Character
Lionel Preacherbot
Lionel Preacherbot in Futurama (1999), played by Phil LaMarr.
Lionel Preacherbot is a robot clergyman who turns up in New New York to officiate weddings, funerals, and whatever solemn occasion the plot requires. He speaks in the flat, dutiful cadence of a machine reciting sacred text, treating each ceremony with the same programmed gravity whether the moment deserves it or not.
The joke is entirely in the contrast: a device built for reverence delivering it with zero feeling, which Phil LaMarr plays absolutely straight. Futurama loves this kind of throwaway world-building, and Preacherbot is a perfect small example — he never needs a story of his own to be funny every time he shows back up.
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Futurama1999