Daniel Stern's (Narrator) dialogue at the end of the final episode always makes me tear up,but recently it just made me really cry,for the first time ever.I think its because i am older,and can really identify now with what the narrator says.
I also cry when the narrator says that Jack Arnold died.It was only 2 years later,and i always felt like Jack was one of those 'unsung heroes',he was a good man but didn't get the respect he deserved alot of the time.

I also get misty eyes from 'Goodbye',because i just hate death and can always put myself in the character's shoes,although i am not experiencing it myself.

Were there any Wonder Years episodes that made you cry?

I never cried per se, but that scene gets to me too. I really liked Jack's character. Maybe if he died 10 years later, it might not have had the exact same effect. I mean Kevin would be around 20 when his pop died. That is a tough thing to deal with, and left Kevin's mom a widow at a relatively young age.

Sad indeed.

Since Jack died 2 years later you can bet that there won't be any Wonder Year runions. If there was it wouldn't be the same Jack the character(the guy who played him Dana) made that character so much better in my opinion.

Hopefully the put Wonder Years on DVD soon. We all know it won't be because of all music that was played on the series.

Yeah, yeah, guys aren't supposed to admit, but what the hell...

Definitely the Mr. Collins ep. The song played and the cinematography in the final shot were excellent.

When Kevin says I love you on the roof. After all they'd been through, coupled with "We've Got Tonight", great television.

Not tears, but feel slugged in the gut after the Natural History Museum ep, "Kevin....I've met someone". We've all been there, haven't we? Wow, powerful emotion on Fred's face as Winnie gets on the bus.

Same feeling at the end of part 1 of "Independence Day". Seeing the chick you love kissing another guy.....oooh, oww, ohhh man. (Where's the damn kleenex!)

Not tears, but feel slugged in the gut after the Natural History Museum ep, "Kevin....I've met someone". We've all been there, haven't we? Wow, powerful emotion on Fred's face as Winnie gets on the bus.

I thought Fred was a superb little actor.He had such expression in those big eyes. ;) And for his age,he was terrific.

I never really cried, but the close i have ever gotten would have to be in the episode "the Accident". Even though winnie keeps pushing Kevin away, Kevin won't let her go. In the end, when winnie is in her bed, Kevin comes to her window and "I Love You's" are exchanged. Always gets you choked up!

"the Accident". Even though winnie keeps pushing Kevin away, Kevin won't let her go. In the end, when winnie is in her bed, Kevin comes to her window and "I Love You's" are exchanged. Always gets you choked up!


I was amazed by Kevin in that episode.Winnie was being quite a little bitch to him,and he kept going back to her like a moth to a flame-a very stupid moth! ;)

Yeah, yeah, guys aren't supposed to admit, but what the hell...

Definitely the Mr. Collins ep. The song played and the cinematography in the final shot were excellent.

When Kevin says I love you on the roof. After all they'd been through, coupled with "We've Got Tonight", great television.

Not tears, but feel slugged in the gut after the Natural History Museum ep, "Kevin....I've met someone". We've all been there, haven't we? Wow, powerful emotion on Fred's face as Winnie gets on the bus.

Same feeling at the end of part 1 of "Independence Day". Seeing the chick you love kissing another guy.....oooh, oww, ohhh man. (Where's the damn kleenex!)


Yup - bawled like a baby at the Mr. Collins episode! And the final one of course.

What a great series - it was like watching my childhood all over again. And the best part was that they always stayed true to the props and clothing styles. That 70's show seemed to start out that way, but they've let things slide (hairstyles, etc.). The Wonder Years was done perfectly!

Yep,Cheers to the Wonder Years!

The following episodes have made me cry:

#37 "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" (the scene at the end where Kevin and Winnie reunite with "You're All I Need To Get By" by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell playing in the background was touching)

#57-58 "Heart Break/Denial" ("Kevin ... I've ... met someone!" pretty much sums it all up)

#75 "Triangle" (Wayne, Sandy Tyler, and "I Got You Babe" by Sonny and Cher; I don't know what it was, but I thought about this episode a great deal while crying :crying: after waking up sick many moons ago)

#83 "Private Butthead" (that moment with Jack and Wayne at the end after Wayne announced he had failed his physical was very moving)

but for some reason the pilot scene, the very first minute or so, with flashbacks to film clips of what was going on in america, then the Byrds TURN TURN TURN plays and we are suddenly on the Arnold's block and it goes from black and white to color, and BOOM! we are back in 1968 and meeting Kevin, Wayne, Paul and Winnie for the first time during the football game ... Damn, Im a sucker for that--prob watched it 20xs ... :):):)

God, never has a show touched me as much as the Wonder Years has....I wasn't born in the 60's/70's or anything, but the nostalgia touches me beyond belief- the trials and tribulations of a young boy growing up in suburbia....such a simple theme but one that EVERYONE can relate to, boy or girl. This show is, by far, the best thing to come out of the late 80's/90's.


Some moments where I can recall being choked up:

* When Kevin realizes the crap his dad goes through at the office and, in turn, has more respect for his Dad. It's just such a powerful moment. I am getting choked up now just thinking about it.

* When Kevin gets his heart broken at the museum.

* When Mrs. Arnold becomes a secretary at Kevin's school and realizes her son doesn't need her in every aspect of his life.

* The infamous "Goodbye" episode.

* The final episode :( SOOOO sad :crying:

This show is so great...will it EVER be released on DVD? I know the music rights are a big issue but I bet it'd have a great demand and would sell a lot.

The last episode defenitley made me feel awful. I remember being so sad at the fact that this show that I had watched every week for 5 years would now be gone. I remember there was a preview of this episode and then at the end of the preview Fred Savage's voice said. "Two weeks from tonight, the Final episode of The Wonder Years" It was the saddest day of my life.
:( :( :(

Its just really sad when a show ends.Maybe its patheitc or something but when a tv show I have watched religiously finally ends,I feel like I've lost a part of me.;)

The Wonder Years could always make me cry!

I bawled during the series finale!!! :( :( :(

Its just really sad when a show ends.Maybe its patheitc or something but when a tv show I have watched religiously finally ends,I feel like I've lost a part of me.;)


I feel the same way.

The one episode that gets me is where the Arnolds find out that Winnie's older brother was killed in action.

The one episode that gets me is where the Arnolds find out that Winnie's older brother was killed in action.


That's also a very sad one!

Also, the one where Wayne's friend comes back from the war completely changed, and you find him standing there alone at the football game.

Yes the one where Wayne's friend Ward comes back and they find him in his underwear, so Wayne gets into his underwear. That is a good one also.

Also where Mr. Collins the math teacher dies is a good one also.

The whole feel of the show made me emotional, because it was a recount of previous events, and for me, looking back at the past is sad.

I cried in the final episode. Endings, and goodbyes, they always get me ;)

The end made me cry too :( Hate depressing show endings!

I cried in the final episode where they say Jack died.
I also cried in the first episode where they tell us Winnie's Brother was killed in Vietnam.

I was amazed by Kevin in that episode.Winnie was being quite a little bitch to him,and he kept going back to her like a moth to a flame-a very stupid moth! ;)


Ahahaha, yeah, but I can definetly relate to that; he was CRAZZZY about the girl, and people who are that obsessed with someone aren't going away too easy.. ;)

I found the final really sad; I was crying because its the end, and also because it just made me stop and realize how fast childhood does go... and the daniel stern narration is quite deep, i thought. But i loved it; "Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next you're gone. But memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul".

Its funny, I still get goosebumps.

Oh yes, and the sad thing is iim a guy.That show hit home for me in so many ways.I lived in that house, in that yard, in that neighborhood..........I saw thing thru Kevins eyes, because I was there.....They were very true to the times......I remember the 1st Moon Shot, and the Vacation ep, could have been written about me.........

Growing up happens in a heartbeat.
One day you're in diapers; next day you're gone.
But the memories of childhood stay with you
For the long haul.
I remember a place...a town...a house
like a lot of other houses...
A yard like a lot of other yards...
On a street like a lot of other streets.
And the thing is...After all these years,
I still look back...with WONDER.
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Karen and Michael fighting and him standing on the lawn in the rain and the wedding and moving to Alaska the tears poured. Felt bad for mom and dad losing their daughter.:(

The last episode gets me but the episode where Kevin plays on the baseball team managed by an old war buddy of Jack's...the end where Kevin "hits a home run" and the narration says: "If dreams and memories sometimes get confused...well, that's as it should be." Well said. That's the way childhood memories should be.

I cried at the last episode like a baby. I felt a real sense of loss when they said Jack died. But I think that's what a great TV show does, it makes you care so much for the characters you've gotten to know over the years.

I cried at the last episode like a baby. I felt a real sense of loss when they said Jack died. But I think that's what a great TV show does, it makes you care so much for the characters you've gotten to know over the years.
Yeh, when it said that Jack died it was very sad. Other than that it seemed that everyone did ok:(

I was really sad when both Jack and Mr Collins died, it always gets me when they show that black and white picture of Mr. Collins in the ending and the song goes "goodbye my friend." :(

I never really cried, but the close i have ever gotten would have to be in the episode "the Accident". Even though winnie keeps pushing Kevin away, Kevin won't let her go. In the end, when winnie is in her bed, Kevin comes to her window and "I Love You's" are exchanged. Always gets you choked up!


this is exactly the scene i was going to say i have seldom been so touched as this scene.
when she sees him looking in and smiles at him and weve got tonight is playing i just start bawling.

Growing up happens in a heartbeat.
One day you're in diapers; next day you're gone.
But the memories of childhood stay with you
For the long haul.
I remember a place...a town...a house
like a lot of other houses...
A yard like a lot of other yards...
On a street like a lot of other streets.
And the thing is...After all these years,
I still look back...with WONDER.


That made me cry, what a great ending.
There certainly weren't alot of episodes that had me in tears, but the ending set me off. As someone already said, it makes you think about your own childhood and what it means to grow up. And when the narrator said 'Dad passed away' it was hard to stay dry eyed. ;)

I cried on the episode On the Spot last night.

And when the narrator said 'Dad passed away' it was hard to stay dry eyed. ;)

And for some reason i wasn't really expecting that, even though its human nature for us to get old and our parents to pass on. It was very sad.

Okay, since I have seen more episodes of it now, there are more that have made me cry.

The Accident, at the end when they say "I Love You" to each other.

Moving, where Winnie is moving and she is about to leave and Kevin stops her and she has the ring in her had and they hug.

On Heartbreak and Denial, where they break up I cried.

And I have seen a clip of the last 5 minutes of the last episode and I cry everytime it gets to the part "I remember a place, a town, a house, like alot of houses, a yard like alot of other yards, on a street like alot of other streets and the thing is, after all these years, I still look back, with wonder."

The last episode gets me but the episode where Kevin plays on the baseball team managed by an old war buddy of Jack's...the end where Kevin "hits a home run" and the narration says: "If dreams and memories sometimes get confused...well, that's as it should be." Well said. That's the way childhood memories should be.

This didn't make me cry, but I agree that it was a great episode. The quote is spot on.

Wonder Years is the type of show you love as a kid and appreciate when you get older.

This didn't make me cry, but I agree that it was a great episode. The quote is spot on.

Wonder Years is the type of show you love as a kid and appreciate when you get older.

That quote didn't make me cry either, but I like that quote.

It is the type of show that you love as a kid and appreciate when you get older and think back on it. I'm 16 now, so I didn't see it when it aired originally, but I love it just as much.:)

Its just really sad when a show ends.Maybe its patheitc or something but when a tv show I have watched religiously finally ends,I feel like I've lost a part of me.;)
I just finished watching the series on DVD and the last episode made me tear up! :( The fact that Jack died only 2 years later! How awful. And I guess a part of me always wanted Keving and Winnie to be together forever. I agree, me and my husband felt like a part of us was gone when we watched the finale this past weekend. It was so...final. A part of me feels empty :(

You're not alone - I cry at most of them! lol

I didn't when I watched the show during its original run much, but now it brings back so many memories that I tear up a LOT at it.

I'm such a wuss! :rolleyes: :lol:

And I have seen a clip of the last 5 minutes of the last episode and I cry everytime it gets to the part "I remember a place, a town, a house, like alot of houses, a yard like alot of other yards, on a street like alot of other streets and the thing is, after all these years, I still look back, with wonder."


DAMN! I just read that and it made me tear up! See - major wuss!

Honestly cant recall, one way or the other, but, im sure i did at some point in the series......I do remember being rather upset at the end of the final show when they stated that Jack would die only 2 (?) years after he started the woodworking shop that hed always dreamed of owning (That show was SO real!)

I did get misty-eyed quite a few times watching the show. I haven't seen it in years and would love to watch it again.

Quite a few of the episodes have made me feel like crying, but one in particular is hard for me to watch...
About two years ago, I got married and moved from Fresno, CA to Pittsburgh, PA, leaving all of my friends and family behind. The episode where Karen gets married and goes off to Alaska was already a powerful one for me, but now the ending has taken on a whole new meaning: About 5 months after moving here, I was speaking to my Mom on the telephone. She told me that my Dad was outside, standing in the front yard, looking off to the northeast (in other words, the direction of Pittsburgh). When I saw the same thing happen at the end of that episode, all of the homesickness that I'd tried to ignore came flooding out. I miss them so much...

I get teary-eyed during almost every episode!

That show was just so real. The situations were something almost everyone went through at one point in their lives. I never seen it, in fact I used to make fun of it (Little Fred Savage!) but my husband twisted my arm into watching the entire 6 seasons (it's one of his favs) and I loved it. Fantastic! :)
Oh yeah, has anyone else seen that Josh Saviano is a lawyer at a law firm in NY? He's got a link at the website and a picture. I'm such a dork but I even called his voicemail after hrs just to say I've heard his voice :lol:

Yeah, I know, I'm a nerd..........:happyface

I started watching the show around the middle of season five. While watching season six, the episode "White Lies" got me all teary-eyed. This was the quote that finally got me:

They say hindsight's twenty-twenty, and I guess it's true. Because as I stood outside Winnie's house that night, I suddenly saw it all so clearly. I'd sold both of us short, by taking something that most people never have and throwing it away for something less. I'd been in such a hurry to impress people that didn't matter, I'd torn apart the only ones who did...us.

I can't wait to see "Goodbye." I love stuff that gets me all emotional. What made The Wonder Years work on so many levels was that it sucks the audience into the moment. Before I watched The Wonder Years, I don't think there was another show that made me care about the characters and their relationships with each other as much as this show.

The last episode was also quite sad. Not only did Kevin and Winnie didn't end up together, Jack, a hardworking man and provider for his family died two years later, never being able to enjoy his retirement years. I'm watching the reruns on ION so I can hopefully catch every single episode.

That quote didn't make me cry either, but I like that quote.

For the record, this episode that I quoted from didn't make me cry but it definitely brought back a lot of memories of backyard baseball. That quote at the end was perfect for the way people should remember their childhoods. All memories aren't completely accurate -- but they're not really supposed to be...

it seemed like every episodes made me cry, but that's what i liked about the wonder years. Last night's episode (season 3 opener) made me cry. I vaguely rememebered watching it originally, but now, it really made me cry. Especially the end when Kevin says he kept her letter in a shoebox, and it was the only one he ever got. How could that not make you cry?

how could some episodes not make you cry? it was a show abt nostalgia of the late 60's & early 70's. Good Old Days!!!

(pilot) When Karen reveals that Brian was killed.
(How I'm Spending my Summer Vacation) Kevins consoles Winnie with Scarborough Fair playing.
(On the Spot) Ending when Kevin keeps the light on Winnie.
(Goodbye) Ending as Kevin finds out that Mr. Collins has died.
(Moving) Winnie and Kevin in the moving van, saying goodbye.
(Heartbreak) Kevin gets the bad news.
(Denial) Jack consoles Kevin over the breakup with Winnie - an example of Dan Lauria's great acting-he plays the role just right.
(Accident) the roof scene.
(Graduation) - When Kevin wants to tell Mrs. Hiemer his problems.
(Private Butthead) Jack tells Wayne that he hasn't done a good job of being there to help him. Again great Lauria acting.
(Wedding) As Karen leaves she looks back at her family.
Alot of credit goes also to Snuffy Walden for great music in some of these scenes.

OMG! This show made me cry plenty, then and now. I am so enjoying the reruns on Ion, or whatever the channel is.

the episode where Kevin's math teacher Mr. Collins dies, I always cry over that one, they just played it a few nights ago
Also: sooooo many other episodes make me cry and one of the main reasons is the music they play, they always play such emotional songs

I love the music that they play in The Wonder Years and since I am a teenager I'm going through alot of those situations now. I'm in what are you could say my "wonder years" I can relate to it so much. I have a quote from the show in my signature because that is probably one of my favorite quotes from TWY ever.

It's amazing how much better the show is when you're grown up. And I LOVED the show as a child. I'm so busted up that they're taking the show off ION.

It's amazing how much better the show is when you're grown up. And I LOVED the show as a child. I'm so busted up that they're taking the show off ION.

Yeah, when I was a kid, I didn't really see the emotional outcome of the show. It was just a good show to watch, very similar to my childhood. Now that I'm an adult watching the show, I cry during certain scenes, and see how important this show really was.

Just watched last nights episode about Kevin going to his dad's work, for the second time on the network, and I still cried. A very great episode, especially for only being the third one. It's too bad ION's yanking it off.

the episode where Kevin's math teacher Mr. Collins dies, I always cry over that one, they just played it a few nights ago
Also: sooooo many other episodes make me cry and one of the main reasons is the music they play, they always play such emotional songs

Definately! The music got me every time.

Last episode when he says his dad died is very sad. Never cried though but sad all the same

It's been a long time since I watched this show. I always thought it was cool because I was the same age as Kevin when the show was on the air, so I could always kinda compare what was going on in my life with what was happening in his.

There are three episodes that I remember making me cry. Although there are probably more!

The Mr. Collins episode, the final episode, and there's another. I forget exactly what happened, like I said, it's been a while since I've seen them. But I do remember there being an episode where Kevin's family goes on vacation, and he meets a girl and they become friends. The girl's family ends up leaving before Kevin's does and they're sad that they have to part ways. I remember the adult Kevin talking about how the girl wrote him a letter and promised to write him every day, and that was the only letter he ever got from her.

That episode reminds me of back during the summer of '91. There was a girl a year or so younger than me that lived a street behind me. We never really talked much before that summer, but for some reason we started talking and we just became really good friends. Not bf, gf, but just good friends. We hung out a lot during that summer and then all of a sudden in September she tells me that her dad got another job in a different town far away and that she was moving. She promised to write me and she did. 1 letter, and that's all I ever ended up getting. So that episode really hit home with me.

... and there's another. I forget exactly what happened, like I said, it's been a while since I've seen them. But I do remember there being an episode where Kevin's family goes on vacation, and he meets a girl and they become friends. The girl's family ends up leaving before Kevin's does and they're sad that they have to part ways. I remember the adult Kevin talking about how the girl wrote him a letter and promised to write him every day, and that was the only letter he ever got from her.

JackTripper 25, before I get started, let me welcome you to the boards!

Back to the thread. The episode to which you are referring is called "Summer Song", where Kevin's family went to Ocean City and Kevin met a girl ("Terri with an 'RI'") at the beach. It aired at the beginning of the 1989-90 season.

I thought Fred was a superb little actor.He had such expression in those big eyes. ;) And for his age,he was terrific.

I agree. I think the most expression he had was in his whole facial expression and mouth. The way he looked, felt and handled things in every season except the last really made and built the character he was on the show and made me enjoy it loads more.

Not tears, but feel slugged in the gut after the Natural History Museum ep, "Kevin....I've met someone". We've all been there, haven't we? Wow, powerful emotion on Fred's face as Winnie gets on the bus.



I agree. That outside the bus scene is really sad. I loved how the sad but great music transitioned scenes and put you where the character(s) were on the show.

(pilot) When Karen reveals that Brian was killed.

That never occurred to me when I consider what could have been going through Kevin's mind, thinking his parents were going to swat him for throwing that apple into the cafeteria!

(How I'm Spending my Summer Vacation) Kevins consoles Winnie with Scarborough Fair playing.

I thought "Scarborough Fair" (or, as I used to think it was called, "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme", but I digress!) was played in the scene with Kevin reading Mad magazine in the hammock. I do not remember Winnie in that scene at all.

(On the Spot) Ending when Kevin keeps the light on Winnie.

Ah, the "Our Town" episode (which was a really weird one if you ask me!)! I don't remember Kevin keeping the spotlight on Winnie. All I remember is the cheering at the end, as well as the still pictures in the yearbook.

Yeah he did keep the light on her. I think Kevin tried out and him and Paul become the lightmen or w/e. And Winnie was having trouble with the lines, and Kevin felt like he was guiding her in giving her light. It was sort of a multiple message. Like "If you give people light, they can see/make it past the dark" that was part of it and him just helping her out the best that he could.

Beautiful description of it Wreckless.

Yes, Winnie ended up freezing with stage fright afterall. Both her parents were in the audience after separating. Don't know (but probably was) her reaction to seeing that, but she froze, and Kevin felt that by shining the spotlight on her he was holding her up (both emotionally and for the play).

The adult Kevin narrator then comes on after Winnie has successfully remembered her lines to advise us that after that night, her parents did reunite for good.

I was an adult in my 20s when it initially ran and I loved and cried to it then, and I think I love it and cry to even more episodes now. Ah nostalgia.

And it just shows that every generation goes through the same trials, troubles, pain and happiness.

Every one of the actors on that show was excellent - and especially Savage - as you say, for his age, he could communicate so many feelings with just an expression.

^ Thanks. Yeah, she froze, plus everybody gets nervous (espec. being in front of people, those lights are bright and can make you sick too).

Hardly anyone has mentioned the junior high graduation episode. On the whole, it isn't all that great, what with the whole farcical Mrs. Heimer giving birth interlude, but I love the scene where Kevin, in his suit, walks through his neighborhood and stops at the playground fence. As he peers through the fence watching a group of kids playing on the playground, the scene flashes back to him, Winnie, and Paul playing there as little children. Randy Newman's deeply moving "I Think it's Going to Rain Today" plays in the background.
Then, at the end of the episode, Paul gives a heartrending valedictorian's speech about "never forgetting the friends we made".

I also love the Mr. Collins episodes, the "Accident" episode, and the Dad's workplace episode, all of which have been noted numerous times by others.

... what with the whole farcical Mrs. Heimer giving birth interlude,

Before I proceed, welcome to the boards, UM Zealot!!! :bighug:

Here's my question: How was Mrs. Heimer's giving birth "farcical"? I thought it was within the boundaries of possibility since she was married. (She announced it at the end of seventh grade in "How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation", remember?)


but I love the scene where Kevin, in his suit, walks through his neighborhood and stops at the playground fence. As he peers through the fence watching a group of kids playing on the playground, the scene flashes back to him, Winnie, and Paul playing there as little children. Randy Newman's deeply moving "I Think it's Going to Rain Today" plays in the background.

I can totally relate to that scene, too. I go through that mentality a lot myself imagining myself as younger like we saw the younger Kevin, Paul, and Winnie climbing the monkey bars. In fact, I go through the mentality every day and probably have been doing so ever since TWY went off the air!

Before I proceed, welcome to the boards, UM Zealot!!! :bighug:
Thank you kindly, James:) I'm mainly here for Unsolved Mysteries, but thought I'd drop in on the Wonder Years section.
Here's my question: How was Mrs. Heimer's giving birth "farcical"? I thought it was within the boundaries of possibility since she was married.
Of course, but I didn't really like the broad way in which it was handled, with Kevin careening down the mountain in Heimer's Beetle to the bombastic sound of "Pomp and Circumstance". Just didn't fit the elegiac mood.
I can totally relate to that scene, too. I go through that mentality a lot myself imagining myself as younger like we saw the younger Kevin, Paul, and Winnie climbing the monkey bars. In fact, I go through the mentality every day and probably have been doing so ever since TWY went off the air!
Yeah, I'm an extremely nostalgic person, which is why the show is so special to me, with its rose-coloured-glasses view of childhood.

Of course, but I didn't really like the broad way in which it was handled, with Kevin careening down the mountain in Heimer's Beetle to the bombastic sound of "Pomp and Circumstance". Just didn't fit the elegiac mood.

I think "Pomp and Circumstance" was played because they were transitioning into the scene of Kevin's graduation in the gym. The Wonder Years as a whole tended to start the song for the next scene a few seconds early.

Come to think of it, I think they transitioned between Mrs. Heimer's Beetle (as well as the hospital waiting room) and the gym quite a few times with "P&C" playing!

I think "Pomp and Circumstance" was played because they were transitioning into the scene of Kevin's graduation in the gym. The Wonder Years as a whole tended to start the song for the next scene a few seconds early.

Come to think of it, I think they transitioned between Mrs. Heimer's Beetle (as well as the hospital waiting room) and the gym quite a few times with "P&C" playing!
You're right. That is why they played P&C, and now that you mention it, the scene did switch back and forth between the birth scenes with Kevin being handed the baby and the later graduation ceremony. I guess the juxtaposition was supposed to underscore Kevin's maturation, but like I wrote above, I've always felt the whole mountainside/hospital segment was over-the-top.

But I do love the rest of the episode, with the aforementioned reminiscing at the fence and Paul's great speech at the graduation. And I think that episode also contains the fabulous closing scene where a castless Winnie hops forward to meet Kevin and Paul in front of the Arnold house, and the three discuss getting their driver's licenses next year, before the camera cranes away and up as Cocker's theme starts.

And I think that episode also contains the fabulous closing scene where a castless Winnie hops forward to meet Kevin and Paul in front of the Arnold house, and the three discuss getting their driver's licenses next year, before the camera cranes away and up as Cocker's theme starts.

Wow, Mr. Zealot, I never considered that! I had totally forgotten that Winnie was in that car accident a few episodes earlier, as well as the scene outside with Kevin and a casted Winnie!

And I call myself a huge fan! :rolleyes:

Well, we could all be kept much more abreast of the show's intricacies if we had a DVD release (hint, hint). Though, frankly, I don't think I'd pay more than a hundred bucks for the whole series, as much as I love it.

This TWY forum is pretty dead. Just you and me.

Well, we could all be kept much more abreast of the show's intricacies if we had a DVD release (hint, hint).

Well, there is www.thewonderyearsdvd.net (http://www.thewonderyearsdvd.net) (which now directs you to tvseriesondvd.org (http://tvseriesondvd.org)) which was discussed on this board earlier in the year, but I think it's a bootleg since it's less than $50 for all 115 episodes.

Well, there is www.thewonderyearsdvd.net (http://www.thewonderyearsdvd.net) (which now directs you to tvseriesondvd.org (http://tvseriesondvd.org)) which was discussed on this board earlier in the year, but I think it's a bootleg since it's less than $50 for all 115 episodes.
It must be a bootleg. Even the "Wonder Years on DVD" link at the top of this forum directs one to the cheapskate Christmas and Best-of DVDs that were released a long time ago.

I wish Wonder Years would finally come out with the original lengths and music included. It's about time!

I can't watch the first episode without severely bawling. I tend to get very emotional with films or television episodes dealing with news that a friend or relative was KIA in Vietnam.

(With the exception of "Across The Universe" maybe because that film sucked?)

Little Debbie from season 4 is sad

https://youtu.be/evzGr5GYJfQ

I thought little debbie was the sad episode the way sge cries at the end

When Kevin returns from playing tackle Football, and Norma let's him tend to himself with bandages. Episode then closes with a Flashback of Kevin learning to ride his bike with Mom looking on, all set to the tune of the Great Joni Mitchell's The Circle Game.

The episode "Square Dance" did make me cry. It pulls at my heart how Kevin found this girl fun to be around yet ran away from her house. He could not do it. I felt so bad for the girl and her mom made popcorn thinking she was finally having a friend visit. People are different in this world and its what inside that counts.

Wow this person made this post over 20 years ago January 2005 before youtube was even created wow