I’m in the middle of re-re-re-re-watching the entire series and i just finished episode 5x02 (Jurassic Bark). The episode is so damn sad! It made me feel like crying.
snif.
Ok, i’m done.
Yeah, that episode is fucked up. I want to laugh at Futurama, dammit, not nearly weep.
I know exactly which one you’re talking about, too. I always get teary eyed when seeing it, too. That one, and the one with the Space Wasps. Oddly enough, I consider these the two best Futurama episodes.
I’ve watched that episode all the way through exactly once. Going through the series again, I turned off the episode halfway in so I wouldn’t have to watch the end.
I also skip “The Body” on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
They did the sad ones so well, though. I’ve never seen a movie or heard a song that could get me so close to crying, but the OP’s episode and “Luck of the Fryfish” have each done just that.
I’m with Stricker van Gogh. One full viewing was enough for me. Futurama is the only cartoon that made me care about it’s characters.
I’m all there with you guys. It was sad, and that’s why I don’t watch it again. But the funny thing with me is that I used to watch it in lieu of Family Guy because one of my best friends at the time didn’t speak english and didn’t get the cultural references, but he got futurama. I guess its more of a scifi thing that is internationalized by star trek and wars, etc. But it took me a long time to actually like it, but I really do like it and its a shame that its not coming back.
How can you not love fry? My favorite line of the whole series is when dr. farnsworth is trying to explain something to fry about how he is in danger and he says, “Don’t you realize…(some technical thing here)!” Of course it was said in the typical shouting farnsworth way. Fry responds almost happily, “Realize it? I don’t even understand it!”
The other favorite line of mine is when one of the character walks in on Farnsworth and Hermes and their kids when someone asks, “Is this angry shouting or busted hearing aid shouting?” Hermes responds," I’m afraid its both." Then Farnsworth shouts, “WHAT?!?!”
haha that is great.
As far as caring about the characters is concerned. Who doesn’t feel sorry for Zoidberg. He’s funny but sad.
Right at the third season, I’d mark it, they began to really develop Zoidberg. What was hillarious was how they began to be absolutely *brutal * to him, making the audience care so much for him.
“And why did I have to take a cab?!”
So sad.
The most recent time I saw that episode (it was, I think, my second time seeing it), I also got completely choked up. It’s heart-stopping. Most of the episodes are hilarious, I don’t mind if one makes me cry. I marvel at their versatility.
What happens in Jurassic Bark?
Fry discovers the fossilized remains of his beloved pet dog from the 20th Century. Hilarity and soul-crushing depression ensue.
I don’t know what the spoiler tag is. SPOILER
Fry has a chance to clone his dog that he had back in the day, but decides not to when he finds out that the dog led a full life after Fry got frozen. We find out that the dog waited for Fry to come back just like Fry told him until his death. A very sappy sad song is playing too.
They weren’t brutal enough. I hated that asshole.
Blasphemy!
~squirts ink at you and runs away~
Wubwubwubwubwubwubwub!!!
(And yes, towards the OP ,that espisode still makes me a bit misty eyed)
Stick to someone else, ya windy barnacle!
Well, it’s worse than that:
[spoiler]The episode flashes back to Fry and Seymour’s long relationship, and how Seymour searches high and low for Fry when Fry is frozen and vanishes. In the 30th century, Fry ultimately decides not to bring Seymour (the dog) back to life after learning that Seymour was fossilized nearly ten years after Fry had vanished from the 20th century. He reasons that the Seymour he loved was the Seymour that waited for him every day, but the real Seymour had probably moved on and led a long and happy life without him those ten years. It’s the Seymour he knew as a young dog that he loved, and that’s the Seymour he’ll always love. Now, that alone would be sad enough of a sappy ending.
But then we cut back to the 20th century, where Seymour has been searching for Fry everywhere, but ultimately failed to get anyone to find or release him. We then get our hearts ripped out with a time-lapse montage of Seymour waiting stoicly outside the pizzeria for Fry, the seasons slowly changing and people passing, Seymour refusing to be led away or distracted, slowly getting older and older through the years. “I will wait for You” by Connie Francis is played. At last, shaggy and thin, his weak little body sinks down into the winter snow in front of the pizzaria and he closes his eyes. Fade out on the haunting song. Utterly devastating for anyone that’s ever loved a faithful pet.[/spoiler]
Reminds me of this story:
http://www.greyfriarsbobby.co.uk/story/story.html
Damn you recurriman, Snarky_Kong and Apos!
I think I got something in my eye… <snif>
The one about Fry’s brother always gets me too.
Dammit, I should have known better than to highlight Apos’s spoiler box.
Dabs eyes with Kleenex.
I kept think about my old dog, Billy, put down years ago, from cancer.
That episode gets to me almost as bad as the part of Harlan Ellison’s The Deathbird about the Puli that has to be put down. 
Dammit, cartoons and sci-fi aren’t supposed to make me cry!
And Pit threads! I came in here looking for mud-slinging arguments, not to get all misty-eyed first thing in the morning. ::sniff::