Note: This review is the rare essay to contain massive spoilers. Be forewarned!

For fourteen years, we’ve witnessed “Futurama” tackle such plot lines both hilarious and emotionally riveting, with varying degrees of success. With a massive cast containing such memorable characters as Nixon and the Robert Devil, the show’s fanbase (of which I am a massive part of) has dreaded the show inevitably ending, especially since it was brought back by Comedy Central in 2010. While they’ll be missed spectacularly, this may be the perfect episode to end on, with them balancing all the absurdity and character moments in superb fashion.

A near death experience on a theme park on the moon leads Fry to propose to Leela, an event which allows the writers to show how far Fry’s come as a character since the very start of his adventures. Shortly afterwards, Professor Farnsworth creates a device that can take anyone back 10 seconds in time. Fry decides to use this device to his advantage, which leads to grave consequences that I’ll discuss below.

Now, I love the tearjerker endings of such episodes as “Luck of The Fryish” and “Jurassic Bark”, but one major aspect that “Futurama” excels at is it’s laughs, and the final episode manages to come up with plenty. The best part is that, thanks to this being the final episode, many of them are very specific to the characters delivering the wit, reinforcing their personalities and ideals that we’ve seen throughout the show. Notable examples of this include Zoidberg’s delight at finding a ten dollar bill that fell on the ground, and Bender crying over Fry’s plan to propose to Leela. Not only do they give us some memorable lines, but also help us connect with the characters once last time.

The best part about it is the ending, oh man, that ending. Series finales inevitably lead to disappointment, but amazingly, “Futurama” avoids such a stigma by creating massive plot point that only this show could accomplish. What plot point is that? Oh, just the fact that everything in existence is frozen; except for Fry and Leela. The two then live out an idyllic married life, having adventures and growing old together. It seems perfect, and it is, but then the really fantastic thing comes in; they find out, thanks to Professor Farnsworth amazingly not having been frozen in time due to the power of wormholes, that everybody can be unfrozen, but they’ll have to start everything over again, including Fry and Leela’s relationship.

Fry looks at Leela.

“What do you say? Wanna go around again?”

Leela does. I do. And I suspect every other viewer on the face of the planet would too.

Thanks Futurama. For the laughs, the characters, the tears. Thanks for it all.