Live-Action TV/Heartwarming: Difference between revisions

Sometimes the stuff on the small screen can be incredibly moving. Some examples...

 

* [[Babylon 5/Heartwarming|Babylon 5]]

* [[Barney and Friends/Heartwarming|Barney and Friends]]

* [[Being Human (UK)/Heartwarming|Being Human]]

* [[The Big Bang Theory/Heartwarming|The Big Bang Theory]]

* [[Family Matters/Heartwarming|Family Matters]]

* [[Farscape/Heartwarming|Farscape]]

* [[The Finder/Heartwarming|The Finder]]

* [[Fraggle Rock/Heartwarming|Fraggle Rock]]

* [[Hogan's Heroes/Heartwarming|Hogan's Heroes]]

* [[Home Improvement (TV series)/Heartwarming|Home Improvement]]

* [[Horrible Histories (TV series)/Heartwarming|Horrible Histories]]

* [[House (TV series)/Heartwarming|House]]

* [[Pan Am/Heartwarming|Pan Am]]

* [[Pawn Stars/Heartwarming|Pawn Stars]]

* [[Penn & Teller/Heartwarming|Penn & Teller: Fool Us]]

* [[Person of Interest/Heartwarming|Person of Interest]]

** [[Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger/Heartwarming|Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger]]

* [[Survivor (TV series)/Heartwarming|Survivor]]

* [[Taxi/Heartwarming|Taxi]]

* [[Terra Nova/Heartwarming|Terra Nova]]

{{quote|'''Pullo''': ''Thirteen! Thirteen!''

''[[[Dramatic Pause]]]''

 

 

* ''[[Sex and the City]]'' has quite a few. Charlotte and Harry's interactions seem to be almost made of this, as is anytime Miranda displays that she does in fact have a heart (particularly when she rescues Steve's mother and cleans her off afterward), but the best may be when, in the series finale, Smith comes back from a movie shoot simply to tell Samantha he loves her. Her response: "You have meant more to me than any man I've ever known." Which, for her, is saying something.

 

* The end of the episode ''Wind-Up Penguin'' of ''[[Wonderfalls]]'', where Jaye discovers that the totems command to "Bring her back to him!" not only meant restoring the Nun's faith, but {{spoiler|reuniting the priest with his estranged wife and daughter}}.

 

* The final episode of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' spinoff ''[[K9]]'' features {{spoiler|the Professor finally defeating his agoraphobia}}. When he records a message in case he doesn't succeed in saving his friends, he has this to say:

{{quote|This is Professor Alistair Gryffen. My friends are in terrible danger, I am unable to contact a single one. I believe I am their only hope of survival, and perhaps that of the entire Human Race. Me; an agoraphobic, reclusive shut-in. So if you're watching this, it means that I didn't just sit here in this house, doing nothing as I have done for so long. It means that Alistair Gryffen has finally stood up and did something. Today, I don't just sit where I am, at the bottom and there's nowhere to go but up, (out loud) AND OUT!}}

** The Report and ''[[The Daily Show]]'', between them, have quite a few Crowning Moments of Heartwarming. A few that come to mind: The first time Steve Carell came back as a guest; Colbert's combination civil-rights episode and tribute to his striking writers and his own father; the "Moment of Ben" when Ben Karlin left TDS (it was a waterskiing squirrel, if I recall correctly); the recent standing-ovation toss when Colbert came back from Iraq; and Stewart's response the day after Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner ("We've never been prouder of our Mr. Colbert, and, uh... holy shit.")

* ''[[Space Cases]]''

* From the 1998 Merlin miniseries there were several, including the very end, in which {{spoiler|an old Merlin and an old Nimue meet again after years of believing they would never see each other again; at which point Merlin uses the last of the magic in the world to restore the pair of them to the state they were in when they had last met.}}

* The ''[[Fringe]]'' episode ''The Equation'' showed a strong heartwarming dynamic develop between Peter and Walter as we got to see Peter actually care about his father for the first time on the show. Walter speaks about his old friend talking to him like a loon in the mental institution and then asks Peter, "Is that what it's like talking to me?" It almost made this troper's heart break!

* The final scene of the pilot episode of "New Girl" where the guys start singing The Time of My Life to cheer Jess up.

 

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