Futurama Wiki
Register
Advertisement
Futurama Wiki

Sherri Fry (nee Gleisner; born May 2, 1950) was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gleisner.

She is the wife of Yancy Fry, Sr. and the daughter-in-law of Enos Fry and Mildred Fry. She is the mother of Yancy Fry, Jr. and Philip J. Fry I.

She is the mother-in-law of Turanga Leela and Yancy Fry Jr.'s unnamed wife.

She is the paternal grandmother of Philip J. Fry II.

She is the step-grandmother of Kif Kroker's Offspring (Amy Wong's adoptive children).

She lived with her husband and sons in the rundown Fry family house in Brooklyn, (Old) NY.

Character Description[]

Appearance[]

She is a redhead, which was passed down to her second son, Philip J. Fry.

She often wears casual clothes. When sports are on, she usually wears equipment to symbolize her support of the events.

Personality[]

Mother and son

"You're the most important thing in my life once this game is over."

Her primary personality trait was an unhealthy obsession with spectator sports, causing her to be distant and emotionally neglectful to her children. She was often seen ignoring her sons in favor of watching a football game or playing indoor golf and acting unconcerned with their exploits or their whereabouts. While giving birth to Philip, she was more concerned with the outcome of a NY Mets baseball game she was listening to on the radio, only announcing it was the happiest day of her life after hearing the Mets had won (completely ignoring the newborn baby sitting on her lap). When Philip was frozen in 1999, she was too involved with rooting for the Green Bay Packers while watching an NFL football game to wonder where her son had gone.

After his disappearance became evident in alternate timeline, she quickly shared her husband's assessment that searching for him was a waste of taxpayers' money. Though this is negated with the time duplicate (that would become Lars) fills in for her son.

Despite this, she was shown to have actually loved her son, as seen in "The Luck of the Fryrish", when she admits that she misses him very much. She also dreams of him in "Game of Tones", where they share a tearful farewell... once she's done watching the 2000 Rose Bowl (won by the University of Wisconsin Badgers, much to her delight). Also, in "D'uh Vinci Code", it's revealed that despite her apparent disinterest in her son, she was actually fully aware of all of her son's "unique" qualities and reminds him that regardless of how dumb or ugly he might be, he's good-hearted and that's what matters.

Biography[]

She was born to Mr. and Mrs. Gleissner.

She married Yancy Fry before 1972, which was when their first son is born, they named him Yancy as every Fry since the American Revolution.

In 1974, she gave birth to her second child, Philip.

Original Timeline[]

Sometime after her second son disappeared, Yancy Jr. married, and she became a grandmother to Philip J. Fry II who was named after his uncle.

She and her husband initially thought finding Philip was a waste of taxpayer money they did their own search using his pet dog Seymour. Seymour led them to the Applied Cryogenics, where Philip was frozen, but Mr. and Mrs. Fry did not notice their son who was frozen.

Alternate Timeline[]

Using a time code on his behind, Philip returned to the year 2000 from the year 3007 and created a time paradox duplicate that would eventually become Lars Fillmore who remained in the past for twelve years while the original Philip accidentally returned to the future.

Because her son was technically not frozen, she and her husband had no reason to search for Philip who spent his years in the past living peacefully with his family until returning to the future in 2012. At one point while serving the family dinner, duplicate Philip kissed her on the cheek.

In the year 3017, she posthumously became Turanga Leela's mother-in-law after her son and Leela's wedding.

Notes[]

  • Despite not being related, she looks like Enos Fry, her original father-in-law.
  • In season seven, Philip mentioned that he had a cousin who painted a mural this would imply the Mrs. Fry has a brother or sister.
  • Due to a complicated time-travel paradox, Mrs. Fry is also Philip's daughter-in-law and her husband's paternal grandmother.
    • Because of this, she became her own grandmother-in-law.



Family Tree[]

Mr. Gleisner┬Mrs. Gleisner Enos FryMildred Fry
            │                      │
     Sherri Fry───────────────────┬────────────────────Yancy Fry, Sr.
                                      │ 
                            ┌─────────┴──────────────┐                      David Farnsworth
                            │                        │                             │
Turanga LeelaPhilip J. Fry Yancy Fry, Jr.┬Unnamed wife         │
                                          │      (Many generations)     
                                    Philip J. Fry IINjörd(?) │             │
          (Many generations)     │
                                                                     │             │
                                                            Grandma Farnsworth (possibly)
                                                                     │             │             
                                                                     +──────┬──────+ 
                                                             Ned FarnsworthVelma Farnsworth                                                                    │ 
                                                                     ┌─────────┴────────┐
                                                                     │                  │ 
(?)Ogden Wernstrom────┬────Carol Miller────┬─────Hubert J. Farnsworth Floyd Farnsworth
                          │                        │                │               
                      ┌───┴───┐                Igner Cubert J. Farnsworth
                      │       │         
                 Walt Larry

Appearances[]

Episodes[]

Films[]

Comics[]

Advertisement