Ape #1

Ape #1 is exactly what the credit implies: a background gag glimpsed for a beat or two in Futurama's crowded universe, one more absurd extra in a show that treats even its throwaway characters as fully cast bit parts. No arc, no name beyond the number — just a punchline shape waiting to be filled.

The joke is the economy of it — Futurama spends real vocal talent on characters who exist for a single laugh, and Maurice LaMarche, a voice actor capable of enormous range and gravity elsewhere, brings the same commitment to a nameless ape as he would to a lead. That excess of craft on a throwaway is the gag.