Matt Groening's Futurama is one of the most absurd and goofy animated shows on television, with the futuristic setting and comic sensibilities creating a world where almost anything can -- and will -- happen.
But throughout the its seven-year run, it was the human relationships that grounded the show, like how a simple friendship grew into a romance. One of Futurama 's best storylines involved Fry and Leela's evolving relationship. Although hints of a romance were always there, the pair had to choose to become the kind of people they wanted to be in a relationship with first. Leela was one of the very first people Fry met when he awoke from a thousand years of cryogenic slumber in the show's pilot, " Space Pilot Fry's reluctance to become another delivery boy despite his chance at a whole new life surprisingly spoke to Leela, who eventually decided she wanted to make her own choices in life as well.
For the first two seasons of the show, both characters had their own love interests and became close friends -- with occasional hints that they may harbor some romantic feelings for each other, even coming close to kissing in Season 1's "A Flight To Remember" and Season 2's "Xmas Story. After Fry's intelligence and physical attributes were enhanced by a race of worms taking residence in his body in Season 3's "Parasites Lost," Fry gained the confidence to profess his feelings to Leela, revealing that this new-found clarity had convinced him he'd been in love with her since he arrived in the future.
Although Leela was interested in this capable and confident version of Fry, he feared she was choosing to be with him because of the worms and nothing else, leading him to eject the worms from his body. It was a vital distinction that Leela choose to be with him and not an idealized version of him, reflecting the importance of free will in their possible future. Later on, Fry and Leela fight one another, neither remembering the other.
When they both see each other's hair, they feel a strong sense of deja vu and on instinct, passionately kiss. They regain their memories and get back together as they enjoy having Oktoberfest, with Leela embarrassing Fry by doing the Chicken Dance. When Bender returns, Fry asks Bender to come back later but Fry and Leela have no choice but to help with Bender's free will hunt.
Nibbler identifies Leela as "the Other", [15] referencing some yet unexplored aspect of Fry's prophesied destiny. In " Fry and Leela's Big Fling ", they go on a romantic getaway, and even though they have to endure some obstacles, like Leela's ex-boyfriend Sean , they still have a very romantic vacation together. In " Leela and the Genestalk ", Leela undergoes squidficiation in which her body turns into a slithering mass of tentacles.
Fry promises her when she's first diagnosed that it won't change his love for her. When she fully undergoes squidification, Fry is horrified when he first sees her but otherwise remains loving and affectionate. Despite her attempts to end her relationship with Fry, thinking there's not possible way he could still love after the monster she's become, Fry promises her he'll never stop loving her.
She's clearly touched and thanks him and he kisses her to confirm his devotion to her. When Mom cures her condition using genetic engineering, Fry and Leela walk down the street lovingly holding hands. Fry finally works up the courage to propose again to Leela in " Meanwhile ", but becomes despondent and jumps off the building when she does not show well past the time of their dinner. As he is falling, he sees Leela arriving and realizes that the Time Button he has been using has made his watch run faster than the rest of the universe.
At first, he tries to save himself by using the Time Button to bring him back to before he jumped, but as it only operates for ten seconds at a time and has to recharge, it brought him back to a point where he was already falling. Eventually, he falls asleep and dies when he hits the ground. Leela then uses the Time Button to bring Fry back and he is able to tell her he loves her, ten seconds at a time.
Leela is moved by this and is able to find a way to save him, but when the Time Button is broken, they find themselves in a world where everything and everyone is frozen. They conduct their own marriage ceremony and spend decades traveling the world. After the Professor finds them, having spent the time since Fry's rescue looking for them while in a slightly different dimension, he repairs and modifies the device to return them to before he invented it. Fry and Leela choose to return with him and live their life over again.
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Fry and Leela's Relationship. View source. History Talk 0. I don't care if you're not the most important person in the universe. It really makes me happy to see you right now. Fry I " Then I am the most important person in the universe. Fry I in The Why of Fry When Fry first met Leela, he seemed to have fallen in love with her, though she at first only considered him a "kid from the stupid ages".
They begin to form an emotional bond from the very beginning, finding that they have in common the fact that they're both alone in the world: Leela because she grew up as a cyclops-orphan, and Fry because all of his people from the 20 th century are gone. The two remain fairly constant friends throughout the series, Leela mostly uninterested in romantic possibilities, and Fry occasionally realizing that he has a crush on Leela, a crush that usually takes the form of either crude lust or goofy gallantry.
But for quite some time, they don't seem to think of each other very much. When the crew all go out to a bar, Leela goes home alone and Fry goes home with a woman from the 21 st century.
Leela's scheme of using Fry to avoid Zapp Brannigan during their Titanic cruise in " A Flight to Remember " leads to some romantic opportunities, but they are complicated by Amy 's scheme to use Fry to fend off her parents.
Leela reveals that she has at least some feelings for Fry, even if she doesn't realize it: she is jealous when Fry kisses Amy. When Fry and Leela have a quiet moment together, they talk about the loneliness that they share in common, and they see each other as love interests for the first time, almost kissing, although the kiss never happens due to the ship beginning to sink at that very moment.
A similar situation, as touching but less romantic, occurs in " Xmas Story ", as Fry and Leela, expecting death soon at Santa's hands, huddle together under a branch of mistletoe. Again, their kiss is interrupted. Although it's not as romantic as their interaction on the Titanic , the moment shows their deepening friendship. Another sign of their friendship that comes with a hint of romance is Fry's response to Leela's involvement with Alcazar.
Fry reacts with apparent jealousy at first, but on reflection, realizes that he just wants Leela to be happy. Here he shows a sign of maturity, something he doesn't often do. As we find out in a later season from Leela, her biggest complaint about Fry as romantic material is his tendency to be childish.
The relationship follows a mostly steady course for a long time. Fry and Leela remain close friends and become closer as time goes on. Fry plays the field but occasionally has bursts of lust, crush feelings, and rarely, something deeper for Leela. Leela also plays the field, but not so vigorously as Fry. In " The Deep South ", when Fry announces his plans to live at the bottom of the ocean, Leela asks, "but what about us? When he begins pursuing a relationship with Leela, it was after two years of ignoring her in favor of other women.
In " I Dated a Robot ", she helps him to find a robot celebrity personality to "to be romantically linked with. Leela shows that in spite of her usual silence, she does have feelings for Fry at some level. She clearly knows that he is talking about her, but she prompts him for more details on this girl back home, basking in his flattery. As gratified as she is by his comments, she must be equally disappointed by his blank stare in " The Cryonic Woman ", his response when, attempting to remind him what a career chip is, she says, "It's how we met.
At a fuel station in " Parasites Lost ", Fry attempts vehemently to defend Leela's honor, but he expresses his feelings clumsily, referring to her as his "captain" rather than making any reference to his feelings for her.
He then goes on to fail miserably at defending her honor, in fact providing his opponents with ammunition and even inadvertently insulting Leela outright. Leela's frustration with Fry's ineptitude is clear. Leela starts to swoon as soon as Fry, having eaten a parasite-laden sandwich, shows the slightest sign of being something other than a buffoon.
Her swoon disappears just as easily when Fry convinces the parasites to leave his body. In the closing scene Fry begins practicing the holophonor and shows by its projection that his feelings for Leela remain.
The friendship deepens in " The Cyber House Rules ", as Fry makes an effort to convince Leela that she doesn't need a fake eye grafted onto her forehead. When she finally has the fake eye removed, she tells Fry that he is "a true friend. He gets another kiss later, but only on the cheek. Fry seems to be on a mission to win Leela's heart in " Time Keeps on Slippin' ". He starts off cool, offering Leela a romantic ride in one of the swan "boats" that aren't actually swans.
Later, while they're in space collecting chronitons , he comes on again, suggesting that she and his face get to know each other better. When she rejects him, he says, "Come on, Leela, why won't you go out with me? We both know there's something there. Later, Fry lures her to a love nest, claiming that it's a time-proof chamber that will protect her from the time skips. A time-jump occurs just after he says something crude--now Leela is gone and Fry has a black eye. Leela talks to Zoidberg about Fry, indicating that she likes him but is turned off by his immaturity.
This is an important point on Leela's part: Fry's immaturity is the only thing that holds her back. It forever remains the central theme of their relationship, at least until they are finally married in " Meanwhile ". However, other than the short-lived fling of Parasites Lost, this is the first positive sign of any kind from Leela: the fact that she'll complain about him rather than ignoring him.
Still, when Fry barrages her with flattery and asks her out, she says that they are just too different, he being a man and she being a woman.
She walks away from him without hesitation when Bender distracts her. Fry makes another attempt to impress Leela by showing her that he has learned how to pilot the ship. She is impressed with him, but she is totally turned off to think that he learned the skill strictly to impress her. Just in the middle of her exclamation that there's no way they could ever be together, time skips forward to their wedding ceremony. But Leela is convinced that she has been duped, and after time skips forward a couple more times, they are divorced.
They have one last conversation about their relationship, in which they agree that Leela will never feel about Fry the way he feels about her, under any circumstances. Fry obsesses about and eventually discovers the means by which he convinced Leela to marry him, but Leela never gets to see it.
We find out more about Leela's attitude toward relationships in general and Fry in particular in " Love and Rocket ". She apparently agrees with Farnsworth when he suggests that she is a "bitter husk of a human being who long ago abandoned hope of finding love in this lifetime.
He doesn't listen Leela's advice, "I'm not attracted to a guy's message, Fry. I'm attracted to the guy. But on reflection she concedes, "given the chance, I'd give in to urges far more shocking. Fry is clearly far down on her list. Finding Fry unconscious after disabling Planet Express ship, Leela seems touched, mostly by the fact that Fry was willing to sacrifice his life to save hers, but also in part by the aptness of the message inscribed on the candy that Fry coughs up when she resuscitates him: "U leave me breathless.
At the home of Leela's parents in " Leela's Homeworld ", there is a sort of shrine composed of items Leela has flushed down the toilet throughout her life.
Fry notices on this shrine a letter from himself to Leela, which he describes as "full of my personal feelings. Again Fry is clearly far down on her list. Fry puts his arm around Leela while they race Moose and Mandy, but she swerves the car to get him to move away from her. After Leela has saved the crew from "pre-life", as she reflects that she is happy with her choice to return to adulthood with her friends, she and Fry share a meaningful glance, but nothing more.
Fry, attempting to assuage his own guilt over missing a delivery mission in " The Why of Fry ", wants to make it up to Leela by taking her out to dinner. This is typical of Fry, to miss the point entirely and to have the wrong reasons for asking her out.
Typical of Leela is her rejection of Fry. In fact, not only does she reject him categorically, she also explains that she is going out with Chaz , the mayor's aide.
When Fry and Leela cross paths while she is out on her date with Chaz, Fry has a brief moment of happiness, hoping that the date is not going well. Leela crushes his hopes when she tells him that the date is going very well, asking him to walk Nibbler. While Fry from the future argues with Nibbler of , Fry mentions that he has feelings for Leela, but also that she doesn't care for him.
Nibbler offers to help Fry with respect to Leela, if Fry will agree to push his self into the cryo-tube. Fry is won over to Nibbler's request when Nibbler frames the issue as "save yourself or save Leela. While Leela looks at the photo with a hole in it, Fry walks into the room and appears, from Leela's perspective, in the hole where Chaz' face had been.
Leela is happy to see Fry, and actually gives him a kiss on the lips. After their harrowing escape from the space-bees in " The Sting ", Fry realizes that he doesn't want anything to happen to Leela, and comments that they need to be more careful.
When the baby queen space-bee attacks, Fry puts his body between the bee and Leela to protect her. While Leela is in a coma she seems to have a lot more affection for Fry than she ever has before, perhaps prompted by Fry's death. In one of Leela's coma-dreams, Fry is very romantic, and she enjoys it.
The alert viewer might notice that something is clearly amiss with Fry being genuinely romantic with Leela. We have seen from the beginning that Fry has no capacity for romance, and usually approaches Leela with brazen lust even while thinking to himself that he is in fact being romantic.
When jelly-Fry comes into being, Leela expresses great relief that "Fry" is now alive. She says nothing about feelings for him, in fact clearly denying any such feelings with, "Feeling responsible for your death was driving me mad. When Leela has reached the end of her rope, she muses, "The only time I feel alright is in my dreams," then looking at Fry's picture she adds, "with you.
Fry's photo says to Leela, "I love you," but her hallucinations frighten her so much that she is unable to respond. When Leela wakes in the hospital, we realize that everything Fry said in her coma-dream was said by the real Fry at her bedside for two weeks.
This is not the first time Fry has said, "I love you" to Leela, but perhaps going through this experience has matured him somewhat, which would finally give some meaning to the words.
Their embrace, lacking a kiss, suggests that even if Leela has begun finally to see the desired maturity in Fry, she's still comfortable being just friends with him. The opening scene of " The Farnsworth Parabox " shows Fry making a surprisingly determined effort to get Leela to go out with him. Leela clearly isn't going for the idea, as she cowers away from Fry on the other side of the couch and finally rejects his request with, "I have sweaty boot-rash!
In Universe "One", Fry and Leela are married. Leela "One" tells the story to the others. The story makes it clear that Fry is indeed capable of impressing Leela, and not just on one date, but over the long term. After everyone goes back to their home universes, Fry asks Leela once again to go out with him. Leela flips a coin, but, apparently beginning to consider him a possibility, decides against looking at it, and simply accepts his invitation.
Never having indicated musical inclination before except briefly in Parasites Lost , he says that he hears great music in his head.
Leela, never having indicated musical appreciation before except briefly in Parasites Lost , tells the story of Sean , a loser whom she loved primarily because of his musical talent. The stage is set for an exploration of the relationship between Fry and Leela. While attending a large performance by Fry, Leela sheds tears, but we don't know which kind of love they might indicate.
She and Fry have become close friends over the years, but she has only briefly shown flickers of interest in him. When Fry announces that he will make his opera about her, she plays very coy, pretending to be surprised.
Everything changes when Leela hears Fry's music, when she shows that she is the same woman who dated Sean: she immediately falls for Fry and gushes about his enormous creativity. In his opera, Fry describes Leela as "the woman that I idolize. After all the other opera patrons abandon the theater, Leela asks Fry to show her the ending, even if necessarily performed by his human hands.
Fry's emotional repertoire grows just enough to include long-standing jealousy in Bender's Big Score. Leela falls in love with and almost marries Lars who is a future version of Fry , a clear indication that it truly is only Fry's immaturity that makes her dislike him, as maturity is the major difference between Fry and Lars. Back in the 21st century, the Fry who becomes Lars reconnects with his family and his life, but pines for Leela, until he starts a long relationship with Leelu.
At Lars' memorial service, Leela seems to have a new appreciation for Fry, but she doesn't articulate it, and Fry moves on to a different woman in The Beast with a Billion Backs. Here, we first see Fry dating Colleen , and Leela making no comment when the two women meet.
However, when Zoidberg barfs for joy, Leela agrees that the way Fry and Colleen behave toward each other is "pretty sickening". It could be that Leela harbors a bit of jealousy. Later, Fry breaks up with Colleen. To his credit, he doesn't immediately go slobbering after Leela. He pines for a while, even going to counseling which Leela would appreciate for its contribution to Fry's maturity and finally decides to leave this universe.
Leela practically encourages him in this endeavor. On meeting Yivo , Fry falls in love with shkler. Leela is suspicious of Yivo for a long time, but she also eventually falls in love with shklim. After being "rescued" by Bender, Fry sheds a tear on saying goodbye to Yivo.
For a brief moment he seems sincere, but immediately turns to Leela, practically leering. Her response, that he forgot about her so quickly when he met Colleen, shows that she does indeed have some pain and jealousy due to Fry's instability. Without further comment Fry simply agrees with her, then walks to Amy and propositions her instead. Leela must now be really hurt and angry at Fry, and Fry seems to have taken a step backward in the maturity that Leela always wishes for.
The relationship is only hinted at in Bender's Game , as when Turanga Munda encourages Leela to consider Zoidberg as a dating candidate. Fry is strictly in lust mode: he finds it very enjoyable to ride on the back of centaur-Leela, for reasons he doesn't understand.
They even share a passionate kiss. But this occurs as they're flying into a wormhole with the expectation of never returning. Subsequent episodes reveal that the whole scene is just a repeat of their regular relationship: off-and-on, with an emphasis on off. Fry and Leela continue more-or-less as they always have: Leela likes Fry and is even physically attracted to him, but is utterly turned off by his immaturity.
Fry remains immature, always coming up with silly ideas in a quest to impress her. Sparks fly a few times during the season; nothing sticks, but the final episode suggests a romantic future for the couple. When Fry's remains dissolve to nothing in Farnsworth's stem cell vat, Leela is so grief-stricken that she creates a robot-Fry. This is a surprise, given Leela's historical cool-headedness about their relationship.
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