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'''Philip J. Fry''' is the first class delivery boy of [[Planet Express]], which his [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|nephew]] owns.  Before working for Planet Express he worked for [[Panucci's Pizza]] before he was frozen down and woke up a thousand years later.


'''Philip J. Fry''' is one of the key employees at [[Planet Express]]. As official Delivery Boy, ship crew member and general oddjob man, he is member of the core delivery crew that does most of Planet Express' actual work. He looks normal enough, only his 20th century clothes and his flaming red, double spiked hairdo make him stand out. He generally wears sneakers, blue jeans, a white T-shirt and a red jacket, but has been seen in other clothes on special occasions. Normally he looks not too well and even has a small beer belly, but there's much worse sights than him.
==Biography==
===Early years===
Fry was born in 1974 somewhere in [[Old New York]]; he was the child of [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|honest hard working Americans]]. During his upbringing he is facing great rivalry with his older [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|brother]]. He finds his brother constantly using his ideas and accuses him of wanting his first name. Fry also spends of a lot of time with video games and watching ''Star Trek''. He is never admitted to public school because his parents feel it would be a waste of tax payers money.


Fry is not the smartest person around, and usually a big loser. He often does things that are stupid or inconsiderate or both. If one of his crazy ideas goes bad (again), it is generally [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]'s job to rescue him. It seems that Fry's mind is filled with a blissful emptiness, waiting for the next TV show, video game or mad impulse to fill it up. Nevertheless, Fry's heart is in the right place, and he cares about his friends, especially Leela with whom he is in love, although she has always rejected him so far. His best friend, however, is [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] - he always wanted a robot for a friend, ever since he was six years old, and Bender seems to be happy with this relationship.
Fry never makes a success of himself, and during his twenties (or late teenage years) he gets a job at [[Panucci's Pizza]] as a pizza delivery boy. While working for [[Mr. Panucci]], he meets up with [[Michelle]] and they get in a relationship. On a delivery to a prank call in [[Timeline|1997]], he meets up with [[Seymour Asses]], which he names because as it was where the prank call was addressed.  Seymour becomes his best friend.


He has a famous scream, first heard in [[Space Pilot 3000]], when he and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] was in a [[Suicide Booth]].
===My God - a million years!===
On the faithful night of New Year's Eve, 1999, he is sent on another prank delivery to [[I. C. Wiener]].  When he arrives at the destination that is [[Applied Cryogenics]], he realises it is a prank, but since he cannot make it back to Panucci's before the new year, he decides to celebrate it where he is.  But as he is leaning on his chair, he leans too far backwards and falls into a tube, it closes and he is frozen for a thousand years.


==Biography==
On New Year's Eve, 2999, the tube's timer finishes and he is woken up again.  But Fry is not at all afraid about his entire life so far being gone.  He is introduced to [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] who is working to assign [[Career chip|unfrozen people to jobs]], she informs him that he only has one living relative; [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]. But faced with becoming a delivery boy again, Fry flees.  While running around [[New New York]], he spots a [[suicide booth]], which he mistakes for a regular phone booth, where he decides to call his nephew.
[[Image:Philip Fry.png|left|thumb|150px|Philip J. Fry]]
 
'''Philip J. Fry''' is a true child of the 20th century and of [[Old New York]]. In his youth he did a lot of break dancing and was member of a street gang. He also played basketball with his brother where he found his seven leaf clover which he later hid from his brother. In high school he drank 100 cans of cola a week until his third heart attack. So far he has refrained from adopting 31st century clothing, probably because no one cares about things like this these days. Since at least 1997 he worked as a delivery boy for [[Panucci's Pizza]] which he found an abandoned dog on the streets and named him Seymour (since the prank name was Seymour Asses) after feeding the dog pizza he followed Fry who then kept him. By 1998 he had taught Seymour to sing I'm walking on sunshine, clean up and wait for him after a delivery. Before Fry was frozen Seymore wanted him to stay for new years eve. On new-years eve of 1999, after his girlfriend [[Michelle]] broke up with him, he attempted to deliver a pizza to [[I. C. Wiener]] at [[Applied Cryogenics]]. While there, he was frozen for a thousand years, arriving abrubtly into his new life in the 31st century. On December 31, 2999 he was defrosted and ran straight into Leela who worked as Fate Assignment Officer at the time, and a bit later crossed bender's path. The three of them ended up working for [[Planet Express]], the interstellar delivery company run by Fry's many-times-great-nephew, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Hubert Farnsworth]]. For a time, he was romantically involved with [[Amy Wong|Amy]], but this relationship was short-lived. His true love is [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], who is generally dismissive of his continuous advances. Fry is persistent, though, and has made countless attempts to win Leela's heart - so far without lasting success, but he seems to get closer to his goal. Fry has suffered countless accidents and wounds in his time at Planet Express, for example, he lost an arm on [[Decapod 10]], a Tyrannosaurus ate his hands once, and he was reduced to his head on Europa while on a picnic trip with Amy and [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]. His carreer has seen great heights as well: he briefly was Emperor of [[Trisol]] (as Fry the Solid) and multi-billionaire, and has fought in the war on [[Spheron 1]] and against [[Omicronians]] with the Earth forces. On one occasion, he was infected with alien worm parasites that actually improved him in a way that Leela fell in love with him, but he wanted to know whether she loved him or what the worms made of him, so he made them leave and reverted to his old self - Leela dumped him on the spot. During this period he learned to play the [[Holophonor]] which impressed Leela a great deal, but without the worms he could not play it anymore. He later got a little outside help from the [[Robot Devil]] by exchanging his hands for the Robot Devil's and became a great Holophonor performer, but Beelzebot coerced him into giving them back, foiling another attempt to win Leela's heart. Together with Leela and Bender, he formed the [[The New Justice Team]], assuming the name [[The New Justice Team#Captain_Yesterday|Captain Yesterday]] and a rather cool 70s style outfit not unakin to Elvis. During a trip back in [[Timeline of Futurama|time]] to the year 1947, he became his own grandfather, a genetic anomaly that caused a unique condition which makes him the most important person in the universe: Fry lacks the [[Delta Brain Wave]] that all other sentient beings possess, making him immune to the [[Brain Spawn]] and the greatest asset in the [[Nibblonians]] war against this menace. On account of this, Fry was able to save Earth and the entire universe from the Brain Spawn, and in return got the promise that the Nibblonians would assist in his attempts to win Leela's heart.
Inside the suicide booth, [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] gets impatient with Fry's lack of understanding of how the booth works. So he helps him along, at which point Fry realises what sort of booth he has stepped into. After avoiding getting killed by the booth, he decides to hang out with Bender.  After a couple of drinks, Bender suggests he better leave to go kill himself again, but Fry wants him to stay, because he had always wanted a robot for a friend (or at least every since he was six).  But Leela is still on his trail, after being forced by her boss, [[Ipgee]], to continue the pursuit of him.
 
While escaping her through the [[Head Museum]] and running into the ruins of Old New York, Leela finally catches up with them.  But to Fry's surprise, she decides to quit her job instead of forcing the job upon to him. Fry suggests they go to his nephew and see if he can help them.  And after confirming his and Fry's relation, he wishes to hire them as a replacement for his old crew.
 
===Planet Express Delivery Boy===
Fry is hired on his nephew's company as a delivery boy. Being faced with the ability to travel around space, Fry is pleased with his new position. At first Fry lives at the Planet Express, but after an [[I, Roommate|apartment hunt]] he ends up living in Bender's closet.  But Fry immediately gets an interest in Leela.  But to his dismay, the feelings are not mutual.
 
His work at Planet Express gets him thrown into a lot of absurd adventures, he is briefly in a relationship with [[Amy Wong]], and while the company's bureaucrat, [[Hermes Conrad]], is away, he had an affair with the company's replacement bureaucrat, [[Morgan Proctor]]. Neither lasting very long, but when he almost destroys the Planet Express building, Hermes fire him, Bender and Leela, he gets Leela's former job by accident he founds his girlfriend Michelle unfrozen. But when she does not feel comfortable in the future, she asks him to come with him to year 4000.  After they wake up and realising that they were actually just in [[Los Angeles]] two days later, she dumps him in favour of [[Pauly Shore]].
 
On a truck stop he eats a bad egg sandwich, so he gets infected with parasites.  The worms gives him a complete tune up, and he both becomes stronger, smarter, and he is capable of impressing Leela with the [[Holophonor]], but Fry fears that Leela has falling in love with the worms rather than him, so he decides to get rid of them.  And he appears to be right, she immediately asks him to leave.
 
===The most important person in the universe===
At some point the [[Brain Spawn]] attack [[Earth]], and in its progress it makes all [[humans]] stupid or stupider. Fry however is immune to this as he lacks a certain Delta brain wave.  The [[Nibblonians]] inform Leela of how to save him, but just as she convince him that the brains are evil, he runs to the library where he meets and battles [[the Big Brain]]. Fry beats the Big Brain, and when everyone is back to normal, no one has any memory of his actions and just thinks he is crazy.
 
While the Planet Express crew are watching a supernova about to explode, Fry puts some metal into a microwave in the [[Planet Express Ship|ship]], which causes them to be thrown back in time to 1947 and they manage to crash land in Roswell, New Mexico.  During this trip he kills his (supposed) [[Enos Fry|grandfather]] and meets his [[Mildred Fry|grandmother]], but after a night with her it becomes obvious that himself is his grandfather.
 
But the Nibblonians call for his help again and the Brain Spawn have begun collecting all information in the universe, and would then destroy it.  The Nibblonians explain that due to his "past-nastification" he lacks the Delta brain wave.  It is revealed to him inside [[the Infosphere]] that it was [[Nibbler]] who made him fall into the tube and original come to the future.  But Fry's love for Leela makes him accept it. And in a second attempt, he destroys the Infosphere and the universe is saved.
 
===A deal with the devil===
During more events with his crew members, he wound up in a parallel universe where he and Leela is married, he gets his nose cut off, he writes a love note to Leela by moving the stars themselves, he gets in a relationship with [[Lucy Liu's Head|Lucy Liu]]-bot, he becomes the vice chairman of the company during a takeover, the emperor of [[Trisol]] and much more.
 
But his passion and number one thing he always wanted still remains unexplored.  He thinks back to when had the worms, and when he could play the Holophoner to impress Leela. Bender suggests that he should make a deal with the [[Robot Devil]], and in an (to the Robot Devil at least) appalling ironic outcome, he gets the Robot Devil's hands.  He can play the Holophonor now, and he becomes a famous musician, performing many classical numbers.
 
[[Hedonism Bot]] hires him to write an opera, Fry decides to write it about Leela.  And after the first act of the opera, it is already deemed best opera of all time.  But meanwhile the Robot Devil is plotting against Fry to get his hands back, because the Robot Devil is getting tired of Fry's hands. And so in the final act, the Robot Devil interrupts the opera and demands his hands back.  Fry refuses, and the Robot Devil explains that if so, he will marry Leela for which she has signed (unknowingly for her though).  Fry realises that this ultimatum only has one solution, to let Leela go and give up the Robot Devil's hands.  And since he cannot play any more, the opera is credited as sucking.
 
===Years of absences===
But Planet Express is brutally redrawn its license by the [[Box Network]] to which they were fired. But luckily their license is renewed and they are back in business.  Fry becomes the centre of attention as his butt contains the secret to time travel, when Alien Scammers (lead by [[Nudar]]) takes over the business, they find the [[machine language time code]] on his butt.  Bender is ordered to go back in time and steal all of Earth's values from the past.  But Fry is more upset about this [[Lars Fillmore]] who is getting a chance with Leela.
 
The scammers feel it would be best to get rid of the time code when they are actually nervous about the universe being destroyed, but Fry manages to read the code off his butt using a mirror and escapes back to January 1st, 2000.  Here he attempts to get some food from Mr. Panucci, but since he has no money from that era he cannot, except the pizza he delivered to I. C. Wiener, it is here he decides to travel back an hour when the pizza was warm.  His [[time paradox duplicate]] refuses to do the same thing and walks off.  But Fry himself manages to end up inside the same tube he was originally frozen in.  When his frozen self wakes up, he closes the tube after him and leaves the timer for 7.95 years to wake up again appropriate to when he had left.


He lives with [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] in the [[New New York#Robot Arms Apartments|Robot Arms Apartments]].
Luckily for him, Lars Fillmore calls off the wedding, and while he is unable to get Leela's attention, at least he and she won't be dating any more.  And after having Hermes and Bender save the Earth, he decides on New Year's Eve of 3007, that Lars and Leela belong together.  But here it is revealed that Lars is the exact same time paradox duplicated he left at Applied Cryogenics.


===Name===
==Name==
Outside the show Fry was called Philip after Phil Hartman, who was to play [[Zapp Brannigan]]. Fry was originally named Curtis. Within the show Fry was named Philip by his father after phillip screwdrivers. The J. is used in Many of [[Matt Groening|Matt Groening's]] characters including Homer J. Simpson, Bartholomew J. Simpson and Mona J. Simpson, and is a tribute to Bullwinkle J. Moose. The trend is also followed by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], and his clone, [[Cubert Farnsworth]].
Outside the show Fry was called Philip after Phil Hartman, who was to play [[Zapp Brannigan]]. Fry was originally named Curtis. Within the show Fry was named Philip by his father after Phillips screwdrivers. The J. is used in Many of [[Matt Groening|Matt Groening's]] characters including Homer J. Simpson, Bartholomew J. Simpson and Mona J. Simpson, and is a tribute to Bullwinkle J. Moose. The trend is also followed by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], and his clone, [[Cubert Farnsworth]].
[[Image:Fry Family Tree.png|right|200px]]
[[Image:Fry Family Tree.png|right|200px]]


===Family===
==Family==
Fry's [[:Image:Fry Family Tree.jpg|family tree]] is a bit convoluted, due in part to the reuse of common names, but mostly because Fry went back in time and became his own grandpa ([[Roswell that Ends Well|3ACV19]]).
Fry's [[:Image:Fry Family Tree.jpg|family tree]] is a bit convoluted, due in part to the reuse of common names, but mostly because Fry went back in time and became his own grandpa ([[Roswell that Ends Well|3ACV19]]).
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], Fry's many-times-great-nephew and at the same time many-times-grandson.
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], Fry's many-times-great-nephew and at the same time many-times-grandson.
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*Mr and Mrs. Gleisner, maternal grandparents.
*Mr and Mrs. Gleisner, maternal grandparents.
*One or more of [[Mom]]'s children (rumored)
*One or more of [[Mom]]'s children (rumored)
*[[Turanga Leela]], ex-wife.


==Additional Info==
==Additional Info==
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*Great at video games, but bad at most other things.
*Great at video games, but bad at most other things.
*Possesses creative musical talent.
*Possesses creative musical talent.
*Once possessed a lucky [[Seven leaf clover]].
*Once possessed a lucky [[Seven leaf clover|seven leaf clover]].
*Very impulsive.
*Very impulsive.
*Dropout of [[Mars University (Place)|Mars University]] and [[Coney Island College]].
*Dropout of [[Mars University (Place)|Mars University]] and [[Coney Island College]].
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*He, along with [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], appears in all episodes of the series.
*He, along with [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], appears in all episodes of the series.
*Was once the Planet Express Ship Capitan, and Also Thinks That Those Fools Should Make Tankers With 6000 and 1 Hulls.
*Was once the Planet Express Ship Capitan, and Also Thinks That Those Fools Should Make Tankers With 6000 and 1 Hulls.
*Had nose stolen by gray, big-headed, human poachers.
*Had nose stolen by gray, big headed, human poachers.
*Almost had his "wing dang doodle" cut off.
*Almost had his "wing dang doodle" cut off.


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*"That's the saltiest thing I've ever tasted. And I once ate a big, heaping bowl of salt!"
*"That's the saltiest thing I've ever tasted. And I once ate a big, heaping bowl of salt!"
*"Leela, let's turn back. There is absolutely no shame in wussing out."
*"Leela, let's turn back. There is absolutely no shame in wussing out."
===Appearances===
While Fry appears in every episode/film/comic, these categories may be of interest:
*[[:Category:A plots focusing on Fry|A plots focusing on Fry]]
*[[:Category:B plots focusing on Fry|B plots focusing on Fry]]

Revision as of 12:06, 1 February 2008

Primary character
Philip J. Fry
Philip J. Fry.jpg
Age2040 (biological age: 33)
Date of birth1974
GenderMale
SpeciesHuman
Planet of originEarth
ProfessionFirst Class Delivery Boy
RelativesSee family section
First appearanceSpace Pilot 3000
Voiced by[[Billy West|Billy West]][[Category:Characters voiced by Billy West|Philip J. Fry]]

Philip J. Fry is the first class delivery boy of Planet Express, which his nephew owns. Before working for Planet Express he worked for Panucci's Pizza before he was frozen down and woke up a thousand years later.

Biography

Early years

Fry was born in 1974 somewhere in Old New York; he was the child of honest hard working Americans. During his upbringing he is facing great rivalry with his older brother. He finds his brother constantly using his ideas and accuses him of wanting his first name. Fry also spends of a lot of time with video games and watching Star Trek. He is never admitted to public school because his parents feel it would be a waste of tax payers money.

Fry never makes a success of himself, and during his twenties (or late teenage years) he gets a job at Panucci's Pizza as a pizza delivery boy. While working for Mr. Panucci, he meets up with Michelle and they get in a relationship. On a delivery to a prank call in 1997, he meets up with Seymour Asses, which he names because as it was where the prank call was addressed. Seymour becomes his best friend.

My God - a million years!

On the faithful night of New Year's Eve, 1999, he is sent on another prank delivery to I. C. Wiener. When he arrives at the destination that is Applied Cryogenics, he realises it is a prank, but since he cannot make it back to Panucci's before the new year, he decides to celebrate it where he is. But as he is leaning on his chair, he leans too far backwards and falls into a tube, it closes and he is frozen for a thousand years.

On New Year's Eve, 2999, the tube's timer finishes and he is woken up again. But Fry is not at all afraid about his entire life so far being gone. He is introduced to Leela who is working to assign unfrozen people to jobs, she informs him that he only has one living relative; Professor Farnsworth. But faced with becoming a delivery boy again, Fry flees. While running around New New York, he spots a suicide booth, which he mistakes for a regular phone booth, where he decides to call his nephew.

Inside the suicide booth, Bender gets impatient with Fry's lack of understanding of how the booth works. So he helps him along, at which point Fry realises what sort of booth he has stepped into. After avoiding getting killed by the booth, he decides to hang out with Bender. After a couple of drinks, Bender suggests he better leave to go kill himself again, but Fry wants him to stay, because he had always wanted a robot for a friend (or at least every since he was six). But Leela is still on his trail, after being forced by her boss, Ipgee, to continue the pursuit of him.

While escaping her through the Head Museum and running into the ruins of Old New York, Leela finally catches up with them. But to Fry's surprise, she decides to quit her job instead of forcing the job upon to him. Fry suggests they go to his nephew and see if he can help them. And after confirming his and Fry's relation, he wishes to hire them as a replacement for his old crew.

Planet Express Delivery Boy

Fry is hired on his nephew's company as a delivery boy. Being faced with the ability to travel around space, Fry is pleased with his new position. At first Fry lives at the Planet Express, but after an apartment hunt he ends up living in Bender's closet. But Fry immediately gets an interest in Leela. But to his dismay, the feelings are not mutual.

His work at Planet Express gets him thrown into a lot of absurd adventures, he is briefly in a relationship with Amy Wong, and while the company's bureaucrat, Hermes Conrad, is away, he had an affair with the company's replacement bureaucrat, Morgan Proctor. Neither lasting very long, but when he almost destroys the Planet Express building, Hermes fire him, Bender and Leela, he gets Leela's former job by accident he founds his girlfriend Michelle unfrozen. But when she does not feel comfortable in the future, she asks him to come with him to year 4000. After they wake up and realising that they were actually just in Los Angeles two days later, she dumps him in favour of Pauly Shore.

On a truck stop he eats a bad egg sandwich, so he gets infected with parasites. The worms gives him a complete tune up, and he both becomes stronger, smarter, and he is capable of impressing Leela with the Holophonor, but Fry fears that Leela has falling in love with the worms rather than him, so he decides to get rid of them. And he appears to be right, she immediately asks him to leave.

The most important person in the universe

At some point the Brain Spawn attack Earth, and in its progress it makes all humans stupid or stupider. Fry however is immune to this as he lacks a certain Delta brain wave. The Nibblonians inform Leela of how to save him, but just as she convince him that the brains are evil, he runs to the library where he meets and battles the Big Brain. Fry beats the Big Brain, and when everyone is back to normal, no one has any memory of his actions and just thinks he is crazy.

While the Planet Express crew are watching a supernova about to explode, Fry puts some metal into a microwave in the ship, which causes them to be thrown back in time to 1947 and they manage to crash land in Roswell, New Mexico. During this trip he kills his (supposed) grandfather and meets his grandmother, but after a night with her it becomes obvious that himself is his grandfather.

But the Nibblonians call for his help again and the Brain Spawn have begun collecting all information in the universe, and would then destroy it. The Nibblonians explain that due to his "past-nastification" he lacks the Delta brain wave. It is revealed to him inside the Infosphere that it was Nibbler who made him fall into the tube and original come to the future. But Fry's love for Leela makes him accept it. And in a second attempt, he destroys the Infosphere and the universe is saved.

A deal with the devil

During more events with his crew members, he wound up in a parallel universe where he and Leela is married, he gets his nose cut off, he writes a love note to Leela by moving the stars themselves, he gets in a relationship with Lucy Liu-bot, he becomes the vice chairman of the company during a takeover, the emperor of Trisol and much more.

But his passion and number one thing he always wanted still remains unexplored. He thinks back to when had the worms, and when he could play the Holophoner to impress Leela. Bender suggests that he should make a deal with the Robot Devil, and in an (to the Robot Devil at least) appalling ironic outcome, he gets the Robot Devil's hands. He can play the Holophonor now, and he becomes a famous musician, performing many classical numbers.

Hedonism Bot hires him to write an opera, Fry decides to write it about Leela. And after the first act of the opera, it is already deemed best opera of all time. But meanwhile the Robot Devil is plotting against Fry to get his hands back, because the Robot Devil is getting tired of Fry's hands. And so in the final act, the Robot Devil interrupts the opera and demands his hands back. Fry refuses, and the Robot Devil explains that if so, he will marry Leela for which she has signed (unknowingly for her though). Fry realises that this ultimatum only has one solution, to let Leela go and give up the Robot Devil's hands. And since he cannot play any more, the opera is credited as sucking.

Years of absences

But Planet Express is brutally redrawn its license by the Box Network to which they were fired. But luckily their license is renewed and they are back in business. Fry becomes the centre of attention as his butt contains the secret to time travel, when Alien Scammers (lead by Nudar) takes over the business, they find the machine language time code on his butt. Bender is ordered to go back in time and steal all of Earth's values from the past. But Fry is more upset about this Lars Fillmore who is getting a chance with Leela.

The scammers feel it would be best to get rid of the time code when they are actually nervous about the universe being destroyed, but Fry manages to read the code off his butt using a mirror and escapes back to January 1st, 2000. Here he attempts to get some food from Mr. Panucci, but since he has no money from that era he cannot, except the pizza he delivered to I. C. Wiener, it is here he decides to travel back an hour when the pizza was warm. His time paradox duplicate refuses to do the same thing and walks off. But Fry himself manages to end up inside the same tube he was originally frozen in. When his frozen self wakes up, he closes the tube after him and leaves the timer for 7.95 years to wake up again appropriate to when he had left.

Luckily for him, Lars Fillmore calls off the wedding, and while he is unable to get Leela's attention, at least he and she won't be dating any more. And after having Hermes and Bender save the Earth, he decides on New Year's Eve of 3007, that Lars and Leela belong together. But here it is revealed that Lars is the exact same time paradox duplicated he left at Applied Cryogenics.

Name

Outside the show Fry was called Philip after Phil Hartman, who was to play Zapp Brannigan. Fry was originally named Curtis. Within the show Fry was named Philip by his father after Phillips screwdrivers. The J. is used in Many of Matt Groening's characters including Homer J. Simpson, Bartholomew J. Simpson and Mona J. Simpson, and is a tribute to Bullwinkle J. Moose. The trend is also followed by Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, and his clone, Cubert Farnsworth.

Fry Family Tree.png

Family

Fry's family tree is a bit convoluted, due in part to the reuse of common names, but mostly because Fry went back in time and became his own grandpa (3ACV19).

  • Professor Farnsworth, Fry's many-times-great-nephew and at the same time many-times-grandson.
  • Cubert Farnsworth, Hubert Farnsworth's clone
  • Yancy Fry, Jr., Fry's older brother and grandson
  • Philip J. Fry, Fry's Nephew (and great grandson), named in Fry's memory
  • Yancy and Mrs. Fry, parents (Yancy is also technically Fry's son, and is also his own grandfather)
  • Enos Fry, assumed paternal grandfather, actually unrelated
  • Seymour, his dog in the 20th century.
  • Mildred Fry, paternal grandmother
  • Mr and Mrs. Gleisner, maternal grandparents.
  • One or more of Mom's children (rumored)

Additional Info

Trivia

  • Probably the greatest Star Trek fan still alive, with the possible exception of Melllvar.
  • Tried to make out with a radiator once. And succeeded.
  • Used to drink 100 cans of cola a week back in school, right until his third heart attack.
  • Probably sterilized by the F-Ray, if only temporarily.
  • Addicted to Slurm.
  • Usually is the first character to declare something as "dead", although he has no medical experience.
  • Once ate a big heaping bowl of salt.
  • Is a slob.
  • Briefly achieved a higher state of existence after consuming 100 cups of coffee.
  • Temporarily became convinced he was a robot.
  • Used to find edible mushrooms on his bathmat.
  • Tried to swap his lungs for gills.
  • Great at video games, but bad at most other things.
  • Possesses creative musical talent.
  • Once possessed a lucky seven leaf clover.
  • Very impulsive.
  • Dropout of Mars University and Coney Island College.
  • Loves anchovies.
  • Destroyed the Hubble Telescope in an epic space battle.
  • Has no problems in dealing with robots and aliens, may even be a xenophile.
  • Almost snu-snued to death.
  • Has stupid fingers, which prevents him from playing the Holophonor properly without outside help.
  • Was briefly employed at Applied Cryogenics.
  • Very occasionally has flashes of profound insight, but instantly reverts to his usual self and forgets whatever it was he thought of.
  • His favorite song is Walking On Sunshine by Katrina And The Waves.
  • He, along with Leela and Bender, appears in all episodes of the series.
  • Was once the Planet Express Ship Capitan, and Also Thinks That Those Fools Should Make Tankers With 6000 and 1 Hulls.
  • Had nose stolen by gray, big headed, human poachers.
  • Almost had his "wing dang doodle" cut off.

Quotes

  • "No I'm... doesn't!"
  • "Bender! Have you seen my Sombrero?"
  • "People said I was dumb, but I proved them."
  • "That's the saltiest thing I've ever tasted. And I once ate a big, heaping bowl of salt!"
  • "Leela, let's turn back. There is absolutely no shame in wussing out."

Appearances

While Fry appears in every episode/film/comic, these categories may be of interest:

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