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Horrible Gelatinous Blob

Horrible Gelatinous Blob in Futurama (1999), played by Maurice LaMarche.

He's the star of a black-and-white B-movie the Professor watches on TV, a shapeless, oozing menace narrated in the breathless tones of 1950s creature features. He exists to devour terrified extras and deliver ominous pronouncements about mankind's doom, entirely straight-faced, entirely absurd.

Maurice LaMarche's booming, gravel-voiced delivery nails the exact cadence of vintage monster-movie melodrama, and the joke is that nobody involved seems to notice how ridiculous a sentient blob's grandiose threats sound. It's a tiny, disposable bit that becomes memorable purely through vocal commitment and pitch-perfect parody.

In "The Series Has Landed", he appears as an actor on a commercial for Planet Express. However, in 3002 during The Route of All Evil, he doesn't appear to recognize Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth or Hermes Conrad before, during, or after beating them to a pulp. Also during that episode, he mentions he worked at a factory, but they introduced computers, causing him to lose his job and become stressed.

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