Incredible Hulk Saddest TV Moments

Relive the saddest Incredible Hulk TV moments of all time in this classic television video featuring Bill Bixby as David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the Incredible Hulk.
These sad, but brilliant classic television moments come from the Incredible Hulk pilot episode, the episode "Married", and the episode, "The First". These moments are bound to make you cry.
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[@daboys1215]

"The First" is easily my favorite episode in the series. When the "bad hulk" throws the serum against the wall, the devastation on David's face is just so sad. All the searching he had done to find a cure and he was so close. In a moment, it's all gone and he is alone once again. Heartbreaking.

[@sirorliktheironclad]

Agree. Del Frye is the show’s version of Abomination like how Jack McGee is the show’s version of General Ross.

[@eliasshaikh2065]

I agree too. The moment his cure was destroyed was devastating.

[@chrismayer3919]

The evil Hulk went too far on that one! If ANYTHING was going to change David into the Hulk… that’d do it!!

[@user-rt5br1zi3u]

😢😢😢😢😢 true

[@ProfessorKenneth]

Definitely sad..made me mad too.i wish David had cured himself first. Del frye would have been killed eventually by the police or the townies. So David would have been free. That's what was his downfall, he cared to..too much for people which is cool but, there is a limit.

[@angelafishburn7654]

In "Homecoming", I get emotional when in Hulk form, David is told by his dad to run. Hulk puts up his hands & starts to cry. Really moving.

[@trevvz]

I don't usually cry when watching shows or movies but I gotta say, the ending of married did get me a bit choked up

[@tvcrazyman]

Yeah, it does make you want to shed some tears. That's the difference between new shows and older ones, they really knew how to stir up emotions back then.

[@robaxl3088]

Was that the episode where Al divorces Peg?

[@rjam1974]

@@tvcrazyman Great acting didn't hurt but also the writing for the shows. Less emphasis on CG. Metamorphis wasn't overly done

[@ricardorivera5854]

In the episode “Homecoming” from season 3, David reunites with his father and sister during the Thanksgiving season. There’s a moment when his sister, Helen asks him “Why did you even bother to come back here?” David says “I uh…couldn’t spend another Thanksgiving alone.” Bixby’s delivery of that line is so heartbreaking.

[@kurtishamler4698]

For me the saddest parts were always him walking away by himself at the end of episodes, hitchhiking with piano playing the theme in the background. I feel like the Marvel movies never captured the essence of the Banner/Hulk dynamic or the nuances and layers of the character.

[@kevinkaatz883]

Bill Bixby was a really good actor

[@jimllfaxit]

I remember watching the First when I was about 11yo and Banner crying when he lost the cure really upset me. It stayed with me for days.

[@ProfessorKenneth]

Brilliant writing on this show. Still one of my favourites.👍🏻

[@robertcoggeshall3071]

Remember that first Hulk episode well. To accentuate his emotions, Bill repeatedly says no! Sadness, frustration, outrage and anger overwhelmed with each no response.

[@torpedoboy4]

One of the saddest and strangest episodes is "The Psychic" which co-starred Bill Bixby's then wife, Brenda Benet. She plays Annie Caplan, a psychic who is contemplating sucide as she believes her gift is a curse. There are so many strange and meta moments that parallel the marriage of Benet and Bixby. One such parallel is that the death of a teenage boy within the episode ominously pre-tells the death of their own child. Also the untimely death of Benet by sucide after her depression. Perhaps the saddest and most meta/prophetic aspect of the episode is the ending where Benet's character catches a glimpse of David's obviously bleak future as he walks away to the lonely man theme. It's all just so sad.

[@Janovus]

It is also an interesting 6 degree of separation fact that Brenda Benet, at the time of her suicide, was having a lesbian affair with a young 17 year old teenager by the name of Tammy Bruce. She later grew up to be first a leader in the National Organization for Women and later, a prominent conservative radio, tv, host and writer. Tammy herself would have a nervous breakdown since the suicide actually occurred in her presence. Brenda Benet shot herself in a bathroom of her apartment, while Tammy was in the outer room. Later, while Tammy was recovering in the hospital from her break down, she said Bill Bixby visited her and was very kind..

[@eliasshaikh2065]

In that episode he’s driven to tears reading about the death of a boy that may have been caused by the hulk.

[@enriqueocampo5232]

David in Homecoming goes back to Trevorton, Colorado which is the reason why he meets with his sister Dr Helen Banner And His Dad DW Banner, and David goes back to his Home where he grew up. I'm not telling more yo not spoil the episode, recomend yall watch it because it kinda tells David Bruce Banner's origins.

[@windandcloudshadow158]

The Mcu fails to get the emotional characteristic of Banner/Hulk they traded it for cheesy humor but the series did it perfectly.

[@Barnabas45]

His wife was played by Lara Parker from the soap opera Dark Shadows.

[@kali3665]

The final Hulk-Out in Part 2 of The First is definitely the most heart-wrenching moment of the series after Married. Banner realizes that he's lost his last chance at a cure and is completely overwhelmed by emotion and adrenaline. The trigger hits, but it's a full minute before Hulk fully manifests, and it is a rare occasion that Hulk does not appear in rage. Indeed, he also has tears in his eyes just like Banner did. It was a glorious moment, and one of my favorite scenes. One issue I always had with the series is that it tended to use pain as the catalyst more often than strictly anger. Yes, pain is far more cinematic, but it downplays the emphasis of anger -- or what is really adrenaline -- on the metamorphosis that the series sets up in the background. The pilot was one of the few episodes that actually did use adrenaline as the trigger, and so did Married, using the same basic cause: Banner's memories of Laura and his loss. Married, of course, adds the new fear of losing Carolyn. And the series never really went back to that for any reason. How horrifying would it be if Banner is all established with a new identity ... and he has that nightmare again.

[@Dhampir101980]

Adrenaline was used as the trigger several times beyond just those you mentioned. They include “ death in the family” when David is in the quicksand, “747, where both Hulk outs are caused by fear, “The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas “, David is about to be buried alive in a pit and is terrified, “the Beas within”, where David is about to be injected with an overdose of an aggression drug and becomes afraid, “ my favorite magician “, David is panicked by being trapped in a water filled tank. “Free Fall “, where David’s parachute is shot at after he jumps out a plane, and he’s scared. “ captive night “, Fear strikes again as David is trapped in a falling elevator shaft, “ metamorphosis “ David hallucinates that the Hulk is going to smash him, “mystery man part 2” David becomes stressed trying to save McGee from wolves and then a forest fire, “ Of Models and Murder “, David is frustrated because he can’t free himself from being crushed in a car compactor, “ broken image”, Fear from being entombed in concrete,” homecoming “, anger caused by a nightmare of his mother’s death,then fear that his father’s plane will crash. A pain induced Hulk out was the easiest thing to write, but stress/ adrenaline was used plenty without Pain ever being involved . These aren’t all the examples, by the way.

[@kali3665]

@@Dhampir101980 Been a while since I've seen these episodes. No excuse - I do have the entire series set. Thanks!

[@pablosilva6988]

Well said 💯

[@tl7091dty]

The fact that Banner’s tears are on the Hulk’s face reminds the audience that they are one in the same. Brilliant.

[@harveywittii9323]

Jack McGee is the reason that fire started because he was messing around and snooping in places he had no right to snooping

[@tvcrazyman]

This is true. McGee should have been hunting himself which is kind of ironic. He never knew the fire was his fault.

[@harveywittii9323]

@@tvcrazyman Even if he had realized that he caused the fire 🔥, he mostly would’ve said this; “ I was just Following a story!!!!”

[@tvcrazyman]

@@harveywittii9323 I could definitely hear him saying that.

[@geeked-outturtlesfan4288]

I agree with your picks. The two saddest in my eyes is losing Eliana in the pilot (because he changes during her death and doesn't hear her say "I love you") . He later tells her that he loves her too at her grave. The second was in "Married " where he lost Caroline Fields. He again doesn't get to save her and she dies in his arms as the hulk. He doesn't realize this until his transformation back. The other was (like you said) "The First" when he lost the only normalcy he could have had in ridding himself of the Hulk. It was the Fry-Hulk who stopped his only chance at curing himself

[@user-nd4yx1bg2u]

David 😢 sad moments in the first !! Crying and frustration is Hulk Bad destroying the cure 😱

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

Dr. Marks' death and "Death In The Family" are my saddest episodes. I liked how Dr. Banner's mother always liked Dr. Marks!

[@KyleEvra]

A lot of people don't talk about this one how in one episode he got paralyzed by a Car slam into him. During the hospital on his bed he grabbed the glass on the top shelf and broken the glass he hovered his hand over the broken glass contemplating to proposely hurt himself to force a transformation He really wanted Hulk's healing abilities to heal him so he could walk again. He decided against it terrified of the Hulk's rampage and terrifying innocent people.

[@tomball7009]

the saddest moment is when David got the bill from his tailor. Har! Har! Hardy HAAAR!!

[@juliemcarthur3004]

The first when his cure is gone

[@chrismayer3919]

Even though David has the power of the Hulk, it still wasn’t enough to save his wife from the ravages of the hurricane; not even the Hulk can battle Mother Nature. That’s what I call tragic!

[@enriqueocampo5232]

TvCrazyMan forgot the very first tragedy of Dr David Bruce Banner which was a flashback in the episode Homecoming on the one David while dreaming about his mother he dreams about his mothers Death, which causes him to hulkout while his sister Helen witnesses her brother transform into the Hulk.

[@jessejohnson3.24]

I feel sorry for the hulk and banner

[@HeavyMetal95]

One of the saddest moments of The Incredible Hulk i remember especially the saddest scene from The Incredible Hulk pilot isnwhere The Hulk was roaring in anguish which it echoed throughout the forest in the woods after Elaina died in the Hulk's arms which it was filmed on the backlot at Universal on the hidden roads where the flat tire occurred originally how it happened

[@tvcrazyman]

I agree. That was one of the saddest moments ever.

[@buffplums]

I so love this scene 4:03 I just have to keep replaying it… this is one of the best love scenes ever … the actress who plays this is just beautiful in the way she says “I love you David”

[@daboys1215]

Mariette Hartley ~ She won an Emmy Award for that role.

[@eliasshaikh2065]

The tiger story

[@mikedavirgo]

Love this damn show! Classic TV.

[@hamzaqureshi2087]

Homecoming was a sad episode

[@Ifyernotawakeyet]

One vote for the ending of the movie "The Death of...."

[@bobbylee_]

You nailed all the most devastating moments. The nightmare sequences were always haunting and that nightmare triggering in to transform scared me so much. And when that other Hulk destroyed the cure I was so upset for David.

[@yellowlynx]

This TV series set it apart from others because of the tragic back story of David Banner - so human, and so sad. BTW, Mariette Hartley who played Dr. Carolyn Fields in the episodes "Married", won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance.

[@buffplums]

Thank you so much for this I have wanted to see Married for such a long time. The lady that played Caroline is so beautiful … they way she loves David is how I wanted to be loved by someone xx

[@thomassutherland2647]

I see in the Credit listing Ted Cassidy as The Hulk Voice & Narrator. This was, I think the final time for Him in this capacity. It might even be Him as the Bus Driver - Death, as He could drive Anything, and Death looked Really Tall!

[@richardbowman9432]

I'd say that the 1st episode with the car crash and David Banner is having nightmares and bad dreams and wakes up crying missing His first wife Laura so bad.I can't imagine His pain.Of course I've never been married.

[@kevinmiller6380]

richardbowman-I'm a confirmed bachelor myself, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Smart decision you made, remaining single. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@jeanemlicar]

True. Yet both Bruce Banner and the Incredible has always got me through some tough times in my life. Especially the TV series. R.I.P.,Bill Bixby.

[@tvcrazyman]

I know the Hulk probably has motivated me to workout harder over the years and Rocky too, of course. When I was a kid I always imagined turning into the Hulk whenever school got a little rough. Definitely miss seeing Bill Bixby on screen.

[@jeanemlicar]

Indeed for he was and forever the best portrayal of Dr. Bruce Banner to me just like many Superman fans consider Christopher Reeves to best ever to bring the Man of Steel to life on the big screen. The other portrayals of Bruce Banner that I love but was short lived was Edward Norton and Michael Bell. I can’t stand what Mark Rufallo is doing to the Hulk’s Legacy these day’s.@@tvcrazyman

[@tvcrazyman]

@@jeanemlicar Michael Bell was great. Ruffalo was ok at first, but his Hulk just keeps getting weaker and possibly annoying. I'm also one of those that thinks Christopher Reeve was the definitive Superman, although I like to watch most of the Superman actors like Dean Cain, George Reeves, Henry Cavil, and Tom Welling, but yeah, Reeve was Superman, basically. Norton wasn't bad as Banner. I was kind of disappointed when they changed him out for another actor after only one movie.

[@eq1373]

​@@jeanemlicar that wasn't "Bruce" Banner

[@jeanemlicar]

If you want to get technical,it was David Banner but the die hard Incredible Hulk fans considered him to be Bruce Banner.@@eq1373

[@thomassutherland2647]

Great Content, Editing, and Everything, as Always!!!

[@srstriker6420]

I remember how Banner dies by his last word that he is free which would have been a perfect ending since Bixby died after this.

[@ricardothero9771]

But that actually wasn't meant to be the last movie, revenge of the incredible hulk was going to be the next one. That fall would never had killed him,he had been through way worse.

[@kevinmiller6380]

@@ricardothero9771 You're right. Lou Ferrigno stated in an interview that there was to be a fourth movie, Rebirth Of The Incredible Hulk, but Bill Bixby's death in 1993, put an end to that. RIP Bix.

[@MACKAYCHURCHCHRISELLIS]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS VERSION OF THE INCREDIBLE HULK! KEEP THE TRIVIA COMING PLEASE!!!! HE ALSO CRIED ON THE EPISODE THE PSYCHIC, WHEN HE THOUGHT HE KILLED THAT YOUNG MAN. I TOTALLY HATE HOW THEY ENDED ON THE DEATH OF THE INCREDIBLE HULK. I FEEL THAT THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SPOT IN THERE WHERE JACK MCGEE FINDS OUT AND HAS TO CALL OFF A WHOLE SWAT TEAM.... MAYBE BANNER COULD HAVE FOUND A CURE, BUT THE CURE WAS POISONOUS AT THE SAME TIME AND AFTER ALL THESE YEARS OF TRYING NOT TO HULK OUT, THE FINALE IS HIM TRYING TO HULK OUT AND CAN'T. AND AS HE LAY ON THE FLOOR DYING, MCGEE WALKS IN, AND BANNER TELLS HIM THE TRUTH. MCGEE PUBLISHES IT IN HIS PAPER FINALLY. AND MAYBE EVEN ALSO BURY BANNER IN THAT VACANT SPOT NEXT TO ELAINA, WHERE HIS HEADSTONE IS. THAT'S HOW THEY SHOULD HAVE ENDED THAT.

[@matthewakian2]

Great vid. This show really pulled at the emotion strings.

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks

[@buffplums]

Just ordered the box set thank you

[@user-cb1vs5ut1j]

King Of The Beach is my favorite episode of”The Incredible Hulk”

[@Pratman]

So sad so sad it's a sad sad situation 😞 😢

[@tvcrazyman]

I hope I haven't depressed you Pratman. 😀 😀😀 The next video will definitely be back to something happier. I can't take all the sadness myself.

[@Pratman]

Lol 🤣🤣🤣 never top Hulk video as always bud 😃👍

[@tvcrazyman]

@@Pratman Thanks Pratman! I do like to see Hulk smile on occasion though. 😀😀

[@DavidLeeAndrews]

Perfect video for Valentine’s Day. As it’s a video about emotion, nostalgia, and hope that one day love will conquer all. Nice one, mate. I’ll subscribe to this channel from my main one as this account may go

[@thomassutherland2647]

Mary Loretta "Mariette" Hartley, as Dr. Carolyn Fields was great! That "Tiger / Strawberry" is Tiger = Death, Two Mice Chewing on The Vine = Time & Fate (2nd tiger added to later versions to increase tension), and Yes, There is Nothing Better than Living While Still Alive, and Getting that Strawberry! Which is Why I say to Live Your Life Every Day, While You Can Still Live It How You Wish To, or the short form - Live While You're Alive!

[@rubensgomes8123]

que saudades do verdadeiro Hulk o de hoje na atualidade não presta.👈

[@billa107]

A sad moment for me was in Brain Child when after Hulk saved Joleen from the phony medicine woman, and he transformed back to David, with a sad and sympathetic expression Joleen said, “It’s alright. Lancelot was cursed too.”. It was a beautifully melancholy scene.

[@eliasshaikh2065]

The story about the man being chased by tigers and noticed the strawberry was the finest.

[@JoshHonaker-xk2kt]

You left out the episode where he goes to bis dad and sister for Thanksgiving jus my opinion love your channel

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks

[@madmanmark8387]

The two iconic cries are Elena and Hulk holding her hand and the other is Superman trying to get Lois Lane to revive in the Christopher Reeve film. No I don't think there's anymore sad moments, it's really a toss up of all of these between his short marriage and the cure being in a Hulk word "smashed" because as you said his real life travesty for sure was affecting him and he utilized it effectively. I will say his short marriage is the top spot. That gets me the most. Second is Elena, third his first marriage then the cure within reach. This was a good retrospective of the severe sad moments.

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks. The Superman movie moment with Lois is definitely another big emotional moment that has a huge impact.

[@jamesfarris3487]

Those scenes are from my favorite episodes. One scene from an episode that wasn't mentioned was when David Banner read a newspaper that said The Hulk had killed a young man. He began to cry because he actually thought he was responsible. He was comforted by a woman he just met who had psychic powers. If she touched someone with her hand, she could see their past life in her mind.

[@daboys1215]

I remember a scene where he was contemplating turning himself in too.

[@mackjrbell7828]

Fun fact: the "psychic" (which was the name of the episode "The Psychic") was played by Bill Bixby's real life wife actress Brenda Benet. They were actually going through a divorce at the time and sadly she took her own life over the death of their son.

[@jamesfarris3487]

@@mackjrbell7828 My God... I really feel the sadness of that information. Not really a "fun fact". I also discovered that she played in an episode of "The Courtship Of Eddie's Father", starring Bill Bixby.

[@SgtRoxx72]

​@jamesfarris3487 Brenda Benet and Bill Bixby also starred together in S1 E4 of The Love Boat in 1977.

[@user-cb1vs5ut1j]

Mine too

[@cadeevans4623]

I felt sorry for david banner he was the lonely man miserable trying to.find the cure he never got the death of the incredible hulk was one of the saddest moments ever

[@user-dm5zj2qh3x]

I sent a sad part is car accident 😭😞 and also when the other hulk destroyed the the formula 😢

[@user-ou5hz2sp3s]

In Death Of the Hulk, Jack Magee should have been there to see that the Hulk didn't kill David Banner but was David Banner

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Like ben cartwright lost his 3 wives

[@harrythehammer]

The funny thing about the episode, when David is by himself, and his tire blows out and he tries to change it and hurts himself and transforms… Lou Ferrigno said it was raining that day they were filming that scene and he hated it

[@kevinmiller6380]

harrythehammer-Big Louie actually turned that car 🚙 over by himself.

[@jessejohnson3.24]

Can you do how tall is hulk in history

[@tvcrazyman]

I think I did mention it on the Hulk facts video and maybe on the Hulk history video. One of these days maybe I'll do a video on the Hulk's size and strength on both the show and in the comics specifically.

[@jessejohnson3.24]

@@tvcrazyman I just want to say how tall is he that all

[@kevinmiller6380]

​@@jessejohnson3.24 Lou Ferrigno is about 6' 5."

[@llaclauncestonlittleathlet4377]

Why didn't you include death of the incredible hulk😊

[@tvcrazyman]

I'm not sure. It is one of the saddest moments of the series. Too bad Bixby didn't get to film another one to bring the Hulk back.

[@llaclauncestonlittleathlet4377]

@@tvcrazyman well with that he may rest in peace

[@jessejohnson3.24]

Can you do Joe fixit

[@tvcrazyman]

I'm sure I will at some point. Maybe a look at the comics Gray Hulk and his appearances on the Hulk cartoon.

[@kevinmiller6380]

@@tvcrazyman Who's Joe Fixit?

[@tvcrazyman]

@@kevinmiller6380 He's a persona of the Grey Hulk where he acts like a gangster.

[@tvcrazyman]

What are the saddest moments of the Hulk you remember?

[@kevinmiller6380]

I think the saddest part of the whole series is when Banner dies on the runway after he (as the Hulk) gets blown out of the plane ✈ and falls to his death by crashing onto the runway, thus dying without ever being cured. What gets me is why he didn't cure himself first before trying to cure Dell Frye?

[@Dhampir101980]

I’m surprised that you didn’t mention the episode the psychic, especially the scene where David reads the newspaper that the teenager which he believed was attacked by the hulk, had died, and he breaks down and Sobs. It’s even sadder when you realize that the message of the episode is that suicide is never a solution, but that in real life, Bill’s ex wife who guest starred in this episode, tragically took her own life later that that year, I believe.

[@tvcrazyman]

@@Dhampir101980 That is sad. I didn't think about that episode. Thanks for bringing that one up.

[@tvcrazyman]

@@kevinmiller6380 Yeah, that was definitely a sad moment. It is depressing to me since Bill Bixby died before he could bring the Hulk back to TV. I think he wanted to make sure Frye was cured because he was a threat to others, that and the writers didn't want to cure Banner, of course. It would be no more show, but I think the threat issue might have been the reason given. Have to watch it again because that is a good question. Frustrating stuff like that always happens on shows.

[@madmanmark8387]

Maybe the episode of him coming home to his sister and father is sad because he couldn't spend I think it was Thanksgiving and Jack Mcgee shows up so David was forced to leave. But more so I think his father when he saw him as Hulk said run David run and the Hulk was so enraged with emotion.

[@harveywittii9323]

Her illness killed her. And the other hulk like monster caused his pain to

[@jesseviv]

Well David had a type .. terminally ill