Summary
Futuramaseason 12 is showing that it still can build on stories from years ago, with the show just making its grossest Fry twist even darker after 23 years. DespiteFuturamabeing an animated sitcom, it has a surprising amount of lore, with the various sci-fi storylines building on top of each other in some incredibly interesting ways. While varioushigh-conceptFuturamaepisodeshave become incredibly popular throughout the show’s run, oneFuturamaepisode is weirder than them all, but Hulu’sFuturamarevival just took this iconic storyline and made it far more depressing.
Futuramaseason 12, episode 2is finally here, with “Quids Game” being far more than just a parody of the iconic Netflix show. The episode puts the large cast ofFuturamacharactersthrough a series of trials in a vein similar toSquid Game, with each of the challenges being based on a game that Fry played at one of his childhood birthday parties. Throughout the episode, Fry has flashbacks to his childhood, with each one of these being more depressing than the last. However, this one line makes Fry’sFuturamastory even darker than it already was.
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It Is Hinted At In A Minor Line
It has always been known thatFry had a tough childhood, with his relationship with his father being fairly strained. However, not much was known about Fry’s childhood relationship with his grandmother, Mildred Fry. While playing a game inFuturamaseason 12, episode 2, Fry excitedly says that he hopes his grandmother is watching him from hell, meaning that she passed away at some point. However, the young Fry believing that Mildred is in hell means that he undoubtedly had a bad relationship with his grandmother, although very few details regarding this are given.
Futuramahasn’t spent a lot of time developing Fry’s grandmother, as the show hasn’t revealed how involved she was in Fry’s life or when she died. However,Futuramahas featured a younger version of Fry’s grandmother.Futuramaseason 3’s “Roswell that Ends Well"sees Fry and several other members of the Planet Express crew go back in time, with them encountering a younger version of Mildred Fry. However, this leads to a pretty strange moment that mostFuturamafans are highly aware of.
Fry’s History With His Grandma Makes The Show’s Grandmother Paradox Even Weirder
Things Are Now More Complicated
Upon meeting Mildred Fry, Fry is unaware that she is his grandmother, leading him to make a surprising decision. As it turns out, Fry and Mildred end up sleeping together during the episode, with Fry getting Mildred pregnant. This pregnancy leads to the birth of Fry’s father, who later gives birth to Fry,creating a grandmother paradox. This time travel decision was the inciting incident ofFuturama’s confusing Farnsworth family tree, with this bit of lore going on to affect the rest ofFuturamafor the subsequent nine seasons.
Futuramaseason 12’s implication that Fry and his grandmother had a bad relationship makes this story even darker, as it means that Fry ended up sleeping with a grandparent who had previously had a negative effect on his life. This complicates the incestuous relationship even further, as Fry learning that he slept with a past version of a grandmother that he once hated could have an even bigger impact on his psyche.
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Fry’s Relationship With His Grandmother Makes His Childhood Even Sadder
He May Have Caused His Family’s Problems
Fry’s childhood inFuturamawas already sad, but his negative relationship with his grandmother makes it even sadder.It isn’t known why Fry’s relationship with his grandmother soured, but the fact that he slept with her could have indirectly caused it. Fry leaving means that Mildred had an absent husband and that Fry’s dad had an absent father, something that undoubtedly had a negative impact on their lives. This could have caused generational trauma, with it going on to lead to their mistreatment of Fry as a child.
DespiteFuturamagoing on for 12 seasons, there are still a lot ofmysteries surrounding Fry’s childhood, with much of the time he spent before being frozen in 1999 remaining unknown.Futuramadoesn’t often give more information regarding Fry’s past, but this detail is one of the most revelatory moments in recentFuturamahistory, with it making Fry so much more tragic.
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Futurama is an animated science fiction series that follows Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy from late-20th-century New York City. He is accidentally cryogenically frozen for a thousand years and becomes an employee at Planet Express, a delivery service in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
