Character
Worms
Worms in Futurama (1999), played by Maurice LaMarche.
Worms is one of the many odd, one-scene faces that populate Futurama's crowded future — a name that flickers by without ceremony, delivered with the show's usual deadpan confidence that the joke doesn't need explaining. Whatever the moment, he treats it as perfectly ordinary business in a world that never is.
The character works because Maurice LaMarche can make even a passing, barely-sketched voice sound fully lived-in, giving throwaway lines the same commitment he brings to Kif or Morbo. It's a testament to Futurama's density of jokes that even its smallest names get a real voice behind them.
Worms are a mutualistic species of sapient worms acquired via ingestion (eating food infected with them). Once inside of a host, they begin to improve all of the infected organism's bodily and mental abilities, most likely for the same reason that any sapient race would advance technology, to enhance lifestyle.
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