I don't think at the end of this episode that Fries is holding onto the hope of feeling his wife's warm hand in his… not in this world anyhow, I think he's alluding to the hope that perhaps they will meet again in the hereafter, a thought which, to me at least, adds a lot more weight and poignancy to the character's…

7:18-8:06 Scrooge for Republican Presidential candidate, 2016.