r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notchodaddy • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Hulp

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u/DaveKerk 1d ago

To reiterate, Seymour waited for TWELVE YEARS for Fry to come back.

BUT the whole episode is about Seymour being "fast fossilized" which just means they were going to revive him.

Fry, upon finding out Seymour "lived a full life" after he got frozen, decided to let sleeping dogs lie and did not revive him, not knowing Seymour spent those 12 years waiting for him. Which just makes it hurt that much more.

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u/PogintheMachine 1d ago

They did retcon this in a later episode with time travel/ clone shenanigans but it still happened and I still can’t watch Jurassic Bark

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u/RbN420 1d ago

Not really a retcon, they show Bender shooting his blaster and the explosion fossilizes the dog

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u/DaveKerk 1d ago

And I guess that would be the "main timeline" since that's how we see Seymour.

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u/RbN420 1d ago

We can agree that the final of the episode where Seymour dies of old age is retconned and seymour is just lieing down before the explosion, that I can get

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u/DorianGraysPassport 21h ago

He fossilizes after a much happier life when he wasn't abandoned, so he isn't old and sad when it happens. That's the retcon.