*sniff*
In general - it's stuff on tellee. I have no soul, but I reckon I'm not alone. Anyway, top two:

That advert where dogs are running around happy and carefree with a narrator saying "This is Toto, he's a happy little dog" etc, only for it to cut to a shot of the same mutt, in the rain, sat in an alley next to a skip while we're told how Toto's former owner attached jumpleads to the dog's nads and used him as bait when shark fishing. Welling up just thinking about it.

But the all time killer? The Snowman by Raymond Briggs. Every Christmas it gets shown, and regular as clockwork, right at the end the poor little ginger sod (who obviously doesn't have any friends, seeing as he's stuck out in the middle of nowhere with just his rather elderly parents) stumbles out on Christmas morning into the garden looking for his magical new best mate, only to find a mound of melted snow, some coal, a hat and a carrot. He looks in his pocket, finds a scarf, that fucking song starts up and I'm bawling like a Tsunami survivor... am I allowed to say that?
(scoppie, Thu 14 Apr 2005, 21:21, Reply)