The Fry Family: Futurama’s Biggest Tragedy
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- If you ask a Futurama fan what their favorite episode is, there's a good chance they're gonna say Luck of the Fryrish or Jurassic Bark, and maybe even an off chance they say Game of Tones. These are 3 of the 4 episodes that thoroughly explore Fry's past, and the loved ones he left behind, and they're some of the best the series has to offer. Check out this breakdown of Luck of the Fryrish, Jurassic Bark, Cold Warriors and Game of Tones.
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"here lies philip j fry, named for his uncle to carry on his spirit" thats the quote that always gets me
@alexiapup which is real satisfying since he hid the clover in the breakfast club soundtrack
@alexiapup I didn’t till you mentioned simple minds
I cry every time
Don’t you forget about me!
Indeed
Let's not forget that Mr. Panucci also treated Seymour very well. He was hard on fry but kept him around, and very kind to Seymour.
That's the one positive in the orignal seymour timeline. Fry was gone but Mr. panucci loved Seymour and would've made sure that he was at least getting something to eat every day.
Anybody notice that he looks like leeas dad
@@adamhauskins6407 her dad's vertical mouth always threw me off but now that you mention it...
Ngl it was nice seeing that, even though a lot of people were mean or tough on Fry, Mr. Panucci seemed genuinely interested in making sure Fry was, to a certain degree, successful.
@@antokarman2064 I thought you replied to yourself 😭
I never realized naming his son Phillip broke tradition until recently.
It wasn't the first break in tradition, as Phillip's father doesn't mention his own father as being named "Yancy" when listing the naming tradition.
Brian L maybe his father wasn’t the first born
McMexican Well, after “Roswell That Ends Well”, he wasn’t. He was named Phillip J. Fry. Phillip was his own grandfather, which means he’s his fathers son and father.
Actually, in Roswell That Ends Well, Fry and Eunice would have conceived Fry's mom. They have the same flaming orange hair, unlike Fry's dad, Yancy, and young Philip. Fry and his mother also seem to share a Homer Simpson-like resistance to pain.
@@Alakaizer yeah, i always thought that was weird how Fry says Enos was related to his father but why does he look like Fry and his mother? 🤔
Can we also talk about how Yancy finds the clover, and then the only noticeable change in his life is his son- meaning that becoming a father was the luckiest thing to him
Not necesarely
Fry was lucky at the things he did like breakdancing or basketball
Maybe Yancy didn't want to do anything the clover could help with
Or more likely didn't want to use it since it was Phillip's and would be just another thing Yancy stole from him, so he just saved it for his son
The 7 leafed clover probably restored the missing delta brain wave in his family, therefore making Philip 2 smart enough to accomplish those things. (Mostly joking. don't believe this)
"I'll never forget him. But he forgot me a long, long time ago."
And we all screamed through tears at our tv screens “No he didn’t!!”
That’s when I burst into tears. Like actual crying.
that line kills all my resolve every time, even just reading it is making me cry again
Aaaaah it hurts
I want to cry my heart out every time I think about this episode
The fact that Seymour found him but was unable to get fry unfrozen, so he just waited and died without ever seeing him again gets me every. Single. Time. I know it’s not real but I cannot help it. My heart legit hurts for him.
Want to make it worse? Go look up the story of Hachiko. Or watch the movie based on that story Hachiko a dogs tale. Bring a tissue box.
Edit: Forgot to mention Seymour's story is based on Hachiko.
I remember being 10-11 after watching the episode for the 10th time I almost cried watching Seymour wait for a thousand summers
Thankfully this isn't true! There's an episode where fry goes back in time and meets Seymour again. Also it turns out bender was the one who petrified him.
Honestly made it less tragic IMO as the dog knew he wasn't adandoned and why Fry wasn't coming back. He had closure something abandoned pets/or pets whose owners die usually never get. The tragic part for me was that Fry didn't bring him back cause he assumed he wouldn't have cared when it would have meant everything to Seymour.
@maria Silva in Bender’s Big Score, Fry goes back in time and spends 12 more years with Seymour 🥰 So he doesn’t die alone! The proof that last was changed? Seymour’s petrified body was found STANDING (not lying down like in the Jurassic Bark episode). Because an explosion caused by Bender in the 2000’s killed him while he was standing.
Realizing Fry actually had an impact on his family is something that really hits me hard. It makes you really wonder on how much of an impact you truly have on those around you.
Those who make the most ripples will never see the waves they create
big feels
The biggest impact he had to the family, is the fact he is the father to his dad....
@@fallout647 lol
Folks never appreciate anything until it's gone.
Probably the best sign of Fry's impact and legacy is near the start of Luck of the Fryrish when they think Yancey stole Fry's name. The entire Planet Express crew is going over records they found and then Hermes says "Oh, your brother was "That" Phillip J Fry." Fry's nephew was so famous and influential that mid to low level bureaucrats know his name over 900 years after his death.
The og martian would probably do that especially in the futurama universe
It makes sense, he's basically Columbus
@@InvisibleHotdog hopefully without the genocide
@@giovannicervantes2053 Hopefully
@@giovannicervantes2053a little genocide never hurt anyone
maybe his mom decided not to look for him because of the dream
I cry everytime during that scene
@@RSFaber-nk6lh Man, I cry by just thinking about that scene
God, I literally teared up just thinking about it.
I actually have a theory that in the dream Fry explained to his mother what happened (that he is talking to her from the future), but didn't told her where his present day body was, so that she wouldn't have the idea to defreeze him. His mother, having the reasurance (even in dream form) that her son is ok, coped with the loss.
🥺😭 reading that killed me
In my personal opinion, I feel like Game of Tones was the most impactful. I know everyone loves Jurassic Bark... but the final moments of Game of Tones always gets me. Fry throughout the whole episodd was trying to talk to his mom... and in the end... he couldn't put it into words. He simply embraced his mother one last time. Always tears my heart in half.
I agree. Game Of Tones never ever fails to make me cry my eyes out.
I have very strong control of my emotions. A few tears can easily come out of my eyes but I never openly cry out loud, that is, until the game of tones episode. I loss my mother and was sad and cried a little bit but that was it, however, at the end of this episode I completely lost it because I loved my mother but didn't think or dream much about her when she was alive but she talked about me all the time and she dreamed about me, so when Neebler said" this is your mother's dream" and she said "I dreamed a lot about you" and he hugged her, I loss it, and cried out loud for the first time ever.
Watching this video i couldn’t help but cry haha Game of tones just hits too hard
@@thebestforthemost I have no control over my emotions. But I don't show them and I even deny I feel them most of the time from myself. Nothing made me cry for a long time, and anything in real life, I can brush off. My grandpa died, and I didn't feel a thing.
But somehow TV shows always make me cry.
Makes me wish i could have had that with my mom before she passed away
Man Seymour gets me every time.
And always will . It's heartbreaking .
At least he got to spend time with fry in the movie
I really should’ve grabbed tissues before watching this. I will NEVER be able to even think about his episode and not cry lol
samplexample you’re not thinking about it correctly.
This is a dog. He has no concept of logic and reason, only of love and loyalty. The dog waits for him to come back to the pizza spot cuz that’s where his concept of home is, and he’s waiting for his master to come back home to him.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who cried like a baby.
One of the biggest things you missed in Frys relationship with his dad is that every time Fry opens a can of beer it is the same way his dad opened his in the 1st shared beer with his son
Maybe fry's life wouldn't have been better in his timeline but symour's would have
😭😭😭
Noooo 😭😭 i JUST stopped crying!!
The only thing that brings me some comfort is that Lars got to live with Seymour for a bit.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
#justiceforsymour
Fry is actually a very kind person. Seriously he's just so kind
A wise woman once said he had a big heart...and he wasn’t much to look at either
he's the friend we'd all be lucky to have
I believe he's the one person who has never struck zoidberg when he does something stupid.
He's so adorable and cute
I@@Spinosaurus44 Yeah, I'd love Fry as a friend.
I love that, even when the shows wants you to cry, it never really stops trying to make you laugh. Little visual gags like Fry's drawing, the family home being the same destroyed wreck in 2000 as it was in 3000, and even more focused gags like Bender's graverobbing all still make you laugh without distracting too much from the story the episode is trying to tell.
There! Now nobody can say I don't own John Larroquette's spine!
C'mon. Let's go. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion.
When I was a kid I thought the “age 20” on the drawing meant that child-fry ASPIRED to be an astronaut by age 20 and drew a picture of that 😂 not that he drew the picture AT AGE 20
As someone who has lost their mother, the scene where Fry hugged his mother meant so much to me. I cried so much watching it.
I'm sorry :'(
Sorry for your loss
I know the feeling, I lost my mother 15 years ago.
I'm sorry for your loss. I lost my mother at 10 years old, so I understand.
Me too
Fry's dad grew up never knowing his father, only to raise him without even knowing it
Wow I never thought of that! shit that's... well an impressive deduction on your part, bravo sir, bravo.
I think it's more likely that Fry sired his mother, not his father. It makes more sense with the hair color and the whole "Minute man Yancy Fry" thing.
@bryan diaz varela how is it worse? Don't get me wrong, the whole thing is insane and weird, I just don't see why Fry's mom is worse than Fry's dad. What is worse is Red Dwarf, where the main character turns out to be his own father (the mom is the off-and-on girlfriend).
@@Alakaizer Yeah, its a little confusing...anything involving paradoxes is confusing...reincarnation makes more sense to me, but then again its Futurama. Absurdity is one of its highlights, at least when its good. If not because of this joke, it wouldn't have such a following (it was referenced in Xaolin Showdown)
@@Alakaizer The official Futurama website says that Enos is Fry's paternal grandfather. And, considering that the gene for red hair is recessive, Fry would need redheaded genetics in both of his parents in order for it to be possible for him to be a redhead at all.
In the first episode, Fry was shown to hate his family and everything about the past, he celebrated when he realized they were all gone, but as time passed, he started missing them, he realized they weren't so bad after all.
Fry's family has problem showing emotions but they cared, even Yancy cared, he loved Fry so much and regreted not being nicer to him.
As much as Fry's family missed him, I do think Fry was better off in the future; he probably would be the same random looser that he was in 1999, but in the year 3000 he gets to be a random looser with good friends, true love and interesting adventures
Honestly. I mean Yancy goes from an annoying little kid who annoyed everyone to a caring giving person who gave his luck away. Probably why Phillip J Frye the second was a great guy, and made an impact on world history.
Yancy probably would have been a immature mediocre parent
Well I mean in Bender's Big Score when an alternate Fry goes back in time and basically picks up his life from when he left, he has a pretty nice life.
He was able to live his life with Seymour, spends time with his family probably with a new appreciation for them, which in turn still causes Yancy to name his son after Fry.
@@Raydnt69 That wouldn't exactly add up with the "After my little brother, who i miss everyday. I love you Philip." comment when Yancey is talking to his son in the early 2000's. Either the timelines are separate or it's a mistake but Yancey did say that so i'm confused.
@@elizabethlee2136 Yancey was young and immature whenever we saw him other than the scenes where hes getting the clover and meeting his son. Alot can happen in that time and losing your little brother who you didn't appreciate very much or treat very kindly quite possibly could have changed him as a person aswell as growing up and maturing. Maybe losing Fry made him realise that he needed to be kind to people because one day he could lose them?
@@wiggl3s_821 ^this. The spirit of giving and loving each other no matter how ridiculous things become or how brief a time we have
about Fry 'always belonging in the 3000s,' remember how Michelle freaked out at everything about the 31st century,shrieking & screaming, but Fry just took everything in stride, and thought it was all awesome, including finding out he could have a robot best friend
MICHELLE: You were a loser in *2000* , and you're a loser in *4000* .
FRY: Yeah, but in *3000* , I had it all! Several friends, a low-paying job, a bed in a robot's closet. I envied no man!
Any mention of the last line of Phil and dad cold warriors talk his dad telling him “wouldn’t want you to get frozen.”? He meant in reference to the ice hole obviously but the irony is painfup
I thought many noticed the irony, but it don't get called out much, and yeah It was gut wrenching T__T
wow never noticed that..
I just saw that episode a few days ago and didn't make that connection. ;_;
Which I feel really shows how this is all a well written tragedy. The irony there is tragic in nature, because eventhough fry's father doesn't want his son to be frozen that is the inevitable and inescapable fate of the matter.
“Now bundle up. I don’t want you getting frozen” 😭
"Fry has his final dinner with his family before going to work that night..." I know it's an animated series and that these characters aren't real but hearing fry and his family and life being so simplified and humanised, having dinner and going to work, like all of us have done before really makes the fact that he just disappeared off the face of the earth after that for them hit so much harder than before. It really solidifies the idea that under everything, under all the comedy and crazy behaviour from the Fry family that they were just that, a family. A family whose beloved relative went missing one day and they never really knew what happened to him.
I thought about that a lot, like it really is such a tragic story.
I don't have kids, but if I did I don't know how I'd be able to move on with my life if one of them disappeared without a trace and I never even found out what happened to them. I feel like I'd spend all my time trying to imagine what could have happened.
It's really saddening to realize that. Imagine your brother goes missing and you never know what happened to him. That's why Clancy named his son Phillip, after his little brother he never stopped loving.
We will all have a final dinner with our family someday.
All of these episodes hurt, but jurassic bark hurts the most
I know. At least with Luck of the Fryish and Game of Tones, Fry at least got some closure with his brother and his mother.
Unfortunately, the same couldn’t be said for Seymour.😢
I don't know maybe it's because I'm a Mama's boy but Game of Tones hurts the most. I mean his Mom still thinks it is a dream and not the real Fry.
ILOVECODY when frys mom says she dreamed a lot about him when he disappeared, i just cannoT. So sweet nibbler gave fry the chance to talk to him mom one last time.
Agreed. Even when watching this video analysis Jurassic Bark got me.
Same man! Its just right in the feels. Its totally emotional manipulation in the episode. But the realization that Seymour waited? Oh, my god.
I hate when people throw around comments about crying on YT. But if anyone can watch "jurassic bark" and not feel a thing, we cant be friends.
The end of Game of Tones fuckin' broke me, man. Every time I watch it I cry and feel like calling my mom.
When they just hug, I ball my eyes out 😭
This is what I love about Fry's character. While he doesn't regret being in the future the show does go out of its way to show what he's lost and that his original life wasn't so bad. Granted I still say Leela's home world is my favorite episode that brings me to tears everytime I see it.
Not to mention David Herman(Morris) and Tress MacNeille(Munda) made me cry every time I watched it. Poor David never got anything for his work on the show. He should’ve won an Emmy for that episode.
Good writing
@@seronymus And spectacular voice acting from Katey Sagal, Tress Macneille & David Herman. That episode alone made David my favorite guy. Tress was always my favorite woman as well.
@@dannythomas417 I recently watched an interview with Billy West. He is certainly very talented but I don't like the cost cutting tendency to hire "thousand voices" actors that stifle talent.
The song at the end of that episode.
'Pizzicato Five - Baby Love Child - without Attention Adults'
It's a remix that cuts out some of the original. You can thank me later.
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The part that always kills me is that it's Fry's moms dream at the end of Game of Tones, showing that it's not just about Fry and how he deals with the loss of his family. Fry got a whole new life better than the one he was living before, but his mom just lost her son and had to keep moving on without him, so it's nice to see that she got to have one last special moment with him
Moral of the story: You don't know what you've got til it's gone.
They paved paradise and put up a fucking lot.
Seymour really waited for him for a thousand summers.
No that was the name of the song that was playing lol
Bender's Big Score was such a relief, knowing Seymour actually had it good
@Ace Saylor alternate timeline
@@inspector5122 Either you get a Seymour conclusion with an alternate timeline, or you get a lonely Seymour
@Ace Saylor That still happened the first time.
Didn't Bender killed Seymour?
@@diegomedina9637 He flash-froze Seymour, making him the way he is in Jurassic Bark
The best thing to happen was seeing that Seymour did get to see Fry throughout his life, and as Lars Fillmore. It’s nice to know he didn’t just die of sadness. This is what i choose to believe TwT
Chose? Isn't that Canon though?
In my opinion Fry leaving made his family realize how much he matter. If he stayed in the 2000s he would never have the best friends he made in the 3000s. He would never find true love. Him moving on was a boy becomes a man
you have put it perfectly
😿
Lars.
He was there the whole time.
Also because of Roswell him staying would've caused a universe-destroying paradox
Makes you wonder what his life would have been like if he was never frozen, and not counting Lars since he had Leela to miss and dixtate his actions. His career chip thing basically proved he was only good at being a delivery boy though Leela being a space ship captain does throw a wrench in it. He never showed much ambition to get rich but instead find friends. So maybe he would have stayed a delivery boy, maybe move to like UPS or FedEx or something, and lived a low income working man life
While the previous family episodes focused on a specific relationship, Game of Tones showed everyone gathering for one last meal together as if the show was saying goodbye to them. Another way the final stretch of episodes works as a collective finale.
Fry going into the 3000's let his family reflect on how he impacted their lives and even to the point that Fry unknowingly influenced Yancy's son to become a successful and beloved man. With Fry's presence in the year 3000, he was able to remind people of certain cultural aspects lost in time, saved the universe on multiple occasions and befriended all sorts of characters.
Game of Tones came out months after my mum died, so that episode always got the strongest reaction out of me.
“Always leave them wanting more “
Futurama’s a show that went out on top ... unlike some other ones .
season 30 of simpsons: WHY ARE WE STILL ON?!
Futurama ABSOLUTELY did not go out on top, like half of the show is painfully worse than the other half
@@jackgillespie4594 theres definitely at least 10 god awful and boring episodes, but half? I wouldn’t say only half of the show is good.
@@joshuaobryan4896 season 15 of supernatural why are we fighting god?
I still love the fact that u can see nibbler's shadow in ep 1, when fry falls into the capsule and later explained in a later season (game of tones)
Futurama was literally the beginning of my ability to cry at media. The Yancy/Phil Jr. thing fuckin' _broke_ me.
That episode got me too 😥
Knowing that yancy broke long standing tradition calling the first born phillip j fry.
I really liked how they handled Fry's family, and showcasing how his disappearance impacted them. From the moment we meet them (and a lot of other people in Fry's life), we can tell that they are very repressed, and aren't the sharing-type. I think they all suffered most of their grief in silence. Yancy only sharing his grief with his wife (and maybe his son), his mom only acknowledging her grief in her dreams, and his dad acting as if he didn't care. I think they stayed very true to the characters of his family, however heartbreaking that may be to the audience.
When Frys dad says "bundle up, I dont want you getting frozen". It gets me every time.
I literally started crying just from you talking about Seymour. This show was too good.
It's all lies, every word of it! He wasn't original, he wasn't a Martian, he wasn't Philip Fry and since when is he a the?
Your twice the the he ever was
"You're twice the "The" he ever was"
*only true bros back you up even though you're talking nonsense*
@@ivancerecer5758 qqqq¹
@@ivancerecer5758 "You're twice the 'He' he ever was" Time to pass on the baton to the next person to correct me. Catch!
@@ahhchoo8488 "You're twice the 'E' he ever was."
Fry giving his mom a hug will always make me cry. He wants to ask so much, but he says it all in that hug and it is the ultimate punch in the gut.
This show lures you in with a premise that it quietly disregards the fact is actually a bit sad - even thinking he was always meant to be right where he ended up with who he did....
AND THEN IT RAMS RIGHT INTO THOSE EMOTIONS AND SHOVES THEM INTO YOUR FACE.
I love that the show recontextualized his leaving his family behind. You said it already, but we get the impression nobody cared about him. Then they hit us in the gut with these episodes. I think they did a great job holding back from doing too much about Fry's past. It all worked out so wonderfully even through cancellation and risks of having no more they were able to hold things back to work with later and they did an immensely good job with it all. I love Futurama. I do think that Fry was better off in 3000s. It's just one of those bitter sweet things, where there's no perfect answer. Sure if he had never left there'd technically be no harm done, but I think he improved Leela, Bender, the Professor's and other's lives by being there. So while they wouldn't be aware, we know what he was able to add to them.
I feel like the ultimate ending for Fry would have been to become a father. He came to the future and made his own family. It's poetic in the grand scale of life.
I feel like Lars Fillmore lived the best life. He was able to live his life all over again, got to marry Lela (well sort of), and also got to be with Seymour until he died
I wanted to watch this video, really i did, but when it got to Jurrasic Bark, I burst out crying and just couldn't stop
I’M SORRY, I had a really hard time editing it too 😭
yes jurrasic bark is super depressing
My dog is lying next to me while I watch this and I swear to God the crying so much worse lol
@@herefortheshrimp1469 tell them i love them and that theyre the best
Everyone talks of how Jurassic Bark is their favorite, and I can see how, it's a stellar episode with a heart-breaking ending. But for me the ones that always get me are Luck of the Fryrish and Game of Tones. Knowing in the end his brother did care about him and missed him and his own son was able to carry out Fry's hopes and dreams... and knowing Fry's mother got closure on what happened to her son. We don't see what it is Fry tells her but seeing her smiling after he does... she knows that wherever he is, he is okay. Some parents never get that if their child goes missing.
oh no, I’m tearing up just watching the little Fry and Leela compilation I’m not going to be able to handle talk of his brother and Seymour. His mother. 😭😭😭
Edit: I’m not handling it 😭
Did anyone ever tell you that you look like a fatter Bojack Horseman?
"Just wait here until I come back"
27 years old and crying over made up situations in an adult cartoon
Gets me everytime
Seymour was the best boy, can't help to cry my eyes out everytime I think about his story 😭
I couldn’t imagine leaving my friends and family in the past and never seeing them again. Knowing that my parents would go crazy with out me and not knowing what happened I’d feel terrible.
You skipped my favorite line in cold warriors, when Fry's dad says "now bundle up, I don't want you getting frozen." But that's exactly what happens to him 😭
Ahhh I know I had so much to cover in that scene and it’s dangerous copyright wise to show too much at once, great moment tho
I'm not even watching the episodes, I'm watching a video of someone talking about them. Why the fuck am I crying so hard?
jut watch the darn episodes, i cant be depressed by myself
Could you also discuss Leela's Homeworld? Because these episodes were so good, I feel like that one gets overlooked. The last 3 minutes make me tear up every time, seeing how they gave her up in hopes of Leela having a better life but always keeping a protective and loving eye on her from the shadows.
It’s really good, I might do a video on that whole through line in the series
From an emotional stand point, I found the Game of Tones ending more emotional. The final part when it pulls out of her dream and shows her in bed, smiling at the picture...I feel that just shows how much she loves and misses her son. BTW, I am in no way discounting the ending of Jurassic Bark.
I've never clicked so fast... Just to cry
😭😭😭
I remember when my brother watched Jurassic Bark for the first time, he was absolutely devasted. Full-on bawling. He was also like 12 at the time, so probably way too hard of a gut punch for him at the time
i just realized, each of these episodes focuses on a specific person from frys family, the luck of the fryish (yancy jr) jurassic bark (seymour) cold warriors (yancy sr) game of tones (frys mom)
The theme of family that occasionally gets revisited in this show has always made me love it. Fry’s relationship and then absence in his family was always uplifting but also heartbreaking to me.
I cried so hard when i saw that seymour episode
Even though it has nothing to do with Fry's past, The Devils Hands Are Idle Play Things is another tear jerker, on top of being hilarious.
"let's move on before i start crying again" jokes on you i'm already crying
I never realized the Rose bowl game was in his mom's dream. Makes so much sense why it's the first thing to come to mind earlier.
When you're watching Fry's Family Centered Episode, your entering into a World of _Feels_
Watching this was really devastating. Reliving all those moments, and especially realizing just how important Fry was to his family, brought up a lot of emotions.
The writers knew what they were doing, and _someone_ had a story to tell. I'm glad they shared it with us.
Seymour’s story hits even harder once you realize it’s partially based on a true story of a dog named Hachiko who continued to wait for his owner for over 9 years following his owner’s sudden death.
This episode perfectly illustrates the void that is left in your life when a loved one dies/disappears. You never get over it and always imagine what life would be like if they were still here. Poor Seymour... 😔
Luck of the Fryish is probably my favourite Futurama episode, just thinking about it makes sad. Jurassic Bark is also excellent and a real gut punch, and Cold Warriors and Game of Tones are good too (exploring Fry's 20th Century life was always a recipe for a good Futurama episode). I knew watching this video would be a bad idea cos I'm tearing up over it haha, but I enjoy your videos too much. I also agree that Bender's Big Score messes around with the impact of those first two stories, so the head canon of it being a parallel timeline makes sense.
I'm glad Futurama is getting the praise it deserves I love these heart warming moments.
WELP-this made me cry. You bastard.
Well done.
Thanks for the shoutout. I can finally watch other people's Futurama videos now that I've finished the series. The weaker of the Fry Family episodes, for me, is Game of Tones. For one, it was hyped up. Everyone constantly told me it was a tear jerker, so it lost a lot of shock impact when I first watched it. Second, Phillip was randomly fixated on his mother in the episode. No one ever explains why, and because of that, it felt like it was done just so Phillip could get a mother episode because he already got one for everyone else in his family. This seems especially true since Game of Tones is a part of the last season.
I actually agree with you. I think the final moment of Game of Tones admittedly works really well, but as a whole, the episode doesn’t really come together. It definitely felt like they wanted to get that final “family” episode in, but the episode was so focused on the “tone” storyline that the Mom stuff didn’t get the development it deserved. We never even learn her name!
I didn't know the later 2 episodes existed... I really need to watch this series again rather than seeing it on adult swim as a middle school kid
Thank you
On Hulu!
Wait what it's airing on adult swim now I don't have tv.
@@forestreflection2066 It’s just reruns
It really broke me when I saw The Luck of the Fryrish for the first time. Always makes me cry to see when Fry realizes that Yancy missed him so much.
god that was a good show, i cried so hard when i watched the episode about fry's mom
Not to mention the voice acting of a remarkable woman named Tress MacNeille. She singlehandedly made this show awesome. Everyone was good, but she took it to a whole new level. Without her, it’d just be some average King of The Hill.
Bro I’m crying rn😭
God even just hearing about the dream sequence in Game of Tones makes me tear up
At the end of Jurassic Bark I burst into tears and protested, "It's not fair! Furturama isn't supposed to make you cry!"
You forgot that Seymore was actually just waiting for Fry to get home from being out on the fishing boat and Seymore enjoyed those 12 years by the side of Fry's time paradox duplicate as shown in the movie, giving Seymore a happy ending.
I didn’t forget anything! I mentioned Bender’s Big Score and why I didn’t include it. Namely, because the timeline makes absolutely no sense if you include the events of BBS
i thought i could watch this video with dry eyes, but here i am, sobbing on the toilet :( every single one of these episodes made me cry and now you're hitting me with all 4. thanks johny
The Jurassic Bark episode and the Game of Tones episode both make me tear up after all this time. Seymour and his story reminds me of Hachiko. 😢
This show had it all.
11:22 I never noticed before... Seymour is smiling and Fry is licking his face 😆
Great video. Thank you for making it! Even ignoring Fry's unique brainwaves he has an irreplaceable place in the Planet Express family. Bender learns about real friendship from Fry. He is the "guiding light" that gets Bender's son to registration day. He bridges the gap between the Professor and his parents. He is even the one that unites Leela with her patents. Not bad for a "looser" from the 20th century.
Don't get me wrong. All of the videos you mentioned are tear jerkers (oh Seymore 😭) It just shows that all the great things Fry did for his friends in the future couldn't have come without a great sacrifice, the family he left behind.😥
The scene with fry and his mom oh man that really gets me every single time.
The Luck of the Fryrish was always one of my favorites. I know most people say the end of Jurassic Bark is the most touching scene, but my brother was my best friend in the world, so it always hit me the hardest. I still haven’t seen The Luck of the Fryrish again in the five years since my brother died, and I sob every time you talk about it.
Do you think seymour likes steamed hams
I thought we were having steamed clams?
I don't see why n-
What is going on in there??
@Jane Ross No No Its a Regional Dialect
Bender and his folk singer aspirations
The future professor's gonna need his medication
Because that's always a thing, he always needs that
You all still have Zoidberg tonight!
ROBOT HOUSE!
😂😂😂😂
Honestly Fry leaving his life behind is one of my favorite themes of the show. I only wish they didnt mess with it during Benders Big Score.
Idk
One thing that I want to point out as well, during Bender's Big Score, the event that created Lars in the first place, it cuts to Seymour, and he gets flash fossilized as well, which of course, sets up Jurassic Bark. So an argument to be made a reference, or, that it's the same time line because of the paradox. I don't know if the Fry that became Lars spent any time with his family (It's been years since I watched Bender's Big Score.) after coming back, so someone feel free to correct me.
I watched Jurassic Bark as a kid and that was the first time i ever felt so sad because of a cartoon. They change us alot when we're new and don't know much about the world...
When his mom said "I've dreamed of you since you disappeared" that breaks my heart every time.
As talked to death as Jurassic Bark is, my first experience with that episode was rather amusing. After practically months of asking my grandpa to watch the show with me, he finally relented. I was always quoting it to him and we shared a similar sense of humor so I thought like “oh slam dunk he’ll be happy he finally watched this with me”. Then it was Jurassic Bark…
He kinda just sat there in silence with me after and eventually was like “I thought you said this was funny”. And I’m like trying not to cry my eyes out and go “it usually is!”
We at least gotta decent chuckle out of that
I almost cried when he put the timeline in order
Its stunning how Futurama had such great content to work with. Fry's life is one of a great deal of emotional weight. You can really put yourself in his shoes and realize the same pain.
Fry, ultimately was happier in the year 3000. He found a job he enjoys, he explores the universe casually. Living the life the people in 2000 could only ever DREAM of. He met the love of his life, made numerous friends, and learns how the world operates in such a futuristic time. He always is haunted by reminders of the life he accidently left behind. But he's ultimately better for it in the end.
And I just finished re-watching the series less than a week ago. So this is a great time for this upload. Coincidence? Yes, very much so.
“It’s not ironic, it’s just coincidental!”
As a youngest sibling I’ve had these thoughts (disappearing and/or my impact on my family around me) thru my whole life. It might be the root of a couple things.
Futurama is one of my favorite shows for this premise
that thought has guided so many decisions of mines throughout the years. you and me both.
In a real life sense never having that closure he gave his mother is crippling.
Luck of the Fryrish is my favorite episode of the show. Its just so heart wrenching and heart warming at the same time.
I am so here for this Futurama series!!!!!!
It's wonderful!
Game of tones broke me, even after they hug we see the mother briefly waking up and smiling, it's so full of love. Really nice video!
No matter who you are, you leave impressions on everyone around you. No matter how unimportant you think you are, there is always someone who cares for you. Don't ever forget that.
That moment with his mom is just so beautiful and heartbreaking, I lost my mom years ago and I always hoped I could have had one more chance to talk to her and I can’t help but cry everytime I see it