Redheads: Philip Fry

I had been thinking that I wanted to open up my “red haired” posts to encompass both sexes, and with the announcement that Futurama is going to be coming back to television with all new episodes (thanks, Jon) I figure now is as good a time as any!

Philip J. Fry is the main character of the series Futurama. He winds up being cryogenically frozen for a thousand years, and needs to make his way in the future. He winds up working as a delivery boy for a descendant’s delivery company, and has several amazing and improbably adventures, including one where he travels back in time to become his own grandpa.

He winds up trying very hard to win the heart of Leela, one of the first people he meets in the future. While she rejects him at first, she winds up giving him just enough hope to continue pursuing her.

Here’s the very beginning of Fry’s story, how he winds up in the future through a series of misadventures on New Year’s eve 1999:

Fry is a dreamer and a slacker, but he is a kind person, whose heart is in the right place. I look forward to seeing more of his adventures in 2010!

June 9, 2009 | 10:49 pm | Comments Off
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