Philip J. Fry - where would we be without him? The lovably flawed delivery boy who ended up in the year 3000 has been making us feel better about ourselves for over ten years, surviving countless dangerous situations, four risky feature length episodes, and a few revamps and cancellations that would make even Family Guy throw in the towel. But he's not just an on screen distraction from our boringly on going state of being - he is a reflection of it. Writers of shows like Futurama and The Simpsons are pretty smart and it's likely that this was always their intention. Face it, there must have been a few times when you saw Fry's shenanigans unfold and suddenly realised that you would probably have done the exact same thing in his position. Maybe it's just me.... There are one or two SPOILER ALERTS, so watch out.
10. We're All Stupid
No matter how much you fight it, the existence of people with IQs as high as Stephen Hawking's means that the rest of us are all comparatively pretty dumb. Fry's character is an open acceptance of this. Think about it: none of us know how to spell the word "reason" either, and if any of us happened upon a ton of money like Fry did in when he reopened his old account, we'd probably spend it all on crap from a bygone era as well, and then end up doing something so amusingly moronic as to purchase thousand year old fish with it just so we could make a pizza slightly better/much, much worse. And which of us wouldn't sell their soul for a ridiculous talent that would make them famous, like when fry sold his to the robot devil for his super musical hands? As Fry says: "It's like we feel the same way about junk and stuff, or.....whatever". I agree.