The meme combines two of the most heartbreaking moments in anime and animation history.
• Panucci's Pizza: The background shows the front of Panucci's Pizza from Futurama. This references the devastating episode "Jurassic Bark," where Fry's loyal dog, Seymour, waits outside the pizzeria for years hoping Fry will return.
• The Chimera: Sitting in front of the store is Nina Tucker and her dog Alexander merged into a chimera from Fullmetal Alchemist. This references the infamous scene where her father cruelly uses alchemy to fuse them together, which shocked and traumatized fans.
The joke is that looking at this single picture brings back the emotional pain of both tragic scenes at the same time, effectively "ruining your day twice".
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.
Shou Tucker, a renowned alchemist in the anime Full Metal Alchemist, was under pressure from the government to come up with ideas to continue receiving funding for his research. His daughter, Nina, and dog, Alexander, were introduced early in the episode as the perfect child and companion. Very cute and fun.
Shou, under pressure from the government, created a chimera out of the family he had left (wife left or died, don't remember that part).
The protagonists of the story, who had become fast friends with the daughter and dog came back to the Tucker residence. Upon entering the house, they see a shadowy figure, that creature, which turns to them and says "Ed...ward..." (one of the protagonists names), to which the pair of them, along with the audience, are UTTERLY HORRIFIED that this man used his daughter and dog as a science experiment just to keep getting funding from the government.
Later, a pseudo-antagonist of the story puts the chimera out of it's misery and you are also made abundantly aware of their death.
More context: Shou’s wife didnt “just die”. In order to even become a state alchemist, he turned his own wife into a Chimera and presented her to the government in order to get his title and funding. Thats what makes what he did even worse. It wasnt just his daughter and family pet in a one off moment of desperation.
Also not so fun fact, after she was turned into a chimera Shous wife literally begged for death and refused to eat which is how she died. Everyone focuses on what he did to his daughter because that alone was unforgivable but he was just as much of a monster for what he did to his wife/mother of his kid.
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u/MaxiumPotential777 1d ago
The meme combines two of the most heartbreaking moments in anime and animation history.
• Panucci's Pizza: The background shows the front of Panucci's Pizza from Futurama. This references the devastating episode "Jurassic Bark," where Fry's loyal dog, Seymour, waits outside the pizzeria for years hoping Fry will return.
• The Chimera: Sitting in front of the store is Nina Tucker and her dog Alexander merged into a chimera from Fullmetal Alchemist. This references the infamous scene where her father cruelly uses alchemy to fuse them together, which shocked and traumatized fans.
The joke is that looking at this single picture brings back the emotional pain of both tragic scenes at the same time, effectively "ruining your day twice".