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Love life
Amy Wong
Fry and Amy Wong have a short relationship in the episode "Put Your Head on My
Shoulders". After spending time together Fry and Amy recognize their
commonalities (they feel the same way about "junk, and stuff") that lead to a
relationship. However, Fry quickly feels as though Amy is not giving him enough
space, and decides to break it off. Unfortunately, before he can tell her, Dr.
Zoidberg crashes Amy's hovercar, resulting in Fry's head having to be severed
from his body and transplanted onto Amy's shoulder. In the later episode "Time
Keeps on Slippin'" when Fry is attempting to remember what he did to make Leela
marry him, it is suggested that perhaps he is a fantastic lover, which Amy
denies.
Turanga Leela
Fry met Leela shortly after being defrosted when she was working as a career
counselor at the cryogenics lab. Afraid of getting a career chip (which would
doom him once again to a life as a delivery boy) implanted in his hand by Leela,
he ran from her, but eventually befriended her after she abandoned her job as
career counselor and joined Planet Express with Fry. Later on, Fry turned his
attentions to Leela, and in subsequent seasons began his quest to impress her.
Fry maintains an interest in Leela throughout the series, and he is frequently
rejected by her. The idea of a romantic connection between Fry and Leela is
explored more in the later episodes of the series.
Towards the end of the series there are hints that Leela and Fry were beginning
to fall for each other. The clearest example of this is in the episode "The
Sting", when Fry is "killed" after being impaled on a space-bee's stinger. The
"death" of Fry, which she believes herself responsible for, sends Leela
spiralling into sorrow-induced insanity. However, it turned out that Leela was
in a coma, and the events she perceived after being stung were simply a horrible
dream. Fry, who only needed a replacement spleen, had stayed by her bedside the
entire time, trying to keep Leela's mind together by continually talking to her
for two weeks.
While traveling through time, Fry was present at the time of his past self's
freezing, there to attempt to prevent it. However, Nibbler brings Fry to realize
that the future is worth living, for Leela's sake, and Fry froze himself
(Nibbler in this scene says, "She must be the Other," however this aspect of the
plot was not explored prior to the cancellation of Futurama's initial run.) In
return, Nibbler helped Fry get together with Leela by giving him a flower, which
Fry then gave to Leela after she had a bad date ("The Why Of Fry").
At one point (specifically "Time Keeps on Slippin'"), Fry actually managed to
marry Leela only to be followed by a speedy divorce. Due to the "time-jumps"
that take place in this episode, neither Fry nor Leela knew exactly what caused
them to end up married until the end, where Fry looks out the window of the ship
to see that he moved the stars themselves to give Leela a love letter in the
sky. This message is destroyed during an attempt to halt the time-skips before
Leela gets a chance to see it properly. Fry decides not to tell Leela what had
gone on.
In the episode "The Farnsworth Parabox," the main cast of Futurama travels to a
parallel universe. This was named "Universe 1" by the Alternate Planet Express,
although alternate universe Fry's original suggestion was the Fighting
Mongooses. The alternate universe is basically the same as the normal Futurama
universe ("Universe A") except that all coin flips are opposite in the two
worlds. In that episode, Leela and Fry are shocked to discover that their
counterparts are happily married. Apparently, both Leelas at one point flipped a
coin to decide whether or not to go on a date with Fry; while Leela A got tails
and made up an excuse involving ghosts, Leela 1 went out with Fry 1, which led
to a year-long relationship and eventual marriage. One year later after their
first date, Fry 1 gave Leela 1 a diamond scrunchie, while a year after Leela A's
excuse, Fry A got beat up at a Neil Diamond Concert by a guy named Scrunchie. At
the end of the episode, after returning to Universe A, Leela apparently goes out
with Fry, though no long relationship seems to develop.
In "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", the last episode for season 4 (and
the last episode of the series as of yet), Fry tries to improve his Holophonor
skills in order to get Leela to love him (the Holophonor having been proven
successful in "Parasites Lost"). Unable to do so with his original hands, he
takes the advice of Bender to make a deal with The Robot Devil to exchange them
for new and better robotic hands via transplants from a 'random' donor (selected
from a Wheel Of Fortune type of board), only to find the 'random' donor to be
the Robot Devil himself. With his new hands, Fry's skill in the Holophonor
improves exponentially, allowing him to go on to public recitals and having his
musical works sold with great fanfare. Inevitably, Fry was commissioned by
Hedonism Bot to write and perform a full opera. Fry agrees, but only if the
opera is about Leela herself. Fry writes his opera, but on the day of the
performance, Leela was accidentally deafened by Bender, due to the plottings of
the Robot Devil. She goes anyway, hoping Fry won't notice. The first half of the
opera is performed with great success, but Leela, unable to fully enjoy it due
to her deafness, makes a hurried deal with the Robot Devil during the
intermission to get robotic ears in exchange for 'her hand'. During the second
half of the opera, angered by his portrayal in the opera, the Robot Devil
demands Fry to return his hands. Fry initially refuses, until the Robot Devil
threatens to claim Leela's hand in marriage. Fry relents, getting his old hands
back, and thus unable to perform the remainder of the opera. While the rest of
the audience leaves in disgust, only Leela remains, and in a touching conclusion
to the episode/series, she asks Fry to continue and to see 'how it ends'.
Lucy Liu-bot
After having a crush on Lucy Liu for as long as he has known, Fry decides to
download a copy of Liu onto a blank robot, over the protests of the other
characters. Eventually, the group discovers that the heads of many famous
people, including Liu, are being held by Nappster (actually 'Kid'nappster,
according to an altered sign). The process, which the heads do not want to be a
part of, is very painful. The employees of Kidnappster send a team of rampaging
Liu bots to eliminate the group. In the resulting battle, Liu-bot sacrifices
herself to defeat the other bots and the real Liu asks Fry to turn her off.
Despite the group's opinion that robots and humans shouldn't mix, the real Liu
and Bender fall in love.
Michelle
Michelle is Fry's girlfriend from the 20th century, who dumped Fry on New Year's
Eve 1999.
After Fry was frozen, Michelle realized he was the man she really loved, so she
froze herself in depression (not knowing Fry had been frozen; like everyone else
in Fry's life, she knew only that he was missing and presumed dead). No one had
searched because his parents felt it was a waste of taxpayers' money. Therefore,
when she was revived in the year 3000, Michelle was joyously and unexpectedly
reunited with Fry. When he was fired from Planet Express, he ended up with
Leela's old job at the cryogenics lab (in a mixup involving career chips), he
unfroze Michelle and they continued dating. Unfortunately, Michelle started to
complain about the 31st century being too "weird", and the couple froze
themselves, intending to re-emerge from cryogenic suspension in the year 4000;
instead, their tube was dumped in Los Angeles before the re-screening of an old
Pauly Shore film (the tube Fry and Michelle were in was believed to contain
Pauly Shore, who had been unfrozen early by Fry), and when they were thawed,
only a few days had passed. They entered a few more arguments and then broke up
conclusively ("The Cryonic Woman").
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