10 Unexpected Sitcom Scenes That Made Us Bawl Our Eyes Out
The greatest trick comedy ever pulled was breaking our hearts.
If you watch a moving episode of a drama, it's usually fairly easy to deal with; writers tend to build up to these things, signpost the tragedy along the way, and then watch you turn into a wreck come the credits. Sitcoms have different rules when it comes to crying though; they catch you off-guard because they're simply not there to make you cry and the result is often increased because of that. They over-riding agenda, of course is to do the opposite, obviously. And bearing in mind that, a lot of the time, there's not all that much difference between the poignant and the completely ridiculous, it can be difficult to guess when writers are going to pull out a tearjerker. But which are the most devastatingly sad moments of sitcom history? To answer that particular query, we've put together ten scenes that reduced us to quivering, crying messes, and which crucially, we didn't even see coming...