Futurama Is The Best Animated Show To Pull On The Heartstrings

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Cartoons are traditionally funny and comedy-orientated and when they break away from that mold for even a couple of seconds, it tends to provide talked about and memorable moments. It isn't always necessary for cartoons to write deeply emotional scenes, but when written well they tend to be beautiful and thought-provoking instances.

The Simpsons were the kings of writing emotional moments back in the 90s but seemed to slip away from its writing quality as Futurama became the go-to animated show from the world of Matt Groening. There have been more recent shows such as Bojack Horseman, Rick & Morty, and Gravity Falls who have had some heartbreaking moments, but no show has done it as many times, or to the style and quality of Futurama.

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Futurama's emotional moments are so well-written that they have been rated as many of the best episodes. The one episode that fans who have only watched a few episodes will know of is"Jurassic Bark." The story of Fry's old dog Seymour who was almost brought back to life, but decided against as Fry believed Seymour would have forgotten about him. The following montage shows the moment Fry was frozen in time and how Seymour aims to find him and later waits outside of Panucci's Pizza for Fry's return until his death. The timeline of Seymour waiting through the years with just music to fill the silence is a heartbreaking scene about the love he had and no doubt affected viewers who owned pets.

This isn't the only time where music has played a striking moment in an emotional Futurama scene which has included Leela's youth in «Leela's Homeworld,» Bender's life being saved in «Lethal Inspection» and the original end of Futurama where Leela watches