# Futurama just made me cry. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-just-made-me-cry/395857 "2007-03-14T06:30:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Aioua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@Aioua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aioua)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-just-made-me-cry/395857/41 "2007-03-14T20:53:10Z")
I’ll put my vote in for _Leela’s Homeworld._ That ending montage was perfect… seeing poor geeky teenage Leela finding a present in the sewer… _sniff_ Is it wrong to have crushes on imaginary mutants? ---
**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:** [March 14, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-just-made-me-cry/395857/42 "2007-03-14T21:03:31Z")
**Autolycus** –I can’t even watch that episode. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-just-made-me-cry/395857/43 "2007-03-14T21:09:54Z")
[QUOTE=Cabbage] And there’s another incident (in Montana) that’s very similar to this: [http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/MTFTBshep.html](http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/MTFTBshep.html) [/QUOTE] There’s several legends along these lines. For example, there was Odysseus’s dog which waited twenty years for him at his door and died when he finally got home. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-just-made-me-cry/395857/44 "2007-03-14T23:51:48Z")
I’ve never seen even one episode of this whole series, let alone the particular episode you are talking about, but reading this thread made me tear up! Wonder if they rent the dvds at Blockbuster? ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-just-made-me-cry/395857/45 "2007-03-15T01:18:40Z")
Why did I read this? Now I’m crying! I will never watch that episode again… it’s the only one that ever got to me like that. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-just-made-me-cry/395857/46 "2007-03-15T01:56:46Z")
Oh man, you had to mention _Jurassic Bark_. That one and _The Sting_ have some weird supernatural ability to cause dust in the room to get in my eyes. _The Devils Hands Are Idle Playthings_ is another that gets me, but not nearly to the same degree as those two. That said, both of the scenes with Fry playing the holophonor about Leela (if that sentence makes any sense) without any special enhancements get me a bit. It’s fairly rare for a TV show to get any kind of reaction out of me, so the fact that Futurama puts a lump in my throat (and within five minutes, can have me laughing like a hyena) says wonders for the quality of the show’s writing and execution. Usually the only kind of thing that can get a response out of me are war movies (the taxi cab scene in _We Were Soldiers_ and the bit from _Saving Private Ryan_ about “Tell me I have led a good life.” are the ones that make me cry like a little bitch) ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-just-made-me-cry/395857/47 "2007-03-15T03:08:42Z")
> [@](#): > > In fact, most all of the episodes that are about Fry’s love for Leela, I find extremely touching. The Space Honey one, especially, where we see Leela struggling with her guilt and grief over Fry’s death, only to learn at the end that Fry has been spending the last several weeks at her bedside, imploring her to come out of her coma. I also gave a little sniffle at the one where, due to some sci-fi time screw up thingy, Fry and Leela are transported to the future and findout that they’re married. They have no memory of the time they skipped though, so Leela can’t remember what Fry did to cause her to fall in love with him and they are divorced. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-just-made-me-cry/395857/48 "2007-03-15T03:09:24Z")
Just reading the title, I _KNEW_ the OP was referring to Jurrasic Bark, and yes, it _does_ seem to have the ability to kick up dust in the room, doesn’t it? it does have some funny moments too though “look,Seymour can do two things…no wait, _three_ things” (Seymour is swimming in a vat of pasta sauce and “singing” “Walking on Sunshine”) Oh sure, smash the _smart_ guy’s machine… JB is one of those rare animated shows that have a heart, kinda’ like another underappreciated film with a robot and a boy in it… “Suuuuupermaaannnn!” JB is hard for me to watch as well, i actually showed a YouTube clip of the closing scenes of the cloning process/Seymour waiting for Fry to my co-workers, and both of my co-workers, who had never seen the ep before, and who weren’t even familiar with Futurama got a little choked up powerful, powerful episode ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-just-made-me-cry/395857/49 "2007-03-15T04:24:26Z")
This thread is the first indication I’ve had that “Futurama” continued after the first season. I watched that first season on DVD – or maybe someone loaned me a videotape – and I was told it had been cancelled. This was a few years ago. I’d love to see the new ones and will check around to see if it’s available here. This “Jurassic Bark” episode makes me feel sad just reading about it. Poor dog! That’s what I would be like if anything ever happened to my wife. She’s all all I have, MY whole world. No children and no family left in the US except for a couple of very elderly aunts and uncles whom I do keep in occasional contact with but, since I grew up far away from them, never was very close to. The description of the poor dog losing his world like that sends a chill down my spine. It also makes me think of my own dogs as a boy (have none here). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-just-made-me-cry/395857.md?page=2)