Character
The Grand Midwife
The Grand Midwife in Futurama (1999), played by Tress MacNeille.
A robot obstetrics fixture in Futurama's universe, she presides over robot deliveries with brisk professional cheer, cataloguing the newborn's future in a single breathless prophecy before it's even finished. She treats birth as data entry, rattling off a whole life story between one contraction and the next.
The joke is structural: she compresses an entire character's fate into one rapid-fire monologue, and Tress MacNeille delivers it with the flat, chipper efficiency of someone reading a shipping manifest. It's a tiny bit, but the deadpan absurdity of narrating a robot's whole life as it's being assembled never stops being funny.
The Grand Midwife (also known as the Grand Priestess, Grand Lunch Lady, Grand Funeral Director, Grand Parking Validator, and Grand Butterfly Curator) is a Amphibiosan alien of light green color from the planеt Amphibios 9 who carried out Kif's birthing ceremony. She has learned it by rote and refuses to change it when Amy is missing.
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