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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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The explanation is: Fry always was his own grandfather, Enos was never, at any point in his bloodline. Originally posted by EspanolBot: his "brain thing" Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what they said in "The Why Of Fry".
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Zeep
Liquid Emperor
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« Reply #14 on: 01-20-2004 01:42 »
« Last Edit on: 01-20-2004 01:42 »
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ALP- to clear this up for you: Fry was always his grandfather. it was his destiny, if you will. he was destined to go to the year 3000 and then to 1947 and become his grandfather. in a more complicated way of saying it: fry exists in 3 time periods. he existed for a short period of time in 1947, during which he impregnated a woman. his genes were passed on to a son, and then to his son's son, who was him. then he existed from when he was born (1980 or so?) to about 3001, at which point he went back in time to impregnate mildred (his grandmother). then he existed from a few days after then until he dies, which hasn't happened yet in the series.
hmmm..... this seemed less confusing before i tried to explain it. if anyone wants, i've got one more theory about how the whole time-travel thing works, but i won't post that unless someone asks me to, since this one was so long anyways.
one other thing: everyone thinks his grandfather was enos because mildred never found out fry's name, so she lied and credited enos, her most recent boyfriend. with doing "the nasty"
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Bushmeister
Professor
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I thought that "Roswell That Ends Well" made it pretty clear that Enos was gay, what with his conversation in the Malt Shop and his preference for a rather muscle-clad man on a calender rather than Marylin Monroe.
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Happy
Crustacean
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Bushmeister took the words right out of my post. It was clear Enos wasn't too much on the straight side. More importantly, why did Fry originally believe that Enos was his grandfather. God, 3ACV18 and 4ACV10 are two of the most confusing episodes of Futurama ever.
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MrBurns
Bending Unit
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Originally posted by Happy: Bushmeister took the words right out of my post. It was clear Enos wasn't too much on the straight side. More importantly, why did Fry originally believe that Enos was his grandfather. God, 3ACV18 and 4ACV10 are two of the most confusing episodes of Futurama ever. Fry never told Mildred his name, so maybe she just called him "Enos" afterwards? And concerning that Yancy/Enos thing... everybody has two grandfathers, and as Fry's mother has red hair, I bet Fry is her father. So Fry's father's father could still be called Yancy and Enos could still be called Enos. Well as I stated above, it was rather Fry who was called Enos but... well, you get the point.
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Leela_Fan
Poppler
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i have aquestion. if fry is his father ´s father why fry´s mother have similar hair to fry. i don´t know if you understand me...
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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« Reply #22 on: 01-21-2004 18:36 »
« Last Edit on: 01-21-2004 18:36 »
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Coincidence. And the Futurama writers throwing us a curve ball. Fry's paternal grandfather is himself. Mildred didn't know Fry's name, and put down Enos as the father of her child. Hence everybody think Fry's paternal grandfather is called Enos. The child, Fry's father, is called Yancy, probably after Enos father, Yancy. Welcome to PEEL, Leela_Fan (nice name, btw ). Enjoy it here.
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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Hey, yeah, that would work, and expalin why Fry's dad left out his own father when talking to Yancy in LOTF.
"Son your name is Yancy, just like me and my grandfather and so on." I always took it to mean it was his (Fry's dad) paternal grandfather who was named Yancy, but the other thing works even better.
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Coop
Professor
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He's not. See "Parasites Lost" where Zoidberg rides a sperm.
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zoidyzoid
Professor
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Couldn't Enos have impregnated Mildred before he died?
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Düffman
Delivery Boy
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Originally posted by futuramamama: There are only three questions of importance:
Of what is the spirit made? What is worth dying for? And what is worth living for? The answer to all questions are the same: Only love.
Dear god futuramamama that was the most insightfull thing ive EVER heard ANY guy in my LIFE say. im impressed. Anyway, it makes sense that fry's "grandma" would just tell everyone that enos was the father of her child because she never saw fry again, and enos was killed in a blast, noone would disagreed, she probalby did this so she wouldnt have a bastard child (ps that one long, grammaticly inchorent sentence)
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kelley
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maybe because.......he's a cartoon!!!
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Grim
Professor
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Originally posted by Leela_Fan: i have aquestion. if fry is his father ´s father why fry´s mother have similar hair to fry. i don´t know if you understand me... Because Red hair is a recessive genetic trait, it requires that for it to show up in a set of parents offspring they must both be carrying the red hair gene. therefore its quite possible for Fry to be the father of his father. Mildred's brown hair gene dominates Fry's Red hair gene. Fry's father carries fry's Red hair gene but has Brown hair himself. Fry's mother carries Red Hair gene (also has red hair). When offspring are born there is a 1/4 chance that the child will have red hair.
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Zed 85
Space Pope
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I agree with Düffman, the likely lie that Enos was Fry's grandfather was that, yes, she'd be too ashamed to tell her family that she was impregnated by a one-night stand and instead would say it must have been from Enos just before he died and no one would argue with such a delicate issue.
I've always believed that Mildred is really Fry's Mum's Mum, though Grim's theory makes sense, partly because he obviously knows quite a fair bit more about genes than I do. I mean, I'm one of those people who are fine wearing them, but couldn't start to understand them. But I always thought Fry looks too much like his mother, and Enos too. It's not like a man to confuse his grandparents, but this is Fry.
It could all be a big coincidence, or...perhaps his parents are...."related" Okay scratch that...
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