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"Ever get the feeling that you're only going with girls 'cause you're supposed to?"
Enos to Philip J. Fry I[source]

Enos Fry was a Private in the United States Air Force, stationed at Walker Air Force Base in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico and was engaged to Yancy Fry Sr.'s mother Mildred Fry. He was the original father of Yancy Fry, Sr. until the events of "Roswell that Ends Well", but still remains his legal/biological father.

Personality[]

During his time at Walker, Enos was put-upon, constantly harassed by his drill sergeant, and blamed for pretty much every incident, accident, or act of God-dent that went on there. But he never seemed troubled by it and still enjoyed going to the diner where his fiancée Mildred worked.

However, when talking to Fry, unaware that he's his future grandson, he revealed that he actually has homosexual tendencies, commenting "Ever get the feeling that you're only going with girls 'cause you're supposed to?". When Fry dropped him off at a seemingly abandoned cabin, minutes before it was destroyed by an atomic bomb, Enos was staring at the August portion of a 1947 pin-up calendar, which featured a portrait of a shirtless, muscular cowboy, while ignoring the July portion of the calendar, which showed a portrait of a woman in a seductive pose wearing a revealing outfit.

History[]

Original Timeline[]

Enos was born in August 22, 1920 in Old New York. He served in World War II. After the war, he was a Private in the United States Air Force, stationed at Walker Air Force Base in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico.

Fry met Mildred, a coffee waitress, in April 1947. The two had a son named Yancy Fry, Sr. on January 4, 1948. Enos was previously the paternal grandfather of Yancy Fry, Jr. and Philip J. Fry I. Enos is the paternal grandfather-in-law of the unnamed wife of Yancy Fry, Jr., Turanga Leela and Jrrr. Enos is the paternal great-grandfather of Philip J. Fry II. Through Leela, Enos is the step-great-grandfather of Kif Kroker's Offspring (Amy's adoptive children).

Changed Timeline[]

The crew is sent back to the year 1947 when Fry puts metal in the ship's microwave while the rest of the crew is watching a supernova explosion. The resultant reaction causes the ship to vanish into a tunnеl, where they pick up a number of clocks before exiting out a portal. Confused, the crew decides to head back to Earth, only to find no space traffic. Worse, there is no receiving signal, so they crash land in Roswell, New Mexico, causing an unsecured Bender to be thrown through the forward viewport and fly to pieces. While everyone else, including Bender's head, heads back to the ship, Zoidberg is left picking up the pieces. However, at night he is found by the United States military. The next day, the crew realizes that the famous crashed UFO that brought Roswell, Area 51, and the related conspiracy theory into popular culture was in fact them. The Professor then explains that the microwave's radiation and the gravitons and graviolois from the supernova blasted them through time itself.

The U.S. military captures Dr. Zoidberg, who was gathering up pieces of Bender's body, and takes him and Bender's body to Roswell Airbase to conduct various experiments, including an Alien autopsy and 'UFO reconstruction'. President Harry S. Truman also arrives to interrogate Zoidberg on whether he comes in peace, is staging an invasion or creating a hybrid, but Zoidberg's people skills have him vivisected. "No one is to know about this except the senior officers, scientists and a single nutcase reporter no one will believe."

While the crew looks for another microwave, which can't be purchased at Sears in 1947 Roswell, Fry and Bender's head infiltrate the army base. Philip I then encounters his grandfather, Enos Fry, who is stationed at the base. As Professor Farnsworth had previously warned Philip I about causality and the fact that if his grandfather dies, then he will never exist, Philip I becomes obsessed with protecting Enos from any possible harm. However, his fear and paranoia result in him overreacting to minor threats and putting Enos in far more danger than he would have been otherwise. He is even more alarmed when Enos exhibits signs of latent homosexuality, making it look unlikely that he will actually father Philip I's father Yancy Sr. Inadvertently, Philip I brings about Enos's death, by leaving him in a "safe" house on a nuclear weapon test range.

It is assumed that Mildred took Enos's surname Fry following his death in a nuclear explosion. His body was vaporized ensuring that, in Fry's words, he "wouldn't come back as a zombie". Prior to traveling back in time, Philip I believed that Enos was his grandfather, and he was originally. After Enos died, Philip I slept with his grandmother, thereby making him his own grandfather.

Trivia[]

  • It is possible that Enos was never Yancy Sr.’s father. Mildred might have lied to make her son proud of his father since a Private in the military would be a better role model for him than a guy she barely knew. This is further evidenced by Enos's apparent homosexuality, the fact that Fry replacing Enos as his grandfather did not affect the future at all, and that Nibbler would not have had any reason to send Fry to the future in a timeline in which Fry was not his own grandfather.
  • Although he was originally the father of Yancy Fry Sr., he bears a strong resemblance to Mrs. Fry.
  • Due to Philip I and Leela's marriage in "Meanwhile", Enos Fry is the in-law family member to the Turanga family (alongside with his fiancee, Mildred Fry; his son, Yancy Fry, Sr.; his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Fry; his older paternal grandson, Yancy Fry, Jr.; his paternal granddaughter-in-law#1, Unnamed wife of Yancy Fry, Jr.; his paternal-paternal great-grandson, Philip J. Fry II and his in-law family, Mr. and Mrs. Gleisner).
  • Since Enos and Mildred were engaged but not yet married in 1947, then it's possible that Yancy Fry, Sr. was conceived after their engagement.

Appearances[]

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