# Last night's Futurama ( Fry's dog episode ) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459 "2002-11-19T04:01:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/21 "2002-11-19T20:46:58Z")
Damn now I feel my own mortality. The friggen icy hand of Death sure seems closer as I watched the Pizzaria get old and become abandoned. And teh Poor Dog getting older and older and sadder. Cripes I SEE DEATH EVERY WHERE NOW AIIIGHHHH DEATH!!! No thats the baby… ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/22 "2002-11-19T20:57:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by joshmaker \* > \*\*The episodes currently airing are the 16 left overs from last season, which they never showed. While the show has not been canceled officially, unofficially it might have well as been. Because this season is just repeats from last year, the Futurama staff has had to split up and move on to different projects. > > Fox’s official stance is that it is waiting to decide whether or not to renew the show, but Futurama’s future is very, very grim. \*\* Yep. After the exposure the team got working on this show (which is very highly regarded despite Fox’s attempts to destroy iy), they’ll be moving on to bigger and better things. If Fox ever does get around to renewing the show, it’ll be too late to get the team back together, and it wouldn’t be the same show. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/23 "2002-11-19T20:58:32Z")
Crap. I just watched the episode again, and this time I really did cry. I’m erasing the tape now. Will someone please promise me that I’ll never be parted from [my cats](http://glenn5.home.mindspring.com/images/chiff.jpg), and that they’ll never grow old or die? ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/24 "2002-11-19T22:54:12Z")
Sad sad sad… Its supposed to be a comedy dangnabit! They’ve got to do an episode where he goes and decides to clone it! They’ve just got too! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/25 "2002-11-19T23:44:42Z")
It reminded me of an old story that supposedly took place in the 1800s. As the story goes, bobbies (British police constables) were expected to have a dog. One bobbie bought a terrier, it being a small, economical dog to keep. The terrier followed him around every night on his beat. Eventually the bobbie died. The dog stood vigil as the body was prepared, and followed the procession to the graveyard. When his master was buried, the little dog stood vigil over his grave. He subsisted on handouts until he too eventually died of old age, never leaving his master’s side. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/26 "2002-11-20T00:55:25Z")
Maudlin. I didn’t like it. I didn’t want to see that and it sorta pissed me off. It was cheap and I expect more from them. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/27 "2002-11-20T02:09:00Z")
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one. I normally love sick, cynical humor but this joke was just so drawn out and sad! What the heck happened with Futurama? Why did Fox stop running it in the middle of last season? And why did they cancel it? As far as I know it was still getting good ratings ( **and** good reviews). I really saw it as The Simpsons’ worthy successor and expected it to run 10+ seasons too! And believe me, when a major network says they’re “not ordering any new episodes” this is the exact same thing as saying “canceled”. No non-cable TV network is going to devote a slot in prime time to reruns only. ---
**Author:** ![Pythagras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/45deac/32.png) [@Pythagras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythagras)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/28 "2002-11-20T02:44:27Z")
It has the worst time spot period. I wish they never cancelled the critic too ☹ At least Fox has kept 24 alive. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/29 "2002-11-20T03:16:31Z")
**Hail Ants** : I think they stopped running it in the middle of last season because the ratings were down because they kept showing reruns because they wanted to save money by stopping new episodes mid-season. Or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![djbdjb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@djbdjb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djbdjb)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/30 "2002-11-20T22:04:13Z")
Is it just me, or was the plot similar to Spielberg’s A.I. ? ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/31 "2002-11-20T22:07:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by djbdjb \* > \*\*Is it just me, or was the plot similar to Spielberg’s A.I. ? \*\* Now that you mention it… –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/32 "2002-11-20T22:46:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by djbdjb \* > \*\*Is it just me, or was the plot similar to Spielberg’s A.I. ? \*\* I dunno. I think you and Cliffy are the only ones in America who saw A.I. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/33 "2002-11-20T23:02:24Z")
**Johnny L.A.** , that would be [Greyfriars Bobby](http://www.novareinna.com/bridge/bobby.html). Who, as it happens, was buried by his master’s side. :sniff: I wish I’d remembered to tape _Futurama_, now. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/34 "2002-11-23T23:01:03Z")
☹ That was so sad. It did make me cry, too. I’m not a guy, but this episode should be added to the list of movies that make it okay for a man to cry through. That last scene/song…God that was so depressing…thinking of that poor little dog just waiting for Fry to come home. And Fry never even got to clone him. ☹ It was almost too sad. Oh yeah did anyone notice Nibbler’s eyeball sticking out of the garbage can when Fry throws the pizza down? Weird! But cool. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/35 "2002-11-24T10:22:33Z")
People might have actually watched the show if it was _on reliably, week after week!_ Instead it gets randomly pre-empted by sports. Sometimes they’ll even show an episode on the West Coast that they won’t show in the other time zones. And people wonder why I download half the TV shows I watch from the Internet… ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459/36 "2002-11-24T14:25:29Z")
And my connection is so slow, I don’t even have that option. ☹ Damn FOX to hell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-nights-futurama-frys-dog-episode/137459.md?page=1)