1. Futurama - Luck of the Fryrish and Jurassic Bark
It really is too close to call. Futurama pulled off two of the best endings to sitcom episodes of all time and this is totally disregarding any of the smaller ones in the shows history. These just happen to include us finding out Hermes was meant to disassemble Bender due to him being made faulty but defying his job to save the infant Benders life and Fry spelling out I love you, Leela in space. Thats right. The show that had a character
move the very stars themselves to spell out a love letter somehow topped itself. Twice. Both of them involve Fry in an episode long search for a piece of his past life and realising he wont get them for very different reasons. Luck of the Fryrish sees Fry seeking his lucky seven leaf clover and ending up consumed with anger as his brother, Yancy, appears to have stolen the clover and the life Fry shouldve had in the past. He even appears to have taken Frys name when a biographical film shows the life of a Phillip J. Fry who was the first man on Mars. Furious, Fry takes off for the gravesite to take back his clover and finds that Yancy has in fact named his son Phillip in Frys honour after he was frozen. The grave to Phillip J. Fry II reads Named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit and Fry leaves the clover with his nephew as Dont You (Forget About Me) plays. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5peiLlHdvo Its a tossup for biggest unexpected tearjerker between this and Jurassic Bark, wherein Fry seeks to clone his old dog, Seymour, which has become fossilised. When the process starts and Fry learns Seymour died aged fifteen, twelve years after Fry was frozen, he decides Seymour lived long enough to forget him and he should just move on. Cut to
the most heart wrenching thing imaginable, a montage showing Seymour never left the outside of the pizzeria Fry worked, even as the world around him grows older and he finally rests his head and closes his eyes. If that doesnt get you, then Im afraid you have no soul. What do you think? Any classic sitcom moments missed off the list? Which sitcoms right now have the biggest gut-punch potential. Leave any and all comments below.