Futurama episode
"Jurassic Bark"
"For a thousand summers, I will wait for you..."
Episode no.	61
Prod. code	4ACV07
Airdate	November 17, 2002
Writer(s)	Eric Kaplan
Director	Swinton O. Scott III
Opening subtitle	NOT AFFILIATED WITH FUTURAMA BRASS KNUCKLE CO.
Opening cartoon	Hiss and Make Up in Merry Melodies
Guest star(s)	Tom Kenny
Season 4 January 2002 – August 2003
Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch Leela's Homeworld Love and Rocket Less Than Hero A Taste of Freedom Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV Jurassic Bark Crimes of the Hot Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles The Why of Fry Where No Fan Has Gone Before The Sting Bend Her Obsoletely Fabulous The Farnsworth Parabox Three Hundred Big Boys Spanish Fry The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings
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Plot

Fry decides to take Bender to a museum exhibit, showing a reconstructed pizzeria from the 20th century. To Fry's surprise, the restaurant is Panucci's Pizza, the very place he used to work. On display are many of the things he remembers using a millennium before - and, to his shock, also on display is a fossilized dog, which he instantly recognizes as his pet Seymour. Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama and is voiced by Billy West. ... “Bender” redirects here. ...

In a flashback (one of several throughout the episode), Fry remembers how he met Seymour. Fry goes to an address to deliver a pizza, only to realize that the name given ("Seymour Butts") means it was obviously a crank call. He finds a starving dog and feeds him some of the pizza, jokingly saying that he is the "Seymour" the call talked about. The dog then follows him back to the pizza parlor, and subsequently begins to hang around there, so much that Mr. Panucci dubs him their "mascot." Fry, for all intents and purposes, becomes his owner, and teaches him tricks, including how to bark "Walking on Sunshine." A prank call, also known as a crank call or hoax call, is a form of practical joke committed over the telephone. ... Walking on Sunshine is a song written by Kimberley Rew for Katrina and the Waves second album, Walking on Sunshine. ...

Back in the future, Fry begins a campaign to get Seymour's body out of the museum, which proves successful. The professor then examines Seymour's body, and concludes that, due to his unusually rapid fossilization, a DNA sample can be made to produce a clone, and it would even be possible to copy Seymour's brain waves to recreate his personality and memory. Fry is ecstatic and begins to prepare for a dog; however, Bender becomes instantly jealous, especially as Fry calls Seymour his "best friend," and seems incapable of understanding how Fry could care for an animal. Bender tries to make Fry jealous, to no avail. Electroencephalography is the neurophysiologic exploration of the electrical activity of the brain by the application of electrodes to the scalp. ...

In another series of flashbacks, it is revealed that the night when Fry was frozen, Seymour was anxious about him leaving, and as he left Fry reassured him, telling him to "wait for me [Fry]" outside the shop. He is then frozen. On New Years Day, when Fry does not return, Seymour goes on a quest to find him, and manages to get into the Cryogenic Lab, where he whines outside of Fry's freezer. The owners, not understanding or realizing that Fry is not supposed to be frozen, call Fry's parents, who take Seymour away without noticing their son is in the freezer.

In the 31st century, the professor is ready to clone Seymour, which requires going deep underground to harness geothermal power. Bender arrives and, annoyed that Fry will not spend time with him, grabs the fossil and throw it in a pit of lava, apparently thinking that by destroying Seymour, it will instantly restore his friendship with Fry. Fry is, of course, furious and hysterical, and Bender realizes how Fry could love a lesser creature, as (from his perspective) a human loving an animal is the same as a robot loving a human. The professor explains that the fossil may not have been instantly destroyed, as it was made of dolomite. Bender - who claims to be 40% dolemite - dives in and manages to recover the fossil. Dolomite crystals from Touissite, Morocco Dolomite is the name of both a carbonate rock and a mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate (formula: CaMg(CO3)2) found in crystals. ...

The professor is about to clone Seymour once again, when his computer tells him that Seymour died at the age of 15. Fry is upset by this - Seymour had only been three when he was frozen - and destroys the professor's machine so the cloning does not occur. He explains that, as much as he loved Seymour, Seymour had apparently lived twelve years without Fry, and probably moved on and had a full life of his own, and that thus, he was only a small part of Seymour's life.

The episode ends with a flashback, revealing that, ironically, Fry was wrong - rather than moving on, Seymour spent the rest of his life in front of Panucci's pizzeria, presumably waiting for Fry to return. The scene shows a slow montage of passing years, where Seymour was cared for by Mr. Panucci until the restaurant's closing, and Seymour's final death at old age, still awaiting Fry's return. So sad :(

Production notes

• The last part of the episode where Seymour is waiting outside on the sidewalk was originally set to the theme of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it was exchanged with the song "I Will Wait For You" from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg as sung by Connie Francis, which writer Eric Kaplan's grandparents sang and played on the piano while he was a child.
• According to the DVD commentary, the original idea for the episode was to have Fry's mother fossilised instead of Seymour, but this idea was scrapped after it was thought to be too upsetting to the audience.

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Continuity

• When Fry is dancing on the sidewalk, a person in the crowd resembles Fry's girlfriend, Michelle.

Nibbler's as well as Fry's shadow

• At one point in the episode, we see Fry being frozen again from "Space Pilot 3000". Like in SP3000, we see a shadow under the desk. This time, however, we see two shadows; one looks like Nibbler (as seen in SP3000) and one that looks like Fry. This is later explained in "The Why Of Fry".
• It is also possible to see Nibbler's top eyeball poking out of the trash can for a brief moment as Fry places the pizza box on the desk before he is frozen. Nibbler's shadow is also visible as the chair topples over.
• When Fry and Bender go to the 20th century Pizzeria exhibit, a sign says "Treasures of the Stupid Ages." In Space Pilot 3000, Leela mentions to her boss that Fry is from the stupid ages.

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Cultural references

The statue of Greyfriars Bobby, a dog in Edinburgh who waited for his lost master until his own death.

Picture of Hachikō

• The title is a reference to the popular book/film series Jurassic Park, as is the idea of cloning a long-dead life form from DNA preserved in a fossil.
• At the history museum, a pimp is seen frozen in amber, another reference to Jurassic Park.
• When Bender and Fry enter the museum, Bender exclaims "Truly, they were as gods who built this place!" This is possibly a reference to "By the Waters of Babylon", a post-apocalyptic short story in which the main characters regard the ruins of modern civilization as built by gods.
• When Fry is protesting in front of the museum to get Seymour back, he starts to boogey to hustle by Van McCoy. Three days later, he's still dancing, but the song is playing at a slow, faded pace, matching Fry's exhausted dancing.
• Seymour is able to bark "Walking on Sunshine." There are recurring references to this song in connection with Fry. He sings it in "I, Roommate", "The 30% Iron Chef" and "War is the H-word", and a bagpipe version of it was played at his funeral in "The Sting".
• Bender refers to a gorilla that loves a kitty. This is a reference to Koko the gorilla.
• The Professor says that only dolomite can withstand the heat of lava. While this is a real mineral, the context ("the tough black mineral that won't cop out when there's heat all about") suggests he is referencing Dolemite. The phrase he uses is a nod to Isaac Hayes' famous theme song from the film Shaft as well as from the 1975 film "Dolemite".
• The story may be based upon:
  • Greyfriars Bobby, a famous Edinburgh Skye Terrier dog who waited for his lost master until his own death.
  • Hachikō, a famous Japanese Akita dog that spent most of its life (from 1925 to 1935) awaiting for the return of its deceased master in front of Shibuya's train station
  • Argos, Odysseus's dog, who waits for Odysseus for the twenty years that he is away from Ithaca in Homer's The Odyssey.
• In the scene right before we see the cloning machine, the Professor's head appears as a large hologram, telling everyone that it is ready. The head appears with a loud, majestic trumpeting, referencing the scene in the television series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" where a Magrethean official appears in a hologram, with a similar trumpeting, to the characters.
• The paleontologist who discovers Seymour is named "Dr. Ben Beeler," presumably a reference to producer and prolific writer Ken Keeler.
• Leela is seen giving Amy a Piledriver

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References

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