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Timeline
Childhood
Named by his father for Phillips-head screwdrivers, he was the second and
youngest child of his parents; with one older brother, Yancy Fry. His mother
ceded picking his name to his father, because she had picked what they had for
dinner the previous day.
During his childhood, Fry was particularly active. He took part in breakdancing
and basketball, during which he found a seven-leaf clover that gave him the luck
to beat his brother at both. He later locked the clover away in the family's
bomb shelter in the cover of a Breakfast Club soundtrack in the "Ronco Record
Vault", with the combination "3".
As a child, he participated in a breakdancing street gang in order to help them
win some parachute pants, and performed a septuple headspin with the help of the
clover after his brother copied his dance moves and his "Outer Space" dance
style.
Teenage years
As a teenager, Fry was a typical underachiever. During his time as a teenager,
he is rumored to have spent his entire school time playing video games. He
particularly liked playing Space Invaders while listening to his Rush mix tapes
and drinking Shasta - so much so that his eyes bled from overexposure, although
this may not qualify as canon, as it is shown during the Anthology of Interest
II episode.
He has also had at least three heart attacks, implied to be caused by drinking
excessive amounts of cola (over 100 cans per week, as mentioned in "Fry and the
Slurm Factory"). Presumably, he would have stopped at this point, but his
drinking habits suggest he merely moved up to beer.
In an alternate reality shown by Professor Farnsworth's "what-if machine" (after
Fry asked what life would be like if it were more like a video game), Fry's
experience became useful when he was called upon to help General Colin Pac-Man
defend Earth from actual space invaders, a group of classic video game
characters (such as Donkey Kong) from the planet "Nintendu 64" who wanted
quarters with which to do their laundry. Despite having played video games for
the majority of his life, he admits to doing poorly on Space Invaders when faced
with the last ship, exclaiming "I could never get the last one, my brother
always got it for me!".
Aside from his obsession with video games, he is an accomplished college
dropout, dropping out after less than 3 weeks from Coney Island Community
College, which appeared to be a fairground ride. In the future, however, this is
only the equivalent of a high school dropout. In "The Cryonic Woman", he claims
that his parents kept him out of public school, deeming it a waste of taxpayers'
money.
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