I wasn’t expecting a cartoon like that to be that depressing. It was the one where Fry wants to clone his dog, but chooses not to in the end because his dog had a full life. But at the end they show Fry’s dog basically waiting 10 years for Fry in the 20th century until he dies. Good job by the writers, too bad this show was canceled.
Yeah, it was a bit of an oddball show, but I liked it nonetheless. It was a good kind of depressing. It was much better than any of the times the Simpsons tried to come off on a “serious note,” that always just seemed cheesy. The part where they show the dog waiting was especially tear-jerking.
That is the saddest cartoon ever. i cried when i saw the ending, it was the first time i’ve cried in 2 years. I haven’t been able to watch it since, so i’m glad i missed the rerun.
Quick question, what is the song played during the dog-waiting scene?
That episode, and the one were Fry tries to find his seven leaf clover are the ones that actually brought tears to my eyes.
When I first got my dog (about 2 months before this ep. first aired), he would wait for me the way that Seymour waited for Fry. When I saw that episode for the first time I cried like a little girl. Goliath wasn’t home with me yesterday when I watched it, big mistake. He is going to get smothered with love after I pick him up tonight.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who cried over that episode. What got me the most is if everything goes according to plan in the next month I’ll be moving and will have to leave my dog behind. 
After watching that show I smothered my pup with love.
I know how you feel, Elaella
I’ll copy and paste something I wrote in another thread:
Yea I loved this episode. I think its my favorite Futurama episode.
Did you notice Nibbler’s eye in the garabe bin? Or Nibbler’s and Fry’s silhouette when Fry fell backwards?
Geez…you made me cry just at the mere mention of this episode.
Say “Jurassic Bark” and I cry like a cello on command.
teemingONE - we’ve mentioned this here before but you can see Nibbler’s silhouette as Fry “falls” into the tube in the very first episode. (The eyeball is unique to this episode).
Did you see the one where the group wins a tour of the Slurm Factory?
best episode ever
I was trying to say that you could see both Nibbler’s and future Fry’s silhouette as past Fry falls back.
“But your Highness, she’s a commoner. Her Slurm will taste terrible.”
“Yes. Which is why we’ll market it as New Slurm. Then, when everyone hates it, we’ll bring back Slurm Classic and make billions! HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!”
Gotcha teemingONE. I did notice that but wanted to scoop you on the more amazing trivia in case you didn’t know about it. 
A Google search on the lyrics resulted in a song called “I Will Wait for You”:
From the Google results, it looks to have been covered by a few artists, so I’m not sure who did the version played on Futurama. The audio quality sounds kind of bad (read:old), though, so it may be the original.
As to the OP, “Jurassic Bark,” was a pretty damn sad episode. Didn’t make me cry, though. The only episode of Futurama that actually had me choking back tears was “Leela’s Homeworld,” where Leela finally meets her parents. It was very emotional, but not overdone. The episode was written by Kristin Gore, daughter of Al Gore.
A lot of us felt the same way when Fox showed it for the first time a year ago!
Has anybody checked their tape of when the pilot first aired in '99 to see if those shadows were really there all along or if they just added them later whenever the pilot gets re-aired?
It was there from the first episode. The sadest episode for me is the one where Fry gets stuck by a giant bee and dies and Leela keeps dreaming about him. “You gotta wake up Leela” sniff
I was close to losing it when the ending montage of the dog waiting 12 years for Fry started. I almost made it through without crying. Then came the look on Seymour’s face when he finally knelt down and the credits rolled. I lost it then and there. A few episodes of Futurama have made me emotional. The episodes about Leela’s parents, the Space Bees, the intestinal worms, Yancy Fry, and the finale all got to me a bit. This one was just powerful. The writers and the animators did a damn good job.
On the plus side, my cat’s been getting a lot of attention since then.
Wow. I’m happy I wasn’t the only one holding back tears when it showed the dog waiting for 12 years…
Poor Seymour. I miss my puppy…
Same here. I haven’t seen the episode from the OP yet, and I’m afraid to. I’ve teared up at the end of all the episodes you mention, and whenever I tell anybody this they always say, “Well, if that’s enough to make you cry, whatever you do, don’t watch the one about Fry’s dog.”
I’ve said the same thing in another thread, but I never liked the show during its “original” run on Fox; I thought the characters were all unlikeable and just casually hateful towards each other. It took watching them all back-to-back from the Cartoon Network (thank you, TiVo!) for me to see that the characters are all casually hateful to each other because they genuinely like each other, faults and all.