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Plot. Fry feels useless after Leela and Bender return from an extremely successful mission without him. Leela asks Fry to walk Nibbler while she goes on a date with Chaz, the mayor's aide. Fry is convinced the only good he serves is to clean up after Nibbler, but Nibbler tells him otherwise.
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"Detecting trace amounts of mental activity. Possibly a dead weasel or a cartoon viewer."
―Big Brain
Fry is preparing for a mission, only to learn that Bender and Leela have just returned. Not only finishing the mission, but doing it even better than usual since they earned medals for the mission while he was looking up curse words in the dictionary.
While Leela is on a date with Chaz, the mayor's aide, she asks Fry to walk Nibbler for her. Fry feels that he is useless, only to have Nibbler, supposedly a simple animal, tell him otherwise. Nibbler then knocks Fry out, drags him to his small spaceship, and takes him to planet Eternium. After being introduced to the Nibblonians, Fry's told his importance: he has a unique genetic disorder which resulted in him lacking the delta brainwave, due to him becoming his own grandfather. This rendered him immune to the attack of the Brainspawn a few months ago, an attack which no-one else on Earth remembers.
The Nibblonians reveal the Brainspawn's plan: to collect all knowledge in the universe and destroy the universe so no new information pops up. Fry, because of his immunity, is the only person who can stop them.
In other words, Fry is the most important being in the universe. The Nibblonians have made a quantum interface bomb, which will send the Infosphere into an alternate dimension forever. Fry's mission is to smuggle it into the Infosphere and detonate it.
The Nibblonians bring Fry to the Infosphere just as it collects the last of all the data in the universe. It opens to scan itself, the final piece of information. This is the only chance to get in, so the Nibblonians send Fry in on Scooty-Puff, Jr., a cute little space vehicle. Fry arrives at the center of the sphere, rendered invisible by his genetic abnormality as long as he avoids intense thinking. He is about to activate the bomb, but realizes that while he is there, he can find the answers to any question in the universe.
He asks questions: "What's stamp glue made of?" (toad mucus) and "What killed the Dinosaurs?" (the Infosphere himself killed the dinosaurs). Fry is discovered and the Brainspawn try to stop him, but his immunity protects him. He tries to escape, but the poorly made Scooty Puff Jr. falls apart, trapping him. The Brainspawn identify Fry as "The Fabled One" and gloat that he cannot escape. Their laughing ceases when Fry holds up the bomb and activates it. The Brainspawn remind that him that he is doomed to enter the alternate universe with them. One brain adds that they'll also form a clique that Fry won't be part of. But Fry boasts that he is glad that his life had a purpose: "Leading good to victory over evil." The Brainspawn question his motivations, suggesting that the Nibblonians are not as good as they appear. They suggest that Fry inquire about the night of December 31st, 1999, the date Fry got frozen. Nibbler nervously tells Fry not to ask, saying that it would be boring, so he concedes, only to be urged by the Big Brain. It is revealed that Nibbler unbalanced the chair that Fry was sitting on that night, tipping him into the cryogenic tube and bringing him to the future. Nibbler explains that Fry was the only person who could carry out the mission against the Brainspawn's Infosphere. As Fry grapples with the shock that the Nibblonians ruined his life, he and the Infosphere are sent to the alternate universe.
•The columns on Eternium say "fuzzy wuzzy" in Alienese.
Doppelgängers
•Fry, Amy, and Zoidberg pretend that they constitute a delivery team and rehearse a delivery. •Fry uses a quantum interface bomb to blast the brains (and himself) into an alternate universe. Later, after some time-travel, he blasts the brains (only) into an alternate universe. •The giant brain uses some sort of telepathic energy to serve as a hand for typing on a computer keyboard. •Fry (because he time-travels to December 31, 1999) exists briefly in two forms - his 20th century self and his 30th century self.
Fry and Leela
Fry, attempting to assuage his own guilt over missing a delivery mission, wants to make it up to Leela by taking her out to dinner. Typical of Leela, she rejects Fry. In fact, not only does she reject him categorically, she also explains that she is going out with Chaz, the mayor's aide. When Fry and Leela cross paths while she is out on her date with Chaz, Fry has a brief moment of happiness due to his hope that the date is not going well. Leela crushes his hopes when she tells him that the date is going very well, asking him to walk Nibbler. While Fry from the future argues with Nibbler of 1999, Fry mentions that he has feelings for Leela, but also that she doesn't care for him. Nibbler offers to help Fry with respect to Leela, if Fry will agree to push his 1999 self into the cryo-tube. Fry is won over to Nibbler's request when Nibbler frames the issue as "save yourself or save Leela." On returning to the office from her bad date with Chaz, Leela has Bender burn Chaz' face out of a photo of Leela and Chaz together. While Leela looks at the photo with a hole in it, Fry walks into the room and appears, from Leela's perspective, in the hole where Chaz' face had been. Leela is happy to see Fry and actually gives him a kiss on the lips.
Death, Injury
•Elzar bams a cockroach to death with a loaf of bread. •Fry savagely kicks a robotic trash can, a mother of six kids, knocking her over on her side. •Nibbler knocks Fry unconscious with a sock-weapon. •At the Feast of A Thousand Beasts, an indefinite number of beasts are eaten alive. •The brain console depicts a toad being harvested for its mucus. •The brain console depicts a giant brain killing dinosaurs. •Leela stuffs Chaz' wallet into his mouth. •30th century Fry chokes 20th century Nibbler.
I Just Want to Be Special: Fry's problems in a nutshell. He's quite happy to learn he is. It's Personal: Fry says it upon learning that the Brain Spawn are going to destroy the universe. Jerkass: Chaz, the Mayor's aide. Leela eventually realizes this and shoves his badge into his mouth when she does.
When Fry enters the Nibblonian Hall, his jacket is done up, then next shot it is undone again. He would not have had time to undo it. When Fry is flying into the Infosphere, there's a shot of him looking down at his wrist communicator and he isn't wearing a glove. Every other shot shows he is.
Sep 12, 2003 · *Fry opens his mouth* Zoidberg: Guess again. Proffessor: This looks like an excelent chance to try out my new anti-pressure pill. (Pulls out giant pill) Fry: I can't eat that! Proffessor: Well then good news! It's a suppository!
Mar 30, 2019 · Fry lived an entire life in the twentieth century before he ended up in the future, and there are tiny glimpses into his past in lines like this one. We may never know why Fry felt the need to eat a bowl of salt, but somehow it seems exactly in character for him to do so.
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[Leela snatches his badge away from him and stuffs it in his mouth.] [Scene: Infosphere. The Huge Brain types something into to the console. It holds Fry in place.]
