Joey Butterman

Joey Butterman is a bit-part figure in the Futurama universe, more punchline than protagonist — a name that turns up in the margins of the show's crowded cast of aliens, robots and delivery-boy misfits rather than at its center. He carries himself with the low-key oddness the show treats as background normal.

Futurama's genius is in its density of throwaway names and faces, and characters like Joey Butterman are proof of that world-building instinct: even the periphery feels lived-in. David Herman's voice work, all deadpan and offhand, fits the show's habit of treating absurdity as unremarkable, which is exactly the joke.'