David Farnsworth

David Farnsworth turns up in the margins of Futurama's 31st-century sprawl, one of the show's many one-off or recurring faces who drift through Planet Express's orbit with a job to do and little fuss about doing it. He's a small, functional piece of a very large, very silly universe.

Futurama's genius is that even its most fleeting characters get a specific voice and a clean comic shape, and David Herman is one of the show's reliable utility players, giving minor figures like this one just enough personality to land a joke and vanish. It's a testament to the show's density that even the background hums with character.