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Adult life
He had a very dirty life-style. He makes references throughout the series about
"mushrooms" growing on his bathmat or in his shower. "A Big Piece of Garbage"
also shows more on his dirty lifestyle.
By 1999, Fry was dating a girl named Michelle and working as a delivery boy for
Panucci's Pizza. On December 31, 1999, after being dumped by his girlfriend (who
was shown in a car with another man and telling Fry that she had left his stuff
on the sidewalk) he was delivering a pizza to a cryogenics lab when he realized
that it was a prank order for "I.C. Wiener". He was leaning back in a chair
while drinking a can of beer at the lab when the clock struck midnight, and just
at that moment Fry fell backwards into an open cryogenic capsule that closed
upon him and froze him (in the episode "The Why of Fry", it is revealed that
Nibbler gave Fry the choice to push himself in to later fulfil his destiny to
one day in the future save the universe). He remained frozen for 1000 years,
during which time New York City was destroyed and rebuilt twice. He was
defrosted on December 31, 2999, sometime during the day. (He did not defrost
early; if the capsule interpreted "1,000 years" to refer to the average length
of a year in the Gregorian calendar, Fry should have defrosted a few seconds
after noon.) Needless to say, upon reawakening, he found himself in a world very
different from the one he left at the turn of the 21st century.
Trying to adjust to the 31st century, Fry gains the friendship of a cyclopic
woman, Turanga Leela, and a bending robot named Bender. Together, they find
Fry's closest living relative, the ancient Professor Hubert Farnsworth, who
agrees to employ the three of them in his delivery business, Planet Express.
Now a fish-out-of-water, Fry often tries to recapture his past. He came into a
large sum of money through a millennium's worth of interest accrued in a bank
account and furnished an apartment in a style befitting his twentieth-century
lifestyle. He discovered the preserved corpse of his dog in "Jurassic Bark", and
sought to clone him until Fry discovered that the dog had lived years after Fry
was frozen.
Although Fry seems to have aged, his personality still resembles that of a child
of very low intelligence, and is often portrayed as being very slow to pick up
on events that are happening, as well as common sense. However, he is very
knowledgeable about certain subjects, such as video games, television
(particularly Star Trek), movies, and scary stories. He also appears to know
some basics in science (in My Three Suns, he appeared to know that he wouldn't
get drunk, as he was solid).
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