Part of the reason I know that Yancy loved his brother is the wife's line. "I know what name you want to give him, Yancy. It's okay." It implies that Yancy talked about Fry so much and with such emotion that his wife also agreed to name their child after him. That says a lot.
@@JohnnyVee007you're not wrong but that doesn't mean you have to be such a downer either. You can't just say not all responses are gonna be good just to justify your own bad feedback. Pretty pitiful justification tbh. Saying not all responses are gonna be good should be used to help someone deal with bad feedback not justify you being a dick.
This episode isn't just his brother missing Fry. This is someone Fry never met, his nephew, being inspired by him. He could have done anything with the lucky clover, and he followed Fry's dream. His family loved him, missed him, and Fry had an influence on people.
Which I think is a great message, to himself he was just a pizza delivery boy with a dirt bag of a girlfriend. To everyone else he was the brother, the son, the uncle you never got to meet. He mattered more than even he realized and I really like thst the show did this. It could have very easily ignored the past and never talked about how people felt when fry went missing.
The episode where Bender goes to find the inspector that allowed him to go through the conveyor line, despite that he was defective was a really great episode.
As a kid I only knew that Yancy named his son after Fry But realizing now as an adult that he broke a 3 generation naming convention that was clearly important to his father to honor his brother has me grilling with propain
@@camelopardalis84 The first one. It showed Fry getting broken hearted because Leela got a serious boyfriend, so he went back in time using a time travel method that Bender discovered and picked up where he left off, moving into the apartment above the pizza place. I don't want to spoil the rest of the movie, but the dog spent the rest of It's life normally.
@@nujevad28 Thanks for answering! I also saw a comment here somewhere that mentions what happens with the dog after the "leading a normal life" thing but not in the 31st century. (I also don't want to spoil anything.) Kind of weird that the writers retconned that part of the story in such a massive way.
I second that. The ending was really well done and the conclusion to Leela's Origins Arc was the greatest. And the fact "Baby Love Child" was playing in the background made me teary eyed.
Absolutely. The ending of Game of Tones is also slept on. Most of the episode is kinda meh. Gives me the feels. Never heard someone mention that one. May just be me.
I felt this episode heavily. Feeling like someone you care about took the path you wanted to take in your life and holding resentment, towards them for feeling left behind and feeling like you’ve failed yourself, even if overall, you’re a generally upbeat person. Futurama was great at randomly humanizing most characters, from a light hearted, walked upon, impoverished Decapodian, to a billionaire villainous tycoon.
Part of the impact of this episode for me was that Fry has so few regrets about leaving his old life behind, it's easy to forget that he had a family who never knew what happened to him. For decades and decades there was a hole in this family, this brother who disappeared on New Year's Eve 1999 and the case went cold (heh) immediately. I know people don't like the retcons in Bender's Big Score, but I do because at least in that universe Fry's family got some kind of closure. And Yancy still named his son Philip. He did love him all along, disappearance or no.
@@RJLiams you can grow out of bad behavior as an adult Yancy does miss fry he never got the chance to apologize for everything but in a few flashbacks u can see they did love eachother
@@RJLiams Also from what I remember the show didn't frame it as Fry only having bad memories of him they framed those memories as backstory not flashbacks which is important. Those glimpses into the past may not have been all that those two had of each other and just like many sibling relationships they have their ups and downs. Fry focuses on the negatives when he talks because the clover connected his feelings of resentment for those times Yancy was jealous of him just like most people who get annoyed by somebody they'll only focus on the negative at the time. It couldn't have been all bad between them because it's evidenced that even though they bickered they still hung out with one another despite the rivalry. I know siblings that won't even acknowledge that the other one exists let alone still find the time to be near each other.
The episode where lelas mutant parents were secretly looking after her for her whole life and it was shown in the episodes ending as a montage hit me in the feels too.
i love how he gave the clover to his son named fry and ended the first born yancy family name tradition being passed down the line...beautifully powerful as fry learns this
Heh, I actually wasn’t thinking of Jurassic Bark (though I won’t deny how powerful that episode is). Luck of the Fryish was always my favourite episode of Futurama.
I didn't go to my friend's funeral (he was my best friend in middle school) because I knew he wasn't really there but I remember him almost everyday, sometimes I even dream of saving his life and preventing his car accident
For me, The Late Philip J. Fry is the best episode of Futurama. Episodes like Luck of the Fryrish and Jurassic Bark may have touched my heart, but the Late Philip J. Fry touched my soul, and truly solidified Futurama as one of the greatest animated shows of the 21st Century.
I've watched this over and over and over again when it was on Netflix and just now realized Yancey broke the tradition of naming the first born sons Yancey. Edit: it seems to have been a tradition but Enos (Fry's grandfather) seems to have been skipped for some reason. Thanks canaris4 Yes Enos is implied to be the paternal grandfather not maternal (Fry's mother's father) though it would make more sense. Possible reasons for this: the writers forgot. But it they are in the clear because Yancy Sr said that his grandfather was the Yancy not his father. They meant for Enos to be the maternal grandfather and messed up. Enos was the second born and for reasons unknown it was left to him to carry on the name with his children.
But who started that tradition? His father? Fry is his own grandfather and his purported grandfather's name is Enos, so I'm not sure who the eldest Yancy is (other than Fry's father), though I haven't watched the whole series yet.
This one, Jurassic Bark, The Late Phillip J. Fy, Game of Tones and Leela's Homeworld. Those are the episodes that get to me the most. Edit: and the finale was excellent as well.
"Game of Tones" is so weird. I don't remember the ending but just that it felt so weird especially in the beginning when "the mystery of the episode" is first discussed.
@@luciferangelica I know neither of those things you mention. I can only say that I remember being weirded out by the thing the characters are weirded out by in the beginning. (If you don't remember what thing I'm talking about, it's in the episode's title.) Mainly because of the atmosphere that was created by Fry's reaction to it.
@@camelopardalis84 ja, i just don't remember that much. i fell off after the first season follwing the comeback, that was good no matter what anyone says, but after that... and i maybe didn't have a tv for a while..., but no i guess it wasn't the song her grandfather used to sing her, and they weren't there to talk to extinct whales?
I find this episode to be way more heartbreaking than the dog one. The fact his brother gave the very thing he fought so hard to take from fry to his son so that HE could have the better life, the life Fry could have had if he didn't get frozen hits 10000X harder.
Idk I still find that dog one sadder. Seymore doesn't really ever get the concept that he's not coming back, he just waits for him until the day he himself dies. He only had that 1 nice person come into his otherwise sad life, and then he just one day never showed up again. At least his brother understood that he was missing and very very likely eventually came to the conclusion that he was just dead and wasn't coming back. The dog was just alone and really believed he'd be back.
I get what you're saying but ultimately I tear up just like Fry and I feel uplifted, the same as he does and I leave the episode wanting to see it again soon. With Jurassic Bark I leave that feeling depressed and never want to see it again until I do an entire series rewatch.
I remember getting very choked up on this episode the minute he starting reading what he had written on his gravestone my eyes started to water and as someone that lost a younger brother this hit me even harder :(.
HAHA Shady this is crazy I’ve actually been working on a video that is partially about this episode. Personally, I think it’s the best Futurama episode
It's a matter of taste but to me, there are several very strong contenders for first place. The episodes that would (possibly) end up in a top ten list, if I ever made one: - The Luck of the Fryrish - The Late Philip J. Fry - The Day the Earth Stood Stupid - The Sting - Leela's Homeworld - Meanwhile - The Why of Fry - Time Keeps on Slippin' - Godfellas - Parasites Lost - The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings - Overclockwise - Game of Tones And I'm mostly just going from somewhat foggy memory here ...
This is my favorite episode of Futurama! You're in for a treat of heartstring pulling episodes if you're going through the whole series, it's a really touching journey Fry takes on. One recommendation I would make is that as Matt Groening says, "Groening rhymes with complaining"
For me Futurama is the best of the 3 series from Matt Groening. And also this is my all time favorite episode of Matt Groening shows. Futurama is not on the same level of quality as Bojack but that doesn't mean its bad show
All the sad ones are the best : luck of the fryrish, leelas homeworld, Jurassic bark, the late Philip j fry, game of tones and meanwhile Luck of the fryrish, the late Philip j fry and game of tones are SOOOO MUCH sadder than Jurassic bark. Fight me
Honestly? I agree. Jurassic Bark was a great episode showing how Fry's only friend was a dog and how Seymour literally waited for him for his entire lifetime. But me personally? I felt more with Leela's Homeworld and Lethal Inspection.
Wait until you see THe sting, or the devil's idle playthings. two other incredible episodes. God i could talk about how great futurama is for hours just truly a show ahead of it's time.
This is my list of best episodes, going from somewhat foggy memory and consulting a list of episodes to look at the titles to find ones I'd completely forgotten about: - The Luck of the Fryrish - The Late Philip J. Fry - The Day the Earth Stood Stupid - The Sting - Leela's Homeworld - Meanwhile - The Why of Fry - Time Keeps on Slippin' - Godfellas - Parasites Lost - The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings - Overclockwise - Game of Tones Not all of them are especially emotional episodes but most of them are and some of them are just very good "essential Futurama episodes".
i love how its the narrator snake and mayor from powerpuff girls edwardo from foster's home dog from catdog raimundo from xiaolin showdown and spongebob himself delivering that great line from yancy...amazing talent tom kenny is
The devils idle playthings is that the piano episode? If so thats easily my favorite episode. Granted I also just love the devil in Futurama, he and bender are the best characters.
Man, Futurama may be my favorite show of all time. I've watched it in its entirety nearly 20 times now, and all the commentaries probably about 15 times now. Needless to say, I'm a fan.
When i first watched this episode i was shocked. The backstory about Fry and Yancy's relationship and the twist with Yancy's son will always be one of the greatest moments in cartoon history.
Futurama made a decent attempt to have an episode for every member of Fry's family that showed them in a better light than Fry painted them out to be. None of them honestly went has hard as this one did but I loved that Fry deep down really loved his mom and Nibbler gave him a small moment to have time with her and how his dad admitted to him that he was kind of mean to him because he truly wanted more for him and he felt the pressure would encourage him.
Four Futurama episodes made me shed a tear. Clover, Jurassic bark, Leela's parents secretly taking her from the sewers and when time froze, and Leela and fry lived their lives as a couple.
In all honesty, whenever I think of this episode I always think of my older brother. At times I always thought he cared about me, showing in a tough light... until this episode makes me cry only knowing my brother thrown away our family and harmed us in so many ways over the years.
This episode showed not only how much fry’s brother cared for him, but how he talked about him so much and how much he loved him and his aspirations, it inspired the nephew that fry never got to know to do what fry never got to in his century.
Honestly, this is my favorite episode of Futurama. Partly because...middle of three brothers, so I get the jealousy and competitiveness and how it can get incredibly personal and want to paint them in a bad light. It usually does take that moment to step back and realize that they DO care. And that ending of Yancey saying "I love you Philip...and I always will" followed almost immediately by "Don't You Forget About Me" always hits me hard with the Feel Goods.
I honestly really love the episodes involving Fry's family. Jurassic Bark, Luck of the Fryish, Game of Tones, and Cold Warriors I feel like have strong emotional points to them.
I could only ever watch Futurama when I stayed at my grandparents house where they didn't monitor what I was watching on TV, and somehow Jurassic Bark never happened to air when I could watch, so this episode was the one that had the biggest impact on me. At the end of the day, this one still means more to me than Jurassic Bark.
i could only watch futurama on the sunday nights that the nfl, mlb and nascar decided not to ruin my life by running long....and that's what really happened to futurama the first time. btw, in that respect this is like the best year ever, no olympics even, but alas, it's too late to matter. not like sports can preempt youtube
This was the first episode of Futurama to make me cry and it’s among the best in the series. I consider this show as a whole to be Matt Groening’s best work. I’d also love to see more Futurama videos from you!
and now you have to treat this show the way you treated bojack horseman and let it take over your channel... those are the rules! THE ALMIGHTY HYPNO TOAD HAS SPOKEN _All Hail The Hypno Toad_
I bawled at the end like the grown ass adult woman that I am. Holy fuck, the idiots who say cartoons are for kids are seriously missing out on animated gold. I'm legit still teary eyed while typing this.
Futurama was such a trail blazer. Before it, there haven't really been animated shows this side of the pond that would combine comedy with raw emotion to this degree of skill and fearlessness, hell, not even golden age Simpsons at it's most dramatic was willing to throw a gut punch like Fryrish or Jurassic Bark; and right after Futurama's first ending, we began seeing more and more shows (specially comedic) both for kids and adults more willing to engage it's audience emotionally as Futurama did like Adventure Time, Regular Show, Steven Universe Rick and Morty and yes, Bojack Horseman. Even more with the rise of binging and heavy continuity.
Everyone always brings up Jurassic Bark when it comes to the best Futurama episode, but this has ALWAYS been my choice. This episode made me feel things that Jurassic Bark never could. Don't get me wrong, Jurassic Bark is still a very emotional episode, but not in the way that this is. I cried just watching this video because it's that emotional and heartfelt. Another reason Jurassic Bark is not the best in my mind is the decision later to have it so Bender caused Seymour's death which sort of diminishes it in a way. I'm honestly surprised that the show runners chose to do that given how the fans felt about the episode. Thanks for taking the time to review this episode which I consider to be the best episode of Futurama by far.
10:54 The delivery, the music, everything about those couple of seconds brings a lump to my throat. And if you watch the series in its entirety, you realise that all of the people who truely loved Fri, missed him, and were waiting for him to come home. This is seen most prominantly with Seymor, but you ralize his Mom, his Dad, his Brother, and his dog, the four individulas closest to him which Fri believed didn't care about him loved him and wanted the best for him and for him to come home. Heartbreakingly beautiful.
One of my favorite episodes where I get emotional is Time Keeps On Slippin' where Fry literally moves the stars themselves to finally win Leela's love, but they lost the memory of how it all. Then Fry see's his message, the thing that could win her over again, only to have it implode before she can see it. I think this was a turning point to me where his love became less pathetic and kinda creepy, because you know there is a chance that Leela could love him back.
The first episode made is think that Fry’s family was horrible, but they actually cared about him, Fry was just having an really awful day, Yancy was probably the one who felt the most guilt for not being nice to his brother when he needed it.
My personal favorite episode honestly. That ending gets me every time, and it was the first real time we saw that Fry's family really miss him and love him.
This episode always makes me cry, I spent alot of my childhood hating my older brother, recently I started having mental issues that required hospitalization. He really does care about me like how Yancey cares about fry, this episode always brings tears to me
Benders Big Score has a really great story and emotional moments it’s up there as one of if not my favorite thing to come out of this series. Also this is gonna sound weird but Stench and Stenchibility also had a really sweet story and ending I recommend checking it out if you haven’t.
This is my favorite Futurama episode. It made me break down, because it helped me to finally get over my childhood hatred for my own brother. Made me finally reflect on things more as an adult, and realize he was not so bad. Made me remember the good things over the bad. This episode is literally the reason I can now speak with my brother and be happy with him, and I was able to release that childish hatred.
@@opalburn Technically 2000 was part of the 20th century as well. There was never a year zero so each milenium ends with the year 1000 or 2000. Thats why it was called 2001: A spare Oddessy - 2001 is the start of the new Milenium.
I love and appreciate your acknowledgement of the simplicity of Fry's person at the end of the day. He gave up what he wanted for the person he found most valuable, even acknowledging episode 2 how Fry gave up his dream apartment so Bender could keep his antenna. He's a sincerely good guy just distracted. Also you see Fry consistently getting with other women so it's not like we can really call him a loser by any means.
I love this episode. As an older brother I often think of all the times I have hurt my younger sibling and it is the most shame and regret I have ever felt. Ever since I almost lost my younger brother I try to be the best brother I can be for him and I would go to any lengths to see him succeed and see him happy. Seeing fry realize that his brother cared about him deep down hits me so unbelievably hard.
I love this show so much! The theme song is fantastic. You can have it on in the background and it gives good vibes. If you pay attention to the episodes, you will find new jokes, asides, and puns you may not have noticed the first time watching. It is a very special show.
I think fry blocked out all the good times with his family to cope with the sudden loss of every one and this episode follows him through the final stages of him accepting that his family cared about him even though they were all vert flawed.
Shady, I have to say this because it is important: Parental neglect is a sort of abuse. It is important to emphasise that abuse is more than just being physically violent or calling someone names and threatening them. Neglecting your child is abusing them. So, yes, Fry's parents were abusive+neglectful with him in a number of times. I know we are more used to "clearer" sorts of parental abuse (like in Bojack Horseman, with Bojack's parents and Diane's family) but dismissing abuse that is... Less blantat (not sure if that's the right wording, but I think you know what I mean) is very harmful, especially for people who have been through such experiences. I love the channel, this is a great analysis of the episode, but I really thought this should ve highlighted.
@@becademarques here's a typical episide; the parents put the babies in the play area. tommy opens it with his plastic screwdriver. they spend 20 minutes climbing on machinery or something, and the parents never even notice they are gone unless they roll away on a runaway reptar stroller and aren't back by nightfall
This is something that Futrama was really good at doing, the sudden emotional gut punch. And hell the last episode is amazing as well, the perfect send off. “Wanna go round again?”
A couple mounths ago i started to binge futurama from top to bottom, looking for episodes that i could have missed when i used to watch it after school. When i got to this one, i instantly remembered how great it was and that ending at the graveyard. So i faced it with confidence that it wouldn't hit me as hard this time. What i totally forgot and didn't know that i forgot, was the real twist of the episode, that the guy with the cover wasn't Fry's brother but his nephiew. When that last flashback came on i just couldn't hold myself, i was a mess. And just hearing someone recap that twist almost brings me to tears again. Its insane how good it is.
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Part of the reason I know that Yancy loved his brother is the wife's line. "I know what name you want to give him, Yancy. It's okay." It implies that Yancy talked about Fry so much and with such emotion that his wife also agreed to name their child after him. That says a lot.
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This was super obvious..
@@JohnnyVee007and? Care to actually give any good feedback or do you just like being a downer?
@@wezletbullock7424 not every feedback or response has to be good. Welcome to real life.
@@JohnnyVee007you're not wrong but that doesn't mean you have to be such a downer either. You can't just say not all responses are gonna be good just to justify your own bad feedback. Pretty pitiful justification tbh.
Saying not all responses are gonna be good should be used to help someone deal with bad feedback not justify you being a dick.
This episode isn't just his brother missing Fry. This is someone Fry never met, his nephew, being inspired by him. He could have done anything with the lucky clover, and he followed Fry's dream.
His family loved him, missed him, and Fry had an influence on people.
Which I think is a great message, to himself he was just a pizza delivery boy with a dirt bag of a girlfriend. To everyone else he was the brother, the son, the uncle you never got to meet. He mattered more than even he realized and I really like thst the show did this. It could have very easily ignored the past and never talked about how people felt when fry went missing.
@@ralcogaming7674 Hey don´t say that dirt bag are an useful and important part of vacums, it is clearly a compliment.
@@AugustoEL true hia girlfriend is more akin to a tow hitch on a smart car. Sure it's there but what's the point.
by inspiring his nephew man landed on Mars, he changed humanity and the future without ever realizing it
Well after Bender's Big Score, Fry's nephew knows who Fry is, so this kinda doesnt work anymore
Another thing: The clover gave luck to the grave of Fry's nephew, bringing Fry there to realize his legacy.
This comment is so underrated, omfg
I know it months later but great observation
My FEEEEELS
Bruh you just blew my mind
True. It's lucky that it survived multiple apocalypses between Fry being frozen and waking up in 3000
The episode where Bender goes to find the inspector that allowed him to go through the conveyor line, despite that he was defective was a really great episode.
Someone said, "Howitzer!"
@Abigail Slaughter A great summary of that episode!~ 😄😄😄
And it's literally like one of only four good episodes of that entire season. Great episode though!
Lethal Inspection. Maybe it’s the vulnerability of the immortal or the humble kindness toward the insufferable. But it’s my bbq of choice.
thats a good one m8!
As a kid I only knew that Yancy named his son after Fry
But realizing now as an adult that he broke a 3 generation naming convention that was clearly important to his father to honor his brother has me grilling with propain
Pretty sure the tradition ran back to the Revolutionary War, so more than just three generations.
And Fry realized his brother DID love him it was just buried for a few years
This video made me realize it, and it broke me all over again
*propane
@@Not_Always I spelled it pain on purpose. Referencing king of the hill episode where they make a game out of hank
The dog episode and this make me ugly cry the episode about his dreams with his mom makes me tear up
They kinda retconned the dog episode with the movie to make it less sad.
@@nujevad28 Which of the movies and in what way?
@Robert Wilson I really love "The Sting". It's an episode that makes me sad in a weird and almost messed up way.
@@camelopardalis84 The first one. It showed Fry getting broken hearted because Leela got a serious boyfriend, so he went back in time using a time travel method that Bender discovered and picked up where he left off, moving into the apartment above the pizza place. I don't want to spoil the rest of the movie, but the dog spent the rest of It's life normally.
@@nujevad28 Thanks for answering! I also saw a comment here somewhere that mentions what happens with the dog after the "leading a normal life" thing but not in the 31st century. (I also don't want to spoil anything.) Kind of weird that the writers retconned that part of the story in such a massive way.
"Dirt doesn't need luck" is one of the best nonsequiter lines in cartoon history.
whats does that even mean
@@razkable it leads nothing it follows nothing, it's very zen like in its placement
If you're watching Futurama beginning to end the series finale is gonna hit hard.
Shhhhh... 😉
I found the last season really charming. And I think that the show holds a pretty good consistency throughout
not as hard as that episode in which bender had a son. that hurt my feelings cause it sucked so bad
@@luciferangelica only made me laugh considering what he did to his last son. it was still nice though
Which series finale. There was so many.
Anything good gets cancelled sometimes 2 or 3 times.
Leela's Homeworld was really touching. I feel like it's an under appreciated episode
Ya it still one of my favorite futurama ending. I hope shady talks about him.
THIS. You beat me to it. Really gets into the feels for Leela, especially that ending 🥺
I second that. The ending was really well done and the conclusion to Leela's Origins Arc was the greatest. And the fact "Baby Love Child" was playing in the background made me teary eyed.
Fuckin pun mastergeneral over here
Absolutely. The ending of Game of Tones is also slept on. Most of the episode is kinda meh. Gives me the feels. Never heard someone mention that one. May just be me.
Personally my favorite episode.
As a older brother I related to the elder siblings love for Fry. I tear up everytime Fry reads the tomb stone.
Same. The fights I used to have with my brother and now working together with him. He is my best friend. And this episode hits me every single time
Agree with both!!! Such a great episode..... silly how a comedic cartoon can have such an emotional impact. Definitely my favorite episode.
I felt this episode heavily. Feeling like someone you care about took the path you wanted to take in your life and holding resentment, towards them for feeling left behind and feeling like you’ve failed yourself, even if overall, you’re a generally upbeat person. Futurama was great at randomly humanizing most characters, from a light hearted, walked upon, impoverished Decapodian, to a billionaire villainous tycoon.
And whenever I hear "Don't you forget about me" I am reminded of this episode
Me too.
I love how that song plays, referencing where he hid the clover
@@Matthew_Calmert tbh i never even though about that
Part of the impact of this episode for me was that Fry has so few regrets about leaving his old life behind, it's easy to forget that he had a family who never knew what happened to him. For decades and decades there was a hole in this family, this brother who disappeared on New Year's Eve 1999 and the case went cold (heh) immediately. I know people don't like the retcons in Bender's Big Score, but I do because at least in that universe Fry's family got some kind of closure. And Yancy still named his son Philip. He did love him all along, disappearance or no.
right Yancy was jealous of Fry but still loved him you can be jealous of a sibling but still love them
Either that or Yancy just really liked the name
Bullying your brother to the point where the only memory they have of you is negative isn't love. Misses his punching bag.
@@RJLiams you can grow out of bad behavior as an adult Yancy does miss fry he never got the chance to apologize for everything but in a few flashbacks u can see they did love eachother
@@RJLiams
Also from what I remember the show didn't frame it as Fry only having bad memories of him they framed those memories as backstory not flashbacks which is important. Those glimpses into the past may not have been all that those two had of each other and just like many sibling relationships they have their ups and downs. Fry focuses on the negatives when he talks because the clover connected his feelings of resentment for those times Yancy was jealous of him just like most people who get annoyed by somebody they'll only focus on the negative at the time. It couldn't have been all bad between them because it's evidenced that even though they bickered they still hung out with one another despite the rivalry. I know siblings that won't even acknowledge that the other one exists let alone still find the time to be near each other.
The episode where lelas mutant parents were secretly looking after her for her whole life and it was shown in the episodes ending as a montage hit me in the feels too.
My brother went missing for 7 years and we had no idea if he was alive or dead and this ending always brought me to tears.
one of my favorite episodes it show how much frys brother truly loved him and truly miss him thanks for covering this man
Don't You Forget About Me: ruclips.net/video/ppxJP7RU9aU/видео.html
i love how he gave the clover to his son named fry and ended the first born yancy family name tradition being passed down the line...beautifully powerful as fry learns this
Heh, I actually wasn’t thinking of Jurassic Bark (though I won’t deny how powerful that episode is). Luck of the Fryish was always my favourite episode of Futurama.
JimmySteller
Same! Maybe it’s just because I already knew what was gonna happen but I wasn’t THAT sad about it
In the eternal words of a certain janitor who shall go unnamed:
"...Seconded."
You can say that again.
While Jurassic Bark was a bit more emotional, I liked Luck of the Fryrish more because it had more comedy and overall entertainment.
The Sting and The Why of Fry are the actual two best episodes of the show.
I went to a friend's Funeral Saturday and boy this ripped my heart out.
I'm sorry for your loss. I hope this doesn't come across as a tacky stereotype, especially since it's coming from a complete stranger on the internet.
I didn't go to my friend's funeral (he was my best friend in middle school) because I knew he wasn't really there but I remember him almost everyday, sometimes I even dream of saving his life and preventing his car accident
I'm very sorry:(.. sorry to be replying to this late.😓my your friend rip💐
For me, The Late Philip J. Fry is the best episode of Futurama. Episodes like Luck of the Fryrish and Jurassic Bark may have touched my heart, but the Late Philip J. Fry touched my soul, and truly solidified Futurama as one of the greatest animated shows of the 21st Century.
I've watched this over and over and over again when it was on Netflix and just now realized Yancey broke the tradition of naming the first born sons Yancey.
Edit: it seems to have been a tradition but Enos (Fry's grandfather) seems to have been skipped for some reason. Thanks canaris4
Yes Enos is implied to be the paternal grandfather not maternal (Fry's mother's father) though it would make more sense.
Possible reasons for this: the writers forgot. But it they are in the clear because Yancy Sr said that his grandfather was the Yancy not his father.
They meant for Enos to be the maternal grandfather and messed up.
Enos was the second born and for reasons unknown it was left to him to carry on the name with his children.
Same here
I just realized that
Yeah, if it wasn't for Shady, probably never realized. Man, the writers brought their A game to the table when doing this episode.
But who started that tradition? His father? Fry is his own grandfather and his purported grandfather's name is Enos, so I'm not sure who the eldest Yancy is (other than Fry's father), though I haven't watched the whole series yet.
@@airbornemusician2999 enos could be a non first born
"Dont you forget about meeee"
*Sad mode engaged deploying tears*
This one, Jurassic Bark, The Late Phillip J. Fy, Game of Tones and Leela's Homeworld. Those are the episodes that get to me the most. Edit: and the finale was excellent as well.
Totally agreed. I must have seen each one of those like five times.
"Game of Tones" is so weird. I don't remember the ending but just that it felt so weird especially in the beginning when "the mystery of the episode" is first discussed.
@@camelopardalis84 i vaguely remember it. it was kinda like the first episode of darkwing duck, or star trek 4 right?
@@luciferangelica I know neither of those things you mention. I can only say that I remember being weirded out by the thing the characters are weirded out by in the beginning. (If you don't remember what thing I'm talking about, it's in the episode's title.) Mainly because of the atmosphere that was created by Fry's reaction to it.
@@camelopardalis84 ja, i just don't remember that much. i fell off after the first season follwing the comeback, that was good no matter what anyone says, but after that... and i maybe didn't have a tv for a while..., but no i guess it wasn't the song her grandfather used to sing her, and they weren't there to talk to extinct whales?
I find this episode to be way more heartbreaking than the dog one. The fact his brother gave the very thing he fought so hard to take from fry to his son so that HE could have the better life, the life Fry could have had if he didn't get frozen hits 10000X harder.
Idk I still find that dog one sadder. Seymore doesn't really ever get the concept that he's not coming back, he just waits for him until the day he himself dies. He only had that 1 nice person come into his otherwise sad life, and then he just one day never showed up again. At least his brother understood that he was missing and very very likely eventually came to the conclusion that he was just dead and wasn't coming back. The dog was just alone and really believed he'd be back.
I get what you're saying but ultimately I tear up just like Fry and I feel uplifted, the same as he does and I leave the episode wanting to see it again soon.
With Jurassic Bark I leave that feeling depressed and never want to see it again until I do an entire series rewatch.
I remember getting very choked up on this episode the minute he starting reading what he had written on his gravestone my eyes started to water and as someone that lost a younger brother this hit me even harder :(.
As a mommas boy, the episode where fry gets a chance to go back to the past and finally gets more time with his mother really got to me.
HAHA Shady this is crazy I’ve actually been working on a video that is partially about this episode. Personally, I think it’s the best Futurama episode
It's on my top five as well. The only episode I would unequivocally put above it would be The Late Philip J. Fry.
It's a matter of taste but to me, there are several very strong contenders for first place. The episodes that would (possibly) end up in a top ten list, if I ever made one:
- The Luck of the Fryrish
- The Late Philip J. Fry
- The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
- The Sting
- Leela's Homeworld
- Meanwhile
- The Why of Fry
- Time Keeps on Slippin'
- Godfellas
- Parasites Lost
- The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
- Overclockwise
- Game of Tones
And I'm mostly just going from somewhat foggy memory here ...
Same! Always the episode I show to someone that hasn't seen the show.
Love your channel Johnny!!!
The episode when Hermes also saved Bender from MomCo trying to kill him for being defective or something. That was a really good one too
I still cry at the end of this episode. As an older brother with younger sibling it hits so much in the feels. I’m 37 and yeah all the feels
This is my favorite episode of Futurama! You're in for a treat of heartstring pulling episodes if you're going through the whole series, it's a really touching journey Fry takes on.
One recommendation I would make is that as Matt Groening says, "Groening rhymes with complaining"
Really great video on one of my favorite episodes of television ever. You did a really great job here.
For me Futurama is the best of the 3 series from Matt Groening. And also this is my all time favorite episode of Matt Groening shows. Futurama is not on the same level of quality as Bojack but that doesn't mean its bad show
In many ways, that blend of comedy and raw emotion that Futurama had, paved the way for shows like BoJack,
@brandon roberts thank you for bringing that up. top notch stuff especially nature i and ii and the entire third season
All the sad ones are the best : luck of the fryrish, leelas homeworld, Jurassic bark, the late Philip j fry, game of tones and meanwhile
Luck of the fryrish, the late Philip j fry and game of tones are SOOOO MUCH sadder than Jurassic bark. Fight me
Honestly? I agree. Jurassic Bark was a great episode showing how Fry's only friend was a dog and how Seymour literally waited for him for his entire lifetime. But me personally? I felt more with Leela's Homeworld and Lethal Inspection.
How about "The Sting"? No-one here mentions "The Sting"!
bender should not be allowed on television wasn't sad, and that kicked all the asses
@@luciferangelica It definitely has one of the best jokes of the whole series in it: Bender's suggestion on how to deal with children.
Well Jurassic Bark is retconned
Wait until you see THe sting, or the devil's idle playthings. two other incredible episodes. God i could talk about how great futurama is for hours just truly a show ahead of it's time.
This is my list of best episodes, going from somewhat foggy memory and consulting a list of episodes to look at the titles to find ones I'd completely forgotten about:
- The Luck of the Fryrish
- The Late Philip J. Fry
- The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
- The Sting
- Leela's Homeworld
- Meanwhile
- The Why of Fry
- Time Keeps on Slippin'
- Godfellas
- Parasites Lost
- The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
- Overclockwise
- Game of Tones
Not all of them are especially emotional episodes but most of them are and some of them are just very good "essential Futurama episodes".
i love how its the narrator snake and mayor from powerpuff girls edwardo from foster's home dog from catdog raimundo from xiaolin showdown and spongebob himself delivering that great line from yancy...amazing talent tom kenny is
The devils idle playthings is that the piano episode? If so thats easily my favorite episode. Granted I also just love the devil in Futurama, he and bender are the best characters.
@@razkable holy shit I watched Catdog so much as a kid and I'm just now finding out that Dog was voiced by Tom Kenny. That's amazing.
I loved every episode of Futurama a show I can binge watch whenever
*Watches "final" episode*
Good news everyone, the show technically never ended.
Man, Futurama may be my favorite show of all time. I've watched it in its entirety nearly 20 times now, and all the commentaries probably about 15 times now. Needless to say, I'm a fan.
When i first watched this episode i was shocked. The backstory about Fry and Yancy's relationship and the twist with Yancy's son will always be one of the greatest moments in cartoon history.
Futurama made a decent attempt to have an episode for every member of Fry's family that showed them in a better light than Fry painted them out to be. None of them honestly went has hard as this one did but I loved that Fry deep down really loved his mom and Nibbler gave him a small moment to have time with her and how his dad admitted to him that he was kind of mean to him because he truly wanted more for him and he felt the pressure would encourage him.
Shady, you should do a Futurama series! I would happily watch every video you put out on it!
The episode that hits me the most is the one when Fry visits his mom in her dreams, jurassick bark is pretty good too
Although I havent seen the episode in about 3 years or so I always remember the line "you're gonna be named Philip j fry."
Four Futurama episodes made me shed a tear. Clover, Jurassic bark, Leela's parents secretly taking her from the sewers and when time froze, and Leela and fry lived their lives as a couple.
"I'm not crying. I'm just sweating through my eyeballs." MANLY CRYING!
In all honesty, whenever I think of this episode I always think of my older brother. At times I always thought he cared about me, showing in a tough light... until this episode makes me cry only knowing my brother thrown away our family and harmed us in so many ways over the years.
This episode showed not only how much fry’s brother cared for him, but how he talked about him so much and how much he loved him and his aspirations, it inspired the nephew that fry never got to know to do what fry never got to in his century.
Honestly, this is my favorite episode of Futurama. Partly because...middle of three brothers, so I get the jealousy and competitiveness and how it can get incredibly personal and want to paint them in a bad light. It usually does take that moment to step back and realize that they DO care. And that ending of Yancey saying "I love you Philip...and I always will" followed almost immediately by "Don't You Forget About Me" always hits me hard with the Feel Goods.
I honestly really love the episodes involving Fry's family. Jurassic Bark, Luck of the Fryish, Game of Tones, and Cold Warriors I feel like have strong emotional points to them.
I feel like futurama is underrated, I wish they still aired on channels. (Not making new episodes like Simpsons)
It also is occasionally on comedy central from time to time when south park the office and parks and rec ain't on
I could only ever watch Futurama when I stayed at my grandparents house where they didn't monitor what I was watching on TV, and somehow Jurassic Bark never happened to air when I could watch, so this episode was the one that had the biggest impact on me. At the end of the day, this one still means more to me than Jurassic Bark.
i could only watch futurama on the sunday nights that the nfl, mlb and nascar decided not to ruin my life by running long....and that's what really happened to futurama the first time. btw, in that respect this is like the best year ever, no olympics even, but alas, it's too late to matter. not like sports can preempt youtube
Game of tones makes me cry EVERYTIME when fry gets to talk his mom one last time
My fav episode is parasites lost.. "It's like a party in my mouth, and everyone is throwing up!" (liked and subscribed, thanks for the video)
The episode where Nibbler allows Fry to enter his mom's dream so he can tell her she loves him makes me ugly cry...like hard
This was the first episode of Futurama to make me cry and it’s among the best in the series. I consider this show as a whole to be Matt Groening’s best work. I’d also love to see more Futurama videos from you!
Loved that clip of herb from bojack saying “just say the thing” love the callback
I totally cried.
Even Jurassic Bark doesn't do it for me. But this does. And it brings up tears to my eyes every time without fail.
and now you have to treat this show the way you treated bojack horseman and let it take over your channel...
those are the rules! THE ALMIGHTY HYPNO TOAD HAS SPOKEN
_All Hail The Hypno Toad_
_All hail the Hypno Toad_
Is there really such a rules..?? Man people are so stu.... ALL HAIL TO HYPNO TOAD!!!
Its"All glory to the Hypnotoad."
So happy when I come across a RUclipsr that uses the word "plethora" and can pronounce it properly. Good on you, bro.
I bawled at the end like the grown ass adult woman that I am. Holy fuck, the idiots who say cartoons are for kids are seriously missing out on animated gold. I'm legit still teary eyed while typing this.
I'm just glad Shady's covering Futurama now. It's such a great show and I don't think Bojack could have happened without it.
Futurama was such a trail blazer. Before it, there haven't really been animated shows this side of the pond that would combine comedy with raw emotion to this degree of skill and fearlessness, hell, not even golden age Simpsons at it's most dramatic was willing to throw a gut punch like Fryrish or Jurassic Bark; and right after Futurama's first ending, we began seeing more and more shows (specially comedic) both for kids and adults more willing to engage it's audience emotionally as Futurama did like Adventure Time, Regular Show, Steven Universe Rick and Morty and yes, Bojack Horseman. Even more with the rise of binging and heavy continuity.
Also, the sting, the late Philip j. Fry and benders big score
I just realized the 'childhood drawing' says 'Philip J. Fry Age 20' 😂😂😂
He drew it as a child, saying that would be him at age 20.
my favorite episode is "the devil's hands are idle things-something". I always loved the humor and the themes on this one.
Just watching this video not even the full episode was enough to make me cry I cry every time I watch this episode
Everyone always brings up Jurassic Bark when it comes to the best Futurama episode, but this has ALWAYS been my choice. This episode made me feel things that Jurassic Bark never could. Don't get me wrong, Jurassic Bark is still a very emotional episode, but not in the way that this is. I cried just watching this video because it's that emotional and heartfelt.
Another reason Jurassic Bark is not the best in my mind is the decision later to have it so Bender caused Seymour's death which sort of diminishes it in a way. I'm honestly surprised that the show runners chose to do that given how the fans felt about the episode.
Thanks for taking the time to review this episode which I consider to be the best episode of Futurama by far.
Luck of the Fryrish has always been my favorite episode, I love it so much. Always makes me tear up.
11:01 That is such a great sum up of the kind of guy Fry is, love it.
10:54 The delivery, the music, everything about those couple of seconds brings a lump to my throat. And if you watch the series in its entirety, you realise that all of the people who truely loved Fri, missed him, and were waiting for him to come home. This is seen most prominantly with Seymor, but you ralize his Mom, his Dad, his Brother, and his dog, the four individulas closest to him which Fri believed didn't care about him loved him and wanted the best for him and for him to come home. Heartbreakingly beautiful.
One of my favorite episodes where I get emotional is Time Keeps On Slippin' where Fry literally moves the stars themselves to finally win Leela's love, but they lost the memory of how it all. Then Fry see's his message, the thing that could win her over again, only to have it implode before she can see it. I think this was a turning point to me where his love became less pathetic and kinda creepy, because you know there is a chance that Leela could love him back.
That fry kept the clover in The Breakfast Club soundtrack and the episode ends with "Don't You Forget About Me" was a nice touch.
The first episode made is think that Fry’s family was horrible, but they actually cared about him, Fry was just having an really awful day, Yancy was probably the one who felt the most guilt for not being nice to his brother when he needed it.
This episode and game of tones were the only episode that made me cry
That last part with the epitaph... 😭😭
Man, I've watched this episode at least 100 times, and yet even in this review, this episode made me cry. Futurama is such a good show
Im man enough to admit I cried like a baby at the end of that episode! ;A;
My personal favorite episode honestly. That ending gets me every time, and it was the first real time we saw that Fry's family really miss him and love him.
Kinda wanna cry rn remembering this ep. Like fry really one day just disappeared and his family never saw him again. :(
This episode always makes me cry, I spent alot of my childhood hating my older brother, recently I started having mental issues that required hospitalization. He really does care about me like how Yancey cares about fry, this episode always brings tears to me
Benders Big Score has a really great story and emotional moments it’s up there as one of if not my favorite thing to come out of this series. Also this is gonna sound weird but Stench and Stenchibility also had a really sweet story and ending I recommend checking it out if you haven’t.
This is my favorite Futurama episode. It made me break down, because it helped me to finally get over my childhood hatred for my own brother. Made me finally reflect on things more as an adult, and realize he was not so bad. Made me remember the good things over the bad.
This episode is literally the reason I can now speak with my brother and be happy with him, and I was able to release that childish hatred.
Bender isn’t evil, and the show aired in the late 90’s.
it first aired in 1999. i watched it, but no, i wasn't one of the people who decoded alienese before it even ended
Stellvia Hoenheim Last time I checked, March 1999 is very much in the 90s...
@@opalburn Technically 2000 was part of the 20th century as well. There was never a year zero so each milenium ends with the year 1000 or 2000. Thats why it was called 2001: A spare Oddessy - 2001 is the start of the new Milenium.
I've seen this episode several times and watching Fry reading the tombstone still made me cry.
I love this episode!
I love and appreciate your acknowledgement of the simplicity of Fry's person at the end of the day. He gave up what he wanted for the person he found most valuable, even acknowledging episode 2 how Fry gave up his dream apartment so Bender could keep his antenna. He's a sincerely good guy just distracted.
Also you see Fry consistently getting with other women so it's not like we can really call him a loser by any means.
I agree. I remember liking this episode more than Jurassic Bark. Both are beautiful. Btw if you like Gravity Falls, you should check out Amphibia.
seems like dipper puts all the work into that relationship and mabel just gets her own way all the time
I love this episode. As an older brother I often think of all the times I have hurt my younger sibling and it is the most shame and regret I have ever felt. Ever since I almost lost my younger brother I try to be the best brother I can be for him and I would go to any lengths to see him succeed and see him happy. Seeing fry realize that his brother cared about him deep down hits me so unbelievably hard.
The bark episode was heart wrenchingly sad.
I love this show so much! The theme song is fantastic. You can have it on in the background and it gives good vibes. If you pay attention to the episodes, you will find new jokes, asides, and puns you may not have noticed the first time watching. It is a very special show.
No it’s death by Snoo Snoo.
Beat me to it 😂😂
Hehe
"Amazon Women in the Mood" is a rape joke episode full of rape jokes ...
Luck of the Fry hits me harder than Jurractic Bark, dunno why I just got more emotional.
For what its worth Groehning is pronounced like “Grain-ing”
I think fry blocked out all the good times with his family to cope with the sudden loss of every one and this episode follows him through the final stages of him accepting that his family cared about him even though they were all vert flawed.
Shady, I have to say this because it is important: Parental neglect is a sort of abuse. It is important to emphasise that abuse is more than just being physically violent or calling someone names and threatening them. Neglecting your child is abusing them. So, yes, Fry's parents were abusive+neglectful with him in a number of times. I know we are more used to "clearer" sorts of parental abuse (like in Bojack Horseman, with Bojack's parents and Diane's family) but dismissing abuse that is... Less blantat (not sure if that's the right wording, but I think you know what I mean) is very harmful, especially for people who have been through such experiences.
I love the channel, this is a great analysis of the episode, but I really thought this should ve highlighted.
you need to have a talk with the pickle family from rugrats
@@luciferangelica I gotta say... I remember nothing from Rugrats, but now I'm a tiny bit scared to look back at it.
@@becademarques here's a typical episide; the parents put the babies in the play area. tommy opens it with his plastic screwdriver. they spend 20 minutes climbing on machinery or something, and the parents never even notice they are gone unless they roll away on a runaway reptar stroller and aren't back by nightfall
@@luciferangelica That's... Really dangerous.
@@becademarques ja, well, i don't advocate that style of parenting, but i do advocate watching the show, it's not bad
This is something that Futrama was really good at doing, the sudden emotional gut punch.
And hell the last episode is amazing as well, the perfect send off.
“Wanna go round again?”
The ending was so beautiful that it made my heart open a little.
Sooooo many futurama episodes are deep like this... and ya... just watching the clips... tears... manly tears... creeped in.
A couple mounths ago i started to binge futurama from top to bottom, looking for episodes that i could have missed when i used to watch it after school. When i got to this one, i instantly remembered how great it was and that ending at the graveyard. So i faced it with confidence that it wouldn't hit me as hard this time. What i totally forgot and didn't know that i forgot, was the real twist of the episode, that the guy with the cover wasn't Fry's brother but his nephiew. When that last flashback came on i just couldn't hold myself, i was a mess. And just hearing someone recap that twist almost brings me to tears again. Its insane how good it is.
And by the way, how they used "don't you forget about me" at the end is both priceless and a criminal move.
bro even just watching THIS video made me cry. Futurama is a masterpiece.
I'm tearing up just watching this video.
TBH this episode got me WAAY more in my feels then Jurassic bark did, by a whole lot. the shock ending man, just
I just teared just looking at this recap and review.
When the end credit song started, so did the eyeball sweating This is my favorite episode.