# A Futurama clip that warms the coldest heart's cockles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 4, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758 "2007-05-04T16:25:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/1 "2007-05-04T16:25:35Z")
Hey Doperoos, While posting a comment to another thread, I was looking up the lyrics for a certain song that Fry likes to sing. During that process, I found this clip on Youtube. Be warned, emotional reaction may vary widely. [Fry singing his favorite song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnGv0HLe0tA&mode=related&search=) šŸ™‚ā˜¹ , Auto ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/2 "2007-05-04T17:19:03Z")
I get a tear in my eye when I see Seymour. If I had gotten my dog after that episode had aired I would have changed his name from Goliath to Seymour. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/3 "2007-05-04T17:50:07Z")
I stand by my assertion that ā€œJurassic Barkā€ is the saddest episode of any TV show ever. ā˜¹ News for the upcoming season of Futurama (to be released in 2008 on Comedy Central:) Seymour is said to be making an appearance, and in a ā€œnon-sadā€ way. We already know his fate, so it will either be more flashbacks with Fry, or they might actually go ahead and clone him. Part of me says that actually cloning Seymour is a ā€œcop-outā€, and makes ā€œJurassic Barkā€ a less powerful episode, but the other part of me says that Seymour and Fry deserve a happy ending with each other, and us fans deserve to have our hearts, which were throughly ripped out of our chests, put back in. ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/4 "2007-05-04T19:22:55Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] I stand by my assertion that ā€œJurassic Barkā€ is the saddest episode of any TV show ever. ā˜¹ [/QUOTE] Yeah. mr.stretch wonā€™t watch that one again. **Auto** , how cruel. As soon as I saw Seymour, the whole epi came rushing back, especially the end. ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/5 "2007-05-04T20:08:26Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] I stand by my assertion that ā€œJurassic Barkā€ is the saddest episode of any TV show ever. ā˜¹ [/QUOTE] I wholeheartedly agree ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/6 "2007-05-04T20:10:01Z")
Fry gets screwed over so much. Thats what makes me sad. I hope that whenever they end Futurama for good he gets his come-uppins. I say he should end up getting a dog that is descended from Seymor and him and leela should get married. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/7 "2007-05-04T23:12:58Z")
It just occurred to me that when Seymour died, he looked to be lying down, and his body so stiff with arthritis that he couldnā€™t stand up straight. And yet, what kind of posture were his fossilized remains found in? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/8 "2007-05-05T00:07:11Z")
I wouldnā€™t have described my cockles as cold but ā€¦ well, maybe you have to be a Futurama fan to understand why this should warm oneā€™s cockles. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/9 "2007-05-05T00:15:09Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] I stand by my assertion that ā€œJurassic Barkā€ is the saddest episode of any TV show ever. ā˜¹ [/QUOTE] I agree, but the episode where Fry gets stung by the queen space bee is the most touching. I know, I know. It was really Leela who was stung. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/10 "2007-05-05T00:55:36Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] Seymour is said to be making an appearance, and in a ā€œnon-sadā€ way. We already know his fate, so it will either be more flashbacks with Fry, or they might actually go ahead and clone him. Part of me says that actually cloning Seymour is a ā€œcop-outā€, and makes ā€œJurassic Barkā€ a less powerful episode, but the other part of me says that Seymour and Fry deserve a happy ending with each other, and us fans deserve to have our hearts, which were throughly ripped out of our chests, put back in. [/QUOTE] I agree. Cloning Seymour would be a cop out. Not to mention that it would be a dramatic change for Frys character. Fry is an idiot, and as part of that he always makes the wrong choice. The rational thing in Jurassic Bark would have been for him to clone Seymour and of course he didnā€™t. I need to go and play with Goliath now. ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/11 "2007-05-05T01:04:53Z")
This whole thread just ā€¦ sniffā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/12 "2007-05-05T03:46:01Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] I wouldnā€™t have described my cockles as cold but ā€¦ well, maybe you have to be a Futurama fan to understand why this should warm oneā€™s cockles. [/QUOTE] One neednā€™t be a fan, so long as youā€™ve watched that episode. If you havenā€™t seen it, though, then yeah, I understand the lack of cockle warming. ---
**Author:** ![CJJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@CJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/13 "2007-05-05T05:04:55Z")
My wife was not a _Futurama_ fan before we wed; I have turned he on to them with the _Adult Swim_ reruns, but despite her appreciation of the _Simpsons_ sheā€™s still lukewarm. Except for this episode; she cried her eyes out at the end, and when it was repeated several months later she told she had to leave the room and couldnā€™t bear to be sad like that again. A powerful episode. ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/14 "2007-05-05T05:13:00Z")
Just reading this thread makes me tear up. Thatā€™s how deeply I was affected by that episode. And I see that Iā€™m not alone. I also agree that ā€œJurassic Barkā€ is the saddest episode of any tv show ever. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/15 "2007-05-05T05:16:28Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] I wouldnā€™t have described my cockles as cold but ā€¦ well, maybe you have to be a Futurama fan to understand why this should warm oneā€™s cockles. [/QUOTE] [All right, you asked for itā€¦](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akf-H0OVpLA) It probably helps if you at least know that Fry is living in the year 3000+ because he was cryogenically frozen for a thousand years, beginning New Years Eve, 1999. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/16 "2007-05-05T05:42:32Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] It probably helps if you at least know that Fry is living in the year 3000+ because he was cryogenically frozen for a thousand years, beginning New Years Eve, 1999. [/QUOTE] And that right before he was accidentally frozen, he told Seymour to wait at the pizza parlor until he got backā€¦and so he didā€¦ ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/17 "2007-05-05T06:39:49Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] [All right, you asked for itā€¦](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akf-H0OVpLA) It probably helps if you at least know that Fry is living in the year 3000+ because he was cryogenically frozen for a thousand years, beginning New Years Eve, 1999. [/QUOTE] Mustā€¦notā€¦watch. Oh who am I kidding. I canā€™t ever not watch it. Off to have my heart broken againā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/18 "2007-05-05T07:20:41Z")
[QUOTE=SaintCad] I agree, but the episode where Fry gets stung by the queen space bee is the most touching. [/QUOTE] I agree. The mambokids and I watched that episode last night and they couldnā€™t understand why their dad had big ole tears running down his cheek. Not to say I donā€™t cry at ā€œJurassic Barkā€ or ā€œLuck of the Fryrishā€, but ā€œThe Stingā€ is just so sweet. mm ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-futurama-clip-that-warms-the-coldest-hearts-cockles/402758/19 "2007-05-05T23:49:32Z")
You all may know this already, but I just read in Playboy that Furturama will be back in 2008. Just FYI for those who werenā€™t aware.