Character

Sex Shoppe Owner

Sex Shoppe Owner in Futurama (1999), played by Maurice LaMarche.

A blink-and-you'll-miss-him proprietor glimpsed in the sprawl of New New York, the Sex Shoppe Owner exists for one quick exchange before the plot moves on. He's brisk, transactional, utterly unbothered by the absurdity of his storefront sitting between a pizza place and who knows what else in the 31st century.

Futurama built its world out of exactly these disposable faces, and Maurice LaMarche — already doing a dozen voices across the show — gives this one just enough gruff specificity to land the joke and vanish. It's a small proof of the show's density: even a single line gets a distinct, funny voice behind it.

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Futurama1999