#also if you wanna be technical fry Does have a son named yancy already ;)

[fryandleelasbigfling]

okay here's my personal hot take on this because I've wanted to share my feelings on the yancy name anyway and this is as good a time as any!

so my reading of the end of LOTF is that yancy jr naming his son philip goes beyond simply naming his son after his brother. the yancy name is a tradition that yancy jr did not like. he was named that way because he had to be and I think it symbolizes why he copied fry all the time. yancy was named after his father and thus had to carry on that super patriotic and toxic attitude. fry isn't bound to the yancy name and thus has less obligation to carry on his legacy.

philip II's name represents how yancy jr wants his brother to be the new legacy of his family. they don't need to honor their father, who for all his good intentions projected a lot of bullshit and competitive attitudes onto his sons. it is fry's name, and his carefree approach to life, that persists. and look how successful phil ii turned out cuz his father broke the cycle!

yancy didn't even like his own name as a child (granted he was 3 lol) so I don't think his name is the only way to honor him anyway. plus I would wanna see more options for the baby's name that reflect both fry AND leela's desires and legacies, especially since unlike yancy's wife, leela is a character whose narrative role in rearing the baby is just as important as fry's so I'd like them to compromise. (in other words, naming them after morris or munda would also be so great)

however I do think it would be a good move if they named their daughter yancy just cuz it would subvert expectations without owing too much to the masculine patriotism of the yancy name :)

i am seeing “what if fry and leela have children in the reboot” discourse and to that i say this

if they do not name their son yancy bc he’s “named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit,” then i do not want a freela child storyline. i say this w love