• |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Sleepytime makes me cry every time. The symbolism surrounding concepts of growing up, facing the future (or current) death of one’s mom / parent… the simple joys and quiet moments between parents and their kids and the orchestral arrangement and performance of Gustav Holst’s masterpiece classic suite “The Planets” is a moment of devastatingly bittersweet television perfection captured in a 7-minute episode of a children’s cartoon.

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      18 hours ago

      One time as I was driving, a song started on the radio and I started crying but I didn’t know why. Then I realized it was “The Planets”, and I was thinking of Sleepytime.

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      1 day ago

      I’ll be honest, almost every episode has me tearing up in one way or another.

      I feel like Alan from Cinema Therapy lol.