Skateboarder

A background New New York teenager, glimpsed rolling through crowd scenes on his board with the loose, unbothered posture of a kid who has somewhere better to be. He doesn't drive the plot; he's part of the city's texture, a quick visual joke about a future that still has bored skate punks in it.

Futurama fills its margins with tossed-off bits like this, and Phil LaMarr — one of the show's great utility voices — gives even a one-line skater a distinct, lazy cadence that makes the world feel inhabited rather than staged. It's a small proof that no line here is thrown away entirely.