Yancy Fry Sr.

Yancy Fry Sr. is the father of Philip J. Fry who lived in a completely trashed house somewhere in,. 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 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.

Family

 * Philip J. Fry, son and father.
 * Mrs. Fry, wife and grandmother.
 * 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 grandnephew.
 * Cubert Farnsworth, the Professor's clone.
 * Mr. and Mrs. Gleisner, his wife's parents.

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. Yancy Fry Sr. was a soldier and fought in the Vietnam war. He did this in style by wearing a camofage tuxedo which his son Yancy Jr. wore at his wedding.

Trivia

 * According to Philip...
 * Yancy was fired from  and always said that "you could tell a lot about a man by the rigidity of his shins".
 * Yancy and Mrs. Fry were honest, hard-working people and were always on him to groom himself and wear underpants.
 * Was once trapped in a Swiss glacier for an entire week, eating nothing but frozen Neanderthals.
 * Was once a door-to-door trampoline salesman and never took a single day off, even when he broke his spine.
 * Yancy Sr. stated to his son Yancy Fry, Jr. that Yancy was a family name, saying "Your name is Yancy, just like me and my grandfather" . This is a bit of situational irony, because it would later be shown that his son, Philip J. Fry, traveled back in time and fathered him, meaning that he is his own grandfather and, thus, his grandfather's name is indeed Yancy.

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