From mobster to cartoon mutt: Five of the saddest tv deaths that still hit hard to this day

"You probably don't even hear it when it happens, right?"

These haunting words were uttered by gentle gangster Bobby Bacala 19 years ago during the sixth and final season of the HBO mob drama "The Sopranos" when discussing how a wise guy usually meets his unceremonious end.

Just a few short episodes later, and everyone's favorite manicotti-obsessed soldier would find himself in a pool of his own blood on the floor of a model train store.

Bacala isn't the only death that gripped television audiences when it happened, though.