Futurama - Jurassic Bark

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I saw this episode a long, long time ago, but I recently re-watched it again (I got the season 4 DVD set) and wanted to post the story so people who hadn't seen it could hear about it's fantasticness.

For people who don't know, this is what Futurama's about: it's the year 3000-something, and a guy from the year 2000 was frozen and now lives 1000 years after his time. There's also an alcoholic robot, who's his best friend, a one eyed alien woman, his great great grandson who's like 200 years old, and some other characters that don't matter. That's enough info, I guess.

I'll just explain the important parts that make this episode awesome:

Anyways, the story starts when the main character from the past, Fry, finds out there's a 20th century pizzaria exhibit at a museum, so he goes to check it out. There, he finds it's the pizzeria he worked at, and finds his dog as a fossil there.

So eventually he convinces the museum to give him the dog back, and he takes it home. Then his boss, the professor, tells him he can bring the dog back to life using his advanced cloning technique. So of course Fry's excited and wants it done.

There's a few flashback scenes to when Fry met the dog (who's name is Seymour). Basically, the dog followed him everywhere, and when Fry was frozen, he tried hard to get Fry out of the freezer...

So when they finally go to clone the dog, the professor tells Fry that Seymour died at 12 years old and Fry tells him to stop. Since the last time Fry saw Seymour, Seymour was still 3 years old, he had 9 years after that to live on and he'd probably already forgotten Fry, so there wasn't any need to clone Seymour (since Seymour would retail his memory once cloned, apparently).

Anyway, so Fry decides not to clone Seymour.

At the very end a flash back shows the Seymour outside the pizzeria where Fry worked, sitting on the street corner, looking left and right... then it basically shows the season changing around Seymour and Seymour aging, still looking around excitedly for Fry, until eventually he looks old... and tired... but still waiting outside the pizzeria.

Well, it's heartbreaking, especially with the music they use

I just wanted to share that. If anyone ever gets the chance to see this episode, I urge you to watch it it. It's awesome, however very very sad

Pics of Seymour waiting for Fry:

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that episode sucked because it was heartbreaking!!!

Erm.... not really a reason for it to suck. It was meant to be heartbreaking.

We just downloaded the entire 5 seasons and all the DVD extra's we're gradually getting through them, b/fsaw this one said it was so so sad. I haven't seen it yet though, I am trying to watch them chronologically, but he watches them all higgeldy-piggedly.

Did you just get a major boost in download speed or something? Download an entire season on a 33k modem?

You can watch the episodes out of order, I think. There's nothing that really changes in the story during the later seasons. Wont bother you too much. If you want to get the jokes, though, you're better off getting into the characters before you start watching the funnier episodes.

Tell me how you like this episode, it is really awesome. I still can't watch it without cracking...

We got Broadband and Bit-torrents working. Still took us a few days of solid downloading to get the whole thing though. I am watching themm all out of sync and noticing little things in past episodes you don't find out until later episodes, liek the first episode you can see nibblers antennae pushing fry into the freezer, but you don't actually find out that he was oushed until some episodes laters and you see Lela's mum and dad witrh the mutants in the sewers before you find out that they are actually Lela's parents.

Backwards jokes, it,s odd.

It is.

The whole thing with Nibbler's antanna blew me away the first time I saw it. The episode with Nibbler pushing him in isn't until the fourth season (Broadcast fifth, DVD fourth), and they'd already stuck that in in the first episode? Unbelievable.

Have you seen the episode where Fry goes back and becomes his own grandfather? I swear, I must have a morbid sense of humour, because I found that awesome

Yeah I saw that one, that's cool. You've got to wonder about the writers though, to come up with something like that.

Still haven't seen the Jurasic Bark episode, my b/f won't watch it again, he says it's too sad, so I have to try and find a moment when I can high-jack the pooter and watch it.