Multiple Futurama episodes got tears out of me. I think it's a normal and natural thing to be touched by a piece of media to the point of tears. I've watched them again in fact.
"Luck of the Fryish" has always been a favorite of mine. Not quite as tear-jerking as Jurassic Bark, but still a little sad with a somewhat somber ending.
People frequently show more affection in movies to animals than to humans. The Walking Dead spent years graphically and brutally killing humans both dead and undead and no one flinched. Then one episode the starving protagonists killed a pack of feral dogs for food and suddenly there were tears shed.
Yep! It's the one where Fry remembers the seven-leaf-clover. I thought the scene with Yancy naming his son Phillip since his brother went missing was one of the best scenes in the series.
That's why I love Futurama – it respects intelligence of its audience. Rewatching all seasons every couple of years only showed that the show grows with you.
I'm not sure that the episode with the dead dog opening quote _is_ the episode with the dead dog (a spoiler), maybe was a previous one and because it was somewhat controversial this is a joke about it.
Can anyone confirm?
The two possible jokes works but are different, for me a pun of a previous episode is so much funny.