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Futurama fans .. about the serious episodes.

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The ending of Jurassic Bark is THE SADDEST thing ever created by the entertainment industry. Seriously. Its just.....wow.

Comedy Centrals knows it too. My tivo records all the Futurama's - that one's never on. As good as it is, that's probably a positive...I couldn't handle it that often.
 
I've got a disc in now and just saw the Ep "Godfellas." It must have been one of the few that slipped through the cracks and I had never seen before. It was definitely one of the few eps that was on more of a serious side and, although I'm not a religious guy, it was a pretty neat little message ep.
 
Though both incredibly heart-wrenching, they are also two of my favorite episodes. The Lucky clover one COULD NOT have ended any other way. It was so perfect. The dog one was absolutely perfect as well and any person who grew up with a best friend like that knows exactly how perfect that story was.

What amazes me more is the fact that when I think about it, I have never been more moved by tv, movies, books, etc. than I have been by cartoons.

The top four I can think of are all cartoons:
These two episodes of futurama,
The beginning sequence of Up, and
Optimus Prime dieing after the first battle in Transformers the movie (That right, I said, movie. Not animated movie or any nonsense like that. I consider the live action ones as merely tributes, especially the abortion of a movie that was the second one.).

Seriously can you think of more heartwrenching or moving stories in any form of media?

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SirStev0 said:
Though both incredibly heart-wrenching, they are also two of my favorite episodes. The Lucky clover one COULD NOT have ended any other way. It was so perfect. The dog one was absolutely perfect as well and any person who grew up with a best friend like that knows exactly how perfect that story was.

What amazes me more is the fact that when I think about it, I have never been more moved by tv, movies, books, etc. than I have been by cartoons.

The top four I can think of are all cartoons:
These two episodes of family guy,
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freudian slip.
 
I'm walkin' on sunshine!!

Whoooooaaaa oohhh oohhh oh!


Edit: damn you no all caps, it somehow loses it's over the top bad singing effect typed out properly. =/
 
Crono said:
I dedicate this post to Slurms McKenzie. May he live on forever by our memories.

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Party on contest winners.
 
As far as sad / serious turns go, the episode with the globetrotters (I think it's called "Time keeps on slipping") took a sad turn at the end, too. Bender couldn't be a globe trotter and Fry's gift to Leela was destroyed.
 
Crono said:
The semi-serious episodes and love story between Fry and Leela are what make the show better than other animated shows like Family Guy.

Futurama was never random funny, it was just funny and well written. It's weird how "real" Fry seemed at times, even though he was ridiculously stupid. Very good voice acting by Billy West (he's good in everything...even the red M&M, lol) and by the rest of the cast.

I dedicate this post to Slurms McKenzie. May he live on forever by our memories.

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Party On Slurms, Party On...

:rose;
 
You've listed some of my absolute favorite Futurama episodes. Reminds me that I should probably buy the DVDs.
 
SirStev0 said:
Though both incredibly heart-wrenching, they are also two of my favorite episodes. The Lucky clover one COULD NOT have ended any other way. It was so perfect. The dog one was absolutely perfect as well and any person who grew up with a best friend like that knows exactly how perfect that story was.

What amazes me more is the fact that when I think about it, I have never been more moved by tv, movies, books, etc. than I have been by cartoons.

The top four I can think of are all cartoons:
These two episodes of futurama,
The beginning sequence of Up, and
Optimus Prime dieing after the first battle in Transformers the movie (That right, I said, movie. Not animated movie or any nonsense like that. I consider the live action ones as merely tributes, especially the abortion of a movie that was the second one.).

Seriously can you think of more heartwrenching or moving stories in any form of media?

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absolutely correct, and that applies to both episodes.

Both are very well linked into real life more than most hollywood productions. The dog one is like the perfect example of humans and man's best friend.
The Clover episode is a lot of sibling love and spite.

They connect with what it feels like to be attached, and it's heart-wrenching because it hits so close to home, and so accurately portrayed.
 
destrekor said:
absolutely correct, and that applies to both episodes.

Both are very well linked into real life more than most hollywood productions. The dog one is like the perfect example of humans and man's best friend.
The Clover episode is a lot of sibling love and spite.

They connect with what it feels like to be attached, and it's heart-wrenching because it hits so close to home, and so accurately portrayed.
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It is almost sad that we've gotten to the point that only canceled cartoons are able to do that. We are too interested in having attractive people singing covers and being belittled by a dick head brit to have substantial media. Movies aren't any better. I can't think of a huge release in recent years that wasn't a crossover, remake, or sequel.
 
SirStev0 said:
It is almost sad that we've gotten to the point that only canceled cartoons are able to do that. We are too interested in having attractive people singing covers and being belittled by a dick head brit to have substantial media. Movies aren't any better. I can't think of a huge release in recent years that wasn't a crossover, remake, or sequel.
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Popular media demands as little thinking as possible, and this will be the continuing trend for some time.

I'm not going to lie and say I haven't watched mindless shows and movies that made me feel stupid after watching them, but it's sad that this is where our culture is at.

Futurama isn't exactly a thinking man's show, but it is certainly better than the cartoons that just randomly parody other things and use escalating shock value nearly all the time in order to be funny.
 
Crono said:
Futurama isn't exactly a thinking man's show, but it is certainly better than the cartoons that just randomly parody other things and use escalating shock value nearly all the time in order to be funny.
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Reminds me of the anti-FG South Park episode. Hilarious. I do love Family Guy as well, but it's definitely nothing brilliant .. just parodies and shock value. That's why I think Futurama, it may not be super deep, but it's still fairly witty.
 
one of futuramas strengths is that it could actually have compelling emotion aside from just comedy. the 'serious' episodes are gems (and still funny!)
 
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