Yancy Fry Sr.

Secondary character Deceased character
Yancy Fry Sr.
Yancy Fry Sr. with his wife.
Gender	Male
Species	Human
Planet of origin	Earth
Relatives	See Family section.
First appearance	"The Luck of the Fryrish" (3ACV04)
Voiced by	John DiMaggio

Yancy Fry Sr. is the father of Philip J. Fry who lived in a completely trashed house somewhere in Flatbush, Brooklyn. He was a Vietnam veteran and spent most of his time building a nuclear bomb shelter for fear of a communist attack. His worries about the Y2K computer bug made him believe it was the cause of Philip's disappearance. Yancy Fry Sr. and Mrs. Fry didn't care about their son and thought sending him to school was a waste of tax money and didn't bother much looking for him when he was frozen in December of 1999.

Character Description

Family

• Philip J. Fry, son and father.
• Mrs. Fry, wife.
• Yancy Fry, Jr., first born son.
• Philip J. Fry, II, grandson.
• Enos Fry, father (though, he died in a nuclear test, and Philip fathered his own father).
• Mildred Fry, mother.
• Professor Farnsworth, distant grandson.
• Cubert Farnsworth, the Professor's clone.
• Mr. and Mrs. Gleisner, his wife's parents.

Yancy (Frys dad) actually did care a lot about hios son shown in the episode "Cold Warriors" him and his son go ice fishing in flashbacks when Fry was a young teenager, when Fry fell through ice he saved him. It was a recurring joke of Yancy Sr. saying i just dont want you to get frozen or bundle up i dont want you to freeze as a joke to what happens years later. Yancy told his son that the reason he is so hard on him is that he wants him to grow up strong.

Additional Info

Trivia

• According to Philip...
  • Yancy was fired from McDonald's (1ACV12) and always said that "you could tell a lot about a man by the rigidity of his shins" (6ACV22).
  • Yancy and Mrs. Fry were honest, hard-working people (1ACV11) and were always on him to groom himself and wear underpants (2ACV07).

Quotes

Nurse: It's a boy! And look at that red hair!
Yancy Fry Sr.: You sayin' my boy's a commie?

Yancy Fry Sr.: So what should we name him?
Mrs. Fry: You pick, I picked dinner last night.
Yancy Fry Sr.: Well, I was thinking of Philip after those screwdrivers.

Yancy Fry Sr.: Yancy, here's your new brother, Philip.
Young Yancy Fry Jr.: I wanna be Philip! Me Philip!
Yancy Fry Sr.: Son, your name is Yancy, just like me and my grandpa and so on, all the way up to Minute-Man Yancy who shot commies in the revolution.

Appearances

• "Mars University" (1ACV11)
  
  (mention)
• "When Aliens Attack" (1ACV12)
  
  (mention)
• "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" (2ACV07)
  
  (mention)
• "The Luck of the Fryrish" (3ACV04)
  
• "Jurassic Bark" (4ACV07)
  
• Bender's Big Score
  
• "Fry Am the Egg Man" (6ACV22)
  
  (mention)
• "Cold Warriors" (6ACV24)
  
• "Twice Told Tales of Interest" (US#024)