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?
Autolycus–I can’t even watch that episode.
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.
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?
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.
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)
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.
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
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).