Nobel Prize Presenter

He appears for a moment behind a podium, official sash and stiff posture in place, reading out the names of the future's great scientific minds with the flat, ceremonial pomp of a man who has done this a thousand times and expects no one to remember his face.

Futurama loves stacking its background with fully committed one-scene characters, and Maurice LaMarche gives this one the plummy, self-important cadence of a man who thinks the honor of presenting matters as much as the prize itself — a tiny, precise joke about institutional self-regard that lands and vanishes before you can quote it.