# What a depressing "Futurama" Episode on Adult Swim Last Night **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 12, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844 "2003-11-12T17:13:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DaPearl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@DaPearl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaPearl)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/1 "2003-11-12T17:13:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/2 "2003-11-12T17:53:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/3 "2003-11-12T18:06:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/4 "2003-11-12T18:36:32Z")
Quick question, what is the song played during the dog-waiting scene? ---
**Author:** ![7\_up\_yours](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/919ad9/32.png) [@7\_up\_yours](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7_up_yours)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/5 "2003-11-12T19:07:21Z")
That episode, and the one were Fry tries to find his seven leaf clover are the ones that actually brought tears to my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/6 "2003-11-12T19:19:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Frankenbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@Frankenbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankenbear)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/7 "2003-11-12T20:04:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/8 "2003-11-12T20:19:07Z")
I know how you feel, **Elaella** I’ll copy and paste something I wrote in another thread: > [@](#): > > I never considered myself an animal person until I realised that the one thing I miss more than anything else after moving out of the house for college, is not my parents, not the home-cooked meals, not the abundance of wide open space, but my dogs. Labradors, three of them, one a black-mix, one a brown-mix, and one a pure yellow Lab. > > My tough guy facade crumbles at the mere mention of sweet, loveable, friendly dogs… ---
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/9 "2003-11-12T20:42:00Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/10 "2003-11-12T21:49:50Z")
Geez…you made me cry just at the mere mention of this episode. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/11 "2003-11-12T21:56:30Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_scratch\_fever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Cat\_scratch\_fever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_scratch_fever)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/12 "2003-11-12T22:34:58Z")
Did you see the one where the group wins a tour of the Slurm Factory? best episode ever ---
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/13 "2003-11-12T22:52:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > \*\*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). \*\* I was trying to say that you could see both Nibbler’s and future Fry’s silhouette as past Fry falls back. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/14 "2003-11-12T23:14:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cat scratch fever \* > \*\*Did you see the one where the group wins a tour of the Slurm Factory? > > best episode ever \*\* “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. 🙂 ---
**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 13, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/15 "2003-11-13T00:14:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CaptBushido \* > \*\*Quick question, what is the song played during the dog-waiting scene? \*\* A Google search on the lyrics resulted in a song called “I Will Wait for You”: > [@](#): > > English Words by Norman Gimbel and Music by Michel Legrand from the 1964 film “The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg” starring Catherine Deneuve > charted at # 113 in 1965 by Steve Lawrence 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. ---
**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 13, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/16 "2003-11-13T02:22:02Z")
A lot of us felt the same way [when Fox showed it for the first time a year ago!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=144902&highlight=futurama) > [@](#): > > I was trying to say that you could see both Nibbler’s and future Fry’s silhouette as past Fry falls back. 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? ---
**Author:** ![Tremmie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Tremmie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tremmie)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/17 "2003-11-13T03:21:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hail Ants \* > \*\*A lot of us felt the same way [when Fox showed it for the first time a year ago!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=144902&highlight=futurama)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_ ---
**Author:** ![Siegfried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Siegfried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siegfried)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/18 "2003-11-13T04:59:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/19 "2003-11-13T05:19:28Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844/20 "2003-11-13T11:42:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Siegfried \* > **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.** 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-depressing-futurama-episode-on-adult-swim-last-night/212844.md?page=2)