Five-Eyed-Woman

A background face in the crowds of New New York, Five-Eyed-Woman is exactly what her name promises: one more alien Futurama tosses into a bar or a street scene without breaking stride. She doesn't drive plots. She just exists, five eyes blinking, as proof the future is stranger than us.

Futurama's genius is treating its universe as fully populated even when nobody's watching, and Five-Eyed-Woman is a tiny piece of that joke. Tress MacNeille, one of the show's great utility voices, gives her just enough personality in passing lines to make the background feel alive rather than decorative.