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Aug 14, 2024 · One of the key aspects of Fry has always been his disconnect from his home time period, something played for dark laughs in early episodes. By contrast, In the world of the 31st century Fry has discovered a very close-knit found family and steadily developed more emotional connections.
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Aug 5, 2024 · The episode sheds light on Fry's strained relationships with friends and family, adding depth to his character. Fry's separation from parents in "Quid Games" highlights a poignant element of his past with emotional resonance.
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Jul 15, 2015 · Fry’s feelings of insignificance, though well-earned, are also relatable. But as he reveals to Nibbler under that desk, his life is important to him.
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Act I: "Without me, there IS no mission!"
Fry is disappointed because Leela and Bender went on a mission without him (and without his services as Delivery Boy), and because Leela is going out with another man - Chaz, the Mayor's aide. Fry is upset because he thinks himself unimportant. Meanwhile, Leela and Chaz are going to Elzar's Fine Cuisine, where Chaz manages to get a table without a reservation - Leela is genuinely impressed. Fry has adjourned to O'Zorgnax Pub to drown his depression in alcohol, however, Leela and Chaz enter an...
Act II: "Now it's personal!"
Fry is told that due to his lack of the delta brainwave, he is immune to the attacks of the Brain Spawn and therefore the only hope of the universe. The Brains have constructed the Infosphere, a monstrous memory bank that contains all information in the universe. Once they have acquired all information, they will make sure that there is no new information by destroying the universe. Fry is to infiltrate the Infosphere and plant a Quantum Interphase Bomb inside that will blast the sphere into...
Act III: "Here I come, future!"
The Brains think of a way for Fry to return to 31 December 1999, so he can prevent Nibbler from shoving him into the tube and thus stop the Nibblonians from thwarting the Brain's plan to understand and destroy the universe. Meanwhile, Chaz has taken Leela to the Rocket Skating Rink that he has reserved just for them - impressing her once more. But the reservation means that the orphans from the Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium can't take their turn on the rocket skating rink as planne...
This episode was subject to censorship by Pick TV. The episode was named #15 on IGN's list of top 25 Futurama episodes and #6 on TV.com's list of top 10 Futurama episodes.
Trivia
1. This episode is one of two Futurama episodes that do not feature Professor Farnsworth, the other being "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", which is the following episode in productionorder. 2. The events of this episode were planned before the show started. 2.1. This can be shown by the presence of Nibbler's shadow in "Space Pilot 3000", the very first episode. 3. Guest star Bob Odenkirk is the brother of Futurama writer Bill Odenkirk. 4. The last three bits of information seen going into the...
Continuity
1. "Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01) 1.1. We get a lot of flashbacks from this episode, and the shadowfrom this episode is explained. 2. "Love's Labours Lost in Space" (1ACV04) 2.1. Nibbler mentions he will be stationed on Vergon 6, where they will meet in the future. 3. "A Clone of My Own" (2ACV10) 3.1. The joke about cartoon viewers having low brainwaves is similar to the joke about cartoon writers being losers. 4. "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" (2ACV11) 4.1. Fry thought Hermes was an...
Allusions
1. Amy reads the book Martians Are from Mars, Venusians Are from Venus, an allusion to the 1992 book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. 2. The song "Insane in the Brain" by Cypress Hillis referenced to by one of the Brain Spawn with "are you insane in the membrane?" 3. The flashing light Nibbler uses to erase Fry's memory alludes to the Neuralyzer in the movie Men in Black. 4. After having his memory erased, Fry asks "Did everything just taste purple for a second?" This is an instance o...
The end of the episode you realise that to yancy, although he was competitive with fry, those moments with fry meant so much to him that he named his son after him to carry on his spirit, and potentially fill a hole in Yancy's heart that was left from Fry's disappearance.
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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Jun 17, 2012 · In the 20th century, Fry was content to be discontent. All this changed when he was cryogenically transported into the future. Even though his future job was still as a delivery boy, the texture of life changed enough to make it fun and exciting - without any effort on Fry's part.
