Last night, too tired to read and too awake to go to bed early, I flipped through the list of stored programs on the DVR. To my pleasant surprise, I had recorded a rerun of Sex and the City, and it just happened to be the final episode. I hunkered down on the couch with a slice of leftover apple pie and hit the play button.
I was a sobbing mess for the next forty-five minutes. Never mind that I’d seen the episode four times already. Even Charlotte made me cry this time. Charlotte. And the final scene with Miranda and Magda? Don’t even get me started.
Pathetic.
When the episode ended, I pushed the Kleenex box away and decided I needed a dose of good comedy before hitting the sack. As it was just past eleven, I turned to Lifetime for The Golden Girls. It was the episode in which Blanche’s husband George shows up, having faked his death, and returns to claim her once again. Oh, and Dorothy is constantly being wooed by Sonny Bono and Lyle Wagner. At the end, Blanche wakes up and realizes the entire thing was a dream, but can still feel the lingering touch of her husband. She goes back to sleep, missing George but feeling comforted.
And I cried again.
Doubly pathetic. And not a little gay.
And we didn’t have any ice cream in the apartment, which was simply a tragedy.
Posted by mak at April 13, 2004 11:47 AMThat scene with Miranda/Magda! Oh god. I've watched the entire episode three times, and each time have to rewind that scene and watch it again.
Also, I sometimes cry at the "reveal" part of "Extreme Makeover", so I think I'm a little gayer than you. Just a little.
Posted by: Jodi at April 13, 2004 1:05 PMWow. All this story is missing is a cucumber eyemask.
Though admittedly, it would be hard to see the TV that way.
Posted by: Tin Man at April 13, 2004 1:34 PMHoney trust me, it's ok. I'm not joking when I say I cried at the end of the movie Hellboy. Who KNEW it would be a love story. THAT'S pathetic.
I was a blubbering idiot throughout the season finale of SATC.
Posted by: mark at April 13, 2004 1:40 PMWhat? Unbelievable--no ice cream?
I can't really cast aspersions about tearfests, though: I cried during Spock's death scene in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." As if William Shatner's acting weren't enough to drive one to tears.
Posted by: Jeff at April 13, 2004 1:49 PMAll you need is a little "You've Got Mail" and that would be an ideal Sunday Sobfest in my book.
Posted by: feisty girl at April 13, 2004 2:21 PMI watched SATC maybe three or four times in my life, and I didn't see the the finale either. I hope they don't revoke my gay membership.
Posted by: PatCH at April 13, 2004 2:25 PMI used to HATE SATC (*ducks to avoid objects being thrown*) but I must admit I cried at the end of the finale. Oy.
NO ICE CREAM!?!?! What is this, a work camp or something? Good man, go out and get some B & J immediately.
Oh, god - don't get me started on the Golden Girls. There was a 6 month period where I had to - no matter what - get home in time for the double re-run on Lifetime (sadly, no TiVo at my house), and I always made my boyfriend watch them with me. He nearly left me the night I forced him to also watch Rue McClanahan's "Intimate Portrait" afterward. I just recorded it instead.
Posted by: Nick at April 13, 2004 5:02 PMI've been a blubbering fool lately. I cried watching the Swan last night (and last week too). Every time they bring out the husband/ boyfriend, I lose it. After the Swan, I went to bed and started reading a book by E. Lynn Harris that a coworker of mine loaned to me. By the end of the short story I was once again not just teary-eyed, but sobbing.
I think I am having a quarter life crisis. MAK - can we cry together? You can assure K, that it is just mutual friendship crying - nothing more.
hell, as my life has it... I'd probably cry watching my peep show just because it brought back good memories.
Thank god for Eclairs.
Posted by: Jason at April 13, 2004 6:40 PMI need to come clean and admit that I've NEVER seen an episode of Sex & the City as I don't have any movie channels with my cable. However, it is about to begin having reruns shown on TBS from beginning to end so perhaps I can catch up.
Posted by: myke at April 13, 2004 7:22 PMNo ice cream maybe, but I bet there was apple pie.
We'll have to create a video montage of the Magda/Miranda scene, Xmas at Auntie Mame's, the end of The Way We Were, a dying Debra Winger telling her kids it's okay to be sad, a few Atticus/Scout scenes, and then intersperse the whole thing with clips from The Hours.
After you've been drinking a little.
Posted by: bob at April 13, 2004 7:40 PMLike PatCH I too have only seen a few episodes. It was okay, just women doing what most gay men do. I enjoyed watching it, but not enough to record it.
Posted by: Brian at April 13, 2004 8:52 PMI too have never seen Sex and the City. (bows head in shame and returns forfeited gay card.)
Posted by: The Other Brian at April 13, 2004 8:56 PMOh, nice new home. Love what you have done with it.
Posted by: Ed at April 14, 2004 8:54 AMAnother one here who has only seen a few of the Sex in The City episodes. It's ok. However, the Golden Girls episode you mentioned...I cry everytime.
Posted by: Bill at April 14, 2004 11:35 AMSATC always gets to me when a character says something that sums up exactly how I am feeling. Recently, during a really lonely time, I saw the episode when Carrie had her book release party. She said, "I'm lonely. The loneliness is palpable.." and I started to cry. It doesn't take much sometimes. (I'm feeling a lot less lonely now, though)
Posted by: hot toddy at April 14, 2004 1:42 PM"You couldn't be any gayer even if your name was 'Gay Gayerson.'"
- Rosanne
Posted by: palochi at April 14, 2004 5:22 PM