Character

Abraham

Abraham in Futurama (1999), played by Maurice LaMarche.

Preserved as a talking head in a jar at the Head Museum of the twenty-first century, Abraham Lincoln greets visitors with the folksy solemnity of a man who knows he's a monument. He speaks in stately, faintly absurd pronouncements, treating his bizarre afterlife as though it were simply another dignified public office to hold.

The joke is entirely in the mismatch: Maurice LaMarche plays Lincoln with total, sonorous sincerity, so the gravity of the Gettysburg-Address voice colliding with the indignity of being a bodiless head in a museum case lands every time. It's a quick, disposable gag elevated by an actor who refuses to wink at it.

Abraham is a male monkey dressing like a referee. He gave Bender a can of petroleum oil during the non-canonical Robanukah 3010 so that Ruth and Esther could perform the traditional oil wrestling.

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