Mrs. Tucker

Mrs. Tucker turns up as one of the small, ordinary faces populating New New York's background — a minor figure glimpsed going about her business while the Planet Express crew's latest disaster unfolds around her. She's unbothered by the chaos, treating the absurd as perfectly mundane.

She's the kind of tossed-off bit part Futurama specializes in: barely sketched, but given just enough deadpan normalcy amid the show's lunacy to land a laugh. Tress MacNeille's flair for clipped, matter-of-fact side characters gives her a flicker of personality in seconds of screen time.