Philip J. Fry
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| Phillip J. Fry | |
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| Gender | Male |
| Species | Human |
| Age | 25 (biologically, at the time of Into the Wild Green Yonder), 1035 (chronologically, at the time of Into the Wild Green Yonder)[1] |
| Planet | Earth |
| Occupation | Delivery boy |
| Relatives | Family Tree |
| First Appearance | Space Pilot 3000 |
| Voiced By | Billy West |
- Fry redirects here, for other Frys, see Fry (disambiguation).
Philip J. Fry I (born August 9, 1974, Brooklyn, Old New York, New York) was a native to the 20th century who was cryogenically frozen in the year 1999, revived in 2999, and subsequently became a delivery boy for the Planet Express Company.
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[edit] Personality
- "I usually try to keep my sadness pent up inside where it can fester quietly as a mental illness."
- ―Leela
- "Yeah, I do that with my stupidness."
- ―Fry[src]
Fry is generally very lazy at working, spending most of his time in the office sitting on the couch, watching TV and drinking Slurm. This laziness has caused him to miss at least one delivery mission. He is also often immature which causes him to get into tight spots, forcing Leela to rescue him. He is so lazy that one episode reveals that he has developed bed sores from sitting around. He is very stupid and lacks the 'Delta Brain Wave'.
[edit] Life in the 20th Century
Fry was born on August 14, 1974[1] in Brooklyn, Old New York. He was named Philip after the Philip's head screwdriver. When he was young, he dreamed of being an astronaut, but due to motion sickness and the fact nobody liked spending a week with him, his dream was never fulfilled. He would often play basketball with his older brother Yancy as well as participate in breakdancing competitions.[2] When he was in high school, he drank nearly a hundred cans of cola per week, resulting in three heart attacks.[3] He also loved playing video games as he played them every day except the day that his eyes bled.[4] He attended and subsequently dropped out of Coney Island Community College, which in the standards of 31st century education, made him the equivalent of a high school drop out.[5]
Before being frozen, Fry worked as a delivery boy at Panucci's Pizza in Manhattan. During this time, he delivered pizza to Fox Network, and subsequently spilled beer on the control console, knocking Fox off the air.[6] He also discovered his pet dog, Seymour when someone prank called the pizzeria as Seymour Asses. Seymour and Fry would become very close and would often sing/bark “Walking on Sunshine” together.[7]
On December 31, 1999, Fry was sent out to deliver a pizza to an I.C. Weiner, an alias that Nibbler made up, at Applied Cryogenics located in Times Square. En route, he discovered his girlfriend Michelle was cheating on him. When Fry discovered that the pizza delivery was a result of a prank phone call, his mood worsened. When New Year's arrived at midnight, he toasted to “another lousy millennium,” and fell backwards into an open cryogenic tube and was frozen for 1000 years.[8]
Originally Nibbler caused Fry to lose his balance by blowing on the chair. However, while trying to defeat the Brainspawn, Fry was trapped in the Infosphere with the Brainspawn due to his Scooty Puff, Jr falling apart, and he travels back in time to December 31, 1999 and confronts Nibbler. Nibbler makes Fry realize that if there was one thing in the future worth saving, it was Leela, and Fry blows on the chair, causing his past self to fall into the cryogenics tube.[9] While the police offered to search for Fry, his parents decided it would be a waste of taxpayer money.[7] Fry is actually 1,026 in the year 3000. By the time of Into the Wild Green Yonder, Fry is 1035, seeing as he started as he was 25 in 1999 and "Into the Wild Green Yonder" takes place in 3009.
[edit] Life in the 31st century
- "It's the future! My parents, my coworkers, my girlfriend. I'll never see any of them again! Yahoo!"
- ―Space Pilot 3000
Fry awoke on December 31, 2999. After a few minutes, he realized that he was in the future and was subsequently greeted by Terry exclaiming “Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!” Fry then meets Leela who informs him that he will be assigned the career of delivery boy and that he has one living relative, his great great great .... great nephew, Professor Hubert Farnsworth. Before Leela is able to implant the delivery boy career chip into Fry's hand, he runs away. Mistaking a suicide booth for a phone booth, Fry attempts to contact Professor Farnsworth and meets Bender, but they escape death. Eventually Fry finds Professor Farnsworth and becomes a delivery boy for the Planet Express Delivery Company. [8]
During his career at Planet Express, Fry has rediscovered the original moon landing site,[10] discovers he is rich and then subsequently gets scammed out of it by Mom and her sons,[11] becomes Emperor of the planet Tri-Sol after drinking their current emperor,[12] saves Earth from a giant garbage ball by demonstrating how to create garbage,[13] enrolled and dropped out of Mars University,[5] discovered the secret ingredient of Slurm with his coworkers,[3] prevented Leela from marrying Alkazar (an alien posing as the only other remaining member of the Cyclops race),[14] aided in the discovery of the Lost City of Atlanta,[15] becomes infested by worms that make him intelligent, physically fit, and able to play the holophoner,[16] saves Earth and then the universe from the Brainspawn due to him lacking the delta brainwave,[9] saves the Planet Express crew from Roberto whilst believeing he was a robot,[17] gets married to and then subsequently divorced from Leela,[18] becomes his own grandfather (the reason he lacks a delta brainwave),[19] helps in discovering Leela's parents and the fact that Leela is a mutant and not an alien as previously believed,[20] becomes a superhero,[21] discovers his old dog fossilized at a museum exhibit of a twentieth century pizzeria,[7] and writes and performs an opera by playing a holophoner while he possessed the Robot Devil's hands.[22]
[edit] Becoming His Own Grandfather
- "For example, if you killed your grandfather, you'd cease to exist!"
- ―Farnsworth
- "But existing is basically all I do!"
- ―Fry[src]
When the Planet Express crew went to observe a supernova up close. While the crew prepared for the event, Fry went to make popcorn. He ignores the warning label on the aluminum popcorn pan, stating not to cook in a microwave, which he does. The microwave emitted radiation that collided with the wave from the supernova, causing the Planet Express crew to travel back in time to 1947. By a set of causality, Zoidberg was captured by the U.S. military while picking pieces of Bender's torso. Fry and Bender's head attempt to infiltrate Roswell, with the former disguised as a soldier. He runs into his grandfather, Enos Fry, engaged to Mildred. On the Farnworth's warning, Fry did his best to make sure that his grandfather is not killed, otherwise he in turn would cease to exist. However, he became paranoid in his attempts to protect Enos, driving and locking him in a house in the middle of nowhere. But what he didn't know, was that he left Enos within range of a nuclear testing ground, killing him in the resulting explosion. But for some reason, Fry was still existing. He comforts his grandmother, who begins to make sexual advances on him, which made him uncomfortable. He then reasoned with himself that because he still exists, Mildred can't be his grandmother and sleeps with her. Next day, Farnsworth knocks on the window, informing Fry that because of his actions, he himself became his own grandfather; Fry freaked out. Because of the paradox, the Planet Express decided that they should get back to their own time, regardless of what it would cause to history. They storm Roswell, rescuing Zoidberg during an autopsy, Bender's reconstructed body and stealing a microwave satellite dish to return to the future.
It is later explained by the Nibblonians that because of Fry becoming his own grandfather, it caused a genetic abnormality that caused him to lack the delta brainwave, which rendered him immune to the Brainspawn.
[edit] Relationships
[edit] Relationship with Bender
Fry had wanted a robot as a best friend since he was six years old, so when he defrosted in the 31st century he was excited to meet Bender. They became close friends and eventually, after the crew kicked Fry out of the Planet Express building, they lived together in Robot Arms Apts.[23]
[edit] Fry's Relationships with Various Women
- "I'm doing my job—there's Amy. I spend a few hours selecting a candy from the machine—there's Amy. I wake up the morning after sleeping with Amy—there's Amy!"
- ―Put Your Head on My Shoulders
[edit] Amy Wong
Fry and Amy had a fake relationship in order to prevent Amy's parents from setting her up with a random guy.[24] After their car runs out of gas on Mercury, Fry and Amy pursue a real relationship, but Fry decided to end it when he believed it was getting too serious.[25]
[edit] Michelle
Fry has had several relationships throughout the years. Before being frozen for 1000 years, he was dating Michelle. However, he discovered that she was cheating on him on New Year's Eve while delivering a pizza to Applied Cryogenics ordered by Nibbler under the name “I.C. Weiner”.[8]. While working at Applied Cryogenics due to Leela mixing up their old career chips, he discovers Michelle frozen in one of the cryogenic tubes and once she is unfrozen, they briefly rekindle their relationship.[26]
[edit] Morgan Proctor
While Hermes was on forced paid leave, Fry had a secret affair with his temporary replacement, Morgan Proctor due to her fetish for messy men.[27]
[edit] Umbriel
When the Planet Express ship was dragged to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Fry embarked on a short relationship with a mermaid named Umbriel, but cut it off after discovering that while he loved her, he wasn't "in love" with her, meaning there was trouble in bed.[15]
[edit] Lucy Liu Bot
In order to fulfill his fantasy of dating a celebrity, he downloads a copy of Lucy Liu onto a blank robot, creating a Lucy Liubot and dates her despite his coworkers' objections. He is eventually convinced by the real Lucy Liu's head, to blank his Lucy Liubot.[28]
[edit] Mildred Fry
Fry had sexual relations with his grandmother when sent back in time to 1947 after killing his own grandfather, or who he thought was his grandfather. Due to this, he has became his own grandfather. He seemed to be proud of doing "the nasty in the pasty".
[edit] Turanga Leela
- "You know, Fry? I don't care if you're not the most important person in the universe. It really makes me happy to see you right now."
- ―Leela
- "Then I am the most important person in the universe."
- ―Fry[src]
However, Fry's true love has always remained Leela, despite the fact that she repeatedly rejects him by making up excuses such as having sweaty boot rash or having to meet a ghost.[29]. During the Titanic cruise, Leela claimed she was engaged to Fry to stop Zapp Brannigan's unwanted advances.[24] Shortly before the Omicronians attacked Earth, a professional beach bully assumed that Leela was Fry's girlfriend and unsuccessfully tried to make $50 from Fry by pretending to steal her.[6] On his first 31st century Xmas, Fry purchases a parrot as a gift for Leela.[30]. When Fry was infested with worms that made him stronger, more intelligent, and able to play the holophoner, he was able to impress Leela, but he convinced the worms to leave his body because he wanted to find out if Leela loved him or the worms.[16]
Fry later tried to learn how to play the holophoner without the worms. [22] Fry even moved the stars themselves to express his love for Leela while time was skipping randomly. This convinced her to marry him, but they divorced after another time skip.[18]. When the Planet Express crew were turned into teenagers, Fry and Leela went on at least one date.[31] When Fry traveled back in time after being trapped on the Infosphere, Nibbler made Fry realize that if there was one thing worth saving in the future, it was Leela. After Fry returned to Earth, Nibbler gave Fry a flower and blanked his memory. Not knowing why he has a flower, Fry assumes he picked it for Leela and gave it to her, and Leela thanks him by kissing him.[9]
When Leela was stung by a space bee and became comatose as a result, Fry stayed by Leela's side attempting to wake her. When she did wake up, Fry and Leela hugged each other.[32] Fry even obtained the Robot Devil's hands while he was trying to relearn how to play the holophoner to impress Leela. During this period, Fry wrote and started to perform an opera about Leela. When the Robot Devil took his hands back, and Fry resumed playing the opera on the holophoner horribly, and Leela was the only member of the audience that stayed because she wanted to hear how it ended.[22]
When the tear in the universe was caused[33], Fry and Colleen were brought together by fear. After discovering Colleen had four other boyfriends when Fry decided to move in with her, Fry broke up with Colleen. At the end of The Wild Green Yonder[34], Fry and Leela profess their love for each other and kiss as the Planet Express ship enters a wormhole into the unknown.
[edit] Family Tree
Mr. Gleisner--+--Mrs. Gleisner Philip J. Fry--+--Mildred | | Mrs. Fry------------+-------------Yancy Fry, Sr. | +---------+---------+ | | Philip J. Fry Yancy Fry--+--Unknown | Philip J. Fry II--+------Unknown | (Many generations) | Wernstrom Mom Hubert J. Farnsworth | | | | | +-------+-----+ +-----------+-----------+ | | | | +---+---+ | | | | Igner Cubert Farnsworth Walt Larry
[edit] Trivia
- Fry was born during this baseball game between the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers, on August 14, 1974. The script states his birthday is actually August 9, 1974.
- Fry may have a form of synesthesia, a neurological disorder wherein the sufferer mixes up sensory input. This can be seen in The Why of Fry, "Did everything just taste purple for a second?" as well as Roswell That Ends Well, "Hey, what smells like blue?"
- Fry states he cannot swim on at least two occasions, Fry and the Slurm Factory and The Sting.
- Fry's middle name is the same as one of Matt Groening's other creations, Homer Simpson.
[edit] Appearances
[edit] References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Futurama Timeline at Everything2.com
- ↑ The Luck of the Fryish
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fry and the Slurm Factory
- ↑ Anthology of Interest I
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mars University
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 When Aliens Attack
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Jurassic Bark
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Space Pilot 3000
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 The Why of Fry
- ↑ The Series Has Landed
- ↑ A Fishful of Dollars
- ↑ My Three Suns
- ↑ A Big Piece of Garbage
- ↑ A Bicyclops Built for Two
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 The Deep South
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Parasites Lost
- ↑ Insane in the Mainframe
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Time Keeps on Slippin'
- ↑ Roswell That Ends Well
- ↑ Leela's Homeworld
- ↑ Less than Hero
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
- ↑ I, Roommate
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 A Flight to Remember
- ↑ Put Your Head on My Shoulder
- ↑ The Cryonic Woman
- ↑ How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back
- ↑ I Dated a Robot
- ↑ The Farnsworth Parabox
- ↑ Xmas Story
- ↑ Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles
- ↑ The Sting
- ↑ The Beast With a Billion Backs
- ↑ Into the Wild Green Yonder
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