- "Killed? In an atomic blast? No, sir, I'm afraid I don't take much solace in the fact that the implosion trigger functioned perfectly."
- ―Mildred Fry (receiving news that Enos has died)
Mildred Fry was fiance to Enos Fry and was a waitress that Fry met when he traveled back in time. After his grandfather, Enos Fry, was killed in a house that turned out to be a test site for an atomic bomb, Mildred felt that Fry reminded her deeply of Enos and immediately began flirting with him. In an effort to distract Mildred, Fry asks her to make him sugar cookies, Mildred unbuttoned her top and thrust her breasts at him, remarking "How about these cookies, sugar?".
Fry had sex with Mildred, incorrectly reasoning that since he still existed and Enos was dead, Mildred wasn't actually his grandmother. As a result of sleeping with Mildred, Fry became his own grandfather.
The next morning Fry noticed that Mildred started acting like his own grandmother in his own time, but was out of place as in the 1940s she was an attractive young woman. She suddenly wore reading glasses and was hard of hearing. It was then that fry realized that Mildred was in fact his grandmother and in sleeping with her it made him is own grandfather. Philip's affair with Mildred was a likely reference to a parody country song I'm My Own Grandpa, where the singer recounts a complex family tree only to say at the end he somehow married his own widowed grandmother. Nibbler was also aware of what Fry did to Mildred, and commented in The Why Of Fry that "the nasty from the past-y" cost him the delta brain wave, and thus his born immunity to the Brainspawn.
Family Tree
Mr. Gleisner──┬──Mrs. Gleisner Philip J. Fry──┬──Mildred │ │ Mrs. Fry───────────┬────────────Yancy Fry, Sr. │ ┌─────────┴─────────┐ ┬David Farnsworth │ │ │ Philip J. Fry Yancy Fry──┬──Unknown (Many generations) │ │ Philip J. Fry II──┬──Njörd(?) │ (Many generations) │ (?)Wernstrom────┬────Mom─────────┬─────────Hubert J. Farnsworth │ │ │ ┌───┴───┐ Ignar Cubert Farnsworth │ │ (clone) Walt Larry
Trivia
- The food Mildred serves in her job as a waitress includes chilli dogs, and a pie with a fried egg on top. It does not include mead, paella, injections of femi-slim and types of soylent green, soylent orange and soylent coleslaw (as requested by the Professor and Leela)