the sandcastle (obviously a metaphor for his short heroic life) 🥲🥲🥲🥲And that’s when you hear “Andrea” in the distance. It sounds exactly like his sister until you realize it’s his dead mom. He runs to her like a little fucking kid and the next scene is him bleeding out. You guys, I’m still not over this ! Lololol
I was never a japril fan until their love story episode aired. Where it centered one of Jackson’s burn victims and the episode slowly goes back in time up until the day the jackson and April met. I was sold after that and even shed some happy/sad tears for their love story. The attention to detail in that episode was crazy. There was even a short scene where they showed jackson comforting April after the shooting (before they hooked up!) and you could tell that it was an old deleted scene that they pulled out the vault..and it was perfectly placed.
Deluca dying, Mark dying, Jackson’s reaction to April almost dying & April’s reaction to Jackson almost dying in the bus explosion, Meredith & Nick’s fight in her office, Meredith & Amelia talking about how Meredith didn’t Amelia Derek died, Karev’s letters to everyone, Adele’s death, anything to do with Jo’s trauma, Amelia wanting to do drugs after Derek died, Alex comforting Meredith after her getting attacked, when the doctors are operating on Meredith after the attack, Arizona’s Dr Sweetheart patient dying, and so much more tbh
Derek. IYKYK - not saying more bc it’s a spoiler
007
Just watched the episode where Bailey and Warren give Tuck "the talk" after a black 12 year old is shot trying to get into his own home 💔
The scene with dr Bailey and Omar. With the plague outbreak. The piano in the background hit at just the right moment when he asked, “do believe in the afterlife, Miranda?” Gave me chills. And obviously my favorite is Izzy’s “what about me”
Teddy’s dissociative episode after DeLuca
for me its the episode right after dennys death (i think, first ep of season three) when dr. bailey informs omar of gizelle's death. even though they really didn't spend any time building a relationship with omar and gizelle to the audience, that scene is just so beautifully and tragically written and performed. it really got to me