Seymour Asses
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| Seymour Asses | |
|---|---|
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| Gender | Male |
| Species | Dog |
| Planet | Earth |
| Relatives | Philip J. Fry (owner) |
| Status | Deceased |
| First Appearance | Jurassic Bark |
| Voiced By | Frank Welker |
Seymour Asses was Philip J. Fry's 20th-century dog who was loyal and faithful. Fry found the hungry dog circa 1997 on the streets of Old New York, befriended him and named him "Seymour" after a pizza delivery prank. Fry eventually taught him to bark/sing Walking on Sunshine. Seymour was noted for having wet dog smell, even when he was dry. When Fry later fell into a cryogenics tube where he remained for nearly 1000 years[1], Seymour led members of Fry's family to the cryogenics laboratory but failed to convince them to examine the tube. They dragged Seymour away.
Seymour's fossilized remains were found by Fry in the 31st century at a museum exhibit of Panucci's Pizza. Professor Farnsworth had the technology to extract DNA from the remains and create a clone of Seymour, complete with memories, but Fry declined, reasoning that since the readings indicated Seymour had lived to the age of 15, 12 years after Fry was frozen, Seymour must have formed new memories and eventually forgotten Fry. Seymour, on the contrary, had waited outside Panucci's Pizza for Fry's return every day since he got frozen, obeying his master's last command never leaving the spot and never giving up hope.[2]
However, a time clone Fry created through the use of the paradox-free time travel machine decides to stay in the past for twelve more years until he eventually becomes Lars Fillmore through a failed assassination attempt by Bender – and returns to the future. In due course, until Bender's failed assassination attempt, during which Seymour becomes petrified in dolomite, there are repeated displays of him together with Fry.
Therefore, Seymour obviously lived to be 15 years old and "formed new memories", however, those memory included Fry, or rather, the clone who later became Lars Fillmore.
[edit] Behind the scenes
- Seymour is voiced by Frank Welker.
- Seymour may be based on Argus, Odysseus's dog from the Iliad, who waited twenty years by a dung heap, confident that his master would return from war.
- Seymour's remains appear briefly at Fry's funeral,[3] and can be seen on display in the crew's apartment.[4]
- His name is a referance to one of Bart Simpson's many crank call to Moe's Tavern from The Simpsons (a TV show also created by Matt Groening).
