Mine was playing NFL then switched to Tony Hawk's Proving Ground. Or American Wasteland. Underground 2 is better though.
He is sad, it's just that he went and played video games instead of crying or something. Mind you, he stood in the bathroom and started bawling his eyes out just recently.
My Sims would always freak when someone died in Sims 2. In Sims 3 they do the weirdest stuff after a person dies right in front of them, like cleaning the windows or checking the stove or something.