Futurama!

I hope this isn't sarcasm.

If it was:

"I'll show ye."

futurama is the BEST. i'll say it right now - hands down, better than the simpsons. and not the simpsons now, but the simpsons at its best. the simpsons - ultimately - rests on snarky, quick pop humor and satire. futurama managed to not only be satire, but to have a heart. i mean fry & leela? come on? or the episode with the flashback of fry's dog? i almost want to CRY at the end. thus establishing futurama's higher quality.

i still can't watch the end of Jurassic Bark.

edit:

almost? the only other time in recent memory that something on screen has made me cry was the end of The Notebook, which should have some kind of warning on the case like "note to male viewers: no matter how tough you like to act, you will cry like a baby when you watch this".

[Edited on May 25, 2005 by d20]

I hate watching that ep, it makes me so sad

Futurama achieved a certain warmth and humanity that I didn't think possible in a cartoon.

When Lela was on the moon and yelled at fry about the astronauts being dead men and to get in the fucking lunar shuttle already...or the episode where Lela was in the coma, going crazy...and don't even get me started on Jurassic Bark...there's such a sadness and humanity to the show that you don't even see in live action television programs anymore. I'm sorry I overlooked it when it was first on. Thank God for Adult Swim.

Almost?!

The dog! He waited! Forever...and then he...he...i can't go on....

agreed. the only other time a cartoon actually made me cry was when i saw the Simpsons episode where Krusty gets back with his Rabbi father on his TV show and they sing at the end.

there's an animated gif floating around of the last few seconds of the episode. it's like instant heart melting kryptonite.

And thus the cold, unfeeling hearts of .GIF animators have finally broken my last defenses. Curse ye, internet, wherever you are.

Jurassic Bark should have won an award.

The Sting should have as well.. that episode mirrored my life in some ways..(although not the parts involving giant space bees)

..and one of my favourite quotes comes from it:

Leela - "The bees communicate by dancing"
Fry - "Hey! Just like my parents! ..no wait.. that was hitting."

Leela, nothing's wrong with anything.

'Hey, my girlfriend had one of those! Actually it wasn't her's it was her dad's. Actually she wasn't my girlfriend. She just lived next door and never closed her curtains.'