10 Devastating TV Show Moments That Came Out Of Nowhere
8. Fry’s Goodbye - Futurama
Bet you expected Seymour to be on this list, right? Well, that’s fair. Jurassic Bark is easily the saddest moment in the entire of Futurama, but it’s reached such fame now that people forget a little too quickly a few other devastatingly honest moments in Futurama where the reality of what Fry left behind in the past hits home.
One such moment occurs in the final few moments of Game of Tones, an episode revolving around Fry travelling back through his dreams to the final day of the 20th century. Throughout the episode, Fry makes a few attempts to tell his mum things he wished he could have said before never seeing her again, but realises he is only talking to her in his own dream, so it all comes to nothing.
At the end, with some help from Nibbler, Fry manages to break through to his mum’s own dream back in the 21st century, and say goodbye. It hits home the truth that this is a mother who lost her son forever. To her, Fry is as good as dead. We learn what Fry lost; a mother who loved him, and who lost her youngest son. Alongside Jurassic Bark and the similarly excellent Luck of the Fryish, Game of Tones is among the most touching episodes in the show's seven season run.