Fry (Futurama) - Character Overview

Character Overview

Born in the 20th century in New York City, Fry is an average, thoroughly unremarkable loser in his 20s, though the episode "The Luck of the Fryrish" seems to imply he was 30 at the time of his freezing. He is a pizza delivery boy who, during the first few seconds of the year 2000, fell into a cryonic tank while delivering a pizza to Applied Cryogenics. He remains frozen until the last day of the year 2999. He then meets the one-eyed cryogenics counselor Leela, and a cigar-smoking, booze-fueled, kleptomaniac robot Bender. Together, they are employed by Fry's distant nephew, the senile and demented old scientist Professor Farnsworth, as the crew of his delivery company Planet Express.

In the past Fry had an older brother, Yancy; a dog, Seymour; and a girlfriend, Michelle, who dumped him in the first episode "Space Pilot 3000", just before he was frozen. Fry had a lifelong sibling rivalry with his older brother Yancy, due to Fry's perception that Yancy steals everything from him and vice versa. After dropping out of Coney Island Community College, he then got a job as a delivery boy at Panucci's Pizza.

Fry is his own grandfather through a series of events involving time travel and accidentally causing the death of the man he thought was his grandfather.