Futurama/Heartwarming: Difference between revisions

*** That's just Bender being Bender, baby! Even heartwarming moments can't cramp his style!

* The end of "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", the show's original final episode: Fry sits dejectedly, alone in the theatre after the opera he tried to perform is ruined and with the knowledge that he'll never be able to perform one ever again. He looks up and sees Leela, the one he did it all for, still in her seat:

** And the way it ends? Fry summons up the skill to play one little coda - a crude and less accomplished, but clearly heartfelt, image of Leela and Fry. They kiss and, holding hands, walk into the sunset together. Awww.

** Bender actually managed one earlier in the episode, when taking Fry to his recital.

** Which, in a way only Futurama can do, manages to be both heartwarming, and completely hilarious.

** And in a tragic, but simultaneously heartwarming bit, the reason Fry loses his ability to finish the opera was because if he didn't give up the Robot Devil's hands, Leela would be forced to marry the Devil. And the reason Leela made the deal at all? She was ashamed that Fry went to the trouble to write such a wonderful opera for her, and she couldn't even hear it for him.

* In "Parasites Lost", Fry is transformed by beneficial worms into a paragon, being so talented he's even able to play the holophonor (which only a few people were previously able to do...and they did that badly), using his new abilities to win Leela's heart. After the [[Reset Button]] is pushed (for a very understandable reason), as the strength, wisdom, intelligence, and creativity leaves him, he nonetheless manages to play it one last time, for himself, creating an image of Leela along with an almost worshipful chord.

** In the same episode, when Fry threatens to cause brain damage to himself [[Fantastic Voyage|from within]] ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) if the worms don't leave, they call him out on it.

'''Fry''': Obviously, you've never been in love! }}

*** Note that the king had outright answered the question "do you know what it's like to be in love" with this.

'''Worm King''': No. I thought i was once, but then i remembered my species reproduces [[Asexual|with a cloud of spores]] }}

* The ending of "Jurassic Bark". If it takes forever, I will wait for you...

** Just before that: {{spoiler|Paraphrased: "I don't need a reason, you're you."}}

* From the pilot:

'''Fry''': Sure. Ever since I was six. }}

* In the episode "Love and Rocket", when Leela learns that Fry had connected his oxygen supply to Leela's mask after hers ran out, she tries to resuscitate him. He coughs and spits out a candy heart, which sticks to her cheek. She takes it off and reads, "You leave me breathless." Cue awwwww.

** Zoidberg gets a quick, minor one at the end of the episode. He humorously narrates the effect of the candy-causing radiation and the romantic side effects of couples on Earth, then obliviously interrupts Fry's and Leela's own romantic moment with a big hug. After a second of hesitation, both hug him back.

* The history of Lars in ''Bender's Big Score''. That is all.

* The scene in ''The Beast with a Billion Backs'' where Bender begs Fry to take him into "Heaven" qualifies, as does "Humans like cabbage ... Right?"

* Fry in "Time Keeps on Slippin'" - moving the stars themselves as a romantic gesture, and Leela never knows.

* In the episode "The Why of Fry", Leela is still a bit irritated with her former date (the mayor's aide), but softens up when Fry brings her a simple flower.

'''Fry'''(smiling): Then I ''am'' the most important person in the universe. }}

** What makes this even better is the way he says it. It's the same tone someone would use for something like, "Of course. Didn't you know?"

* "Godfellas": "Sure wish I had Bender back...wish I had Bender back...wish I had Bender back..."

** "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back"

'''Fry''': No, he was a bad ''friend''. I demand that you give Bender back right now! }}

* In "The Cyber House Rules", Bender adopts twelve orphans hoping to sell tham to make a profit. At the end, he returns them to the Orphanarium, and they give him a picture of him smoking a candy cane as a reminder. Bender acts disgusted, but when he thinks no one's looking, frames the picture on the inside of his door. Cue twelve overjoyed orphans.

* Despite being a robot (and, for that matter, a [[Jerkass]]), Bender is not immune to this. He's been known to save his friends on several occasions (even in the absence of a cash prize), and remains doggedly loyal to Fry to the point of mutilating his antennae (robot equivalent to genitalia) just to remain his roommate.

* Igner and Professor Farnsworth have a sweet moment at the end of ''Bender's Game''.

* Surprisingly, despite his role as the resident [[Butt Monkey]], even Zoidberg gets one in "That's Lobstertainment!". After making a disastrous attempt at a film with his uncle, silent hologram star Harold Zoid (each of them under the impression that the other one is their ticket out of despair), Calculon (the film's benefactor & co-star) forces them to rig the Oscars so he can win under threat of death. Just as Zoidberg is about to announce Calculon as the winner, he looks over at his uncle and announces ''him'' as the winner. Then his uncle gives his acceptance speech:

''' Harold Zoid''': "-- or just one die-hard fan." }}

* A rather unexpected one in the recent episode "The Duh-Vinci Code".

'''Farnsworth''': She was a wise woman. }}

** Even moreso when you realize that Fry's mother is also Farnsworth's great-great(+1)... great grandmother.

*** And then spins straight into [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

'''Farnsworth''': A wise woman indeed. }}

* Hermes Conrad, bureaucrat, gets one in "Lethal Inspection". He {{spoiler|gave Bender a chance at life}}. And that episode gets even better when you realize that when Bender said #5 looked at him with (good) tears in his eyes, ''he was right''. And, of course, yet another musical montage.

*** This may count as one of the biggest [[Tear Jerker|tearjerkers]] in the series.

** [[Fridge Brilliance]] when you realize it makes "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" the second time Hermes has saved Bender's life.

*** And when Fry finds the message, he decides that he's had a full life, and suggests that he, Bender and Farnswarth should just sit back with a sixpack and {{spoiler|watch the universe end}}. And subsequently {{spoiler|restart again}}.

* "The Mutants Are Revolting": Leela, who loved Fry when he was ''in Zoidberg's body'', can't get over what he looks like {{spoiler|after he dove into the mutating sewer muck}}. Then he goes to [[Vitriolic Best Buds|Bender]], [[Tear Jerker|who hasn't been dealing with the absence of the rest of the crew well.]] Bender screams, and then...

** From that same episode; the revelation that Mr. Astor, seeing that one of the mutant labourers had a child, wordlessly gives up his seat on the escape pod for the two of them, and waves them off with a tip of his hat and [[Go Out with a Smile|a smile]]. {{spoiler|It turned out to be Leela's grandmother and her great grandmother that survived.}}

*** Mrs. Astor, who had spent the whole episode being antagonistic towards mutants, {{spoiler|is so overjoyed to see her heavily mutated husband alive that she unhesitantly embraces him}}.

* Amy reaffirming her feelings for Kif as [[Mister Seahorse|he gives birth to their babies]] towards the end of "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch". Even though she feels she's too young to take on the responsibilities as a mother of a dozen or so of little alien tadpole-like children, it's her love for Kif that allows her to complete the birth rites with him.

* In "Rebirth," this moment between Fry and Leela is among the heartwarming-est of them all...

'''Leela''': Wrong again. You were right. }}

* In the episode where the alien giant is engulfed in the Bender clones. In his first appearance, he is mocked for being ugly, and went berserk when [[Berserk Button|Fry accidentally insulted his mother]], and seeing him get this one moment of being gorgeous was breathtaking. '''Giant''': {{spoiler|"At last I'm beautiful..."}}

* Fry and Leela reading their ultimate fate together.

* In "Why Must I be A Crustacean In Love", a [[Not What It Looks Like]] situation results in Fry and Zoidberg fighting to the death in Zoidberg's peoples' 18-yeard old traditional deathmatch Clawplache. When he's about to issue the killing blow, Fry stops, and tells the Decapodians that while he doesn't have the right to criticize their stupid traditions, he can't kill Zoidberg because he's his ''friend'', and nothing can stop that. Later on, after the usual [[Mood Whiplash]] occurs, Zoidberg thanks Fry for the chance to feel human emotions, such as love, jealously, and the thrill of disembowling people.

 

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