If you’re like me, you watched a lot of early morning cartoons as a child. And if you were born in the 80’s one of those cartoon was probably “David the Gnome.” You might remember Tom Bosley’s fatherly voice telling you to take care of the environment and the people you love for a half an hour every morning. For twenty-five, of its twenty-six episodes “David the Gnome” told us all about how to live better lives.
In episode twenty-six, in perhaps the ballsiest moment in the history of children’s television, he turned into a tree and died. This is of course after he spent a gut wrenching twenty minutes or so saying goodbye to everyone he loves. I think the clip speaks for itself.
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MANLY TEARS.
i don\’t think this would have affected me as much in childhood if that drat fox didn\’t give off that sad, long howl at the end. it\’s the clincher.
Good, this world needs less Gnomes and more Trolls. Trolls are the only pure race of little people.
I loved this show. I had completely repressed that memory and this made me bawl.
I don’t think this would have affected me as much in childhood but I was still only in my twenties.
He didn’t die, Andrew…he manifested himself into a tree. There’s a huge difference.
It’s the same ambiguous ending that was in that movie “Powder,” where he is running gayly into the field and turns into energy. Is he dead? No, he’s part of our universe and stuff.
It’s obvious David the Gnome is too deep for you, man.
He’s dead Rob, get over it. The sooner you get over it the sooner we can all go on living.
Oh, I loved Paul the Gnome! Never knew he actually traveled outside Belgium/Holland (I’ve always known the guy as Paulus de Boskabouter…)
This clip reminds me of when I read the real Little Mermaid by HC Anderson after watching the Diney movie. It made my cry my eyes out it was so sad. I guess I was about 8 but I swore never to watch disney-fied, sugarcoated cartoons again. Thanks for bringing back the memories!
Oh my goodness…I’d totally forgotten about this show, and I used to love it so much! I never saw this part of it though, thank you for sharing!
I read my big old book on gnomes into pieces as a kid. All I can think is, if gnomes live in houses built under the roots of trees, and they turn into trees when they die…
…does that mean they’re basically living under the feet of Grandpa’s corpse?
I’ve heard the saying that everyone has a twin somewhere in this world. The chances of this gnome and the Travelocity gnome both being actors has to be astronomical.
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