Futurama episode
"The Luck of the Fryrish"
Episode no.	36
Prod. code	3ACV04
Airdate	March 11, 2001
Writer(s)	Ron Weiner
Director	Chris Louden
Opening subtitle	Broadcast Simultaneously One Year In The Future
Opening cartoon	Unknown
Season 3 January 2001 – December 2002
Amazon Women in the Mood Parasites Lost A Tale of Two Santas The Luck of the Fryrish The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz Bendless Love The Day the Earth Stood Stupid That's Lobstertainment! The Cyber House Rules Where the Buggalo Roam Insane in the Mainframe The Route of All Evil Bendin' in the Wind Time Keeps on Slippin' I Dated a Robot A Leela of Her Own A Pharaoh to Remember Anthology of Interest II Roswell That Ends Well Godfellas Future Stock The 30% Iron Chef
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"The Luck of the Fryrish" is the fourth episode in season three of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on March 11, 2001. Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, also the creator of The Simpsons, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... Image File history File links Futurama_ep36. ... is the 70th day of the year (71st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Ron Weiner is an American television writer. ... Chris Louden is an American animator. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Amazon Women in the Mood is the first episode in season three of Futurama. ... Parasites Lost is the 2nd episode in series 3 of Futurama. ... A Tale of Two Santas is the third episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz is the fifth episode in season three of Futurama. ... Bendless Love is the sixth episode in season three of Futurama. ... The Day the Earth Stood Stupid is the seventh episode in season three of Futurama. ... Thats Lobstertainment! is the 8th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... The Cyber House Rules is the ninth episode in season three of Futurama. ... Where the Buggalo Roam is the tenth episode in season three of the animated television series Futurama. ... “Insane in the Mainframe” is the eleventh episode in season three of Futurama. ... The Route of All Evil is episode twelve in season three of the Futurama DVDs. ... This section has been identified as trivia. ... The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline for Television episodes. ... I Dated a Robot is the fifteenth episode in season three of Futurama. ... A Leela Of Her Own is the sixteenth episode in the third season of the animated series Futurama. ... A Pharaoh to Remember is episode seventeen of Futuramas third season. ... Anthology of Interest II is the eighteenth episode of the third season of Futurama. ... Roswell That Ends Well is the nineteenth episode of the third production season of the TV show Futurama. ... Godfellas is the twentieth episode of the third season of Futurama. ... Future Stock is the 21st episode in the third season of Futurama. ... “The 30% Iron Chef” is the twenty-second episode in season three of Futurama. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, also the creator of The Simpsons, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... is the 70th day of the year (71st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

Plot

The episode opens in the mid-1970s, where a young Yancy Fry is jealous of his newborn brother Philip, and copies him in almost anything he can. Meanwhile, back in the year 3000, Fry is getting fed up with his bad luck which consists of losing nearly all of his money at the racecourse, being violently electrocuted trying to hold on to his final dollar and landing in a steel garbage can with leftover "Horse d'oeuvres being tipped on him as a final blow. In a flashback, Fry discovers a seven-leaf clover, which grants him extraordinary luck and allows him to beat his brother in any (most amazingly breakdancing) contest. Fry sets off, with Leela and Bender, to find his clover in the ruins of Old New York and makes his way to his old house. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... Futuramas recurring human characters: // In the episode A Big Piece of Garbage, Ron Popeil, his severed head floating in a large jar, mentions several of his inventions including the (fictional) technology to keep human heads alive in jars, implicitly arresting the aging process. ... Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama and is voiced by Billy West. ... Hors dœuvre (or alternatively appetizer or starter) refer to the food served before or outside of (French: hors) the main dishes of a meal (the œuvre). ... A four-leaf clover The four-leaf clover is an uncommon variation of the common three-leaf clover. ... Turanga Leela (referred to as simply Leela) is the primary female character in the animated television series Futurama. ... Bender Bending Rodríguez, more commonly known as Bender, is a main character in the animated television series Futurama. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

Back in the 1980s, a teenage Fry hides the seven-leaf clover inside his Ronco record vault. In the year 3000, Bender opens the record vault and Fry discovers that the clover is missing, concluding that Yancy must have stolen it. They happen across a statue of Yancy, with the seven-leaf clover in his lapel. The inscription: “Philip J. Fry—First person on Mars” angers Fry as he believes Yancy stole his name and his dream. Ronco is a company that manufactures and sells a variety of items and devices, most commonly those used in the kitchen. ... (29th century - 30th century - 31st century - other centuries) The 30th century (Gregorian Calendar) comprises the years 2901-3000. ... Look up Bender in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Bender may refer to one of the following. ...

Professor Farnsworth pulls up a biographical movie about “Philip J. Fry,” where the crew learns that he was a millionaire rock star astronaut, and is now buried in Orbiting Meadows National Cemetery with the seven-leaf clover. A furious Fry sets off to rob his "brother’s" grave and recover the clover. The story jumps back to the early 21st century, where an adult Yancy is rummaging through his missing brother’s music to find something to play at his upcoming wedding. Yancy discovers the seven-leaf clover in one of the packages, and takes it. Professor Hubert Farnsworth Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth is the extremely elderly proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service in the animated television series Futurama. ... The 21st century is the present century of the Anno Domini (common) era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ...

Fry, Leela and Bender reach the grave site, and start digging. But Fry knocks loose some moss that is covering part of the inscription, and begins to read. The story jumps back to Yancy, who is discussing naming his newborn son with his wife. Yancy gives his son the seven-leaf clover, and names him Philip J. Fry after his brother. The inscription on the tomb reads “Here Lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit”. Fry returns the clover to his nephew’s grave.

Continuity

When Yancy is being told of the long history of his name, his father doesn't count his own father as a Yancy. This is a reference to the plot of "Roswell That Ends Well", where it is revealed that Fry is his own grandfather. Roswell That Ends Well is the nineteenth episode of the third production season of the TV show Futurama. ...

Production

According to executive producer David X. Cohen, the storyboards for this particular episode were colored differently to represent the scenes which were based in the 31st century and the 20th Century. The episode commentary for this episode notes that the concept of simultaneously telling two stories set in different times was inspired by The Godfather Part II. David X. Cohen (born 1966), born David Samuel Cohen, is an American television writer. ... Storyboards are illustrations displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualizing an animated or live-action film. ... The 31st century of the anno Domini (common) era will span the years 3001–3100 of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... The Godfather Part II is a 1974 motion picture directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script he co-wrote with Mario Puzo. ...

Broadcast and reception

Ron Weiner won an Annie Award for "Outstanding individual achievement for writing in an animated television production" for this episode in 2001. ^[1] In 2006 IGN.com ranked this episode as number nine in their list of the top 25 Futurama episodes due to the surprising ending and emotional nature of the plot^[2]. In it's original airing this episode had a 4.9 rating/9 share and was in 73rd place for the week^[3]. Ron Weiner is an American television writer. ... The Annie Awards are given to an animation award show created by the International Animated Film Society ASIFA-Hollywood, and are animations highest honor[1]. Originally designed to celebrate lifetime or career contributions to animation in the fields of producing, directing, animation, design, writing, voice acting, sound and sound... IGN is the oldest and most visited general gaming website, and runs one of the most popular forums on the Internet. ...

Characters

Characters making their first appearance in this episode:

• Yancy Fry, Jr.
• Philip J. Fry II
• Hair Robot

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Cultural references

• The quantum finish at the race track is a reference to the observer effect and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle^[4].
• The title of this episode is a riff on the novel/film The Luck of the Irish.
• The song playing in the end credits is “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” by Simple Minds, which is also the theme song of the 1985 film The Breakfast Club. Additionally, the film soundtrack itself is featured in the episode, as the clover is hidden in the sleeve of this particular record inside the vault.
• The manhole cover has The PJs Thurgood carved into it. The writers of Futurama are fans of the show and felt they should feature it. As a way of paying them back, The PJs featured Fry as a missing person on a milk carton. The same manhole is seen in the episode "I Second That Emotion".
• Fry’s childhood friend “Noticeably F.A.T.” is a reference to New York rapper The Notorious B.I.G..
• In the graveyard Fry, Leela and Bender pass the “grave of The Unknown Comic,” a reference to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Unknown Comic himself.
• When Fry is in the ruins of Old New York, one of the things he does is get in the middle of the street and yell, "Howard Stern is overrated!" Coincidentally, Billy West (the actor who voices Fry, Professor Farnsworth, and Dr. Zoidberg) has appeared a few times on Howard Stern's radio show.
• During the documentary, the Icelandic singing star Njord is a reference to real world singer Björk.
• At the moment of Fry's birth, his mother is listening to a New York Mets baseball game, in which Ed Kranepool strikes out, and then Jerry Grote leans into a pitch and is hit by the pitch, winning the game in the ninth inning. Grote and Kranepool were both Mets players from 1966 to 1976.
• Fry's mother mentions that, on the day Fry disappeared, Wisconsin won the Rose Bowl football game 17-9. This was the score by which Wisconsin beat Stanford on January 1, 2000.
• When Bender attempts to open the vault in Fry's old basement there is a statue of Bart Simpsons head on a shelf in the background.

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