Yancy Fry Sr.

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Secondary character
Deceased character
Yancy Fry Sr.
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Yancy Fry Sr. with his wife.
GenderMale
SpeciesHuman
Planet of originEarth
RelativesSee Family section.
First appearance"The Luck of the Fryrish" (3ACV04)
Episode
Voiced byJohn 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

Yancy Fry Sr. actually did care a lot about his son, as shown in the episode "Cold Warriors." Yancy and Phillip went ice fishing in the 1980s, when Fry was a young teenager. When Fry fell through ice, his father saved him. Yancy Fry Sr. would often invoke dramatic irony, telling his cold son to "bundle up" as he didn't want him to freeze.

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 their son 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