David the gnome kicks the bucket

That scene where they turn into trees...

[@Hottool365]

David and his wife lived to love each other. They loved other people, other creatures and the earth. They always helped whenever it was needed. It would be fitting that they would turn into trees. I'm glad that I got to experience these types of shows as a kid.

[@SleepySeal121]

I wish I had this show growing up. The early 2000s had some good stuff, sure. But nothing like this.

[@VernHayes]

If you ever had watch Nick Jr in the 80's and 90's watching david and his adventures; watching this will bring out the child in you you think you lost long ago. (Tears)

[@toastweek3745]

oh god the fox's cries hurt me deep and that dang music

[@gmont28]

Even as an adult I cannot watch this scene without tears.

[@morrowcosom]

Now days if the writers of a children's show made an ending like that all the parents would get together and file a giant lawsuit against the creators complaining about how their children are now scared that they are going to turn into trees.

[@mrjanemba]

don't feel too bad. what this clip doesn't show is that after swift goes down the mountain, he meets a female fox who he runs off with. Considering that the message of that final episode was that everything eventually must end, it's nice to know that they also taught kids that there's also new beginnings from every ending, even if we don't get to see those stories play out.

[@wizardsongs5409]

I think this is a good way to introduce the topic of death to children.

[@obiehn276]

This was actually kinda beautiful, not really creepy maybe when the last guy turned though

[@altarush]

Obinna Nzekwe Not when the trolls chop them down and why is Swift howling like a wolf?

[@chloetomasso14]

I'm not crying you're crying

[@thatguy5779]

Chlorine Tomato I cried

[@femmie12]

Me two.....

[@Walt_Xander94]

Damn Pat. I just love how cartoons from decades ago, had balls. This show is for little kids, and its on Nick Jr today, in Australia. And yet, it has an ending like this.

[@nickj7980]

this video has the greatest title on all of youtube

[@enrique5977]

I don't think he really dies. I think he becomes a tree with own soul. Sad ending anyways.

[@MrOrthopedia]

This is what happens when a gnome dies a natural death. :(

[@starsnstrife]

@@MrOrthopedia this is what happens to all of us. we become food for the soil just as the soil gave us food. humans are 100% recyclable.

[@chris.bilson]

It was cut down for a housing estate.

[@delete--5563]

Nah the did die.

[@imagen1966]

I interpret it as his body become the tree and his soul moving on

[@sardonicfactory]

This had either taught children that a forest is just a group of friendly wooden creatures looking over them, or that those giant wooden things used to be freaking little old people.

[@antmanlegit5713]

Major Luz no it didn’t. It taught kids that love is eternal and that love never ends.

[@angelinebejaran2906]

@@antmanlegit5713 you just got R/whooooshed! It means you didnt get the joke, you 3 iq nerd.

[@nomadofthewasteland]

no it teaches children that everything in the world is magical in its own way even if that way is being the reincarnation of little gnomes

[@Blue91233]

Can 400-year-old gnomes turn into trees in real life?

[@jarediscool1997]

Yes.

[@shacoldbane1901]

yes that's why there's so many trees 😂

[@lordeli8866]

@@shacoldbane1901 There was once a Black man, of the name of Gerald Whiteman, he was a hard working man, used to cut down tree's and grind them into mulch, a hard working man always did as he was told, loved his lil Mammy, just a good soul, he even was the first to discovered the moon was a Rock instead of a big ball of Cheese

[@K.d_ship]

Natasha Coldbane okay now that’s just sad too the bone not gonna lie not funny just sad

[@PC2000]

I have some bad news to share about the existence of gnomes...

[@fevv8790]

This ending is incredibly nostalgic for some reason I didn’t even watch this show

[@tsukasasagawa1894]

10 bittersweet anime deaths

[@WokeGhettoSpiritualist]

Sometimes life is fun, sometimes it is sad. When the end comes, we should all accept it with dignity and grace. It comes for us all, and nothing lasts forever.

[@samt514]

R.I.P Killer Keemstar

[@gmont28]

Sam T no that would be a favour to the world

[@Rejukem]

LETS GET RIIIIIIIIGHT INTO MY GRAVE

[@JFG_III]

I'm 39 today and still breaks my heart! 😭💔

[@LSweet2007]

So, if you eat one of David's apples is that like eating his balls?

[@dweebteambuilderjones7627]

It's not LIKE eating his balls. Botanically speaking it IS eating his balls. Though given most trees are hermaphrodites binary pronouns don't have much place here.

[@cleanyouroom1118]

kinda like it wait thats mean one of the david tree sticks must be his penis RIP david

[@dweebteambuilderjones7627]

@@cleanyouroom1118 No, the penis would be the stamens of the flowers the apples come from.

[@SilencerXLR8]

As these two souls embark on an unknown journey I shed a tear from my eye Hoping maybe just maybe When it is my time to disembark from this miserable mortal coil I can at least do it in the arms of someone I love and who truly loves me Farewell

[@K.d_ship]

This made me cry so beautiful 😭🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭

[@ezrawyvern6795]

A surprisingly powerful scene, even if like myself you've never seen anything of the show before.

[@nikoswaffle]

"I thank you for all the love you given me" *BAM* right in the heart

[@Mootje103]

this motherfucker was hashirama's mentor, mark my words

[@Kooscoose]

someone came from reddit

[@mkaplan1383]

Liza: Farewell my dear David my husband my love... David: Farewell my beloved, thank you for all the love you've given me.... Casper: I think the time has come.... David: Yes, it's here. Me (Revealed as the unnamed & unseen guest they greet in each episode): *Hugging them both one last time* I will miss both our visits and our conversations. I will not forget the lesson you shared with me..... *Took a step back and watched as they all transformed into apple trees. Tears fell from my eyes as the pedals of the sunflowers flew by them all* Perfect...... They are all perfect...... *knelt in prayer and mourned for the loss*

[@Awfulwriter]

I never watched repeats of this show after watching this episode. It just felt...complete. Nothing what happened at the end of this show is bad.

[@brianjamessss]

I have watched every episode from day one. I am a true David the gnome fan. I do have to say that this episode is one of the most heart-felt episodes I have seen since day one. May his knowledge and dreams live on forever.

[@SlashinatorZ]

"theres edgier plots in that David the Gnome! your hobbit hole heroes cant handle my throne!"

[@robertramos3209]

Kings, Queens, Dragons, Dwarves Horses, Fortresses, magic and swords You Hob-bit my whole shit you uninspired hack

[@9764Danny]

Gives a whole 'nother meaning to 'tree huggers'.

[@sarahgrove321]

foxes don't howl...

[@vivecalmsivi679]

They do when they see gnomes turn into trees.

[@littlebit080780]

Maybe Swift doesn't know that.

[@walti7883]

I said the same exact thing

[@cigoLxeL]

Vivec Almsivi Nice. That made me laugh more than any other comment I've ever read on KZbin.

[@mnvanwyk2001]

What does the fox say? Lol

[@JonGee420]

And I thank you for all the childhood memories you gave me.

[@MischiefManaged1990]

I watched these series when I was a little girl. Now I'm 20 years old and I still have to cry when I see this. I miss my childhood.

[@watersystems]

I have actually never seen the series, but I have seen this clip 5 times in a row now and its the best darn thing I have seen in a long long time! Kudos.

[@kid10249595]

So does that mean trees are really dead gnomes, and everytime we cut one down we're desicrating their graves?!

[@mijaedgetu1752]

Still makes me, fully grown, educated 34 year man, cry like a feckin' baby... for many of us, our first experience of death and loss... so poignant...

[@SeraQuelle]

I always remembered them as pine trees because of their pointy hats. But this is still as lovely as I remember it. It's so good shows back then tried to deal with these topics not many shows will go there anymore.

[@joeycules]

How can you not cry at this?! It's like a chapter of childhood closing.

[@thamachoswedishpotat]

What the fuck Patrick!?

[@Benjamillion]

just the scene alone made me cry when i first saw this. i couldn't bear seeing swift all alone as he played a great role as david's partner. cartoons like this never seem to have this message anymore

[@josepep]

so technically we wipe our asses with the bodies of dead gnomes...

[@starwarsfool]

lmao

[@MarlonMacielBrando]

Holy crap. I'm 22 years old, have never watched this before, and even so, I'm being driven to tears.

[@neybordayfid]

This was such a great show. I haven't seen this since I was 7, which was 20 years ago, and it just made me tear up.

[@TaffieTheCapy]

Fuck. I wondered why I'd tear up when I'd see the intro or ending credits. Regardless, I still think this scene is beautiful. This show was always about teaching kids about honesty, respect, kindness, etc. and a very fitting end to this show. As a previous poster explained, I think this really helped me as a kid to comprehend deaths in my family a little better. God, I'm such a sap. Thank you, David.

[@lgierl2573]

Ologies recommended I come here because I need to cry about death.

[@juramec]

Rest in Peace Tom Bosley (voice of David). We 80's children love you, and hope to see you in heaven to thank you personally for all the warm and magical memories. You rock man, and you will be in our hearts always. Love, Cyn (who watched David the Gnome shamelessly from pre-school until her senior year of college :) )

[@tomgaffney6576]

I love the two cherry blossoms that symbolise love. And the other tree that symbolises third wheeling super hard.

[@astateplayer1]

This was some depressing crap for a kid. No wonder Generation Xers are so cold hearted.

[@valorrepublic8059]

astateplayer1 It's because we've been exposed to the reality of life where safe spaces do not exist and in order to move on and survive ad a species we have to be strong and politically incorrect otherwise we'll devolve into the pansies running around today throwing tantrums and spasming on the ground "because stupid Drumph is not my pwesident!" Tis pathetic.

[@AATCgal]

Valentin Rybin why y’all have to bring politics into this damn i just wanted to watch a video where gnomes die in peace

[@josephkerr2807]

AATC Gal because jackasses with nothing meaningful to say always have to turn everything political. Either everyone is a triggered snowflake or racist fascist nazi. No one can say damn that was a good show about gnomes in the gnome video.

[@docdoom187]

i loved the cartoon. i can still sing the theme song by heart, after all these years...

[@Rozax]

I loved this show as a child, and now with that love, I have a lot of respect for this show as an adult. They didn't shy away from some tough topics and handled death rather nicely rather than just avoiding it. He's a doctor! I'm surprised death didn't come up sooner.

[@max666tall]

Holy crap all these years and I never knew that is what happened if i saw that back when I was a kid I would have cried my eyes out....awww what the heck i'm 31 now and this made me choke up....cartoons back in the day not only gave you lessons on how to treat others but gave you life lessons that can effect you the rest of you life!!!!

[@vanillalace81]

I was so young that I thought he was just going away. I didn't know it was death. It's real cool to see the metaphors now.

[@OffWhiteKnight33]

If this screws up a kid for life, that kid was doomed from the beginning anyway

[@lachecastle531]

I want to listen to that score over and over

[@VanHalenDrummer]

The music really drives home the emotion.

[@HinataChick38]

I was a little kid when this was on the air, but I never saw the whole thing. And yet I cry when I see this..

[@unknownrostam]

I was watching the entire ending on another video, and when I saw that gnome coming up on a fox, I thought "wait... he's going to the mountain too, does that mean he's about to die?" I was so glad when they all walked away...

[@BregnaTenebris]

I was cried for days after watching this episode as a child

[@RIPdixiecarter]

Never watched the show as a kid to have the feel but the writer's got some serious balls to add this as an ending to a children's show. Why couldn't Lost end this way?

[@sickofguysnamedtodd2293]

Even as an adult, the feels..poor Swift..

[@BrokenWiener]

imagine how more traumatizing this is when someone tells the kid that paper is made from trees lmao

[@docdoom187]

*gives you a hug* yeah, it is kinda sad. even i teared up a bit when watching this. i loved David as a kid. i still do. he was a great guy. from what i hear, the episode never aired on TV because it would be hard for kids to handle. but it's on the DVD box set.

[@HyperActive7]

As beautiful as it may seem.. It still hits the core of your heart because someone has to be left behind to feel the grief and it breaks my heart for Swift, who was the loyal companion through the whole series. Then the ending..don't care if I say this, but I did shed a couple tears because I'm human and I know in my own heart how this would make me feel when I was the one pulling the trigger to send another life on to the rainbow bridge.

[@ziggylovechild]

omg.. i did cry when i was a kid watching this, and now i can't stop crying again. WAY to sad for a kids show..

[@kylasoundsdank6410]

This is so cute when they say their goodbyes

[@rdean1]

I cannot believe I had missed this moment in my childhood life. ):

[@faceofdoomness]

They told me I could be anything I wanted... So I became a tree.

[@excrono]

And that children, is where trees come from...Swift's mind has just been blown.

[@scormern]

I saw this episode as a kid and I balled my eyes out because I used to watch the show, in fact this was the last episode I saw

[@RickMHobson]

The strange thing about this is that David isn't even an especially OLD gnome, if his appearance and the GNOMES book are to believed. It gives this scene a decidedly "Kevorkian" feel.

[@DM72584]

I don't remember this last episode as a child but definitely emotional.

[@Elven4Ashwin]

I am a 14 year old boy who has never seen this show. I was only briefly told earlier today by a friend how sad the ending is. So, barely knowing the context I watched this.... And I can't stop crying

[@migueloharalover123]

whats the song that plays when they say their goodbyes?? its so beautiful!!!!

[@Kooscoose]

darude - sandstorm

[@evan22303]

I agree. It's very beautiful. It's the theme song to the show. I still whistle it when I'm in a happy mood.

[@belovedtwilight41]

I loved this last episode. I watched all of them and at the end, it brought a bitter sweet ending. Thank you for the posting.

[@trancestimuli]

Holy shit I'm glad I was like 4 when this was still on the air... if I actually understood wtf was going on it would've really fucked me up..

[@Gibsonburgman]

I remember watching this when I was younger and it was so touching to see David and Lisa die like this. I really do believe that their love would live on. We could learn a lot from their way of looking at the earth. It's such a touching ending to such a great show. I wish they would come out with this on d.v.d.

[@TheVahnara]

Thanks, comedy button...

[@the1twobeat]

This makes me sad. I loved this show growing up. Swift is the name of the fox. I remember a particular episode where Swift broke his leg and they had to make a splint out of branches.

[@kaydfrantz6757]

I don't feel so good mr David *proceeds to turn into tree

[@sefuqua]

I remember seeing this when I was 6 or 7. I cried so hysterically, my mom couldn't understand me. She got the gist that they died and she cuddled me. It was so sad, and I still get teary! But all things come to and end, which is the start of a new beginning, and that is important for children to understand.

[@slimithy12]

this is an epic ending. the last time i watched this was 21 year's ago and i was only 6 year's old. i was starting to think it was just a dream i had. thanks for the upload dude, it means alot to me.

[@EveeDream]

Omg! This is so tragic! I had no idea that happened, and I remember loving this show as a child. I am really traumatized right now.

[@presbran86]

Tears are just running down my face

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I'm sure that is the ultimate fate of all departed gnomes!

[@Lemon_Man_Chan]

I've never seen an episode of this in my life, but that shit was deep...

[@vaibanez17]

"And then loggers came in and turned David and Lisa into a matching dining table and chair set, which sold for a fair price."

[@sickofguysnamedtodd2293]

vaibanez17 not before Swift peed on the trees first.

[@hoseinmikey]

Oh... And one more thing... This whole scene touched my heart... Most beautiful music i've ever heard...

[@pauliusurbonas2638]

Imagine the fox just ''Marking'' The tress as territory.

[@RainMan34]

Yes. Tell children that when they die, they'll turn into trees!

[@zen-aku1880]

I’m not crying you’re crying...hics tears falls David!!!!😭😭😭

[@cuevaswalker]

I'm not crying... My eyes are sweating.. that happens whenever I see gnomes die...its normal

[@ipodchik]

omg this was way too sad for me to handle at like 4 years old!

[@SammEater]

6 people can't see the nice message this cartoon shows.

[@bealtespip123]

I've never been more depressed in my entire life.

[@nomadofthewasteland]

some say that when you travel to that same hill to this day the 3 trees still stand tall and proud.........

[@ecw4life267]

goddamn these invisible ninjas cutting onions

[@sfbaygirl]

It is sad, but one of the lessons young children learn about is death, whether it is a relative or pet. I think they handled it very sensitively, showing that it is not just an ending, but a beginning too.

[@Sevharco]

I always wondered what happened to them, because I never got to see the last few episodes. I am glad to find out.

[@secondact77]

If we are lucky, we all turn into trees.

[@Jaimas]

The lesson David taught us with this was that their passing is part of the great cycle of living. All things will eventually return to the world in time, and it must be accepted, even if it brings grief. The gnomes understand this, better than anyone.

[@VernHayes]

.....sons of bitches, a tear shed from my manly eye.