NASA Neptuniab

A minor figure glimpsed in the margins of Futurama's sprawling universe, the name suggesting some tangled connection to NASA and the planet Neptune. As with many of the show's background players, the character surfaces briefly, delivers a line or two, and lets the joke of the moment carry the weight.

David Herman has a gift for filling out Futurama's universe with voices that sound fully lived-in even in a single line, and that craft is what makes throwaway characters like this one land. The show's comedy often depends on exactly this kind of confident, briefly-glimpsed weirdness.