It later acquired its own television show, Everybody Loves Hypnotoad, in which it hypnotizes the audience (except for Fry, due to his lack of a Delta brain wave and the fact that he feels the show has been going downhill since its third season). Amy Wong works as an intern at Planet Express (supposedly kept around because she shares Professor Farnsworth's blood type, and doesn't notice the Professor's tendency to send his crews on suicide missions). In Futurama: Bender's Big Score, after Hermes was decapitated in a limboing accident, LaBarbara left him (believing as a head in a jar he would not be able to provide for her) and got back together with Barbados, even going so far as to take his last name (Dwight also took his last name), even though they never remarried and Dwight was never adopted. He mentions this encounter repeatedly in later episodes while remaining convinced that Leela lusts after him despite her vocal (and often violent) opposition to the idea. In "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch", she became the "Smizmar" of Kif's children; that is, she inspired the feelings of love that caused Kif to be receptive to procreation. Towards the end of the film it is discovered that he is really the desert muck leech that lived on Mars, and that Leela welcomed as a pet to prevent his death. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Professor Farnsworth animated GIFs to your conversations. [16], Hermes is married to LaBarbara Conrad, with whom he has a son Dwight. Has one eye, tentacles instead of arms and hands, and a tail. Yivo (voiced by David Cross) is a sentient extraterrestrial being from another universe who appears in The Beast with a Billion Backs. In one episode,[which?] The show crew is smitten by his down-to-earth acting skills, and he reveals himself as Calculon. He says to Bender, "You ever kill a man with a sock? © 2021 GAMESPOT, A RED VENTURES COMPANY. He lived there for twelve years, during which he spent time with his family and befriended the narwhal Leelu, until an assassination attempt by another brainwashed Bender burned away his hair and damaged his larynx. In Bender's Big Score, it is revealed that Michelle had been frozen roughly 736 years longer than she had actually intended, a result of Fry (as Lars) using her cryotube to return to the future and be with Leela. Panucci is noticeably upset when Fry goes missing and he takes responsibility for Fry's pet dog Seymour Asses (named as such after Fry feeds the dog pizza delivered because of a prank phone call). Groening was interested in exploring the idea of using slapstick comedy and physical humor with a female character, since most of this humor was done by male characters in his previous work, The Simpsons. He resides in a fortress in Neptune. During one of these scenes, Gore was shown to have won the 2000 Presidential Election, but Bender accidentally destroys the ballots in favor of Gore when hunting for Fry. The game was rejected by Brøderbund. Carol "Mom" Miller (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is an aggressive, threatening and Machiavellian bully, reminiscent of the Wicked Witch of the West. The writing riffs on the marine theme in a playfully absurd way, with just about any marine Arthropoda or Mollusca being implied to be akin to Zoidberg. In "The Prisoner of Benda", he becomes a Duke. As grand curator (which is essentially a knowledgeable leader) of the Legion, he becomes the story teller for Philip J. Fry's mission to possibly end the epic long battle between two ancient races, as they by 3009 have noticed that the Chi have been re-emerging. She manages and owns 99.7% of MomCorp, a large, multibillion-dollar industrial complex with numerous subsidiaries and a monopoly on robot production, as well as being the company that created Bender. They are often shown to be rather unkind to their daughter, including during an incident in which Amy's father repeatedly made fun of her for being fat as a child.[4]. Former wife of Barbados Slim. He is ultimately defeated and eaten by Zoidberg. She has children and used to live in a house with wheels. A kleptomaniacal, lazy, cigar-smoking, heavy-drinking bending robot who is Fry's best friend. He resents an "A−" grade given for sloppy penmanship by Farnsworth in 2900, and worked for over one hundred years in order to obtain revenge. [54] He wears a bindi on his forehead (Hinduism), wears a mitre and clerical collar (Catholicism) with a taijitu (or yin-yang) symbol on the peak (Taoism), payot (Judaism), an orange wrap (Buddhism) with a shoulder scarf adorned with stars and moons (spiritism). The Globetrotters are commanded by Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate. Professor Farnsworth appears in 100 issues. The finale of the show consists of a voiceover telling the audience that they will wake up remembering nothing and feeling refreshed, and the credits are all attributed to Hypnotoad. He also appears in the parody of Cops, called Cop Department. The couple have at least two daughters, including Bella, with whom Bender has a brief relationship during "The Silence of the Clamps". They have extremely long life spans, eat animals whole to fill their stomachs, which are thousands of times larger than themselves, and excrete extremely dense and potent dark matter. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for: Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Calculon was run over by Project Satan, and became a were-car (the robot equivalent of a werewolf). Kif is a short and thin green-skinned alien from the planet Amphibios 9. Their original appearance in "I Second That Emotion" shows them as plain cyclopes like Leela. They are able to use "stupefaction fields" to render all intelligent beings on a planet too stupid to resist them. The two often use excessive force in peaceful situations, and make use of various features built into URL, such as a siren, megaphone and violations printer. Another is his exclamation, "Sweet zombie Jesus!" [20] However, in the "Action Delivery Force" segment of "Reincarnation", the Professor is voiced by David Herman. CEO and owner of Planet Express delivery company. The character of Elzar is an allusion to Emeril Lagasse.[43]. She wakes up in 3002, meets Fry again, and restarts her relationship with him. Professor Farnsworth. Yancy Jr. is mostly rude and competitive with Philip as seen in "The Luck of the Fryrish." He resides in a death fortress on Neptune along with a number of Neptunians that act as slave labor for the toy factory. It is run by Mr. Vogel, voiced by David Herman, who takes care of the orphans and keeps all records; he is apparently a bureaucrat grade 135 who has not been promoted since about the time Leela was born. Main antagonist of ", This page was last edited on 16 February 2021, at 23:25. He is often depicted as a corrupt and incompetent politician. Dr. Wernstrom is an old rival of Professor Farnsworth and was determined to get back at him for something as trivial as getting an A minus in an exam. "I was an owl exterminator." He first appears in "Hell Is Other Robots", kidnapping Bender and tormenting him until Fry and Leela manage to save Bender. His signature character trait is the way he says something, usually a mild insult, and then immediately retracts it, laughing and saying some variation of "Naw, I'm just kidding... you're all right!" She rejects Fry after learning he does not have a body and is merely a head attached to Amy. He is frequently seen in the company of Calculon, and played the role of Calculon's half-brother in the All My Circuits soap opera where his objections sound like he's backing up. The Hyper-Chicken Lawyer is a parodic cross between "folksy" country lawyers such as Matlock and Atticus Finch with Looney Tunes character Foghorn Leghorn. Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth is Fry's great (×30) nephew and great (×31) grandson because of time reef paradox. He was first seen in "Crimes of the Hot" at the Galapagos Island Robot Party. Grade 135 Bureaucrat, warden of the Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium where Leela grew up. Father Changstein-El-Gamal (voiced by David Herman) is a priest in the First Amalgamated Church, a mixture of many 20th-century religions. Wants Amy to get married and give her grandchildren. "[26] During a live event, West stated that he partially modelled Brannigan's cadence after the radio persona of Doug Tracht, also known as "The Greaseman."[27]. After he dies, Cobb wins the award instead of him, making his death pointless. Their main enemies are the Nibblonians, who send Nibbler on a mission to find Fry, the only being resistant to the Brainspawn. [36] The Robot Devil is available as a build-a-figure from the first three series of Futurama action figures by Toynami. In the episode "The Honking", it is revealed that his first job was as a motorised service arm building the most evil car in existence, Project Satan. A small video of our lord and savior Professor Farnsworth. The Robot Mafia is a three-member crime syndicate operating out of "Fronty's Meat Market" and "Small Bill's Laundry", who periodically dine at Elzar's, hijack shipments of Zuban cigars, arrange "accidents" for robots who act against them, as well as other unspecified Mafia-related illegal activities. 'jacking on') in favour of the Church of Robotology, to which Bender replies; "Do I preach to you while you're laying stoned in the gutter?". Roberto appears again in the series' penultimate episode "Stench and Stenchibility". Although in the first episode it appears that he does not like Fry that much, it is shown in later episodes that he had a strong friendship with and acted as a father figure to Fry. However, he is cloned, which leads Nixon to call him the "Headless Clone of Agnew". Wife of Hermes Conrad, mother of Dwight Conrad. Along with the employees of Planet Express, Futurama includes a large array of characters, which include co-workers, media personalities, business owners, extended relatives, townspeople, aliens, and villains. Amy's stereotypically Asian meddling mother and father frequently pressure her to get married and give them grandchildren, which she is not eager to do. In "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" she seems entirely unconcerned by Lrrr's infidelity with another Omicronian woman (actually a human trans-species cross-dresser), but is deeply upset by him listening to Leela's nagging over her own.