History Heartwarming / Futurama

* An rehashed one but poignant nonetheless, in "Ghost in the Machines" Bender as a ghost, after realizing that Fry is the only entity to ever praise Bender or hold affection towards him, follows him around, tries to help him in his endeavors, (in spite of his non-corporeal form) praises Fry's shoddy baking and even tries to hug him. Let's restate that for candidacy. ''[[JerkAss Bender]] tries to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold hug]] [[ButtMonkey Fry.]]''

* An rehashed one but poignant nonetheless, in "Ghost in the Machines" Bender as a ghost, after realizing that Fry is the only entity to ever praise Bender or hold affection towards him, follows him around, tries to help him in his endeavors, (in spite of his non-corporeal form) praises Fry's shoddy baking and even tries to hug him. Let's restate that for candidacy. ''[[Jerkass Bender]] tries to [[NotSoAboveItAll hug]] [[ButtMonkey Fry.]]''

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* In the episode where the alien giant is engulfed in the Bender clones. In his first appearance, he is mocked for being ugly, and went berserk when [[BerserkButton Fry insulted his mother]], and seeing him get this one moment of being gorgeous was breathtaking. '''Giant''':[[spoiler: "At last I'm beautiful..."]]

* In the episode where the alien giant is engulfed in the Bender clones. In his first appearance, he is mocked for being ugly, and went berserk when [[BerserkRage Fry insulted his mother]], and seeing him get this one moment of being gorgeous was breathtaking. '''Giant''':[[spoiler: "At last I'm beautiful..."]]

* In the episode where the alien giant is engulfed in the Bender clones. In his first appearance, he is mocked for being ugly, and went berserk when [[BerserkRage Fry insulted his mother]], and seeing him get this one moment of being gorgeous was breathtaking. '''Giant''':[[spoiler: "At last I'm beautiful...]]

** "You'd want a ''robot'' to be your best friend?"
*** "Sure. Ever since I was a kid."

* In one episode, Fry is transformed by beneficial worms into a paragon, being so talented he's even able to play the holophoner (which only a few people were previously able to do...and they did that badly), using his new abilities to win Leela's heart. After the ResetButton is pushed (for a very understandable reason), as the strength, wisdom, intelligence, and creativity leaves him, he nonetheless manages to play it one last time, for himself, creating an image of Leela along with an almost worshipful chord.

* The ending of "Into the Wild Green Yonder": [[spoiler:"Fry, maybe I waited too long to say this, but...I love you too."]]

* The history of Lars in "Bender's Big Score". That is all.
* In This Troper's opinion, the scene in "The Beast with a Billion Backs" where Bender begs Fry to take him into "Heaven" qualifies, as does "Humans like cabbage ... Right?"

* In ''The Cyber House Rules'', Bender adopts twelve orphans hoping to sell tham to make a profit. At the end, he returns them to the Orphanarium, and they give him a picture of him smoking a candy cane as a reminder. Bender acts disgusted, but when he thinks no one's looking, frames the picture on the inside of his door. Cue twelve overjoyed orphans.
* The Professor's random idea to breed "some sort of albino shouting gorilla" to shout his love for Mom from rooftops turns into one of these moments when he actually does.

* Igner and Professor Farnsworth have a sweet moment at the end of Bender's Game.

* Surprisingly, despite his role as the resident ButtMonkey, even Zoidberg gets one in ''That's Lobstertainment!''. After making a disastrous attempt at a film with his uncle, silent hologram star Harold Zoid (each of them under the impression that the other one is their ticket out of despair), Calculon (the film's benefactor & co-star) forces them to rig the Oscars so he can win under threat of death. Just as Zoidberg is about to announce Calculon as the winner, he looks over at his uncle and announces ''him'' as the winner. Then his uncle gives his acceptance speech:

--> ''[Looks at Zoidberg]''

** Even moreso when you realize that Fry's mother is also Farnsworth's great great.. great grandmother.

* Hermes Conrad, bureaucrat, gets one. He [[spoiler:gave Bender a chance at life]]. And that episode gets even better when you realize that when Bender said #5 looked at him with (good) tears in his eyes, ''he was right''. And, of course, yet another musical montage.

* "The Late Philip J. Fry," specifically the Fry/Leela angle. [[Tropers.TServo2049 This troper]] actually said "awwwww" out loud, multiple times.

* In ''Three Hundred Big Boys'', Zoidberg spends the whole episode trying to find something emotionally satisfying to spend his money on. What does he ultimately decide to do with it? [[spoiler: Spend it on a turkey dog feast for a group of homeless people.]]

* In the episode where Leela meets her biological parents [[spoiler:who turn out to be mutant humans living in the sewers]], there's a flashback montage at the end of the episode showing how they've anonymously helped her and watched over her all along.

*** Which, in a way only Futurama can do, manages to be both heartwarming, and completely hilarious.

** From that same episode; the revelation that Mr. Astor, seeing that one of the mutant labourers had a child, wordlessly gives up his seat on the escape pod for the two of them, and waves them off with a tip of his hat and [[GoOutWithASmile a smile]].