Is Fry the oldest person on Earth? (lemmy.world)

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I would think that the technology for cryo freezing people would have been newish by 1999, so there probably aren't too many people from before then who woke up in 3000. There may have been a few people who froze and unfroze around the same time, so he may not be THE oldest, but I think that he's the oldest person in the series

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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I presume we aren't counting the people who are heads in jars? Even if they have shiny new bodies?

[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes the oldest I can recall among them is Richard Nixon

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You mean aside from all the founding fathers in jars?

[-] ButteryNickel@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 weeks ago

When fry went to a self help group for people who were frozen, there was a caveman lamenting seeing his wife in the British museum. Presumably the caveman is older than Fry.

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Same episode, but Steve Castle (the 80s business guy) said he froze himself in the 1980s until there was a cure for boneitis

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

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[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

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[-] Mister_Feeny@fedia.io 0 points 2 weeks ago

As a side note, how'd you know that 80's business guys name was Steve Castle? I feel like he was only ever referred to as "that guy"?

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, his name isn't mentioned in the episode, but he was named in the script

His name, as mentioned on the audio commentary and listed in the script, is Steve Castle, but he is only ever called "That Guy" in the episode.

I looked up his name for the comment, i wasn't sure what his name was and at the time didn't realize it was as obscure as it is.

[-] adm@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Bender. By a large margin. That's if you count robots of course. You did say 'person' and not 'human'

[-] MimicJar@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

So when you're frozen you don't age. So when Fry goes into the freezer doodle at 25, he also exits at age 25.

For example when Fry, Farnsworth & Bender time travel and loop back around, we wouldn't give them a negative age. If they spend a year time traveling, we would add a year to their age.

So I think we need to consider the oldest as someone with the most years doing something. However since time travel is involved it's time spend doing things that they then remember.

So Bender, ignoring for a moment he is a robot, being stuck in Roswell would make him quite old since he remembers it all.

Now let's talk about Fry specifically. In the season 7 finale, "Meanwhile" Fry plays with the time button, gaining new knowledge every time he pushes the button. Eventually Fry jumps off a building, resetting time once he sees Leela. Fry falls for a long time, but we don't know how long he falls. Time stops, Fry & Leela live a life, but Farnsworth resets time back to when time first stopped. BUT that means Fry still remembers jumping off the building and ALL the times he pushed the button. As a quick throwaway joke when we resume season 8 we learn 10 years have passed. That means Fry remembers pushing the button to reset time FOR 10 YEARS.

So while Fry may not be the oldest, he is at least 10 years older in terms of memory, which I think is interesting to think about.