Philip J Fry: A Man Made of Time

"Thanks to denial I'm immortal!"

Fry unlocking his full potential by objectively oding on caffeine is peak show writing.

"Time made a fool for all of us" is such a good ending that I suspect this whole video was made just for that one line

SPOILER WARNING: The coffee thing at the end actually really convinced me, the idea that Fry is unknowingly a 4th dimensional being makes so much sense with that!

My interpretation of The Late Philip J Fry has always been That it's not a circular timeline but just the next universe. As every universe starts from the same initial conditions they end up exactly the same except one is lower than the other. They didn't kill themselves in the past they just killed 3 people that were exactly like them in the new universe.

honestly the universal time code tattoo is the most interesting point for me because it only exists due to the larz paradox, to our knowledge he never went out of his way to get that tattoo cause the reason he left leela at the alter was due to finding out what happens to paradoxes and at that point both frys had the tattoo from future bender putting it on inside the freezer. it's not just an information paradox, the tattoo never was created, it simply just is and doesn't seem to degrade and yet nibbler was still able to laser it away so it isn't an indestructable object.

I think covering the third time travel type before the second time travel type was just complete and utter genius

Traveling forwards in time for us "normal" beings is just advanced waiting

I was skeptical. Then you brought up breathing himself into existence. I'm in the cult now!

13:55 the timeline that Fry leaves behind in TLPJF isn't actually a paradox at all. Because the gang does not land in the first reincarnation of the universe, they leave that universe's forwards time travel machine unmolested, thus allowing that Fry/Bender/Farnsworth to make the same mistake they did. Thus, it must be that the Universe we follow in the beginning of the episode is one of the "even" universes that a previous Fry/Bender/Farnsworth skipped over as well. Therefore, the cyclic nature of the Universe is restored but in a cycle of two universe reincarnations instead of one. Because of this there is no paradox, only a longer cycle/time loop than you might at first believe.

The way I look at it is that- When the universe ends with the forwards only time machine, that doesn't end the timeline. The universe recreates itself, the ship goes through again, and lands in the "past"- But it's like pulling out a tape measurer only to see the pattern repeats after you pull enough tape. It's not actually the same spot in the timeline as last time, it literally is in the future, just, now, repeating what was once the past.

I didn’t know what I was getting into when this appeared in my recommended, but arguing that Fry Futurama is a unique instance of time embodying itself for either agency (the universe needing an avenue to solve problems without tearing itself into holes) or stability purposes (load bearing fool) was not it, and I am not disappointed in the slightest. Cool descent into madness, dude, thanks for putting it on tape.

"I watched as the universe began and I watched time run out." Philip J. Fry

The thumbnail is a work of art.

You know, the scene where he walks super fast due to coffee isn't a time power - it's just the effect of the coffee. I've had to limit myself to a maximum of two coffees a day so I don't go super fast again.

When is the next Futurama cult meeting

This was one of the most well-researched interpretations of canon put on YouTube, I love thinking about Futurama in these nuanced ways

The What-If Machine vignette brings up an interesting point. Whether or not it was accurate to what would happen if Fry destroyed the cryotube or was killed is irrelevant. If the tale of interest is true, then what you said holds up. But if it's not, that means that the idea of what would happen in that case is incalculable, like it was asked to divide by zero. In which case, you're still right: Fry's existence and freezing is necessary to the structure of the universe.

I'd just like to point out how satisfied Fry was at riding the Scooty Puff Sr. Even if he was previously erased, he was content with his forsaken self's decision.

For "The Late Philip J. Fry" I always interpreted it as the professor always screws up and creates a gap universe, in which the three of them don't get crushed by the time machine