This is a short Reader's Theater script designed for a small group literacy group. 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. (A parody of the film Space Jam, and also a reference to the Harlem Globetrotters cartoon series.) Hattie and the Fox is a fun book to use for teaching how to use an expressive voice when reading. The game was rejected by Brøderbund. In "Future Stock", it is revealed that he is deeply fond of the company, and owns four times as much stock as the other employees. In one episode,[which?] Small, parasitic aliens who attach themselves to the heads of intelligent beings and control them. He is murdered by Robot Santa in the non-canonical anthology episode "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular". However, when Fry reads Hermes' mind in Into the Wild Green Yonder, it is revealed that Hermes sees him as "pathetic but lovable". Leo is one of the primary villains in Into the Wild Green Yonder. Despite their nature, other beings find their small stature to be extremely adorable. She fails to fit into the 31st-century life to which Fry has become so accustomed, and so asks him to freeze himself with her for another thousand years. The NAACP disowned her for perpetuating negative stereotypes. Scruffy (voiced by David Herman) is the Planet Express janitor and a recurring supporting character. Many of these characters were created for one-time gags, background scenes or other functions in the Futurama universe. Her body contains a church bell that rings loudly whenever she moves. McDaniel (center), in front of her house on South Harvard Boulevard in L.A.’s West Adams, with World War II volunteers in 1942. Even after death, her Oscar, which she left to Howard University, was deemed valueless by appraisers and later went missing from the school — and has remained so for more than 40 years. She briefly serves as the landlady of Fry and Bender, and holds a single share of Planet Express, allowing her the decisive vote for its CEO. On the show, Amy is known for being somewhat shallow, kind, and ditzy. Get up to the minute entertainment news, celebrity interviews, celeb videos, photos, movies, TV, music news and pop culture on ABCNews.com. Unfortunately, food coloring is fatal to robots. [5] She has also been known to sing in Cantonese, though the exact lyrics have yet to be translated. The character was considered to be particularly interesting because he could be "pure evil" but also command respect and also because "Nixon's head trapped in glass is just really funny. Philip J. Fry, primarily known by his surname Fry, is the main protagonist of the series. After Fry resigns from his job in "Law & Oracle", he states that he only says these phrases to make Fry "feel better about his pointless job." Lieutenant Kif Kroker (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) is the long-suffering assistant to Captain Zapp Brannigan, and Fourth Lieutenant on the Democratic Order of Planets (DOOP) starship Nimbus. A large, translucent and acidic alien. Flexo first meets and befriends Bender in "Lesser of Two Evils". He is a lawyer who has appeared both as a defense attorney and as a prosecutor. Brannigan was first seen in the episode "Love's Labours Lost in Space" as Captain of the starship Nimbus, where he imprisons Fry, Leela and Bender for violating "Brannigan's Law". Hattie, determined to avoid her mother's and sisters' fates as maids, joined the show, doing impressions in "whiteface" for African-American audiences. He first appears as a customer at the pizzeria where Fry mistakenly believes him to have invented gravity for which Hawking accepts credit ("Yeah, sure. Selznick took the hint and submitted the 44-year-old for a nomination in the best supporting actress category, along with her co-star, Olivia de Havilland, contributing to the film's record-setting 13 noms. Leela then makes him feel bad by saying that he has no acting skills, and that the world had forgotten he had even been alive within the first month of his death. The Professor rarely worries about the safety of the crew, viewing them as a means to an end, as evidenced in the first episode. McDaniel also specified what was to become of her Oscar, which an appraiser dismissed as having "no value" in an accounting of her estate. She was changed in order to provide a better contrast between her and Leela. Their original appearance in "I Second That Emotion" shows them as plain cyclopes like Leela. It is revealed in Bender's Game that the Professor is the biological father of Mom's youngest son Igner — the one whom Mom despises the most. The janitor." [20] However, in the "Action Delivery Force" segment of "Reincarnation", the Professor is voiced by David Herman. When Nine became grand curator is unknown, but the audio commentary track for Into the Wild Green Yonder hints that he was in the Legion prior to the year 3000. [10] However, an accident in the 2980 Olympic Games in which a fan broke his back trying to emulate Hermes left him traumatized, and he could not bring himself to limbo again until decades later when it was needed. Zoidberg is voiced by Billy West, who performs the character with a Yiddish-inflected accent inspired by actors George Jessel and Lou Jacobi.[22]. Many episodes' major plot points are introduced by Farnsworth announcing, "Good news, everyone! In the episode "Put Your Head on My Shoulders", Bender sets her up on a Valentine's Day date with Fry after setting up a dating agency. He appears to be using his job to gather information about the human race to aid the planned invasion. White Hollywood pigeonholed her as the sassy Mammy archetype, with 74 confirmable domestic roles out of the IMDb list of 94 ("I'd rather play a maid than be a maid," was her go-to response). One of 13 children, McDaniel was born June 10, 1893, into extreme poverty in Wichita, Kan. Malfunctioning Eddie (voiced by David Herman) is a robot that runs a hovercar dealership. He first appeared in the season one episode "The Series Has Landed" in a commercial the Professor made for Planet Express. Sal (voiced by John DiMaggio) is a surly, overweight, blue-collar worker with a thick Bronx accent. Tinny Tim (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is an ill-fated orphan-bot with a crutch for an arm and one shortened leg, a reference to Tiny Tim in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. He often competes against Farnsworth in various competitions, such as the Annual Inventors' Symposium, though their rivalry appears to have softened over the years, and they have even managed to collaborate with one another every once in a while. Even after World War II, she continued to play underwritten maid parts in such films as 1946's Song of the South, Walt Disney's adaptation of the Uncle Remus stories, now considered a rare racist blot on the studio's legacy. 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When the show receives poor reviews, Calculon determines that maybe he should not be acting and should have remained in hell. ", In her last days, McDaniel threw a deathbed party, coincidentally attended by her grandnephew's future life partner MaBel Collins, then 15, who recalls "people milling around, drinking, laughing. From his first appearance, Kwanzaabot has been voiced by rapper Coolio. Scruffy generally approaches both his job and the rest of his life with a high level of apparent apathy, as shown in "Parasites Lost", in which he ignores a broken boiler in the Planet Express Headquarters to read a pornographic magazine, and continues to read even after said boiler explodes, declaring, "Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived." He returns at the end of the episode to rescue the Professor and "earn [his] freedom." He first performs a one-man show. When Doctor Zoidberg had lost his mind due to hormones and was forced to be tied up, she was fooled multiple times into untying him, despite the dangers. Another is his exclamation, "Sweet zombie Jesus!" The Professor has the crew perform a series of ritualistic "scientific" tasks to put the soul of Calculon back in his body. 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. (Howard declined comment.) She was no stage mom. However, they could not maintain their relationship due to Mom's lust for power, including when she decided to weaponize his "Q.T. In Simpsonorama, she is eaten alive by one of the rabbit-shaped creatures that breaks into the studio. Later episodes show them building an uneasy rapport, with Hermes slowly softening to Zoidberg. Although she is not ready for total commitment, Amy is sure that one day she will be. Guenter later appears in the episode, "Fry and Leela's Big Fling", where he shows Amy Wong, Bender and Zoidberg around the planet Simian 7. A bending unit from the same assembly line as Bender. Wants Amy to get married and give her grandchildren. However, LaBarbara was formerly married to Hermes' former Limbo rival Barbados Slim,[17] and got back with Barbados twice when Hermes was temporarily decapitated in Bender's Big Score. His character parodies the supposed wealth and automatic respect of modern doctors—for example, his incompetence at human medicine makes him extremely poor despite his profession, and he is implied to be frequently homeless when not at work. Twelve of the orphans were briefly adopted and later returned by Bender—who adopted them only for the government fund checks—in "The Cyber House Rules". 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