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tear jerker

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An emotionally charged film, book, song, episode or scene meant to make the audience cry. On the TV Tropes wiki, Tear Jerker is also the name of the page type where fans list the saddest moments of a work.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""The finale's last scene is a real tear jerker: half the fandom posted about crying at it.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wiktionary defines tearjerker as an informal noun for a work with sad passages or a sad ending and gives its earliest dated citation as 1990. The TV Tropes use as a fan-curated list label comes from that wiki, founded in 2004 per Wikipedia.

FIRST SEEN

1990 (earliest dated citation on Wiktionary)

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

Ongoing

CURRENT STATUS

Legacy / Decaying Slang

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DOCUMENTED SINCE

1990 (earliest dated citation on Wiktionary)

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