List of recurring human characters from Futurama
- This article discusses non-robot recurring characters. For robotic recurring characters, see List of recurring robot characters from Futurama.
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Brain Slugs
The Brain Slugs are small fist-sized aliens that have a habit of attaching themselves to human heads like mind control devices, reducing their hosts to a zombie-like state. Their first appearance shows them as sponsors of the political Brain Slug Party, favoring "unreasonably huge subsidies to the brain slug planet". Their plan for the working man is to attach brain slugs to him. (A Head in the Polls)
They were later featured in the episode Raging Bender when Hermes came back from vacation with a brain slug attached to his head and the clear intent to expose the other workers, including ordering them to go to the Brain Slug planet and walk around not wearing helmets. Seeing through this ruse, the crew instead went to the movies. At one point, the brain slug was knocked off, freeing Hermes until Bender helpfully replaced it. Another brain slug attached briefly to Fry dies of starvation, as a joke regarding Fry's intelligence (or lack thereof).
Using a garlic shampoo is suggested as a protective measure.
Brainspawn
An evil race of flying telekinetic brains that came into existence one millisecond after the Big Bang. Their main enemies are the Nibblonians. Their aeons-long goal is to destroy all other intelligent life, since the thoughts of other beings "screech at them like the forced laughs of a billion art-house movie patrons." Their method of operation is to swarm a planet, using their "stupefaction fields" to render all inhabitants too stupid to resist. Then they absorb the planet's collected knowledge and destroy it. Template:Spoiler Fry, being uniquely immune to the effect (due to becoming his own grandfather in the episode "Roswell That Ends Well") manages to drive them from Earth ("The Day the Earth Stood Stupid"). Later, under the direction of the Nibblonians, he planted a "quantum interface bomb" on the Brainspawn's space station/knowledge repository, the "Infosphere", sending it and the Brainspawn to an alternate dimension from which, the Nibblonians believe, there is no escape ("The Why of Fry"). No-one affected by the Brainspawn's stupefaction field remembers it and Fry's memory was erased/suppressed by Nibbler, thus no human is aware that the Brainspawn exist.
Father Changstein-El-Gamal
(voiced by David Herman) - A priest in the First Amalgamated Church. Father Changstein-El-Gamal counsels Fry in "Godfellas," and later presides over Fry's funeral in "The Sting."
Dwight Conrad
(voiced by Bumper Robinson) - 12 year-old son of Hermes Conrad and LaBarbara Conrad. He has a friendship with Cubert Farnsworth. Dwight takes after his father in many ways, finding accounting and being a novice bureaucrat more entertaining than having fun. Dwight sports dreadlocks and a T-shirt with the Jamaican flag on it.
LaBarbara Conrad
(voiced by Dawnn Lewis) - Hermes Conrad's wife. She is much taller than Hermes and is usually seen wearing revealing clothes. LaBarbara was previously married to the tall, muscular Barbados Slim, another limbo Olympian who won the gold medal in the 3004 Olympics. She accompanied her husband on trips to the Starship Titanic and to Spa 5, a "spa" which turned out to be a slave labor camp. She and her husband often refer to each other only as "husband" and "wife." In "The Route of All Evil", it is seen that Hermes and LaBarbara share a sumptuous home and enjoy a very comfortable lifestyle.
Cookieville Orphans
The orphans from the Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium (where Leela spent her childhood) were first featured in the episode The Cyber House Rules. Bender briefly adopted twelve of them, seeing a chance for profit in government stipends, but returned them when feeding them proved too expensive.
Some of the orphans also appear as background characters in other episodes, including The Why Of Fry (while on a Cookieville field trip to a skating rink); Leela's Homeworld (cheering for Leela after she was crowned "Orphan of the Year"); and in Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV (as "cool kids" attending Cubert and Dwight's birthday party).
Albert
(Voiced by Kath Soucie) - Like Sally and Nina, Albert was mainly featured in the episode The Cyber House Rules, where Leela rejected him, saying he was "kind of fatty". He has been seen smoking cigars and is known to drink espresso.
Nina
(Voiced by Kath Soucie) - Nina is one of the more talkative orphans, taking it upon herself to introduce all the orphans by name when prompted. She is one of Sally's best friends. In the episode Leela's Homeworld, Nina puts on an eye patch pretending to be Leela. This prompts Albert to cover both his eyes to be a "double-Leela", after which he ran face-first into a wall.
Sally
(Voiced by Nicole St. John) - Sally is a mutant orphan with a third ear on her forehead. Like Leela's eye, she is teased about it. Leela wanted to adopt her, feeling sorry for her. Sally also admits to having a tail.
Elzar
(voiced by John DiMaggio) - A famous four-armed Neptunian chef, with his own New New York restaurant ("Elzar's Fine Cuisine", a regular set-piece in the series), and television show. Elzar is a parody of the celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse, while his physique is a nod to the four-armed television chef of The Star Wars Holiday Special. Bender adores Elzar's cooking, though once he challenged him to an Iron Cook battle (and 'won' - but Bender refused the title of "Iron Chef," instead accepting "Zinc Saucier", which he made up, and which came with double prize money). Elzar is crass and unpleasant, and has a very high opinion of himself. Elzar's favorite cooking implement is his spice weasel, a rodent-like creature which propels a cloud of spices from its snout upon having its body squeezed, which he uses to "knock it up a notch", with his customary "BAM!". Both "kick it up a notch" and "BAM!" are catchphrases of Emeril Lagasse.
Cubert Farnsworth
(voiced by Kath Soucie) - Professor Hubert Farnsworth's clone, created from a growth on the Professor's back in 2989. He differs from the Professor in appearance due to his nose being squashed up against the wall of his cloning tube. Cubert was unveiled to the crew in 3001. Cubert is pompous, arrogant, and very rude to the other members of Planet Express. Unsurprisingly, he is unpopular. His sayings include, "That's preposterous!" and "No, that's what being a magical elf is all about." Cubert is seen in only a few episodes, due to his attending a boarding school, along with Hermes' son Dwight. According to the DVD commentaries he was the first character to be designed. Cubert is a veiled parody of Wesley Crusher.
Philip J. Fry II
Nephew and namesake of Philip J. Fry, Philip J. Fry II owned the seven-leaf clover found by his uncle in the 1980s. The clover ensured that he was the luckiest man in history. His achievements included a string of number one hits, a fling with an Icelandic singer-supermodel, and striking oil in the bathroom of the mansion that he won in the lottery. The achievement he’s most famous for, though, is being the first man on Mars.
Philip Fry II was named in honor of Fry; based on his accomplishments, his personality seems to be very much like his namesake, however he looks identical to Yancy, his father. This led Fry, finding information about Philip Fry II, to believe Yancy had usurped his identity after he was frozen.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Fry's great-great-great-...-great-nephew, is presumably a direct descendant of Philip J. Fry II, since Fry's only sibling was Yancy, and as far as is known Philip J. Fry II was Yancy's only child.
Yancy Fry Jr.
(voiced by Tom Kenny) - Born in 1971, Yancy is both elder brother and grandson of Philip J. Fry, and father of Philip J. Fry II. In the first episode Yancy appeared, "The Luck of the Fryrish", there seemed to be a lot of sibling rivalry between Yancy and his brother; however, there was clearly a great deal of love as well, as when Fry has gone missing Yancy states that he misses his brother every day, and names his son after Fry. Yancy and Fry were seen in fierce competition in breakdancing and basketball, however future episodes hinted at a closer relationship. In "Anthology of Interest II" Fry reveals that Yancy used to help him win Space Invaders.
"Fishy Joe" Gillman
Gillman, or "Fishy Joe", is the owner of the "Fishy Joe's" chain of seafood restaurants (one-time vendor of "Popplers") and "Family Bros. Pizza".
Al Gore's head
(voiced by Al Gore) - First emperor of the Moon, he also appears when Fry returns to the year 2000 as Vice President of the United States and head of the Vice Presidential Action Rangers, tasked (by the US Constitution) to preserve the space-time continuum. By the year 3000 he appears on the five-hundred dollar bill and he claims to have invented the environment and is the author of Earth in the Balance (and the much more popular Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth), in which he explains that the environment must be protected from global warming and dark wizards. Gore has said that Futurama is his favorite show. His daughter, Kristin, was a writer for the show in its later seasons.
Horrible Gelatinous Blob
(voiced by Maurice LaMarche) A three-eyed green translucent ill-tempered alien. He contemptuously refers to humanoids as "solids", ridiculing their one-way digestive system. He first appeared in a Planet Express television ad in "Episode Two: The Series Has Landed" in which he devoured an employee who used a rival delivery company. He then "rewarded" an employee who used Planet Express by devouring him. He also makes a brief appearance in "The Problem With Popplers" as a customer at Fishy Joe's. Later, he is one of the unsatisfied customers on Cubert's and Dwight's paper route. He has a son who regularly bullies Cubert and Dwight, frequently using a miniature black hole to reduce their lunches to a singularity. He once beat Hermes and Professor Farnsworth close to death, though he later apologized. Mr. Blob is later revealed to be a stock trader at the InterGalactic Stock Exchange, in orbit around Earth. He was one of the fathers in FART on the episode Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV.
Persons and objects devoured by the Horrible Gelatinous Blob (or others of his species) can be seen suspended within his protoplasm. The process of recovery is implied but unclear.
Origin
Judging by his appearance, HGB is most likely a reference to the likewise malevolent and man eating "Space Mutants" from Matt Groening's "The Simpsons"
Hyperchicken
(or "The Chicken Lawyer") (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - A 6-foot-plus blue-green rooster attorney with a pince-nez perched on his beak. He features a strong Southern (American) accent, reminiscent of Andy Griffith, Matlock, or especially Foghorn Leghorn. He is a terrible lawyer, and routinely loses cases for the main characters. He keeps his children in a suitcase and has been seen crowing on top of a courthouse. He was once hired while imprisoned and awaiting a trial for incompetence; hiring him as a legal representative was enough grounds for Judge Whitey to accept a plea of insanity. Hyperchicken also becomes very agitated if the word "badger" is mentioned. May also be a play on the literary character of Atticus Finch, or even a "replacement" of Lionel Hutz or Gil from The Simpsons.
Hypnotoad
A large toad which is possibly alien, mutated, and/or genetically engineered, it has oscillating multicolored eyes, and emits a strange humming sound. The sound, called "Angry Machine," was used as a temporary sound by the show's animators, and suited the Hypnotoad animation so much that it was used in the actual episode ("The Day the Earth Stood Stupid"), in which the Toad used its hypnotic powers to easily win a pet competition. The Hypnotoad has the power to hypnotize anyone it wants at will. It seems that the Hypnotoad is unique, or that it is perhaps the only example of its species living on Earth. In "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV", it is revealed that the Hypnotoad stars in its own television show, Everybody Loves Hypnotoad, which consists entirely of a steady shot of the Hypnotoad staring at the camera. Fry claims that the show "has been going downhill since season three". The show's title is a reference to the sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond. The Hypnotoad is purportedly series creator Matt Groening's favorite character on Futurama.
It is possible that the Hypnotoad is a reference to the Dnyarri, or "Talking Pets", a race of powerful telepath toad creatures from the Star Control video game series, each member of which was powerful enough to mind-control an entire planet full of sentient beings.
In the episode "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch." A creature with eyes similar to Hypnotoad's can be seen on Kif's homeworld. Although unlikely, this could be a clue to Hypnotoad's origins.
Linda
(voiced by Tress MacNeille) - Morbo's human co-anchor, she seems to be blissfully unaware of his hatred for humanity, often giggling absentmindedly in classically unaware news anchor fashion, as Morbo says things like "Morbo congratulates our gargantuan cyborg president. May death come quickly to his enemies!" (on Richard Nixon's election). Linda appears to be vapid and unintelligent, providing comic relief to Morbo's violent comments. She also flashed her chest to Zapp Brannigan in exchange for some beads on Freedom Day.
Lrrr
(voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - ruler of the planet Omicron Persei VIII, located 1,000 light years from Earth. On numerous occasions Lrrr has threatened to destroy the Earth as a whole, as well as members of the Planet Express crew personally. Lrrr is something of a parody of all cliched "green-skinned space invaders." His wife is named Ndnd (voiced by Tress MacNeille), and the two appear to enjoy a relationship which goes through periodic love-hate cycles. Lrrr and his inner circle are devout fans of 20th- and 21st-century Earth television, except for animated shows. Appeared in "Anthology of Interest Part II" as the ruler of planet Nintenduu 64. He purchased Fry's nose on the black market as an aphrodisiac named "Human Horn" in the episode "Spanish Fry." Whenever he is seen onscreen, Lrrr tries to appear threatening and powerful, but his intimidating appearance is always foiled by him performing some banal and humorous activity, such as adjusting a slanted painting or scratching his rear on live television. His catchphrase is "I am Lrrr, of the planet Omicron Persei VIII!" A young Omicronian named Jrrr may be his and Ndnd's son.
Michelle
(voiced by Kath Soucie, Sarah Silverman) Fry's Girlfriend from the 20th century. She appears in the often-referenced story of how Fry was frozen and in "The Cryonic Woman." She freezes herself after having a rough few years with the guy she left Fry for, unaware that Fry had also been frozen. She has trouble adjusting to the 31st century, particularly the monster-like aliens and creatures. Ultimately, she leaves Fry for Pauly Shore. She is seen grieving for Fry, along with some of Fry's other lovers, at his funeral in "The Sting".
Morbo
(voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - A news monster for √2 News, Entertainment and Alien Invasion Tonight, Good Morning Earth, and other shows on the √2 Television Network. Morbo is actually an advance scout for an alien invasion, but does not bother to be subtle about it and drops obvious hints of his species' violent invasion plans, and frequently expresses his contempt for humanity. Morbo has a great love for Lipps Inc's song "Funkytown". He apparently has something hideous where his chest is. Morbo is, interestingly (although perhaps not surprisingly), good friends with President Richard Nixon. He has not made an appearance without mentioning either how Earth will be destroyed or his hatred for humanity. As a TV host who hates humans, he often makes comments such as:
- "Puny earthlings! My race will destroy you!"
- "Puny earthlings were shocked today to learn that a ball of garbage will destroy their pathetic city of New New York."
- "Pathetic humans, prepare to write down the recipe!"
- "Morbo demands comments!"
- "Kittens give Morbo gas."
- "All humans are vermin in the eyes of Morbo!"
- "Morbo congratulates our gargantuan cyborg president. May death come quickly to his enemies!"
- "So… humans have easily injured knees. My race will find this information very useful indeed. Mwahwahahahaha!"
- (Introducing presidency election candidates):"Puny human number one! Puny human number two! And Morbo's good friend, Richard Nixon."
- "Morbo can't understand his teleprompter. He forgot how you say that letter that looks like a man with a hat." (Linda)"It's a T. It goes tuh." (Morbo) "Hello, little man... I will destroy you!" (They were both under the influence of the Brainspawn's stupefaction field.)
- "Windmills do not work that way! Goodnight!" (referring to a comment made by Linda, a fellow newsreader, that the windmills would keep the turtles cool)
- "Across the galaxy, my people are completing a mighty space fleet that will exterminate the human race! But first, this news from 'Tinsel Town'."
Morbo's character design is based on the aliens from the 1957 science fiction movie Invasion of the Saucer Men. He has a wife(named Fawn)of the same species, referenced in "The 30% Iron Chef" and seen briefly in "Three Hundred Big Boys" and "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings". Morbo speaks to her with his characteristic hostility, but she pays no attention. He refers to his family as "belligerent and numerous".
Richard Nixon's head
(voiced by Billy West) - after a millennium of being a disembodied head, Nixon has lost more than a few of his marbles. After the death of Earth President McNeal, Nixon was elected President of Earth in season 2 by a margin of a single vote, defeating cloned opponents John Jackson and Jack Johnson. During the election campaign, he used Bender's body (which Bender had pawned for money) and gained huge support from the robots. He returned Bender's body after the Planet Express crew taped his plans to "go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place" and to sell children's organs to zoos for meat. Nixon won the election by obtaining a giant robotic body. One vote could have cost Nixon the presidency if Fry (or any other main character, except for non-voting felon Bender) remembered to vote. As President of Earth, Nixon conducts a violent and aggressive foreign policy, frequently entering into wars which have little or no purpose, and which occasionally backfire, leading to Earth being invaded by alien forces. Nixon's head is a common character throughout the series, providing humour through his 1960's outlook on life and his aggressive, unpredictable persona. Nixon's vice president appears to be the headless body of Spiro T. Agnew, Nixon's first historical VP. Agnew's body, however, was given to Ogden Wernstrom as a form of payment in Crimes of the Hot. In the final episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", Nixon was pulled into Robot Hell by the Robot Devil.
Mr. Panucci
(voiced by John DiMaggio) – the owner of Panucci's Pizza, the New York restaurant where Fry worked in the 20th century. He had little regard for hygiene in his pizzeria; despite this, Stephen Hawking was a frequent customer according to Anthology of Interest I. After Fry was frozen Mr. Panucci continued at the pizzeria and tended to Fry’s dog, Seymour.
Mr. Panucci is one of the few recurring characters who don’t appear in the 31st century. His skin colour is also reminiscent of characters on The Simpsons.
Mayor C. Randall Poopenmayer
(voiced by David Herman) - the Mayor of New New York has appeared in many episodes, normally when his city is in grave danger, such as in the episode "A Big Piece of Garbage". His Mayoral duties include execution of condemned prisoners, a duty we see him try to perform in "A Tale of Two Santas".
Morgan Proctor
(Voiced by Nora Dunn) Morgan Proctor is a rank 19 bureaucrat. She appears in the episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" when she is sent to inspect Hermes for possible promotion. However, the inspection did not go well, and after Hermes almost commits suicide, she sends him on paid vacation ('the worst penalty possible for a bureaucrat') and takes over as bureaucrat of Planet Express. She had a brief affair with Fry, as he is 'such a untidy slob unlike the neat freaks she is surrounded by all the time'. When Bender finds out, she removes his personality and sends it to be filed in "the master pile" of the Central Bureaucracy, where it will presumably be untouched for years, only to see a newly-returned Hermes re-organise 'the master pile' within 5 minutes. She is subsequently demoted when Hermes uncovers an incorrectly-stamped form from her prom date. She is seen along with other of Fry's ex-girlfriends at his funeral in the episode The Sting.
Randy
(Voiced by: John Dimaggio) A very effeminate man who owns a jewelry store. Randy is also a homosexual, and when the polar ice caps melted, he built an ark and filled it with same-sex animal couples. He claims there are "Parts of the Bible I like, and parts I don't like." Randy has never been named in the series, though his name is given in DVD commentaries. Randy is actor John DiMaggio's favorite character on Futurama. In the DVD commentary for "Three Hundred Big Boys," it is revealed that Randy had a subplot in the episode that had to be cut for time. In the cut scene he and his boyfriend argue over how to spend their tax refunds, they resolve the argument by tossing both $300 bills into the fireplace, deciding love is more important than money.
Sal
(voiced by John DiMaggio) - A recurring generic surly, overweight, blue-collar worker with a thick Bronx accent. His first appearance is as a janitor on the moon in "Episode Two: The Series Has Landed", servicing the machines in the amusement park. He has appeared many times since, always employed in a tedious job which he does not do well ("Whats do I looks like, a guy who's not lazy?"). Some fans have speculated that there are numerous Sals, all cloned from the original, which would account for his showing up working many jobs. Either that, or he simply gets fired/resigns and finds new employment on a regular basis. Even among the series' writers, there is confusion on the matter. He also pluralizes things that needn't be pluralized, ("He's brokens, gets hims outta heres.") and vice versa (Whoas! Cripe!). His numerous jobs include:
- Janitor in Luna Park ("Episode Two: The Series Has Landed")
- Bus driver ("Put Your Head on My Shoulders")
- Cleaner ("The Honking")
- Tattooed art exhibit on loan from the Louvre ("The Cryonic Woman")
- Truck driver/construction worker ("Parasites Lost")
- Factory foreman ("Bendless Love")
- Paper Deliverer (The Route of All Evil)
- Owner-operator of Sal's Wrecking Co ("I Dated a Robot")
- Demolition worker ("A Pharaoh to Remember")
- Sewage treatment worker ("Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles")
Scruffy
(voiced by David Herman) - The Planet Express janitor. A recurring joke is that because he interacts so little with the rest of the employees, nobody remembers ever seeing him before. In "Future Stock", it is revealed that he has vast holdings of Planet Express stock. He is lazy and can usually be found in the basement of the building, watching the boiler (but never actually fixing it) and reading an edition of Zero-G Juggs or National Pornographic (a reference to National Geographic magazine). In the Futurama video game, he is asleep in the (flooded) basement of Planet Express with a dirty magazine. Frequently refers to himself in the third person and speaks in a voice reminiscent of Karl Childers, the protagonist of the movie Sling Blade. In later episodes it is revealed that Scruffy is actually quite intelligent and can concoct brilliant plans almost immediately. Scruffy is an ex-con, stating: "Prison ain't so bad. You can lift weights and make sangria in the terlet. Course it's shank or be shanked."
Sewer Mutants
Years of pollution poured into the sewers under New New York have created a society of mutants. They have established schools and churches in an effort at normalcy and are forbidden to travel to the surface without special permission. They first appear in I Second That Emotion, though the underground ruins of Old New York (as well as several creatures who may have been nonhumanoid mutants) are seen as early as Space Pilot 3000.
Dwayne
(Voiced by David Herman) - Dwayne is a mutant with two noses and a catastrophically large forehead. He is fond of challenging people's understandings of practically everything, for example claiming that the humans may be living in the sewer of a great civilization above them (which is disproven quickly, what with the sky and all). Dwayne is a teacher at Martin Luther Thing Jr. Middle School, and has been known to play the guitar with minimal provocation.
Raoul
(Voiced by Maurice LaMarche)- Raoul is the democratically elected leader of the sewer mutants. His most notable mutation is a third arm, which has grown in place of his right ear. Accordingly, he is somewhat hard of hearing. However, in Leela's Homeworld, he is shown to have two ears. Is romantically involved with (and possibly married to) Vyolet.
Turanga Morris
(voiced by David Herman) - Father of Planet Express spaceship captain Turanga Leela. A mutant who lives in the sewer, he has one eye, a vertical mouth, and sheds his skin. Very irresponsible; encourages the consumption of alcohol by practically everybody.
Turanga Munda
(voiced by Tress MacNeille) - Mother of Planet Express spaceship captain Turanga Leela. She has one eye, a lion tail, and octopus tentacles in place of arms, as well as purple hair. Has a Ph.D in Exolinguistics, which enabled her to write the indecipherable note left with Leela at the Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium to convince them that she was an alien, which would allow her to live a more comfortable life on the surface.
Vyolet
(voiced by Tress MacNeille) - A mutant with gills and a generally reptillian appearace, Vyolet has the most appearances of any mutant besides Leela, because she reacts whenever something is thrown in a gutter. She believes Barbie dolls portray an unrealistic standard of beauty. In the episode Leela's Homeworld, Bender ruined her wedding dress indicating that following that episode she was married, most likely to Raoul.
Smitty
(voiced by Billy West) - Policeman in New New York. His partner is URL. Sometimes seen with a lightsaber that he uses as a nightstick. He appears primarily in the episode Space Pilot 3000, and later in the episode I, Roommate, but is in about every episode where police are involved. In A Tale of Two Santas, it is revealed that he had been fired from his job, but was reinstated following his capture of Bender.
Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate
(voiced by Phil LaMarr) - Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate is Captain of the Globetrotters and Senior Lecturer in Physics at Globetrotter University. After challenging Earth to a game of basketball in which Earth is horribly defeated Bubblegum helps Professor Farnsworth to restabilize time in Time Keeps on Slippin', unfortunately his showboating math is incorrect. He also served as one of the guest judges in the Iron Cook competition in "The 30% Iron Chef". He also appears briefly in "Less Than Hero".
Terry
(voiced by David Herman) - In the future, Terry works at the cryogenics lab where Fry was frozen in the year 2000. He is the first to greet Fry after he is unfrozen with his usual greeting "Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!". He feels this dramatic bit is a fine way to greet de-frostees, though Fry has his doubts. He later appears in the episode How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back as a former coworker of Leela. He also attends Fry's funeral in "The Sting" stating "Farewell, from the world of Tomorrow!"
Waterfall Family
Members of the Waterfall family represent left-wing politics. Three have played major guest roles, all voiced by Phil Hendrie and all dying in comically violent ways.
Free Waterfall Jr.
A stereotypical hippie, vegetarian, environmentalist "treehugger", and spokesman for Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment (M.E.A.T.) He strongly objected to the eating of popplers and was himself eaten by Lrrr of Omicron Persei VIII, promptly sending Lrrr on an experience not dissimilar to a drug trip (The Problem With Popplers). He had extremely low tolerance for beliefs that are not congruous with his own: "You're all crazy, shut up, let me talk."
Dying words: "This is not happening."
Free Waterfall Sr.
A nature activist and father of Free Waterfall Jr. A senior member of Penguins Unlimited, he led the organization in an effort to save a penguin colony on Pluto after a dark matter spill threatened their habitat, in a manner analogous to an oil spill. He was eventually pecked to death (and presumably eaten) by angered penguins (The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz).
Dying words: "Make sure they use every part of my body!"
Old Man Waterfall
A bisexual polygamist civil-rights lawyer and space war veteran who has lost many body parts on many planets ("Name a body part and a planet, and I've taken a bullet in it, on it!"). He vowed to avenge his son, Free Waterfall Sr., when he was killed by penguins. He is also the grandfather of Free Waterfall Jr.
He unsuccessfully defended Dr. Zoidberg's constitutional right to eat a flag (though managed to secure constitutional protection for polygamy) and died after being crushed by the giant metal claw of the Decapodian Mobile Oppression Palace (A Taste of Freedom). A young woman (unnamed but credited as "Frida Waterfall" and also voiced by Phil Hendrie) ran from the crowd, calling him "Great-Grandfather" and blaming his death on the "men-o-centric male-ocracy", suggesting the Waterfall family tradition would continue.
Dying words: "I request a Satanic funeral."
Professor Ogden Wernstrom
(voiced by David Herman) - Rival of Professor Farnsworth (who usually greets Ogden with a contemptful "Wernstrom!") who resents the "A-" grade Farnsworth gave him for sloppy penmanship when Wernstrom was completing his senior year in 2900. Wernstrom swore revenge, "even if it takes [him] a hundred years!" In 3000, Wernstrom finally achieved his goal when Wernstrom beat Farnsworth in the Annual Inventors' Symposium, publicly giving Farnsworth's Smell-o-scope an "A - -".
Despite this condemnation, the Smell-o-scope proved essential in saving the Earth from a giant mass of waste in orbit from the 21st Century. Wernstrom was given the task of stopping the great mass of trash when Farnsworth's plan, to blow it up with a timed bomb, failed when he incorrectly wired the timer. For his cooperation, Wernstrom demanded and received tenure, a big research grant, a lab, and five graduate students (at least three of them Chinese by his request). He then abandoned the city of New New York to its doom (since he had tenure, he couldn't be fired). Wernstrom's Inventors' Symposium award was stripped from him after Farnsworth and the Planet Express crew came up with a second plan, which managed to save New New York, thus prompting another promise of revenge, "even if it takes [him] another hundred years!"
Wernstrom also appears at the Professor's 150th birthday party ([A Clone of My Own]]) and in the audience of the Nobel Prize ceremony (Anthology of Interest II). He later devises a plan to combat global warming with a giant space mirror in "Crimes of the Hot", but after this goes awry he teams up with President Nixon's Head to use the mirror to deactivate every robot on Earth - the robots having been revealed as the source of greenhouse gasses. His final appearance was in "Obsoletely Fabulous" presenting his killbot at Roboticon 3003; He managed to get into a fistfight with Professor Farnsworth over whose killbot was better. The killbots were disgusted by this display of violence and went for a paddleboat ride together.
Judge Ron Whitey
(voiced by Billy West) – Judge at "Famous Original Ray's Superior Court", who presided over most of the court cases where the main characters appear. In "A Tale of Two Santas" he sentenced Bender to death, he annuled Fry and Leela's marriage in "Time Keeps on Slippin'" and in "Insane in the Mainframe" he sent Fry and Bender to the Institute for Criminally Insane Robots. Judge Whitey is very rich and seems to lack morals, and, in "Three Hundred Big Boys", he tells a joke about having cut off his butler's foot (a reference to the television special Roots). Whitey is preoccupied with money and wealth, but did not know what a bank was until his caddy/chauffeur informed him that "a bank is a place where people put money that isn't properly invested." Judge Whitey previously ruled that "the crime of being poor" was a mental illness. He also states in that same episode that "the only poor people I want to hear about are the people who tend to my pores at the spa".
Leo and Inez Wong
(Leo Wong, voiced by Billy West and Inez Wong, voiced by Lauren Tom) – the very wealthy but meddlesome parents of Amy Wong. They own the entire western hemisphere of Mars (the best hemisphere), where they have a buggalo ranch. Throughout the series Leo and Inez are often seen pestering Amy about their lack of grandchildren and meddling in her love life, trying to find a man to father their grandchild. At an undefined point, their ancestor Sir Reginald Wong bought half of Mars from the native Martians for only one bead (a reference to the American legend that Manhattan Island was purchased for a bag of beads). It was later revealed that the bead in question was a gargantuan diamond.
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