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*** Likewise, when Yancy was poking through Fry's belongings for something to play at his wedding reception, he stumbles across a drawing he had made, depicting himself as an astronaut at 20... which Yancy proceeds to tuck into his suit discreetly. It's revealed in the last flashback that he took that drawing [[TragicKeepsake for himself]].
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-->'''Yancy''': (to his newly born son) Son, I'm naming you Philip J. Fry in honor of my little brother... (sadly) who I miss every day. I love you, Philip. (sniff) And I always will.
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* TragicKeepsake: As we see in the last flashback, not only did Yancy keep the seven-leaf clover (before passing it on to his son), but he ''also'' kept Fry's rocketship drawing.
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* BaitAndSwitch: For most of the episode we're shown flashbacks of Yancy's jealousy of Fry, stealing his ideas, trying to steal his seven-leaf clover, up to his discovery of the clover's hiding spot sometime after Fry was frozen, leading both Fry and the audience to believe Yancy took it a step further and stole Fry's name. The final flashback shows that Yancy decided not to use the clover at all, but instead passed it down to his first-born son, Phillip.
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** When we are shown Fry's old house in Old New York, it looks wrecked, with the roof having caved in. We then cut to the past, [[RagnarokProofing where it looks the same.]]
** For most of the episode we're shown flashbacks of Yancy's jealousy of Fry, stealing his ideas, trying to steal his seven-leaf clover, up to his discovery of the clover's hiding spot sometime after Fry was frozen, leading both Fry and the audience to believe Yancy took it a step further and stole Fry's name. The final flashback shows that Yancy decided not to use the clover at all, but instead passed it down to his first-born son, Phillip.
** When we are shown Fry's old house in Old New York, it looks wrecked, with the roof having caved in. We then cut to the past, [[RagnarokProofing where it looks the same.]]
** For most of the episode we're shown flashbacks of Yancy's jealousy of Fry, stealing his ideas, trying to steal his seven-leaf clover, up to his discovery of the clover's hiding spot sometime after Fry was frozen, leading both Fry and the audience to believe Yancy took it a step further and stole Fry's name. The final flashback shows that Yancy decided not to use the clover at all, but instead passed it down to his first-born son, Phillip.
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* TrashLanding: While attempting to retrieve his dollar, Fry falls headfirst into a garbage can, and then has a bucket of slop dumped on him.
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* SkewedPriorities: Fry's mom seemed a little fixated on a football game she was listening too while ''giving birth'' at the hospital. (Slightly justified, seeing as she was being sedated with morphine.)
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* PokeThePoodle: At the abandoned ruins of old New York City, Fry decides to do all the things he always wanted to do. Like shout "Howard Stern is overrated!" in the middle of Times Square, unhook the receiver of a public telephone, and jaywalk.
-->'''Bender:''' [[SarcasmMode New York is so burned.]]
-->'''Bender:''' [[SarcasmMode New York is so burned.]]
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* ShatterpointTap: Bender tries to open the Ronco record vault by vibrating to a certain frequency. The vibrations are strong enough to shake the house and dislodge Bender's head, but it's the head hitting the vault as it falls that causes it to open.
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* TakeThat:
** One of the things Fry does in Old New York is shout "Creator/HowardStern is overrated!"[[note]] Creator/BillyWest, Fry's voice actor, was a regular on Stern's radio show.[[/note]]
** When Fry doesn't find the clover inside the record vault, Leela suggests that maybe it disintegrated over time. Fry notes that the records in the vault held up... except, Bender adds, for "Sports" by Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews.
** Yancy plans to uses ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' soundtrack to clear the room after his wedding reception.
** One of the things Fry does in Old New York is shout "Creator/HowardStern is overrated!"[[note]] Creator/BillyWest, Fry's voice actor, was a regular on Stern's radio show.[[/note]]
** When Fry doesn't find the clover inside the record vault, Leela suggests that maybe it disintegrated over time. Fry notes that the records in the vault held up... except, Bender adds, for "Sports" by Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Fry apparently knows a lot about doing anything for a dollar.
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Wrong episode. That one was in 'Spanish Fry'.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: By about the halfway point, the plot only continues because the video about the famous Phillip J. Fry does not mention any sort of dates, leaving our Fry unaware that the famous Fry was born a good two or three decades ''after'' him until the final seconds of the episode.
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* ChekhovsGag: When listing off the names of family members who've taken the name Yancy, Yancy Fry Senior names his grandfather, and great-grandfather, but specifically does ''not'' note his own father.
* TheChewToy: Fry's search for the clover is inspired after a bad day at the races, wherein all his picks lose, his last dollar gets blown onto a power line, and in trying to retrieve it, Fry is electrocuted twice, falls into a trashcan, and gets crud dumped on him.
* TheChewToy: Fry's search for the clover is inspired after a bad day at the races, wherein all his picks lose, his last dollar gets blown onto a power line, and in trying to retrieve it, Fry is electrocuted twice, falls into a trashcan, and gets crud dumped on him.
* OptOut: Leela offers Zoidberg a chance to tag along with them, but he casually declines.
* RememberTheNewGuy:
** Scruffy is introduced here as a member of the Planet Express crew, and Fry's closest confidant. But Fry still didn't tell him where he hid the clover. In this instance, the trope is being PlayedForLaughs.
** Fry just happens to share a name with the first man on Mars, and apparently no-one ever felt this worth commenting upon. Possibly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Hermes' remark about Fry's nephew being "''that''" Phillip J. Fry.
** And of course this is the first time we've actually seen or heard of Yancy himself.
* RememberTheNewGuy:
** Scruffy is introduced here as a member of the Planet Express crew, and Fry's closest confidant. But Fry still didn't tell him where he hid the clover. In this instance, the trope is being PlayedForLaughs.
** Fry just happens to share a name with the first man on Mars, and apparently no-one ever felt this worth commenting upon. Possibly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Hermes' remark about Fry's nephew being "''that''" Phillip J. Fry.
** And of course this is the first time we've actually seen or heard of Yancy himself.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: For all their fighting and bickering, Yancy loved and missed his little brother. [[spoiler:Going so far as to name his son after him.]]
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* BookEnds: The first and last flashback involve [[spoiler:the birth of a Phillip J. Fry]].
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: Fry thinks his brother Yancy took his name and led the life he should have led, [[spoiler:when in fact it was actually Yancy's ''son'', named in Fry's honor.]]
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Fry thinks his brother Yancy took his name and led the life he should have led, [[spoiler:when in fact it was actually Yancy's ''son'', named in Fry's honor.]]
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: Fry thinks his brother Yancy took his name and led the life he should have led,[[spoiler:when when in fact it was actually Yancy's ''son'', named in Fry's honor.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: For most of the episode we're shown flashbacks of Yancy's jealousy of Fry, stealing his ideas, trying to steal his seven-leaf clover, up to his discovery of the clover's hiding spot sometime after Fry was frozen, leading both Fry and the audience to believe Yancy took it a step further and stole Fry's name. [[spoiler:The final flashback shows that Yancy decided not to use the clover at all, but instead passed it down to his first-born son, Phillip.]]
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Would the it be any less heartwarming if they just mention the birth and death of [[spoiler:Fry's nephew]] on the statue are the video and fry realize that he was born later then his brother.
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* TheConstant: Spoofed with Fry's childhood home. In the 31st Century it looks suitably run down ("Boy, Father Time sure took a bat to this place."), place", according to Bender), but a flashback to the 20th Century shows it in the exact same state of disrepair.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot:Would By about the it be any less heartwarming if they just mention halfway point, the birth and death of [[spoiler:Fry's nephew]] on the statue are plot only continues because the video and fry realize about the famous Phillip J. Fry does not mention any sort of dates, leaving our Fry unaware that he [[spoiler:the famous Fry was born later then his brother. a good two or three decades ''after'' him]] until the final seconds of the episode.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: For all their fighting and bickering, Yancy loved and missed his little brother. [[spoiler:Going so far as to name his son after him.]]
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* GoodLuckCharm: Exaggerated with Fry's [[FourLeafClover seven-leaf clover]] - its new owner made a fortune off of an oil well he discovered inside the mansion he won in a lottery, then proceeded to score a string of number one hits and became the first man on Mars.
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During his youth, Fry found a seven-leaf clover which brought him luck. In the 31st century, Fry has a string of bad luck which induces him to reclaim it.
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* GraveRobbing: Angry that his brother Yancy apparently stole his clover and his name, Fry decides to rob his grave, and gets Leela and Bender to come along.
* LegacyCharacter: It turns out that the Phillip J. Fry of fame is actually Yancy's son, named after his missing brother.
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* GraveRobbing: Angry that his brother Yancy apparently stole his clover and his name, Fry decides to rob his grave, and gets Leela and Bender to come along.
* LegacyCharacter: It turns out that the Phillip J. Fry of fame is actually Yancy's son, named after his missing brother.
