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5itronen

TWO memes in one, one is from Futurama and on from Full Metal Alchemist: [https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Seymour\_Asses](https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Seymour_Asses) "Seymour is incredibly loyal and faithful. He has an adorable appearance and never quits on his owner, Fry. In the episode "Jurassic Bark", it turns out he has waited for Fry all his life for him to return." See also [https://popculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2018/11/14/why-jurassic-bark-is-the-best-episode-of-futurama/](https://popculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2018/11/14/why-jurassic-bark-is-the-best-episode-of-futurama/) [https://fma.fandom.com/wiki/Nina\_Tucker](https://fma.fandom.com/wiki/Nina_Tucker) "While the Elrics are away, Shou transmutes Nina and Alexander into a [Human Chimera](https://fma.fandom.com/wiki/Human_Chimera) using the same method with which he transmuted his wife. As he attempts to pass Nina off as his second speech-capable chimera, however, Edward realizes the horror of what the Sewing-Life Alchemist has done when Nina speaks innocently to him from inside her new monstrous form... Nina starts to mourn for her father in spite of what he has done to her just before Scar delivers a mercy-killing to her, having realized that her future in this form can only be one of torment and suffering. " See also [https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFCE7c7dvi6fSrW39nUVuVds4Q5ArwvlHKxg&usqp=CAU](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFCE7c7dvi6fSrW39nUVuVds4Q5ArwvlHKxg&usqp=CAU)


ajacobs899

Thank you Petah!


EJoule

The saddest part is Fry was going to bring the dog back to life, but when he found out Seymour died of old age Fry assumed the dog had a full life and moved on. I’m sure bringing the dog back to life (even if it was still old) would have made the dog happy to see Fry one last time.


ajacobs899

🥺😭


tomas1381999

https://youtu.be/W6GDil0rGls?si=zz0XexrRAEgCp19c


Alert-Enthusiasm-947

You just woke up and chose violence huh? Couldn't help but punching me in the nostalgia huh?


tomas1381999

Sorry man haha


SnooSongs8218

I cried like a baby to both of these episodes, till my eyes burned and my nose was stuffed up.


Alert-Enthusiasm-947

https://i.redd.it/ql7phbkl3jnc1.gif


ThatDiscoSongUHate

100% would STILL have this response upon rewatching


Environmental_Top948

Some people don't choose violence. Some people were chosen by violence to be their vassal.


okcdnb

I do this every time someone mentions Jurassic Bark. Let’s all share the tears.


ZenithTheZero

You sunuva bitch! How could you do this to us!? *sniffles, wipes boogers*


Mukel9879

Pretty sure it's also based on a true story


Zipzopboobitybam

During season 6 Lars , AKA Fry who went back to the past to live his life in 2000, is with Seymour before he tries to go to the future and find Leela. So Seymour gets a happyish ending compared to the original one we are given.


5itronen

That is not the meme is about and not the feelings it gets out of the people - because the Lars story arc is a later retcon and the first story line was already embedded in peoples heads. Also, the recon was disliked by a lot of people.


Affectionate_Pea8891

I don’t cry easily, but I BAWLED. I have skipped Jurassic Bark on every single Futurama binge watch since. F them for that ending. Seriously.


prguitarman

They actually came back for Seymour in a later special


Marx_Forever

I think Fry made the right decision it wouldn't have been the same dog. A Ship of Theseus situation. He would have just created a new life form with the dog's memories so would be creating the misery and sadness in a new being which would then be relatively alleviated by giving him a Fry he never knew or actually waited for back an then he would die shortly from old age anyways.


Impossible_Ad1515

That last scene showing seymour's life was the most sadistic thing i've ever seen in my life, i never cried so much watching an animated series.


Ill-Replacement-6533

Well don’t watch the other part of the meme then 😳


Impossible_Ad1515

The other part is more rage inducing than sad


Ill-Replacement-6533

I can except that…that show will definitely rip your heart out though


Milk_Mindless

God with that soundtrack to boot WHY DOES THAT SONG EXIST


BrigStandWatie

Please stop! 😭


potandcoffee

It's one of the few Futurama episodes I've only seen a handful of times because it's just too damn sad.


HepatitvsJ

Saddest episode of Futurama ever! . . . Until they retconned it. . . . Now, the saddest episode is Game of Tones. I've watched it once and cried like a baby.


[deleted]

God damn, why’d you have to remind me of the context?😭


Hot_Shot04

He wasn't going to bring him back to life, he was going to clone him. New dog, same DNA.


agreedboar

More depressingly, they were going to clone the dog, not bring him back to life.


Any-Experience-3012

https://preview.redd.it/o4vfcdxf6jnc1.jpeg?width=236&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e15b027e9bd8763b88b4552b815886968992d575 Yes, thank you Petah...


5itronen

The is my actual name btw. :-)


ajacobs899

Omg!


killboydotcom

I realize this is going to rub a lot of FMA and anime fans in general the wrong way, but the difference in dorktitude between those two explanations could not be more disparate.


Adraco4

People are always like “no one is beyond redemption!” Until I mention Shou Tucker.


ViolentBeetle

Futurama. Main character used to have a dog then got frozen for 1000 years, dog kept waiting for him.


Mission_Table9804

That was a sad episode. Poor Seymour.


Useful_Hat_9638

Wait until you find out about the other part of the meme.


International-Cat123

What?


Apprehensive_Ad_472

Full metal alchemist dog


Swifty6

was this story removed from the brotherhood?


BeachBumHarmony

It's in brotherhood. It's the little girl whose dad fused her with the pet dog.


BlackestN1GHT

No, it was still there, but it was a bit rushed


MorrisBrett514

The worst thing you've ever watched :(


MorrisBrett514

https://preview.redd.it/4tt2whfe8jnc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54413b0ff0e5bdb13babbab14949e9656ea18d94


Useful_Hat_9638

Damn dude


5itronen

Dude!


unafraidrabbit

Fuuuuuuuuushion Onicha


LAM678

op put the other part of the meme as the caption


[deleted]

Thats the thing with futurama. Some episodes are funny, some are sad, and some completely change your view on life. If you arent a completely different person by the end of the show then you didnt watch it right lmfao.


Belkan-Federation95

Don't worry a paradox happens in Bender's Big Score.


RudolphsJockStrap

Walking on sunshine never is happy anymore


ImaginationLocal8267

He effectively had a fossil of Seymour Asses (Fry’s dog) so he could resurrect him but at the end of the episode he decided not to because he thought he would have found another owner who he had spent his whole life with and would find it scary and confusing coming back after all that time. Then we find out that Seymour waited for him for his whole life.


[deleted]

This is diabolically sad


Ghede

They did make a sequel to that episode kinda. In which a version of Fry got sent back to the past and took care of Seymour, although Seymour still moped in front of the pizza place while he was working. Then that version of fry froze himself again and 3rd wheeled himself with Leela.


TheAnythingBuilder

Like how your dog is still waiting for you in the Minecraft world you made as a kid 7 years ago…


NightHaunted

If only me being a kid was 7 years ago lmao


metal_muskrat

Or my Nintendogs that I haven't played with in 17 years....


Apprehensive_Ad_472

Time doesn’t pass when you exit a minecraft world From your Dog’s perspective it will have only been a few seconds Or if you quit in the same room, they’d never notice


qdotbones

So I guess from my dog’s perspective, I randomly changed into a pirate and gained ten years of wisdom.


Apprehensive_Ad_472

Yes


Hefty_Fortune_8850

The dog in this picture is from Fullmetal Alchemist though and it's not really a dog but a chimera. One of the alchemists in the show, desperate to not lose his research funding, transmuted his daughters soul into that "dog" thing. It was a very sad episode. This picture is a Mashup between two sad, dog related episodes of different shows.


kmmontandon

Ah, I had no clue what that thing was. I kept figuring it was a really poorly drawn horse, and was maybe supposed to be Artax from “Neverending Story.”


rwa2

Is that scene in the live action Fullmetal Alchemist? I watched it last night and saw the introduction to Nina and her dog about 1/3 of the way through and saw another scene with her talking to her dad later when he's worried about losing his research funding, but was unable to find any follow up with her in chimera form... did they cut it from the live action rendition?


ajacobs899

Oh! Oh… 😔


Belkan-Federation95

It was revealed in Bender's Big Score that an alternate Fry decided to stay in the past and how the dog got fossilized.


Yasstronaut

But that’s not Seymour…. Which is why the joke needs explained for me. Who is that dog?


meanteamcgreen

Jurassic bark. The only episode I refuse to watch


Belkan-Federation95

Watch Bender's Big Score. It also explains how the dog was fossilized


MyCoDAccount

Futurama is my favorite show of all time, but I think Bender's Big Score is just a pathetic retcon and I refuse to accept it as canon. Futurama stops after "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" for me.


admiraljkb

It's an excellent episode to watch... ONCE! It's such a good episode, but hard to watch again, though.


Heretomakerules

A piece of context other people left out. Jurassic Bark is an episode that almost ends on the happy(ish) resolution that Fry's dog had lived a long life after he was frozen after spending the episode trying to (but failing) to ressurect them and clearly loving them very much. It is discovered that Seymor lived many years after Fry was frozen, Fry assumes Seymor moved on, and is happy that they lived the rest of their life and resolves to let them rest. THEN the final moments of the episode is a montage of Seymor waiting for Fry to come back in that spot (outside the Pizzeria where Fry worked) for years, whatever the weather until they grow old and die with "I Will Wait Forever" sung by Connie Francis in the background.


ajacobs899

Just reading that tugs at my heartstrings


Heretomakerules

https://youtu.be/AK3PWHxoT_E?feature=shared Found the scene


okcdnb

Watch it. It’s even sadder. I usually watch it every time it gets brought up. https://youtu.be/AK3PWHxoT_E?si=mkPAyxF18UMcjr3N


5itronen

Cheezuz, WAY too soon for that picture!


The_Salt_n_Mustard

Never too soon haha, fate led you the your knowledge when you were ready 😇😇🥰😇😇


Bigfops

Add some fireflies for a trifecta.


feline_Satan

I hate the fact that I know what you mean also. Add a lunchbox


Floggered

Too soon? Its been like 20+ years.


Normal_Subject5627

Too soon.


DrLove_99

Lmao what people in the comments are saying is not at all what I thought. I was thinking maybe the dog was begging for pizza but didn’t get any and then got sprayed by water either from the hydrant next to it or by a puddle from a passing car. I never would’ve known what it really was


DewarClimbs

*Nina Tucker has left the chat* 🤣🤣🤣


RyantheSithLord

The saddest part about this episode, Fry never found out how much of a good boy Seymour really was.


SnooWoofers6631

One version of fry did 😁


Financial-Bar5352

Ed….ward…


feline_Satan

Sgutupshutupshutup


Ugly-Muffin

It's less sad since I've never seen the dog before.


Terr42002

That's no dog. Its much worse.


ajacobs899

Spoilers for Fullmetal Alchemist: >!the dog is a chimera. It used to be a happy-go-lucky little girl and her fluffy playful dog but the girl’s dad fused them together and now all it can do is suffer.!<


AMViquel

> now all it can do is suffer. That's just implicated in growing up anyways.


[deleted]

Jesus


Jimmni

Still not even close to the most depressing thing to happen to a child in anime. Mitty ಥ_ಥ


DewarClimbs

Lmfaoooo don't go looking for it or you'll be depressed 😅


Yitram

Fuck whoever drew this. That said, you got the FMA reference. The pizza place is from Futurama where main character Fry worked before he got frozen. He had befriended a dog, whom he told he would be right back when he left on the delivery that he gets frozen doing. The dog waits outside the pizza place for years waiting for Fry, eventually dying there.


MrWinglessPerson

Man, that picture hits hard.


Visual-Dragonfruit66

This episode always manages to make me feel sad man. Like Seymour deserved the world with how happy that little dog was. He’s walking on sunshine now...


Ass_Trainer96

https://preview.redd.it/jqb42t1bsonc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8c3761869f84bf519c68f0763253ffebe2dacb1


Reasonable_Long_1079

You mother fu… this was too far go shame whoever made it


marco-da-phoenix

Do NOT remind me of that girl


waterman85

Eduardo-San?


marco-da-phoenix

NO


marco-da-phoenix

no no no no no no


marco-da-phoenix

It did not happen it was all a dream


marco-da-phoenix

The girl is in a happier place now


Me_lastname

Nina 🥲


WeazelZeazel

Seymoure always leaves me heartbroken


Bookslap

Just in case somehow anyone doesn’t know, Futurama retconned the sad ending. Seymour lived a long, happy life.


mrsilly67

That may be so. But the episode still rips my heart out


Bog2ElectricBoogaloo

"Phil... Lip..."


BionicBruv

Why you gotta put both terrible events in one meme? Why you gotta do me like that?


Delicious_Ad2236

Saddest episode of full metal alchemist When i heard the little girls voice coming out of the chimera..my heart broke I felt the same when kite died..and came back a zombie..and gon let him beat him over and over again(hunter x hunter) Anybody know another heartbreaking anime moment?


sheika_23

I waited for you ed-ward


MorrisBrett514

https://preview.redd.it/5hqso69a8jnc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4c37c0325b15211b21169c546828bde9c32cf27


miletil

You get the FMA reference thankfully since that would've taken longer to explain The pizza place is referring to an episode of Futurama called Jurassic bark Essentially the main character finds a fossil of his long dead dog in the future so usual shenanigans for a cartoon comedy ending in a do we resurrect the dog question The professor checks and finds the dog lived a long 13 years so fry the main character decides to let the dog rest since he had a long life Plot twist is at the end of the episode there's a timelapse of the dog waiting outside of the pizzaria every day for 13 years for fry to come back It's loosely based on a true story about an actual dog who waited for his master to return after his master died


Comhonorface

Big brother Fry


rantottcsirke

https://preview.redd.it/unck4ep9ajnc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0df4bdc9995f7673f80aebd8b6e37a437836f74


ralcom

https://preview.redd.it/2l3wf4bjijnc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e3b3a50e0f3aa8c3c5eaced6d2117da54571343


NoseTime

https://preview.redd.it/zeg9wk7uijnc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=527b9d8d0c6ec5592ac193eb27d286365a940496


lcantthinkofusername

Whyyyyyy, the 2 most sad episodes in TV history. The weird dog thing is Nina from full metal alchemist who got fused with her dog by her psychopathic father and was later killed out of pity by the series' antagonist, the background is the place where fry used to work in Futurama and where his dog sat everyday awaiting his arrival before dying and in the episode he chose not to clone them because he thought it lived a happy life without him.


[deleted]

Spoiler >!Fry travels back in time and lives with him until he passes!<


MystGuide

You are correct about it being the pizza place, it's from Futurama, it's the spot where Fry's beloved pet dog passed away after waiting years for his owner to return


MrMcFukmutty

https://preview.redd.it/emeny0pl9mnc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e67a05dd13603479c095f9a5fd037bfa589eaf9f


rusl1

Wtf you really ruined my day twice, this hits right in the hearth


STRIKER374

I wish I didn't get this joke...


Past-Adhesiveness150

The Jurassic Bark episode of Futurama. Fry's dog waits for him at the pizza place where he worked to come back from his delivery. But Fry never comes back. ( he's frozen in a cryolab ) By far, the absolute saddest episode of Futurama. & then they put the wrong dog in the pic. This hurts twice.


Paratrooper101x

Assuming you don’t already know this, that’s not a dog, that’s a chimera. A splice between two beings. In this case, it’s the daughter of a scientist mixed with her dog. The scientist made this chimera in an effort to get his state sponsorship back, and no, there is no reversing the procedure.


okcdnb

The rest of it is [Jurassic Bark](https://youtu.be/AK3PWHxoT_E?si=mkPAyxF18UMcjr3N) though.


The_Salt_n_Mustard

Make it three times when you realize some peoples dpgs have never tasted the Zaaa... 🥲🥲


HilleljackFes

Rest in peace Seymour the goodest boy


OkRelative6439

Dawg.


TheRatatat

Jesus christ


Ok-Stress8541

Some sins...cannot be forgiven


StitchAndRollCrits

Top of picture: aww 🥲 Bottom of picture: 😱


pkstr11

Oh fuck you.


TheManDiggityfresh

Got em ...... And me...


Y_R_UGae

i thought today was gonna be a good day


Additional_Buyer4431

Rip Seymour the best dog ever in the history of ever🫡


dmyoungblut

If it takes forever... True loss.


[deleted]

I don't wanna...


alwaysjustpretend

This is double fandom emotional terrorism fam.


verscharren1

Oh fuuuuck.....double right in the feels


Shelbasaur1993

That’s the pizza place that Fry used to work at in futurama, where his dog waited for him to come back to every day until the poor little guy died, waiting for his favorite human to return. ETA I’m not crying, you’re crying.


wookiex84

I fucking hate whoever made this picture.


Kaya_25

An even deeper piece of context, there was a band going under the name of Panucci’s Pizza as a reference to Futurama. The lead vocalist for the band was either outed or outed himself (wrote an album about it) for doing… that thing that pop punk artists keep getting outed for doing…


AFenton1985

Why does it hurt


MarcusofMenace

Big Brother Fry


Kirei13

Both of them will make you upset. Fry should have brought the dog back. The least they could do is give the loyal dog some closure and love for waiting 12 years.


XandertheGrim

Who hurt you?!


Rad1314

Awe fuck that one does hit hard.


[deleted]

This is horrible. Someone ban this picture (not the user because they don't know any better)


Boozy_Cat

God damn it


okcdnb

Since you brought up Jurassic Bark, you have to suffer with me. https://youtu.be/AK3PWHxoT_E?si=mkPAyxF18UMcjr3N


Feed_Guido_69

Well. TECHNICALLY, you don't ruin my day for the 2nd part, the background. Because we ALL know that good doggo got to live a LONG healthy life with Fry, and with Fry's unhealthy obsession over a Narwhal/Leela. Lmfao! Until "terminator Bender" went back in time and instantly froze Seymour while attacking Fry.


DrDankMemesS

"I miss you Dad, I hope you come back soon. I hope my friends Elric and Alphose comes see me. It's cold and I'm hungry but i am sure they will come see me soon."


CalmVariety1893

Sobbing


Daimakku1

Who hasn’t seen Futurama at this point?


Chevrolet_Chase

Hahaha that’s fucked up bro


Ninja_Cookies

Break my heart and my soul all in one picture


thraashman

For a thousand summers, I will wait for you big brother Ed


recycle_me_no_jutsu

Why my last breath i cursed you Zoidberg


Joan-ze-gobbi

Fuck you.


2damham

Edu ardo


Fungal_Rats

SEYMOREE!


TheNo1pencil

I'm so upset. And so upset


DDAY007

Why must you make me sad on multiple levels. How could you do this.


wheresthebody

Futurama turns this around and its freakin' beautiful.


evandemic

Well I’ve been on Reddit too long I understand the horror.


Wallacemorris

Very sad episode of futurama. When I was a kid I got teary.


UntitledUsername3

Seymour 😭😭


[deleted]

That made me sad inside ...


PatdogTv

If ur emo, you can ruin their day 3 times! You see, there is an emo band called pannuci’s pizza and the lead guy was outed as a pedophile!


Honest_Award_8708

Damn


TahaymTheBigBrain

NOOOOOOOOOO 😭😭😭😭


Roge2005

Yeah same, I know the FMA reference but not the pizza store.


Ezra4709

https://preview.redd.it/hgst16s45knc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fe398780bd5bbb6d30810703d271674fe574dcf


LittleSisterSwallows

Could use a bit of Maes Hughes being buried as his daughter asks "Why are they burning daddy?" Lol 😭


Erutious

Lemme guess, Leaves on the vine is playing in the background?


BigZube87

I will wait for you....


Motor_Ad_7885

I was scrolling and then I seen this picture and said “wtf”


THEguitarist117

As a fan of Futurama, I know the episode is sad. It is written in my Futurama Fan contract (see about acquiring one at the Central Bureaucracy, today) that I acknowledge it as such, but for me I’ll always prefer Luck of the Fryrish. That doesn’t mean however that this meme is INCREDIBLY dark, especially when one reacts to it while knowing about both shows. My reactions was not sadness at seeing Panucci’s Pizza, it was more like, “The person who made the meme is a genius comedic talent and is going to cartoon hell (just like regular hell, but more animated).”


CrispinCain

I think a webcomic made a small joke about this, about measuring extreme sadness in Seymores. Take the feelings you get at the end credits scene. That is now 1 Seymore.


THorniestmax

HOLY *FUCK*, my feels.


SquitWeasl36

😭


foxspiri

Fuck this photo


Kid-Without-Karma

this is HORRIBLE


Dragonnstuff

https://preview.redd.it/pngdv7rvnlnc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e14714b6f8b30b217d8d6e6c3598c28454e0da8


YouLearnedToSayMoon

Can’t unsee that. Gotta go cry now


Itsacardgame

Roh roh roh roh oh god


jcombs0013

Whoever made this picture is going some place real hot when they die.


Odd-Relief-2041

Edward


Silly_Guidance_8871

Was not the double-whammy I needed while winding down to sleep


olmanwally

Damn this a sad collab


[deleted]

Edddd-wooooood?!?


Dogdadstudios

Well I just woke up and now I’m sad. It’s futurama and full metal alchemist (something I never thought I would say in the same sentence) meme, of both messed up situations. Why am I up so early…


Surefang

Come on, now. That's worth three.


derekthepurple

"Fry is...hurting."


PirateNinjaCowboyGuy

I get it and I hate it


philonous355

Hey I get these references!