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Wine Bucket

Wine Bucket in Futurama (1999), played by Billy West.

Wine Bucket is one of the countless one-off faces that populate New New York, glimpsed briefly in the churn of Futurama's background gags rather than given a storyline of his own. He exists mostly as a punchline vessel, the kind of throwaway name the show tosses off and moves past without ceremony.

Billy West's genius on Futurama is exactly this: filling out a whole universe with voices nobody asked for, giving even a blink-and-miss-it character like Wine Bucket a distinct comic texture. It's a joke about the show's own density of invention, and West sells the bit without ever needing more than a few seconds.

The wine bucket is a robot who serves the Wong family. He is programmed to detect low wine levels in people's glasses and refill them when possible. Despite Amy thinking he is an emotionless robot, he gets quite emotional when she says she is not attracted to him.

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