The Queen of Yonkers

A minor figure glimpsed in the sprawl of Futurama's future New York, the Queen of Yonkers carries herself with a self-importance that outstrips her actual influence. She appears amid the show's parade of oddball background royalty and civic grotesques, asserting a rank nobody asked her to hold.

Tress MacNeille, one of the show's most versatile voice performers, gives even a passing joke like this one a fully committed comic shape — a title that sounds absurd next to Yonkers landing exactly because she plays it with total conviction, the small-scale pomposity making the bit land.