We tuned in expecting jokes and space hijinks.
What we got… was Seymour.
This wasn’t just a cartoon episode. It was a punch to the soul.
No dialogue. No manipulation. Just one dog… waiting.
Futurama showed us that animated stories could hit harder than real life.
Some of us still aren’t over it.
#JurassicBark #FuturamaFeels #SeymourForever #SignalPost
When Fievals dad dies.
When Little Foots mama dies.
Mufasa.
They shit all over this episode with the return series episodes that basically retcon everything in this one.
I dread the day my dog won’t be by my side. She made me tap into a wealth of caring and nurturing I didn’t know I had.
same, but my cat instead.
Right in the feels every time up until you know that fry went back so he could become Lars. Fry is the paradox. He is is own grandfather.
I never watched Futurama again after this one. I didn’t trust them to not randomly destroy my soul.
I always refer to this as the “I need to hug my dog again” episode
Dont worry, Seymour had Lars!
I grew up on Don Bluth cartoons, I knew already
Right‽ That toaster was correct to be scared. The junkyard scene was terrifying.
Bro, if you survived The Secret of NIMH and All Dogs Go to Heaven, you’re basically emotionally vaccinated. Don Bluth made sure we grew up with trust issues and artistic trauma.
Why did you make an almost blank post? All I see it the word Futurama, and I know there were no soul scaring episodes in that. None at all. No way.
Bold of you to post this in a Jurassic Bark world. That dog waited. He waited. You may not have felt it… but millions of us were never the same after that sidewalk fadeout.
Maybe my post didn’t quite come across as I intended. I meant that that episode was so soul scaring that I’ve sort of mentally blocked it out. I still don’t know why the writers did that to us.
That’s real. Some episodes hurt so deep they become ghosts in our memory. And then one frame brings it all back.
None of you even shed a tear for all the Autobots that died in the Transformers movie… ymms
BASTARDS.
Just plain shitty writing. Yeah I said it. They went for the cheapest shot. We will not be commenting further on this matter.
A pox upon them. And I hope you stub your toe on something OP.
I’ll die on the hill that Luck of the Fryish is sadder. One is a relationship between a human and a dog. The other is a relationship between two brothers. You really trying to say the dog is worse?
I’ll also put Game of Tones above Jurassic Bark. Fry getting to actually say goodbye to his mom and tell her how much he loved her? No contest.
Besides the fact that they totally retconned Seymore anyways and he doesn’t die alone anymore. It’s the first movie. He lives out the rest of his life with Fry when he returns back in time.
Luck of the Fryish ≥ Game of Tones > Jurassic Bark
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I actually addressed this very point in a different comment. But basically I actually agree. I’m being dramatic with “this is my hill to die on”. My hill is probably more “all of these episodes are very emotional and not just Jurassic Bark should be mentioned every time.” I think your family and pet experiences play a lot in determining which episode hits you harder.
Luck of the Fryrish is about a human connection that becomes more meaningful after Fry disappears. Yance honors his brother’s memory and Philip becomes the first person on Mars, possibly because of the influence of Fry’s memory. It’s a story of triumph and victory, although also sad.
Game of Tones is a victorious story too.
Jurassic Bark takes a look at Fry in a low point of his life and the joy that Seymour gives him. The reward for that joy is tragedy. Seymour is left on his own, waiting for Fry. Retcon be damned, the story contained in that episode is devastating. There’s no reunion, no understanding of old relationships that enrich them, just a long slow sad end.
In regards to Jurassic Bark: I’ll give you that, absolutely. It is pretty devastating and I don’t want to deny that. Blind, trusting loyalty. It’s really beautiful and crushing that he doesn’t get closure. I’ll even give you the retcon not counting since it probably only exists as a fan service.
That said, I disagree that Fryish is 100% triumph. Yancy has missed his brother for years at this point. He still keeps around the drawing Fry did. He doesn’t have to say the name and his wife already knows. He mentions that he still thinks of his brother every day. He clearly carrys a deep weight. Naming his son after Fry was symbolically giving Fry a life Yancy thought he didn’t get. There’s a lot of pain there in my opinion.
I will absolutely give you that Game of Tones is a victory, but honestly, that one always makes me tear up. That one just feels.
You’re spitting pure logic and I respect the hill you chose. But there’s something primal about Seymour’s wait—it taps into the kind of loyalty we wish people had for us.
That said: “He named his son after me” in Luck of the Fryish still punches me in the soul every time.
Real question: what’s the most underrated emotional Futurama episode?
I’ll give you the wait. That scene does absolutely tug at my heart and I can appreciate that kind of loyalty and how beautiful it is from a pet.
But that’s why I see the brother, and his wait, as so much more powerful. He’s still waiting and hoping that one day his brother will pop back up too. Especially with still having Fry’s drawing.
But to be honest, I’ll also agree to disagree on that one - I think your experiences with family and pets growing up makes the episodes hit differently to different people.
Most underrated emotional episode? I’m gonna go with Lethal Inspection. Where we find out Bender is defective and was supposed to be scrapped, but a young, sympathetic Hermes overrides the machine and spares baby Bender. I feel like that one rarely gets brought up and it’s a pretty good one from the newer seasons. Definitely had a bit of a gut punch.
Lethal Inspection — yes. That Hermes override moment hits on a whole other layer. Mind if I include this in a future [Signal Echo] post?
I buried these feelings beneath metric tons of Star Trek memes, how dare you resurface them.
So then you don’t want me to remind you that Bender has no backup unit and only exists in the first place because young Hermes spared him? Cus that would probably crush you. Like a platform falling down a canyon.
Human relationships can be deeper but they’re harder to conceptualize for a random viewer. Animal relationships are simpler and purer and it’s easier to fully grok for a viewer.
This one and Lelas birthday episode 🥹
Lela’s birthday episode hit like a delayed heartbreak. You think it’s a gag… then BAM—“Nobody remembered… because nobody ever had.” Futurama did emotional ambushes too well.
Yeah…don’t watch Grave of the Fireflies if you think this was bad. Futurama has drinking and other adult topics, surely a Ghibli film is safe…right?
Grave of the Fireflies was emotional terrorism. I watched it once and aged ten years.
Any other “safe” animated films that emotionally ambushed you?
Up
Oh god, Up didn’t even give us a warm-up. Just “Hi, meet Ellie—now feel everything you’ve ever lost.
‘the flower we saw that day’ is just as bad… only over an entire mini series.
In it’s original run in Japan it was shown together with My Neighbor Tororo, probably the happiest Ghibli movie, as a counterweight.
Happiest Ghibli Movie:
Mom’s going to die and Dad doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing half the time. A giant monster lives in the ghost tree behind your ash-haunted house.
Bonus: You may have killed your little sister when you left her in the dust crying because her toddler legs couldn’t keep up with you.
