Car Smasher #2

Car Smasher #2 is exactly what the job title promises: one of the anonymous laborers glimpsed doing the unglamorous, faintly absurd manual work that keeps New New York running. He shows up, does the smashing, and says little, a passing face in the crowd of Futurama's future-blue-collar world.

The joke is entirely in the deadpan specificity of the credit itself, and Billy West's gift for tossing off a grunt or a one-liner with total conviction turns a nothing role into a texture note. It's a small proof that Futurama's background is as lovingly built as its foreground.