13 Most Heart-Breaking Sitcom Moments Of All Time

10. Goodbye Apartment - Friends

Friends The Last One
NBC

For all the things it did well, Friends didn't linger too often on the more emotional beats, but the ones they did hit hard: Phoebe saying goodbye to the triplets, the break-up of Ross and Rachel, Monica and Chandler discovering they can't have kids.

It's fitting, though, that the most emotional is one involving all six of them, because it's as a group they're at their strongest. And nothing is sadder than saying goodbye.

After ten years of them being our closest TV friends, and of being the biggest show on television, it somehow managed to go out in a way that was fitting, touching, and funny, and seeing them all bid goodbye to the apartment - with the final shot on the door - full of bittersweetness.

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