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Fry's old work place, Panucci's Pizza, has been unearthed and preserved as a museum exhibit. Fry finds the fossilized remains of his dog Seymour and demands to take them home. Professor Farnsworth thinks he can produce a clone of Seymour and inject all of his old memories. But Bender, who has been practicing a magic act with Fry as his lovely assistant, becomes annoyed at Fry for only focusing on his dead dog. Written by
The TV Archaeologist
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Goofs
The legs of Amy's Spandex costume disappear when Leela has her in a headlock
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Quotes
Robo-Puppy:
Robo-Puppy commencing two hour yipping session.
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Robo-Puppy begins to yip. Bender, frustrated, kicks it across the room where it hits the wall and falls to the ground]
Robo-Puppy:
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as a siren begins to wail out]
Robo-Puppy mistreatment alert. Robo-Puppy mistreatment alert.
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Lassie (1954)
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Soundtracks
"I Will Wait For You"
Written by
Michel Legrand and
Norman Gimbel
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I like animated comedy, its comedy for 'our' generation. Sitcoms just don't do it anymore and implement way to many morals into the storyline.
Futurama differentiates itself enough from the other popular animated comedy series to be interesting. Animated comedy is, maybe silently, stigmatized for being to superficial. Indeed the stories don't go to deep most of the time and that is the appealing part of it, but now and then people have a need for extra emotions besides humor.
Bringing drama with a laugh, to me sounds impossible. obviously it can be done, but it almost always negates or even nullifies the drama part.
This episode was regular for almost the entire length, but it was build up to the end so ingeniously and unnoticeable that the end indeed made such an impact.
I think that if you compare this scene with the saddest scene from friends (in context) futurama wins by a land slide in sadness.