Space Bee #4

Space Bee #4 is exactly what the name promises: one member of a swarm of anthropomorphic bees encountered somewhere out in the vastness of the Futurama universe, buzzing through a background gag with no grand ambitions beyond existing as a punchline in insect form.

The joke is the deadpan specificity of numbering a background bee at all, and David Herman's voice work commits fully to a nothing part, treating a one-line insect like a fully formed guy. That commitment to a throwaway is the entire pleasure — Futurama trusts you to notice.