# Damn You Futurama! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 21, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121 "2005-02-21T04:23:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![recurriman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@recurriman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/recurriman)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/1 "2005-02-21T04:23:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/2 "2005-02-21T04:27:48Z")
Yeah, that episode is fucked up. I want to laugh at Futurama, **dammit** , not nearly weep. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/3 "2005-02-21T04:31:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hellestal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hellestal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hellestal)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/4 "2005-02-21T04:34:17Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/5 "2005-02-21T04:37:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/6 "2005-02-21T04:38:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/7 "2005-02-21T05:11:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/8 "2005-02-21T05:20:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/9 "2005-02-21T05:37:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Teelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Teelo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teelo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/10 "2005-02-21T05:41:17Z")
What happens in Jurassic Bark? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/11 "2005-02-21T05:53:31Z")
> [@Teelo](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/12 "2005-02-21T05:54:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/13 "2005-02-21T06:08:33Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > 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. They weren’t brutal enough. I hated that asshole. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/14 "2005-02-21T06:19:53Z")
Blasphemy! ~squirts ink at you and runs away~ Wubwubwubwubwubwubwub!!! (And yes, towards the OP ,that espisode still makes me a bit misty eyed) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/15 "2005-02-21T06:23:54Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > They weren’t brutal enough. I hated that asshole. Stick to someone else, ya windy barnacle! ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/16 "2005-02-21T10:26:31Z")
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](http://www.greyfriarsbobby.co.uk/story/story.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/17 "2005-02-21T12:06:29Z")
Damn you recurriman, Snarky\_Kong and Apos! I think I got something in my eye… \ The one about Fry’s brother always gets me too. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/18 "2005-02-21T12:27:04Z")
Dammit, I should have known better than to highlight **Apos’s** spoiler box. _Dabs eyes with Kleenex._ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/19 "2005-02-21T12:27:33Z")
I kept think about my old dog, Billy, put down years ago, from cancer. > [@](#): > > My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am. ~Author Unknown > [@](#): > > The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s. ~Mark Twain, letter to W.D. Howells, 2 April 1899 > [@](#): > > Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man, without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog” > [@](#): > > A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. > ~Robert Benchley > [@](#): > > “If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.”~~Quote by James Thurber ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121/20 "2005-02-21T13:40:12Z")
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:: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-futurama/291121.md?page=2)