Dad on Beach

Glimpsed rather than introduced, this is a father enjoying an ordinary day at the shore in Futurama's future-world background chatter — the kind of incidental figure the show tosses off to make its universe feel lived-in, with a family and a beach towel rather than a plot.

The joke of a throwaway role like this is entirely in the delivery, and Maurice LaMarche has the pipes to make even a nothing line land with unearned gravity. Futurama built half its charm on treating bit players like this one as fully formed people worth a single perfect joke.