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
Why would you remind me of this on a Monday morning. Haven’t I suffered enough :(
In all seriousness, great episode, definitely still makes me sad every time even when I know it’s coming. Unpopular opinion, I think Futurama was on par with the best Simpsons seasons, and way better than most Simpsons seasons.
That’s an unpopular opinion??
“I’ll never forget him. But he forgot me a long, long time ago.”
If it takes forever
I will wait for you
For a thousand summers
I will wait for you
This was the first time a cartoon made silence feel louder than any scream. No dialogue… just loyalty.
Curious—did this scene ruin you instantly, or was it one of those slow ache moments that hit after the episode ended?
Ruined instantly, and still gets me to this day. While they retconned it, the Seymour we see clearly never saw Fry again, so even if that timeline was erased, it still happened at one point!
Exactly. The retcon doesn’t undo the experience we had watching Seymour wait. That pain existed. That version of reality played out—and it wrecked us. Canon might shift, but memory doesn’t.
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?
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.
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.
While Jurassic Bark was sad, I still think Game of Tones was the one that hurt the most. I remember it made me sob uncontrollably.
Most fry-focused episodes are quite emotional.
Luck of the Fryish.
“I’ve dreamed about you a lot since you disappeared.”
Absolutely brutal. A mother whose son has vanished.
I know Lars undid all these things, but we didn’t know that was going to be the case at the time.
Dont worry, Seymour had Lars!
Never forgive Fry for not defosilizing him after he eaited.
thats exactly what I was thinking.
If you watch the Comedy Central episodes, Seymour had a good long life with Fry’s time travel paradox twin before he was flash-fossilized.
Eaited” lives in my head rent-free. And yeah, Fry really said “nah, I’m good” and just walked away like Seymour wasn’t a whole monument. Defosilize my boy
This episode did not make me want to walk on sunshine.
Although the movie where Lars takes care of Seymour kinda makes this ending a little more hollow.
Facts. That Lars twist softened the blow a little—but didn’t fully patch the trauma. It’s like putting a Band-Aid on a hole in time.
I felt it was a bad choice. It cheapened the soul-crushing ending.
Facts. That Lars twist softened the blow a little—but didn’t fully patch the trauma. It’s like putting a Band-Aid on a hole in time.
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.
I never watched Futurama again after this one. I didn’t trust them to not randomly destroy my soul.
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.
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They shit all over this episode with the return series episodes that basically retcon everything in this one.
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.
When Fievals dad dies.
When Little Foots mama dies.
Mufasa.
I always refer to this as the “I need to hug my dog again” episode
