http://theinfosphere.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=71.245.126.65&feedformat=atomThe Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T21:04:33ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.36.3http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=How_Hermes_Requisitioned_His_Groove_Back&diff=72917How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back2010-10-12T05:16:09Z<p>71.245.126.65: /* Act I: "I only gamble with chumps" */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back<br />
|no=24<br />
|image=[[File:How Hermes Requisitioned his Groove Back.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=2<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=2ACV11<br />
|caption=As foretold by Nostradamus<br />
|first aired=2 April, 2000<br />
|written by=Bill Odenkirk<br />
|directed by=Mark Ervin<br />
|title reference="{{w|How Stella Got Her Groove Back}}"<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=''Felix the Cat Trifles with Time'' (1925)<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S02E14<br />
|special guest=[[Nora Dunn]]<br />
|prev ep=A Clone of My Own<br />
|next ep=The Deep South<br />
|broad prev=A Bicyclops Built for Two<br />
|broad next=A Clone of My Own<br />
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"'''How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back'''" is the twenty-fourth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the eleventh of the [[Season 2|second production season]] and the fourteenth of the [[Broadcast season 2|second broadcast season]]. It aired 2 April, 2000 on FOX. It guest stars [[Nora Dunn]] as [[Morgan Proctor]]. Having ruined his hopes getting his bureaucrat rating raised, [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] attempts to kill himself, but Proctor forces him on paid vacation on [[Spa 5]], meanwhile [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] finds himself in a secret relationship with Proctor.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I: "I only gamble with chumps" ===<br />
[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] finishes his work for the day and receives a letter from the [[Central Bureaucracy]]. He's happy to learn that there will be an inspection tomorrow, potentially allowing him to be promoted from grade 36 to grade 35.<br />
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[[Turanga Leela|Leela]] invites [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] to a poker game she's having with her former co-workers from [[Applied Cryogenics]]. [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] invites himself. As the guests arrive [[Ipgee]] informs Leela that she's fired for being over a year late for work. The Applied Cryogenics staff catch Bender cheating and beat him up in Hermes' office.<br />
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When he arrives to work the next day, Hermes is horrified by the mess. The inspector, [[Morgan Proctor]], arrives and Hermes threatens to kill himself by jumping off the Planet Express building. Bender recommends that he do a flip.<br />
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=== Act II: "Mr. Bender about last night..." ===<br />
Hermes is talked out of suicide, and Zoidberg suggests he visits [[Spa 5]] to recover. [[LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara]] and Hermes learn, too late, that Spa 5 is actually a forced labour camp.<br />
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Morgan takes over Hermes' job while he's off. She complains that Fry is a slob, but falls in love with him because of it. Morgan gives the crew worse jobs, except for Fry, who gets a promotion. She then turns up at Fry and Bender's apartment to have sex. Bender catches them, and the next day he tries to blackmail her, but Morgan removes Bender's brain and sends it to the Central Bureaucracy for filing.<br />
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=== Act III: "Stop hogging that healthy liver!" ===<br />
Fry along with Leela, [[Amy Wong|Amy]] and [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] head off to recover Bender's brain. The crew heads to the Central Bureaucracy's filing room, but Morgan says that it would be impossible to find the brain within the master "in" pile. <br />
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Meanwhile, Hermes begins organising the forced labour camp. Zoidberg delivers Hermes to Central Bureaucracy; having organised the forced labour camp all the work is now carried out by a single [[Australian Guy|Australian man]]. Hermes has four minutes to sort the pile or be fired. Launching into song, he beats the clock, but was too fast and so he is demoted to grade 38, which would no longer allow him to work at Planet Express. Hermes then points out a mistake that Morgan made, which gets him a promotion to grade 37 and his job back.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Bureaucrat song lyrics ===<br />
{{see|List of song performances#Bureaucrat Song}}<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The forced labour camp's sign reads "Spa 5 Fitness camp: recommended by Dr. Zoidberg". This, as well as the Australian slave's admission, suggests that most of the workers were provided by Zoidberg, who openly admits that he gets a free bucket of krill for every person he sends there.<br />
*Grade 1.0 was used to leave a possibility for higher ranks with lower decimals.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*The [[Australian man]] reappears in "[[A Pharaoh to Remember]]".<br />
*This is the last appearance of the [[Number 9 Man]] until ''[[Bender's Big Score]]''.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*The [[Beholder|floating head]] is based on a creature from ''Dungeons and Dragons'', a so-called ''Beholder''.<br />
*The filing cabinet lined walls of the central bureaucracy are a nod to the Terry Gilliam film 'Brazil', which is set in an inefficient bureaucracy. ([http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7QzTivhVTs4/SD09eYDEDvI/AAAAAAAAASY/4i5K7tvR1Nw/s400/brazil_11.jpg picture])<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Jamaican? I thought you were some kinda outer-space potato man.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': ''[On top of the Planet Express Building.]'' I'm going to jump!<br />
'''Planet Express Crew''': No! Don't do it!<br />
'''Bender''': Do a flip!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': I wasn't cut out to be a bureaucrat anyway! I'm only anal 78.36% of the time!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': Sweet something of ... of someplace.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Morgan''': Why is there yogurt in this cap?<br />
'''Fry''': Uh, I can explain that. See, it used to be milk and, well, time makes fools of us all.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': You can't just waltz into the Central Bureaucracy. It's a tangled web of red tape and regulations. I've never been, but a friend of mine went completely mad trying to find the washroom there.<br />
'''Leela''': Then we'll need a guide. Someone who's been there before.<br />
'''Farnsworth''': Oh, I've been there. Lots of times! ''[He laughs maniacally.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': When push comes to shove, you gotta do what you love, even if it's not a good idea!</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*The hover-car and Number 1.0's plane screech to a halt. Which shouldn't be the case as they are hovering, and do not touch the ground.<br />
*Hermes badge number occasionally fluctuates incorrectly.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Australian Man]]<br />
*'''Debut:'''[[Beholder]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Ipgee]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Lou]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Morgan Proctor]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Number 1.0]]<br />
*[[Number 9 Man]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Old man]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Terry]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Bill Odenkirk]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Mark Ervin]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Dawnn Lewis]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Bill Odenkirk]]<br />
**[[Paul Calder]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
*Special Guest<br />
**[[Nora Dunn]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring singing]]</div>71.245.126.65http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Hermes_Conrad&diff=72916Hermes Conrad2010-10-12T05:10:51Z<p>71.245.126.65: /* Mom's Friendly Robot Company */</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Hermes Conrad<br />
|image=[[File:Hermes Conrad.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text="Oho, ya don't want that!"<br />
|type=p<br />
|type2=<br />
|age={{age|2959}}<br />
|birth date=2959<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|species=[[Humans|Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|job=[[Bureaucrats|Bureaucrat]] and Accountant<br />
|family=''[[#Family|See below]]<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV02}}<br />
|voiced by= Phil LaMarr<br />
|bureaucrat grade= 36<br />
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'''Hermes Conrad''' is a Jamaican [[Bureaucrats|Bureaucrat]], and proud of both. He works at [[Planet Express]], handling stamping, filing, collating, and accounting - all the fiddly little paperwork that only a true bureaucrat can handle properly. He claims, however, that he is only anal 78.36% of the time. He is also an honorary [[Globetrotters|Globetrotter]], and has worked for [[Mom's Friendly Robot Company]] as Inspector #5.<br />
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== Personality ==<br />
Hermes is a bureaucrat working for the [[Planet Express]] delivery company, under [[Hubert J. Farnsworth]]. He is friendly and hard working but can also be nasty at times, particularly to [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]]. Despite his wide frame, Hermes was an accomplished limboer. He has a rivalry with Barbados Slim. Hermes also has a habit of saying "Sweet (something) of (some place)".<br />
The show also hints that Hermes does not like his co-workers in "[[The Farnsworth Parabox]]". He first tells Leela to shoot [[Bender]], [[Fry]] and Zoidberg, and second has to be begged not to eject the crew from the airlock.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
=== Hurricane in Kingston town ===<br />
Hermes Conrad was born to a fat ugly Jamaican woman in 2959 and soon after began to develop into a fine young bureaucrat, crying when his alphabet blocks are knocked out of order as a four year old and making friends and family file long applications to get into his tenth birthday party.<br />
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=== Limbo champion ===<br />
[[File:Hermes Limbo 2980.png|right|thumb]]<br />
During his adult life, Hermes became an Olympic grade limboer. It was around this time that he married [[LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara]], the ex-wife of his rival [[Barbados Slim]]. On his honeymoon, he limboed for 12 straight hours. When competing for the Earth team in [[2980 Olympics|2980]] a [[2980 Olympics Boy|young fan]] trying to emulate him ran onto the field and snapped his spine, killing him, Hermes dropped out of professional limbo immediately after the tragic accident. Turning to his other passion, Hermes and his wife moved to [[New New York]], home to the [[Central Bureaucracy]] and the couple had a son, [[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]].<br />
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=== Mom's Friendly Robot Company ===<br />
[[File:Young Hermes and Baby Bender.png|right|thumb]]<br />
Sometime after moving to New New York, Hermes got a job as Inspector #5 at Mom's Friendly Robot Company's [[Tijuana]] division. He lived in a rather quaint mission-styled house there, while it appears LaBarbara remained in New New York. There he was responsible for letting [[Bender]] live, despite being a defective unit. After this he immediately quit the company and moved back to New New York.<br />
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=== Heroic Bureaucrat ===<br />
Hermes, as a grade 36 bureaucrat, joined the staff of [[Planet Express]]. When his limboing skills alone could save the entire crew from certain death in the destruction of the space cruise ship [[Titanic]], he overcame his aversion and rediscovered the sport he loved. After a few bad experiences with [[Brain Slugs]], Hermes received a pair of letters from the Central Bureaucracy, the second of which informed him there would soon be an inspection - and a chance at a promotion. Unfortunately, his office was messed up by the angry staff of [[Applied Cryogenics]] and he was sent on the ultimate penalty of paid vacation. On returning to the Central Bureaucracy building, he was able to sort the master "in" pile and retrieve a disk containing Bender's brain. He finished the job with time to spare and was demoted to grade 38 as a result, but soon found an error in another bureaucrat's paperwork and earned a promotion to grade 37.<br />
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=== It's called parenting ===<br />
When Dwight and [[Cubert Farnsworth]] started their own delivery company, Hermes and [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] felt threatened, and rightly so; the pair soon took over the company, until they were revealed to not have been delivering their papers. Later, The pair of parents formed a [[Bender]] protest group, [[Fathers Against Rude Television]], which successfully protested [[All My Circuits]] to get him off the show and remove his influence on their children.<br />
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=== Old Habits ===<br />
[[File:Hermes Head Battles.png|right|thumb]]<br />
In 3004, when the entire Jamaican limbo team was detained at the airport because of their "other interests," Hermes was called back out of retirement to defend his country's pride, but he came in dead last due to a freak accident with his special limboing suit. Three years and three bureaucrat grade increases later Hermes, now grade 34, was decapitated when a decorative sword fell and sliced off his head after a limbo contest at Planet Express. Although he survived as a [[Head jars|head in a jar]], LaBarbara immediately left him and went back to Barbados Slim. At [[Lars Fillmore|Lars]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]'s wedding, he won LaBarbara back when he received a new body (his own, stolen from the past by Bender). Soon after, he was jabbed in the eye with a pen and his head is chopped off once again when a Chandelier crystal falls, destroying the [[time paradox duplicate]] body. His head then provides useful guidance in the [[Battle for Earth, 3007|war to reclaim the earth]] where, using his mighty bureaucratic mind to coordinate the human fleet, he defeats the gold Death Stars and wins LarBabara back. He then regains his original body back and witnesses space ripping open.<br />
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=== Mysterious Destination ===<br />
In the same year, he attends Kif and Amy's [[Coinage#F|Fonfon Rubok]] and participates in "[[Deathball]]" to win the right to explore the [[Anomaly]]. He is one of the many people who live with one of [[Yivo]]'s tentacles in his neck and joins everyone else in the universe in leaving to live on Yivo. After returning, Hermes comes to LaBarbara and the other [[Feministas]]' rescue, as they flee [[Zapp Brannigan]] and the [[Earth]]ican legal system through a [[Panama Wormhole|wormhole]].<br />
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=== Reborn ===<br />
Exiting the wormhole, only to crash land outside their workplace, Hermes and his colleagues are given new bodies by the Professor, as the old ones were reduced to skeletons. A few months later, Bender learned that he had been approved by "Inspector #5" despite lacking a backup unit. Hermes accompanies Bender on a quest to find the responsible party, allowing him to continue hiding the fact that he had been that inspector, and to protect Bender from any dangerous [[Killbots]]. By this time, Hermes had been demoted back to grade 36.<br />
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== Character Description ==<br />
=== Family ===<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]], wife.<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]], son.<br />
*Granny (deceased), a zombie.<br />
*Mamma (deceased), fat, ugly, and possibly promiscuous, she promised Hermes that he would never be attacked by [[Yivo|tentacles]] when he gave up diapers.<br />
*Unnamed father (possibly deceased), he promised his son that he would never be attacked by [[Yivo|tentacles]] when he gave up diapers.<br />
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=== Appearance ===<br />
[[File:Hermes is just fat.jpg|right|thumb|Hermes is just fat.]]<br />
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It is pointed out at several times that Hermes is overweight, perhaps this is why Fry mistook Hermes as an outer-space potato man instead of a rotund Jamaican. For example when a sword cuts off part of his belly [[Bender's Big Score|while limboing]] and in "[[The Duh-Vinci Code]]", he realizes that he is not, as he presumed, big-boned - he's just fat. In "[[The Prisoner of Benda]]", he suggests that Amy changes bodies with him, and when she says she'll destroy his body too (already having made Leela's obese, he solemnly replies, "three decades of the munchies already beat you to it". Amy however helps him lose a lot of weight, by losing her appetite after seeing Fry and Leela make out in the bodies of the Professor and Zoidberg, respectively.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Apparently Hermes has head lice. Probably due to how dreadlocks are made, and near impossible to wash.<br />
*Age is revealed in "[[Bender Breaks Out|"Bender Breaks Out" (US#020)]]", when he dies in an alternate timeline.<br />
*In [[Cornwood]], a universe created from Bender's imagination, Hermes counterpart is a [[Hermaphrodite|hermaphroditic centaur]].<br />
*In "[[Proposition Infinity]]", Hermes was coming down with [[Circusitis]].<br />
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=== Catchphrases and Running Gags ===<br />
[[File:Hermes promo.png|right|thumb|150px|Hermes Conrad]]<br />
Hermes' basic catchphrase is "Sweet [something] of [some place]!" (the 'something' and the 'some place' usually rhyme)<br /><br />
Variations include the following:<br />
*Sweet llamas of the Bahamas!<br />
*Sweet lion of Zion!<br />
*Sweet three-toed sloth of Ice Planet Hoth!<br />
*Sweet bongo of the Congo!<br />
*Sweet Yeti of the Serengeti! She's gone crazy-eddy in the heady!<br />
*Sweet guinea pig of Winnipeg!<br />
*Sweet gorilla of Manila!<br />
*Sweet manatee of Galilee!<br />
*Sweet giant anteater of Santa Anita!<br />
*Sweet squid of Madrid!<br />
*Sweet sacred boa of Western ''and'' Eastern Samoa!<br />
*Sweet honeybee of infinity!<br />
*Cursed bacteria of Liberia!<br />
*Great cow of Moscow!<br />
*Sweet lamprey of Santa Fe!<br />
*S-s-s-s-s-sweet something of... some place.<br />
*Sweet coincidence of Port-au-Prince!<br />
*Sweet topography of cosmology!<br />
*Sweet dodo of Lesotho!<br />
*Sweet tornadoes of Barbados!<br />
*Sweet File-not-found of Puget Sound!<br />
*Sweet Robot Swan of Botswana<br />
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A recurring joke involves Hermes about to eat a [[Wikipedia:Manwich|manwich]], until it is stolen by Bender or [[Zoidberg]], at which point Hermes cries "My Manwich!" (His son Dwight also has the same habit.) <br />
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Hermes usually refers to [[LaBarbara Conrad]] as "wife", supporting his bureaucratic nature by referring to her by title.<br />
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Hermes sometimes mentions green snakes and sugar canes including:<br />
*Our electricity bill is climbing faster than a green snake up a sugar cane!<br />
*I'm hungrier than a green snake in a sugar cane field.<br />
*Fry, no! The pressure will crush you like a green snake under a sugar cane truck!<br />
*That's flatter than a green snake under a sugar cane truck.<br />
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Another [[Wiktionary:Running gag|running gag]] is that he shows hatred to Zoidberg for no real reason at bizarre times. For example, after witnessing a temporarily blind Leela destroying the ceiling of Planet Express, Hermes turned to Zoidberg and said "That's coming out of ''your'' pay!", which brought Zoidberg to tears. Also, when Fry suggested Zoidberg had a parasite, Hermes followed up with "Maybe he ''is'' a parasite!". Plus in the episode "[[The Deep South]]" when the Planet Express Ship is under water, Hermies made a suggestion to eat Dr. Zoidberg. However he secretly thinks that Zoidberg is "pathetic but lovable".<br />
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Hermes has been shown nude more times than any other character in the series.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': When push comes to shove, you've got to do what you love, even if it's not a good idea.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': Like my granny used to say back in her tar paper shack on Montego Bay, "If you want a box thrown into the sun, you got to do it yourself." [mournfully] God rest her zombie bones.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': ''Jamaican?'' I thought you were some kind of outer-space potato man.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': My Speedos!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': My manwich!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': OK captain, dis is just a standard legal release, protecting Planet Express in de event of de unforeseen.<br />
'''Leela''': [reading] Death by airlock failure.<br />
'''Hermes''': Uh-huh.<br />
'''Leela''': Death by brain parasite.<br />
'''Hermes''': Yah.<br />
'''Leela''': Death by sonic diarrhea.<br />
'''Hermes''': Oh, you don't want dat...<br />
'''Leela''': Look, I don't know about your previous captains, but I intend to do as little dying as possible.<br />
'''Hermes''': [laughing] Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho! [dead serious] Sign de paper.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': Welcome to stampy-town, population five.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': I'm goin' to jump! ''[Fry, Leela, Amy, Zoidberg, and Farnsworth panic.]''<br />
'''Bender''': Do a flip!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': That's a calculator. I ate it to gain its power.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
While Hermes appears in most episodes, films and comics, these categories may be of interest:<br />
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*[[:Category:A plots focusing on Hermes|A plots focusing on Hermes]]<br />
*[[:Category:B plots focusing on Hermes|B plots focusing on Hermes]]<br />
*[[The Conrads]]<br />
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[[Category:Athletes]]<br />
[[Category:Bureaucrats]]<br />
[[Category:Conrad family]]<br />
[[Category:Humans]]<br />
[[Category:Planet Express]]</div>71.245.126.65http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Hermes_Conrad&diff=72914Hermes Conrad2010-10-12T05:06:53Z<p>71.245.126.65: /* Appearance */</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Hermes Conrad<br />
|image=[[File:Hermes Conrad.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text="Oho, ya don't want that!"<br />
|type=p<br />
|type2=<br />
|age={{age|2959}}<br />
|birth date=2959<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|species=[[Humans|Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|job=[[Bureaucrats|Bureaucrat]] and Accountant<br />
|family=''[[#Family|See below]]<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV02}}<br />
|voiced by= Phil LaMarr<br />
|bureaucrat grade= 36<br />
}}<br />
'''Hermes Conrad''' is a Jamaican [[Bureaucrats|Bureaucrat]], and proud of both. He works at [[Planet Express]], handling stamping, filing, collating, and accounting - all the fiddly little paperwork that only a true bureaucrat can handle properly. He claims, however, that he is only anal 78.36% of the time. He is also an honorary [[Globetrotters|Globetrotter]], and has worked for [[Mom's Friendly Robot Company]] as Inspector #5.<br />
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== Personality ==<br />
Hermes is a bureaucrat working for the [[Planet Express]] delivery company, under [[Hubert J. Farnsworth]]. He is friendly and hard working but can also be nasty at times, particularly to [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]]. Despite his wide frame, Hermes was an accomplished limboer. He has a rivalry with Barbados Slim. Hermes also has a habit of saying "Sweet (something) of (some place)".<br />
The show also hints that Hermes does not like his co-workers in "[[The Farnsworth Parabox]]". He first tells Leela to shoot [[Bender]], [[Fry]] and Zoidberg, and second has to be begged not to eject the crew from the airlock.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
=== Hurricane in Kingston town ===<br />
Hermes Conrad was born to a fat ugly Jamaican woman in 2959 and soon after began to develop into a fine young bureaucrat, crying when his alphabet blocks are knocked out of order as a four year old and making friends and family file long applications to get into his tenth birthday party.<br />
<br />
=== Limbo champion ===<br />
[[File:Hermes Limbo 2980.png|right|thumb]]<br />
During his adult life, Hermes became an Olympic grade limboer. It was around this time that he married [[LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara]], the ex-wife of his rival [[Barbados Slim]]. On his honeymoon, he limboed for 12 straight hours. When competing for the Earth team in [[2980 Olympics|2980]] a [[2980 Olympics Boy|young fan]] trying to emulate him ran onto the field and snapped his spine, killing him, Hermes dropped out of professional limbo immediately after the tragic accident. Turning to his other passion, Hermes and his wife moved to [[New New York]], home to the [[Central Bureaucracy]] and the couple had a son, [[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]].<br />
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=== Mom's Friendly Robot Company ===<br />
[[File:Young Hermes and Baby Bender.png|right|thumb]]<br />
Sometime after moving to New New York, Hermes got a job as Inspector #5 at Mom's Friendly Robot Company's [[Tijuana]] division. There he was responsible for letting [[Bender]] live, despite being a defective unit. After this he immediately quit the company.<br />
<br />
=== Heroic Bureaucrat ===<br />
Hermes, as a grade 36 bureaucrat, joined the staff of [[Planet Express]]. When his limboing skills alone could save the entire crew from certain death in the destruction of the space cruise ship [[Titanic]], he overcame his aversion and rediscovered the sport he loved. After a few bad experiences with [[Brain Slugs]], Hermes received a pair of letters from the Central Bureaucracy, the second of which informed him there would soon be an inspection - and a chance at a promotion. Unfortunately, his office was messed up by the angry staff of [[Applied Cryogenics]] and he was sent on the ultimate penalty of paid vacation. On returning to the Central Bureaucracy building, he was able to sort the master "in" pile and retrieve a disk containing Bender's brain. He finished the job with time to spare and was demoted to grade 38 as a result, but soon found an error in another bureaucrat's paperwork and earned a promotion to grade 37.<br />
<br />
=== It's called parenting ===<br />
When Dwight and [[Cubert Farnsworth]] started their own delivery company, Hermes and [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] felt threatened, and rightly so; the pair soon took over the company, until they were revealed to not have been delivering their papers. Later, The pair of parents formed a [[Bender]] protest group, [[Fathers Against Rude Television]], which successfully protested [[All My Circuits]] to get him off the show and remove his influence on their children.<br />
<br />
=== Old Habits ===<br />
[[File:Hermes Head Battles.png|right|thumb]]<br />
In 3004, when the entire Jamaican limbo team was detained at the airport because of their "other interests," Hermes was called back out of retirement to defend his country's pride, but he came in dead last due to a freak accident with his special limboing suit. Three years and three bureaucrat grade increases later Hermes, now grade 34, was decapitated when a decorative sword fell and sliced off his head after a limbo contest at Planet Express. Although he survived as a [[Head jars|head in a jar]], LaBarbara immediately left him and went back to Barbados Slim. At [[Lars Fillmore|Lars]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]'s wedding, he won LaBarbara back when he received a new body (his own, stolen from the past by Bender). Soon after, he was jabbed in the eye with a pen and his head is chopped off once again when a Chandelier crystal falls, destroying the [[time paradox duplicate]] body. His head then provides useful guidance in the [[Battle for Earth, 3007|war to reclaim the earth]] where, using his mighty bureaucratic mind to coordinate the human fleet, he defeats the gold Death Stars and wins LarBabara back. He then regains his original body back and witnesses space ripping open.<br />
<br />
=== Mysterious Destination ===<br />
In the same year, he attends Kif and Amy's [[Coinage#F|Fonfon Rubok]] and participates in "[[Deathball]]" to win the right to explore the [[Anomaly]]. He is one of the many people who live with one of [[Yivo]]'s tentacles in his neck and joins everyone else in the universe in leaving to live on Yivo. After returning, Hermes comes to LaBarbara and the other [[Feministas]]' rescue, as they flee [[Zapp Brannigan]] and the [[Earth]]ican legal system through a [[Panama Wormhole|wormhole]].<br />
<br />
=== Reborn ===<br />
Exiting the wormhole, only to crash land outside their workplace, Hermes and his colleagues are given new bodies by the Professor, as the old ones were reduced to skeletons. A few months later, Bender learned that he had been approved by "Inspector #5" despite lacking a backup unit. Hermes accompanies Bender on a quest to find the responsible party, allowing him to continue hiding the fact that he had been that inspector, and to protect Bender from any dangerous [[Killbots]]. By this time, Hermes had been demoted back to grade 36.<br />
<br />
== Character Description ==<br />
=== Family ===<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]], wife.<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]], son.<br />
*Granny (deceased), a zombie.<br />
*Mamma (deceased), fat, ugly, and possibly promiscuous, she promised Hermes that he would never be attacked by [[Yivo|tentacles]] when he gave up diapers.<br />
*Unnamed father (possibly deceased), he promised his son that he would never be attacked by [[Yivo|tentacles]] when he gave up diapers.<br />
<br />
=== Appearance ===<br />
[[File:Hermes is just fat.jpg|right|thumb|Hermes is just fat.]]<br />
<br />
It is pointed out at several times that Hermes is overweight, perhaps this is why Fry mistook Hermes as an outer-space potato man instead of a rotund Jamaican. For example when a sword cuts off part of his belly [[Bender's Big Score|while limboing]] and in "[[The Duh-Vinci Code]]", he realizes that he is not, as he presumed, big-boned - he's just fat. In "[[The Prisoner of Benda]]", he suggests that Amy changes bodies with him, and when she says she'll destroy his body too (already having made Leela's obese, he solemnly replies, "three decades of the munchies already beat you to it". Amy however helps him lose a lot of weight, by losing her appetite after seeing Fry and Leela make out in the bodies of the Professor and Zoidberg, respectively.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Apparently Hermes has head lice. Probably due to how dreadlocks are made, and near impossible to wash.<br />
*Age is revealed in "[[Bender Breaks Out|"Bender Breaks Out" (US#020)]]", when he dies in an alternate timeline.<br />
*In [[Cornwood]], a universe created from Bender's imagination, Hermes counterpart is a [[Hermaphrodite|hermaphroditic centaur]].<br />
*In "[[Proposition Infinity]]", Hermes was coming down with [[Circusitis]].<br />
<br />
=== Catchphrases and Running Gags ===<br />
[[File:Hermes promo.png|right|thumb|150px|Hermes Conrad]]<br />
Hermes' basic catchphrase is "Sweet [something] of [some place]!" (the 'something' and the 'some place' usually rhyme)<br /><br />
Variations include the following:<br />
*Sweet llamas of the Bahamas!<br />
*Sweet lion of Zion!<br />
*Sweet three-toed sloth of Ice Planet Hoth!<br />
*Sweet bongo of the Congo!<br />
*Sweet Yeti of the Serengeti! She's gone crazy-eddy in the heady!<br />
*Sweet guinea pig of Winnipeg!<br />
*Sweet gorilla of Manila!<br />
*Sweet manatee of Galilee!<br />
*Sweet giant anteater of Santa Anita!<br />
*Sweet squid of Madrid!<br />
*Sweet sacred boa of Western ''and'' Eastern Samoa!<br />
*Sweet honeybee of infinity!<br />
*Cursed bacteria of Liberia!<br />
*Great cow of Moscow!<br />
*Sweet lamprey of Santa Fe!<br />
*S-s-s-s-s-sweet something of... some place.<br />
*Sweet coincidence of Port-au-Prince!<br />
*Sweet topography of cosmology!<br />
*Sweet dodo of Lesotho!<br />
*Sweet tornadoes of Barbados!<br />
*Sweet File-not-found of Puget Sound!<br />
*Sweet Robot Swan of Botswana<br />
<br />
A recurring joke involves Hermes about to eat a [[Wikipedia:Manwich|manwich]], until it is stolen by Bender or [[Zoidberg]], at which point Hermes cries "My Manwich!" (His son Dwight also has the same habit.) <br />
<br />
Hermes usually refers to [[LaBarbara Conrad]] as "wife", supporting his bureaucratic nature by referring to her by title.<br />
<br />
Hermes sometimes mentions green snakes and sugar canes including:<br />
*Our electricity bill is climbing faster than a green snake up a sugar cane!<br />
*I'm hungrier than a green snake in a sugar cane field.<br />
*Fry, no! The pressure will crush you like a green snake under a sugar cane truck!<br />
*That's flatter than a green snake under a sugar cane truck.<br />
<br />
Another [[Wiktionary:Running gag|running gag]] is that he shows hatred to Zoidberg for no real reason at bizarre times. For example, after witnessing a temporarily blind Leela destroying the ceiling of Planet Express, Hermes turned to Zoidberg and said "That's coming out of ''your'' pay!", which brought Zoidberg to tears. Also, when Fry suggested Zoidberg had a parasite, Hermes followed up with "Maybe he ''is'' a parasite!". Plus in the episode "[[The Deep South]]" when the Planet Express Ship is under water, Hermies made a suggestion to eat Dr. Zoidberg. However he secretly thinks that Zoidberg is "pathetic but lovable".<br />
<br />
Hermes has been shown nude more times than any other character in the series.<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': When push comes to shove, you've got to do what you love, even if it's not a good idea.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': Like my granny used to say back in her tar paper shack on Montego Bay, "If you want a box thrown into the sun, you got to do it yourself." [mournfully] God rest her zombie bones.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': ''Jamaican?'' I thought you were some kind of outer-space potato man.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': My Speedos!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': My manwich!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': OK captain, dis is just a standard legal release, protecting Planet Express in de event of de unforeseen.<br />
'''Leela''': [reading] Death by airlock failure.<br />
'''Hermes''': Uh-huh.<br />
'''Leela''': Death by brain parasite.<br />
'''Hermes''': Yah.<br />
'''Leela''': Death by sonic diarrhea.<br />
'''Hermes''': Oh, you don't want dat...<br />
'''Leela''': Look, I don't know about your previous captains, but I intend to do as little dying as possible.<br />
'''Hermes''': [laughing] Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho! [dead serious] Sign de paper.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': Welcome to stampy-town, population five.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': I'm goin' to jump! ''[Fry, Leela, Amy, Zoidberg, and Farnsworth panic.]''<br />
'''Bender''': Do a flip!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': That's a calculator. I ate it to gain its power.</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Appearances ===<br />
While Hermes appears in most episodes, films and comics, these categories may be of interest:<br />
<br />
*[[:Category:A plots focusing on Hermes|A plots focusing on Hermes]]<br />
*[[:Category:B plots focusing on Hermes|B plots focusing on Hermes]]<br />
*[[The Conrads]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Athletes]]<br />
[[Category:Bureaucrats]]<br />
[[Category:Conrad family]]<br />
[[Category:Humans]]<br />
[[Category:Planet Express]]</div>71.245.126.65http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Hermes_Conrad&diff=72913Hermes Conrad2010-10-12T05:06:29Z<p>71.245.126.65: /* Appearance */</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Hermes Conrad<br />
|image=[[File:Hermes Conrad.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text="Oho, ya don't want that!"<br />
|type=p<br />
|type2=<br />
|age={{age|2959}}<br />
|birth date=2959<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|species=[[Humans|Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|job=[[Bureaucrats|Bureaucrat]] and Accountant<br />
|family=''[[#Family|See below]]<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV02}}<br />
|voiced by= Phil LaMarr<br />
|bureaucrat grade= 36<br />
}}<br />
'''Hermes Conrad''' is a Jamaican [[Bureaucrats|Bureaucrat]], and proud of both. He works at [[Planet Express]], handling stamping, filing, collating, and accounting - all the fiddly little paperwork that only a true bureaucrat can handle properly. He claims, however, that he is only anal 78.36% of the time. He is also an honorary [[Globetrotters|Globetrotter]], and has worked for [[Mom's Friendly Robot Company]] as Inspector #5.<br />
<br />
== Personality ==<br />
Hermes is a bureaucrat working for the [[Planet Express]] delivery company, under [[Hubert J. Farnsworth]]. He is friendly and hard working but can also be nasty at times, particularly to [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]]. Despite his wide frame, Hermes was an accomplished limboer. He has a rivalry with Barbados Slim. Hermes also has a habit of saying "Sweet (something) of (some place)".<br />
The show also hints that Hermes does not like his co-workers in "[[The Farnsworth Parabox]]". He first tells Leela to shoot [[Bender]], [[Fry]] and Zoidberg, and second has to be begged not to eject the crew from the airlock.<br />
<br />
== Biography ==<br />
=== Hurricane in Kingston town ===<br />
Hermes Conrad was born to a fat ugly Jamaican woman in 2959 and soon after began to develop into a fine young bureaucrat, crying when his alphabet blocks are knocked out of order as a four year old and making friends and family file long applications to get into his tenth birthday party.<br />
<br />
=== Limbo champion ===<br />
[[File:Hermes Limbo 2980.png|right|thumb]]<br />
During his adult life, Hermes became an Olympic grade limboer. It was around this time that he married [[LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara]], the ex-wife of his rival [[Barbados Slim]]. On his honeymoon, he limboed for 12 straight hours. When competing for the Earth team in [[2980 Olympics|2980]] a [[2980 Olympics Boy|young fan]] trying to emulate him ran onto the field and snapped his spine, killing him, Hermes dropped out of professional limbo immediately after the tragic accident. Turning to his other passion, Hermes and his wife moved to [[New New York]], home to the [[Central Bureaucracy]] and the couple had a son, [[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]].<br />
<br />
=== Mom's Friendly Robot Company ===<br />
[[File:Young Hermes and Baby Bender.png|right|thumb]]<br />
Sometime after moving to New New York, Hermes got a job as Inspector #5 at Mom's Friendly Robot Company's [[Tijuana]] division. There he was responsible for letting [[Bender]] live, despite being a defective unit. After this he immediately quit the company.<br />
<br />
=== Heroic Bureaucrat ===<br />
Hermes, as a grade 36 bureaucrat, joined the staff of [[Planet Express]]. When his limboing skills alone could save the entire crew from certain death in the destruction of the space cruise ship [[Titanic]], he overcame his aversion and rediscovered the sport he loved. After a few bad experiences with [[Brain Slugs]], Hermes received a pair of letters from the Central Bureaucracy, the second of which informed him there would soon be an inspection - and a chance at a promotion. Unfortunately, his office was messed up by the angry staff of [[Applied Cryogenics]] and he was sent on the ultimate penalty of paid vacation. On returning to the Central Bureaucracy building, he was able to sort the master "in" pile and retrieve a disk containing Bender's brain. He finished the job with time to spare and was demoted to grade 38 as a result, but soon found an error in another bureaucrat's paperwork and earned a promotion to grade 37.<br />
<br />
=== It's called parenting ===<br />
When Dwight and [[Cubert Farnsworth]] started their own delivery company, Hermes and [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] felt threatened, and rightly so; the pair soon took over the company, until they were revealed to not have been delivering their papers. Later, The pair of parents formed a [[Bender]] protest group, [[Fathers Against Rude Television]], which successfully protested [[All My Circuits]] to get him off the show and remove his influence on their children.<br />
<br />
=== Old Habits ===<br />
[[File:Hermes Head Battles.png|right|thumb]]<br />
In 3004, when the entire Jamaican limbo team was detained at the airport because of their "other interests," Hermes was called back out of retirement to defend his country's pride, but he came in dead last due to a freak accident with his special limboing suit. Three years and three bureaucrat grade increases later Hermes, now grade 34, was decapitated when a decorative sword fell and sliced off his head after a limbo contest at Planet Express. Although he survived as a [[Head jars|head in a jar]], LaBarbara immediately left him and went back to Barbados Slim. At [[Lars Fillmore|Lars]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]'s wedding, he won LaBarbara back when he received a new body (his own, stolen from the past by Bender). Soon after, he was jabbed in the eye with a pen and his head is chopped off once again when a Chandelier crystal falls, destroying the [[time paradox duplicate]] body. His head then provides useful guidance in the [[Battle for Earth, 3007|war to reclaim the earth]] where, using his mighty bureaucratic mind to coordinate the human fleet, he defeats the gold Death Stars and wins LarBabara back. He then regains his original body back and witnesses space ripping open.<br />
<br />
=== Mysterious Destination ===<br />
In the same year, he attends Kif and Amy's [[Coinage#F|Fonfon Rubok]] and participates in "[[Deathball]]" to win the right to explore the [[Anomaly]]. He is one of the many people who live with one of [[Yivo]]'s tentacles in his neck and joins everyone else in the universe in leaving to live on Yivo. After returning, Hermes comes to LaBarbara and the other [[Feministas]]' rescue, as they flee [[Zapp Brannigan]] and the [[Earth]]ican legal system through a [[Panama Wormhole|wormhole]].<br />
<br />
=== Reborn ===<br />
Exiting the wormhole, only to crash land outside their workplace, Hermes and his colleagues are given new bodies by the Professor, as the old ones were reduced to skeletons. A few months later, Bender learned that he had been approved by "Inspector #5" despite lacking a backup unit. Hermes accompanies Bender on a quest to find the responsible party, allowing him to continue hiding the fact that he had been that inspector, and to protect Bender from any dangerous [[Killbots]]. By this time, Hermes had been demoted back to grade 36.<br />
<br />
== Character Description ==<br />
=== Family ===<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]], wife.<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]], son.<br />
*Granny (deceased), a zombie.<br />
*Mamma (deceased), fat, ugly, and possibly promiscuous, she promised Hermes that he would never be attacked by [[Yivo|tentacles]] when he gave up diapers.<br />
*Unnamed father (possibly deceased), he promised his son that he would never be attacked by [[Yivo|tentacles]] when he gave up diapers.<br />
<br />
=== Appearance ===<br />
[[File:Hermes is just fat.jpg|right|thumb|Hermes is just fat.]]<br />
<br />
It is pointed out at several times that Hermes is overweight, perhaps this is why mistook Hermes as an outer-space potato man instead of a rotund Jamaican. For example when a sword cuts off part of his belly [[Bender's Big Score|while limboing]] and in "[[The Duh-Vinci Code]]", he realizes that he is not, as he presumed, big-boned - he's just fat. In "[[The Prisoner of Benda]]", he suggests that Amy changes bodies with him, and when she says she'll destroy his body too (already having made Leela's obese, he solemnly replies, "three decades of the munchies already beat you to it". Amy however helps him lose a lot of weight, by losing her appetite after seeing Fry and Leela make out in the bodies of the Professor and Zoidberg, respectively.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Apparently Hermes has head lice. Probably due to how dreadlocks are made, and near impossible to wash.<br />
*Age is revealed in "[[Bender Breaks Out|"Bender Breaks Out" (US#020)]]", when he dies in an alternate timeline.<br />
*In [[Cornwood]], a universe created from Bender's imagination, Hermes counterpart is a [[Hermaphrodite|hermaphroditic centaur]].<br />
*In "[[Proposition Infinity]]", Hermes was coming down with [[Circusitis]].<br />
<br />
=== Catchphrases and Running Gags ===<br />
[[File:Hermes promo.png|right|thumb|150px|Hermes Conrad]]<br />
Hermes' basic catchphrase is "Sweet [something] of [some place]!" (the 'something' and the 'some place' usually rhyme)<br /><br />
Variations include the following:<br />
*Sweet llamas of the Bahamas!<br />
*Sweet lion of Zion!<br />
*Sweet three-toed sloth of Ice Planet Hoth!<br />
*Sweet bongo of the Congo!<br />
*Sweet Yeti of the Serengeti! She's gone crazy-eddy in the heady!<br />
*Sweet guinea pig of Winnipeg!<br />
*Sweet gorilla of Manila!<br />
*Sweet manatee of Galilee!<br />
*Sweet giant anteater of Santa Anita!<br />
*Sweet squid of Madrid!<br />
*Sweet sacred boa of Western ''and'' Eastern Samoa!<br />
*Sweet honeybee of infinity!<br />
*Cursed bacteria of Liberia!<br />
*Great cow of Moscow!<br />
*Sweet lamprey of Santa Fe!<br />
*S-s-s-s-s-sweet something of... some place.<br />
*Sweet coincidence of Port-au-Prince!<br />
*Sweet topography of cosmology!<br />
*Sweet dodo of Lesotho!<br />
*Sweet tornadoes of Barbados!<br />
*Sweet File-not-found of Puget Sound!<br />
*Sweet Robot Swan of Botswana<br />
<br />
A recurring joke involves Hermes about to eat a [[Wikipedia:Manwich|manwich]], until it is stolen by Bender or [[Zoidberg]], at which point Hermes cries "My Manwich!" (His son Dwight also has the same habit.) <br />
<br />
Hermes usually refers to [[LaBarbara Conrad]] as "wife", supporting his bureaucratic nature by referring to her by title.<br />
<br />
Hermes sometimes mentions green snakes and sugar canes including:<br />
*Our electricity bill is climbing faster than a green snake up a sugar cane!<br />
*I'm hungrier than a green snake in a sugar cane field.<br />
*Fry, no! The pressure will crush you like a green snake under a sugar cane truck!<br />
*That's flatter than a green snake under a sugar cane truck.<br />
<br />
Another [[Wiktionary:Running gag|running gag]] is that he shows hatred to Zoidberg for no real reason at bizarre times. For example, after witnessing a temporarily blind Leela destroying the ceiling of Planet Express, Hermes turned to Zoidberg and said "That's coming out of ''your'' pay!", which brought Zoidberg to tears. Also, when Fry suggested Zoidberg had a parasite, Hermes followed up with "Maybe he ''is'' a parasite!". Plus in the episode "[[The Deep South]]" when the Planet Express Ship is under water, Hermies made a suggestion to eat Dr. Zoidberg. However he secretly thinks that Zoidberg is "pathetic but lovable".<br />
<br />
Hermes has been shown nude more times than any other character in the series.<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': When push comes to shove, you've got to do what you love, even if it's not a good idea.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': Like my granny used to say back in her tar paper shack on Montego Bay, "If you want a box thrown into the sun, you got to do it yourself." [mournfully] God rest her zombie bones.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': ''Jamaican?'' I thought you were some kind of outer-space potato man.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': My Speedos!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': My manwich!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': OK captain, dis is just a standard legal release, protecting Planet Express in de event of de unforeseen.<br />
'''Leela''': [reading] Death by airlock failure.<br />
'''Hermes''': Uh-huh.<br />
'''Leela''': Death by brain parasite.<br />
'''Hermes''': Yah.<br />
'''Leela''': Death by sonic diarrhea.<br />
'''Hermes''': Oh, you don't want dat...<br />
'''Leela''': Look, I don't know about your previous captains, but I intend to do as little dying as possible.<br />
'''Hermes''': [laughing] Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho! [dead serious] Sign de paper.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': Welcome to stampy-town, population five.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': I'm goin' to jump! ''[Fry, Leela, Amy, Zoidberg, and Farnsworth panic.]''<br />
'''Bender''': Do a flip!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': That's a calculator. I ate it to gain its power.</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Appearances ===<br />
While Hermes appears in most episodes, films and comics, these categories may be of interest:<br />
<br />
*[[:Category:A plots focusing on Hermes|A plots focusing on Hermes]]<br />
*[[:Category:B plots focusing on Hermes|B plots focusing on Hermes]]<br />
*[[The Conrads]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Athletes]]<br />
[[Category:Bureaucrats]]<br />
[[Category:Conrad family]]<br />
[[Category:Humans]]<br />
[[Category:Planet Express]]</div>71.245.126.65http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Professor_Hubert_J._Farnsworth&diff=72872Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth2010-10-11T06:55:39Z<p>71.245.126.65: /* Planet Express */</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth<br />
|image=[[File:Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=<br />
|type=p<br />
|type2=<br />
|age={{age|2841|4|9}}<br />
|birth date=9 April, 2841<br />
|gender=<br />
|species=[[Humans|Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|job=Owner/CEO of [[Planet Express]]<br />
|family=[[#Family|See below]]<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV01}}<br />
|voiced by=Billy West<br />
|bureaucrat grade=<br />
|wikipedia=<br />
}}<br />
{{otheruses|Farnsworth}}<br />
<br />
Professor '''Hubert J. Farnsworth''' is an aged, eccentric inventor, founder and owner of [[Planet Express]] and an honorary [[Globetrotter]]. He is crotchety, absent-minded and sometimes brilliant, most well-known for his work in [[Sport-Utility Robot|30th century robotics]]. In 2999 he was the last known relative of [[Philip J. Fry]], later, Professor Farnsworth discovered that he had fathered a son, as well as the [[Cubert|clone]] that he had kept hidden. In addition, he also serves as a tenured professor at [[Mars University (place)|Mars University]] teaching the Mathematics of Quantum Neutrino Fields. Farnsworth is an inventor of both useful and impractical things, some of which are extremely dangerous devices such as his [[Doomsday devices]].<br />
<br />
Personality wise, he varies from callous disregard to sentimental affection. He has no objection to sending his crew to missions which may eventually mean death to his crew, and has sent previous crews to their deaths before. Farnsworth is the oldest living member of the [[Academy of Inventors]], where he often competes with his arch nemesis, [[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom]].<br />
<br />
== Personality ==<br />
Hubert Farnsworth is a mad scientist, though how extreme this tendency is varies depending on how writers feel best suits the episode. Farnsworth's name comes from {{w|Philo Farnsworth}}, who invented the television. In addition, his first name, Hubert, may come from [[Eric Kaplan]]'s former professor, {{w|Hubert Dreyfus}}. The only thing his name has in common with the name of Philip J. Fry is the unsettled "J." as their middle initial, but this may just be a common joke [[Matt Groening]] sets for his characters.<br />
<br />
Though Proffesor Farnsworth is a genius he is also very senile and sometimes forgets things that had happened only moments earlier. He also has a habit of saying "Good news everyone" which more often than not means bad news. Hubert also often appears indifferent to the wellfare of his crew, often sending them on dangerous missions which could get them killed, though it's highly unlikely that he does this intentionally. He could also sometimes have periods of maniacal laughter. However Farnsworth isn't actually a bad person and appears to share some level of friendship with the other members of Planet Express. He also cares about his clone, Cubert, treating him as though he were his biological son.<br />
<br />
Farnsworth also enjoys public nudity, and may have been convicted. His urge to undress becomes much greater around [[Xmas]].<br />
<br />
== Biography ==<br />
=== Early Life ===<br />
[[File:YoungFarnsworth.png|right|thumb]]<br />
Hubert J. Farnsworth was born on 9 April, {{year|2841}} &ndash; although claimed until {{year|3001}} that it was actually 2851 &ndash; in the nerdiest slum of [[New New York]], [[Hell's Laboratory]]. At age 8, he learnt to read, albeit while still in diapers.<br />
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Hubert enjoyed his teenage years as a nerd with an affection for role-playing games. After 14 years of graduate school, Farnsworth became a scientist and designed such things as [[fast cars]], [[trendy night spots]] and [[beautiful women]], all out of his one-room apartment. Evidence suggests that he may also have been a hippie and a disco boy, possibly during graduate school.<br />
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=== Career path ===<br />
By {{year|2900}} Farnworth had taken a teaching position at [[Mars University (place)|Mars University]] where his most promising student was an up and coming young science undergrad<!--around 20yrs old, probably undergrad then--> named [[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom|Ogden Wernstrom]]. Sadly, the two had a falling out over a pop-quiz score which lead to Wernstrom's hundred year quest for revenge. While retaining a role at the university, Hubert was eventually hired at [[Mom's Friendly Robot Company]], staying there for the next fifty years. During this time his inventiveness lead to the creation of many new products and breakthrough technologies, such as the use of [[Dark Matter]] as fuel, the [[First Robot Capable of Qualifying for a Boat Loan|first robot capable of qualifying for a boat loan]] and a [[Sport-Utility Robot|sport-utility robot]], the design of which would become the basis of all robots running in the early 31st century. It was during this time he also began an [[Mom-Farnsworth relationship|on-again, off-again relationship]] with [[Mom]], the owner of the company, who was having a similar relationship with Wernstrom. By the end of this period, Mom had fallen pregnant with [[Igner|their child]], a secret she would keep from him for many years.<br />
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=== Planet Express ===<br />
After numerous tries with Mom, and with a need for money to fund his research, he founded [[Planet Express]], an interstellar delivery company. Early on, he hired his oldest friend, [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg]] as the company's staff doctor. In addition, he hired [[Hermes Conrad]] as the company's bureaucrat. In {{year|2998}}, [[Amy Wong]] entered the company as an engineering intern, but has since remained in the company for several years. Also in his employ is Scruffy, the company janitor who lives in the basement of Planet Express.<br />
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Farnsworth has had numerous crews, whom he frequently sends to their doom. As a result many have died horribly or gone missing. Shortly after one such instance, late on the [[Space Pilot 3000|31st of December 2999]], he learned that he was not the last surviving member of his family. His long lost and far removed uncle, [[Philip J. Fry]], had just been defrosted. Fry, [[Turanga Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodríguez]] were hired early the next morning and have been his longest surviving crew, who despite 10 years in the company remain alive.<br />
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Farnsworth doesn't always just send his crew on simple delivery missions, but has sent them on charity missions as well as highly controversial missions. Even when his crew and company is unrelated or unsuited to the task, he isn't shy to send them along anyway.<br />
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=== Legacy ===<br />
[[File:A Clone of My Own.jpg|right|thumb]]<br />
As a member of the [[Academy of Inventors]], the Professor has created [[#Creations|many things]]. Often these don't live up to his expectations and are ridiculed by his fellow inventors. Occasionally, however, they can help save the day; the [[Smell-O-Scope]] for instance was laughed at by colleagues and Wernstrom had his revenge by giving it a poor grade, shortly afterward it detected a giant ball of garbage in space that was on a collision course with [[New New York]]. After the Planet Express crew averted the crisis, Wernstrom once more announced a thirst for revenge.<br />
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After his 150th birthday party, Hubert realised that he had no one to continue his work when he is gone. After days hidden in the lab, he emerged announcing that the clone he'd been growing the past twelve years would be his heir. Unfortunately, [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]] did not want to follow in his footsteps. Farnsworth finally decided that his life was over, and revealed his actual age, 160, the age at which [[Sunset Squad Robot]]s would come and take him away to the [[Near Death Star]]. Soon after a rescue by his crew, Cubert finally decided to carry on with Farnsworth's research.<br />
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=== Corporate Takeover ===<br />
After a brief reunion with Mom on [[Mother's Day (holiday)|Mother's Day]] of the previous year, 3002 saw Farnsworth's company taken over twice. On the first occasion, Cubert and Hermes' son [[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]] expanded their paper route to consume Planet Express. Soon after this takeover, [[Awesome Express]] fell apart due to poor management. On the second occasion, a shareholder meeting resulted in a [[Steve Castle|mysterious stranger]] taking over as CEO from Farnsworth. Castle's running of the company was more successful, despite no deliveries being made during this time. Inevitably the company dropped back to it's original poor stock price after the new CEO's death and Farnsworth's reinstatement.<br />
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=== Old Problems ===<br />
When a heatwave hits and the usual method to counteract [[global warming]] fail, the Professor is forced to admit that all modern robots are descended from his designs, which produce lots of pollution. The scientists at the conference plan to destroy the robots is soon thwarted and Hubert received a medal for saving [[Earth|the planet]] and its robots. About a week later after his staff decided that he had become too old, they took him to [[The Bubbling Geezer]] a visit that resulted in everyone becoming younger. The eventual resolution of this situation took them to the [[Fountain of Aging]], where the waters made him "even older" than he had been.<br />
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=== Dark Matters ===<br />
[[File:FarnsworthIgner.png|right|thumb]]<br />
Over the years, Farnsworth's feud with Wernstrom continued to grow, and when an [[anomaly]] forms a short distance from the Earth the pair compete in [[Deathball]] to decide who will investigate. After Farnsworth's investigation proved unsuccessful the pair found themselves united for the first time since the pop quiz as the collaborated in research together, protested and shared a prison cell. But their new found friendship fell apart once more following an inter-universe relationship with [[Yivo]].<br />
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When Mom faked a dark matter shortage in {{year|3008}} in order to increase the price of dark matter worldwide, Farnsworth finally told the tale of how he discovered it, and decided to end it all, so that scientist could spend their time on developing cleaner fuels, such as [[Whale Oil]]. Farnsworth managed to enter Mom's dark matter mine on Alaska, which turned out to be a [[Nibblonian]] farm, where Mom had kept Nibblonians imprisoned for years to produce dark matter. However, with the help of his crew and his long lost son Igner, Farnsworth managed to bring the crystals close enough together to render dark matter useless. After converting to whale oil and receiving a few bribes for scientific endorsements, he joined the rest of the crew on a journey into a wormhole. Although most of the crew were killed as the ship crashed into Earth in early [[3010]], he survives and helps bringing them [[Rebirth|back to life]].<br />
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== Relationships ==<br />
[[File:Farnsworth promo.png|right|thumb|125px|Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]<br />
Farnsworth has at least on 3 accounts went back with [[Farnsworth-Mom relationship|his major love]], [[Mom]]. At around age 90, he worked for [[Mom's Friendly Robot Company]], where he designed robots for the company as well as toys, such as [[Q. T. McWhiskers]], but Mom's suggestion of turning the toy into a giant made Farnsworth leave her, because she simply didn't understand him and from then on [[Mom-Farnsworth conflict|conflict grew between them]].<br />
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He would later return to Mom's company to work on creating actual robots, but back then, robots were stiff moving and not very efficient, however, when he sacrificed fuel efficiency, he succeeded, unfortunately, this robot design also caused [[global warming]]. Why he left Mom this time remains unsettled, but it may be because he once realised she was evil.<br />
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On a third occasion, Farnsworth was once again at the company with Mom, where he discovered the secret of [[Dark Matter]], around the time where [[Walt, Larry and Igner|Mom's sons]] were born. But when he found out she had left him for [[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom]], he left once again.<br />
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While his relationship with Mom has certainly be his largest, it has not been his only one, during a brief period of regaining the appearance of youth using stem cells from [[GeneWorks, S.K.G.]], he found a [[Farnsworth's girlfriend|girl willing to date him]], although she also turned out to have used her tax rebate for a belly ring to make her appear thinner. There was also a breif fling with [[Hattie]] while they were on the [[Titanic]].<br />
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In the episode "[[Proposition Infinity]]", it is shown that the Professor had a 40 year long relationship with a woman whom he met before [[Mom]]. This woman cheated on the Professor with a robot which caused the Professor's hatred towards [[Robosexuality|robossexual]] couples. It was also later revealed that that woman was herself a robot, and her name was [[Unit 47]].<br />
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A creepy utilization of his body occurred in "[[The Prisoner of Benda]]", when he trades bodies with Amy. Amy then proceeds to trade bodies with Leela, causing Fry to himself trade bodies with Dr. Zoidberg. Leela used Farnsworth's body to prove that her relationship with Fry is partially physical. At dinner, Leela (in Farnsworth's Body) is disgusted by Fry (in Zoidberg's body), and vice-versa. When Leela-Farnsworth tells Fry-Zoidberg to prove his love, Fry-Zoidberg passionately kisses Leela-Farnsworth. This eventually leads to Leela-Farnsworth having Intercourse with Fry-Zoidberg. this marks the first known time he physically slept with a male. Mentally, however, Leela was the one who slept with Fry-Zoidberg.<br />
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== [[:Category:Farnsworth's Creations|Creations]] ==<br />
The professor, being a vivid inventor, has created numerous inventions, ranging from very sophisticated to down right crazy.<br />
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Here is a list of the Professor's inventions (in alphabetical order)<br />
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*[[Adolf Hitler Shark]]<br />
*[[Albino Shouting Gorillas]]<br />
*[[Anti-Pressure Pill]]<br />
*[[Atomic Supermen]]<br />
*[[Bacterial Spew Chamber]]<br />
*[[Bad-Ass Gravity Pump]]<br />
*[[Beautiful Women]]<br />
*[[Birthing Machine]]<br />
*[[Clone-O-Mat]] <br />
*[[Colossal Tammy-Tinkle Doll]]<br />
*[[Cool-O-Meter]]<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]], technically<br />
*[[Dark Matter Afterburner]]<br />
*[[Dark Matter Engines]]<br />
*[[Death Clock]]<br />
*[[A Device That Makes Anyone Sound Like Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Doomsday Devices]]<br />
*[[Electronium Hat]]<br />
*[[Electric Frankfurter]]<br />
*[[Empathy Chip]]<br />
*[[Enlarging Ray]]<br />
*[[F-Ray]]<br />
*[[Fast Cars]]<br />
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*[[Fing-Longer]]<br />
*[[The First Robot Capable of Qualifying for a Boat Loan]]<br />
*[[Galactic Terminatrix 3000]]<br />
*[[Gizmometer]]<br />
*[[Killbots]]<br />
*[[Makeup for Dogs]]<br />
*[[Maternifuge]]<br />
*[[Micro-Droid Machine]]<br />
*[[Net Suit]]<br />
*[[Nose Machine]]<br />
*[[Parallel Universe Box]]<br />
*[[Planet Express Ship]]<br />
*[[Pointy Rock Tied To A Stick]]<br />
*[[Q. T. McWhiskers]]<br />
*[[Reanimator]]<br />
*[[Relative Box]]<br />
*[[Robots]]<br />
*[[Smell-O-Scope]]<br />
*[[Sport-Utility Robot]]<br />
*[[Trendy Night Spots]]<br />
*[[Universal Translator]]<br />
*[[What-If Machine]]<br />
*[[Who-Ask Machine]]<br />
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== Family ==<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], Farnsworth's many-times-great-uncle and at the same time many-times-grand-father.<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]], Farnsworth's clone/son.<br />
*[[Igner]], Farnsworth's son.<br />
*A grandmother who keeps / kept cranberry raisin typhoon in jars.<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry, II]], distant grandfather<br />
*[[Yancy Fry, Jr.]], distant grandfather<br />
*[[Yancy and Mrs. Fry]], distant grandparents<br />
*[[Mildred Fry]], distant grandmother<br />
*[[Yivo]], ex-spouse.<br />
[[File:Professor's eyes.JPG|right|thumb|Professor Farnsworth's eyes]]<br />
[[File:Farnsworth's Reading Glasses.jpg|right|thumb|Professor's reading glasses]]<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*He was named "Farnsworth" in honor of Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of modern television, which was unveiled to America at the same World's Fair as the Futurama exhibit that the show is named for.<br />
*Throughout the series, we are never shown the professor's eyes, until the comic "[[Downsized!]]". This may or may not have been authorized by [[Matt Groening]].<br />
*Has the same blood type as [[Amy Wong]]. He has stated that is one of the reasons why he likes "keeping her around" ([[The Series Has Landed|1ACV02]]).<br />
*His bank account number is 299792458, which is the speed of light in meters per second.<br />
*Became a wizard (quite possibly a parody of {{w|Gandalf}}) in {{f|3}}.<br />
*A certain running gag with the writers is to drop hints in the show that the professor is a cannibal of sorts.<br />
*Also known as the ''Catman'', due to his ability to land on his feet after falling great distances. However, it has apparently been so long since the last time he used this ability that even the Professor himself has forgotten why they called him the Catman.<br />
*Has a "Thug Life" tattoo on his back.<br />
*His driving position is up against the windscreen of the ship, a parody of the stereotypes of elderly drivers.<br />
*Like his extremely distant relative Fry, he had orange hair when he was younger.<br />
*At the start of the series his voice was nearly identical to Fry's, only slightly deeper and much older-sounding. As time went on however, the Professor's voice became much more distinct from Fry's, partly due to concerns by the creators that viewers with poor or no eyesight would find it hard to distinguish between the two.<br />
*Is the probably oldest living human on [[Earth]], excluding the [[heads in jars]] and peoples who were cryogenically frozen, because of his escape from the [[Near Death Star]].<br />
*Occasional references to cannibalism.<br />
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=== Catchphrase ===<br />
Originally, the professor's catchphrase was going to be "...though [[I am already in my pajamas]]." This was only used in [[Space Pilot 3000|the first]] and [[The Series Has Landed|second]] episodes.<br />
<br/> The professor's basic catchphrase is "[[Good news, everyone]]!" The phrase is used so frequently that it was already possible to joke about it in the [[My Three Suns|seventh episode]].<br /><br />
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He also occasionally refers to "[[Zombie Jesus]]" either by saying "Sweet Zombie Jesus" or "Holy Zombie Jesus".<br />
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When he is spoken to or asked a question, he also commonly says "Eh-wha?" This is used often to emphasize his senility and hearing loss. <br />
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Occasionally, he will say something along the lines of "What in ________ happened?!" For instance, "What in Sega Genesis happened to you?!" or "What in Satan's glorious name is going on here?!"<br />
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Another "catchphrase" used by the Professor is "Oh My..."<br />
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The last catchphrase used by the Professor is "Wernstrom!"<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Why bother remembering anything? You're just going to forget it five minutes later.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': And so we say goodbye to our beloved pet, Nibbler, who's gone to a place where I, too, hope one day to go. The toilet.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Sweet zombie Jesus!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oh Lordy Lou, HELP! Buddha! Zeus! God! One of you guys, do something! Help! Satan, you owe me!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Yes, it's the Apocalypse alright. I always knew I'd have a hand in it.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Dear God, they'll be killed on our doorstep! And there's no trash pickup until 3 January!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Good news, everyone! I've taught the toaster to feel love!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Good news, everyone! There's a report on TV with some very bad news!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Goodbye, cruel world. Goodbye, cruel lamp. Goodbye, cruel velvet drapes, lined with what would appear to be some sort of cruel muslin and the cute little pom-pom curtain pull cords. Cruel though they may be...</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oh dear! She's stuck in an infinite loop, and he's an idiot! Well, that's love for you.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oh, how awful. Did he at least die painlessly? ...To shreds, you say. Well, how is his wife holding up? ...To shreds, you say!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': ''[About altering the timeline.]'' And remember, don't do anything that affects anything, unless it turns out you were supposed to, in which case, for the love of God, don't not do it!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oh, I don't have time for this. I have to go and buy a single piece of fruit with a coupon and then return it, making people wait behind me while I complain.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Ah, yes! John Quincy Adding Machine. He struck a chord with the voters when he pledged not to go on a killing spree.<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth''': But, like most politicians, he promised more than he could deliver.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Anyhoo, your net-suits will allow you to experience Fry's worm infested bowels as if you were actually wriggling through them.<br />
'''Dr. Zoidberg''': There's no part of that sentence I didn't like!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Hubert Farnsworth''': Who are those horrible orange creatures over there?<br />
'''Glurmo''': Why, those are the Grunka-Lunkas. They work here in the Slurm factory.<br />
'''Professor Hubert Farnsworth''': Tell them I hate them.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Richard Nixon's Head''': Good evening, ignorant pigs. Put down your crack pipes and your beer bongs and pay attention, as I sign a historic peace accord with ambassador Kong of planet [[Nintendu 64]].<br />
'''Fry''': Wait a second, I know that monkey, his name is Donkey!<br />
'''Professor Hubert Farnsworth''': Monkey's aren't donkeys, quit messing with my head!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Colleen''': Have you seen how much cotton candy he can eat?<br />
'''Professor Hubert Farnsworth''': Oh, my, yes. 5.1 pounds. That's why his blood is so good on pancakes.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Belay that Parcheesi tournament!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oh, and if you kill anyone, make sure to eat their heart to gain their courage, their rich, tasty courage. *smacks lips*</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Well, it doesn't look like I'll make it inside with the rest of you but good luck. Just leave me where I drop.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': I know a paradox when I see one!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': The easy part was getting the brain out. But, the hard part was getting the brain out. [senile chuckle]</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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While Professor Farnsworth appears in most episodes, films and comics, with the exception of "[[The Why of Fry]]" and "[[Where No Fan Has Gone Before]]", these categories may be of interest:<br />
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*[[:Category:A plots focusing on Professor Farnsworth|A plots focusing on Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[:Category:B plots focusing on Professor Farnsworth|B plots focusing on Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
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[[Category:Doctors]]<br />
[[Category:Humans]]<br />
[[Category:Planet Express]]<br />
[[Category:Scientists]]</div>71.245.126.65http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=New_New_York&diff=72871New New York2010-10-11T06:38:47Z<p>71.245.126.65: /* Tourism */</p>
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|name = New New York City<br />
|image = [[File:Nnyc.png|250px]]<br />
|location = [[Earth]]<br />
|first appear = {{e|1ACV01}}<br />
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'''New New York''' is a major city in the [[United States]] and the primary setting of ''[[Futurama]]''. New New York is the reincarnation of the former [[Old New York|New York City]], remnants of which can still be found underground.<br />
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== History ==<br />
In the year [[3000]], the name of the city of New York City has been changed to '''New New York''', presumably when it was rebuilt after one of [[Earth]]'s periods of [[First Destruction of New York City|alien invasion]]. The city of New New York is built upon the ruins of [[Old New York]]. The city has seen some changes: the subways have been replaced with a [[Tube System|tube transport]] network, and ethnic neighborhoods like China Town and Little Italy have been joined by [[New New York#Little Neptune|Little Neptune]]. But in many ways it has not changed much in 1000 years: locals are still rude, public transportation is over-crowded, and it is a place where many cultures mingle.<br />
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== Geography ==<br />
New New York is located in the Northeastern United States on [[Earth]], approximately halfway between [[Washington D.C.]] and Boston. The location at the Hudson River delta, which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean, has helped the city grow in significance as a trading city. Much of the city is built on the three islands of Manhattan, Staten Island, and Long Island, which are built above the [[Old New York]], making land scarce and encouraging a high population density.<br />
The city's land has been changed considerably by human intervention, with substantial land reclamation along the waterfronts.<br />
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== Boroughs ==<br />
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=== Manhattan ===<br />
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'''Hell's Laboratory'''<br />
[[File:Hell's Laboratory.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Clone of My Own]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': New York has a real neighborhood called "Hell's Kitchen" <br \><br />
'''Description''': "The nerdiest slum in New New York," Hell's Lab is where the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] grew up.<br />
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'''Little Bitaly'''<br />
[[File:Little Bitaly.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Bender Gets Made]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': Refers to Little Italy, a neighborhood in New York. As well as bits, a unit of memory in computer, and thereby robotic, systems.<br \><br />
'''Description''': A [[robot]] neighborhood in NNY, also the home of the [[Robot Mafia]].<br />
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'''Little Neptune'''<br />
[[File:Little Neptune.jpg|left|200px|]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[My Three Suns]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': An immigrant neighborhood, like Little Italy or Chinatown <br \><br />
'''Description''': A seedy neighborhood inhabited largely by [[Neptunian]] immigrants. It seems to be a somewhat vague reference to [[starwars:Chalmun's Cantina|Chalmun's Cantina]] scene in [[starwars:Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]]. Both seem seedy, have a menagerie of robot and alien denizens, and both feature the main characters going into a place that sell food. Also, the scene where Fry is saved by Leela from the [[Organ Dealer]] and his accomplice is similar to when [[starwars:Obi-Wan Kenobi|Obi-Wan Kenobi]] saves [[starwars:Luke Skywalker|Luke Skywalker]] from [[starwars:Cornelius Evazan|Cornelius Evazan]] and [[starwars:Ponda Baba|Ponda Baba]].<br />
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=== New New York Sewers ===<br />
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'''City of Sewer Mutants'''<br />
{{see|NNY Sewers}}<br />
[[File:NNY Sewers 1.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A locale with two distinct areas: the ruins of Old New York and the city of [[Sewer Mutants]].<br />
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'''Old New York'''<br />
{{see|Old New York}}<br />
[[File:Old New York.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': It was one of the biggest cities in the world and produced more garbage than any other city. In the 31st century exists below the streets of New New York. <br />
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=== The Bronx ===<br />
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=== Brooklyn ===<br />
Home of the Brooklyn Aquarium which includes many marine species.<br />
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=== Queens ===<br />
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=== Staten Island ===<br />
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== Demographics ==<br />
[[File:Heather.png|right|thumb|[[Neptunians]] are among the most notable Alien immigrants.]]<br />
[[File:Tinny Tim.jpg|right|thumb|[[Robots]] are among the poorest in society.]]<br />
New New York is still one of the most diverse cities on earth. Throughout its history, the city has been a major point of entry for human immigrants; the term melting pot was first coined to describe densely populated immigrant neighborhoods. <br />
During the last 1000 years, [[robots]] (among them [[Bending Units]]), [[List of alien species|aliens]] (among them [[Neptunians]] and [[Decapodians]]), and mutants also began to settle down in New New York and live in peaceful coexistence with each other. [[Sewer Mutants|Sewer mutants]] are an exception: They have to live segregated from the rest of society in New New York Sewers.<br />
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Most of the population of New New York lives in apartments. Only a few can afford real estates. The city's population still has a large income disparity that applies to human beings as well as aliens and robots. However, it can be observed that aliens are among the wealthiest citizens while robots are among the poorest and most criminal citizens of the society (see [[Robot Mafia]]) despite, or probably because of, their increased intelligence. Although almost all sewer mutants, except [[Leela]], live segregated from the rest of the world, and appear dirty, poor, and unhealthy to beings living above [[NNY Sewers|New New York Sewers]], this sub-society consist of a wide range of white collar (doctors, teachers, etc.) and blue collar workers.<br />
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'''Leela's apartment building'''<br />
[[File:Leela's appartment building.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Parasites Lost]]" (although there is a possibility that the bed in which Leela and Fry had sex "[[Anthology of Interest I]]" is here).<br \><br />
'''Description''': A fairly regular apartment building containing the sparse apartment in which [[Leela]] used to live until it was destroyed by the [[Scammer Aliens|nudist alien scammers]]. However, it was rebuilt, as shown in "[[The Prisoner of Benda]]".<br />
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'''Robot Arms Apartments'''<br />
{{see|Robot Arms Apartments}}<br />
[[File:Robot Arms.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[I, Roommate]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': Variant of a classic name formula, such as "King's Arms Inn" or "Garfield Arms Apartments." <br \><br />
'''Description''': A high-rise apartment community that caters to Robot residents. Home to [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]. Most rooms are little more than 2 cubic meter storage units, as robots require little more than a place to recharge. Bender seems to have lucked into (or pays extra for) a room with a massive closet, which itself has multiple rooms and a large window.<br />
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== Economy ==<br />
New New York is a global hub of international and interstellar business and commerce. The city has always attracted many big and small businesses. Many major companies are headquartered in New New York.<br />
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'''Mom's Friendly Robot Company Headquarters'''<br />
{{see|MomCorp}}<br />
[[File:MomCorpHQ.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': The headquarters for MomCorp, a multinational robot corporation.<br />
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'''Planet Express Headquarters'''<br />
{{see|Planet Express headquarters}}<br />
[[File:Planet Express Exterior 2.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': The waterfront headquarters of a delivery company owned by [[Professor Farnsworth]] that employs [[Fry]], [[Leela]], and [[Bender]] among others.<br />
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'''GeneWorks, S.K.G.'''<br />
{{see|GeneWorks, S.K.G.}}<br />
[[File:GeneWorksSKG.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Three Hundred Big Boys]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': A reference to {{w|DreamWorks}}, a computer animation company.<br \><br />
'''Description''': A genetic lab where stem cells are available for retail purchase.<br />
{{Clear}}<br />
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'''Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket Car Emporium'''<br />
{{see|Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket Car Emporium}}<br />
[[File:Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket Car Emporium.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Put Your Head on My Shoulder]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': The name refers to {{w|Crazy Eddie}}, a consumer electronics chain founded in Brooklyn, New York. Unlike his human predecessor, [[Malfunctioning Eddie|Eddie]] is merely a malfunctioning robot and not a felon convicted for fraud.<br \><br />
'''Description''': The most high-end place in NNY to buy luxury hover cars, including the [[Thundercougerfalconbird]]. They claim their prices are low because of Eddie's malfunctions, but this claim is not supported by the hard-sell tactics of their sales staff, particularly [[Victor]].<br />
{{Clear}}<br />
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'''Alien Overlord & Taylor'''<br />
{{see|Alien Overlord & Taylor}}<br />
[[File:Alien Overlord and Taylor.jpg|left|200px]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]" <br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': Refers to the retail chain "Lord & Taylor" <br \><br />
'''Description''': A New New York department store.<br />
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'''Hacking Jack's Fine Smokables'''<br />
{{see|Hacking Jack's Fine Smokables}}<br />
[[File:Hacking Jack's.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Three Hundred Big Boys]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A Cigar store selling many smoking brands, and for some reason, burglar's tools.<br />
{{Clear}}<br />
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'''Crack Mansion'''<br />
{{see|Crack Mansion}}<br />
[[File:CrackMansion.png|left|200px]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Three Hundred Big Boys]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A very upscale crack house.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Diamonds Are Forever'''<br />
{{see|Diamonds Are Forever}}<br />
[[File:DiamondsAreForever.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Three Hundred Big Boys]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': {{w|Diamonds Are Forever (novel)|Diamonds Are Forever}} is a James Bond novel (and movie). <br/><br />
'''Description''': A jewelery store that has an ironic "Going Out of Business Sale."<br />
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'''Ed's Hiking Supplies & Spelunketeria'''<br />
[[File:EdsHikingSupplies.jpg|left|200px]]<br />
'''First Appearance''':"[[Godfellas]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A hiking supplies shop that sells all the basic hiking equipment. Also sells loaded pack mules and sherpas off the wall.<br />
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Other smaller businesses in New New York City.<br />
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Image:711.png|'''[[7¹¹]]:''' A common convenience store in New New York that sells products such as [[Slurm]].<br />
Image:99 cent store.jpg|'''99¢ Store (temporarily $299.99 Store):''' A store that changed its name once [[Nixon]]'s $300 tax refund came in.<br />
Image:Shifty's True Wonders of the 20th Century Emporium.jpg|'''[[Shifty's True Wonders of the 20th Century Emporium]]:''' A shop that specializes in items from the 20<sup>th</sup> century.<br />
Image:Rook Takes Pawnshop.jpg|'''Rook Takes Pawnshop:''' A pawnshop. Its name comes from the fact that in the game of chess, it is possible for a Rook to take a Pawn.<br />
Image:Frontys meat market.png|'''Fronty's Meat Market:''' A meat market which freezer room is used by the [[Robot Mafia]] as their headquarters. The name implies that this is a "{{w|Front organization#Organized crime|front}}" business, used to launder money.<br />
Image:Nappster.jpg|'''Nappster:''' Nappster is an Internet company that has its headquarters in New New York which offers illegal copies of celebrities.<br />
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== Government and Public Services ==<br />
The government of New New York is very centralized. It is responsible for public education, correctional institutions, libraries, public safety, recreational facilities, sanitation, water supply and welfare services. [[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer]] is the elected mayor of New New York and has filled this function since at least the year [[3000]].<br />
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'''Citihall'''<br />
{{see|Citihall}}<br />
[[File:Citihall.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': ?<br \><br />
'''Description''': The seat of New New York's government.<br />
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'''Central Bureaucracy'''<br />
{{see|Central Bureaucracy}}<br />
[[File:Central Bureaucracy.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': Central Bureaucracy regulates and controls all bureaucratic activities within New New York<br />
'''Notes''': A bureaucrat [[Beholder]] (a creature from [[Dungeons & Dragons]] which is pretty much a giant, floating cyclopean head with a large amount of eye-stalks sticking out of its head) guards at least one corridor; it was found sleeping on the job and begged the Planet Express crew not to tell his superiors. <br />
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'''Applied Cryogenics'''<br />
{{see|Applied Cryogenics}}<br />
[[File:Applied Cryogenics 3.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A cryogenics lab that has existed since at least 1997.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium'''<br />
{{see|Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium}}<br />
[[File:Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[The Cyber House Rules]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': The orphanarium where [[Leela]] grew up, and was honored as an adult.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Earth Army Recruiting Center'''<br />
{{see|Earth Army Recruiting Center}}<br />
[[File:Army recruiting center front.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[War Is the H-Word]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A recruiting center for all the civilians who want to join the [[DOOP Army]].<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Taco Bellevue Hospital'''<br />
[[File:taco.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Bender Gets Made]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': A combination of Taco Bell and Bellevue Hospital.<br \><br />
'''Description''': Providing the finest in medical care and affordable Mexican food. At least one of the doctors on staff resembles a chihuahua (similar to the one used in Taco Bell advertising).<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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== Education ==<br />
'''Academy of Inventors Headquarters'''<br />
[[File:Academy of Inventors.jpg|left|200px]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Big Piece of Garbage]]" <br \><br />
'''Description''': The headquarters for the [[Academy of Inventors]]. They have annual meetings, during which their members show off their latest inventions.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Public Library'''<br />
[[File:NNY Public Library.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[The Day the Earth Stood Stupid]]" <br \><br />
'''Description''': The place from where the [[The Big Brain|Big Brain]] was leading the [[Brain Spawn]]s invasion of [[Earth]]. Contains, among others, the ''Ancient Literature'' room which houses many classical works of literature.<br />
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== Transportation ==<br />
[[File:Opening Credits.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Tube Transportation and hovercars.]]<br />
Subways, buses, and other forms of public transportation have been replaced by the Tube Transport System. Flying cars or [[Hovercar|Hovercars]] replaced wheeled automobiles as they are faster and are not stuck in traffic congestion on the ground, although most of them seem to follow designated airways.<br />
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'''Tube Transport System'''<br />
{{see|Tube Transport System}}<br />
[[File:Tube Transport System.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': It is based on pneumatic tubes, originally used to transport documents throughout offices (and still in use within the Central Bureaucracy). <br/><br />
'''Description''': A user announces where he or she wishes to go, and the tube will activate and route them to their desired destination. It is unknown whether they use pneumatic pressure (as the original tubes did) or something else. Given that a humanoid shape doesn't fill the tube, pneumatic pressure seems unlikely.<br />
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'''South Street Spaceport'''<br />
{{see|South Street Spaceport}}<br />
[[File:South Street Spaceport.JPG|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Flight to Remember]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': South Street Seaport is a locale in contemporary New York. <br/><br />
'''Description''': A hub for incoming and outgoing spacecraft. Seems to serve both military and civilian craft.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Cape Knievel'''<br />
{{see|Cape Knievel}}<br />
[[File:Cape Knievel.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': Possibly {{w|Evel Knievel}}. <br/><br />
'''Description''': A flight testing center that is also a small spaceport. Seems to serve both military and civilian craft.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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== Climate ==<br />
Since the 21st century, New New York's climate has not significantly changed. In the 31st century, most greenhouse gases are caused by [[robots]], but the human population has found ways to deal with [[global warming]]. The city still has a humid subtropical climate. Summers are typically hot and humid and winters are cold, featuring prevailing wind patterns that blow offshore and somewhat minimize the influence of the Atlantic Ocean. ''Technically'' because Amy Wong reversed the earth's rotation in 3010, the wind blows onshore therefore moderating New New York's climate significantly yet a change in climate was never actually mentioned.<br />
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== Environment ==<br />
[[File:Owls.jpg|right|thumb|Owls at the Planet Express entrance.]]<br />
{{see|Pests}}<br />
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[[Pests]] remain a problem in the future. In an effort to fight the rat and pigeon problem, owls were introduced. However, they soon filled the ecological niche becoming the most prevalent pest of New New York. Cockroaches have reached the size of human beings, rats&mdash;although greatly diminished in number&mdash;can be seen in the [[NNY Sewers|New York Sewers]]. Despite the introduction of the owl to New New York, pigeons are still present, albeit with a greatly diminished population.<br />
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Other species have arrived in New New York, among them golden marmosets who, like owls, have been introduced to fight pests, harmless land squids, toilet snails and wall gophers.<br />
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== Architecture ==<br />
The building form most closely associated with New New York City is the skyscraper, whose introduction and widespread adoption saw New York buildings shift from the low-scale European tradition of the 19th century to the vertical rise of business districts in the 20th century to the vertical rise of apartments in the 30th century.<br />
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The late 30th century faced a revival of the Populuxe or Googie style which shape the skyline of New New York in the 31st century. Various devices and architecture are similar to this form of architecture that originated in the mid-20th century. Upswept roofs, curvaceous, geometric shapes, steel and neon, and bold use of glass are some of the most notable characteristics of Populuxe architecture.<br />
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Other buildings are inspired by the Minimalist movement such as [[Central Bureaucracy]]. Objects are reduced to their necessary elements, in this case a cube. Madison Cube Garden is also minimalist while many other buildings are examples of Postmodern architecture which incorporates several styles of architecture.<br />
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Image:Central Bureaucracy.jpg|'''[[Central Bureaucracy]]''' as an example of Minimalism.<br />
Image:Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket Car Emporium.jpg|'''Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket Car Emporium''' is a Postmodern building.<br />
Image:Planet_Express_Exterior_2.jpg|The '''Planet Express headquarters''' leans towards the Populuxe style.<br />
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Neoclassical architecture has also returned in the future, as seen with the rebuilt Museum of Natural History and the New New York Public Library, mimicking their original old New York forms. More traditional low-scale neighborhoods akin to the brownstone townhouses of New York's Greenwich Village also appear, one of which apparently belongs to Hermes and his family.<br />
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A handful of historic old New York landmarks seem to have been salvaged and kept for modern usage (instead of them rotting in the sewers), including a retrofitted Brooklyn Bridge designed for hover-cars.<br />
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== Parks ==<br />
[[File:Jurassic kiddie park.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The '''Jurassic Kiddie Park''' can be found in Central Park.]] New New York offers several large recreational areas and attractions open to the public. Although Central Park is not directly shown in the episodes, the Jurassic Kiddie Park reveals that the Central park is still present in the 31st century. Jurassic Kiddie Park, which is aimed at children, offers rides on a living Tyrannosaurus Rex. People are also able to feed the carnivore with pigs for 5&cent;.<br />
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Monument Beach is a man-made beachside park in New New York that boasts a collection of many of the world's greatest monuments, stolen by an evil supervillain who was elected Governor of New New York. Some of the greatest monuments are the Sphinx, the White House (which was apparently rebuilt in Washington, D.C.), the leaning tower of Pisa, the Mo'ai statues, and a slightly altered Mount Rushmore. {{clear}}<br />
[[File:Monument Beach 2.jpg|thumb|center|800px|'''[[Monument Beach]]''' is a man-made beachside park in New New York.]]<br />
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== Culture, contemporary life and recreation ==<br />
'''Museum of Natural History'''<br />
[[File:Museum of Natural History.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Less than Hero]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': Still presenting artifacts describing the history of the world, even in the year 3000.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Rocket Skating Rink'''<br />
[[File:Rocket Skating Rink.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[The Why of Fry]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A rocket skating rink in the heart of New New York, seems to be in the same location as the rink outside Rockefeller Center in present-day New York.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Le Spa'''<br />
{{see|Le Spa}}<br />
[[File:Le Spa.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': {{e|1ACV06}}<br \><br />
'''Description''': A very elite day spa.<br />
{{Clear}}<br />
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'''New New York Dumbbell Club'''<br />
[[File:NNY Dumbbell Club Gym.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A large, successful gym, with numerous exercise machines and heath facilities, and hundreds of patrons.<br />
{{Clear}}<br />
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'''O'Zorgnax Pub'''<br />
{{see|O'Zorgnax Pub}}<br />
[[File:O'Zorgnax's Pub.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A pub frequented by the [[Planet Express]] employees.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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== Entertainment and performing arts ==<br />
'''Metropolitan House of Opera'''<br />
[[File:MHOp.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': The name ''MHOp'' (''M''etropolitan ''H''ouse of ''Op''era) is a reference to both ''IHOP'' (International House of Pancakes) restaurants and the ''Metropolitan Opera House'' in New York City <br \><br />
'''Description''': Venue for plays and operas; This is where [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] performed his [[Holophonor]] opera in "[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]".<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Radio City Mutant Hall'''<br />
[[File:AwaitingScreenie.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Mentioned''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': New York's "Radio City Music Hall" <br \><br />
'''Note''': A building with robots performing Rockette-style high kicks was seen in "[[The Lesser of Two Evils]]"<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Leow's ℵ0-Plex'''<br />
[[File:Loews n plex.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Mentioned''': "[[Raging Bender]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': Loews Plex theaters/cinemas<br \><br />
'''Note''': A building with robots performing Rockette-style high kicks was seen in "[[The Lesser of Two Evils]]"<br />
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== Tourism ==<br />
'''Past-O-Rama'''<br />
{{see|Past-O-Rama}}<br />
[[File:OldNY.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[The Lesser of Two Evils]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A 20th century themed amusement park, loaded with anachronisms. Built on the former site of Brooklyn.<br />
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'''Monument Beach'''<br />
{{see|Monument Beach}}<br />
[[File:Monument Beach 1.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[When Aliens Attack]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A popular beach that is home to several international monuments.<br />
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'''Brooklyn Aquarium'''<br />
[[File:Brooklyn aquarium.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[When Aliens Attack]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A popular aquarium that is home to several organisms living in the ocean and extraterrestrial species living in water.<br />
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== Cuisine ==<br />
'''Guadalajara Brown Drip Gourmet Coffee'''<br />
[[File:GuadalajaraBrownDripGourmetCoffee.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Three Hundred Big Boys]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A coffee shop patronized by [[Bender]] and [[Fry]].<br />
{{Clear}}<br />
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Other restaurants:<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Dinkin_donuts.jpg|'''Dinkin Donuts:''' A small restaurant for breakfasts.<br />
Image:Elzars.jpg|'''[[Elzar's Fine Cuisine]]:''' A very trendy NNY restaurant run by celebrity chef [[Elzar]].<br />
Image:Family bros pizza.jpg|'''[[Family Bros. Pizza]]:''' a pizzeria owned by a family of [[Cygnoids]], located near [[Planet Express]].<br />
Image:CosmicRaysPizza.png|'''Original Cosmic Ray's Pizza:''' A local pizzeria where [[Fry]] learns that anchovies are extinct.<br />
Image:Food-O-Mat Exterior.png|'''[[Food-O-Mat]]:''' A small restaurant where customers take their food off a conveyor belt.<br />
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== Media ==<br />
'''Large screen'''<br />
{{see|MomCorp}}<br />
[[File:Large screen.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': Large screen on top of a building.<br />
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== Sports ==<br />
'''Madison Cube Garden'''<br />
{{see|Madison Cube Garden}}<br />
[[File:Madison Cube Garden.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Fear of a Bot Planet]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': Madison Square Garden is a performance center in New York. <br/><br />
'''Description''': A performance center in New New York, featuring many events such as sports and concerts, as well as a Deathball Arena.<br />
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== Crime and law enforcement ==<br />
[[File:Smitty & Url.jpg|right|thumb|[[Smitty]] and [[URL]] are peace officers at the New New York Police Department]]<br />
Organized crime has long been associated with New New York City, beginning with the Forty Thieves and the Roach Guards in the Five Points in the 1820s to the [[Robot Mafia]] in the 3000s. The New New York Police Department has also been featured in the documentary television series [[Cop Department#Cop Department|Cop Department]] that follows police officers, sheriff's deputies, and constables during patrols and other police activities.<br />
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'''New New York Police Department'''<br />
{{see|New New York Police Department}}<br />
[[File:Policestation.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': Headquarters of the Police force.<br />
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'''Commander Riker's Island'''<br />
[[File:CommanderRikersIslandJail.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Big Piece of Garbage]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': {{w| William Riker|William Riker}} was a Commander from Star Trek, and there is an actual prison facility on [[Wikipedia:Rikers Island|Rikers Island]].<br \><br />
'''Description''': A small island prison in the waters off New New York.<br />
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'''HAL Institute for criminally insane robots'''<br />
{{see|HAL Institute}}<br />
[[File:Hal institute for criminally insane robots.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Insane in the Mainframe]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': HAL 9000 is the name of the murderous artificial intelligence in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey saga.<br \><br />
'''Description''': An institute created for criminally insane robots.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=The Luck of the Fryrish<br />
|no=36<br />
|image=[[File:The Luck of the Fryrish.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=3ACV04<br />
|caption=Broadcast simultaneously one year in the future<br />
|first aired=11 March, 2001<br />
|written by=Ron Weiner<br />
|directed by=Chris Loudon<br />
|title reference=The old saying, "The Luck of the Irish"<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=''Boom Boom'' (1936)<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S03E10<br />
|nomination='''Annie Awards'''<br />Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production, 2001, [[Ron Weiner]] (won)<br />
|prev ep=A Tale of Two Santas<br />
|next ep=The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz<br />
|broad prev=The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz<br />
|broad next=The Cyber House Rules<br />
}}<br />
"'''The Luck of the Fryrish'''" is the thirty-sixth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fourth of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the tenth of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]]. It aired 11 March, 2001 on FOX. [[Philip J. Fry]] discovers that he is not only person by that name, and suspects his [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|brother]] of stealing his name, but in the end Fry discovers that his brother named [[Philip J. Fry, II|his son]] in Fry's honour.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Get your piping hot horse-burgers!" ===<br />
In [[Old New York]], sometime in the 20<sup>th</sup> century, [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Mrs. Fry]] is in labour. However, her attention seems to be on her portable radio, which is tuned in to a Mets game. [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Yancy Fry, Sr.]] names the child [[Philip J. Fry|Philip]], after those screwdrivers. [[Yancy Fry, Jr.]] is jealous of the name, but his father informs him that he's named after a proud line of Yancy Fry's. Yancy Fry, Sr. leaves the room, and Yancy steals a rocketship from a mobile hung over Philip's crib.<br />
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Back in the year 3000, the crew is attending the horseraces. Fry does horribly with his bets. [[Amy Wong|Amy]] is with her parents in the luxury box, and, in their constant quest for grandchildren, they attempt to set up Amy with their best jockey. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] go to the concession stand for some horse-themed (and horse-derived) food. Meanwhile in the stables, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] is drugging the horses with a hypo-spray. He is interrupted by a jockey, but drugs him as well. Fry prays to the horse-god in hopes of winning the final race, but his horse falls asleep due to Bender's drugging. Fry proclaims that he'll hold on to his last dollar, which then blows away. It lands on a power line, and after Fry is unable to reach it, he tries again with a rake. But lightning strikes the rake and electrocutes him. He seems only slightly hurt, but lightning strikes twice, knocking him from the telephone pole. He lands in a garbage can, and the concession stand cook dumps trash on top of him.<br />
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=== Act II: "Dirt doesn't need luck." ===<br />
In the past, Philip and Yancy are having a one-on-one game of basketball, where Fry is doing poorly. However, when sent to retrieve the ball, he finds a seven-leaf clover. After tucking it into his wristband, he makes an amazing shot and Yancy storms off.<br />
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In the year 3000, Bender counts his winnings from fixing the race, and Fry's head is still smoking from the lightning strike. Fry mentions his clover to the crew, and a wig-robot arrives with Fry's replacement hair. Zoidberg suggests that maybe the clover is still in the place he left it, so Fry plans to enter the ruins of Old New York to look for his clover. He recruits the help of Leela, who he'll need to bend the bars which might be blocking the tunnels. Bender, however, points out that "bending" is his middle name&mdash;Literally. Together, Fry, Leela, and Bender climb down a manhole to the ruins.<br />
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=== Act III: "Stop hogging the clover!" ===<br />
Walking through the ruins of Old New York, Fry does the things he could never do before. Like proclaiming that Howard Stern is overrated, leaving payphones off the hook, and jaywalking. Though this last is foiled by a large lizard trampling Fry.<br />
<br />
In the past, Yancy and Philip are trying out for a breakdancing troupe, who wish to win a competition, which gives parachute pants as a prize. After Philip's tryout, Yancy does the exact same routine, with poorly-disguised names. To show up Yancy, Philip performs the septuple headspin, three more rotations than the previoius record. Yancy then attempts to steal the clover from Philip, but Philip runs home.<br />
<br />
Fry determines to get his clover back, and assumes it might still be at his old house. In the ruins of Old New York, Bender mounts the subway tracks and Fry and Leela hop aboard. They arrive at Newkirk Avenue, a station in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. While walking through Fry's old neighborhood, Fry reminisces about the past, and meets one of his old neighbors. They arrive at Fry's old house, which, although in horrible condition, seems to have survived the alien attacks without damage (or at least, without ''further'' damage).<br />
<br />
=== Act IV: "Allow me!" ===<br />
Philip arrives home with Yancy in hot pursuit. Philip tries telling his mother, but she is, as usual, distracted by sports (this time, golf). Philip goes into the storage room/bomb shelter, where he hides the clover inside the sleeve for the Breakfast Club soundtrack, which is in turn locked into the [[Ronco Record Vault]].<br />
<br />
Fry, Bender, and Leela enter the storage room, and after the lock on the vault proves to be jammed, Bender opens it by oscillating on the structural resonance frequency of the vault. But Fry finds that the clover (as well as whatever else was hidden within the record sleeve) is missing. They leave Fry's house in defeat, but before they can leave the ruins of Old New York, they come upon a statue resembling Yancy, but with an inscription reading "Philip J. Fry"&mdash;and Fry's seven-leaf clover in his lapel. In rage, Fry strikes the statue, injuring his hand (Fry rants "He stole my life...and he broke my hand!", to which Bender quips "His legend lives on!").<br />
<br />
=== Act V: "I should be the one in that grave!" ===<br />
Somehow, they bring the statue back to Planet Express, where they learn about the person immortalized by the statue. A [[Instructional Movies#Fry|video]] on the internet shows Philip J. Fry's life. After a string of good luck, including being the first person on Mars, it is shown that he was buried with the clover, so it could bring him luck in the next life (perhaps, some Egyptians believe). Fry decides they should go to the cemetary and dig up the body to retrieve his clover.<br />
<br />
In the past, Yancy prepares for his wedding, putting on the camouflage tuxedo that his father wore in Vietnam. While looking for music to play at the wedding, Yancy forces the lock on the Ronco Record Vault, and finds the Breakfast Club soundtrack. Inside it, he finds the seven-leaf clover.<br />
<br />
[[File:Philip J. Fry's Grave.jpg|right|thumb|Philip J. Fry, II's grave]]<br />
On the [[Orbiting Meadows|Orbiting Meadows Cemetary]], Fry, Leela, and Bender arrive at the gravesite, and begin digging. While digging, Fry knocks loose a chunk of moss from the tombstone.<br />
<br />
Back in the past, Yancy and his wife are cuddling their newborn child. Yancy pulls the clover out of his pocket and gives it to the child. Yancy names the child [[Philip J. Fry, II|Philip J. Fry]], in honour of his lost brother.<br />
<br />
While Fry is reading the inscription he uncovered (''"Here lies Phillip J. Fry. Named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"''), realising the grave is not his brother's, but his nephew's, Bender strikes the casket and emerges with the clover (and his wedding ring). Leela, however, understands that Fry needs a moment alone, and sets off with Bender. Fry replaces the clover in his nephew's grave.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Fry's line, "It's cloverin' time!" is a reference to the Fantastic Four's The Thing, whose catchphrase is "It's klobberin' time!"<br />
*The hypo-spray Bender uses is modeled after the ones on Star Trek.<br />
*The drug Bender uses on the horses is "Comatonin".<br />
*The closeup of the manhole was the logo for the Fox show, "The PJ's", who reciprocated by putting a picture of Fry on a milk carton in their show.<br />
*This episode is noted as a fan favorite because of its dramatic ending.<br />
*This episode is named #9 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p2.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #1 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*The "[[people hose]]" placed duplicates of a character in the stands at the races, but she's probably just a clone, or maybe even a twin.<br />
*When rummaging through Fry's belongings, Yancy pulls a banner out that says "Whitefish". This is a call back to the episode "[[Mars University]]" in season one when Fry states that he is a dropout of Coney Island College and shouts, "Go Whitefish!" "Coney Island whitefish" is slang for publicly-discarded used condoms.<br />
*In "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]", [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Yancy Sr.]] told [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|Yancy Jr]] "your name is Yancy, just like me and my grandfather and so on. All the way back to minuteman Yancy Fry, who blasted commies in the American Revolution." It is believed that Mildred pretended her child was Enos' son and named it after Enos' father due to the difficulties she would otherwise have had in the 1940's as the mother of an illegitimate child.<br />
**"Yancy" was also the middle name of Douglas Yancy Funnie, the eponymous character of the early-1990s Nickelodeon cartoon ''{{w|Doug}}''. Doug was voiced by [[Billy West]]; both West and the guest voice of Yancy Jr., [[Tom Kenny]], voice acted for many 1990s Nickelodeon cartoons.<br />
*While in Old New York, Fry announces "{{w|Howard Stern}} is overrated." [[Billy West]], the voice of Fry, worked on the {{w|The Howard Stern Show|Howard Stern Show}} for many years.<br />
*Fry, Leela, and Bender get off the subway line at the Newkirk Avenue subway station, implying that Fry's 20th century home is in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Old New York.<br />
*The newspaper dispenser Fry stands on has a New York Post reading ''MAYOR PREDICTS VICTORY OVER ALIENS''<br />
*A sign at the horse races in alien code reads "Not Without My Egg Case- Tonight on Lifetime." This is a reference to the Sally Field movie "Not Without My Daughter" which, as a film with a woman struggling to save her daughter and herself, would definitely appear on 'Lifetime, TV for Women.'<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Inscription on tombstone''': Here lies Philip J. Fry. Named for his uncle to carry on his spirit.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': You're twice the "the" he ever was!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': Dirt doesn't need luck.</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Andy Goldman]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Leo and Inez Wong]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Mrs. Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Noticeably F.A.T|Noticeably F.A.T.]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Philip J. Fry, II]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy Fry, Jr.]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy Fry, Sr.]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Chris Loudon]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|name=The Luck of the Fryrish<br />
|no=36<br />
|image=[[File:The Luck of the Fryrish.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
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|number=3ACV04<br />
|caption=Broadcast simultaneously one year in the future<br />
|first aired=11 March, 2001<br />
|written by=Ron Weiner<br />
|directed by=Chris Loudon<br />
|title reference=The old saying, "The Luck of the Irish"<br />
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|opening cartoon=''Boom Boom'' (1936)<br />
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"'''The Luck of the Fryrish'''" is the thirty-sixth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fourth of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the tenth of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]]. It aired 11 March, 2001 on FOX. [[Philip J. Fry]] discovers that he is not only person by that name, and suspects his [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|brother]] of stealing his name, but in the end Fry discovers that his brother named [[Philip J. Fry, II|his son]] in Fry's honour.<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Get your piping hot horse-burgers!" ===<br />
In [[Old New York]], sometime in the 20<sup>th</sup> century, [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Mrs. Fry]] is in labour. However, her attention seems to be on her portable radio, which is tuned in to a Mets game. [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Yancy Fry, Sr.]] names the child [[Philip J. Fry|Philip]], after those screwdrivers. [[Yancy Fry, Jr.]] is jealous of the name, but his father informs him that he's named after a proud line of Yancy Fry's. Yancy Fry, Sr. leaves the room, and Yancy steals a rocketship from a mobile hung over Philip's crib.<br />
<br />
Back in the year 3000, the crew is attending the horseraces. Fry does horribly with his bets. [[Amy Wong|Amy]] is with her parents in the luxury box, and, in their constant quest for grandchildren, they attempt to set up Amy with their best jockey. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] go to the concession stand for some horse-themed (and horse-derived) food. Meanwhile in the stables, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] is drugging the horses with a hypo-spray. He is interrupted by a jockey, but drugs him as well. Fry prays to the horse-god in hopes of winning the final race, but his horse falls asleep due to Bender's drugging. Fry proclaims that he'll hold on to his last dollar, which then blows away. It lands on a power line, and after Fry is unable to reach it, he tries again with a rake. But lightning strikes the rake and electrocutes him. He seems only slightly hurt, but lightning strikes twice, knocking him from the telephone pole. He lands in a garbage can, and the concession stand cook dumps trash on top of him.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "Dirt doesn't need luck." ===<br />
In the past, Philip and Yancy are having a one-on-one game of basketball, where Fry is doing poorly. However, when sent to retrieve the ball, he finds a seven-leaf clover. After tucking it into his wristband, he makes an amazing shot and Yancy storms off.<br />
<br />
In the year 3000, Bender counts his winnings from fixing the race, and Fry's head is still smoking from the lightning strike. Fry mentions his clover to the crew, and a wig-robot arrives with Fry's replacement hair. Zoidberg suggests that maybe the clover is still in the place he left it, so Fry plans to enter the ruins of Old New York to look for his clover. He recruits the help of Leela, who he'll need to bend the bars which might be blocking the tunnels. Bender, however, points out that "bending" is his middle name&mdash;Literally. Together, Fry, Leela, and Bender climb down a manhole to the ruins.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "Stop hogging the clover!" ===<br />
Walking through the ruins of Old New York, Fry does the things he could never do before. Like proclaiming that Howard Stern is overrated, leaving payphones off the hook, and jaywalking. Though this last is foiled by a large lizard trampling Fry.<br />
<br />
In the past, Yancy and Philip are trying out for a breakdancing troupe, who wish to win a competition, which gives parachute pants as a prize. After Philip's tryout, Yancy does the exact same routine, with poorly-disguised names. To show up Yancy, Philip performs the septuple headspin, three more rotations than the previoius record. Yancy then attempts to steal the clover from Philip, but Philip runs home.<br />
<br />
Fry determines to get his clover back, and assumes it might still be at his old house. In the ruins of Old New York, Bender mounts the subway tracks and Fry and Leela hop aboard. They arrive at Newkirk Avenue, a station in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. While walking through Fry's old neighborhood, Fry reminisces about the past, and meets one of his old neighbors. They arrive at Fry's old house, which, although in horrible condition, seems to have survived the alien attacks without damage (or at least, without ''further'' damage).<br />
<br />
=== Act IV: "Allow me!" ===<br />
Philip arrives home with Yancy in hot pursuit. Philip tries telling his mother, but she is, as usual, distracted by sports (this time, golf). Philip goes into the storage room/bomb shelter, where he hides the clover inside the sleeve for the Breakfast Club soundtrack, which is in turn locked into the [[Ronco Record Vault]].<br />
<br />
Fry, Bender, and Leela enter the storage room, and after the lock on the vault proves to be jammed, Bender opens it by oscillating on the structural resonance frequency of the vault. But Fry finds that the clover (as well as whatever else was hidden within the record sleeve) is missing. They leave Fry's house in defeat, but before they can leave the ruins of Old New York, they come upon a statue resembling Yancy, but with an inscription reading "Philip J. Fry"&mdash;and Fry's seven-leaf clover in his lapel. In rage, Fry strikes the statue, injuring his hand (Fry rants "He stole my life...and he broke my hand!", to which Bender quips "His legend lives on!").<br />
<br />
=== Act V: "I should be the one in that grave!" ===<br />
Somehow, they bring the statue back to Planet Express, where they learn about the person immortalized by the statue. A [[Instructional Movies#Fry|video]] on the internet shows Philip J. Fry's life. After a string of good luck, including being the first person on Mars, it is shown that he was buried with the clover, so it could bring him luck in the next life (perhaps, some Egyptians believe). Fry decides they should go to the cemetary and dig up the body to retrieve his clover.<br />
<br />
In the past, Yancy prepares for his wedding, putting on the camouflage tuxedo that his father wore in Vietnam. While looking for music to play at the wedding, Yancy forces the lock on the Ronco Record Vault, and finds the Breakfast Club soundtrack. Inside it, he finds the seven-leaf clover.<br />
<br />
[[File:Philip J. Fry's Grave.jpg|right|thumb|Philip J. Fry, II's grave]]<br />
On the [[Orbiting Meadows|Orbiting Meadows Cemetary]], Fry, Leela, and Bender arrive at the gravesite, and begin digging. While digging, Fry knocks loose a chunk of moss from the tombstone.<br />
<br />
Back in the past, Yancy and his wife are cuddling their newborn child. Yancy pulls the clover out of his pocket and gives it to the child. Yancy names the child [[Philip J. Fry, II|Philip J. Fry]], in honour of his lost brother.<br />
<br />
While Fry is reading the inscription he uncovered (''"Here lies Phillip J. Fry. Named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"''), realising the grave is not his brother's, but his nephew's, Bender strikes the casket and emerges with the clover (and his wedding ring). Leela, however, understands that Fry needs a moment alone, and sets off with Bender. Fry replaces the clover in his nephew's grave.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Fry's line, "It's cloverin' time!" is a reference to the Fantastic Four's The Thing, whose catchphrase is "It's klobberin' time!"<br />
*The hypo-spray Bender uses is modeled after the ones on Star Trek.<br />
*The drug Bender uses on the horses is "Comatonin".<br />
*The closeup of the manhole was the logo for the Fox show, "The PJ's", who reciprocated by putting a picture of Fry on a milk carton in their show.<br />
*This episode is noted as a fan favorite because of its dramatic ending.<br />
*This episode is named #9 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p2.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #1 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*The "[[people hose]]" placed duplicates of a character in the stands at the races, but she's probably just a clone, or maybe even a twin.<br />
*When rummaging through Fry's belongings, Yancy pulls a banner out that says "Whitefish". This is a call back to the episode "[[Mars University]]" in season one when Fry states that he is a dropout of Coney Island College and shouts, "Go Whitefish!" "Coney Island whitefish" is slang for publicly-discarded used condoms.<br />
*In "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]", [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Yancy Sr.]] told [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|Yancy Jr]] "your name is Yancy, just like me and my grandfather and so on. All the way back to minuteman Yancy Fry, who blasted commies in the American Revolution." It is believed that Mildred pretended her child was Enos' son and named it after Enos' father due to the difficulties she would otherwise have had in the 1940's as the mother of an illegitimate child.<br />
**"Yancy" was also the middle name of Douglas Yancy Funnie, the eponymous character of the early-1990s Nickelodeon cartoon ''{{w|Doug}}''. Doug was voiced by [[Billy West]]; both West and the guest voice of Yancy Jr., [[Tom Kenny]], voice acted for many 1990s Nickelodeon cartoons.<br />
*While in Old New York, Fry announces "{{w|Howard Stern}} is overrated." [[Billy West]], the voice of Fry, worked on the {{w|The Howard Stern Show|Howard Stern Show}} for many years.<br />
*Fry, Leela, and Bender get off the subway line at the Newkirk Avenue subway station, implying that Fry's 20th century home is in Midwood, Brooklyn, Old New York.<br />
*The newspaper dispenser Fry stands on has a New York Post reading ''MAYOR PREDICTS VICTORY OVER ALIENS''<br />
*A sign at the horse races in alien code reads "Not Without My Egg Case- Tonight on Lifetime." This is a reference to the Sally Field movie "Not Without My Daughter" which, as a film with a woman struggling to save her daughter and herself, would definitely appear on 'Lifetime, TV for Women.'<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Inscription on tombstone''': Here lies Philip J. Fry. Named for his uncle to carry on his spirit.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': You're twice the "the" he ever was!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': Dirt doesn't need luck.</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Andy Goldman]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Leo and Inez Wong]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Mrs. Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Noticeably F.A.T|Noticeably F.A.T.]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Philip J. Fry, II]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy Fry, Jr.]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy Fry, Sr.]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Chris Loudon]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Philip J. Fry<br />
|type=p<br />
|image=[[File:Philip J. Fry.jpg|225px]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|age=2040 (biological age: <!-- please, do not change this, if you have a disagreement, take it up on the talk page --> 35) ''See [[#Age|age]] section for more information.''<br />
|birth date=14 August, 1974<ref>http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1690915</ref><br />
|species=[[Humans|Human]]<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|job=Delivery Boy First Class at [[Planet Express]]<br />
|family=''See [[#Family|family]] section''<br />
|voiced by=Billy West<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV01}}<br />
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{{redirects|Fry|other people named Fry|Fry (disambiguation)|nothe=yes}}<br />
'''Philip J. Fry''' is the main protagonist and character of ''[[Futurama]]''. In the future, Fry (as he is referred to in the show) is the first class delivery boy of [[Planet Express]], which his [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|nephew]] owns. Before being employed by Planet Express in the year 3000 he had worked for [[Panucci's Pizza]] during the late 20th century. On New Year's Eve 1999 he was cryogenically frozen by accident while on delivery. The cryochamber timer was set at 1000 years; hence Fry woke to the last moments of the year [[2999]].<br />
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== Personality ==<br />
[[File:Fry.png|left|thumb|125px|Philip J. Fry]]<br />
Philip J. Fry shares the curse of [[Matt Groening]]'s other main character, {{w|Homer J. Simpson}}, namely: that of being very stupid, and lazy. They also share the mysterious middle 'J'-initial. This is where the similarities stop, however. The character of Fry is largely an attempt by the show's creators to make the connection between the [[20th century]] and the [[31st century]] a lot easier for the viewers. Often, Fry will be faced with differences in the future, which he then relates to things in his time. As a result, he frequently has to defend the actions of the 20th and [[21st century]].<br />
<br />
Although he is stupid, Fry does occasionally come up with brilliant schemes to save the day. This ability possibly comes from his intense love of ''[[Star Trek]]''. Fry, rivalled only by the [[energy being]] of [[Melllvar]], has the largest encyclopaedic knowledge of ''Star Trek'' in the future.<br />
<br />
Despite being lazy, Fry's heart is in the right place, and when the situation calls for it, he will rise up to formulate a plan to save his friends, even if the plan itself is fairly impractical and/or stupid. Fry cares about his friends, and in spite of [[Bender]]'s awful treatment of him at times, he is still willing at risking his life to save him.<br />
<br />
Fry is in love with his co-worker and friend, [[Turanga Leela]], and tries to impress her. Unfortunately for him, though, the [[Fry-Leela relationship|relationship]] progresses slowly.<br />
<br />
== Biography ==<br />
=== Early years ===<br />
{{further|Fry's past}}<br />
<br />
Philip J. Fry was born in 1974, in [[Old New York]]; he is a native of Flatbush, Brooklyn. Fry is the second son of [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|honest hard working Americans]]. During his formative years, Fry endured a great sibling rivalry with his older brother, [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|Yancy]]. Yancy constantly stole his ideas and, shortly after Fry was born, even wanted his younger brother's name. Fry also spent of a lot of time playing video games and watching ''[[Wikipedia:Star Trek|Star Trek]]''. He was never admitted to public school because his parents felt it would be a waste of taxpayer's money.<br />
<br />
Fry never made a success of himself, and during his twenties (or late teenage years) he got a job at [[Panucci's Pizza]] as a pizza delivery boy. While working for [[Mr. Panucci]], he met up with [[Michelle]] and they began a relationship. On a delivery in [[1997]], he meets up with [[Seymour Asses]], a dog he names after the addressee of the prank caller who ordered the delivery. Seymour becomes his best friend.<br />
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=== Cryogenically Frozen - for a Thousand Years ===<br />
{{further|Space Pilot 3000}}<br />
On the fateful night of New Year's Eve, 1999, Fry is sent on another prank delivery to [[I. C. Wiener]]. When he arrives at the destination, [[Applied Cryogenics]], he realizes that it is a prank, but since he won't not make it back to Panucci's before midnight, he decides to celebrate the New Year where he is. Then, while leaning his chair too far backwards, he falls into a [[Cryogenic Freezing Chamber|cryogenics tube]], which closes and freezes him for a thousand years.<br />
<br />
On New Year's Eve, 2999, the tube's timer finishes and Fry wakes up again. He is not at all sad about leaving his old life behind, and actually happy and relieved that it is all now behind him. He meets [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] who is employed by the Cryogenics Labs to assign [[Career chip|unfrozen people to jobs]]. She tells Fry that he has only one living relative: [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]. Leela then tells Fry that the job that has been assigned to him is that of Delivery Boy. Faced with a return to the life of drudgery he knew in 1999, Fry flees. While running around [[New New York]], he enters a [[suicide booth]] (having mistaken it for a phone booth) and tries to contact his nephew.<br />
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Fry meets a robot named Bender in the Suicide Booth and, after narrowly avoiding death, they grab a drink together. After a couple of beers, Bender decides to leave to re-attempt suicide, but Fry convinces him to stay by saying that he has always wanted a robot for a friend (or at least ever since he was six). Leela is still on his trail, though, after being forced by her boss, [[Ipgee]], to pursue Fry and force him to accept the career chip.<br />
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Leela follows Fry and Bender into the [[Head Museum]] and the ruins of Old New York, before finally catching up with them. To Fry's surprise, though, she decides to quit her job instead of forcing the job of delivery on him. Fry suggests they go to his nephew, Professor Farnsworth, to see if he can help. After [[Relative Box|confirming]] that he and Fry are related, the Professor decides to hire them as a replacement for his old crew.<br />
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=== Planet Express Delivery Boy, First Class ===<br />
{{further|Season 1|Season 2}}<br />
Fry is hired on his nephew's company as a delivery boy. Faced with the ability to travel around space, Fry is pleased with his new position. At first Fry lives in the Planet Express building, but after an [[I, Roommate|apartment hunt]] he ends up living in Bender's closet. Fry immediately develops an interest in Leela but, to his dismay, the feelings are not mutual.<br />
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His work at Planet Express sees him thrown into several absurd adventures: he is briefly in a relationship with [[Amy Wong]], and while the company's bureaucrat, [[Hermes Conrad]], is away, he has an affair with the company's replacement bureaucrat, [[Morgan Proctor]]. Neither lasts very long, but when he almost destroys the Planet Express building and Hermes fire him (along with Bender and Leela) he gets Leela's former job by accident and finds his old girlfriend Michelle unfrozen. She does not enjoy life in the future, and asks him to come with him to year 4000. After they wake up and realise that they are actually just in [[Los Angeles]] two days later, she dumps him in favour of [[Pauly Shore]].<br />
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At a truck stop Fry eats a bad egg sandwich and gets infected with parasites. The worms give him a complete tune up, and he both becomes stronger, smarter, and he is capable of impressing Leela with the [[Holophonor]]. He almost sleeps with her, 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.<br />
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=== The most important person in the universe ===<br />
{{further|Season 3}}<br />
At some point the [[Brain Spawn]] attack [[Earth]] and make all humans stupid. Fry is immune to the attack as he lacks the Delta brain wave (A genetic abnormality which was caused by him becoming his own grandfather). The [[Nibblonians]] work with Leela to get the message to Fry, who confronts [[the Big Brain]] in the New New York Public Library. Fry defeats the Big Brain, but when everyone is back to normal, no one has any memory of his actions and just think he is crazy.<br />
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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 he is his own grandfather.<br />
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The Nibblonians call for his help again when the Brain Spawn are found to be collecting all information in the universe and plan to to destroy it when their task is complete. The Nibblonians explain that due to his "past-nastification" he lacks the Delta brain wave, and is invisible to the Brain Spawn as long as he avoids prolonged thinking. It is revealed to him inside [[the Infosphere]] that it was [[Nibbler]] who made him fall into the tube and come to the future in the first place. Fry is sent back to 1999 by the Brain Spawn to stop Nibbler from freezing him, but Nibbler persuades Fry to allow himself to be frozen to save Leela's life, as no one would be able to stop the Brain Spawn from destroying the universe in the future.<br />
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=== A deal with the devil ===<br />
{{further|Season 4}}<br />
During the events with his crew members, he wound up in a [[Parallel Universes|parallel universe]] where he and Leela had gotten married, he gets his [[Human Horn|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.<br />
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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 Holophonor 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.<br />
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[[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.<br />
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=== The secret to time travel ===<br />
{{further|Bender's Big Score}}<br />
Planet Express' delivery license is revoked by the [[Box Network]], forcing the Professor to terminate his employees. But by the time the Professor gets around to telling them (two years later), their license is restored after a change in management at the Box Network&mdash;they are back in business. Fry becomes a centre of attention as a tattoo on his rear contains the secret to time travel; when Alien Scammers (led by [[Nudar]]) take over the business, they find the [[machine language time code]] on his butt. Bender is ordered back in time to steal all of Earth's valuables from the past. But Fry is more upset that [[Lars Fillmore]] is getting a chance with Leela.<br />
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The scammers feel it best to be rid of the time code once they finally become anxious that the universe will be destroyed. Utilising a mirror, Fry manages to read the code off his butt and escapes back to 1 January, 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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=== Pope of new religion ===<br />
{{further|The Beast with a Billion Backs}}<br />
After a brief relationship with [[Colleen]], he left through the anomaly and met [[Yivo]], they developed a relationship and Yivo took control of everyone in Universe Gamma (this universe) through tentacles in their necks. The brainwashed people joined [[Yivo's religion]], with Fry as their new pope. Eventually they found out that the tentacles in their necks were "[[Coinage|genticles]]" and that Yivo was mating with them. The religion was immediately abandoned. He was brought to live on Yivo, but was taken back by the [[Damned Army]].<br />
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=== The bearer of the Die of Power ===<br />
{{further|Bender's Game}}<br />
Fry took place in [[Planet Express' Attack on Mombil "Mine"]] and was taken to [[Cornwood]] by Bender's imagination. Once there, he became [[Frydo]], and was given the duty of carrying the [[Die of Power]] and destroying it in the [[Geysers of Gygax]]. He was eventually corrupted by it's power and fought [[Momon]] as a dragon. Momon won, and Cornwood was destroyed.<br />
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=== Saving the universe... again ===<br />
{{further|Into the Wild Green Yonder}}<br />
In [[3009]], Fry was needed by the [[Legion of Mad Fellows]] to help defeat the final [[Dark Ones|Dark One]] and stop it from wiping out all life in the entire universe. Because he lacked the [[Delta Brainwave]], his mind could not be read, and due to an accident he could temporarily read minds. With all of creation on his shoulders, he found the Dark One by chance after believing himself to be it. However the Dark One was only a small leach, the [[Violet Dwarf Star]] became [[The Last Encyclopod|the final Encyclopod]] which gave the once extinct plants and animals to the universe and easily destroyed the last Dark One and Zoidberg then ate it. Fry and the whole Planet Express crew flew into a [[Panama Wormhole|wormhole]], after Fry and Leela expressed their true love for each other and kissed.<br />
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=== Reborn ===<br />
{{further|Season 6}}<br />
[[File:Mutated Fry.jpg|right|thumb|Mutated Fry.]]<br />
After emerging from the Panama Wormhole, the [[Planet Express]] crew crashed just outside the [[Planet Express headquarters|company headquarters]] and was killed with the explosion. [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], however, did not die, as he was using a [[safety sphere]] to protect his whole body. The Professor [[Rebirth|rebirthed]] his crew with the [[Birthing Machine]]. In the next few weeks, Fry helped save [[Earth]] from the [[V-GINY]], became one of the most popular [[Twitcher]] users ever after buying [[Mom]]'s [[eyePhone]], and assisted the passing of [[Proposition ∞]], which legalized [[Robosexuality|robosexual marriage]] in [[New New York]]. Philip also went to [[Planet Vinci]] with his nephew to uncover [[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo]]'s schocking secret, participated in the [[Sith-il War|3010 Sith Invasion reenactment]] and forward-time-travelled through three [[Alternate Universes|different universes]]. In August, he witnessed the [[Thuban 9|Thubanian]] Invasion of Earth, went to the [[Robo-Planetoid]] wherein [[Robots]] were capable of both Creation and Evolution and [[The Mind-Switcher|changed minds]] with [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg]] and [['Sweet' Clyde Dixon|Sweet Clyde]]. In September, Fry became one of the [[Sewer Mutants|Mutant]] leaders of the [[Devolution Revolution]], which finally granted the [[NNY Sewers|sewer]] people their freedom with equal rights as well as access to the surface of the city and celebrated his 100th delivery along with the rest of the Planet Express crew members. During that year, [[Fry-Leela relationship|his relationship with Leela]] progressed largely.<br />
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== Name ==<br />
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 Jay Ward, the co-creator of Bullwinkle J. Moose. The trend is also followed by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], and his clone, [[Cubert Farnsworth]]. However, it is never said what their middle names are (except for Homer, where he eventually finds out that his middle name is "Jay")<br />
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He is not to be confused with Philip J. Fry of Hovering Squid World 97A<ref name="The Why of Fry">{{cite episode |title=The Why of Fry |episodelink=The Why of Fry |series=Futurama}} written by David X. Cohen</ref>, his nephew/great-grandson [[Philip J. Fry II|Philip J. Fry]] (named after him), and his clone who later identified himself as "[[Lars Fillmore]]."<br />
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== Character description ==<br />
=== Family ===<br />
[[File:Fry Family Tree.png|right|200px]]<br />
Fry's [[Fry Family Tree|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]]).<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], Fry's many-times-great-nephew and at the same time many-times-grandson.<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]], Hubert Farnsworth's clone.<br />
*[[Yancy Fry, Jr.]], Fry's older brother and grandson.<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry, II|Philip J. Fry]], Fry's Nephew (and great grandson), named in Fry's memory.<br />
*[[Yancy and Mrs. Fry]], parents (Yancy is also technically Fry's son, and is also his own grandfather)<br />
*[[Enos Fry]], assumed paternal grandfather, actually unrelated.<br />
*[[Seymour Asses|Seymour]], his dog in the 20th century.<br />
*[[Turanga Leela]], ex-wife.<br />
*[[Mildred Fry]], paternal grandmother.<br />
*Mr and Mrs. Gleisner, maternal grandparents.<br />
*[[Walt, Larry and Igner|Igner]], many-times great nephew and many-times grandson.<br />
*[[Lars Fillmore]], [[time paradox duplicate]].<br />
*[[Yivo]], ex-spouse.<br />
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=== Age ===<br />
Fry was frozen at age 25 for 1000 years making him 1025. Then 4 years later at age 1029 chronologically, was youthisized to age 14, reverse-aged to near unbirth, then re-aged, supposedly to his correct biological age, 29, in the fountain of aging ([[Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles|4ACV09]]). 4 years later at age 33 he went back in time and was frozen yet again for 1007.95 years making him 2040 but still biologically only 33. Based on Leela's speculation there is a chance after the fountain of aging he is less than 30: the professor never scans them with his age detector. After the events of the fourth movie he is about 2041 years old. His biological age may have reset entirely in "[[Rebirth]]" as, unlike the others, he was reduced to only a lump of flesh and his hair before being reborn. After the events of "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]", Fry may potentially be over 20 duodecillion(short scale) years old, having travelled through the entirety of the universe twice with Bender and Professor Farnsworth, however this has only aged him biologically only a few minutes older than he should be relative to the inhabitants of the new universe.<br />
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=== Lars Fillmore ===<br />
{{main|Lars Fillmore}}<br />
In ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'', he has a duplicate that hangs out in [[Old New York]] with [[Leelu]] and everyone. He was thought to be killed by an explosion caused by an [[iObey|obedience virus]] controlled Bender, but it actually burns off his hair and damages his voice box, turning him into [[Lars Fillmore]].<br />
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=== Relationships ===<br />
[[File:Women Fry slept with.png|thumb|right|The women at Fry's funeral, whom he had previously slept with, signing their lack of impression with his skills in bed.]]<br />
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*[[Leela]] (''see [[Fry-Leela relationship]] for more info'')<br />
*[[Colleen]]<br />
*[[21st Century Girl]]<br />
*[[Morgan Proctor]]<br />
*[[Michelle]]<br />
*[[Ornik]] (snu-snued by)<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Amy]] (''see [[Fry-Amy relationship]] for more info'')<br />
*[[Radiator]]<br />
*[[Yivo]]<br />
*[[Mildred Fry]]<br />
*[[Umbriel]]<br />
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== Production ==<br />
<br />
The character of Fry was intended as the viewer's representation in the future, with the future being presented to the audience through Fry's eyes. Fry was originally intended to have a [[Pocket Pal]] with him to explain the future for him,<ref name="epLTH-com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Less than Hero |volume=Four |disc=1}}</ref><ref name="fTBWABB-com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |film=The Beast with a Billion Backs}}</ref> though that idea was scrapped with the future being described through the events the occurred around him.<ref name="epLTH-com-dxc"/><ref name="fTBWABB-com-dxc"/> Fry's jacket is based on {{w|James Dean}}'s outfit in ''{{w|Rebel Without a Cause}}''.<ref name="fSP3K-com-mg">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Groening|Matt}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref><br />
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The story of his brother, [[Yancy Fry]], was not an original idea from the beginning of the series, but at the same time, they avoided specifying Fry's siblings.<ref name="epLOTF-com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Luck of the Fryrish |volume=Three |disc=1}}</ref><br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
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*Probably the greatest Star Trek fan still alive, with the possible exception of [[Melllvar]].<br />
*Tried to make out with a radiator once. And succeeded.<br />
*Used to drink 100 cans of cola a week back in school, right until his third heart attack.<br />
*Probably sterilized by the [[F-Ray]], if only temporarily. Speculation leads us to believe that when Fry was infected with worms, he was unsterilized. Also, later in the series, he managed to impregnate his grandmother, confirming his ability to have children. <br />
*Addicted to [[Slurm]].<br />
*Usually is the first character to declare something as "dead", although he has no medical experience.<br />
*Once ate a big heaping bowl of salt.<br />
*Is a slob.<br />
*Briefly achieved a higher state of existence after consuming 100 cups of coffee.<br />
*Temporarily became convinced he was a robot as a survival mechanism after being admitted to a robot insane asylum.<br />
*Used to find "edible mushrooms" on his bathmat.<br />
*Tried to swap his lungs for gills, and would have succeeded were it not for Leela stopping him.<br />
*Great at video games, but bad at most other things.<br />
*Possesses creative musical talent, but lacks the ability to physically express it.<br />
*Once possessed a lucky [[seven leaf clover]].<br />
*Very impulsive, he has been known to eat food off his head, dance the hustle for days on end, and place his head in craters, to name a few.<br />
*Dropout of [[Mars University (Place)|Mars University]] and [[Coney Island Community College]].<br />
*Loves [[anchovies]].<br />
*The pin number for his [[Big Apple Bank]] account is 1077 (the price of a cheese pizza and a large of Soda at [[Panucci's Pizza]])<br />
*Destroyed the [[Hubble Telescope]] in an epic space battle.<br />
*Cannot swim, or at least not in Slurm, or in Royal Jelly (as far as he knows).<br />
*Has no problems in dealing with robots and aliens, may even be a xenophile.<br />
*Was almost snu-snued to death.<br />
*Became his own grandfather after inadvertently getting his original one killed in a 1947 atomic bomb test.<br />
*Was once the Planet Express Ship Captain, but was extremely incompetent.<br />
*Has stupid fingers, which prevents him from playing the [[Holophonor]] properly without outside help.<br />
*Has had his right arm, leg, head, hands and nose removed (In his hands case, twice.)<br />
*Was briefly employed at [[Applied Cryogenics]].<br />
*Very occasionally has flashes of profound insight, but instantly reverts to his usual self and forgets whatever it was he thought of.<br />
*His favorite song is "[[Walking on Sunshine]]" by {{w|Katrina and the Waves}}, though he can only sing the first line of the chorus.<br />
**His cellphone/telephone's ringtone is also this tune.<br />
*He, along with [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], appears in all episodes of the series.<br />
*Had nose stolen by gray, big headed, human poachers.<br />
*Almost had his "wing dang doodle" cut off.<br />
*Is the Most Important Person in the Universe. This may also be true of his parallel self in the Parallel Cowboy Universe.<br />
*According to the events of "[[Sideshow Fry]]", Fry has an outie belly button, but in every other episode that his stomach is seen, he doesn't have this.<br />
*His stool type is P-negative. His social security number is 03280810.<br />
*Became [[Frydo]] in {{f|3}}.<br />
*Along with Farnsworth, his facial hair is brown despite his hair being red.<br />
*Holds the title of "Universe's #4307697 Delivery Boy", according to his mug, as seen in "[[The Cryonic Woman]]".<br />
*May be able to eat pizza with his feet, though since this was only mentioned in the [[Dubbing|Spanish dub]], it cannot be considered [[canon]].<br />
*Has the ability to eat 5.1 pounds of cotton candy which makes his blood good on pancakes<br />
*In a running gag in "[[The Duh-Vinci Code]]", he believes that the tool used to hammer a nail is another nail.<br />
**Though he has used a hammer to hammer a nail before<br />
*Has apparently eaten rocks.<br />
*Wrote the [[Delivery-Boy Man (in-universe comic)|Delivery-Boy Man]] comic.<br />
*Has twice suffered from Synesthesia. Once while being [[Roswell that Ends Well | hit by radiation]] and once after Nibbler [[The Why of Fry | wiped his memory.]]<br />
*There are three other people also named "Philip J. Fry" besides the original. The others are Phillip J. Fry from Hovering Squid World 97A, his nephew [[Philip J. Fry, II|Philip J. Fry II]], and [[Lars Fillmore]] (formerly known as Fry's time travel clone).<br />
*Usually survives despite being decapitated and having holes blown through his body.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Fry''': No I'm... doesn't!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Bender! Have you seen my Sombrero?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': People said I was dumb, but I proved them.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': That's the saltiest thing I've ever tasted. And I once ate a big, heaping bowl of salt!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': But, but, Bender need brain... for smart making.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Leela, let's turn back. There is absolutely no shame in wussing out.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Did everything just taste purple for a second?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Don't you worry about Planet Express, let me worry about blank.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Hey, wait. I'm having one of those things. You know a headache with pictures.<br />
'''Leela''': An idea?<br />
'''Fry''': Uh! Uh!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': What smells like blue?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Morgan''': Why is there yogurt in this cap?<br />
'''Fry''': ''[Fry stutters.]'' I can explain that. Uh, see it used to be milk, and well, time makes fools of us all.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I did do the nasty in the [[Roswell that Ends Well|past-y.]]</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': OW! My sperm!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Now, if you're all finished being stupid...<br />
'''Fry''': Well I had more but, you go ahead.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I'll be whatever I wanna do.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I'm literally angry with rage!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'm sorry you saw that, Fry. I usually try to keep my sadness pent up inside where it can fester quietly as a mental illness.<br />
'''Fry''': Yeah, I do that with my stupidness.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Morbo''': Are you ready to play?<br />
'''Fry''': I didn't come here to play, I came here to win. Now let's play!</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
While Fry appears in every episode/film/comic, these categories may be of interest:<br />
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*[[:Category:A plots focusing on Fry|A plots focusing on Fry]]<br />
*[[:Category:B plots focusing on Fry|B plots focusing on Fry]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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'''Philip J. Fry''' is the main protagonist and character of ''[[Futurama]]''. In the future, Fry (as he is referred to in the show) is the first class delivery boy of [[Planet Express]], which his [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|nephew]] owns. Before being employed by Planet Express in the year 3000 he had worked for [[Panucci's Pizza]] during the late 20th century. On New Year's Eve 1999 he was cryogenically frozen by accident while on delivery. The cryochamber timer was set at 1000 years; hence Fry woke to the last moments of the year [[2999]].<br />
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== Personality ==<br />
[[File:Fry.png|left|thumb|125px|Philip J. Fry]]<br />
Philip J. Fry shares the curse of [[Matt Groening]]'s other main character, {{w|Homer J. Simpson}}, namely: that of being very stupid, and lazy. They also share the mysterious middle 'J'-initial. This is where the similarities stop, however. The character of Fry is largely an attempt by the show's creators to make the connection between the [[20th century]] and the [[31st century]] a lot easier for the viewers. Often, Fry will be faced with differences in the future, which he then relates to things in his time. As a result, he frequently has to defend the actions of the 20th and [[21st century]].<br />
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Although he is stupid, Fry does occasionally come up with brilliant schemes to save the day. This ability possibly comes from his intense love of ''[[Star Trek]]''. Fry, rivalled only by the [[energy being]] of [[Melllvar]], has the largest encyclopaedic knowledge of ''Star Trek'' in the future.<br />
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Despite being lazy, Fry's heart is in the right place, and when the situation calls for it, he will rise up to formulate a plan to save his friends, even if the plan itself is fairly impractical and/or stupid. Fry cares about his friends, and in spite of [[Bender]]'s awful treatment of him at times, he is still willing at risking his life to save him.<br />
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Fry is in love with his co-worker and friend, [[Turanga Leela]], and tries to impress her. Unfortunately for him, though, the [[Fry-Leela relationship|relationship]] progresses slowly.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
=== Early years ===<br />
{{further|Fry's past}}<br />
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Philip J. Fry was born in 1974, in [[Old New York]]; he is a native of Flatbush, Brooklyn. the second son of [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|honest hard working Americans]]. During his formative years, Fry endured a great sibling rivalry with his older brother, [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|Yancy]]. Yancy constantly stole his ideas and, shortly after Fry was born, even wanted his younger brother's name. Fry also spent of a lot of time playing video games and watching ''[[Wikipedia:Star Trek|Star Trek]]''. He was never admitted to public school because his parents felt it would be a waste of taxpayer's money.<br />
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Fry never made a success of himself, and during his twenties (or late teenage years) he got a job at [[Panucci's Pizza]] as a pizza delivery boy. While working for [[Mr. Panucci]], he met up with [[Michelle]] and they began a relationship. On a delivery in [[1997]], he meets up with [[Seymour Asses]], a dog he names after the addressee of the prank caller who ordered the delivery. Seymour becomes his best friend.<br />
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=== Cryogenically Frozen - for a Thousand Years ===<br />
{{further|Space Pilot 3000}}<br />
On the fateful night of New Year's Eve, 1999, Fry is sent on another prank delivery to [[I. C. Wiener]]. When he arrives at the destination, [[Applied Cryogenics]], he realizes that it is a prank, but since he won't not make it back to Panucci's before midnight, he decides to celebrate the New Year where he is. Then, while leaning his chair too far backwards, he falls into a [[Cryogenic Freezing Chamber|cryogenics tube]], which closes and freezes him for a thousand years.<br />
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On New Year's Eve, 2999, the tube's timer finishes and Fry wakes up again. He is not at all sad about leaving his old life behind, and actually happy and relieved that it is all now behind him. He meets [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] who is employed by the Cryogenics Labs to assign [[Career chip|unfrozen people to jobs]]. She tells Fry that he has only one living relative: [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]. Leela then tells Fry that the job that has been assigned to him is that of Delivery Boy. Faced with a return to the life of drudgery he knew in 1999, Fry flees. While running around [[New New York]], he enters a [[suicide booth]] (having mistaken it for a phone booth) and tries to contact his nephew.<br />
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Fry meets a robot named Bender in the Suicide Booth and, after narrowly avoiding death, they grab a drink together. After a couple of beers, Bender decides to leave to re-attempt suicide, but Fry convinces him to stay by saying that he has always wanted a robot for a friend (or at least ever since he was six). Leela is still on his trail, though, after being forced by her boss, [[Ipgee]], to pursue Fry and force him to accept the career chip.<br />
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Leela follows Fry and Bender into the [[Head Museum]] and the ruins of Old New York, before finally catching up with them. To Fry's surprise, though, she decides to quit her job instead of forcing the job of delivery on him. Fry suggests they go to his nephew, Professor Farnsworth, to see if he can help. After [[Relative Box|confirming]] that he and Fry are related, the Professor decides to hire them as a replacement for his old crew.<br />
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=== Planet Express Delivery Boy, First Class ===<br />
{{further|Season 1|Season 2}}<br />
Fry is hired on his nephew's company as a delivery boy. Faced with the ability to travel around space, Fry is pleased with his new position. At first Fry lives in the Planet Express building, but after an [[I, Roommate|apartment hunt]] he ends up living in Bender's closet. Fry immediately develops an interest in Leela but, to his dismay, the feelings are not mutual.<br />
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His work at Planet Express sees him thrown into several absurd adventures: he is briefly in a relationship with [[Amy Wong]], and while the company's bureaucrat, [[Hermes Conrad]], is away, he has an affair with the company's replacement bureaucrat, [[Morgan Proctor]]. Neither lasts very long, but when he almost destroys the Planet Express building and Hermes fire him (along with Bender and Leela) he gets Leela's former job by accident and finds his old girlfriend Michelle unfrozen. She does not enjoy life in the future, and asks him to come with him to year 4000. After they wake up and realise that they are actually just in [[Los Angeles]] two days later, she dumps him in favour of [[Pauly Shore]].<br />
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At a truck stop Fry eats a bad egg sandwich and gets infected with parasites. The worms give him a complete tune up, and he both becomes stronger, smarter, and he is capable of impressing Leela with the [[Holophonor]]. He almost sleeps with her, 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.<br />
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=== The most important person in the universe ===<br />
{{further|Season 3}}<br />
At some point the [[Brain Spawn]] attack [[Earth]] and make all humans stupid. Fry is immune to the attack as he lacks the Delta brain wave (A genetic abnormality which was caused by him becoming his own grandfather). The [[Nibblonians]] work with Leela to get the message to Fry, who confronts [[the Big Brain]] in the New New York Public Library. Fry defeats the Big Brain, but when everyone is back to normal, no one has any memory of his actions and just think he is crazy.<br />
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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 he is his own grandfather.<br />
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The Nibblonians call for his help again when the Brain Spawn are found to be collecting all information in the universe and plan to to destroy it when their task is complete. The Nibblonians explain that due to his "past-nastification" he lacks the Delta brain wave, and is invisible to the Brain Spawn as long as he avoids prolonged thinking. It is revealed to him inside [[the Infosphere]] that it was [[Nibbler]] who made him fall into the tube and come to the future in the first place. Fry is sent back to 1999 by the Brain Spawn to stop Nibbler from freezing him, but Nibbler persuades Fry to allow himself to be frozen to save Leela's life, as no one would be able to stop the Brain Spawn from destroying the universe in the future.<br />
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=== A deal with the devil ===<br />
{{further|Season 4}}<br />
During the events with his crew members, he wound up in a [[Parallel Universes|parallel universe]] where he and Leela had gotten married, he gets his [[Human Horn|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.<br />
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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 Holophonor 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.<br />
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[[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.<br />
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=== The secret to time travel ===<br />
{{further|Bender's Big Score}}<br />
Planet Express' delivery license is revoked by the [[Box Network]], forcing the Professor to terminate his employees. But by the time the Professor gets around to telling them (two years later), their license is restored after a change in management at the Box Network&mdash;they are back in business. Fry becomes a centre of attention as a tattoo on his rear contains the secret to time travel; when Alien Scammers (led by [[Nudar]]) take over the business, they find the [[machine language time code]] on his butt. Bender is ordered back in time to steal all of Earth's valuables from the past. But Fry is more upset that [[Lars Fillmore]] is getting a chance with Leela.<br />
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The scammers feel it best to be rid of the time code once they finally become anxious that the universe will be destroyed. Utilising a mirror, Fry manages to read the code off his butt and escapes back to 1 January, 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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=== Pope of new religion ===<br />
{{further|The Beast with a Billion Backs}}<br />
After a brief relationship with [[Colleen]], he left through the anomaly and met [[Yivo]], they developed a relationship and Yivo took control of everyone in Universe Gamma (this universe) through tentacles in their necks. The brainwashed people joined [[Yivo's religion]], with Fry as their new pope. Eventually they found out that the tentacles in their necks were "[[Coinage|genticles]]" and that Yivo was mating with them. The religion was immediately abandoned. He was brought to live on Yivo, but was taken back by the [[Damned Army]].<br />
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=== The bearer of the Die of Power ===<br />
{{further|Bender's Game}}<br />
Fry took place in [[Planet Express' Attack on Mombil "Mine"]] and was taken to [[Cornwood]] by Bender's imagination. Once there, he became [[Frydo]], and was given the duty of carrying the [[Die of Power]] and destroying it in the [[Geysers of Gygax]]. He was eventually corrupted by it's power and fought [[Momon]] as a dragon. Momon won, and Cornwood was destroyed.<br />
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=== Saving the universe... again ===<br />
{{further|Into the Wild Green Yonder}}<br />
In [[3009]], Fry was needed by the [[Legion of Mad Fellows]] to help defeat the final [[Dark Ones|Dark One]] and stop it from wiping out all life in the entire universe. Because he lacked the [[Delta Brainwave]], his mind could not be read, and due to an accident he could temporarily read minds. With all of creation on his shoulders, he found the Dark One by chance after believing himself to be it. However the Dark One was only a small leach, the [[Violet Dwarf Star]] became [[The Last Encyclopod|the final Encyclopod]] which gave the once extinct plants and animals to the universe and easily destroyed the last Dark One and Zoidberg then ate it. Fry and the whole Planet Express crew flew into a [[Panama Wormhole|wormhole]], after Fry and Leela expressed their true love for each other and kissed.<br />
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=== Reborn ===<br />
{{further|Season 6}}<br />
[[File:Mutated Fry.jpg|right|thumb|Mutated Fry.]]<br />
After emerging from the Panama Wormhole, the [[Planet Express]] crew crashed just outside the [[Planet Express headquarters|company headquarters]] and was killed with the explosion. [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], however, did not die, as he was using a [[safety sphere]] to protect his whole body. The Professor [[Rebirth|rebirthed]] his crew with the [[Birthing Machine]]. In the next few weeks, Fry helped save [[Earth]] from the [[V-GINY]], became one of the most popular [[Twitcher]] users ever after buying [[Mom]]'s [[eyePhone]], and assisted the passing of [[Proposition ∞]], which legalized [[Robosexuality|robosexual marriage]] in [[New New York]]. Philip also went to [[Planet Vinci]] with his nephew to uncover [[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo]]'s schocking secret, participated in the [[Sith-il War|3010 Sith Invasion reenactment]] and forward-time-travelled through three [[Alternate Universes|different universes]]. In August, he witnessed the [[Thuban 9|Thubanian]] Invasion of Earth, went to the [[Robo-Planetoid]] wherein [[Robots]] were capable of both Creation and Evolution and [[The Mind-Switcher|changed minds]] with [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg]] and [['Sweet' Clyde Dixon|Sweet Clyde]]. In September, Fry became one of the [[Sewer Mutants|Mutant]] leaders of the [[Devolution Revolution]], which finally granted the [[NNY Sewers|sewer]] people their freedom with equal rights as well as access to the surface of the city and celebrated his 100th delivery along with the rest of the Planet Express crew members. During that year, [[Fry-Leela relationship|his relationship with Leela]] progressed largely.<br />
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== Name ==<br />
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 Jay Ward, the co-creator of Bullwinkle J. Moose. The trend is also followed by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], and his clone, [[Cubert Farnsworth]]. However, it is never said what their middle names are (except for Homer, where he eventually finds out that his middle name is "Jay")<br />
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He is not to be confused with Philip J. Fry of Hovering Squid World 97A<ref name="The Why of Fry">{{cite episode |title=The Why of Fry |episodelink=The Why of Fry |series=Futurama}} written by David X. Cohen</ref>, his nephew/great-grandson [[Philip J. Fry II|Philip J. Fry]] (named after him), and his clone who later identified himself as "[[Lars Fillmore]]."<br />
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== Character description ==<br />
=== Family ===<br />
[[File:Fry Family Tree.png|right|200px]]<br />
Fry's [[Fry Family Tree|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]]).<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], Fry's many-times-great-nephew and at the same time many-times-grandson.<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]], Hubert Farnsworth's clone.<br />
*[[Yancy Fry, Jr.]], Fry's older brother and grandson.<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry, II|Philip J. Fry]], Fry's Nephew (and great grandson), named in Fry's memory.<br />
*[[Yancy and Mrs. Fry]], parents (Yancy is also technically Fry's son, and is also his own grandfather)<br />
*[[Enos Fry]], assumed paternal grandfather, actually unrelated.<br />
*[[Seymour Asses|Seymour]], his dog in the 20th century.<br />
*[[Turanga Leela]], ex-wife.<br />
*[[Mildred Fry]], paternal grandmother.<br />
*Mr and Mrs. Gleisner, maternal grandparents.<br />
*[[Walt, Larry and Igner|Igner]], many-times great nephew and many-times grandson.<br />
*[[Lars Fillmore]], [[time paradox duplicate]].<br />
*[[Yivo]], ex-spouse.<br />
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=== Age ===<br />
Fry was frozen at age 25 for 1000 years making him 1025. Then 4 years later at age 1029 chronologically, was youthisized to age 14, reverse-aged to near unbirth, then re-aged, supposedly to his correct biological age, 29, in the fountain of aging ([[Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles|4ACV09]]). 4 years later at age 33 he went back in time and was frozen yet again for 1007.95 years making him 2040 but still biologically only 33. Based on Leela's speculation there is a chance after the fountain of aging he is less than 30: the professor never scans them with his age detector. After the events of the fourth movie he is about 2041 years old. His biological age may have reset entirely in "[[Rebirth]]" as, unlike the others, he was reduced to only a lump of flesh and his hair before being reborn. After the events of "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]", Fry may potentially be over 20 duodecillion(short scale) years old, having travelled through the entirety of the universe twice with Bender and Professor Farnsworth, however this has only aged him biologically only a few minutes older than he should be relative to the inhabitants of the new universe.<br />
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=== Lars Fillmore ===<br />
{{main|Lars Fillmore}}<br />
In ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'', he has a duplicate that hangs out in [[Old New York]] with [[Leelu]] and everyone. He was thought to be killed by an explosion caused by an [[iObey|obedience virus]] controlled Bender, but it actually burns off his hair and damages his voice box, turning him into [[Lars Fillmore]].<br />
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=== Relationships ===<br />
[[File:Women Fry slept with.png|thumb|right|The women at Fry's funeral, whom he had previously slept with, signing their lack of impression with his skills in bed.]]<br />
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*[[Leela]] (''see [[Fry-Leela relationship]] for more info'')<br />
*[[Colleen]]<br />
*[[21st Century Girl]]<br />
*[[Morgan Proctor]]<br />
*[[Michelle]]<br />
*[[Ornik]] (snu-snued by)<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Amy]] (''see [[Fry-Amy relationship]] for more info'')<br />
*[[Radiator]]<br />
*[[Yivo]]<br />
*[[Mildred Fry]]<br />
*[[Umbriel]]<br />
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== Production ==<br />
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The character of Fry was intended as the viewer's representation in the future, with the future being presented to the audience through Fry's eyes. Fry was originally intended to have a [[Pocket Pal]] with him to explain the future for him,<ref name="epLTH-com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Less than Hero |volume=Four |disc=1}}</ref><ref name="fTBWABB-com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |film=The Beast with a Billion Backs}}</ref> though that idea was scrapped with the future being described through the events the occurred around him.<ref name="epLTH-com-dxc"/><ref name="fTBWABB-com-dxc"/> Fry's jacket is based on {{w|James Dean}}'s outfit in ''{{w|Rebel Without a Cause}}''.<ref name="fSP3K-com-mg">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Groening|Matt}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref><br />
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The story of his brother, [[Yancy Fry]], was not an original idea from the beginning of the series, but at the same time, they avoided specifying Fry's siblings.<ref name="epLOTF-com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Luck of the Fryrish |volume=Three |disc=1}}</ref><br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
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*Probably the greatest Star Trek fan still alive, with the possible exception of [[Melllvar]].<br />
*Tried to make out with a radiator once. And succeeded.<br />
*Used to drink 100 cans of cola a week back in school, right until his third heart attack.<br />
*Probably sterilized by the [[F-Ray]], if only temporarily. Speculation leads us to believe that when Fry was infected with worms, he was unsterilized. Also, later in the series, he managed to impregnate his grandmother, confirming his ability to have children. <br />
*Addicted to [[Slurm]].<br />
*Usually is the first character to declare something as "dead", although he has no medical experience.<br />
*Once ate a big heaping bowl of salt.<br />
*Is a slob.<br />
*Briefly achieved a higher state of existence after consuming 100 cups of coffee.<br />
*Temporarily became convinced he was a robot as a survival mechanism after being admitted to a robot insane asylum.<br />
*Used to find "edible mushrooms" on his bathmat.<br />
*Tried to swap his lungs for gills, and would have succeeded were it not for Leela stopping him.<br />
*Great at video games, but bad at most other things.<br />
*Possesses creative musical talent, but lacks the ability to physically express it.<br />
*Once possessed a lucky [[seven leaf clover]].<br />
*Very impulsive, he has been known to eat food off his head, dance the hustle for days on end, and place his head in craters, to name a few.<br />
*Dropout of [[Mars University (Place)|Mars University]] and [[Coney Island Community College]].<br />
*Loves [[anchovies]].<br />
*The pin number for his [[Big Apple Bank]] account is 1077 (the price of a cheese pizza and a large of Soda at [[Panucci's Pizza]])<br />
*Destroyed the [[Hubble Telescope]] in an epic space battle.<br />
*Cannot swim, or at least not in Slurm, or in Royal Jelly (as far as he knows).<br />
*Has no problems in dealing with robots and aliens, may even be a xenophile.<br />
*Was almost snu-snued to death.<br />
*Became his own grandfather after inadvertently getting his original one killed in a 1947 atomic bomb test.<br />
*Was once the Planet Express Ship Captain, but was extremely incompetent.<br />
*Has stupid fingers, which prevents him from playing the [[Holophonor]] properly without outside help.<br />
*Has had his right arm, leg, head, hands and nose removed (In his hands case, twice.)<br />
*Was briefly employed at [[Applied Cryogenics]].<br />
*Very occasionally has flashes of profound insight, but instantly reverts to his usual self and forgets whatever it was he thought of.<br />
*His favorite song is "[[Walking on Sunshine]]" by {{w|Katrina and the Waves}}, though he can only sing the first line of the chorus.<br />
**His cellphone/telephone's ringtone is also this tune.<br />
*He, along with [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], appears in all episodes of the series.<br />
*Had nose stolen by gray, big headed, human poachers.<br />
*Almost had his "wing dang doodle" cut off.<br />
*Is the Most Important Person in the Universe. This may also be true of his parallel self in the Parallel Cowboy Universe.<br />
*According to the events of "[[Sideshow Fry]]", Fry has an outie belly button, but in every other episode that his stomach is seen, he doesn't have this.<br />
*His stool type is P-negative. His social security number is 03280810.<br />
*Became [[Frydo]] in {{f|3}}.<br />
*Along with Farnsworth, his facial hair is brown despite his hair being red.<br />
*Holds the title of "Universe's #4307697 Delivery Boy", according to his mug, as seen in "[[The Cryonic Woman]]".<br />
*May be able to eat pizza with his feet, though since this was only mentioned in the [[Dubbing|Spanish dub]], it cannot be considered [[canon]].<br />
*Has the ability to eat 5.1 pounds of cotton candy which makes his blood good on pancakes<br />
*In a running gag in "[[The Duh-Vinci Code]]", he believes that the tool used to hammer a nail is another nail.<br />
**Though he has used a hammer to hammer a nail before<br />
*Has apparently eaten rocks.<br />
*Wrote the [[Delivery-Boy Man (in-universe comic)|Delivery-Boy Man]] comic.<br />
*Has twice suffered from Synesthesia. Once while being [[Roswell that Ends Well | hit by radiation]] and once after Nibbler [[The Why of Fry | wiped his memory.]]<br />
*There are three other people also named "Philip J. Fry" besides the original. The others are Phillip J. Fry from Hovering Squid World 97A, his nephew [[Philip J. Fry, II|Philip J. Fry II]], and [[Lars Fillmore]] (formerly known as Fry's time travel clone).<br />
*Usually survives despite being decapitated and having holes blown through his body.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Fry''': No I'm... doesn't!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Bender! Have you seen my Sombrero?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': People said I was dumb, but I proved them.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': That's the saltiest thing I've ever tasted. And I once ate a big, heaping bowl of salt!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': But, but, Bender need brain... for smart making.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Leela, let's turn back. There is absolutely no shame in wussing out.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Did everything just taste purple for a second?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Don't you worry about Planet Express, let me worry about blank.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Hey, wait. I'm having one of those things. You know a headache with pictures.<br />
'''Leela''': An idea?<br />
'''Fry''': Uh! Uh!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': What smells like blue?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Morgan''': Why is there yogurt in this cap?<br />
'''Fry''': ''[Fry stutters.]'' I can explain that. Uh, see it used to be milk, and well, time makes fools of us all.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I did do the nasty in the [[Roswell that Ends Well|past-y.]]</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': OW! My sperm!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Now, if you're all finished being stupid...<br />
'''Fry''': Well I had more but, you go ahead.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I'll be whatever I wanna do.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I'm literally angry with rage!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'm sorry you saw that, Fry. I usually try to keep my sadness pent up inside where it can fester quietly as a mental illness.<br />
'''Fry''': Yeah, I do that with my stupidness.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Morbo''': Are you ready to play?<br />
'''Fry''': I didn't come here to play, I came here to win. Now let's play!</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
While Fry appears in every episode/film/comic, these categories may be of interest:<br />
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*[[:Category:A plots focusing on Fry|A plots focusing on Fry]]<br />
*[[:Category:B plots focusing on Fry|B plots focusing on Fry]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Planet Express]]</div>71.245.126.65http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Yancy_and_Mrs._Fry&diff=72373Yancy and Mrs. Fry2010-10-06T05:56:33Z<p>71.245.126.65: </p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Yancy Fry Sr.<br /><small>&</small><br />Mrs. Fry<br />
|catname=Fry's Parents<br />
|type=s<br />
|type2=d<br />
|image=[[File:Mrandmrsfry.png|225px]]<br />
|species=[[Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|voice A=Yancy<br />
|voice A by=John DiMaggio <br />
|voice B=Mrs. Fry<br />
|voice B by=Tress MacNeille<br />
|family=''See [[#Family|family]] section.''<br />
|first appear={{e|3ACV04}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Mr. And Mrs. Fry''' are [[Philip J. Fry]]'s parents who lived in a completely trashed house somewhere in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Mrs. Fry loves sports more than her children, proven when she was giving birth to Fry, she cared more about a baseball game and was too busy playing golf when Yancy Jr. was trying to steal Fry's clover. She was also too excited about a football game to wonder where Fry had disappeared to. Yancy Fry Sr 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 Fry’s disappearance. They both didn’t care about Fry and thought sending Fry to school was a waste of tax money and didn’t bother much looking for him when he was frozen.<br />
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=== Family ===<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry]], son and Yancy's father.<br />
*[[Yancy Fry, Jr.]], first born son.<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry, II]], grandson.<br />
*[[Enos Fry]], Yancy's father (Though, he died in a nuclear test, and Philip fathered his own father).<br />
*[[Mildred Fry]], Yancy's mother<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], distant grandson.<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]], Hubert Farnsworth's clone<br />
*Mr and Mrs. Gleisner, Mrs. Fry's parents.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Yancy Fry Sr.''': So what should we name him?<br />
'''Mrs. Fry''': You pick, I picked dinner last night.<br />
'''Yancy Fry Sr.''': Well, I was thinking of Philip after those screwdrivers.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Mrs Fry''': Your brother may be missing but his crap sure isn't.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|3ACV04}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV07}}<br />
*{{clink|US#024|Twice Told Tales of Interest}}<br />
*{{f|1}}<br />
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[[Category:Fry family]]<br />
[[Category:Humans]]</div>71.245.126.65http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Old_New_York&diff=72372Old New York2010-10-06T05:55:22Z<p>71.245.126.65: /* The Frys' House */</p>
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<div>{{place infobox<br />
|name=Old New York<br />
|image=[[File:Old New York 2.jpg|225px]]<br />
|location=The [[NNY Sewers|Sewers]] of [[New New York]]<br />
|planet=[[Earth]]<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV01}}<br />
}}<br />
In the 20<sup>th</sup> and early 21<sup>st</sup> century (The [[Stupid Ages]]), '''Old New York''' was known as simply New York. It was one of the biggest cities in the world and produced more garbage than any other city. In [[Timeline of Futurama|2002]] the city put its Garbage on a giant barge. 50 years later the garbage ball was launched into space.<br />
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== Locations of interest during the 20th/21st century ==<br />
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=== Panucci's Pizza ===<br />
{{see|Panucci's Pizza}}<br />
[[File:Panucci%27s Pizza.jpg|left|200px]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': {{e|1ACV01}} <br \><br />
'''Description''': A pizzeria where [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] was the delivery boy.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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=== Applied Cryogenics ===<br />
{{see|Applied Cryogenics}}<br />
[[File:Applied Cryogenics 1.jpg|left|200px]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': {{e|1ACV01}} <br \><br />
'''Description''': A cryogenics lab where, in the 20th century, Fry is frozen. In the 30th century, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] is the Fate Assignment Officer.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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=== Fox Station(WNYW) ===<br />
{{see|20th Century Fox}}<br />
[[File:Fox.jpg|left|200px]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': {{e|1ACV12}} <br \><br />
'''Description''': 20th Century Fox [[Television|televises]] programs such as "[[Single Female Lawyer]]" and programs of the form "World's Blankiest Blank". WNYW Fox 5 is the real life flagship station of the Fox Network. <br />
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=== Coney Island College ===<br />
{{see|Coney Island College}}<br />
[[File:Coney island community college.jpg|left|200px]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': {{e|1ACV11}} <br \><br />
'''Description''': An attraction on Coney Island.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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=== The Frys' House ===<br />
[[File:The Fry Residence.jpg|left|200px]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': {{e|3ACV04}} <br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': N/A<br \><br />
'''Description''': The family home belonging to [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry]]. The house appears to be unchanged in over a thousand years, remaining in it's original decrepit form. An unused bomb shelter, housing the best music of the 1980's in one amazing collection, can be found in the basement. It is located in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, as evidenced by the Newkirk Avenue Subway Station where Fry, Leela, and Bender arrive at. The group use Bender as a form of transport to get there, with Bender dubbing himself 'The B Train'. Ironically, the B train is an actual subway line that serves the actual Newkirk Avenue Station.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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== In the 31st Century: Old New York ==<br />
[[File:Old New York.jpg|left|200px|The ruins of Old New York.]]<br />
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The remains of much of New York still exist as ruins in the [[31st century]], due to the [[First Destruction of New York City|attack]] by [[Bender]], below the streets of [[New New York]]. They may be part of the [[NNY Sewers|New New York sewers]]. Fry first saw the ruins when he and Bender were escaping from Leela during his first day in the future, and Fry recognized his old neighborhood.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:Victory.jpg|left|thumb|Fry in the ruins of Old New York.]]<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV01}}<br />
*{{e|1ACV12}}<br />
*{{e|2ACV16}}<br />
*{{e|2ACV19}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV04}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV07}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV10}}<br />
*{{e|5ACV02}}<br />
*{{g|1}}<br />
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[[Category:Cities]]<br />
[[Category:Places]]</div>71.245.126.65http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=New_New_York&diff=72371New New York2010-10-06T05:32:18Z<p>71.245.126.65: /* Architecture */</p>
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<div>{{place infobox<br />
|name = New New York City<br />
|image = [[File:Nnyc.png|250px]]<br />
|location = [[Earth]]<br />
|first appear = {{e|1ACV01}}<br />
}}<br />
'''New New York''' is a major city in the [[United States]] and the primary setting of ''[[Futurama]]''. New New York is the reincarnation of the former [[Old New York|New York City]], remnants of which can still be found underground.<br />
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== History ==<br />
In the year [[3000]], the name of the city of New York City has been changed to '''New New York''', presumably when it was rebuilt after one of [[Earth]]'s periods of [[First Destruction of New York City|alien invasion]]. The city of New New York is built upon the ruins of [[Old New York]]. The city has seen some changes: the subways have been replaced with a [[Tube System|tube transport]] network, and ethnic neighborhoods like China Town and Little Italy have been joined by [[New New York#Little Neptune|Little Neptune]]. But in many ways it has not changed much in 1000 years: locals are still rude, public transportation is over-crowded, and it is a place where many cultures mingle.<br />
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== Geography ==<br />
New New York is located in the Northeastern United States on [[Earth]], approximately halfway between [[Washington D.C.]] and Boston. The location at the Hudson River delta, which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean, has helped the city grow in significance as a trading city. Much of the city is built on the three islands of Manhattan, Staten Island, and Long Island, which are built above the [[Old New York]], making land scarce and encouraging a high population density.<br />
The city's land has been changed considerably by human intervention, with substantial land reclamation along the waterfronts.<br />
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== Boroughs ==<br />
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=== Manhattan ===<br />
<br />
'''Hell's Laboratory'''<br />
[[File:Hell's Laboratory.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Clone of My Own]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': New York has a real neighborhood called "Hell's Kitchen" <br \><br />
'''Description''': "The nerdiest slum in New New York," Hell's Lab is where the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] grew up.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Little Bitaly'''<br />
[[File:Little Bitaly.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Bender Gets Made]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': Refers to Little Italy, a neighborhood in New York. As well as bits, a unit of memory in computer, and thereby robotic, systems.<br \><br />
'''Description''': A [[robot]] neighborhood in NNY, also the home of the [[Robot Mafia]].<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Little Neptune'''<br />
[[File:Little Neptune.jpg|left|200px|]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[My Three Suns]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': An immigrant neighborhood, like Little Italy or Chinatown <br \><br />
'''Description''': A seedy neighborhood inhabited largely by [[Neptunian]] immigrants. It seems to be a somewhat vague reference to [[starwars:Chalmun's Cantina|Chalmun's Cantina]] scene in [[starwars:Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]]. Both seem seedy, have a menagerie of robot and alien denizens, and both feature the main characters going into a place that sell food. Also, the scene where Fry is saved by Leela from the [[Organ Dealer]] and his accomplice is similar to when [[starwars:Obi-Wan Kenobi|Obi-Wan Kenobi]] saves [[starwars:Luke Skywalker|Luke Skywalker]] from [[starwars:Cornelius Evazan|Cornelius Evazan]] and [[starwars:Ponda Baba|Ponda Baba]].<br />
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=== New New York Sewers ===<br />
<br />
'''City of Sewer Mutants'''<br />
{{see|NNY Sewers}}<br />
[[File:NNY Sewers 1.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A locale with two distinct areas: the ruins of Old New York and the city of [[Sewer Mutants]].<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Old New York'''<br />
{{see|Old New York}}<br />
[[File:Old New York.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': It was one of the biggest cities in the world and produced more garbage than any other city. In the 31st century exists below the streets of New New York. <br />
{{clear}}<br />
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=== The Bronx ===<br />
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=== Brooklyn ===<br />
Home of the Brooklyn Aquarium which includes many marine species.<br />
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=== Queens ===<br />
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=== Staten Island ===<br />
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== Demographics ==<br />
[[File:Heather.png|right|thumb|[[Neptunians]] are among the most notable Alien immigrants.]]<br />
[[File:Tinny Tim.jpg|right|thumb|[[Robots]] are among the poorest in society.]]<br />
New New York is still one of the most diverse cities on earth. Throughout its history, the city has been a major point of entry for human immigrants; the term melting pot was first coined to describe densely populated immigrant neighborhoods. <br />
During the last 1000 years, [[robots]] (among them [[Bending Units]]), [[List of alien species|aliens]] (among them [[Neptunians]] and [[Decapodians]]), and mutants also began to settle down in New New York and live in peaceful coexistence with each other. [[Sewer Mutants|Sewer mutants]] are an exception: They have to live segregated from the rest of society in New New York Sewers.<br />
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Most of the population of New New York lives in apartments. Only a few can afford real estates. The city's population still has a large income disparity that applies to human beings as well as aliens and robots. However, it can be observed that aliens are among the wealthiest citizens while robots are among the poorest and most criminal citizens of the society (see [[Robot Mafia]]) despite, or probably because of, their increased intelligence. Although almost all sewer mutants, except [[Leela]], live segregated from the rest of the world, and appear dirty, poor, and unhealthy to beings living above [[NNY Sewers|New New York Sewers]], this sub-society consist of a wide range of white collar (doctors, teachers, etc.) and blue collar workers.<br />
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'''Leela's apartment building'''<br />
[[File:Leela's appartment building.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Parasites Lost]]" (although there is a possibility that the bed in which Leela and Fry had sex "[[Anthology of Interest I]]" is here).<br \><br />
'''Description''': A fairly regular apartment building containing the sparse apartment in which [[Leela]] used to live until it was destroyed by the [[Scammer Aliens|nudist alien scammers]]. However, it was rebuilt, as shown in "[[The Prisoner of Benda]]".<br />
{{Clear}}<br />
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'''Robot Arms Apartments'''<br />
{{see|Robot Arms Apartments}}<br />
[[File:Robot Arms.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[I, Roommate]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': Variant of a classic name formula, such as "King's Arms Inn" or "Garfield Arms Apartments." <br \><br />
'''Description''': A high-rise apartment community that caters to Robot residents. Home to [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]. Most rooms are little more than 2 cubic meter storage units, as robots require little more than a place to recharge. Bender seems to have lucked into (or pays extra for) a room with a massive closet, which itself has multiple rooms and a large window.<br />
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== Economy ==<br />
New New York is a global hub of international and interstellar business and commerce. The city has always attracted many big and small businesses. Many major companies are headquartered in New New York.<br />
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'''Mom's Friendly Robot Company Headquarters'''<br />
{{see|MomCorp}}<br />
[[File:MomCorpHQ.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': The headquarters for MomCorp, a multinational robot corporation.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Planet Express Headquarters'''<br />
{{see|Planet Express headquarters}}<br />
[[File:Planet Express Exterior 2.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': The waterfront headquarters of a delivery company owned by [[Professor Farnsworth]] that employs [[Fry]], [[Leela]], and [[Bender]] among others.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''GeneWorks, S.K.G.'''<br />
{{see|GeneWorks, S.K.G.}}<br />
[[File:GeneWorksSKG.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Three Hundred Big Boys]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': A reference to {{w|DreamWorks}}, a computer animation company.<br \><br />
'''Description''': A genetic lab where stem cells are available for retail purchase.<br />
{{Clear}}<br />
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'''Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket Car Emporium'''<br />
{{see|Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket Car Emporium}}<br />
[[File:Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket Car Emporium.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Put Your Head on My Shoulder]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': The name refers to {{w|Crazy Eddie}}, a consumer electronics chain founded in Brooklyn, New York. Unlike his human predecessor, [[Malfunctioning Eddie|Eddie]] is merely a malfunctioning robot and not a felon convicted for fraud.<br \><br />
'''Description''': The most high-end place in NNY to buy luxury hover cars, including the [[Thundercougerfalconbird]]. They claim their prices are low because of Eddie's malfunctions, but this claim is not supported by the hard-sell tactics of their sales staff, particularly [[Victor]].<br />
{{Clear}}<br />
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'''Alien Overlord & Taylor'''<br />
{{see|Alien Overlord & Taylor}}<br />
[[File:Alien Overlord and Taylor.jpg|left|200px]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]" <br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': Refers to the retail chain "Lord & Taylor" <br \><br />
'''Description''': A New New York department store.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Hacking Jack's Fine Smokables'''<br />
{{see|Hacking Jack's Fine Smokables}}<br />
[[File:Hacking Jack's.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Three Hundred Big Boys]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A Cigar store selling many smoking brands, and for some reason, burglar's tools.<br />
{{Clear}}<br />
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'''Crack Mansion'''<br />
{{see|Crack Mansion}}<br />
[[File:CrackMansion.png|left|200px]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Three Hundred Big Boys]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A very upscale crack house.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Diamonds Are Forever'''<br />
{{see|Diamonds Are Forever}}<br />
[[File:DiamondsAreForever.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Three Hundred Big Boys]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': {{w|Diamonds Are Forever (novel)|Diamonds Are Forever}} is a James Bond novel (and movie). <br/><br />
'''Description''': A jewelery store that has an ironic "Going Out of Business Sale."<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Ed's Hiking Supplies & Spelunketeria'''<br />
[[File:EdsHikingSupplies.jpg|left|200px]]<br />
'''First Appearance''':"[[Godfellas]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A hiking supplies shop that sells all the basic hiking equipment. Also sells loaded pack mules and sherpas off the wall.<br />
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Other smaller businesses in New New York City.<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:711.png|'''[[7¹¹]]:''' A common convenience store in New New York that sells products such as [[Slurm]].<br />
Image:99 cent store.jpg|'''99¢ Store (temporarily $299.99 Store):''' A store that changed its name once [[Nixon]]'s $300 tax refund came in.<br />
Image:Shifty's True Wonders of the 20th Century Emporium.jpg|'''[[Shifty's True Wonders of the 20th Century Emporium]]:''' A shop that specializes in items from the 20<sup>th</sup> century.<br />
Image:Rook Takes Pawnshop.jpg|'''Rook Takes Pawnshop:''' A pawnshop. Its name comes from the fact that in the game of chess, it is possible for a Rook to take a Pawn.<br />
Image:Frontys meat market.png|'''Fronty's Meat Market:''' A meat market which freezer room is used by the [[Robot Mafia]] as their headquarters. The name implies that this is a "{{w|Front organization#Organized crime|front}}" business, used to launder money.<br />
Image:Nappster.jpg|'''Nappster:''' Nappster is an Internet company that has its headquarters in New New York which offers illegal copies of celebrities.<br />
</gallery><br />
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== Government and Public Services ==<br />
The government of New New York is very centralized. It is responsible for public education, correctional institutions, libraries, public safety, recreational facilities, sanitation, water supply and welfare services. [[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer]] is the elected mayor of New New York and has filled this function for at least the past eight years.<br />
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'''Citihall'''<br />
{{see|Citihall}}<br />
[[File:Citihall.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': ?<br \><br />
'''Description''': The seat of New New York's government.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Central Bureaucracy'''<br />
{{see|Central Bureaucracy}}<br />
[[File:Central Bureaucracy.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': Central Bureaucracy regulates and controls all bureaucratic activities within New New York<br />
'''Notes''': A bureaucrat [[Beholder]] (a creature from [[Dungeons & Dragons]] which is pretty much a giant, floating cyclopean head with a large amount of eye-stalks sticking out of its head) guards at least one corridor; it was found sleeping on the job and begged the Planet Express crew not to tell his superiors. <br />
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'''Applied Cryogenics'''<br />
{{see|Applied Cryogenics}}<br />
[[File:Applied Cryogenics 3.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A cryogenics lab that has existed since at least 1997.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium'''<br />
{{see|Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium}}<br />
[[File:Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[The Cyber House Rules]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': The orphanarium where [[Leela]] grew up, and was honored as an adult.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Earth Army Recruiting Center'''<br />
{{see|Earth Army Recruiting Center}}<br />
[[File:Army recruiting center front.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[War Is the H-Word]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A recruiting center for all the civilians who want to join the [[DOOP Army]].<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Taco Bellevue Hospital'''<br />
[[File:taco.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Bender Gets Made]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': A combination of Taco Bell and Bellevue Hospital.<br \><br />
'''Description''': Providing the finest in medical care and affordable Mexican food. At least one of the doctors on staff resembles a chihuahua (similar to the one used in Taco Bell advertising).<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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== Education ==<br />
'''Academy of Inventors Headquarters'''<br />
[[File:Academy of Inventors.jpg|left|200px]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Big Piece of Garbage]]" <br \><br />
'''Description''': The headquarters for the [[Academy of Inventors]]. They have annual meetings, during which their members show off their latest inventions.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Public Library'''<br />
[[File:NNY Public Library.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[The Day the Earth Stood Stupid]]" <br \><br />
'''Description''': The place from where the [[The Big Brain|Big Brain]] was leading the [[Brain Spawn]]s invasion of [[Earth]]. Contains, among others, the ''Ancient Literature'' room which houses many classical works of literature.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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== Transportation ==<br />
[[File:Opening Credits.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Tube Transportation and hovercars.]]<br />
Subways, buses, and other forms of public transportation have been replaced by the Tube Transport System. Flying cars or [[Hovercar|Hovercars]] replaced wheeled automobiles as they are faster and are not stuck in traffic congestion on the ground, although most of them seem to follow designated airways.<br />
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'''Tube Transport System'''<br />
{{see|Tube Transport System}}<br />
[[File:Tube Transport System.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': It is based on pneumatic tubes, originally used to transport documents throughout offices (and still in use within the Central Bureaucracy). <br/><br />
'''Description''': A user announces where he or she wishes to go, and the tube will activate and route them to their desired destination. It is unknown whether they use pneumatic pressure (as the original tubes did) or something else. Given that a humanoid shape doesn't fill the tube, pneumatic pressure seems unlikely.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''South Street Spaceport'''<br />
{{see|South Street Spaceport}}<br />
[[File:South Street Spaceport.JPG|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Flight to Remember]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': South Street Seaport is a locale in contemporary New York. <br/><br />
'''Description''': A hub for incoming and outgoing spacecraft. Seems to serve both military and civilian craft.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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'''Cape Knievel'''<br />
{{see|Cape Knievel}}<br />
[[File:Cape Knievel.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': Possibly {{w|Evel Knievel}}. <br/><br />
'''Description''': A flight testing center that is also a small spaceport. Seems to serve both military and civilian craft.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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== Climate ==<br />
Since the 21st century, New New York's climate has not significantly changed. In the 31st century, most greenhouse gases are caused by [[robots]], but the human population has found ways to deal with [[global warming]]. The city still has a humid subtropical climate. Summers are typically hot and humid and winters are cold, featuring prevailing wind patterns that blow offshore and somewhat minimize the influence of the Atlantic Ocean. ''Technically'' because Amy Wong reversed the earth's rotation in 3010, the wind blows onshore therefore moderating New New York's climate significantly yet a change in climate was never actually mentioned.<br />
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== Environment ==<br />
[[File:Owls.jpg|right|thumb|Owls at the Planet Express entrance.]]<br />
{{see|Pests}}<br />
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[[Pests]] remain a problem in the future. In an effort to fight the rat and pigeon problem, owls were introduced. However, they soon filled the ecological niche becoming the most prevalent pest of New New York. Cockroaches have reached the size of human beings, rats&mdash;although greatly diminished in number&mdash;can be seen in the [[NNY Sewers|New York Sewers]]. Despite the introduction of the owl to New New York, pigeons are still present, albeit with a greatly diminished population.<br />
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Other species have arrived in New New York, among them golden marmosets who, like owls, have been introduced to fight pests, harmless land squids, toilet snails and wall gophers.<br />
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== Architecture ==<br />
The building form most closely associated with New New York City is the skyscraper, whose introduction and widespread adoption saw New York buildings shift from the low-scale European tradition of the 19th century to the vertical rise of business districts in the 20th century to the vertical rise of apartments in the 30th century.<br />
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The late 30th century faced a revival of the Populuxe or Googie style which shape the skyline of New New York in the 31st century. Various devices and architecture are similar to this form of architecture that originated in the mid-20th century. Upswept roofs, curvaceous, geometric shapes, steel and neon, and bold use of glass are some of the most notable characteristics of Populuxe architecture.<br />
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Other buildings are inspired by the Minimalist movement such as [[Central Bureaucracy]]. Objects are reduced to their necessary elements, in this case a cube. Madison Cube Garden is also minimalist while many other buildings are examples of Postmodern architecture which incorporates several styles of architecture.<br />
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<gallery><br />
Image:Central Bureaucracy.jpg|'''[[Central Bureaucracy]]''' as an example of Minimalism.<br />
Image:Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket Car Emporium.jpg|'''Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket Car Emporium''' is a Postmodern building.<br />
Image:Planet_Express_Exterior_2.jpg|The '''Planet Express headquarters''' leans towards the Populuxe style.<br />
</gallery><br />
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Neoclassical architecture has also returned in the future, as seen with the rebuilt Museum of Natural History and the New New York Public Library, mimicking their original old New York forms. More traditional low-scale neighborhoods akin to the brownstone townhouses of New York's Greenwich Village also appear, one of which apparently belongs to Hermes and his family.<br />
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A handful of historic old New York landmarks seem to have been salvaged and kept for modern usage (instead of them rotting in the sewers), including a retrofitted Brooklyn Bridge designed for hover-cars.<br />
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== Parks ==<br />
[[File:Jurassic kiddie park.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The '''Jurassic Kiddie Park''' can be found in Central Park.]] New New York offers several large recreational areas and attractions open to the public. Although Central Park is not directly shown in the episodes, the Jurassic Kiddie Park reveals that the Central park is still present in the 31st century. Jurassic Kiddie Park, which is aimed at children, offers rides on a living Tyrannosaurus Rex. People are also able to feed the carnivore with pigs for 5&cent;.<br />
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Monument Beach is a man-made beachside park in New New York that boasts a collection of many of the world's greatest monuments, stolen by an evil supervillain who was elected Governor of New New York. Some of the greatest monuments are the Sphinx, the White House (which was apparently rebuilt in Washington, D.C.), the leaning tower of Pisa, the Mo'ai statues, and a slightly altered Mount Rushmore. {{clear}}<br />
[[File:Monument Beach 2.jpg|thumb|center|800px|'''[[Monument Beach]]''' is a man-made beachside park in New New York.]]<br />
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== Culture, contemporary life and recreation ==<br />
'''Museum of Natural History'''<br />
[[File:Museum of Natural History.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Less than Hero]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': Still presenting artifacts describing the history of the world, even in the year 3000.<br />
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'''Rocket Skating Rink'''<br />
[[File:Rocket Skating Rink.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[The Why of Fry]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A rocket skating rink in the heart of New New York, seems to be in the same location as the rink outside Rockefeller Center in present-day New York.<br />
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'''Le Spa'''<br />
{{see|Le Spa}}<br />
[[File:Le Spa.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': {{e|1ACV06}}<br \><br />
'''Description''': A very elite day spa.<br />
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'''New New York Dumbbell Club'''<br />
[[File:NNY Dumbbell Club Gym.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A large, successful gym, with numerous exercise machines and heath facilities, and hundreds of patrons.<br />
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'''O'Zorgnax Pub'''<br />
{{see|O'Zorgnax Pub}}<br />
[[File:O'Zorgnax's Pub.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A pub frequented by the [[Planet Express]] employees.<br />
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== Entertainment and performing arts ==<br />
'''Metropolitan House of Opera'''<br />
[[File:MHOp.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': The name ''MHOp'' (''M''etropolitan ''H''ouse of ''Op''era) is a reference to both ''IHOP'' (International House of Pancakes) restaurants and the ''Metropolitan Opera House'' in New York City <br \><br />
'''Description''': Venue for plays and operas; This is where [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] performed his [[Holophonor]] opera in "[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]".<br />
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'''Radio City Mutant Hall'''<br />
[[File:AwaitingScreenie.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Mentioned''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': New York's "Radio City Music Hall" <br \><br />
'''Note''': A building with robots performing Rockette-style high kicks was seen in "[[The Lesser of Two Evils]]"<br />
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'''Leow's ℵ0-Plex'''<br />
[[File:Loews n plex.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Mentioned''': "[[Raging Bender]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': Loews Plex theaters/cinemas<br \><br />
'''Note''': A building with robots performing Rockette-style high kicks was seen in "[[The Lesser of Two Evils]]"<br />
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== Tourism ==<br />
'''Past-O-Rama'''<br />
{{see|Past-O-Rama}}<br />
[[File:OldNY.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[The Lesser of Two Evils]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A 20th century themed amusement park, loaded with anachronisms.<br />
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'''Monument Beach'''<br />
{{see|Monument Beach}}<br />
[[File:Monument Beach 1.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[When Aliens Attack]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A popular beach that is home to several international monuments.<br />
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'''Brooklyn Aquarium'''<br />
[[File:Brooklyn aquarium.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[When Aliens Attack]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A popular aquarium that is home to several organisms living in the ocean and extraterrestrial species living in water.<br />
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== Cuisine ==<br />
'''Guadalajara Brown Drip Gourmet Coffee'''<br />
[[File:GuadalajaraBrownDripGourmetCoffee.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Three Hundred Big Boys]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': A coffee shop patronized by [[Bender]] and [[Fry]].<br />
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Other restaurants:<br />
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Image:Dinkin_donuts.jpg|'''Dinkin Donuts:''' A small restaurant for breakfasts.<br />
Image:Elzars.jpg|'''[[Elzar's Fine Cuisine]]:''' A very trendy NNY restaurant run by celebrity chef [[Elzar]].<br />
Image:Family bros pizza.jpg|'''[[Family Bros. Pizza]]:''' a pizzeria owned by a family of [[Cygnoids]], located near [[Planet Express]].<br />
Image:CosmicRaysPizza.png|'''Original Cosmic Ray's Pizza:''' A local pizzeria where [[Fry]] learns that anchovies are extinct.<br />
Image:Food-O-Mat Exterior.png|'''[[Food-O-Mat]]:''' A small restaurant where customers take their food off a conveyor belt.<br />
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== Media ==<br />
'''Large screen'''<br />
{{see|MomCorp}}<br />
[[File:Large screen.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Space Pilot 3000]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': Large screen on top of a building.<br />
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== Sports ==<br />
'''Madison Cube Garden'''<br />
{{see|Madison Cube Garden}}<br />
[[File:Madison Cube Garden.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Fear of a Bot Planet]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': Madison Square Garden is a performance center in New York. <br/><br />
'''Description''': A performance center in New New York, featuring many events such as sports and concerts, as well as a Deathball Arena.<br />
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== Crime and law enforcement ==<br />
[[File:Smitty & Url.jpg|right|thumb|[[Smitty]] and [[URL]] are peace officers at the New New York Police Department]]<br />
Organized crime has long been associated with New New York City, beginning with the Forty Thieves and the Roach Guards in the Five Points in the 1820s to the [[Robot Mafia]] in the 3000s. The New New York Police Department has also been featured in the documentary television series [[Cop Department#Cop Department|Cop Department]] that follows police officers, sheriff's deputies, and constables during patrols and other police activities.<br />
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'''New New York Police Department'''<br />
{{see|New New York Police Department}}<br />
[[File:Policestation.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]"<br \><br />
'''Description''': Headquarters of the Police force.<br />
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'''Commander Riker's Island'''<br />
[[File:CommanderRikersIslandJail.png|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[A Big Piece of Garbage]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': {{w| William Riker|William Riker}} was a Commander from Star Trek, and there is an actual prison facility on [[Wikipedia:Rikers Island|Rikers Island]].<br \><br />
'''Description''': A small island prison in the waters off New New York.<br />
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'''HAL Institute for criminally insane robots'''<br />
{{see|HAL Institute}}<br />
[[File:Hal institute for criminally insane robots.jpg|left|200px|Screenie]]<br />
'''First Appearance''': "[[Insane in the Mainframe]]"<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': HAL 9000 is the name of the murderous artificial intelligence in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey saga.<br \><br />
'''Description''': An institute created for criminally insane robots.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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