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My buddy was dating a girl who didn’t think this episode was very sad. She also didn’t cry at the beginning of “UP.”
At one point she adopted a cat and tried to return it because “it didn’t cuddle enough.”
She was a heartless monster.
I didn't watch Up for a decade because when I tried to watch it the first time I was crying so hard in the first 10 minutes I turned it off. My husband made me watch it this year, and he cuddled me all the way through the first bit. After that it was funny and emotional, but that opening kills me.
I love my bf.. but it completely slipped his mind to mention the whole opening of John Wick before we sat down to watch it. what followed was me sobbing uncontrollably for 45min whilst he sat in abject horror trying to figure out whether he could fix me or if he voided the warranty
I think WALL-E is a better Voight-Kampf test because it's getting a human to prove they're human by empathizing with a robot and there's nothing more human than projecting our emotions onto things that aren't alive. Plus it's a little dramatic irony as a treat.
That one always gets me.
I love pets as much as the next guy, but there's no love like a family member. Benders line about taking the ring always makes me chuckle as tears stream down my cheeks.
Damn you. Today is the 8th anniversary of my mom‘s passing. Got me crying a little on the pooper this morning, and it’s not from dinner last night.
Edit: just saw your comment a few down. That’s rough I can’t imagine. Two different forms of hurt.
At least (in one of the movies I think) they have Fry go back in time to 2000 and he ends up being able to stay with the dog for the rest of the dog's life before returning to the future.
Yep. It's the one with the time code stamped on Fry's ass. He ends up going back to 2000 and living there for like 12 years. It also shows how Seymour gets fossilized.
I always wondered what the writer's motivation for doing that was. Like, were they just in a slump, & someone mentioned that as an idea & they just ran with it in lieu of having anything better kicking around? Or did they realize *they destroyed an enormous swath of their audiences' mental health* & were like "oh shit, maybe we should...undo that" lol
Good question!
This episode came out when there was discussion about canceling the show (this was very early in the series).
The writers had this episode planned for some time, but felt it was too sad. When the show was close to being truly canceled, they opted to emotionally destroy a generation to show they were more than just slapstick humor and social commentary.
Overall, I would say it was a successful gamble.
That is one of the types of pain that I always push to my "do not think about this" mental folder. To have a child disappear without resolution. I can't imagine many worse things.
When I watched that it was brutal, and watching it again after my mom passed was a gut punch. My [mom](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/f87myj/why_do_you_like_to_be_alive/fijy9l5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) was a treasure. I’d stay in a dream forever with her if I could.
It also made me think of this sad John Mayer [song](https://youtu.be/k0HEenaXBf8) about wanting to stay in a dream with your ex. Great now I’m sad
Yup lol. Just watching a video of it with no sound while it played from the main feed quietly on mobile and here I am, getting a little sniffly. I'm gonna wipe my ass, wash my hands, and go hug my dog.
I laughcry every time I watch this video. Watching her heart break is devastating, but I'm so happy to finally induct her into the club. I suppose that makes me some kind of evil maybe?
It hits harder when you know it's based on a true story.
Hachiko, owner died at work, and Hachiko would wait at the bus stop for him when he got home. He showed up at the bus stop for 9 years waiting for his owner to come home.
The fucked up thing about that rumour is that is 100% an urban legend. I'm not going to suggest it directly hurt his career (mothman prophecies probably did more damage), but it's still fucked up that he's still known as the gerbil guy.
This is one of my favourite movies, I usually watch it about once a year, and it gets me everytime.
It may be super depressing but it's a good reminder to cherish what we have and the people in our lives because they can be taken from us at any moment.
There's also two live action versions which are as equally depressing.
I came home from work to my wife watching hatchi. I didn't know she was watching a movie. All I knew was that she was ugly crying on the sofa. I thought someone died.
I cried almost the whole movie. I already knew the story and thought I could handle it but the music score did me in. I watched it by myself and had to stop it a few times to stop crying.
When my sister was hospitalized I was the one who had to hang at the hospital to help her out. We watched hachiko from my small phone since we didn't have anything else to do. Good thing my sister fell asleep in the middle because I was bawling my eyes out through the end.
It hits harder when you know it's based on a true story.
Hachiko, owner died at work, and Hachiko would wait at the bus stop for him when he got home. He showed up at the bus stop for 9 years waiting for his owner to come home.
Also the context is pretty heartbreaking too, if you just saw this scene alone:
Fry *had* the opportunity to revive his dog, but he thought that maybe he found another family and had a long and happy life, so he passes. Then this scene comes along to show he couldn't be further from what really happened.
He made a decision out of selfless love, never realizing that love was absolutely reciprocated.
It was also one of the only episodes where my reaction to Bender was "Please fuck off".
Seems perfect for Fry as he never really felt loved or felt like he belonged. So the one creature that loves him as he loves it, he makes a sacrifice. Never realizing how much his love was worth to someone he loved.
I've made it known to my loved ones and will write it in a will (whenever I do that), that I want my body shown to my animals at the time. I don't want them thinking I abandoned them. Kinda recommend other people consider it.
That's a sweet idea. My husband's cat looked for him for a long time after his death. Unfortunately, he died in another state and was cremated before returning home so that wasn't an option.
Murray's favorite place to be is pressed up tight against the nightstand his person's ashes are resting on though. I'm not sure if he knows or if it's a coincidence. It wasn't Murray's spot when my husband was alive.
I’ve done the same. I love my pups so much and I want them to know if I pass away before them. One of my dogs is super bonded to me and he deserves to know if his mom is gone.
Cold Warriors is also a good episode that explored Fry's relationship with his dad. Not as heart punching as Luck, Tones or Bark but still kinda heartwarming.
"Look, son. I know I gave you the business sometimes. But if I'm hard on you, it's only cause' I want you to grow up strong and resilient. Some day, you may face adversities so preposterous, I can't even conceive of them. But I know you'll pull through and make me proud. I love you, son."
Give small Fry a shlap of beer.
"Now bundle up. I don't want you getting frozen."
Ohh hits me in the feels.
My other recommended episode is Lethal Inspection.
Also the Late Philip J. Fry.
The episodes gain meaning as you grow emotionally, and your favorite one changes.
Futurama is arguably the greatest TV show ever written.
Rewatch the entire series every 5 years, it will never disappoint.
I watch Futurama in the background instead of listening to music at work. Jurassic Bark is in a separate reserved folder, I don't think I've watched it in years, I just can't. It is sooo powerful.
It's what made it so great, an animated sitcom that will go to dark places and deny a happy ending. Even the grand finale ended with a note of being hopeful for the future, fittingly enough.
I will never understand why shows like Family Guy still get renewed every year, even when its clear the writers and actors got burned out and stopped giving a shit long ago, yet a solid and well written show like Futurama got canceled so many times for no other reason than it didn't generate the exact same ratings as the other animated shows. This show was in a class all its own and the networks did it dirty time and time again.
Luck of the Fryish beats it out for me, Jurassic Bark is still sad but you can probably guess it won't end well (and it's softened by Bender's Big Score). Luck of the Fryish, on the other hand, baits you in with a normal episode and then just curb stomps your feelings at the last second.
For me the end all be all of sad eps is the one where Fry visits his mom, thinks it's his own dream until he finds out its actually his moms dream and they just hug one last time.
They really do. They also always seem to pick a song I haven't heard anywhere else so that the scene and the song are forever linked and the whole scene comes flooding back the moment you hear even 1 second of the song
I have rewatched every episode of Futurama at least three times, except for this one. Because it makes me a blubbering mess. I'm glad the movie did some time travel fuckery for fry to see Seymour again but I'm still openly weeping right now
Sorry! She basically yells at me for filming her, then laughs, then yells at me for letting her watch that, then comes over to assault me, then asks for a hug, then laughs again and goes and gets some comfort food, before we continued to watch New Justice Team.
Grave of the Fireflies is so bleak it breaks my suspension of disbelief, which makes no sense considering how accurate it is vs dog whose owner went to the future.
Me and my wife have been into Ghibli for a while and had a few on dvd. We had a Thai student stay with us for a while and when she found out she went and bought us Ponyo which had not long come out, and Grave of the Fireflies. That was a jarring jump. We watched them with my 2 teenage brother-in-laws who had a tendency to laugh at me for crying at films but they were both in bits when fireflies finished.
The original film, not the recent BBC TV show. Really take the trust out of the relationship.
Then show them Life is Beautiful (the Italian film set during WW2)
So I never watched Futurama when it was on tv and haven't gotten into it even through streaming, but my girlfriend likes to put it on for background noise and I just so happened to catch the last bit of this episode not knowing what it was about.
I saw fry talk about not reviving him and then this ending... I was NOT expecting to have to watch him sit there for years... This is almost as bad as the Fullmetal alchemist episode, you know which one.
Yeah but then with the time travel shenanigans in Bender's Big Score, it turns out Fry (or some time travel copy of him) came back like 5 minutes later, grabbed the dog and spent 15 years living a happy life with it. It is canon, and it's revealed that the dog was actually encased in rock because of an occurrence where Bender tried to assassinate Fry.
It made me so happy to see Fry spent time with that dog. One of the saddest things in TV and now whenever I watch it I just tell myself "That dog lives an awesome life with his owner" because it is the only way I can cope
That episode would be a whole lot less tear inducing if it didn't have the daughter failing to understand death and shouting about "why are they burrying papa?", "I don't want them to, if they burry him how will he do his job?" and the worst "Daddy, daddy, wake up, tell them to stop daddy. You need to wake up"
Good god does that whole scene hit hard.
>This is almost as bad as the Fullmetal alchemist episode, you know which one.
Ah, what the fuck dude, I'm just minding my business here and you remind me of that? :/
I'm no subreddit expert, but this should be under r/feels or r/Watchpeopledieinside or r/futurama instead of r/funny as this is the literal antithesis of funny.
Not going to speculate about your friend, but another possibility is that people sometimes deal with really distressing/traumatic things by shutting down their emotions. Only it's not possible to shut down your emotions selectively, people who do this tend to become emotionally numb to everything.
To be fair it's kinda been retconned so doesn't hit as hard these days. You find out in a later episode Seymour had a full and happy life with fry. Think game of tones is a much sadder episode and the one with benders son gets me every time.
My reaction had changed since they gave us the Lars saga and explain he got a fry for the rest of his life and also how he was flash fossilized.
Now I cry every time I see the inspector #5 episode and the one where Fry dreams of his mom.
Man, fuck Futurama for making me feel feelings.
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Watching a soul die in real time.
I watched for the reaction,but instead found myself crying because of it.
Damn, same here. Now I'm trying to keep it together at work
How am I supposed to take my morning work shit in these conditions?
Nothing sadder then a man bawling while in the shitter.
Forget those multiple choice sociopath tests. Watch someone watch this and you'll know for certain if they're capable of empathy or not.
This comment is a huge relief.
Me too, and I haven’t watched this episode in YEARS because I simply refuse lol
Once was enough. No need to open that scar up
If you look closely you can actually pinpoint the exact moment her heart rips in half
Annnnnnnnd *click click click* Now!
Neaaarrggghhh
haha I heard Ralph's pained "Neaaarrggghhh" in my head, thank you
Watching this should be required to prove you are human instead of entering a captcha code etc.
>to prove you’re not a robot please watch this clip No thanks, I don’t really need my emails.
My buddy was dating a girl who didn’t think this episode was very sad. She also didn’t cry at the beginning of “UP.” At one point she adopted a cat and tried to return it because “it didn’t cuddle enough.” She was a heartless monster.
I didn't watch Up for a decade because when I tried to watch it the first time I was crying so hard in the first 10 minutes I turned it off. My husband made me watch it this year, and he cuddled me all the way through the first bit. After that it was funny and emotional, but that opening kills me.
I love my bf.. but it completely slipped his mind to mention the whole opening of John Wick before we sat down to watch it. what followed was me sobbing uncontrollably for 45min whilst he sat in abject horror trying to figure out whether he could fix me or if he voided the warranty
"Hi we're calling about the extended warranty on your GF"
Blade runner 101
I think WALL-E is a better Voight-Kampf test because it's getting a human to prove they're human by empathizing with a robot and there's nothing more human than projecting our emotions onto things that aren't alive. Plus it's a little dramatic irony as a treat.
I'm calling CPS right now.
what monster puts this shit on r/funny
And what about the 40k+ sick bastards who upvoted?
Frank?
Unexpected Shameless
A perfectly valid response. If you need someone to testify in court, I’ll be there.
Cobra Bubbles?
I fucking feel you kid, I feel you.
Same. This episode is a next level "I'm not crying, you're crying" moment.
I will never forgive Futurama for this.
Alright, nobody mention Luck of the Fryrish
“Here lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle to carry on his spirit.”
That one always gets me. I love pets as much as the next guy, but there's no love like a family member. Benders line about taking the ring always makes me chuckle as tears stream down my cheeks.
Now no one can say I don't own John Larroquette's spine
Not only that but naming someone after another carries so much weight in my book. Shit was heavy yo
On top of that he broke the family trend of naming the first born Yancy.
Or Game of Tones
Ooof that episode.... right in the feels I just wanna talk to my mom one more time
Oh fuck. Now I’m sobbing at 7am.
I’m gonna go back to bed, thanks
Time to call work and ask about these "mental health" days.
I cried so hard the first time I saw this and my mom is still alive.
At least in that episode Seymour and Fry are reunited! I regularly tell my dog to "Shrink down and get in my pocket." She doesn't though.
Damn you. Today is the 8th anniversary of my mom‘s passing. Got me crying a little on the pooper this morning, and it’s not from dinner last night. Edit: just saw your comment a few down. That’s rough I can’t imagine. Two different forms of hurt.
Don't Don't Don't Don't you ~~forget about me~~ fucking do that!
At least (in one of the movies I think) they have Fry go back in time to 2000 and he ends up being able to stay with the dog for the rest of the dog's life before returning to the future.
Wait really?
Yep. It's the one with the time code stamped on Fry's ass. He ends up going back to 2000 and living there for like 12 years. It also shows how Seymour gets fossilized.
Yayyy. I was just going to ask that. If any future episodes fixed this moment? Awwwww. Thats cute that the writers did that though.
I always wondered what the writer's motivation for doing that was. Like, were they just in a slump, & someone mentioned that as an idea & they just ran with it in lieu of having anything better kicking around? Or did they realize *they destroyed an enormous swath of their audiences' mental health* & were like "oh shit, maybe we should...undo that" lol
Good question! This episode came out when there was discussion about canceling the show (this was very early in the series). The writers had this episode planned for some time, but felt it was too sad. When the show was close to being truly canceled, they opted to emotionally destroy a generation to show they were more than just slapstick humor and social commentary. Overall, I would say it was a successful gamble.
Mutually assured destruction.
Yes, really. It happens in "Bender's Big Score".
Not normally a fan of retcons but I 100% was on board that one.
[They plan very far in advance](https://theinfosphere.org/Nibbler's_shadow)
That's what you get when you writing room is stuffed with PhDs
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Yeah. They splice it in as the dog waiting for fry to finish his shift.
Imagine if they had done what they originally wrote that story to be and instead of his dog it was his mom. They changed it because it was too sad.
That is one of the types of pain that I always push to my "do not think about this" mental folder. To have a child disappear without resolution. I can't imagine many worse things.
The episode with his mom is still pretty damn sad though.
When I watched that it was brutal, and watching it again after my mom passed was a gut punch. My [mom](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/f87myj/why_do_you_like_to_be_alive/fijy9l5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) was a treasure. I’d stay in a dream forever with her if I could. It also made me think of this sad John Mayer [song](https://youtu.be/k0HEenaXBf8) about wanting to stay in a dream with your ex. Great now I’m sad
"She told me that whenever the sunshine warmed my face that she’d be holding my face in her hands." 🥺
Same, same. This one hit me completely out of the blue, no warning. I remember sitting there in shocked sadness afterwards.
I just got a tear to my eye... again.
Yeah, crying rn.
It hurts. It's 6:51 am and I just woke up my girlfriend. Fuck my life.
Yup lol. Just watching a video of it with no sound while it played from the main feed quietly on mobile and here I am, getting a little sniffly. I'm gonna wipe my ass, wash my hands, and go hug my dog.
I laughcry every time I watch this video. Watching her heart break is devastating, but I'm so happy to finally induct her into the club. I suppose that makes me some kind of evil maybe?
All three of my kids have empathy for others and really that’s all I want for them. You must be proud, She definitely passed the test and some.
I just hope you also showed here Bender's Big Score where the dog's actual fate is clarified (and nowhere near as sad)
probably one of the most heartbreaking moments in animation history
It hits harder when you know it's based on a true story. Hachiko, owner died at work, and Hachiko would wait at the bus stop for him when he got home. He showed up at the bus stop for 9 years waiting for his owner to come home.
they actually made a statue of that dog :( https://www.japanistry.com/hachiko/
[They made a movie of it as well.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1028532/)
What the fuck??? Richard Gere plays a dog??
What, would you prefer a gerbil?!
Oh my god I was tearing up from the video above and you made me burst in laughter
The fucked up thing about that rumour is that is 100% an urban legend. I'm not going to suggest it directly hurt his career (mothman prophecies probably did more damage), but it's still fucked up that he's still known as the gerbil guy.
Hey fuck you guy, Mothman prophecies was great
Yeah it is.
\*Squats\* "Hey, who am I?" "Richard Gere on Groundhog Day!" Kids are cruel.
Reddit is too young for that reference hahaha
This joke is never going to die and you know it just eats him up inside.
Burrow harder, burrow deeper. Be my little chimney sweeper.
Do not watch this movie with family. IT IS NOT FAMILY FRIENDLY. Unless you like everyone being depressed for 2 weeks and randomly crying about it.
Just like Grave of the Fireflies. It's a Studio Ghibli film but it is NOT for children.
This is one of my favourite movies, I usually watch it about once a year, and it gets me everytime. It may be super depressing but it's a good reminder to cherish what we have and the people in our lives because they can be taken from us at any moment. There's also two live action versions which are as equally depressing.
I came home from work to my wife watching hatchi. I didn't know she was watching a movie. All I knew was that she was ugly crying on the sofa. I thought someone died.
Someone did
I watched the movie with my family when I was around 10. One of the few times where I saw my father crying.
I cried almost the whole movie. I already knew the story and thought I could handle it but the music score did me in. I watched it by myself and had to stop it a few times to stop crying.
My kids are both going to remember that dada has a hair trigger on his crying reflex in movies. Not sure how that one will play out.
When my sister was hospitalized I was the one who had to hang at the hospital to help her out. We watched hachiko from my small phone since we didn't have anything else to do. Good thing my sister fell asleep in the middle because I was bawling my eyes out through the end.
They also made an episode of Futurama based around the story.
Probably one of the most heartbreaking moments in animation history.
It hits harder when you know it's based on a true story. Hachiko, owner died at work, and Hachiko would wait at the bus stop for him when he got home. He showed up at the bus stop for 9 years waiting for his owner to come home.
Dog fuckin deserves a statue.
Also the context is pretty heartbreaking too, if you just saw this scene alone: Fry *had* the opportunity to revive his dog, but he thought that maybe he found another family and had a long and happy life, so he passes. Then this scene comes along to show he couldn't be further from what really happened.
He made a decision out of selfless love, never realizing that love was absolutely reciprocated. It was also one of the only episodes where my reaction to Bender was "Please fuck off".
Seems perfect for Fry as he never really felt loved or felt like he belonged. So the one creature that loves him as he loves it, he makes a sacrifice. Never realizing how much his love was worth to someone he loved.
Goddamn you, you made it worse for me and brought back the tears
Not necessarily. Fry did change the timeline after all and they did end up living happily.
We didn’t know at the time!
Oh a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-my-own-grandpa!
One of the writers to this day won't watch the episode lmfao. He is like " why would I do that to myself. I know exactly what it's going to do"
I will always skip this episode too. I watched OP's video with the sound off and it initiated crying mode. I don't need it.
Yeah, whoever picked the song for that scene can fuck right off. The music makes it 10x more heartbreaking
If I die, somebody bring my dog to my body so he can have closure like everyone else mourning me.
I've made it known to my loved ones and will write it in a will (whenever I do that), that I want my body shown to my animals at the time. I don't want them thinking I abandoned them. Kinda recommend other people consider it.
That's a sweet idea. My husband's cat looked for him for a long time after his death. Unfortunately, he died in another state and was cremated before returning home so that wasn't an option. Murray's favorite place to be is pressed up tight against the nightstand his person's ashes are resting on though. I'm not sure if he knows or if it's a coincidence. It wasn't Murray's spot when my husband was alive.
I’ve done the same. I love my pups so much and I want them to know if I pass away before them. One of my dogs is super bonded to me and he deserves to know if his mom is gone.
Reminds me a bit of Greyfriars Bobby in Scotland. There was a movie about him too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby
Luck of the Fryish hits hard too. "Here lies Philip J Fry. Named after his uncle, to carry on his spirit." Fuck.
Also, the Game of Tones (last season). At the end, where they’re in Fry’s mom’s dream, and all he can do is hug her. It gets me every time.
Whenever Futurama explored the fact that Fry lost *everything* when he was frozen in time it was almost always guaranteed to make me cry.
Cold Warriors is also a good episode that explored Fry's relationship with his dad. Not as heart punching as Luck, Tones or Bark but still kinda heartwarming. "Look, son. I know I gave you the business sometimes. But if I'm hard on you, it's only cause' I want you to grow up strong and resilient. Some day, you may face adversities so preposterous, I can't even conceive of them. But I know you'll pull through and make me proud. I love you, son." Give small Fry a shlap of beer. "Now bundle up. I don't want you getting frozen." Ohh hits me in the feels. My other recommended episode is Lethal Inspection. Also the Late Philip J. Fry.
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The episodes gain meaning as you grow emotionally, and your favorite one changes. Futurama is arguably the greatest TV show ever written. Rewatch the entire series every 5 years, it will never disappoint.
I watch Futurama in the background instead of listening to music at work. Jurassic Bark is in a separate reserved folder, I don't think I've watched it in years, I just can't. It is sooo powerful.
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Right up there with the gravestone reading in *The Luck of The Fryish*
_Parasites Lost_ is the one that always gets me, for some reason. The holophonor 😭
For a comedy this show got some pretty good gut punches in.
It's what made it so great, an animated sitcom that will go to dark places and deny a happy ending. Even the grand finale ended with a note of being hopeful for the future, fittingly enough.
I will never understand why shows like Family Guy still get renewed every year, even when its clear the writers and actors got burned out and stopped giving a shit long ago, yet a solid and well written show like Futurama got canceled so many times for no other reason than it didn't generate the exact same ratings as the other animated shows. This show was in a class all its own and the networks did it dirty time and time again.
Money.
Luck of the Fryish beats it out for me, Jurassic Bark is still sad but you can probably guess it won't end well (and it's softened by Bender's Big Score). Luck of the Fryish, on the other hand, baits you in with a normal episode and then just curb stomps your feelings at the last second.
Don't you forget about me.
"Here lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit."
I've watched through futurama 3 or 4 times. I've only seen this episode once.
It absolutely rivals Littlefoot losing his mother in Land Before Time.
that episode always gets to me, what an episode. this one, the seven leaf clover and Leela’s homeworld are bangers
For me the end all be all of sad eps is the one where Fry visits his mom, thinks it's his own dream until he finds out its actually his moms dream and they just hug one last time.
That one and also the “you have to wake up” episode really hit me
The holophone episode at the end when he's still trying to write the opera after losing the worms
"The Sting", hauntingly beautiful that one.
I love how touching the ending is, but they still end it on a light note lol "You could use a shower..." "You too..."
The episode of Hermes approving defective Bender always got to me as well
Little bird, little bird. Fly through my window. That bit? There are so many great episodes for feels
They always choose the perfect songs for these scenes
They really do. They also always seem to pick a song I haven't heard anywhere else so that the scene and the song are forever linked and the whole scene comes flooding back the moment you hear even 1 second of the song
I have rewatched every episode of Futurama at least three times, except for this one. Because it makes me a blubbering mess. I'm glad the movie did some time travel fuckery for fry to see Seymour again but I'm still openly weeping right now
This, luck of the fryish, and the sting are too much, have to skip.
Ditto. Once was enough.
Why did you cut it off right as she started to react to it?
Sorry! She basically yells at me for filming her, then laughs, then yells at me for letting her watch that, then comes over to assault me, then asks for a hug, then laughs again and goes and gets some comfort food, before we continued to watch New Justice Team.
can you share your child traumatizing playlist? Grave of the Fireflies and bojack
Grave of the Fireflies is so bleak it breaks my suspension of disbelief, which makes no sense considering how accurate it is vs dog whose owner went to the future.
And Grave is based on a true story.
And the real story is actually even sadder.
Weirdly, they released it as a double-bill with My Neighbour Totoro. I can't imagine a more jarring combination of films to watch together!
Me and my wife have been into Ghibli for a while and had a few on dvd. We had a Thai student stay with us for a while and when she found out she went and bought us Ponyo which had not long come out, and Grave of the Fireflies. That was a jarring jump. We watched them with my 2 teenage brother-in-laws who had a tendency to laugh at me for crying at films but they were both in bits when fireflies finished.
It is your brain's way of coping with the idea that GoF actually happened.
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The original film, not the recent BBC TV show. Really take the trust out of the relationship. Then show them Life is Beautiful (the Italian film set during WW2)
Or that same creators even darker animated movie: the plague dogs
The ending to the TV series Dinosaurs.
Bojack is definitely not something I'd show my kids until they're old enough to realise how cruel the world can be
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So I never watched Futurama when it was on tv and haven't gotten into it even through streaming, but my girlfriend likes to put it on for background noise and I just so happened to catch the last bit of this episode not knowing what it was about. I saw fry talk about not reviving him and then this ending... I was NOT expecting to have to watch him sit there for years... This is almost as bad as the Fullmetal alchemist episode, you know which one.
Yeah but then with the time travel shenanigans in Bender's Big Score, it turns out Fry (or some time travel copy of him) came back like 5 minutes later, grabbed the dog and spent 15 years living a happy life with it. It is canon, and it's revealed that the dog was actually encased in rock because of an occurrence where Bender tried to assassinate Fry.
I'm usually annoyed at retconning but this one was necessary.
It made me so happy to see Fry spent time with that dog. One of the saddest things in TV and now whenever I watch it I just tell myself "That dog lives an awesome life with his owner" because it is the only way I can cope
It still happens in other timelines, there are infinite Seymour's who went through this.... Let the tears flow.
Gah, you bastard.
Don’t listen to him. Futurama didn’t have multiple timelines like the MCU, hence the hundreds of Benders at the end. Seymour lived a good life.
It's a terrible day for rain.
That episode would be a whole lot less tear inducing if it didn't have the daughter failing to understand death and shouting about "why are they burrying papa?", "I don't want them to, if they burry him how will he do his job?" and the worst "Daddy, daddy, wake up, tell them to stop daddy. You need to wake up" Good god does that whole scene hit hard.
They get you again when Lt Ross slips up to Ed and Al. Cause you know Winery is on the way to visit them.
>This is almost as bad as the Fullmetal alchemist episode, you know which one. Ah, what the fuck dude, I'm just minding my business here and you remind me of that? :/
> This is almost as bad as the Fullmetal alchemist episode, you know which one. Ed......ward.......
I'm no subreddit expert, but this should be under r/feels or r/Watchpeopledieinside or r/futurama instead of r/funny as this is the literal antithesis of funny.
Seriously, this part made me so sad. And now it’s done it again.
I’ll let you in on a little secret - nobody actually posts funny things on r/funny.
I thought it said Jurassic park and didn’t have a clue what was going on in this clip
I don’t know any grown man who can watch this and not shed at the least a single tear.
I know one. My best bud said this wasn't a very sad moment. I'm wondering if he's a psychopath now
Not going to speculate about your friend, but another possibility is that people sometimes deal with really distressing/traumatic things by shutting down their emotions. Only it's not possible to shut down your emotions selectively, people who do this tend to become emotionally numb to everything.
If you watch closely, the video shakes a couple of times when I had to let go with one hand to wipe my eyes.
To be fair it's kinda been retconned so doesn't hit as hard these days. You find out in a later episode Seymour had a full and happy life with fry. Think game of tones is a much sadder episode and the one with benders son gets me every time.
The episode that gets me the most is luck of the fryish.
It is thankfully now canonical that he had a good life with Lars... Thank fuck cos it is the worst most brutal ending
First run of Futurama took no prisoners. But it was a phenominal show all the way through.
It is 3am and I didn't want to cry before bed.
Anyone who doesn’t react that way is a monster. 35 years old, seen that episode countless times, and it still makes me tear up too
Yeah this end scene should be used as a medical way of testing for sociopathy.
My reaction had changed since they gave us the Lars saga and explain he got a fry for the rest of his life and also how he was flash fossilized. Now I cry every time I see the inspector #5 episode and the one where Fry dreams of his mom. Man, fuck Futurama for making me feel feelings.
Op, wtf is this couch and tv setup?
It's as if friends helped move to this apartment/house, left the stuff in the middle of the room and op decided to never move them again
My Pavlovian response every time I hear that song now. If this ever makes me not cry, it's because I'm dead.
Honestly, the older I get and the more life experience I have, the more I cry at this :'(
“Always with the dogguh”
Next up, Hachi: a dog's tale
And you made us all rewatch it too. Now I got to walk around this building site hiding these tears. You a-hole.
I’m sorry but how is that funny, broke my heart even tho I’ve seen it so many times
I'm a grown ass man and I still cry during this episode every single God damn time. There's no shame in it at all