Futurama Fry / Not Sure If X

About

Futurama Fry is an image macro series that uses a still of Fry squinting his eyes from the TV show Futurama, and is typically paired with overlaid text using a phrasal template. The top line reads “Not sure if X”, with “or just Y” as the bottom line, and is used to represent an internal monologue.

Origin

In the Season 2, Episode 11 episode of Futurama titled “The Lesser of Two Evils”, Fry can be seen making the face shortly after being found searching Leela’s underwear drawer at around 15 minutes into the episode.^[1]

Original Instance

This still image was first used in a I See What You Did There derivative:

Spread

One of the earliest derivatives to use the phrasal template appears to be the “not sure if trolling, or just stupid” image macro. Derivatives can be found on Memebase^[2], Quickmeme^[3], FunnyJunk^[4], Memegenerator^[5], and the Advice Animals subreddit.^[6]

Notable Derivatives

Template

Search

Search query volume for “futurama fry” is far too large to be limited to the image macro series, but “fry meme” and “futurama meme” may provide a more accurate look at search query volume specifically related to the images. Searches of the phrase commonly associated with the Fry meme, “Not sure if trolling, or just stupid” can also be seen as increasing months after the introduction of the meme.

External Links

^[1] trilulilu – Futurama S02E11 The Lesser Of Two Evils [dd] / 15:23

^[2] Memebase – Fry

^[3] Quickmeme – Futurama Fry

^[4] FunnyJunk – Futurama Fry

^[5] Memegenerator – Futurama Fry

^[6] Reddit – /r/AdviceAnimals: Futurama Fry