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The montage of Leela growing up with the hidden help and support of her parents breaks me every time, Futurama is way too good at emotionally punching you in the heart in the span of barely 2 minutes.
A punch in the heart is better than a kick in the urethra. Get it? Kick in the urethra? Something the character in your profile pic once said? Do you understand my joke?
The montage of her parents watching over her as she grew up is one of the only times Futurama got me to cry when it wasn't about Fry's past, so I'd say it was equally as well done and explored as those aspects of Fry's character. I also love Leela's parents and wish they were in more episodes.
Fair enough, the question from me is did you cry at the Hermes and Bender backstory? Lol I feel you though, Leela is probably my favorite character in the show.
@@JustCozItsMe I don’t think that one gets to me like this one and the Fry episodes do. The best emotional stories are the ones centred around Fry and Leela. Zoidberg is probably my favourite, he’s always great at comedic moments and the right amount of stupid and ridiculous.
@@lucasdolding6924 the Hermes and Bender episode gets to me occasionally when I see it. The Fry and Leela stuff are still the top for sure, the amount of focus they get is all paid off extremely well.
There are 3 other episodes that make me cry, but that ending montage just screws me up inside too. (Yeah, it's Jurassic Bark, The Luck of the Fryrish, and Fatal Inspection. Game of Tones comes damn close.)
I tear up hearing her parents in that episode. Remarkable writing, dialogue and voice acting from Tress MacNeille(Munda) and David Herman(Morris). Poor David never got the respect he deserved. He stole my heart three times in this series. The other two were Scruffy the Janitor’s first kiss and Professor’s parents.
Fun fact: The saddest Moment in Futurama actually only hit Germany and Austria, since there is a scene where they find a nut screw in Benders locker and he reacts by saying: "sometimes a guy get's lonely"... and that thing is called a "mother" in German
I wouldn’t call it the saddest moment, that’s awesome that they could take a joke about touching yourself, and make it so that bender needs to bring his mother along to missions in outer space with him.
@@andy-utop No one’s saying it’s a German joke you walnut brain. He’s saying the in the German dub, the joke turns from one about masturbation to one about benders family because in Germany they’re called mothers.
There is a scene in the movie twins where Danny devitto's character is also an orphan and has a scene where he explains how its every orphans dream that one day there is a knock at the door and two crying parents arrive and explain. there was a mistake at the hospital...but Essentially it's all bullshit. we all know how twins ends, but leelas story where they were there all along and even sacrificed I think hits harder.
I find it pretty sad that leela’s parents were so ashamed of their mutant origins, that they were willing to die with the secret so that leela would never know. I’m guessing it’s a show of love from them since they wanted leela to still believe that she was an alien instead of an mutant, as the former makes it more likely for leela to get social acceptance than the latter, but still that’s so depressing.
it's especially sad at how ashamed they were because they were so willing to hide the fact that she's a mutant that they were willing to die at their daughter's hands to keep the secret from her
Except Leela's life would have been worse. It's not so much shame, more trying to give their daughter a better life since she could easily pass as an alien.
The Leela stuff has always been among the most emotionally effective to me in Futurama. I'm a sucker for parent stuff, and Futurama (much like this video) balanced humor against depth of emotion uncommonly well.
honestly, this was the episode that really made me ball my eyes out. it was so special and well written that the segment with her parents always having been there leaves me to weep just from the thought of it. my eyes are wet as we speak
Yeah, I’ll even admit that Tress MacNeille(Munda) and David Herman(Morris) are my favorites, but they worked their asses off in that episode. They should’ve split an Emmy for it. Now Katey Sagal was great too, but Tress always gets shat on with David not getting anything.
They did. And I always loved the remarkable voice acting from Tress MacNeille(Munda) and David Herman(Morris). Man, they busted their asses off in that episode. Poor David should’ve won an Emmy for that little number.
I cried when Leela’s mom started talking. Really shows how talented Tress MacNeille really is. Same goes for David Herman(Morris). God, I’ll be crushed when they die.
It's so nice to see that people are still making Futurama content all these years later. Well mostly just you, but still I love to see it. So much to analyze in the series and, since most of the series aired pre-UA-cam, it's mostly unexplored on UA-cam.
@Random Ashe You shouldn't watch it. I'm not and many fans are boycotting it. They didn't hire John DiMaggio as Bender. So fans are boycotting unless they do hire him.
Growing up i did have parents, but my parents were abusive. I always found myself identifying with leela and her struggle without a family, in some ways i idealized it. When she didn’t have a family she could essentially imagine them to be anyone she wanted them to be. And i always felt jealous of that. When she finally did find out who her parents were it was heartbreaking that her parents were always in her life to begin with. The scene at the end definitely still leaves me in tears to this day. I can’t even think about the song without wanting to tear up the same way i do with the song at the end of jurassic bark.
"You love me yes you do, You don't need to tell me." Pizzicatto Five, "Baby Love Child". Futurama knows how to summon those onion ninjas with their song picks. Thanks for the post Johnny, cheers!
THE most amazing cartoon reveal. period. the slow burn execution is brilliant; the misleads are 90 degrees, and as a side note, Mutants seemed like 'we wont see them that much'; brilliant
There was foreshadowing in the Season 3 episode "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz". When Bender reboots the second time, we see through his eyes that his system recognizes Leela as "human", deactivates his penguin behavior subroutines and activates his human-like behavior. It flashes across the screen really fast and is very easy to miss.
After rewatching the series, i'd love to see your take on "The Sting" i think its one of leela's and the shows best but doesn't get enough appreciation, as well as having the weird sci fi-ness and plot twists of regular Futurama
Mutants are revolting was the 100th episode? Beautiful. So much of the series was based on Rediscovery of Man. Mutants story line is straight from the stories of Cordwainer Smith. Reading the collection really felt like going through a first draft of a season of Futurama. So episode 100 they went all in. Thats just great. But in all honesty. Every change Futurama made to the "source material" was for the better. And thats when the series delivered its best moments: Borrow the concepts from Cordwainer, Lem, Dick, Clarke etc and add the humanity that came along with the characters that were so well rounded.
ua-cam.com/video/zeJdXMPfEEU/v-deo.html&ab_channel=BucketFullOfEternity If you keep doing Futurama content, Ill be here and likely end up shouting about some old novels no one had time to read. So heres a video. You might appreciate it as research material for future videos.
One thing I love about Futurama is how much they had planned. Just as you pointed out, in 'I Second That Emotion' showed us Leela's Parents, in the very first episode, we can actually see Nibbler's shadow as Fry falls in the cryogenic tube. It really does show how much they cared about this show.
In addition to the closing montage of her parents watching over her, what always stood out to me were the tremendous sacrifices her parents were willing to make to protect her sense of identity as an alien rather than a mutant - giving her up to be raised by others and accepting her intention to kill them rather than tell her the "shameful truth". It's heart breaking, but this is also one of the greatest displays of love throughout the series.
"the cyber house rules" is an underrated episode, IMO. I read it strongly as a disability metaphor, especially with how leela's fellow orphans condescend her and act superior just because they don't have the same issue she does, and I love seeing her embrace her cyclops identity by the end. I love that she's so happy to have a family that she isn't ashamed to be a mutant in the slightest, even when her parents worry she is ashamed. I just love her so much 💜
There's an emotional moment that I feel like never gets talked about. It's in the revival, when the Professor's parents are revealed to still be alive. The rest of the episode is okay (probably why it's not talked about) but the end where they're in the simulation and get to play as child and parents again always just hits me.
The fact that they had her parents show up in the background in “I second that emotion” is great foreshadowing and another reason why Futerama is one of the best shows of all time I’ll be honest I never noticed that till this video
I just want to say this, I've watched the series countless times and Leela's story has always been my favorite. Also I watched Jurassic Bark once and never again.
Futurama got the teen/early 20s version of me through some of the loneliest days spent depressed in bed, nights that I wouldn’t get to sleep until sunrise,... Going on 30 and watching your Futurama commentaries tonight has brought me such unexpected peace and comfort. This show has become a classic so tender and dear to most of us here - I am so, so thankful for the thoughtfulness and care you have put into your work. ♥️♥️♥️♥️ Thank you!
yo bender looking for the agent that saved him from being destroyed at Mother’s is such a sweet and heartfelt episode and ofc Luck of the Fryrish episode is as well
I'm so happy you covered this. I've been eagerly waiting ever since making a comment suggesting it. The reveal of Leela's true heritage is so overwhelmingly heartwarming that it's difficult to put into words. Maybe that's why I cry every time I see it.
The origin stories add to the richness of the characters and the show overall. The audience just doesn’t watch a cartoon. Without the character development, it’s probably safe to predict the show would not have the following it has today.
As a young father, I couldn't imagine how hard it must've been for Leela's parents to give up their child, even if it was for her own good. This episode hits so hard for me. When I was younger, it was just 'eh, whatever'. Now, it's probably the most emotional, maybe second only to Jurassic Bark (but I love dogs, so I'm not gonna pick that fight) and it's just incredibly well-done.
I recently started watching Futurama from S1 Ep 1. The sheer range of emotion this show has is amazing. To go from LMAO to depressing sadness at the drop of a hat is amazing.
Definitely the best reveal and the most emotional moment. The ending montage gets me every time. Personally, I find Jurassic Bark too manipulative to really work.
Glad to see this episode get the appreciation it deserves. All anyone can talk about when you bring up Futurama's emotional moments is Jurassic Bark, but there were so, so many more.
Congrats on getting your first sponsor. Futurama had so many emotional moments mixed with clever jokes. I got to say this show delivered on all fronts.
Fry interacting with his mom in her dream hit me really hard. I watched that episode for the first time in late March or early April this year. I hadn't seen my mom for almost 8 months and it was the longest I had ever been away from home. I cried a lot during and after that episode, and I still tear up a bit thinking about it
Honestly, this was the best sponsorship I have ever seen incoporated in a UA-cam video. I can't even believe I am commenting this but you did such a good job acknowledging your audience, incorporating sound effects, and you kept it concise. Nicely done.
this episode along with the episode of Fry's brother absolutely destroyed me during their first airing I couldn't sleep for 3 days because i cried non stop for 3 days
That’s what happens when legends like Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, David Herman and even Tom Kenny make you cry. I just can’t live without Tress and David, ‘cause they’re my whole childhood. My adult show growing up was King of the Hill(David) and my kids show was Mickey Mouse Clubhouse(Tress)
I feel like this is one of those episodes that really hit me hard, but no one ever talks about it or just how much of an emotional roller coaster it really was.
Earliest clue I know of that Leela's not an alien is S1E5; "Fear of a Bot Planet." She pleads with the human-hating robots to spare her since she's not human. They insistently imply she is. It works ingeniously as random humor if you don't know her latter-episode secret. It's foreshadowing if you do! Yes, though, I realize it raises other questions.
The Arc with leelas parents is definitely at the top of my list, the only one that tops it is when we find out Hermes was the one who cleared bender despite his defects
Okay but S2 Ep 5 "I second that emotion" Her parents are literally background characters in one of the shots. Didn't know this until recently and just...why writers...why
I think the fact that the reveal was built up to over the course of the show is one of the things that made it so effective. It wouldn't feel as emotional if those other episodes about her past weren't in there. We're left to wonder about her origin about as much as she did.
I think people overlook Leelas story arcs sometimes because she is often just the talking piece in Frys ear, but her emotional moments in the show are some of my favourite. She is a super complex and flawed character, not just some sci fi badass nerd fantasy (like the show sometimes tries to pass her off as). A great example is in the first season, the Planet with 3 Suns, or something like that. Fry becomes king of an alien planet and the entire time is undermining Leela for trying to tell him what to do, and at the end when he is facing a literal mob trying to kill him he begs for her yo save him and she has a real moment of inner turmoil where to has to choose whether to stick to her guts or help the people who need her
That montage will always stir up emotions I’ve tried hard to bury, over the years. It’s just A+ material. I actually have it as my number 1 emotional Futurama moment, possibly number 1 of any media.
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jesus, i cried watching this, i think i need to rewatch the entire series.. i havent watched those leelah reveal episodes since i was a teenger, and my parents dropped me around that time, havent seen them for 11 years lol..
Me someone who can say word for word futerama episodes occasionally learns something from these video. You my good sir are a damn good story teller and teacher.
I always liked the detail that we see Leela wearing glasses as a kid and we also see her putting in the one giant contact lens. I think the latter actually appeared first. It's not deep, it's just a funny thing I liked that they included regardless of the order.
I can watch Leela's Homeworld over and over. Yes, Leela was orphaned but she was never alone. I've only watched Jurassic Bark in its entirety once. It wrecked me. Just the thought of this dog waiting for Fry years and years.
I never watched Futurama untill a month after, after graduating. I never had access to it, but after watching it I fell in love with it. It hasn't even been a month, but your videos make me think of the best parts of the show like they're old nostalgia to me. Well done.
yes, yes this story line still holds up. hey since you're on a roll with futurama, maybe there might be an episode with Bender that has good character focus on him?
I do love the montage at the end of Leela's Homeworld, but I think even more emotional is what happens right before the reveal. Her parents are willing to die just so Leela can keep the fantasy they built for her. It's heartbreaking, and makes the reveal even better.
I've been rewatching Futurama on Amazon lately and the emotional hooks still get me, I even choked for the one millionth time at the end of the episode where it shows that her parents were always looking out for her.
I can count on 1 hand the number of cinematic scenes that have made me cry and the Seymour one is the only one that has made me cry on multiple viewings
Don't know why UA-cam is recommending your Futurama videos, but it is a very welcome change from the weird shit it's usually trying to get me to watch. Really appreciate the depth you get into one of my all time favorite shows. Earned a sub here for sure.
100 likes in the first 30 min, killer! I feel Fry reconnecting with his mom after being frozen and that whole episode ( Game of Tones ) answered some of the long standing questions the audience had. In particular, the way Fry interacted with his family at his current age (since we get plenty of flash backs to be able to piece together Frys childhood) and how his family felt after he disappeared.
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Please never mention Jurassic bark ever again I'm crying...
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The montage of Leela growing up with the hidden help and support of her parents breaks me every time, Futurama is way too good at emotionally punching you in the heart in the span of barely 2 minutes.
A punch in the heart is better than a kick in the urethra. Get it? Kick in the urethra? Something the character in your profile pic once said? Do you understand my joke?
@@camelopardalis84 sounds like something bojack would say but thats clearly Hambone Fakenamington,
@@patriciaw636 Darn, you might be right. Hard to recognize Bojack in a picture where he's not sneezing.
She looked for a family her whole life and they were always there for her and helping her even when she thought she was all alone
@kristian rikardsen There are no aliens in Bojack.
A common insult for people who wear glasses is “Four eyes”, when young Leela wore glasses the ironic insult would’ve been “Two Eyes”.
Sounds about right
Well, not glasses. For a cyclops, it'd be more like a monocle, or a glass.
Three-Eyes
@@geox8485 that's what a monocle is.
The montage of her parents watching over her as she grew up is one of the only times Futurama got me to cry when it wasn't about Fry's past, so I'd say it was equally as well done and explored as those aspects of Fry's character. I also love Leela's parents and wish they were in more episodes.
Fair enough, the question from me is did you cry at the Hermes and Bender backstory? Lol
I feel you though, Leela is probably my favorite character in the show.
@@JustCozItsMe I don’t think that one gets to me like this one and the Fry episodes do. The best emotional stories are the ones centred around Fry and Leela. Zoidberg is probably my favourite, he’s always great at comedic moments and the right amount of stupid and ridiculous.
@@lucasdolding6924 the Hermes and Bender episode gets to me occasionally when I see it. The Fry and Leela stuff are still the top for sure, the amount of focus they get is all paid off extremely well.
There are 3 other episodes that make me cry, but that ending montage just screws me up inside too. (Yeah, it's Jurassic Bark, The Luck of the Fryrish, and Fatal Inspection. Game of Tones comes damn close.)
Watching that as a dad made me tear up a bit.
I still ugly cry at that little montage with her parents in Leela's Homeworld
I tear up hearing her parents in that episode. Remarkable writing, dialogue and voice acting from Tress MacNeille(Munda) and David Herman(Morris). Poor David never got the respect he deserved. He stole my heart three times in this series. The other two were Scruffy the Janitor’s first kiss and Professor’s parents.
Me too
Fun fact: The saddest Moment in Futurama actually only hit Germany and Austria, since there is a scene where they find a nut screw in Benders locker and he reacts by saying: "sometimes a guy get's lonely"... and that thing is called a "mother" in German
I wouldn’t call it the saddest moment, that’s awesome that they could take a joke about touching yourself, and make it so that bender needs to bring his mother along to missions in outer space with him.
Was geht ab Holmes
Oh my god 😭
@@andy-utop No one’s saying it’s a German joke you walnut brain. He’s saying the in the German dub, the joke turns from one about masturbation to one about benders family because in Germany they’re called mothers.
Johnny 2 cellos: makes a single video on Futurama
Audience: *Devours content like a hungry pack of genestealers*
Johnny 2 cellos: this is my life now
😂 accurate
My teenage obsession with Futurama is finally paying off
@@Johnny2Cellos Let's go alreeeeadyyyyy!!!!
@@Johnny2Cellos I'm loving it. I can't even believe the lack of Futurama videos on YT.
GENESTEALERS?! I MUST LAY EXTERMINATUS ON THESE HERETICS!
I started watching Futuama because of your videos and I just watched the episode where she finds her parents, perfect timing haha
There are a few spoilers for things after that episode after I talk about her parents, so beware!
You JUST started watching Futurama? Ok zoomer
@@3starperfectdeer233 can we not be an asshole? Thanks.
Yes watch all of them and rewatch it more then 15 times like what i have done
Isn’t it the best show? My sister and I used to sneak it on Adult Swim when we were younger (my mom didn’t let us watch the Simpsons)
Leela: "I don't know where my parents are."
"It brought Leela's character back down to Earth."
I see what you did there.
There is a scene in the movie twins where Danny devitto's character is also an orphan and has a scene where he explains how its every orphans dream that one day there is a knock at the door and two crying parents arrive and explain. there was a mistake at the hospital...but Essentially it's all bullshit. we all know how twins ends, but leelas story where they were there all along and even sacrificed I think hits harder.
I actually don't know how twins ends, never thought it was worth watching.....now I'm going to have to watch it.
@@HandsomeLongshanks 6 dads 1 mom and a twin brother with both brothers having twins with wives who are sisters very strange and somewhat funny.
another thing to note is that Leela had genuinely good parents, a RARITY in animated adult comedies
Good parents don’t abandon their babies on doorways.
@@dannythomas417 and yet they're still better parents than a majority seen in animated american comedies
I find it pretty sad that leela’s parents were so ashamed of their mutant origins, that they were willing to die with the secret so that leela would never know.
I’m guessing it’s a show of love from them since they wanted leela to still believe that she was an alien instead of an mutant, as the former makes it more likely for leela to get social acceptance than the latter, but still that’s so depressing.
Mutants aren't welcome on the surface. When people found out Leela was a mutant she was banished to the sewers
It's not just shame. It would change Leela's entire life because mutants aren't legally allowed on the surface
it's especially sad at how ashamed they were because they were so willing to hide the fact that she's a mutant that they were willing to die at their daughter's hands to keep the secret from her
@@Mermain123
You literally just repeated the OP...
Except Leela's life would have been worse. It's not so much shame, more trying to give their daughter a better life since she could easily pass as an alien.
The Leela stuff has always been among the most emotionally effective to me in Futurama. I'm a sucker for parent stuff, and Futurama (much like this video) balanced humor against depth of emotion uncommonly well.
honestly, this was the episode that really made me ball my eyes out. it was so special and well written that the segment with her parents always having been there leaves me to weep just from the thought of it. my eyes are wet as we speak
Yeah, I’ll even admit that Tress MacNeille(Munda) and David Herman(Morris) are my favorites, but they worked their asses off in that episode. They should’ve split an Emmy for it. Now Katey Sagal was great too, but Tress always gets shat on with David not getting anything.
It’s funny to me how leela with 2 eyes is straight up uncanny valley.
That montage always makes me emotional. Her parents really loved her.
They did. And I always loved the remarkable voice acting from Tress MacNeille(Munda) and David Herman(Morris). Man, they busted their asses off in that episode. Poor David should’ve won an Emmy for that little number.
I definitely started crying once the sequence of Leelas parents taking care of her
I cried when Leela’s mom started talking. Really shows how talented Tress MacNeille really is. Same goes for David Herman(Morris). God, I’ll be crushed when they die.
Love that Married with Children reference in that marriage episode haha
It sucks that didn’t do an SOA one when it came back. That would be awesome.
It's so nice to see that people are still making Futurama content all these years later. Well mostly just you, but still I love to see it. So much to analyze in the series and, since most of the series aired pre-UA-cam, it's mostly unexplored on UA-cam.
And now Futurama is making Futurama content again. It's back babeeeeeee
@Random Ashe You shouldn't watch it. I'm not and many fans are boycotting it. They didn't hire John DiMaggio as Bender. So fans are boycotting unless they do hire him.
@@maxhydekyle2425 They did hire him though.
Growing up i did have parents, but my parents were abusive. I always found myself identifying with leela and her struggle without a family, in some ways i idealized it. When she didn’t have a family she could essentially imagine them to be anyone she wanted them to be. And i always felt jealous of that. When she finally did find out who her parents were it was heartbreaking that her parents were always in her life to begin with. The scene at the end definitely still leaves me in tears to this day. I can’t even think about the song without wanting to tear up the same way i do with the song at the end of jurassic bark.
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@Johnny 2 Cellos Morris had the best quote that episode.
@@dannythomas417 Which line was that?
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@@dannythomas417 Thank you! ^^ Somehow I thought it was that line, but I wasn't entirely sure :)
“Nice depth perception one-eye” gets me every time 😂
"You love me yes you do, You don't need to tell me." Pizzicatto Five, "Baby Love Child". Futurama knows how to summon those onion ninjas with their song picks. Thanks for the post Johnny, cheers!
They don't have to summon us. we are legion!
THE most amazing cartoon reveal. period. the slow burn execution is brilliant; the misleads are 90 degrees, and as a side note, Mutants seemed like 'we wont see them that much'; brilliant
There was foreshadowing in the Season 3 episode "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz". When Bender reboots the second time, we see through his eyes that his system recognizes Leela as "human", deactivates his penguin behavior subroutines and activates his human-like behavior. It flashes across the screen really fast and is very easy to miss.
After rewatching the series, i'd love to see your take on "The Sting" i think its one of leela's and the shows best but doesn't get enough appreciation, as well as having the weird sci fi-ness and plot twists of regular Futurama
The Sting is my 2nd favorite episode! Shady Doorags did a great vid about it recently, highly recommend. I'll talk about it somehow, someday!
@@Johnny2Cellos oh i'll have to check it out thanks and glad that episode has more appreciation than i thought :)
It's a really great video! It's also the video that brought me to this channel from his shout-out.
@@jmcbresilfr yeh it all comes full circle lol
@@Johnny2Cellos I'll have to go watch it. I love both your channels, especially the bojack breakdowns
That reveal of her parents watching over her jst drove over my heart with a semi truck! Such such good writting!
Fun fact: The episode with Leela discovering her parents is the only episode in the UK to be rated U (TV-G).
Mutants are revolting was the 100th episode? Beautiful. So much of the series was based on Rediscovery of Man. Mutants story line is straight from the stories of Cordwainer Smith. Reading the collection really felt like going through a first draft of a season of Futurama. So episode 100 they went all in. Thats just great. But in all honesty. Every change Futurama made to the "source material" was for the better. And thats when the series delivered its best moments: Borrow the concepts from Cordwainer, Lem, Dick, Clarke etc and add the humanity that came along with the characters that were so well rounded.
ua-cam.com/video/zeJdXMPfEEU/v-deo.html&ab_channel=BucketFullOfEternity If you keep doing Futurama content, Ill be here and likely end up shouting about some old novels no one had time to read. So heres a video. You might appreciate it as research material for future videos.
Leela and Fry's stories are just really heart warming. They hit hard emotionally. They relate to one another. It's beautiful
One thing I love about Futurama is how much they had planned. Just as you pointed out, in 'I Second That Emotion' showed us Leela's Parents, in the very first episode, we can actually see Nibbler's shadow as Fry falls in the cryogenic tube. It really does show how much they cared about this show.
In addition to the closing montage of her parents watching over her, what always stood out to me were the tremendous sacrifices her parents were willing to make to protect her sense of identity as an alien rather than a mutant - giving her up to be raised by others and accepting her intention to kill them rather than tell her the "shameful truth". It's heart breaking, but this is also one of the greatest displays of love throughout the series.
"the cyber house rules" is an underrated episode, IMO. I read it strongly as a disability metaphor, especially with how leela's fellow orphans condescend her and act superior just because they don't have the same issue she does, and I love seeing her embrace her cyclops identity by the end. I love that she's so happy to have a family that she isn't ashamed to be a mutant in the slightest, even when her parents worry she is ashamed. I just love her so much 💜
David Herman(Morris) should’ve won an Emmy for his performance on Leela’s Homeworld. He really made me cry. He’s such an underrated voice actor.
There's an emotional moment that I feel like never gets talked about. It's in the revival, when the Professor's parents are revealed to still be alive. The rest of the episode is okay (probably why it's not talked about) but the end where they're in the simulation and get to play as child and parents again always just hits me.
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The fact that they had her parents show up in the background in “I second that emotion” is great foreshadowing and another reason why Futerama is one of the best shows of all time I’ll be honest I never noticed that till this video
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I just want to say this, I've watched the series countless times and Leela's story has always been my favorite. Also I watched Jurassic Bark once and never again.
That montage music hit you in the feels
Pizzicato 5 (baby love child)
Futurama got the teen/early 20s version of me through some of the loneliest days spent depressed in bed, nights that I wouldn’t get to sleep until sunrise,...
Going on 30 and watching your Futurama commentaries tonight has brought me such unexpected peace and comfort. This show has become a classic so tender and dear to most of us here - I am so, so thankful for the thoughtfulness and care you have put into your work. ♥️♥️♥️♥️ Thank you!
Such a great breakdown man - nice to see you’re getting some love from sponsors now too, surprised you hadn’t already!
yo bender looking for the agent that saved him from being destroyed at Mother’s is such a sweet and heartfelt episode and ofc Luck of the Fryrish episode is as well
I'm so happy you covered this. I've been eagerly waiting ever since making a comment suggesting it. The reveal of Leela's true heritage is so overwhelmingly heartwarming that it's difficult to put into words. Maybe that's why I cry every time I see it.
When you did al those videos on fry I was like "wtf dude everyone who got an origin story had a good one" and yea you thought so too lol
The origin stories add to the richness of the characters and the show overall. The audience just doesn’t watch a cartoon. Without the character development, it’s probably safe to predict the show would not have the following it has today.
As a young father, I couldn't imagine how hard it must've been for Leela's parents to give up their child, even if it was for her own good. This episode hits so hard for me. When I was younger, it was just 'eh, whatever'. Now, it's probably the most emotional, maybe second only to Jurassic Bark (but I love dogs, so I'm not gonna pick that fight) and it's just incredibly well-done.
I recently started watching Futurama from S1 Ep 1.
The sheer range of emotion this show has is amazing. To go from LMAO to depressing sadness at the drop of a hat is amazing.
Definitely the best reveal and the most emotional moment. The ending montage gets me every time.
Personally, I find Jurassic Bark too manipulative to really work.
I, too, find Jurassic Bark emotionally manipulative, but it also definitely still works on me.
I love when leelq says this happy day of my life when she hugs her parent she didn't care who there where she just happy to get to know her parent
Everytime I see a clip of Fry’s mother’s dream it just hits differently..
Glad to see this episode get the appreciation it deserves. All anyone can talk about when you bring up Futurama's emotional moments is Jurassic Bark, but there were so, so many more.
Congrats on getting your first sponsor.
Futurama had so many emotional moments mixed with clever jokes. I got to say this show delivered on all fronts.
"No beer 'till you finish your tequila" is just one of my favourite TV moments of all time
"If you could change form, why didn't you change it in the one place that counts"
That flew over my head as a child
Fry interacting with his mom in her dream hit me really hard. I watched that episode for the first time in late March or early April this year. I hadn't seen my mom for almost 8 months and it was the longest I had ever been away from home. I cried a lot during and after that episode, and I still tear up a bit thinking about it
I love Futurama so much ❤
Me too. Way better than King of the Hill.
Honestly, this was the best sponsorship I have ever seen incoporated in a UA-cam video. I can't even believe I am commenting this but you did such a good job acknowledging your audience, incorporating sound effects, and you kept it concise. Nicely done.
Ah thanks so much Allison!
When I first noticed Leela's parents in the background of 'I Second That Emotion' it blew my fucking mind.
Congrats on your first sponsorship! Just starting my UA-cam channel and I hope I can be like you one day 😉. As always dope video 😎
Thanks Maya! I'll check out your stuff!
@@Johnny2Cellos That means alot to me ☺ Thanks Johnny!
A show like Futurama could never be made today.
this episode along with the episode of Fry's brother absolutely destroyed me during their first airing I couldn't sleep for 3 days because i cried non stop for 3 days
That’s what happens when legends like Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, David Herman and even Tom Kenny make you cry. I just can’t live without Tress and David, ‘cause they’re my whole childhood. My adult show growing up was King of the Hill(David) and my kids show was Mickey Mouse Clubhouse(Tress)
I feel like this is one of those episodes that really hit me hard, but no one ever talks about it or just how much of an emotional roller coaster it really was.
I have been able to get through this episode without crying.
Earliest clue I know of that Leela's not an alien is S1E5; "Fear of a Bot Planet." She pleads with the human-hating robots to spare her since she's not human. They insistently imply she is.
It works ingeniously as random humor if you don't know her latter-episode secret. It's foreshadowing if you do! Yes, though, I realize it raises other questions.
The Arc with leelas parents is definitely at the top of my list, the only one that tops it is when we find out Hermes was the one who cleared bender despite his defects
Okay but S2 Ep 5 "I second that emotion"
Her parents are literally background characters in one of the shots. Didn't know this until recently and just...why writers...why
I mention this in the vid! And it was broadcast as 205 but it’s actually production episode 201
@@Johnny2Cellos Posted the comment just before you said it weirdly enough, literally right after I said this 😂
Love your content btw 😊
Someone cuts onions whenever I watch that montage...
I literally cried @ the end of the episode.
I think the fact that the reveal was built up to over the course of the show is one of the things that made it so effective. It wouldn't feel as emotional if those other episodes about her past weren't in there. We're left to wonder about her origin about as much as she did.
I think people overlook Leelas story arcs sometimes because she is often just the talking piece in Frys ear, but her emotional moments in the show are some of my favourite. She is a super complex and flawed character, not just some sci fi badass nerd fantasy (like the show sometimes tries to pass her off as). A great example is in the first season, the Planet with 3 Suns, or something like that. Fry becomes king of an alien planet and the entire time is undermining Leela for trying to tell him what to do, and at the end when he is facing a literal mob trying to kill him he begs for her yo save him and she has a real moment of inner turmoil where to has to choose whether to stick to her guts or help the people who need her
whispering: bring beer
dad: NO BEER UNTIL U FINISH YOUR TEQUILA!
"The Mutants are revolting"
Wait, did Doctor Who sort of steal that double-entendre, when they used the line 'Your sewers are revolting'?
It's an old joke: The peasants are revolting! Of course they are, they haven't bathed in weeks!
Leela being neglectful of mutant rights until it affected her directly is actually the most in-character she could possibly act.
That montage will always stir up emotions I’ve tried hard to bury, over the years. It’s just A+ material.
I actually have it as my number 1 emotional Futurama moment, possibly number 1 of any media.
Futurama deserves all the reboots
I’m so happy about the VPN promo, I’ve been searching for a new one since my last vpn ran out a couple months ago but they’re so expensive, very happy about the deal, great video too!!
Futurama isn't on *any* streaming service in Canada so that VPN is damn tempting.
jesus, i cried watching this, i think i need to rewatch the entire series.. i havent watched those leelah reveal episodes since i was a teenger, and my parents dropped me around that time, havent seen them for 11 years lol..
Me someone who can say word for word futerama episodes occasionally learns something from these video. You my good sir are a damn good story teller and teacher.
I always liked the detail that we see Leela wearing glasses as a kid and we also see her putting in the one giant contact lens. I think the latter actually appeared first. It's not deep, it's just a funny thing I liked that they included regardless of the order.
I can watch Leela's Homeworld over and over. Yes, Leela was orphaned but she was never alone. I've only watched Jurassic Bark in its entirety once. It wrecked me. Just the thought of this dog waiting for Fry years and years.
Can’t believe that’s your first sponsorship ever! Hope for more to come :))
Me too! Thanks!
I never watched Futurama untill a month after, after graduating. I never had access to it, but after watching it I fell in love with it. It hasn't even been a month, but your videos make me think of the best parts of the show like they're old nostalgia to me. Well done.
yes, yes this story line still holds up.
hey since you're on a roll with futurama, maybe there might be an episode with Bender that has good character focus on him?
I’m thinking about a good angle for a Bender video! But I’m gonna do a King of the Hill video first :)
@Johnny 2 Cellos Are you familiar that Leela’s dad sounded like Jimmy Wichard from KOTH?
God Futurama is such a great show. I'm currently re-watching the series. But I've gotta say Jurassic Bark hits me harder, as I've got two lovely dogs.
Just watched this ep again. this A.M. and it made me tear up, again. Damn you Futurama!
Let’s not forget about Tress MacNeille and David Herman for voicing the parents. The writing and dialogue was on point too.
I do love the montage at the end of Leela's Homeworld, but I think even more emotional is what happens right before the reveal. Her parents are willing to die just so Leela can keep the fantasy they built for her. It's heartbreaking, and makes the reveal even better.
in the penguin episode when bender sees leela his programming recognizes leela as a human and not an alien
I've been rewatching Futurama on Amazon lately and the emotional hooks still get me, I even choked for the one millionth time at the end of the episode where it shows that her parents were always looking out for her.
It's stories like Leela's origins and familia discovery that make Futurama an iconic show.
2cellos: "Seymour's death emotionally wrecks me."
Also 2cellos: shows Seymour's death at least three times an episode.
I can count on 1 hand the number of cinematic scenes that have made me cry and the Seymour one is the only one that has made me cry on multiple viewings
Leela was always my favorite character. I loved learning about her life
God it's been a long time since I've watched Futurama. What a beautiful show.
As an orphan myself, the reveal of Leela's true origins is always the most emotional moments in the show for me
I never know about this show until now i see it in disney plus . And it is a masterpiece. And leela meet her parent is the best episode
Don't know why UA-cam is recommending your Futurama videos, but it is a very welcome change from the weird shit it's usually trying to get me to watch.
Really appreciate the depth you get into one of my all time favorite shows. Earned a sub here for sure.
100 likes in the first 30 min, killer!
I feel Fry reconnecting with his mom after being frozen and that whole episode ( Game of Tones ) answered some of the long standing questions the audience had. In particular, the way Fry interacted with his family at his current age (since we get plenty of flash backs to be able to piece together Frys childhood) and how his family felt after he disappeared.
Love your passion to one of my favorite shows of all time.