If you were one of the many fans of the animated series futuramayou will know that there is an episode called jurassicbark that has gone down in history as one of the most beloved episodes of animated comedy, because outside the sense of comedy that the series handled, it had several gems that, even if you were not a fan, would fill you with emotions.
A series that constantly handled messages about how life would change if we did not make the decisions we have chosen, leaving morals and entertainment, but especially this episode, if it was one of the most difficult to watch, since it was revealed that the beloved dog of frySeymour spent years waiting for his best friend to return, eventually staying at the pizzeria where Fry worked for years and dying there waiting for his return.
And it is that after the delivery man was inadvertently lost in a cryogenic tube and woke up a thousand years in the future, the episode is one of the first things that comes up in any conversation related to the animated series Futurama, as it marked everyone who have looked at it.
The series later reneged on this somewhat, giving Seymour a happier ending (via clone magic!), which didn’t thrill most fans, but just as sad an episode as Jurassic Bark was, after all, it was a great example of humanity at the core of Futurama, which helped the series overcome its broad characters and wacky concepts, showing its human side.
“We always tell ourselves that we make decisions for the good of others, and those stories we tell ourselves are often compelling, but that doesn’t mean they’re always true.”Said the Futurama writer, Eric Kaplan to Slate, who jokingly asked if the point of the episode was to crush the soul of the audience.
“So the point of that episode is that Fry tells himself a story that Seymour would never have expected from him, and would have wanted him to get on with his life. And you can see why that story is helpful for Fry to believe. But it is not true. Primo Levi writes about Auschwitz, and he says that no one who has seen the Gorgon ever reports what it looked like. So we are all in a position of ignorance when writing about death.”
“Maybe one of the emotional roles. What stories play is that they allow us to experience an ending. In real life, the only ending we’re going to have, we can’t report. So by having a story that has an ending, we get to imagine what it would be like to have the ending, a death.”
As for the revelation that Seymour lived much of the rest of his life in bliss with a clone of Fry, Kaplan said he didn’t want to criticize other writers’ work in public, but: “That’s what we would call, in the philosophical trade, some crackpot baseball.”