EastEnders/Tear Jerker

• Tear Jerker (Ronnie Mitchell finally finding out Danielle was her daughter and the climax of it. Dear God.)
  • Frank Butcher's funeral. Made even more poignant as the actor who played him, the lovable Mike Reid, had died. It's not just the characters crying there, it's the entire cast themselves. "Take care of yourself, Pat."
  • And many others. If the Eastenders writers, actors and crew want to bring a tear to the audience's eye, they usually succeed.
  • Billie Jackson's death. No big build up, just a party gone too far and a guy drinking himself to death. However, the episode dealing with the immediate aftermath was crushing; there were only about three lines of dialogue in the last 10 minutes as the characters tried to deal with the shock, and the tone was shockingly downbeat, even for Eastenders.
  • Ronnie again, finding the corpse of her newborn son.
  • The deaths of Bradley Branning and Wellard hit hard, seeing as their circumstances aren't really ordinary compared to many other deaths in the show.
  • When Phil discovers that Ben has accidentally killed Heather. Ben's immediate reaction is point out that this is what Phil always wanted him to be like.
  • Ethel Skinner's Death in 2000. That is all