http://theinfosphere.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=75.10.154.227&feedformat=atomThe Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-19T10:10:46ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.36.3http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Assie_Come_Home&diff=121840Assie Come Home2013-05-15T22:07:29Z<p>75.10.154.227: /* trivia */</p>
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|written by=Maiya Williams<br />
|directed by=Raymie Muzquiz<br />
|caption=N/A<br />
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|number=7ACV21<br />
|broadcast number=S10E08<br />
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|title reference=The 1943 film ''{{w|Lassie Come Home}}''<br />
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"'''Assie Come Home'''" is the one hundred and thirty-fifth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the twenty-first of the [[Season 7|seventh production season]] and the eighth of the [[Broadcast season 10|tenth broadcast season]].<br />
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*"Assie" in the title may be a reference to [[Seymour]]'s full name: Seymour Asses.<br />
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|surname=Groening<br />
|image=[[File:Matt Groening.jpg|225px]]<br />
|profession=Creator<br>Executive producer<br>Writer<br>Guest voice actor<br />
|birth date=15 February, [[1954]]<br />
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|wikipedia=Matt Groening<br />
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'''Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening''' (rhymes with "complaining") is a cartoonist, screenwriter and producer most famous for being the creator of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and ''[[Futurama]]'' (the latter together with [[David X. Cohen]]).<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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=== Early career (1977 - 1985) ===<br />
Groening got his start writing a comic strip called ''{{w|Life in Hell}}'' in [[1977]]. In 1980, the strip was picked up by ''The Los Angeles Reader'', where Matt worked delivering papers and doing minor editing. In 1982, the editor gave Matt his own column, supposedly rock and roll themed, but rarely actually ''about'' rock and roll. In an attempt to add more music news to the column, Matt often wrote reviews of bands he made up, only to apologize the next week, admitting the lie. Although each time, he swore he'd never do it again, he usually did. Finally, he was asked to write a humour column instead.<br />
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=== The Simpsons ===<br />
{{main|The Simpsons}}<br />
In 1985, {{s|James L. Brooks}} contacted Matt about adapting ''Life in Hell'' for television, creating "bumpers" for ''{{w|The Tracey Ullman Show}}''. Matt has stated that while he was waiting in Brooks' office, he realized that he didn't want to sign over the rights to his characters, and thus created a family called the {{s|Simpson family|Simpsons}} in mere fifteen minutes.<br />
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''[[The Simpsons]]'' premiered on ''Tracey Ullman'' in 1987, and became popular enough to create its own spin-off series in [[1989]]. ''The Simpsons'' has survived much longer than ''Tracey Ullman'' and has become the longest running prime-time entertainment series ever in the United States. He now serves as the Creative Consultant on the show.<br />
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=== ''Futurama'' ===<br />
{{main|Futurama}}<br />
After researching science-fiction for a few years, Matt got together with ''Simpsons'' writer [[David S. Cohen]] to develop ''[[Futurama]]'', a sci-fi sitcom set in the [[31st century]]. The show was a mild success, but ratings were poor. This is usually attributed to [[Fox]]'s poor scheduling of the program when it was shown on the channel. While ''Futurama'' was never officially cancelled, Fox decided not to buy the fifth season and the program fell apart soon after. <br />
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Because of strong DVD sales, and consistent ratings for reruns on [[Cartoon Network]]'s [[Adult Swim]], Comedy Central announced on 22 June, [[2006]] that they would order four new direct-to-DVD ''Futurama'' films, to air on [[Comedy Central]] in sixteen 22-minute episodes at the beginning of [[2008]] as [[Season 5]]. After the success of viewership and DVD sales, Comedy Central announced that ''Futurama'' was to return with a [[second run]] in [[2010]].<br />
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*He is also in a rock band, called the Rock Bottom Remainders. Members include {{w|Dave Barry}}, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount Jr., Stephen King, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, and Greg Iles.<br />
*Matt is left-handed, as are many of the characters he designs.<br />
*He and David X. Cohen were show runners for the entire series.<br />
*Matt is on almost every DVD episode commentary. In the commentary of "[[A Leela of Her Own]]", he gets a phone call in the intro and doesn't return.<br />
*In the ''Futurama'' universe, he appears as [[Matt Groening's head|his own head in a jar]] multiple times. He has a speaking role in "[[Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences]]" as the creator of ''[[Futurella]]''.<br />
*He is a self-proclaimed fan of ''{{w|The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show}}''. He uses the middle initial J. for many of his characters, as a tribute to ''Rocky & Bullwinkle'' producer {{w|Jay Ward}}.<br />
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[[Category:The Simpsons]]</div>75.10.154.227http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Space_Pilot_3000&diff=121828Space Pilot 30002013-05-15T11:24:21Z<p>75.10.154.227: /* Act I: "Here's to another lousy millennium!" */</p>
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|no=1<br />
|image=[[File:Space Pilot 3000.jpg|225px|]]<br />
|image text=Fry sees the future for the first time<br />
|season=1<br />
|number=1ACV01<br />
|caption=In color<br />
|first aired=28 March, 1999<br />
|written A by=David X. Cohen<br />
|written B by=Matt Groening<br />
|directed A by=Rich Moore<br />
|directed B by=Gregg Vanzo<br />
|title reference=The fact that it is a {{w|television pilot|pilot episode}} and ''{{w|Mystery Science Theater 3000}}''.<br />
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|opening cartoon=Little Buck Cheeser by {{w|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM}} {{w|Happy Harmonies#1937|(1937)}}<br />
|broadcast number=S01E01<br />
|special guest=[[Dick Clark]]<br />[[Leonard Nimoy]]<br />
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"'''Space Pilot 3000'''" is the first and pilot episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' and of the [[Season 1|first season]]. It aired 28 March, 1999 on [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]]. It guest stars [[Leonard Nimoy]] and [[Dick Clark's head|Dick Clark]] as themselves in [[Head Jars|jars]]. [[Philip J. Fry]], a [[Old New York|New York]] pizza delivery boy winds up in a [[Applied Cryogenics|cryogenics lab]] and wakes up a thousand years later, where he meets [[Turanga Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodríguez]], who all apply for a job at [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]'s [[Planet Express]].<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
[[File:Frozen Fry.jpg|left|thumb|Fry being frozen]]<br />
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=== Act I: "Here's to another lousy millennium." ===<br />
Pizza delivery boy [[Philip J. Fry]] hates his life; he has to deliver a pizza without pay, [[Michelle|his girlfriend]] dumps him and begins dating a [[Charles Constantine|new man]], and [[Bike thief|someone]] steals his bike, and it all happens on [[New Year, 3000|New Year's]] Eve of [[Timeline|2000]]. The pizza goes to someone named "[[I. C. Wiener]]" in a [[Applied Cryogenics|cryogenics lab]], where Fry soon realises that it was a prank call. He sits down and drinks one of the beers, toasting to "another lousy millennium." The bell tolls midnight and he unenthusiastically blows a noise maker when it knocks back in his face, causing him to fall backwards into a [[Cryogenic Freezing Chamber|cryogenics tube]]. The tube sets itself for a thousand years and Fry is frozen. As he lies in wait for the next thousand years, the city of [[Old New York|New York]] changes&mdash;it is [[The First Destruction of New York City|destroyed]] by a group of [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|mysterious spaceships]]. It is rebuilt into primitive Medieval-era castles, only to be destroyed again by more ships. By the time Fry awakens, he sees that New York has become an [[New New York|extremely futuristic metropolis]] and immediately deduces that he is in the future. He realizes that he will never see his friends, family and girlfriend again...and he couldn't be any happier. The [[Opening Sequence]] rolls.<br />
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=== Act II: "Have a nice future!" ===<br />
Fry is greeted by two workers at the lab&mdash;[[Terry|one of them]] gives an extremely melodramatic greeting ("Welcome to the world of tomorrow!"). He is escorted to the Fate Assignment Officer's Office where he meets [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], a beautiful woman with a huge eye in the center of her face, who explains that it is 31 December, 2999.<br />
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A DNA scan reveals that he has only one living relative in this time period: his many times great nephew [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]. Fry begins looking forward to his life in the future until Leela assigns him a permanent career as a delivery boy. Fry refuses to be a delivery boy again, but Leela says that everyone&mdash;even herself&mdash;has to do a job whether they like it or not, coining the phrase, "You gotta do what you gotta do." She tries to implant a [[career chip]] that will label Fry a delivery boy forever, but Fry runs away. Leela ends up falling into one of the cryogenic tubes during the ensuing chase, which sets itself for 1000 years much like Fry's tube. Fry prepares to leave her frozen there but, out of the goodness of his heart, decides to reset the tube to defrost her in 5 minutes. Then he leaves the lab.<br />
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After witnessing the wonders of the city and how it has changed, he decides to call his descendant Farnsworth. He gets in line for what he thinks is a phone booth and meets a robot named [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] waiting in line. It turns out the phone booth is actually a [[Suicide Booth]], and that Bender is eagerly awaiting his death. As they go in, the suicide booth asks for "quick and painless" or "slow and horrible". Fry asks to place a collect call, but the suicide booths takes it as "slow and horrible". Luckily, they both manage to avoid death by backing away from the weapons. <br />
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Having failed at suicide again, Bender invites Fry to get drunk with him at a bar. Fry finds out that Bender wants to kill himself because of his programming as a girder-bender for Suicide Booths. Fry convinces Bender to abandon his plans at suicide and the two [[Fry-Bender relationship|become friends]] when Leela finds them.<br />
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=== Act III: "Welcome to the head museum." ===<br />
[[File:Leonard Nimoy.jpg|right|thumb|[[Leonard Nimoy]] at the [[Head Museum]].]]<br />
Fry and Bender duck into the [[Head Museum]] to hide and are greeted by [[Leonard Nimoy's head]]. Leela, along with two police officers [[Smitty]] and [[URL]], finds the group in the museum, where Fry accidentally bumps into the shelves, knocking [[Richard Nixon's head]] down and provoking him to attack. Smitty and URL begin to use excessive force on Fry, but Leela tries to convince them to stop. After the officers insult her appearance (she actually took offense to a statement about her nose instead of her eye), and Leela knocks them out, prompting Fry and Bender to run for it. Leela demands to know why the officers would beat Fry like that&mdash;they explain that it's their job, saying "[they] gotta do what [they] gotta do."<br />
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Fry and Bender lock themselves in a room from Leela. Fry notices that there is a barred window and that Bender can bend the bars so they can escape, but Bender is unable to comply, saying he is only programmed to bend for construction. Walking across the room, he walks into an exposed wire, hitting it with his antenna and electrocuting him. This causes him to break free from his dependency on his programming, and Bender manages to bend the bars apart, reaching the epiphany of bending whatever, whenever, and whoever he pleases. They go deep underground to the ruins of Old New York, where Fry realizes that he has lost everything he left behind in the past. Leela once again catches up with them, but Fry decides to give in to his fate as a delivery boy. But instead of implanting the career chip, Leela sympathizes his loneliness, saying that [[Turanga Morris and Munda|her parents]] abandoned her as a baby, thus giving her an unclear perspective of her heritage. She removes her own chip, thus quitting her job, and thanks Fry for helping her realize the nonsensicality of the quote "You gotta do what you gotta do," much like he did for Bender.<br />
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=== Act IV: "We have you partially surrounded!" ===<br />
Since all three have quit their jobs, Fry, Bender, and Leela realize that they are now fugitives of the law, so they hide at [[Planet Express]] where Fry's nephew Professor Farnsworth lives. After confirming his connection to Fry for himself, the Professor shows them his [[Planet Express Ship|intergalactic spaceship]]. The building is then (partially) surrounded by the police, so they use the ship to escape. While they take off, the police open fire&mdash;but the bell tolls the year [[3000]], and the ship cannot be seen through the fireworks. Fry, Bender and Leela begin to ponder their lives as they are now unemployed until the Professor decides to hire them for an interplanetary delivery service he founded to fund his work. He even kept the career chips of his old crew as they had apparently been devoured by a [[Space Wasp]] (in actuality they had been stung to death by [[Space Bee]]s). Fry is assigned to be a delivery boy...and he couldn't be happier.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
[[File:Fry Frozen, time lapse.png|thumb|left|The time lapse effect while Fry is frozen was inspired by ''{{w|The Time Machine (1960 film)|The Time Machine}}''.<ref name="com-mg-timemachine">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Groening|Matt}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=[The Fry in tube time lapse scene] is inspired by the – you know – ''The Time Machine''.}}</ref>]]<br />
The script for "Space Pilot 3000" went through several major changes during the writing sessions, and combined they had up to two hours worth of material.<ref name="com-dxc-materials">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=We were very over ambitious in the beginning and we really probably had 2 hours of material for the pilot and realised we could not possibly use it all.}}</ref><br />
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From early on, it was important to establish the new major change in Fry's life, that he had come to the future, before the [[opening sequence]] of the show.<ref name="com-mg-pilot">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Groening|Matt}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=This is a tough thing, to get the show off the ground. And pilots in general probably are pretty tough for everybody. But to do a show where you're setting up a story that takes place a thousand years in the future, and what we tried to do, we tried to lay in a lot of little secrets in this episode that we would pay off later.}}</ref> But Fry's way to the [[Applied Cryogenics]]' tube and afterwards to [[Planet Express]] changed a lot during the script.<ref name="com-dxc-materials"/><br />
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In an early script, Fry was supposedly a watchman at Applied Cryogenics, and wasn't a delivery boy at all,<ref name="com-dxc-watchman">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=In some very early conception of the series, Fry wasn't even a delivery boy, he was a night watchman at the cryogenics lab. One very early one.}}</ref> something which obviously became a major plot device in the final episode. After coming out of the tube, an early script had him being sold for organs to the professor at an auction,<ref name="com-dxc-auction">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=In one of the early drafts, when Fry was first woke up, he was immediately dragged to an auction, where he was bought by the Professor for spare organs.}}</ref> or one where he was forced immediately to Ellis Island and the [[Statue of Liberty]] caught him.<ref name="com-dxc-solcut">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=There was another early version of the script, in which Fry woke up and went straight to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty for processing. And he fell out of the head of the Statue of Liberty and the statue moved and caught him.}}</ref><br />
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In the original airing, the man entering the [[tube system]] said "JFK, Jr. Airport",<ref name="animatic">{{cite animatic |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref><ref name="com-dxc-jfkj"/> but the line was dubbed over as "Radio City Mutant Hall" after {{w|John F. Kennedy, Jr.}}'s death in July of 1999, and since his death was in a plane crash and the line was about an airport, they felt it was too close to keep,<ref name="com-dxc-jfkj">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=It actually aired once with that guy saying he wanted to go to JFK, Jr. airport and then there was the tragedy with JFK, Jr. in the plane crash, so we decided, because it was a plane and an airport, we should change it.}}</ref> All subsequent airings since then have been replaced with "Radio City Mutant Hall".<ref name="com-dxc-jfkj"/> However, on airings in the UK on channel Sky1, the man says "JFK, Jr. Airport", not "Radio City Mutant Hall".<br />
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The pilot episode was also used to establish the [[Alien languages#AL1|first alien language]], by introducing a sign saying "Drink [[Slurm]]" in plain English, and one where "Drink" was written using AL1 glyphs.<ref name="com-dxc=al1drink">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote="Drink", it's the alien language letters say D-R-I-N-K; "drink Slurm", elsewhere in this episode we showed a banner all in English, that said "drink Slurm". That was our clue to people, how to translate those five letters, D, R, I, N, K.}}</ref> Unfortunately, for the show's makers, fans had broken the entire language a few hours after its first airing, and also cracked the "Venusians go home" line later in the episode.<ref name="com-dxc-al1broken">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=We thought it would be more challenging than that, but people were pretty on the ball.}}</ref> This led them to create the [[Alien Language 2|second alien language]], which would first appear in much later episodes, which were intended to be a lot harder than AL1.<ref name="com-dxcmg-al2">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |speaker 2={{n|Groening|Matt}} |speaker 3={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=So, we later introduced a second alien language, which is much hard to translate and people finally got it, but only after— |quote 2=Did they get it? |quote 3=Yeah, they got it. Took a few months though.<br />
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When establishing a pilot episode, the writers decided to put in little secrets around the episode, that they would be able to pay off later.<ref name="com-mg-pilot"/> Though, while they on the [[Commentary:Space Pilot 3000|commentary]] say "secret" a lot, only [[Nibbler's shadow]] has been a thing they have paid off from the pilot episode, and it may be possible to question whether there actually was more.<br />
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[[File:Planet Express ship leaving Earth on New Year's Eve, 3000.png|thumb|right|The final shot where the [[Planet Express ship]] flies out made [[Gregg Vanzo]] fear whether they were capable of maintaining this production level on a weekly basis.<ref name="com-rm-shipescape">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Moore|Rich}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=That whole sequence, I think came out really good. I remember seeing it, and hoping, "god, I hope we can do this on a weekly basis".}}</ref>]]<br />
The [[probulator]] scene was also supposed to be much longer,<ref name="animatic"/> with certain flashbacks to Fry's past being shown to the viewer before progressing into the story, but this was too long as was scrapped in the final version,<ref name="com-dxc-probulator">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=It was another long scene here in the pilot, actually which was even partially animated where we had decided to rewrite it, where this complicated device was hooked up to Fry's head, when they were studying him and we saw all these scenes from his past, including his birth and going up to college, at Coney Island.}}</ref> but several of these flashback stories of [[Fry's past]] later turned into a [[story arc]].<br />
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Animation wise, the pilot episode was also hard, as the show required more 3D than the producers, writers and animators had been used to, particularly from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.<!-- wrong episode: <ref name="com-gv">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Vanzo|Gregg}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref>--> The opening sequence alone was directed by Mike Smith,<ref name="com-rm-mikesmith">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Moore|Rich}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=Directed by Mike Smith, a great animator.}}</ref> and there was original fear about the opening sequence being too fast compared to the other opening sequences of the day.<ref name="com-mg-opening">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Groening|Matt}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=This opening sequence; when we saw it for the first time – fully animated – we thought; "oh, this is too fast, you can't see what's going on, that's too crazy". }}</ref> The theme music, as well as the rest of the music on ''Futurama'' was done by [[Christopher Tyng]].<ref name="com-mg-greatstuff">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Groening|Matt}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=Great voices, great writing, and– great music Chris Tyng did, great animation– incredible animation.}}</ref><br />
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Leela's nose had apparently become a heated argument between the animators and [[Matt Groening]],<ref name="com-mg-nose">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Groening|Matt}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |quote=Actually, the nose thing, that was a– that was a big thing to actually get the designers to draw her nose that big, because they thought it was hideous. That it– that cartoon heroines must have tiny noses. }}</ref> he wanted her nose to be of a larger than usual size for cartoon heroines, but the animators tried to draw it smaller because they felt it looked hideous.<ref name="com-mg-nose"/><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
"Space Pilot 3000" aired on 28 March, 1999, 20:30 between ''The Simpsons'' and ''The X-Files''. In an review by Patric Lee for ''Science Fiction Weekly'', who had only seen the first episode at the time of publication, described ''Futurama'' as a clever upstart, but did not feel it was as funny as its predecessor, though, it was certainly worthy of further viewings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue101/screen.html |title=The future's not what it used to be |author=Lee, Patric |date=1999-03-22 |publisher=Science Fiction Weekly |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> Rob Owen for ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' noted that the episode contained a similar skewed humor as ''The Simpsons'', but felt it was not as funny and smart, however he attributed these issues to the fact that the pilot episode served for a lot of character introduction, and he felt that the show was "off to a good start".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/tv/19990326rob4.asp |title=Simpsons meet the Jetsons; 'The Devil's Arithmetic' |author=Owen, Rob |date=1999-03-26 |publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref><br />
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Andrew Billen of ''New Statesman'' considered the first episode unoriginal, but praised its humorous background jokes such as during the sequence when Fry is frozen, but also criticised its use of in-jokes, such as [[Matt Groening]]'s head at the [[Head Museum]]. He remained somewhat enthusiastic about the show.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/199909270044 |title=Laughing matters |author=Billen, Andrew |date=1999-09-27 |publisher=New Statesman |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> Joyce Millman from ''Salon Entertainment'', on the other hand, praised the pilot's perception of American culture and the show's premise.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.salon.com/ent/tv/mill/1999/03/cov_26mill.html |title=That 31st century show |author=Millman, Joyce |publisher=Salon Entertainment |date=1999-03-26 |accessdate=2009-04-15}}</ref><br />
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Despite airing between ''The Simpsons'' and ''X-Files'' it was Fox's most viewed show that evening, and gained exceptional high numbers according to {{w|Nielsen Ratings}} with 11.2/17 in homes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117492811.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 |title=Fox sees 'Futurama' and it works |author=Bierbaum, Tom |date=1999-03-30 |publisher=Variety |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> And was in fact the most viewed pilot episode on Fox when it aired.<ref name="com-jdmg-rating">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|DiMaggio|John}} |speaker 2={{n|Groening|Matt}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |disc=1 |volume=One |quote=Wasn't this the highest rated debut in Fox history? Am I mistaken in saying that? I think it was. |quote 2=I can't remember. It did really well. And much to the surprise of Fox, because they were very alarmed by this show– this episode.}}</ref><br />
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In 2006, IGN ranked it as the 14th best episode on its 25 best ''Futurama'' episode list.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p2.html |title=Top 25 Futurama Episodes |author=Iverson, Dan |publisher=IGN |date=2006-07-07 |accessdate=2009-04-26}}</ref><br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
[[File:Futuramapilot.jpg|right|thumbnail|The [[poster]] and [[promotional picture]] for this episode]]<br />
*The first shot of New New York was also the first 3D sequence in the show, and an experiment of sorts.<br />
*Leela is officer 1BDI ("one beady eye").<br />
*This episode is one of two episodes that do not feature [[Dr. Zoidberg]], the other being "[[Mars University]]".<br />
*It took the cartoonists over 2 years to come up with the look of the characters on the show.<br />
*In the intro, the Statue of Liberty holds a gun in her torch hand, but during the episode, she is holding part of the [[Tube Transport System]].<br />
*[[AL1|The original Alien language]] devised by the writers and hidden throughout the episode was solved completely by the fans after only one airing. [[AL2|The second one]], however, took them several months to solve.<br />
*When Fry is delivering the pizza, he passes by a sign written in Chinese. When translated, the characters say "young" and "women." This probably being loosely translated to mean 'young women'.<br />
*Even though the show is supposed to begin in our time (1999), it is still in the future. (It premiered in March, showing December in the show.)<br />
*In the rough draft version of the script, [[Michelle]] was named Janet, and Fry was actually named Curtis Fry. It was changed to Philip in honor of [[Phil Hartman]], who was set to have a recurring role as [[Zapp Brannigan]] on the series until his unfortunate death.<br />
*John DiMaggio (Bender) had originally auditioned for the voice of the Professor, and co-creator David X. Cohen had actually considered doing the voice of Bender.<br />
*This was voted the best episode of [[Futurama]] during the Adult Swim marathon.<br />
*The ship of the game ''[[Monkey Fracas Jr.]]'' at the start of the show looks very much like the Planet Express ship. It is a foreshadowing of things to come.<br />
*This episode is the highest rated pilot episode in the history of the [[Fox Broadcasting Company]].<br />
*URL says he is going to "get [[24th century]] on his ass"; "get 24th century" has the same meaning as "get medieval". Partway through Fry's frozen suspension, possibly around the 24th century, there was a [[medieval]]-type period, with New York rebuilt as castles before being destroyed again and rebuilt as the futuristic city.<br />
*Bender takes Fry to hide inside the Head Museum saying, "It's Free on Tuesdays." 31 December 2999 will, in fact, be a Tuesday.<br />
*Bender excretes a brick, a reference to a common {{w|Shit#Surprise|slang phrase}}. He continually does this throughout the series when scared. He even does it after eating {{w|Olestra}} chips {{et|3ACV13}}.<br />
*During the countdown scene at the end of the episode (in the year 2999), France is shown, yet the inhabitants there use the [[English language]] instead of [[French]]. It is assumed that French in the future is a dead language; this idea is supported in a later episode where Professor Farnsworth invents a universal translator that can only translate into "an incomprehensible dead language".<br />
** A dead language can mean a language that no longer changes, such as Latin.<br />
*The places in the first countdown scene appear in this order:<br />
**[[Old New York|New York]]; [[United States of America]]<br />
**[[Paris]], [[France]], [[Eiffel Tower]] Backdrop<br />
**[[Rome]], [[Italy]], [[Pope]] on Balcony turning "Calendar" of Roman Numerals<br />
**{{w|Cairo}}, [[Egypt]], Desert, {{w|Great Sphinx of Giza}} and the other three Pyramids as backdrop<br />
**{{w|Athens}}, [[Greece]], {{w|Acropolis}} as backdrop, two highlights next on the sides of it<br />
**[[China]], [[Great Wall of China]]<br />
**[[India]], {{w|Taj Mahal}}, some people counting down in Water<br />
**Small tribal village, [[Africa]]<br />
**[[Tokyo]], the shot is very similar to New York shot except for the Japanese handwriting font.<br />
**The entire Earth, shot from space.<br />
*All the people in line before Fry select the "quick and painless" method of killing themselves.<br />
*If one looks closely at Leela's computer screen, it actually reveals that Fry's full name is "Phillip J. Fry", which becomes an established fact in "[[The Problem with Popplers]]" (however, his name is spelled with two ''L''s instead of one). His blood type is said to be ''B''.<br />
*When Leela points to the, "You gotta do what you gotta do" poster, notice that the man in the poster has 5 fingers, unlike everyone else in the show who has 4.<br />
*The fact that Leela gets angry at Smitty for insulting her nose is reminiscent of the character "Cyrano de Bergerac" from the eponymous play by Edmond Rostand.<br />
*Even when this episode plays on [[Comedy Central]], several scenes are edited out for time, so some dialgoue and conversations are not seen.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Space. It seems to go on forever. But then you get to the end and the gorilla starts throwin' barrels at you.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Wait, is that blimp accurate?<br />
'''Leela''': Yep, it's December 31st, 2999.<br />
'''Fry''': My God, a million years!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'm sure this must be very upsetting for you.<br />
'''Fry''': Y'know, I guess it should be but, actually, I'm glad. I had nothing to live for in my old life. I was broke, I had a humiliating job and I was beginning to suspect [[Michelle|my girlfriend]] might be cheating on me.<br />
'''Leela''': Well, at least here you'll be treated with dignity. Now strip naked and get on the probulator.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': [[Bite my shiny metal ass]]!<br />
'''Fry''': It doesn't look so shiny to me.<br />
'''Bender''': Shinier than yours, meatbag.</poem><br />
<poem>''[Fry has just been unfrozen.]''<br />
'''Fry''': My god! It's the future! My parents! My coworkers! My girlfriend... I'll never see any of them again. [pause] YAHOO!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': What if i don't want to be a delivery boy?<br />
'''Leela''': Then you'll be fired...<br />
'''Fry''': Fine.<br />
'''Leela''': ... out of a cannon into the sun.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leonard Nimoy's head''': Welcome to the Head Museum. I am Leonard Nimoy.<br />
'''Fry''': Spock? Hey, do the thing! ''[Fry does the thing.]''<br />
'''Leonard Nimoy's head''': I don't do that anymore.</poem><br />
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<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV06}}<br />
**Bender believes a phone booth is a Suicide Booth, similar to what Fry did.<br />
*{{e|2ACV10}}<br />
**Leela's (lacking) depth perception is mentioned again.<br />
**French is proved to be a dead language.<br />
*{{e|2ACV19}}<br />
**A couple passes by Fry, when he is walking, wearing mostly transparent clothing, censored with black bars. These people have moved to [[Los Angeles]] by the events of [[2ACV19]].<br />
*{{e|4ACV02}}<br />
**Leela's single eye is explained.<br />
*{{e|4ACV10}}<br />
**The shadow under the desk Fry sits at is explained.<br />
*{{e|4ACV12}}<br />
**More information about the Professor's old crew is revealed.<br />
*{{f|1}}<br />
**It is revealed that Bender is the one who [[The First Destruction of New York City|destroyed New York]] the first time.<br />
*{{f|2}}<br />
**Bender visits a suicide booth again and even does the coin-on-a-string trick again.<br />
<br />
=== Allusions ===<br />
{{cultural mentions}}<br />
*The space ships destroying the cities were similar to the ones in ''{{w|The War of the Worlds (1953 film)|The War of the Worlds}}''.<br />
*The first scene (Fry teaching a kid how to play a video game) might be a reference to {{w|WarGames}}. In the movie, the first scene with David Lightman has him playing {{w|Galaga}}. He has to go and gives control of the game to a kid.<br />
*One of the billboards in the future shows {{w|Angelyne}}, a real-life busty female entertainer that has billboards hanging around the Los Angeles area. In the cartoon billboard, she's hooked up to some sort of respirator.<br />
*According to Groening, the inspiration for the suicide booth was the 1937 {{w|Donald Duck}} cartoon, ''{{w|Modern Inventions}}'', in which Donald is faced with—and nearly killed several times by—various push button gadgets in a Museum of the Future.<br />
*Professor Farnsworth is named after the inventor {{w|Philo Farnsworth}}, a Utah native and television pioneer whose invention was premiered at the 1939 New York World's Fair, along with the Futurama exhibit.<br />
**It is later revealed in the episode [[All the Presidents' Heads]] that Philo Farnsworth is indeed a distant relative of the professor.<br />
*The feeding lady at the head museum is wearing a uniform like that at the corn-dog specific restaurant, {{w|Hot Dog on a Stick}}.<br />
*Fry's outfit is based on James Dean in ''{{w|Rebel Without a Cause}}''.<br />
*In addition to the setting, part of the original concept for the show was that there would be a lot of advanced technology similar to that seen in Star Trek, but it would be constantly malfunctioning. The automatic doors at Applied Cryogenics resemble those in ''{{w|Star Trek: The Original Series}}''; however, they malfunction when Fry remarks on this similarity.<br />
*The introduction is reminiscent of {{w|Star Trek}} intros in ''TOS'' and ''{{w|Star Trek: The Next Generation}}'' ("Space: The Final Frontier..." becomes "Space: It seems to go on and on forever...") and has similar music and voice-over.<br />
*Leonard Nimoy says that he no longer does {{w|Spock}}'s {{w|Vulcan Salute}}, 'Live Long and Prosper'.<br />
**It is presumed in this episode it is simply because he has no hands, but the truth behind this statement is seen in the future episode, {{e|4ACV11}}.<br />
*The rows of jars containing heads, with the one jar containing Nimoy's head in front to greet people, is reminiscent of the original series Star Trek episode "{{w|Return To Tomorrow}}", where the alien minds were preserved in glowing spheres, with Sargon in the one sphere in front.<br />
*The relationship formed between Fry and Bender in this episode has been compared to the relationship between Will Robinson and {{w|Robby the Robot}} in ''{{w|Lost in Space}}''.<br />
*When Fry walks out of the lab, an ad on a taxi behind him reads "Got {{w|Protoplasm}}?", a reference to the "{{w|Got Milk?}}" advertising slogans. <br />
*Another running gag of the series is Bender's fondness for Olde Fortran malt liquor, named after {{w|Olde English 800}} malt liquor and the programming language {{w|Fortran}}. The drink was first introduced in this episode and became so closely associated with the character that he was featured with a bottle in both the Rocket USA wind-up toy and the action figure released by Moore Action Collectibles.<br />
*In the earliest glimpse of the future while Fry is frozen in the cryonic chamber, time is seen passing outside the window until reaching the year 3000. This scene was inspired by a similar scene in the [[1960]] film {{w|The Time Machine (1960 film)|The Time Machine}} based on H.G. Wells' book ''{{w|The Time Machine}}''.<br />
*When Fry awakens in the year [[2999]], he is greeted with Terry's catchphrase "Welcome to the world of tomorrow." The scene is a joke at the expense of Futurama's namesake, the {{w|Futurama (New York World's Fair)|Futurama ride}} at the {{w|1939 World's Fair}} whose tag line was "The World of Tomorrow".<br />
*The heads in jars in order shown: {{w|Johnny Carson}}, {{w|Lucille Ball}}, {{w|Ed Begley, Jr.}}, {{w|David Duchovny}}, {{w|Gillian Anderson}}, {{w|Elizabeth Taylor}}, {{w|Dennis Rodman}}, {{w|Billy Corgan}}, [[Matt Groening]], {{w|Barbra Streisand}}, {{w|Rodney Dangerfield}}, a {{w|Hinduism|Hindu}} person (possibly {{w|Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Gandhi}}) and [[Dick Clark's head|Dick Clark]].<br />
**In the Hall of Presidents: [[Richard Nixon's head|Richard Nixon]], [[Gerald R. Ford's head|Gerald Ford]], [[Jimmy Carter's head|Jimmy Carter]], {{w|Ronald Reagan}}, [[George H. W. Bush's head|George H. W. Bush]], [[Bill Clinton's head|Bill Clinton]], {{w|Warren G. Harding}}, {{w|Andrew Jackson}}, [[Grover Cleveland's head|Grover Cleveland]] (twice) and {{w|Benjamin Harrison}}.<br />
*There are numerous Simpsons references:<br />
**Rodney Dangerfield is drawn similar to his appearance in the Simpsons episode "{{s|Burns, Baby Burns}}" as {{s|Larry Burns}}.<br />
**There's a {{s|Ralph Wiggum}}-like character when Fry rides the tube.<br />
**When Fry is going through the transport tubes, he passes by [[Blinky]], the three-eyed fish.<br />
**Fry's middle initial is J. This seems to be a popular choice for Matt Groening characters, having used it for {{s|Homer Simpson}}, {{s|Marge Simpson}}, {{s|Bart Simpson}} and {{s|Abraham Simpson}}. Matt uses the "J." middle name, referring to one of his favorite shows, ''{{w|The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show}}''.<br />
**The chef on the Panucci's Pizza box is very similar to the chef {{s|Luigi Risotto}}.<br />
**In the Simpsons two part episode "{{s|Who Shot Mr. Burns?}}", {{s|Waylon Smithers}} dreamt that {{s|Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns}} was in a race on the TV. The intro to the race was an information text saying "In Color". The same font and color like in Space Pilot 3000. It is also interesting to note that "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" aired four years before Space Pilot 3000 did.<br />
**Fry has 9 spikes in his hair just like Bart Simpson.<br />
*The film ''{{w|Sleeper (film)|Sleeper}}'' has much the same premise as this episode. Also, the suicide booths are similar to Sleeper's Orgasmatron.<br />
*The cryogenic chamber may be a reference to ''{{w|Red Dwarf}}''. The main character {{w|Dave Lister}} is punished by being put in a cryogenic chamber for 15 years, except something goes wrong and everyone dies on the ship due to a fatal radiation leak. Lister is left for 3 million years until the ships computer decides that the radiation level is safe enough for him to be released.<br />
*When the head of Richard Nixon says "You just made my list!", this is a reference to {{w|Nixon's Enemies List}}, a list of over 200 people whom he believed were part of a conspiracy against him.<br />
*The person who uses the [[Tube Transport System]] before Fry says "Radio City Mutant Hall", a reference to {{w|Radio City Music Hall}}. His original line was "JFK Junior Airport", a reference to the {{w|John F. Kennedy International Airport}}. The line was changed after the death of {{w|John F. Kennedy, Jr.}} (though it can still be heard in the animatic).<br />
**Although the JFK Jr. reference has been dubbed out (even on the DVD) in the Spanish dubbed version of this episode the man can still be heard asking to be taken to JFK Jr. Airport.<br />
*{{w|Mystery Science Theater 3000}} is referenced as the number "3000" is written on the moon. It looks like the MST3K logo, a planet with the name on it. It's even in the same font.<br />
*Fry is playing a video game called [[Monkey Fracas Jr.]] at the pizza place, narrating it as he plays. The game starts out as a space shooter similar to ''{{w|Asteroids (video game)|Asteroids}}'', ''{{w|Gradius}}'' and/or ''{{w|Defender (video game)|Defender}}'', then approaches a Saturn-like planet at the end of the level. At that point, the planet breaks in half, and an ape resembling {{w|Donkey Kong (character)|Donkey Kong}} emerges. The ape throws barrels at the spaceship and destroys it. The game's name itself is a parody of {{w|Donkey Kong Jr.}}<br />
*The gag of Fry & Bender hiding with their heads looking through shelves and being disguised by lots of other heads is from ''{{w|Young Frankenstein}}''.<br />
[[File:AKBAR.jpg|thumb|AKBAR sign.]]<br />
*''[[Star Wars]]'':<br />
**The police use sticks that resemble the [[Lightsaber]] from ''Star Wars''. Unlike their ''Star Wars'' counterparts, they are blunt weapons (like nightsticks/batons), rather than superheated blades.<br />
**When the policemen are beating Fry with their lightsaber clubs Leela says: "There is no need to use force" as a reference to {{sw|The Force}} in ''Star Wars''.<br />
**New New York is set out like {{sw|Coruscant}} (mostly in the [[Opening sequence]]). The Planet Express Ship's entry, in the opening sequence, seems to be a parody of the {{sw|Millennium Falcon}}'s entrance into {{sw|Cloud City}} in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}''.<br />
**A guy on a jet bike is wearing a helmet like {{sw|Leia Organa Solo|Leia}} wore in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi}}'' on the {{sw|Speeder bike}}.<br />
**The part where Fry gets hit in the head by the remote door is a possible reference to the scene in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope}}'', where {{sw|Unidentified head-bumping stormtrooper|one}} of the {{sw|Stormtrooper}}s accidentally bumps his head into a similar gadget.<br />
**A sign on the street says "AKBAR." {{sw|Ackbar|Admiral Ackbar}} is a character in ''Star Wars''. Though, it is more likely to be a reference to Akbar, a character in [[Matt Groening]]'s "{{w|Life in Hell}}" comic strip.<br />
*''{{w|Back to the Future trilogy|Back to the Future}}'' references:<br />
**Fry shows a little kid how to play a video game, like {{w|Marty McFly}} in ''{{w|Back to the Future Part II}}''.<br />
**When Fry runs out of the building in the beginning, he looks around at New New York like in Part II.<br />
*When they go underground to Old New York is like ''{{w|Beneath the Planet of the Apes}}''.<br />
*The countdown to the millennium occurring at the same time all over the world is like [[1996]] film ''{{w|Doctor Who (1996 film)|Doctor Who}}''.<br />
*The underground old New York City is similar to the slums underneath the city plates in Midgar in {{w|Final Fantasy VII}}.<br />
*The pneumatic tubes that transport people all over New New York are an allusion to {{w|Beach Pneumatic Transit}}, which was a failed attempt in 1870 by Alfred Ely Beach to move people around New York by air power.<br />
*The Robot Policeman, URL, says he would go "24th century on their ass." This being a reference to the 1994 film ''{{w|Pulp Fiction (film)|Pulp Fiction}}'' where the character Marsellus Wallace says to Zed and the Gimp "I'm a get medieval on yo' ass."<br />
*''{{w|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}'' has a similar premise as this episode. The cynical Bender is much like {{w|Marvin the Paranoid Android}}, and the coffee machine in Professor Farnsworth's ship may be a reference to {{w|The Restaurant at the End of the Universe}} in which a spaceship's specialty was producing hot drinks. <br />
*The way Bender swallows his empty liquor bottle is reminiscent of a robot in the Isaac Asimov novel, ''{{w|The Caves of Steel}}''.<br />
*Implanting a 'fate chip' in the palm of your right hand is from ''{{w|Logan's Run}}''.<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*David Duchovny is seen in the Head Museum, but [[Calculon]] claims to be him in "[[The Honking]]".<br />
**Calculon may be lying or exaggerating somehow, being the dramatic robot he is.<br />
**Or perhaps an acting unit named after Duchovny could have been built.<br />
*At the Cryogenic facility, right where Fry shouts "Pizza delivery for..." the desk is positioned almost parallel to the window, but when Fry sits down at the desk, its positioned perpendicular to the window.<br />
*In the 2999 countdown, Bender pulls the arms off the chair he was sitting on. A moment later, an armchair is missing.<br />
*Leela wasn't wearing a ring prior to the hand-holding scene with Fry.<br />
*After Bender gives Leela her ring back she puts it on, but then a second later it's gone.<br />
*They misspelled "Barbara" Streisand. It's actually Barbra.<br />
*When Leela calls for backup, her [[wristlojackimator]] is on the wrong wrist.<br />
*Bender breaks two bars from the window when they are trapped in the cellar. In the next shot, he holds the bars, but they have re-appeared back in the window.<br />
*The crowds in [[Paris]] at the New Year's countdowns for New Years' [[2000]] and [[3000]] are identical.<br />
*It's dark outside in New York at midnight when Fry is frozen, but a long shot of the planet actually shows the eastern half of the United States as being in sunlight.<br />
*Fry wasn't frozen for exactly 1000 years, as he was frozen at 00:00:07, January 1st, 2000 but was un-frozen the December 31, 2999. This may be explained by the leap days/seconds/weeks/years. (See more {{w|Leap year|here}}.)<br />
*When Fry and Bender are at the bar, the barman hands Bender a bottle of liquor. He takes a big swig of it, but the level in the bottle remains the same.<br />
**However, the beer may have completed a loop in a suitable manner to be effected by {{w|inertia}} so as to remain in the can, save for a small dribble.<br />
*Also while at the bar, Bender claims to not need alcohol. This is contradicted by several later episodes where bending units are said to require alcohol to function.<br />
** Bender is shown in "Hell is Other Robots" to have switched to all natural mineral oil in order to kick the alcohol habit and join the church. Thus it seems he does not need alcohol just something liquid to power his circuits. In those other instances since alcohol is readiy available that may be why it is the first option suggested<br />
*The year 2000 or 3000 are not the start of the new century or millennium contrary to what "Space Pilot 3000" says. In the Gregorian Calendar, this distinction falls to the year 2001/3001, because the first century began with year AD 1 (there was no year zero), and the thousand years spanned to years 1-1001.<br />
**Though, it is only Fry that specifically mentions it is a new millennium, which was commonly accepted among people that 1999/2000 was a change to a new millennium. One can suggest that the first millennium only contained 999 years and be done with it.<br />
*When Fry is queuing for the booth, he opens the piece of paper, showing the picture and writing. Just before he steps in to the booth, it changes color and goes blank, then in the next shot it's back as before.<br />
*The [[career chip]] storyline is almost wholly abandoned after this episode. After being introduced here, it is contradicted several times throughout the series through job changes, incompetence, examples of a free market economy and references to the Earthican dream. Supposedly, you are required to work the job you have the chip for and the assignment is permanent.<br />
**It reappears in [[The Cryonic Woman]] and [[Into the Wild Green Yonder]].<br />
*There is a bad framing error when Bender was carrying Farnsworth onto the ship.<br />
*During the Countdown at '9' when they showed Egypt, the people didn't seem to resemble Egyptians.<br />
**After 1000 years, the people who live there might have changed.<br />
*Since New New York was built on top of Old New York, the building the cryogenic lab was in should have been underground as well.<br />
**Actually, no&#151;the lab was on the 64th floor of the building, which is much farther up than the ceiling of Old New York suggests.<br />
**The lab might be part of the city that survives at the same ground level to some degree.<br />
**Another possible explanation is that the lab was simply rebuilt in New New York, and the cryogenics tubes were then moved to the second building.<br />
*Prof. Farnsworth's slippers change color and shape from one scene to the next.<br />
*The last set of buildings built before Fry wakes up look different than it does when Fry wakes up and looks out the window.<br />
**It could be that those buildings were constructed shortly after the rise of New New York, and since then had been knocked down to create new buildings/public transport systems (you know, just like in real life).<br />
*Fry mentions ''[[Star Trek]]'' without getting arrested.<br />
**However, when the door hits him, it cuts him off before he finishes the words.<br />
*Because the world has different time zones, the whole world would not be counting down at the same time.<br />
*The results of the probulator claim that Fry has got one living relative, his nephew, the Professor, but in Bender's Game, Igner is the Professor's son, so Fry and Igner are relatives as well.<br />
**Although no one seemed to know that and Mom wanted that fact to be kept secret, so it's likely Mom had erased that from the files well before Fry entered the year 2999.<br />
*When Fry falls into the [[cryo-tube]], multiple mistakes can be found.<br />
**His whistle drops right next to the chair, but, when the scene cuts, it is gone.<br />
**He quickly hits the ground, flips upside down, and finally stops once he hits the inside of the tube. If that had really happened, the beer in the can he's holding would have spilled all over him.<br />
**Since time is moving quickly, the space ships [[First Destruction of New York City|destroying New York]] would be moving much faster.<br />
***The passage of time could have been slowed for the purpose of showing the ships during those shots so the space ships destroying the city could be seen by the audience. Otherwise, the buildings would have just looked like they vanished.<br />
<br />
=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
'''Time''':10:27<br /><br />
'''Location''': Slurm advertisement in O'Zorgnax's Pub<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': DRINK<br />
<br />
'''Time''':15:26<br /><br />
'''Location''': Graffiti in alleyway<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': VENUSIANS GO HOME [[:Image:Venusians Go Home.jpg|''(Image)'']]<br />
<br />
'''Time''':19:11<br /><br />
'''Location''': Aliens counting down to 3000<br /><br />
'''Language''': ?<br /><br />
'''Translation''': "6" and "7"<br />
<br />
=== Appearances ===<br />
:''As this is the first episode, every appearance is a debut appearance.''<br />
<br />
==== Characters ====<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[20th Century kid]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Bike thief]]<br />
*[[Bill Clinton's head]]<br />
*[[Blinky]]<br />
*[[Boris Yeltsin's head]] <small>(in storyboard)</small><br />
*[[Censored couple]] <small>(cameo)</small><br />
*[[Charles Constantine]]<br />
*[[Dave Borden]] <small>(in script)</small><br />
*[[Dick Clark's head]]<br />
*[[Eddie Farnsworth]] <small>(in storyboard)</small><br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Fry's sister]] <small>(in storyboard)</small><br />
*[[George H. W. Bush's head]]<br />
*[[Gerald R. Ford's head]]<br />
*[[Head Museum feeder]]<br />
*[[Ipji]]<br />
*[[Janet]] <small>(in storyboard)</small><br />
*[[Jimmy Carter's head]]<br />
*[[Leonard Nimoy]]<br />
*[[Lou]]<br />
*[[Michelle]]<br />
*[[Mr. Panucci]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]] <small>(unofficial)</small><br />
*[[Night watchman]] <small>(in storyboard)</small><br />
*[[Nerdy teens]] <small>(in storyboard)</small><br />
*[[Number 9 Man]]<br />
*[[Poster Guy]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]]<br />
*[[Terry]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Smitty and Url]]<br />
*[[W. Disney]] <small>(in storyboard)</small><br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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<br />
==== Places ====<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Applied Cryogenics]]<br />
*Athens<br />
*China<br />
*[[Egypt]]<br />
*[[Eiffel Tower]]<br />
*[[France]]<br />
*[[Giza]]<br />
*Great Sphinx of Giza<br />
*Great Wall of China<br />
*[[Greece]]<br />
*Hall of Criminals<br />
*[[Head Museum]]<br />
*The Implant Hut {{mito}}<br />
*India<br />
*[[Italy]]<br />
*[[Mars]]<br />
*Medieval New York<br />
*[[Moon]]<br />
*O'Grady's Pub<br />
*[[O'Zorgnax's Pub]]<br />
*[[Old New York]]<br />
*[[Panucci's Pizza]]<br />
*[[Paris]]<br />
*Parthenon<br />
*[[Planet Express hangar]]<br />
*[[Planet Express headquarters]]<br />
*[[Planet Express lab]]<br />
*Radio City Mutant Hall {{miso}}<br />
*[[Rome]]<br />
*Saint Peter's Square<br />
*Taj Mahal<br />
*Vatican City<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writers<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
*Voices<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Dave Herman]]<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring flashbacks]]</div>75.10.154.227http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Applied_Cryogenics&diff=121827Applied Cryogenics2013-05-15T11:22:45Z<p>75.10.154.227: </p>
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<div>{{place infobox<br />
|name=Applied Cryogenics<br />
|image=[[File:Applied Cryogenics building.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=You can solve all your problems by freezing them!<br />
|location=[[New New York]], [[Earth]]<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV01}}<br />
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'''Applied Cryogenics''' is a cryogenics lab in [[New New York]]. For over a thousand years it has provided safe storage environments for humans to sleep for lengths of time that may exceed a million years. This long-term uninterrupted stability seems quite an achievement considering the careless handling of the chambers, their last power shortage being in [[1997]], and the fact that they have survived two [[First Destruction of New York City|destructions]] of New York as well the second coming of Jesus.<br />
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The daily routine for staff of Applied Cryogenics is centred around waiting for another of their customers to defrost, and making sure that [[Cryogenic Freezing Chamber|their chambers]] work properly until that time comes. Once a defrostee is awake, they are scanned, poked and prodded by the [[probulator]] at the Fate Assignment Office, and it is soon determined whether they have any family and what they will do for the rest of their lives. They will then be implanted with their [[career chips]].<br />
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Among many others, Applied Cryogenics has frozen people such as [[Philip J. Fry]] (three times), his ex-girlfriend [[Michelle]], actor [[Pauly Shore (character)|Pauly Shore]], comedian {{w|"Weird Al" Yankovic}} and (possibly) [[Steve Castle]]. Staff have also been known to freeze people who have come to be a problem for them, and occasionally use the chambers as fridges.<br />
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== Company ==<br />
=== Known employees ===<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]], former Cryogenic Counselor / former Fate Assignment Officer<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], former Cryogenic Counselor<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], former Cryogenic Counselor<br />
*[[Ipji]], manager<br />
*[[Lou]], technician<br />
*[[Terry]], technician<br />
*[[Cryogenicist]], former [[20th century]] cryogenicist<br />
*<s>[[I. C. Wiener]]</s><br />
*<s>[[D. Frosted Wang]]</s><br />
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=== Assets ===<br />
*At least one office (in [[New New York]])<br />
*At least 45 fully functional cryotubes<br />
*[[Probulator]]<br />
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=== Known users ===<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] (01 January, 2000 - 31 December, 2999, for a few days in 3001, and 01 January, 2000 - December 3007)<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] (01 January, 2000 - December, 3007)<br />
*[[Lars Fillmore]], who is a [[time paradox duplicate]] of Fry (2012 - 3002)<br />
*[[Pauly Shore (character)|Pauly Shore]] (Sometime in early 21st century - 3001)<br />
*[[Michelle]] (Sometime in early 21st century - 3001 and in 3001 for a few days)<br />
*[[Turanga Leela]] (31 December, 2999 for 5 minutes)<br />
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== Production == <br />
From the very beginning of the script for "[[Space Pilot 3000]]" was the purpose of the Applied Cryogenics company sealed. It was meant to be the gateway for Fry to get to the year [[3000]]. However, exactly how he got there, and what happened afterwards changed a lot during the editing of the script. In an early version was Fry supposed to be a night watchman at the company.<ref name="ep1-commentary">{{cite commentary |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref><br />
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After waking up, Fry would either have been shifted to auction where the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] bought him for organ supply or shipped to Ellis Island and get cut by the [[Statue of Liberty]].<ref name="ep1-commentary"/> However, it was decided it would be cleaner to have him meet Leela at the Applied Cryogenics, which may suggest Leela was originally written with a different past.<br />
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The concept for the cryogenic plot as a whole was a general science-fiction cliché, that the writers decided to use as their method.<ref name="ep1-commentary"/> Though, [[John DiMaggio]] does question whether the survival of the building during the destructions of New York is another secret, equal in measure to [[Nibbler's shadow]],<ref name="ep1-jd-commentary">{{cite commentary |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |speaker={{n|DiMaggio|John}}}}</ref> but [[David X. Cohen]] responds with it being so secret, that no one on Earth knows the answer.<ref name="ep1-dxc-commentary">{{cite commentary |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1 |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}}}}</ref><br />
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== Image Gallery ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Applied Cryogenics 1.jpg|Applied Cryogenics on New Year's Eve, [[1999]]<br />
File:Applied Cryogenics 2.jpg|Last power failure at Applied Cryogenics<br />
File:Applied Cryogenics 3.jpg|Applied Cryogenics on [[New Year, 3000|New Year]]'s Eve, [[2999]]<br />
</gallery><br />
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== Additional Info == <br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*At the time of Fry's freezing, they hadn't had a power failure since 1997. Since Fry survives for a thousand years, it can be assumed that they continued to not have a power failure for a thousand years (although the building itself may have been protected by the Nibblonians to ensure that Fry will be unfrozen at the year 3000).<br />
*Applied Cryogenics has had such esteemed patrons as Pauly Shore and "Weird" Al Yankovic.<br />
*The cryotubes seem similar to the stasis pods of {{w|Red Dwarf}}.<br />
*The frozen man who hoped time was cyclical would be proven right much later in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]".<br />
*It can be assumed that the cryo-tube timer is very slightly off, as Fry was frozen at midnight on 1 January, 2000, and it was set for 1000 years, meaning a 1 January, 3000 release, however he was released at least 7 hours early (5 pm, any later an the sun would be down in winter) On 31 December, 2999.<br />
*The [[Cryo-Tube|Cryo-Tubes]] seem to have undergone a refurbishment in [[3011]], as seen in "[[Law and Oracle]]". It's possible that the [[Planet Express crew]] took one of the old ones for the photo shoot in "[[Neutopia]]", as Fry poses in an older version of one.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Terry''': ''[Dramatically.]'' Welcome to the world of tomorrow!!<br />
'''Lou''': Why do you always have to say it that way?<br />
'''Terry''': Haven't you ever heard of a little thing called showmanship? ''[He turns back to Fry, and speaks dramatically.]'' Come, your destiny awaits!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Ipji''': This is unacceptable, Leela. You must find this Mr. Fry and install his chip.<br />
'''Leela''': Look, he's just a nobody who doesn't want to be a delivery boy. I'd really rather not force it on him.<br />
'''Ipji''': Well, that's your job, whether you like it or not. And it's my job to make you do your job whether I like it or not. Which I do, very much! Now get to work!</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV01}}<br />
*{{e|2ACV16}}<br />
*{{e|2ACV19}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV07}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV10}}<br />
*{{f|1}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV16}}<br />
*{{clink|US#007|New Year's Rockin' Evil}}<br />
*{{clink|US#057|Steampunk'd}} (seen as a fake set)<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Organizations]]</div>75.10.154.227http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Tom_Kenny&diff=121824Tom Kenny2013-05-14T23:19:27Z<p>75.10.154.227: </p>
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<div>{{crew infobox<br />
|firstname=Tom<br />
|surname=Kenny<br />
|image=[[File:Tom Kenny.jpg|225px]]<br />
|profession=Voice actor<br />
|birth date=13 July, [[1962]]<br />
|voice category=Tom Kenny<br />
|wikipedia=Tom Kenny<br />
|imdb=nm0444786<br />
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'''Thomas James "Tom" Kenny''' is an American actor and comedian who makes occasional appearances on ''[[Futurama]]'', including doing the voices of [[Philip J. Fry|Fry's]] brother [[Yancy Fry Jr.]] and the sports venturer [[Abner Doubledeal]]. An accomplished voice actor, he is best known worldwide for being the voice of the {{w|SpongeBob SquarePants (character)|SpongeBob SquarePants}} and others in {{w|SpongeBob SquarePants|the eponymous television series}}, but he is also known for the voices of Cupid in ''{{w|The Fairly OddParents}}'', the Narrator in ''{{w|The Powerpuff Girls}}'', Bill Straitman in ''{{w|Histeria!}}'', and Wheelie and Skids in the {{w|Transformers (film series)|''Transformers'' films}}. Tom has also been involved in live action roles, being one of the performers in the {{w|HBO}} series ''{{w|Mr. Show}}'', created by ''Futurama'' guest stars [[David Cross]] and [[Bob Odenkirk]].<br />
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During the [[original run]], Kenny was given a "Guest Starring" credit for his appearances. However, since ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'' he has been given a "Special Appearance" credit, likely due to his increased notability as the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants.<br />
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== Characters voiced ==<br />
=== Major characters ===<br />
*[[Yancy Fry, Jr.]]<br />
*[[Abner Doubledeal]]<br />
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=== Memorable characters ===<br />
*[[Adlai Atkins]]<br />
*[[Masked Unit]]<br />
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== Episode credits ==<br />
=== Guest Starring ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV05}}<br />
*{{e|2ACV08}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV04}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV09}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV16}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV21}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV07}}<br />
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=== Special Appearance by ===<br />
*{{f|1}}<br />
**{{e|5ACV02}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV21}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV24}}<br />
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{{Voice actors}}<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kenny, Tom}}<br />
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[[Category:Voice actors]]</div>75.10.154.227http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Philip_J._Fry&diff=121818Philip J. Fry2013-05-14T20:49:21Z<p>75.10.154.227: /* Personality and abilities */</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Philip J. Fry<br />
|type=p<br />
|image=[[File:Fry promo 2.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=A [[promotional picture]] of Fry.<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|age=At time of freezing: 25. Chronologically: 2045<br><small>(If not counting the events of [[The Late Philip J. Fry|6ACV07]])</small><br>Biologically: <!-- please, do not change this, if you have a disagreement, take it up on the talk page --> 38<br>''See [[#Age|age]] section for more information.''<br />
|birth date=14 August, 1974<ref>[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1690915 Everything2.com]</ref><br />
|species=[[Humans|Human]]<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|job=Executive Delivery Boy First Class at [[Planet Express]]<br />
|family= Mrs. Fry (Mother)<br />
Yancy Fry, Sr. (Father)<br />
Yancy Fry, Jr. (Brother)<br />
Philip J. Fry II (Nephew)<br />
Hubert J. Fransworth (Great ----- Nephew)<br />
Cubert Farnsworth (Great ----- Nephew)<br />
Igner (Great ----- Nephew)<br />
|voice A=Intended<br />
|voice A by=Charlie Schlatter<br />
|voice B=In the show<br />
|voice B by=Billy West<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV01}}<br />
}}<br />
{{redirects|Fry|other people named Fry|Fry (disambiguation)}}<br />
'''Philip J. Fry''' (often referred to only by his last name, ''Fry'') is the main protagonist and character of ''[[Futurama]]''. In the future, Fry is the executive delivery boy of [[Planet Express]], which his [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|nephew/grandson]] 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 [[cryo-tube]] timer was set at 1000 years; hence Fry woke to the last moments of the year [[2999]].<br />
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== Personality and abilities ==<br />
[[File:Fry.png|left|thumb|100px|Philip J. Fry]]<br />
Philip J. Fry shares the curse of one of [[Matt Groening]]'s other main characters, [[The Simpsons]]' [[simpsons:Homer J. Simpson|Homer J. Simpson]], namely: that of being 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 century.<br />
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Because Fry is very stupid, it means that when he has a brain slug, it will starve to death from his stupidity. Although he is stupid, Fry does occasionally come up with brilliant schemes to save the day, an ability which possibly comes from his intense love of ''[[Star Trek]]''. Fry, rivaled only by the [[energy being]] of [[Melllvar]], has the largest encyclopaedic knowledge of ''Star Trek'' in the future. Another example of Fry's occasional brilliance was during the [[Brain Spawn]] attack on [[Earth]]. With the rest of the crew stupefied, Fry was able to save Earth by exploiting the Brainspawn's weaknesses. Strangely enough, Fry's stupidity appears to be his greatest strength as he the only known person in the universe who lacks a [[Delta brainwave]] and therefore is immune to the Brainspawn's stupification fields. [[Ken]], a [[Nibblonians|Nibblonian]], has noted he possesses a "superior yet inferior" mind. He lacks the Delta brainwave because he is actually his own grandfather {{et|3ACV19}}.<br />
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Also because he lacks the Delta brainwave, he is immune to telepathy. {{et|5ACV16}} {{et|2ACV08}}<br />
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Fry is also usually quick to make very rash decisions, such as traveling back to the year 2000 (''[[Bender's Big Score]]'') or stowing away on Zapp Brannigan's ship to leave the universe after being upset about [[Colleen]] ([[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]).<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, though because of his lack of intelligence he rarely comes up with any good plans. Fry cares about his friends, and in spite of [[Bender]]'s awful treatment of him at times, he is still willing to risk his life to save him, which Bender reciprocates. However, it shows that Fry enjoys Bender being "mean" to him, because when [[Bender]] has to leave the planet express crew for his own saftey, [[Clamps]] takes his place and behaves in the same way Bender would towards Fry and Fry just laughs and continues.<br />
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Fry loves video games, and as such, he is usually shown to be very good at them, although not all games. Furthermore, he never manages to finish the boss mob on space invaders, he always had to get his brother Yancy to do it for him. Due to not being good at all games, he is also shown to be a crackshot, and usually mans the ships weapons, when they are under attack. He has also got a lot better at fighting, by "Fun on a Bun" {{et|7ACV08}}<br />
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== Savantism ==<br />
Several instances throughout the series have suggested an abnormal mind tied to savantism and synesthesia:<br />
*Shown in "[[All the Presidents' Heads]]", he is a compulsive counter.<br />
*In "[[Roswell that Ends Well]]" and "[[The Why of Fry]]", he is a colour-gustatory synesthete.<br />
*Throughout the series, he shows great intelligence countered by an inability to properly express it as such.<br />
*He is capable of incredible musical creativity, but lacks the physical means to express it. ("[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]")<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
=== Early years ===<br />
{{further|Fry's past}}<br />
[[file:FryBirth.png|thumb|right|Fry's birth in [[1974]] {{et|3ACV04}}.]]<br />
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Philip J. Fry was born in [[1974]], in the [[Brooklyn Pre-Med Hospital]] in [[Old New York]], a native of Flatbush, [[Brooklyn]]. Fry is the second son of [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|honest hard working Americans]], whose surnames imply [[English]] and [[German]] ancestry.<br />
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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 ''[[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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[[file:Frozen Fry.jpg|thumb|left|225px|Fry is frozen for a thousand years in a cryogenics tube.]]<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 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, [[Ipji]], 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 boy 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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[[file:Promo 1ACV08.jpg|thumb|left|225px|Fry with [[Turanga Leela]] (left) and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez]] (middle), his closest work partners and friends.]]<br />
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=== Planet Express Delivery Boy, First Class ===<br />
{{further|Season 1|Season 2}}<br />
Fry is hired on at 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 fires 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 her to the 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 (character)|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 becomes stronger, smarter, and is capable of impressing Leela with the [[Holophonor]]. He almost sleeps with her, but Fry fears that Leela is falling in love with the worms rather than himself, so he decides to get rid of them. And he appears to be right: she immediately asks him to leave when he commits a relationship blunder; namely, talking about his previous fling with Amy Wong.<br />
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=== The most important person in the universe ===<br />
{{further|Season 3}}<br />
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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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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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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[[File:Fry pushing himself in 4ACV10.png|thumb|right|225px|Fry pushes himself into the cryotube to save the world.]]<br />
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=== A deal with the devil ===<br />
{{further|Season 4}}<br />
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During the events with his coworkers, he became a [[Captain Yesterday|super hero]], met the cast of [[Star Trek]], wound up in a [[Parallel Universes|parallel universe]] where he and Leela had gotten married and gets his [[Human Horn|nose]] cut off.<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 the worst ever, though Leela remains behind to hear him finish.<br />
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[[File:Lars Fillmore.png|thumb|left|225px|Fry's [[time paradox duplicate]], [[Lars Fillmore]].]]<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- they are back in business. Fry becomes a centre of attention when Alien Scammers (led by [[Nudar]]) take over the Planet Express and find the [[machine language time code]] on Fry's butt. Using the code, a virus-infected 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 duplicate 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 part 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 its power and fought [[Momon]] as a dragon. Momon won, and Cornwood was destroyed.<br />
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[[File:Futurama Into the Wild Green Yonder Fry as Security Guard.png|right|thumb|Fry works undercover as a security guard for [[Leo Wong]].]]<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 [[Last Dark One|final 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 [[Desert Muck Leech|small leech]], the [[Violet Dwarf Star]] became the [[Last Encyclopod|final Encyclopod]], which gave the once extinct plants and animals to the universe and easily destroyed the last Dark One, whom [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] then ate. The whole [[Planet Express crew]] flew into a [[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|left|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 in 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 in 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]]'s shocking 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]] (although he was, in fact, not mutated but was in actuality lodged in the mouth of the mutated ''[[Mr. Astor]]'', 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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== Character description ==<br />
=== Family ===<br />
[[File:Fry Family Tree.png|right|200px]]<br />
Fry's [[Fry family|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 grandfather {{et|3ACV19}}.<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], Fry's many-times-great-nephew and at the same time many-times-grandson.<br />
*[[Farnsworth's father|Ned Farnsworth]], Hubert's father<br />
*[[Farnsworth's mother|Velma Farnsworth]], Hubert's mother<br />
*[[Floyd Farnsworth]], Hubert's brother<br />
*[[Cubert J. Farnsworth]], Hubert Farnsworth's clone.<br />
*[[Yancy Fry, Jr.]], Fry's older brother and grandson.<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry, II]], Fry's Nephew (and great grandson), named in Fry's memory.<br />
*[[Yancy Fry]] 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 and girlfriend.<br />
*[[Mildred Fry]], paternal grandmother.<br />
*Mr and Mrs. Gleisner, maternal grandparents.<br />
*[[Igner]], many-times great nephew and many-times grandson.<br />
*[[Lars Fillmore]], [[time paradox duplicate]].<br />
*[[Yivo]], ex-spouse.<br />
*[[Mr. Peppy]], former pet<br />
*[[Fry's guinea pig|Unnamed guinea pig]], former pet ([[6ACV24]])<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 {{et|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, the [[forward time machine]] appeared to be insulated from the passage of time outside of it, and so this has only biologically aged him 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 lives in [[Old New York]] with [[Leelu]] and everyone from [[Fry's past|Fry's old, 20th-century life]]. 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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[[File:Neutopia.jpg|thumb|right|Fry as a woman in "[[Neutopia]]".]]<br />
[[File:626-Fry-Anime.jpg|thumb|right|Concept art of Fry in anime style in "[[Reincarnation]]".]]<br />
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=== Alternate appearances ===<br />
This list is incomplete.<br />
*'''[[1ACV01]]''': Fry is seen for the first time.<br />
*'''[[1ACV05]]''': Fry dresses up as a robot in an attempt to fool the inhabitants of [[Chapek 9]].<br />
*'''[[1ACV07]]''': Fry drinks the current emperor of [[Trisol]], [[Bont]], but Bont is still alive inside of Fry, and can be seen glowing inside of Fry's stomach.<br />
*'''[[2ACV07]]''': After a [[hovercar]] accident, Fry's head is sewn on to [[Amy]]'s body by [[Dr. Zoidberg]].<br />
*'''[[2ACV09]]''': Fry is seen inside the [[internet]].<br />
*'''[[3ACV04]]''': Fry is seen as a teenager, and more of his 20th century life before he got frozen is shown.<br />
*'''[[3ACV18]]''': Fry appears in the "[[Anthology of Interest II]]" segment, [[Wizzin']], as the Scarecrow in a 'Wizard of Oz' parody.<br />
*'''[[4ACV04]]''': Fry gains super powers and becomes a member of the [[New Justice Team]]; [[Captain Yesterday]].<br />
*'''[[4ACV09]]''': Many younger versions of Fry are seen.<br />
*'''[[4ACV15]]''': Universe 1, 25, 31 and 1729 versions of Fry are seen.<br />
*'''[[ 4ACV17]]''': Fry's nose is taken by aliens as an aphrodisiac.<br />
*'''[[BBS]]''': A [[time paradox]] version of Fry, [[Lars Fillmore]], dates and almost marries [[Leela]], but due to the [[Time Sphere]]'s Doom Field, he is killed.<br />
*'''[[TBWABB]]''': Fry becomes the Pope of [[Yivo]]'s Religion, and is used to make everyone on [[Earth]] accept the tentacle.<br />
*'''[[BG]]''': The [[Cornwood]] version of Fry, [[Frydo]], is seen in [[Bender]]'s fantasy.<br />
*'''[[ITWGY]]''': Fry gets a [[Frida Waterfall|piece of jewellery]] lodged into his head, giving him the ability to read minds.<br />
*'''[[6ACV12]]''': Fry is believed to have [[mutants|mutated]] by [[Lake Mutagenic]], but really just stepped into the mouth of [[Mr. Astor]].<br />
*'''[[6ACV18]]''': Fry is infected with many diseases such as 'Simpsons Jaundice', 'Garfield Syndrome', 'Muppet Gangrene' and an unnamed disease that makes him look like a Smurf.<br />
*'''[[6ACV20]]''': Fry temporarily becomes a woman.<br />
*'''[[6ACV24]]''': Fry is seen as a teenager again, and more of his life in the 20th century is explored.<br />
*'''[[6ACV26]]''': Fry is reconceived in three alternate animation styles: classic black-and-white, old-school videogame, and Japanese anime.<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 in the early episodes, to leave space for additional stories.<ref name="epLOTF-com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=The Luck of the Fryrish |volume=Three |disc=1}}</ref> In the [[Storyboard:Space Pilot 3000|original storyboard]] to [[Space Pilot 3000|the pilot]], Fry mentions having [[Fry's sister|a sister]], but this was abandoned in the final episode.<br />
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=== Name ===<br />
[[File:101-Board 62.jpg|left|thumb|The storyboard saying Fry's name "should match [[Phil Hartman]]'s actual spelling".]]<br />
Fry was originally set to be named ''Curtis'', but was renamed Philip to honour [[Phil Hartman]], a voice actor who had played several roles on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' over the years. Hartman was originally set to play [[Zapp Brannigan]] on ''[[Futurama]]'', but died only shortly before ''Futurama'''s beginning. Within the show, Fry was named Philip by his father after Phillips screwdrivers.<br />
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The middle initial 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 {{w|Jay Ward}}, the co-creator of Bullwinkle J. Moose. The trend is also followed by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], and his clone, [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert J. Farnsworth]]. It is never revealed 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 {{et|4ACV10}}, his nephew/great-grandson [[Philip J. Fry II|Philip J. Fry]] (named after him), and his [[time paradox duplicate]] who later identified himself as "[[Lars Fillmore]]."<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
* Though incompetent Fry has a very good heart as his mom used to say. <br />
* According to Dr Zoidberg Fry is the only employee at Planet Express who doesn't hit him though Zoidberg may of excluded Scruffy as well. <br />
* Became Emperor of planet [[Trisol]] in the year 3000 and later in 3008 tentacle pope of the world. <br />
*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 {{et|1ACV07}}.<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 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 both arms, leg, head, hands and nose removed (In his hands case, twice.)<br />
*Was briefly employed at [[Applied Cryogenics]], [[New New York Police Department]] and the [[Head Museum]].<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 Rodríguez|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 />
**Since comics are not [[canon]], this is a non-issue.<br />
*His stool type is P-negative. <br />
*His social security number is 03280810. (Note: This is one digit short of that used in actual Social Security numbers. Further, the first three digits of a Social Securty number indicate birthplace. A Social security number starting with "032" would indicate a birth in Massachusetts, which we know is incorrect.)<br />
*Became [[Frydo]] in ''[[Bender's Game]]''.<br />
*Along with Farnsworth, his facial hair is brown despite his hair being red.<br />
*His copy ([[Lars Fillmore|Lars]]) may have worked at a casino at some point between [[2000]] and [[2012]].<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 />
**His synesthesia may be part of his total mental condition (including his lack of the Delta brain wave and idiot savantism).<br />
*There are three people named "Philip J. Fry" besides him: His nephew [[Philip J. Fry II]] {{et|3ACV04}}, [[Phillip J. Fry from Hovering Squid World 97A]] {{et|4ACV10}} and [[Lars Fillmore]], formerly known as Fry's [[time paradox duplicate]] ([[Bender's Big Score|BBS]])<br />
*Usually survives despite being decapitated and having holes blown through his body.<br />
*In [[The Futurama Holiday Spectacular#Robanukah|a non-canon segment]], he claims to have {{w|ADD}}.<br />
*His full name is revealed in the "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", incorrectly spelt with two ''L''s, but he is first called "Philip" aloud by [[Amy Wong|Amy]] in "[[The Problem with Popplers]]".<br />
*It is possible that he is an {{w|idiot savant}} as he said, "What's with the seventeen dungbeetles?" after being hit by a holographic branch with exactly seventeen holographic dungbeetles in "[[All the Presidents' Heads]]".<br />
*Fry is mentioned in the ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'' episode "{{w|Harder, Better, Faster, Browner}}".<br />
*Fry appears in an episode of [[The Simpsons]], seen on an asteroid with Leela, far in space. He has made other appearances in The Simpsons as well.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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{{q|<poem>'''Fry''': Hey, I'm beginning to think you guys don't think I'm really smart. <br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': You can barely remember your own name, Einstein.<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Einstein is hard name to remember. <br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'm sorry Fry, but I have to install your career chip.<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Yeah, well, if you're sorry, why are you doing it? <br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Acting like a moron won't bring your dog back.<br />
'''Fry''': Then all hope is lost!</poem><br />
<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''': ''[He 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>'''Fry''': OW! My small intestine!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': OW! My head! OW! My feet! OW! My head! OW! My feet!<br />
'''Farnsworth''': Keep your chin up, Fry.<br />
'''Fry''': OW! My chin!</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 />
<poem>'''Fry''': Help, police!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Bender, could you smell this milk?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Help! Bender's gone crazy! Also, smell this milk.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': You bastard! I'll kill you! YOU BASTARD!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': [[Princess Num Num|These]] [[Doingg|costumes]] are gonna make it hard to go to the bathroom.<br />
'''Fry''': I'm not havin' any problem.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': [[Planet Express crew|You non-creatives]] can catch a bus home.<br />
'''Fry''': Non-creative? Ha! I'll have you know I bedazzle my own underpants.</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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|image=[[File:Fry promo 2.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=A [[promotional picture]] of Fry.<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|age=At time of freezing: 25. Chronologically: 2045<br><small>(If not counting the events of [[The Late Philip J. Fry|6ACV07]])</small><br>Biologically: <!-- please, do not change this, if you have a disagreement, take it up on the talk page --> 38<br>''See [[#Age|age]] section for more information.''<br />
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|species=[[Humans|Human]]<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|job=Executive Delivery Boy First Class at [[Planet Express]]<br />
|family= Mrs. Fry (Mother)<br />
Yancy Fry, Sr. (Father)<br />
Yancy Fry, Jr. (Brother)<br />
Philip J. Fry II (Nephew)<br />
Hubert J. Fransworth (Great ----- Nephew)<br />
Cubert Farnsworth (Great ----- Nephew)<br />
Igner (Great ----- Nephew)<br />
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|voice A by=Charlie Schlatter<br />
|voice B=In the show<br />
|voice B by=Billy West<br />
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'''Philip J. Fry''' (often referred to only by his last name, ''Fry'') is the main protagonist and character of ''[[Futurama]]''. In the future, Fry is the executive delivery boy of [[Planet Express]], which his [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|nephew/grandson]] 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 [[cryo-tube]] timer was set at 1000 years; hence Fry woke to the last moments of the year [[2999]].<br />
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== Personality and abilities ==<br />
[[File:Fry.png|left|thumb|100px|Philip J. Fry]]<br />
Philip J. Fry shares the curse of one of [[Matt Groening]]'s other main characters, [[The Simpsons]]' [[simpsons:Homer J. Simpson|Homer J. Simpson]], namely: that of being 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 century.<br />
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Because Fry is very stupid, it means that when he has a brain slug, it will starve to death from his stupidity. Although he is stupid, Fry does occasionally come up with brilliant schemes to save the day, an ability which possibly comes from his intense love of ''[[Star Trek]]''. Fry, rivaled only by the [[energy being]] of [[Melllvar]], has the largest encyclopaedic knowledge of ''Star Trek'' in the future. Another example of Fry's occasional brilliance was during the [[Brain Spawn]] attack on [[Earth]]. With the rest of the crew stupefied, Fry was able to save Earth by exploiting the Brainspawn's weaknesses. Strangely enough, Fry's stupidity appears to be his greatest strength as he the only known person in the universe who lacks a [[Delta brainwave]] and therefore is immune to the Brainspawn's stupification fields. [[Ken]], a [[Nibblonians|Nibblonian]], has noted he possesses a "superior yet inferior" mind. He lacks the Delta brainwave because he is actually his own grandfather {{et|3ACV19}}.<br />
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Also because he lacks the Delta brainwave, he is immune to telepathy. {{et|5ACV16}} {{et|2ACV08}}<br />
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Fry is also usually quick to make very rash decisions, such as traveling back to the year 2000 (''[[Bender's Big Score]]'') or stowing away on Zapp Brannigan's ship to leave the universe after being upset about [[Colleen]] ([[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]).<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, though because of his lack of intelligence he rarely came up with any good plans. Fry cares about his friends, and in spite of [[Bender]]'s awful treatment of him at times, he is still willing to risk his life to save him, which Bender reciprocates. However, it shows that Fry enjoys Bender being "mean" to him, because when [[Bender]] has to leave the planet express crew for his own saftey, [[Clamps]] takes his place and behaves in the same way Bender would towards Fry and Fry just laughs and continues.<br />
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Fry loves video games, and as such, he is usually shown to be very good at them, although not all games. Furthermore, he never manages to finish the boss mob on space invaders, he always had to get his brother Yancy to do it for him. Due to not being good at all games, he is also shown to be a crackshot, and usually mans the ships weapons, when they are under attack. He has also got a lot better at fighting, by "Fun on a Bun" {{et|7ACV08}}<br />
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== Savantism ==<br />
Several instances throughout the series have suggested an abnormal mind tied to savantism and synesthesia:<br />
*Shown in "[[All the Presidents' Heads]]", he is a compulsive counter.<br />
*In "[[Roswell that Ends Well]]" and "[[The Why of Fry]]", he is a colour-gustatory synesthete.<br />
*Throughout the series, he shows great intelligence countered by an inability to properly express it as such.<br />
*He is capable of incredible musical creativity, but lacks the physical means to express it. ("[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]")<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
=== Early years ===<br />
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[[file:FryBirth.png|thumb|right|Fry's birth in [[1974]] {{et|3ACV04}}.]]<br />
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Philip J. Fry was born in [[1974]], in the [[Brooklyn Pre-Med Hospital]] in [[Old New York]], a native of Flatbush, [[Brooklyn]]. Fry is the second son of [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|honest hard working Americans]], whose surnames imply [[English]] and [[German]] ancestry.<br />
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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 ''[[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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[[file:Frozen Fry.jpg|thumb|left|225px|Fry is frozen for a thousand years in a cryogenics tube.]]<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 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, [[Ipji]], 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 boy 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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[[file:Promo 1ACV08.jpg|thumb|left|225px|Fry with [[Turanga Leela]] (left) and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez]] (middle), his closest work partners and friends.]]<br />
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=== Planet Express Delivery Boy, First Class ===<br />
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Fry is hired on at 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 fires 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 her to the 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 (character)|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 becomes stronger, smarter, and is capable of impressing Leela with the [[Holophonor]]. He almost sleeps with her, but Fry fears that Leela is falling in love with the worms rather than himself, so he decides to get rid of them. And he appears to be right: she immediately asks him to leave when he commits a relationship blunder; namely, talking about his previous fling with Amy Wong.<br />
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=== The most important person in the universe ===<br />
{{further|Season 3}}<br />
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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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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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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[[File:Fry pushing himself in 4ACV10.png|thumb|right|225px|Fry pushes himself into the cryotube to save the world.]]<br />
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=== A deal with the devil ===<br />
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During the events with his coworkers, he became a [[Captain Yesterday|super hero]], met the cast of [[Star Trek]], wound up in a [[Parallel Universes|parallel universe]] where he and Leela had gotten married and gets his [[Human Horn|nose]] cut off.<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 the worst ever, though Leela remains behind to hear him finish.<br />
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[[File:Lars Fillmore.png|thumb|left|225px|Fry's [[time paradox duplicate]], [[Lars Fillmore]].]]<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- they are back in business. Fry becomes a centre of attention when Alien Scammers (led by [[Nudar]]) take over the Planet Express and find the [[machine language time code]] on Fry's butt. Using the code, a virus-infected 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 duplicate he left at Applied Cryogenics.<br />
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=== Pope of new religion ===<br />
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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 />
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Fry took part 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 its power and fought [[Momon]] as a dragon. Momon won, and Cornwood was destroyed.<br />
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[[File:Futurama Into the Wild Green Yonder Fry as Security Guard.png|right|thumb|Fry works undercover as a security guard for [[Leo Wong]].]]<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 [[Last Dark One|final 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 [[Desert Muck Leech|small leech]], the [[Violet Dwarf Star]] became the [[Last Encyclopod|final Encyclopod]], which gave the once extinct plants and animals to the universe and easily destroyed the last Dark One, whom [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] then ate. The whole [[Planet Express crew]] flew into a [[wormhole]], after Fry and Leela expressed their true love for each other and kissed.<br />
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=== Reborn ===<br />
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[[File:Mutated Fry.jpg|left|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 in 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 in 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]]'s shocking 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]] (although he was, in fact, not mutated but was in actuality lodged in the mouth of the mutated ''[[Mr. Astor]]'', 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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== Character description ==<br />
=== Family ===<br />
[[File:Fry Family Tree.png|right|200px]]<br />
Fry's [[Fry family|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 grandfather {{et|3ACV19}}.<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], Fry's many-times-great-nephew and at the same time many-times-grandson.<br />
*[[Farnsworth's father|Ned Farnsworth]], Hubert's father<br />
*[[Farnsworth's mother|Velma Farnsworth]], Hubert's mother<br />
*[[Floyd Farnsworth]], Hubert's brother<br />
*[[Cubert J. Farnsworth]], Hubert Farnsworth's clone.<br />
*[[Yancy Fry, Jr.]], Fry's older brother and grandson.<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry, II]], Fry's Nephew (and great grandson), named in Fry's memory.<br />
*[[Yancy Fry]] 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 and girlfriend.<br />
*[[Mildred Fry]], paternal grandmother.<br />
*Mr and Mrs. Gleisner, maternal grandparents.<br />
*[[Igner]], many-times great nephew and many-times grandson.<br />
*[[Lars Fillmore]], [[time paradox duplicate]].<br />
*[[Yivo]], ex-spouse.<br />
*[[Mr. Peppy]], former pet<br />
*[[Fry's guinea pig|Unnamed guinea pig]], former pet ([[6ACV24]])<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 {{et|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, the [[forward time machine]] appeared to be insulated from the passage of time outside of it, and so this has only biologically aged him a few minutes older than he should be relative to the inhabitants of the new universe.<br />
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=== Lars Fillmore ===<br />
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In ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'', he has a duplicate that lives in [[Old New York]] with [[Leelu]] and everyone from [[Fry's past|Fry's old, 20th-century life]]. 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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[[File:Neutopia.jpg|thumb|right|Fry as a woman in "[[Neutopia]]".]]<br />
[[File:626-Fry-Anime.jpg|thumb|right|Concept art of Fry in anime style in "[[Reincarnation]]".]]<br />
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=== Alternate appearances ===<br />
This list is incomplete.<br />
*'''[[1ACV01]]''': Fry is seen for the first time.<br />
*'''[[1ACV05]]''': Fry dresses up as a robot in an attempt to fool the inhabitants of [[Chapek 9]].<br />
*'''[[1ACV07]]''': Fry drinks the current emperor of [[Trisol]], [[Bont]], but Bont is still alive inside of Fry, and can be seen glowing inside of Fry's stomach.<br />
*'''[[2ACV07]]''': After a [[hovercar]] accident, Fry's head is sewn on to [[Amy]]'s body by [[Dr. Zoidberg]].<br />
*'''[[2ACV09]]''': Fry is seen inside the [[internet]].<br />
*'''[[3ACV04]]''': Fry is seen as a teenager, and more of his 20th century life before he got frozen is shown.<br />
*'''[[3ACV18]]''': Fry appears in the "[[Anthology of Interest II]]" segment, [[Wizzin']], as the Scarecrow in a 'Wizard of Oz' parody.<br />
*'''[[4ACV04]]''': Fry gains super powers and becomes a member of the [[New Justice Team]]; [[Captain Yesterday]].<br />
*'''[[4ACV09]]''': Many younger versions of Fry are seen.<br />
*'''[[4ACV15]]''': Universe 1, 25, 31 and 1729 versions of Fry are seen.<br />
*'''[[ 4ACV17]]''': Fry's nose is taken by aliens as an aphrodisiac.<br />
*'''[[BBS]]''': A [[time paradox]] version of Fry, [[Lars Fillmore]], dates and almost marries [[Leela]], but due to the [[Time Sphere]]'s Doom Field, he is killed.<br />
*'''[[TBWABB]]''': Fry becomes the Pope of [[Yivo]]'s Religion, and is used to make everyone on [[Earth]] accept the tentacle.<br />
*'''[[BG]]''': The [[Cornwood]] version of Fry, [[Frydo]], is seen in [[Bender]]'s fantasy.<br />
*'''[[ITWGY]]''': Fry gets a [[Frida Waterfall|piece of jewellery]] lodged into his head, giving him the ability to read minds.<br />
*'''[[6ACV12]]''': Fry is believed to have [[mutants|mutated]] by [[Lake Mutagenic]], but really just stepped into the mouth of [[Mr. Astor]].<br />
*'''[[6ACV18]]''': Fry is infected with many diseases such as 'Simpsons Jaundice', 'Garfield Syndrome', 'Muppet Gangrene' and an unnamed disease that makes him look like a Smurf.<br />
*'''[[6ACV20]]''': Fry temporarily becomes a woman.<br />
*'''[[6ACV24]]''': Fry is seen as a teenager again, and more of his life in the 20th century is explored.<br />
*'''[[6ACV26]]''': Fry is reconceived in three alternate animation styles: classic black-and-white, old-school videogame, and Japanese anime.<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 in the early episodes, to leave space for additional stories.<ref name="epLOTF-com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=The Luck of the Fryrish |volume=Three |disc=1}}</ref> In the [[Storyboard:Space Pilot 3000|original storyboard]] to [[Space Pilot 3000|the pilot]], Fry mentions having [[Fry's sister|a sister]], but this was abandoned in the final episode.<br />
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=== Name ===<br />
[[File:101-Board 62.jpg|left|thumb|The storyboard saying Fry's name "should match [[Phil Hartman]]'s actual spelling".]]<br />
Fry was originally set to be named ''Curtis'', but was renamed Philip to honour [[Phil Hartman]], a voice actor who had played several roles on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' over the years. Hartman was originally set to play [[Zapp Brannigan]] on ''[[Futurama]]'', but died only shortly before ''Futurama'''s beginning. Within the show, Fry was named Philip by his father after Phillips screwdrivers.<br />
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The middle initial 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 {{w|Jay Ward}}, the co-creator of Bullwinkle J. Moose. The trend is also followed by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], and his clone, [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert J. Farnsworth]]. It is never revealed 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 {{et|4ACV10}}, his nephew/great-grandson [[Philip J. Fry II|Philip J. Fry]] (named after him), and his [[time paradox duplicate]] who later identified himself as "[[Lars Fillmore]]."<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
* Though incompetent Fry has a very good heart as his mom used to say. <br />
* According to Dr Zoidberg Fry is the only employee at Planet Express who doesn't hit him though Zoidberg may of excluded Scruffy as well. <br />
* Became Emperor of planet [[Trisol]] in the year 3000 and later in 3008 tentacle pope of the world. <br />
*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 {{et|1ACV07}}.<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 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 both arms, leg, head, hands and nose removed (In his hands case, twice.)<br />
*Was briefly employed at [[Applied Cryogenics]], [[New New York Police Department]] and the [[Head Museum]].<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 Rodríguez|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 />
**Since comics are not [[canon]], this is a non-issue.<br />
*His stool type is P-negative. <br />
*His social security number is 03280810. (Note: This is one digit short of that used in actual Social Security numbers. Further, the first three digits of a Social Securty number indicate birthplace. A Social security number starting with "032" would indicate a birth in Massachusetts, which we know is incorrect.)<br />
*Became [[Frydo]] in ''[[Bender's Game]]''.<br />
*Along with Farnsworth, his facial hair is brown despite his hair being red.<br />
*His copy ([[Lars Fillmore|Lars]]) may have worked at a casino at some point between [[2000]] and [[2012]].<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 />
**His synesthesia may be part of his total mental condition (including his lack of the Delta brain wave and idiot savantism).<br />
*There are three people named "Philip J. Fry" besides him: His nephew [[Philip J. Fry II]] {{et|3ACV04}}, [[Phillip J. Fry from Hovering Squid World 97A]] {{et|4ACV10}} and [[Lars Fillmore]], formerly known as Fry's [[time paradox duplicate]] ([[Bender's Big Score|BBS]])<br />
*Usually survives despite being decapitated and having holes blown through his body.<br />
*In [[The Futurama Holiday Spectacular#Robanukah|a non-canon segment]], he claims to have {{w|ADD}}.<br />
*His full name is revealed in the "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", incorrectly spelt with two ''L''s, but he is first called "Philip" aloud by [[Amy Wong|Amy]] in "[[The Problem with Popplers]]".<br />
*It is possible that he is an {{w|idiot savant}} as he said, "What's with the seventeen dungbeetles?" after being hit by a holographic branch with exactly seventeen holographic dungbeetles in "[[All the Presidents' Heads]]".<br />
*Fry is mentioned in the ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'' episode "{{w|Harder, Better, Faster, Browner}}".<br />
*Fry appears in an episode of [[The Simpsons]], seen on an asteroid with Leela, far in space. He has made other appearances in The Simpsons as well.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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{{q|<poem>'''Fry''': Hey, I'm beginning to think you guys don't think I'm really smart. <br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': You can barely remember your own name, Einstein.<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Einstein is hard name to remember. <br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'm sorry Fry, but I have to install your career chip.<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Yeah, well, if you're sorry, why are you doing it? <br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Acting like a moron won't bring your dog back.<br />
'''Fry''': Then all hope is lost!</poem><br />
<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''': ''[He 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>'''Fry''': OW! My small intestine!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': OW! My head! OW! My feet! OW! My head! OW! My feet!<br />
'''Farnsworth''': Keep your chin up, Fry.<br />
'''Fry''': OW! My chin!</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 />
<poem>'''Fry''': Help, police!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Bender, could you smell this milk?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Help! Bender's gone crazy! Also, smell this milk.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': You bastard! I'll kill you! YOU BASTARD!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': [[Princess Num Num|These]] [[Doingg|costumes]] are gonna make it hard to go to the bathroom.<br />
'''Fry''': I'm not havin' any problem.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': [[Planet Express crew|You non-creatives]] can catch a bus home.<br />
'''Fry''': Non-creative? Ha! I'll have you know I bedazzle my own underpants.</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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[[Category:Robosexuals]]</div>75.10.154.227http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Delta_brainwave&diff=121816Delta brainwave2013-05-14T20:47:01Z<p>75.10.154.227: /* Mentions */</p>
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<div>[[File:Delta Brain Wave Absence.png|right|thumb|The effects of the absence of the delta brainwave on Fry {{et|4ACV10}}.]]<br />
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The '''delta brainwave''' is generated by all animals, with the exception of [[Philip J. Fry]], due to him being his own grandfather {{et|3ACV19}}; all [[robot]]s; and certain trees {{et|3ACV07}}. The [[Brain Spawn]] attack it with a stupefaction field. This causes people and robots to become stupid. The effects on trees is unknown.<br />
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The [[Legion of Mad Fellows]] are able to read people's thoughts from their delta brainwave ([[Into the Wild Green Yonder|ITWGY]]). It is possible that the [[Brain Slugs]] feed on the delta brainwave, because the one who caught Fry died from starvation, although it's also possible that this was just intended as a joke about Fry's stupidity. {{et|2ACV08}}. It is also possible, while unlikely, that the [[Hypnotoad]] uses the brainwave to hypnotize others. This is evident when Fry was capable of commenting on ''[[Everybody Loves Hypnotoad]]'' by saying "This show has been going downhill since season 3" and everyone else seemed to like it {{et|4ACV06}}. <br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
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=== Mentions ===<br />
Since the delta brainwave is generated by every [[character]] but Fry and robots, it is ''technically'' present in every [[episode]] (as there is at least one more character in every episode).<br />
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*{{e|3ACV07}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV09}} ([[The Cyber House Rules#Goofs|possibly]])<br />
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[[Category:Misc]]</div>75.10.154.227http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Philip_J._Fry&diff=121815Philip J. Fry2013-05-14T20:45:28Z<p>75.10.154.227: /* Personality and abilities */</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Philip J. Fry<br />
|type=p<br />
|image=[[File:Fry promo 2.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=A [[promotional picture]] of Fry.<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|age=At time of freezing: 25. Chronologically: 2045<br><small>(If not counting the events of [[The Late Philip J. Fry|6ACV07]])</small><br>Biologically: <!-- please, do not change this, if you have a disagreement, take it up on the talk page --> 38<br>''See [[#Age|age]] section for more information.''<br />
|birth date=14 August, 1974<ref>[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1690915 Everything2.com]</ref><br />
|species=[[Humans|Human]]<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|job=Executive Delivery Boy First Class at [[Planet Express]]<br />
|family= Mrs. Fry (Mother)<br />
Yancy Fry, Sr. (Father)<br />
Yancy Fry, Jr. (Brother)<br />
Philip J. Fry II (Nephew)<br />
Hubert J. Fransworth (Great ----- Nephew)<br />
Cubert Farnsworth (Great ----- Nephew)<br />
Igner (Great ----- Nephew)<br />
|voice A=Intended<br />
|voice A by=Charlie Schlatter<br />
|voice B=In the show<br />
|voice B by=Billy West<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV01}}<br />
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{{redirects|Fry|other people named Fry|Fry (disambiguation)}}<br />
'''Philip J. Fry''' (often referred to only by his last name, ''Fry'') is the main protagonist and character of ''[[Futurama]]''. In the future, Fry is the executive delivery boy of [[Planet Express]], which his [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|nephew/grandson]] 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 [[cryo-tube]] timer was set at 1000 years; hence Fry woke to the last moments of the year [[2999]].<br />
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== Personality and abilities ==<br />
[[File:Fry.png|left|thumb|100px|Philip J. Fry]]<br />
Philip J. Fry shares the curse of one of [[Matt Groening]]'s other main characters, [[The Simpsons]]' [[simpsons:Homer J. Simpson|Homer J. Simpson]], namely: that of being 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 century.<br />
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Because Fry is very stupid, it means that when he has a brain slug, it will starve to death from his stupidity. Although he is stupid, Fry does occasionally come up with brilliant schemes to save the day, an ability which possibly comes from his intense love of ''[[Star Trek]]''. Fry, rivaled only by the [[energy being]] of [[Melllvar]], has the largest encyclopaedic knowledge of ''Star Trek'' in the future. Another example of Fry's occasional brilliance was during the [[Brain Spawn]] attack on [[Earth]]. With the rest of the crew stupefied, Fry was able to save Earth by exploiting the Brainspawn's weaknesses. Strangely enough, Fry's stupidity appears to be his greatest strength as he the only known person in the universe who lacks a [[Delta brainwave]] and therefore is immune to the Brainspawn's stupification fields. [[Ken]], a [[Nibblonians|Nibblonian]], has noted he possesses a "superior yet inferior" mind. He lacks the Delta brainwave because he is actually his own grandfather {{et|3ACV19}}.<br />
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Also because he lacks A Delta Brain wave, he is immune to telepathy. {{et|5ACV16}} {{et|2ACV08}}<br />
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Fry is also usually quick to make very rash decisions, such as traveling back to the year 2000 (''[[Bender's Big Score]]'') or stowing away on Zapp Brannigan's ship to leave the universe after being upset about [[Colleen]] ([[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]).<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, though because of his lack of intelligence he rarely came up with any good plans. Fry cares about his friends, and in spite of [[Bender]]'s awful treatment of him at times, he is still willing to risk his life to save him, which Bender reciprocates. However, it shows that Fry enjoys Bender being "mean" to him, because when [[Bender]] has to leave the planet express crew for his own saftey, [[Clamps]] takes his place and behaves in the same way Bender would towards Fry and Fry just laughs and continues.<br />
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Fry loves video games, and as such, he is usually shown to be very good at them, although not all games. Furthermore, he never manages to finish the boss mob on space invaders, he always had to get his brother Yancy to do it for him. Due to not being good at all games, he is also shown to be a crackshot, and usually mans the ships weapons, when they are under attack. He has also got a lot better at fighting, by "Fun on a Bun" {{et|7ACV08}}<br />
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== Savantism ==<br />
Several instances throughout the series have suggested an abnormal mind tied to savantism and synesthesia:<br />
*Shown in "[[All the Presidents' Heads]]", he is a compulsive counter.<br />
*In "[[Roswell that Ends Well]]" and "[[The Why of Fry]]", he is a colour-gustatory synesthete.<br />
*Throughout the series, he shows great intelligence countered by an inability to properly express it as such.<br />
*He is capable of incredible musical creativity, but lacks the physical means to express it. ("[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]")<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
=== Early years ===<br />
{{further|Fry's past}}<br />
[[file:FryBirth.png|thumb|right|Fry's birth in [[1974]] {{et|3ACV04}}.]]<br />
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Philip J. Fry was born in [[1974]], in the [[Brooklyn Pre-Med Hospital]] in [[Old New York]], a native of Flatbush, [[Brooklyn]]. Fry is the second son of [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|honest hard working Americans]], whose surnames imply [[English]] and [[German]] ancestry.<br />
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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 ''[[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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[[file:Frozen Fry.jpg|thumb|left|225px|Fry is frozen for a thousand years in a cryogenics tube.]]<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 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, [[Ipji]], 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 boy 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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[[file:Promo 1ACV08.jpg|thumb|left|225px|Fry with [[Turanga Leela]] (left) and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez]] (middle), his closest work partners and friends.]]<br />
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=== Planet Express Delivery Boy, First Class ===<br />
{{further|Season 1|Season 2}}<br />
Fry is hired on at 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 fires 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 her to the 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 (character)|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 becomes stronger, smarter, and is capable of impressing Leela with the [[Holophonor]]. He almost sleeps with her, but Fry fears that Leela is falling in love with the worms rather than himself, so he decides to get rid of them. And he appears to be right: she immediately asks him to leave when he commits a relationship blunder; namely, talking about his previous fling with Amy Wong.<br />
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=== The most important person in the universe ===<br />
{{further|Season 3}}<br />
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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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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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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[[File:Fry pushing himself in 4ACV10.png|thumb|right|225px|Fry pushes himself into the cryotube to save the world.]]<br />
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=== A deal with the devil ===<br />
{{further|Season 4}}<br />
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During the events with his coworkers, he became a [[Captain Yesterday|super hero]], met the cast of [[Star Trek]], wound up in a [[Parallel Universes|parallel universe]] where he and Leela had gotten married and gets his [[Human Horn|nose]] cut off.<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 the worst ever, though Leela remains behind to hear him finish.<br />
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[[File:Lars Fillmore.png|thumb|left|225px|Fry's [[time paradox duplicate]], [[Lars Fillmore]].]]<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- they are back in business. Fry becomes a centre of attention when Alien Scammers (led by [[Nudar]]) take over the Planet Express and find the [[machine language time code]] on Fry's butt. Using the code, a virus-infected 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 duplicate 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 part 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 its power and fought [[Momon]] as a dragon. Momon won, and Cornwood was destroyed.<br />
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[[File:Futurama Into the Wild Green Yonder Fry as Security Guard.png|right|thumb|Fry works undercover as a security guard for [[Leo Wong]].]]<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 [[Last Dark One|final 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 [[Desert Muck Leech|small leech]], the [[Violet Dwarf Star]] became the [[Last Encyclopod|final Encyclopod]], which gave the once extinct plants and animals to the universe and easily destroyed the last Dark One, whom [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] then ate. The whole [[Planet Express crew]] flew into a [[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|left|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 in 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 in 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]]'s shocking 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]] (although he was, in fact, not mutated but was in actuality lodged in the mouth of the mutated ''[[Mr. Astor]]'', 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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== Character description ==<br />
=== Family ===<br />
[[File:Fry Family Tree.png|right|200px]]<br />
Fry's [[Fry family|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 grandfather {{et|3ACV19}}.<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], Fry's many-times-great-nephew and at the same time many-times-grandson.<br />
*[[Farnsworth's father|Ned Farnsworth]], Hubert's father<br />
*[[Farnsworth's mother|Velma Farnsworth]], Hubert's mother<br />
*[[Floyd Farnsworth]], Hubert's brother<br />
*[[Cubert J. Farnsworth]], Hubert Farnsworth's clone.<br />
*[[Yancy Fry, Jr.]], Fry's older brother and grandson.<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry, II]], Fry's Nephew (and great grandson), named in Fry's memory.<br />
*[[Yancy Fry]] 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 and girlfriend.<br />
*[[Mildred Fry]], paternal grandmother.<br />
*Mr and Mrs. Gleisner, maternal grandparents.<br />
*[[Igner]], many-times great nephew and many-times grandson.<br />
*[[Lars Fillmore]], [[time paradox duplicate]].<br />
*[[Yivo]], ex-spouse.<br />
*[[Mr. Peppy]], former pet<br />
*[[Fry's guinea pig|Unnamed guinea pig]], former pet ([[6ACV24]])<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 {{et|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, the [[forward time machine]] appeared to be insulated from the passage of time outside of it, and so this has only biologically aged him 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 lives in [[Old New York]] with [[Leelu]] and everyone from [[Fry's past|Fry's old, 20th-century life]]. 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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[[File:Neutopia.jpg|thumb|right|Fry as a woman in "[[Neutopia]]".]]<br />
[[File:626-Fry-Anime.jpg|thumb|right|Concept art of Fry in anime style in "[[Reincarnation]]".]]<br />
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=== Alternate appearances ===<br />
This list is incomplete.<br />
*'''[[1ACV01]]''': Fry is seen for the first time.<br />
*'''[[1ACV05]]''': Fry dresses up as a robot in an attempt to fool the inhabitants of [[Chapek 9]].<br />
*'''[[1ACV07]]''': Fry drinks the current emperor of [[Trisol]], [[Bont]], but Bont is still alive inside of Fry, and can be seen glowing inside of Fry's stomach.<br />
*'''[[2ACV07]]''': After a [[hovercar]] accident, Fry's head is sewn on to [[Amy]]'s body by [[Dr. Zoidberg]].<br />
*'''[[2ACV09]]''': Fry is seen inside the [[internet]].<br />
*'''[[3ACV04]]''': Fry is seen as a teenager, and more of his 20th century life before he got frozen is shown.<br />
*'''[[3ACV18]]''': Fry appears in the "[[Anthology of Interest II]]" segment, [[Wizzin']], as the Scarecrow in a 'Wizard of Oz' parody.<br />
*'''[[4ACV04]]''': Fry gains super powers and becomes a member of the [[New Justice Team]]; [[Captain Yesterday]].<br />
*'''[[4ACV09]]''': Many younger versions of Fry are seen.<br />
*'''[[4ACV15]]''': Universe 1, 25, 31 and 1729 versions of Fry are seen.<br />
*'''[[ 4ACV17]]''': Fry's nose is taken by aliens as an aphrodisiac.<br />
*'''[[BBS]]''': A [[time paradox]] version of Fry, [[Lars Fillmore]], dates and almost marries [[Leela]], but due to the [[Time Sphere]]'s Doom Field, he is killed.<br />
*'''[[TBWABB]]''': Fry becomes the Pope of [[Yivo]]'s Religion, and is used to make everyone on [[Earth]] accept the tentacle.<br />
*'''[[BG]]''': The [[Cornwood]] version of Fry, [[Frydo]], is seen in [[Bender]]'s fantasy.<br />
*'''[[ITWGY]]''': Fry gets a [[Frida Waterfall|piece of jewellery]] lodged into his head, giving him the ability to read minds.<br />
*'''[[6ACV12]]''': Fry is believed to have [[mutants|mutated]] by [[Lake Mutagenic]], but really just stepped into the mouth of [[Mr. Astor]].<br />
*'''[[6ACV18]]''': Fry is infected with many diseases such as 'Simpsons Jaundice', 'Garfield Syndrome', 'Muppet Gangrene' and an unnamed disease that makes him look like a Smurf.<br />
*'''[[6ACV20]]''': Fry temporarily becomes a woman.<br />
*'''[[6ACV24]]''': Fry is seen as a teenager again, and more of his life in the 20th century is explored.<br />
*'''[[6ACV26]]''': Fry is reconceived in three alternate animation styles: classic black-and-white, old-school videogame, and Japanese anime.<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 in the early episodes, to leave space for additional stories.<ref name="epLOTF-com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=The Luck of the Fryrish |volume=Three |disc=1}}</ref> In the [[Storyboard:Space Pilot 3000|original storyboard]] to [[Space Pilot 3000|the pilot]], Fry mentions having [[Fry's sister|a sister]], but this was abandoned in the final episode.<br />
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=== Name ===<br />
[[File:101-Board 62.jpg|left|thumb|The storyboard saying Fry's name "should match [[Phil Hartman]]'s actual spelling".]]<br />
Fry was originally set to be named ''Curtis'', but was renamed Philip to honour [[Phil Hartman]], a voice actor who had played several roles on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' over the years. Hartman was originally set to play [[Zapp Brannigan]] on ''[[Futurama]]'', but died only shortly before ''Futurama'''s beginning. Within the show, Fry was named Philip by his father after Phillips screwdrivers.<br />
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The middle initial 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 {{w|Jay Ward}}, the co-creator of Bullwinkle J. Moose. The trend is also followed by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], and his clone, [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert J. Farnsworth]]. It is never revealed 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 {{et|4ACV10}}, his nephew/great-grandson [[Philip J. Fry II|Philip J. Fry]] (named after him), and his [[time paradox duplicate]] who later identified himself as "[[Lars Fillmore]]."<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
* Though incompetent Fry has a very good heart as his mom used to say. <br />
* According to Dr Zoidberg Fry is the only employee at Planet Express who doesn't hit him though Zoidberg may of excluded Scruffy as well. <br />
* Became Emperor of planet [[Trisol]] in the year 3000 and later in 3008 tentacle pope of the world. <br />
*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 {{et|1ACV07}}.<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 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 both arms, leg, head, hands and nose removed (In his hands case, twice.)<br />
*Was briefly employed at [[Applied Cryogenics]], [[New New York Police Department]] and the [[Head Museum]].<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 Rodríguez|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 />
**Since comics are not [[canon]], this is a non-issue.<br />
*His stool type is P-negative. <br />
*His social security number is 03280810. (Note: This is one digit short of that used in actual Social Security numbers. Further, the first three digits of a Social Securty number indicate birthplace. A Social security number starting with "032" would indicate a birth in Massachusetts, which we know is incorrect.)<br />
*Became [[Frydo]] in ''[[Bender's Game]]''.<br />
*Along with Farnsworth, his facial hair is brown despite his hair being red.<br />
*His copy ([[Lars Fillmore|Lars]]) may have worked at a casino at some point between [[2000]] and [[2012]].<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 />
**His synesthesia may be part of his total mental condition (including his lack of the Delta brain wave and idiot savantism).<br />
*There are three people named "Philip J. Fry" besides him: His nephew [[Philip J. Fry II]] {{et|3ACV04}}, [[Phillip J. Fry from Hovering Squid World 97A]] {{et|4ACV10}} and [[Lars Fillmore]], formerly known as Fry's [[time paradox duplicate]] ([[Bender's Big Score|BBS]])<br />
*Usually survives despite being decapitated and having holes blown through his body.<br />
*In [[The Futurama Holiday Spectacular#Robanukah|a non-canon segment]], he claims to have {{w|ADD}}.<br />
*His full name is revealed in the "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", incorrectly spelt with two ''L''s, but he is first called "Philip" aloud by [[Amy Wong|Amy]] in "[[The Problem with Popplers]]".<br />
*It is possible that he is an {{w|idiot savant}} as he said, "What's with the seventeen dungbeetles?" after being hit by a holographic branch with exactly seventeen holographic dungbeetles in "[[All the Presidents' Heads]]".<br />
*Fry is mentioned in the ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'' episode "{{w|Harder, Better, Faster, Browner}}".<br />
*Fry appears in an episode of [[The Simpsons]], seen on an asteroid with Leela, far in space. He has made other appearances in The Simpsons as well.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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{{q|<poem>'''Fry''': Hey, I'm beginning to think you guys don't think I'm really smart. <br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': You can barely remember your own name, Einstein.<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Einstein is hard name to remember. <br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'm sorry Fry, but I have to install your career chip.<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Yeah, well, if you're sorry, why are you doing it? <br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Acting like a moron won't bring your dog back.<br />
'''Fry''': Then all hope is lost!</poem><br />
<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''': ''[He 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>'''Fry''': OW! My small intestine!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': OW! My head! OW! My feet! OW! My head! OW! My feet!<br />
'''Farnsworth''': Keep your chin up, Fry.<br />
'''Fry''': OW! My chin!</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 />
<poem>'''Fry''': Help, police!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Bender, could you smell this milk?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Help! Bender's gone crazy! Also, smell this milk.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': You bastard! I'll kill you! YOU BASTARD!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': [[Princess Num Num|These]] [[Doingg|costumes]] are gonna make it hard to go to the bathroom.<br />
'''Fry''': I'm not havin' any problem.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': [[Planet Express crew|You non-creatives]] can catch a bus home.<br />
'''Fry''': Non-creative? Ha! I'll have you know I bedazzle my own underpants.</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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