Fishy Joe's Employee

He works the counter at Fishy Joe's, one of the countless fast-food chains cluttering New New York, doing the thankless job of pushing suspiciously fishy product on customers who'd rather be anywhere else. A background fixture of the Planet Express crew's world, he shows up whenever the show needs a face behind a register.

Futurama built half its comedy out of exactly this kind of throwaway role, and David Herman's flat, put-upon delivery turns a nothing job into a running joke about consumerism and bad service. He's proof the show's universe felt lived-in even at its most minor edges — funny precisely because nobody involved seems to care.