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George Washington's Head
George Washington's Head in Futurama (1999), played by Maurice LaMarche.
Preserved in a jar of bubbling fluid at the Head Museum, George Washington's Head is the first President of the United States reduced to a talking bust in a glass tank. He speaks with grave, founding-father solemnity about duty and country, seemingly unbothered that he is now, quite literally, just a head.
The joke is entirely in the mismatch: Maurice LaMarche gives him the sonorous, statesmanlike gravity of a Mount Rushmore bust, and the show never once acknowledges how absurd that is coming from a jar. Deadpan dignity applied to a ridiculous premise is Futurama's whole comic engine, and this is one of its purest, silliest distillations.
It is unknown how Washington's head can be still alive, as the real George Washington died hundreds of years before the technology to keep disembodied heads alive was invented. Some fans have speculated that Washington was cloned and given memory implants then had his head placed in a glass jar.
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