Jurassic Bark
| "Jurassic Bark" | |
|---|---|
| Futurama episode | |
| File:Futurama ep61.jpg | |
| Episode no. | Season four |
| Directed by | Swinton O Scott III |
| Written by | Eric Kaplan |
| Original air date | November 17 2002 |
| Episode features | |
| Opening cartoon | Hiss and Make Up Merry Melodies |
Jurassic Bark is the 61st episode of Futurama. It aired November 17 2002. It won an Emmy Award and is considered one of the most touching episodes in the series.
Plot Summary
Template:Spoiler Bender and Fry visit the Natural History Museum exhibit of a 20th century pizza parlor. Fry finds out that it is actual Pannuci's Pizza, the old pizza parlor where Fry used to work. Within the exhibit, Fry finds his old dog, Seymour, fossilized and on display in the exhibit. After a lengthy protest, the museum gives Fry the fossilized dog. Fry starts to treat Seymour like an actual dog, but Bender, however, grows jealous of Fry's nonstop devotion to Seymour. At PE, Farsworth reveals that he can clone a version of Seymour that Fry knew and loved. In the basement, just before Seymour's cloning process is completed, Bender, in a jealous rage, throws Seymour's fossilized body into the lava pit in the basement. Farsworth reveals that because Seymour was made of dolomite, he might survive the hot lava. Bender, feeling remorseful and being 40% dolomite, decides to go after the dolomite dog. After long while, Bender resurfaces with Seymour intact. While cloning Seymour the second time, Farnsworth reveals that Seymour was 15 years old when he died, which gets Fry to realise that Seymour lived a full life after he died. Fry destroys the machine and leaves Seymour fossilized.
Throught the show, flashbacks are shown revealing how Fry and Seymour met, how they acted together and how Seymour lived after Fry was frozen. The last flashback shows Seymour waiting the rest of his life outside Pannucci's, waiting for Fry to return.
Trivia
- The last part of the episode where Seymour is waiting outside on the sidewalk was originally set to the theme of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it was exchanged with the song "I Will Wait For You" from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg as sung by Connie Francis, which writer Eric Kaplan's parents played and sang on the piano while he was a child.
- In an orginal version of the script, it was Fry's mother that was found fossilized. The staff, however, found this upsetting.
- At one point in the episode, we see Fry being frozen again from Space Pilot 3000. Like in SP3000, we see a shadow under the desk. This time, however, we see two shadows; one looks like Nibbler(as seen in SP3000) and one that looks like Fry. This is later explained in The Why Of Fry.
Reference
- The title is a reference to the popular book/film series Jurassic Park.
- At the history museum, a pimp is seen frozen in amber, another reference to Jurassic Park.
- Seymour is able to bark "I'm Walking on Sunshine", a song Fry sang in The 30% Iron Chef and War is the H-word.
- Bender refers to a gorilla that loves a kitten. This is a reference to Koko the gorilla.