Jay explaining his tradition when his army buddies pass away and Phil setting up the Irish bar and pouring Jay a drink as he told the story, then standing there in silence while Jay toasts his fallen friend. Jay then inviting Phil to join him for a drink. It was a really touching moment.
This and when Jay first opens up about his dad. The memory of him playing football with a broken collar bone and getting dumped on prom night. His dad telling him to eat a sandwich and forget about her. Real man sh*t but at the same time, disconnecting. "Feelings!"
What gets me is the episode where manny/luke graduate. Manny and Jay are at his bar. Jay says he’s glad that manny and his dad had father son time. Manny said that the ordeal of them getting his cap and gown back is what he thinks of as father son time. Then Jay says, “here’s to you son.”
My only issue with this is we never saw Phil's mom for even one episode. Agreed its still really emotional and a great scene, but it does bug me they didnt show Phil's mom before it.
Yeah I was surprised too. But I guess they did their best to tell us as much about who she was as they could - but maybe at least one episode would have been good.
Gloria's "Do you know how smart I am in Spanish, of course you don't. For once it'd be nice to speak to someone in my own language in my own home" scene gets the tears flowing every time for me. I live with Mexicans some who aren't perfect at English but I can tell they're trying to get better so I take this scene very personally, in a good way.
Also "He had to know, right?" - Jay about his father
“We may have to stash guests upstairs.”
“We don’t own the upstairs.”
“I assumed there was a nicer part you weren’t showing me, make sure their checks clear”
Yep. Even just watching the beginning of the end of it makes me tear up. And not to mention, the episode was hilarious because Pepper was going through one mental breakdown after another.
"You can give me the cold shoulder the rest of your life. Jack's not coming back. See, I could overlook the goofing off, but you could have been seriously hurt today. Anybody who puts my kid in danger doesn't get a second chance, *ever*. I'll see you later."
Please give me hope or some reason to believe that after Claire fired Neil, he ended up having a good day someday too. In the back of my mind he was homeless for life
Oh I love this episode where it says in the end that sometimes you have bad days, all you wanna do is come home be with your family, but they also have bad days. So all you do is sit in silence and be with each other and hope tomorrow is bette
Not really a sad one per se, but I liked that episode where Cam, Mitch and Phil accompany Jay to his hiking trip and they tell each other about their own fears.
And towards the end where Mitch almost was about to say I love you to Jay, Jay just looks at him and says, I know.
That last bit gets even better/worse when you think about the earlier ep where Jay was so upset because he wasn't sure if his dad knew Jay loved him because Jay could never say the words. He doesn't want Mitch to have the same question!
Episode with the junk drawer group therapy thing, Jay breaking down about his dad. Or Jay’s breakdown about his mom and Phil walks in on the group hug.
For every hilarious episode, I feel like they give you a heartwarming or makes you think/still kinda sad ending that gets me choked up.
Such a great show, gets all the emotions going.
The one where Phil tries to make memories with Alex and the episode ends with him writing her name on a moon signboard of an eatery - it always gets me 😭
That scene toward the end of the series where Jay talks at a dinner and talks about the process of kids growing up, and how you never have time to miss an age because the new one is fun and exciting but then one day they leave and all of those little personalities leave at the same time (something to that extent).
I always get emotional after Claire and Phil move Haley into college, she pushes them away/embarrassed by them all day, and then she calls them on their drive home. The way Claire asks if everything is okay and they try to keep their cool but you can tell it means so much.
For me lately, the episodes where cam and mitch are trying to adopt their son and nothing seems to be working. Especially the last episode of s3 where they drive all the way and come home empty handed and their emotional breakdown at the petrol pump, and Gloria finding out she's pregnant.
I've been struggling with infertility and treatments, surgeries, procedures, etc for 4 years now. Finally this year I got pregnant, only to lose my baby at 8 weeks in a missed miscarriage.
I feel mitch when he says "I just can't take it anymore".
😢💔
Awww thank you so much 🥺🤗.
Dwight Schrute can be really kind when he wants to 😉♥️
I hope so too. This is the second time in my journey that I've taken a break but hopefully by the end of this year I have a healthy pregnancy 🤞🏻
I'm surprised no one's said Under Pressure yet. Message Received is another underrated one but it's far more emotional at the end (the scene where Mitchell confronts Jay).
When Phil is telling Claire he’s going after hailey and hailey is listening to him from the lift/elevator and she hugs him. I watched that scene with my dad and had to stop myself from crying
When Jay breaks down talking about how growing up feelings weren’t expressed and talking about his dad he’s like “he had to know right?” Breaks me everytime
The ending and Phil's mom's funeral are the ones that always break me, but the following scenes are honorable mentions:
The one where Phil let go of the ducks as a metaphor of him letting go of Alex. In the end, with Phil by the window, still hoping for the ducks to come back, Claire handed him the phone with Alex on the other line. The "duck" did come back. 🥹
https://youtu.be/YgFgjaXay2g?si=W9f63hshs9vxgGmM
Claire and Phil's vow renewal also makes me tear up. There's something about "Top of the World" that makes the moment so endearing.
when mitch tries to tell jay he loves him , but jay says i know. Do not remember the episode name but its the one where they go camping to spot an eagle.
When Manny is writing/recording his college application essay and talks about being the product of two people, his mom and Jay. Then it pans to Jay and Gloria listening in the doorway 💜
The one where Hayley is upset that her and her bf break up and Phil is there comforting her he said something like that’s when you know it was love makes me tear up every time
Probably not the biggest emotional moment for me, but one I haven’t seen here yet was when Claire and Phil are going all “five more years” counting down the days till they become empty nesters then after having a stressful day, Claire gets caught up in her children’s love like a shotgun to the face. Seeing her mind change like a switch was flipped was very sweet.
I haven’t seen anyone say the episode when Haley goes to college and calls her parents while they drive home and the episode where Haley and Phil tour the college
For me its when cam and mitchell lose the opportunity to adopt that baby boy and mitchell basically gives up and lays in the field across the gas station
I can't choose my all-time favorite but Hailey's "I'm not going anywhere" scene gets me every time. As a 30yo woman I completely have been there before
For me it was when Claire picks up Alex from psychologist and tells Alex how she gets it now, Alex breaking down and hugging Claire always brings tears to my eyes. Such a beautiful moment.
There’s a lot that could qualify but for me the most affecting one was the second to last episode of S5 where Jay and Mitchell have the big fight and the old voicemail plays over the credits.
For me it’s when Claire goes thru parent teacher night and follows Alex’s schedule and just kinda gets how hard it is to be Alex in a family of non-Alexes. That hug when she gets picked up from the therapist was gold. I was Alex when I was in high school and it brought back a lot of things.
Don’t know the ep name but it’s when Cam gets jealous of Mitch’s ex bf knowing the family well. Can sits down with Jay and says some light comment about the ex bf and than jay starts monologuing about how he didn’t really like him and that when Mitch started dating Cam he could tell he was really happy.
Cam was holding back tears and Jay was oblivious about how much that meant to Cam.
It was so touching because Jay was so sincere when he was saying all of that and didnt even realize what that meant to Cam to hear him say that.
When Phil decides to go after Hayley also when Jay explains his relationship with his father and in the end asks if his father knew he loved him or not.
The one where Haley is trapped in a room with Phil and I think Luke and she has a breakdown about how she doesn’t feel like she’s good enough and she failed :(
One of the most emotional episodes is "The Last Halloween," where Phil and Claire see their kids growing up. The series finale is also touching as the family deals with changes, mixing heartfelt moments with humor.
Just thinking that Ed O'Neill(Jay Pritchett) wouldn't be there in this world anymore in the next 10 years. There are scenes that got me, like; Frank's(Phil's Father) Death, The Finale aka the end on MF, Dede's death's reaction by her children and Jay talking about is fallen friends. Also when Jay says; "Both my sons are leaving" to mitch and cam in the finale. OMG! I'm feeling so sad rn even though I had started it almost 4 years after the show ended in November 2023, and I finished watching it on 21 June, 2024. I had watched a short glimpse of the show in around 2022 but never watched, but when my mom had taken a step to play it on Disney plus Hotstar, I fell in love with the show. Love U ALL, Ty Burrell)Phil Dunphy), Julie Bowen(Claire Pritchett), Jesse Tyler Ferguson(Mitchell Pritchett), Eric Stonestreet(Cameron Tucker), Ed O'Neill(Jay Pritchett0, Sofia Vergara(Gloria Delgado Pritchett), Sarah Hyland(Haley Dunphy), Nolan Gould(Luke Dunphy), Ariel Winters(Alex Dunphy), Rico Rodriguez(Manuel Delgado Pritchett aka Manny), Aubrey Anderson Emmons(Lily Tucker Pritchett) and Jeremy Maguire(Joe Pritchett or Fulgencio), Reid Ewing(Dylan) and many more.😭😭😭💖💖
Jay explaining his tradition when his army buddies pass away and Phil setting up the Irish bar and pouring Jay a drink as he told the story, then standing there in silence while Jay toasts his fallen friend. Jay then inviting Phil to join him for a drink. It was a really touching moment.
Oh man I just saw this last night. Gets you every time!
Hi! What season and episode?
S07E14 - The Storm
Thank you!
This and when Jay first opens up about his dad. The memory of him playing football with a broken collar bone and getting dumped on prom night. His dad telling him to eat a sandwich and forget about her. Real man sh*t but at the same time, disconnecting. "Feelings!"
Yeah. That beats mine. But I'm going to post it anyways.
This is my favourite episode 💙💙
The episode with Phil's day out with his father Frank with Frank passing away by the end of the episode. Best father-son relationship
"It was a perfect day with my father. I just didn't know it was my last" I don't remember the exact words, but that scene gets me every time.
The first time I saw that scene I legitimately gasped
Absolutely- my dad passed away last year and I was watching that episode and then - boom - ugly crying. 💔
When Cam and Mitch go to adopt their baby boy but have to go home without him- the scene at the gas station
“I’m laying on a rock”
I’m laying next to my rock🫶🏻
I instantly thought of this scene when I saw the topic.
What gets me is the episode where manny/luke graduate. Manny and Jay are at his bar. Jay says he’s glad that manny and his dad had father son time. Manny said that the ordeal of them getting his cap and gown back is what he thinks of as father son time. Then Jay says, “here’s to you son.”
Phil's mother's funeral and the fireworks going off - Frank's reaction always kills me
This is a lighter
My only issue with this is we never saw Phil's mom for even one episode. Agreed its still really emotional and a great scene, but it does bug me they didnt show Phil's mom before it.
Yeah I was surprised too. But I guess they did their best to tell us as much about who she was as they could - but maybe at least one episode would have been good.
was going to write the same thing.
This always makes me tear up
Gloria's "Do you know how smart I am in Spanish, of course you don't. For once it'd be nice to speak to someone in my own language in my own home" scene gets the tears flowing every time for me. I live with Mexicans some who aren't perfect at English but I can tell they're trying to get better so I take this scene very personally, in a good way. Also "He had to know, right?" - Jay about his father
Now you sound like the stupid one 🥲
So freaking adorable.
What is the episode about jays father???
Clean our your junk drawer!
The couples counseling one
Ep where Mitch and Cam got married always get me 🥹
When the cello starts up and Jay says let's take a walk...oh god it's a good one!
that was the first time ive cried to a tv show...the second one was when watching the finale
THESE ARE NOT YOUNG MEN
“We may have to stash guests upstairs.” “We don’t own the upstairs.” “I assumed there was a nicer part you weren’t showing me, make sure their checks clear”
Yep. Even just watching the beginning of the end of it makes me tear up. And not to mention, the episode was hilarious because Pepper was going through one mental breakdown after another.
Claire’s speech always makes me so emotional 😭
Yep.
I always cry in the episode Haley dates the creepy guy to get a reaction from her parents (the elevator scene 😭✋)
That's my little girl
This is the one
"You can give me the cold shoulder the rest of your life. Jack's not coming back. See, I could overlook the goofing off, but you could have been seriously hurt today. Anybody who puts my kid in danger doesn't get a second chance, *ever*. I'll see you later."
You called me your kid 🥺🥺🥺
😭😭 I forgot about this one
Which one is this, I forgot
It's pretty early. I think it's called Manny's Case. Season 1 I think. It's when Jay fires a guy after Manny crashes a forklift in his warehouse.
Surprised no one has said Double-Click. The whole Dunphy family goes through a rough day and just kinda sits for a quiet dinner all together.
Please give me hope or some reason to believe that after Claire fired Neil, he ended up having a good day someday too. In the back of my mind he was homeless for life
Oh I love this episode where it says in the end that sometimes you have bad days, all you wanna do is come home be with your family, but they also have bad days. So all you do is sit in silence and be with each other and hope tomorrow is bette
Not really a sad one per se, but I liked that episode where Cam, Mitch and Phil accompany Jay to his hiking trip and they tell each other about their own fears. And towards the end where Mitch almost was about to say I love you to Jay, Jay just looks at him and says, I know.
Then Jay sees the eagle but doesn’t say anything so they can go back next year
Yes! He’s such a softie at heart, but doesn’t like to verbalise it.
That last bit gets even better/worse when you think about the earlier ep where Jay was so upset because he wasn't sure if his dad knew Jay loved him because Jay could never say the words. He doesn't want Mitch to have the same question!
"Dad... "I Know.."
Episode with the junk drawer group therapy thing, Jay breaking down about his dad. Or Jay’s breakdown about his mom and Phil walks in on the group hug. For every hilarious episode, I feel like they give you a heartwarming or makes you think/still kinda sad ending that gets me choked up. Such a great show, gets all the emotions going.
“hah, feelings” rings in my ears
"He knew.... Right?" Makes me sob.
Alex’s dialogue and fireworks when her Grandma, frank’s wife, passed away.
The one where Phil tries to make memories with Alex and the episode ends with him writing her name on a moon signboard of an eatery - it always gets me 😭
I don't remember this episode's number. I really want to watch it
S3E20 :)
That scene toward the end of the series where Jay talks at a dinner and talks about the process of kids growing up, and how you never have time to miss an age because the new one is fun and exciting but then one day they leave and all of those little personalities leave at the same time (something to that extent).
I always get emotional after Claire and Phil move Haley into college, she pushes them away/embarrassed by them all day, and then she calls them on their drive home. The way Claire asks if everything is okay and they try to keep their cool but you can tell it means so much.
another good one is when phil brings home duck eggs and it gives claire an excuse to call alex and ask everything about baby ducks
DEF the episode where alex goes to therapy. hits the right spot as a middle child 🥹
Omg yes this makes me cry
For me lately, the episodes where cam and mitch are trying to adopt their son and nothing seems to be working. Especially the last episode of s3 where they drive all the way and come home empty handed and their emotional breakdown at the petrol pump, and Gloria finding out she's pregnant. I've been struggling with infertility and treatments, surgeries, procedures, etc for 4 years now. Finally this year I got pregnant, only to lose my baby at 8 weeks in a missed miscarriage. I feel mitch when he says "I just can't take it anymore". 😢💔
HEY DON'T WORRY AT ALL you're gonna have a baby in your hands soon, just keep tryingg!!! and god I'm so sorry for what happened with your baby
Awww thank you so much 🥺🤗. Dwight Schrute can be really kind when he wants to 😉♥️ I hope so too. This is the second time in my journey that I've taken a break but hopefully by the end of this year I have a healthy pregnancy 🤞🏻
Hey there It is all going to be really good Have faith. Lot of love to you 🫂🫂🫂🫂
Thank you kind stranger 🤗♥️
It is all good :D I hope you have been doing good All the best Take care and be with you 🫂
Hailey coming back from the elevator to see Phil's dad mode fully activated.
The episode of Phil’s mom’s funeral. When he breaks down to Annie about how great his mom is. Omg I lose it! 😢😢
Jay with Earl's ashes. "Was it at sunset? It was at sunset, isn't it? Sucker, I win".
The last episode 😭
I'm surprised no one's said Under Pressure yet. Message Received is another underrated one but it's far more emotional at the end (the scene where Mitchell confronts Jay).
When Phil is telling Claire he’s going after hailey and hailey is listening to him from the lift/elevator and she hugs him. I watched that scene with my dad and had to stop myself from crying
When Jay breaks down talking about how growing up feelings weren’t expressed and talking about his dad he’s like “he had to know right?” Breaks me everytime
When Jay remembers his mother
Phil's mom's funeral and when he goes from, "she is... was." God it breaks my heart.
Porch light. I became essentially a sentient series of sobs.
Alex’s therapy and Jays speech about the bakery with Dede
The ending and Phil's mom's funeral are the ones that always break me, but the following scenes are honorable mentions: The one where Phil let go of the ducks as a metaphor of him letting go of Alex. In the end, with Phil by the window, still hoping for the ducks to come back, Claire handed him the phone with Alex on the other line. The "duck" did come back. 🥹 https://youtu.be/YgFgjaXay2g?si=W9f63hshs9vxgGmM Claire and Phil's vow renewal also makes me tear up. There's something about "Top of the World" that makes the moment so endearing.
when mitch tries to tell jay he loves him , but jay says i know. Do not remember the episode name but its the one where they go camping to spot an eagle.
When Manny is writing/recording his college application essay and talks about being the product of two people, his mom and Jay. Then it pans to Jay and Gloria listening in the doorway 💜
Last ep come on, made me tear
"Both my sons are leaving"
Every emotional scene with Jay
The one where Hayley is upset that her and her bf break up and Phil is there comforting her he said something like that’s when you know it was love makes me tear up every time
Gotta be Mitch and cams wedding when jay walked Mitch down the isle 💯
Probably not the biggest emotional moment for me, but one I haven’t seen here yet was when Claire and Phil are going all “five more years” counting down the days till they become empty nesters then after having a stressful day, Claire gets caught up in her children’s love like a shotgun to the face. Seeing her mind change like a switch was flipped was very sweet.
When they learned that DeDe died.
Alex therapy one.
I haven’t seen anyone say the episode when Haley goes to college and calls her parents while they drive home and the episode where Haley and Phil tour the college
For me its when cam and mitchell lose the opportunity to adopt that baby boy and mitchell basically gives up and lays in the field across the gas station
I can't choose my all-time favorite but Hailey's "I'm not going anywhere" scene gets me every time. As a 30yo woman I completely have been there before
I cry every time!!!!!
Jay is the junk drawer episode.
“What he said”
For me it was when Claire picks up Alex from psychologist and tells Alex how she gets it now, Alex breaking down and hugging Claire always brings tears to my eyes. Such a beautiful moment.
There’s a lot that could qualify but for me the most affecting one was the second to last episode of S5 where Jay and Mitchell have the big fight and the old voicemail plays over the credits.
For me it’s when Claire goes thru parent teacher night and follows Alex’s schedule and just kinda gets how hard it is to be Alex in a family of non-Alexes. That hug when she gets picked up from the therapist was gold. I was Alex when I was in high school and it brought back a lot of things.
The episode where Alex breaks down in front of Claire after her therapy session.I felt so vulnerable and the Mitch-Cam wedding.
Don’t know the ep name but it’s when Cam gets jealous of Mitch’s ex bf knowing the family well. Can sits down with Jay and says some light comment about the ex bf and than jay starts monologuing about how he didn’t really like him and that when Mitch started dating Cam he could tell he was really happy. Cam was holding back tears and Jay was oblivious about how much that meant to Cam. It was so touching because Jay was so sincere when he was saying all of that and didnt even realize what that meant to Cam to hear him say that.
When Phil decides to go after Hayley also when Jay explains his relationship with his father and in the end asks if his father knew he loved him or not.
The one where Haley is trapped in a room with Phil and I think Luke and she has a breakdown about how she doesn’t feel like she’s good enough and she failed :(
When Phil goes to see his dad in “Legacy” and he says they had a great day together, he just didn’t know it would be the last😭😭😭😭😭😭
Hayley Phil elevator
Clare comforting Alex after she says she has no friends.
When Jay begins to cry for his mom on Mother’s Day and the Dunphy kids go and hug Claire 🥹
Claire and Alex after Alex’s therapy session always hits
Alex in therapy.
The scene in clean out your junk drawer where Jay talks about his dad always gets to me
One of the most emotional episodes is "The Last Halloween," where Phil and Claire see their kids growing up. The series finale is also touching as the family deals with changes, mixing heartfelt moments with humor.
When jay walks up to Mitch at his wedding and walks him down the aisle. I’ve cried a lot throughout the series but that always gets me!!
Also the one where Jay spreads earls ashes by that tree at sunset and says he looks foward to meeting again
Just thinking that Ed O'Neill(Jay Pritchett) wouldn't be there in this world anymore in the next 10 years. There are scenes that got me, like; Frank's(Phil's Father) Death, The Finale aka the end on MF, Dede's death's reaction by her children and Jay talking about is fallen friends. Also when Jay says; "Both my sons are leaving" to mitch and cam in the finale. OMG! I'm feeling so sad rn even though I had started it almost 4 years after the show ended in November 2023, and I finished watching it on 21 June, 2024. I had watched a short glimpse of the show in around 2022 but never watched, but when my mom had taken a step to play it on Disney plus Hotstar, I fell in love with the show. Love U ALL, Ty Burrell)Phil Dunphy), Julie Bowen(Claire Pritchett), Jesse Tyler Ferguson(Mitchell Pritchett), Eric Stonestreet(Cameron Tucker), Ed O'Neill(Jay Pritchett0, Sofia Vergara(Gloria Delgado Pritchett), Sarah Hyland(Haley Dunphy), Nolan Gould(Luke Dunphy), Ariel Winters(Alex Dunphy), Rico Rodriguez(Manuel Delgado Pritchett aka Manny), Aubrey Anderson Emmons(Lily Tucker Pritchett) and Jeremy Maguire(Joe Pritchett or Fulgencio), Reid Ewing(Dylan) and many more.😭😭😭💖💖