Matt Groening’s Futurama was an amusing cartoon TV series that first aired on March 28, 1999. It was on air for seven long seasons but for fans, it just didn’t feel like it lasted long enough.
If someone is a Futurama fan, they will know that there are so many hilarious characters on the show that can have a person doubled over while laughing hysterically. When a person likes a TV series they usually tend to have their favorites and Futurama has a large cast of colorful characters to choose from. Continue reading to see 10 of Futurama’s most hilarious characters, ranked.
Kif Kroker
Lieutenant Kif Kroker is pretty much like Captain Zapp Brannigan’s slave boy. He is in the last place on this list, but at least his hilariousness still made the cut. He’s in charge of doing whatever mindless or challenging task that Zapp gives him.
Kif is wildly in love with Amy Wong; his smizmar. Kif is some kind of amphibian-like alien. He is generally the shy and often very passive type, but when the love of his life (Amy) is in danger, he takes care of business.
Nibbler
Nibber is a super cute creature that was found on planet Vergon 6 just before his planet was about to be destroyed. He quickly became Leelas’ new pet when she helped to get him off of his home planet.
Leela and her crew tried helping even more by trying to save a male and female from each species on Vergon 6, however, Nibbler got hungry. Underneath the cute pet facade, there is actually a being called Lord Nibbler who ends up trying to save Planet Earth from these cute but psychotic cats.
Amy Wong
Amy Wong comes in at eighth place. She is the Mars University party girl whose parents are loaded and buy her everything that she wants and needs and then some. Like the time her parents told her if she got all B’s they’d buy her a bar, but she got all C’s so they told her they would get her a car.
She also happens to be Kif’s smizmar; which is like a wife in his world. She has her moments in the series where she’s ridiculously funny and other times where you might just wonder how she got through school at all.
Mom
Mom, whose real name is Carol, is at seventh place and she is the power-hungry mother to three eccentric adult male children; Walt, Larry, and Igner. Mom is also like the mother to all the robots as well.
She once dated Professor Farnsworth a long, long time ago. He used to help her build her robots until she let on what she really wanted to do with the robots; which was to pretty much take over the world. Her public persona is this sweet and loveable old woman. But in reality, she is just downright evil.
Leela
The butt-kicking Leela is the brave one of the group and comes in at sixth place on this list. Leela once thought she was an orphaned alien but eventually found out that her parents are alive and that she’s actually a mutant. She also discovered that her parents live in the underbelly of New New York in Old New York.
She tries to be the logical one and is always helping Fry out. Her full name is Turanga Leela and she also happens to be the Planet Express’ captain.
The Robot Devil
The Robot Devil is in fifth place on as one of the ten funniest characters on Futurama and he seems to appear quite often for this group of co-workers and friends. The only thing is, he usually shows up because of Bender since he is the only robot on the team.
The Robot Devil’s real name is Beelzebot; something that only true fans may be aware of. He lives in Robot Hell and he is basically the robot version of the human devil. The only thing about robot hell is the fact that it is actually at an abandoned amusement park once known as Reckless Ted’s Funland.
Doctor Zoidberg
Doctor Zoidberg is in fourth place and he isn’t the type of doctor most humans would want to check out their health situation or injuries. One would assume that he has lost more patients than he saves.
Zoidberg’s full name is Doctor John. A. Zoidberg. He’s a character who seems to always have the worst luck and he seems like he’d be the last one the other characters would pick to be on their dodgeball team. He’s originally from the planet Decapod 10, but he came to Earth to become a doctor when his dreams of being a comedian collapsed.
Professor Farnsworth
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth comes in at third place, and he usually just goes by the name of the Professor. His major forgetfulness and take on old age are ridiculously hilarious a majority of the time. He was born on April 9, 2841; making him around 160-years-old. He looks pretty darn good for his age.
The Professor happens to be a scientist. Some days he’s a little more like a mad scientist with some of the insane out of this world inventions that he often comes up with; such as the Smelloscope. Although, he did save a lot of people with that invention.
Fry
Fry’s full name is Phillip J. Fry. He’s in second place when it comes to the most hilarious characters on Futurama. One funny quote from Fry is, “Valentine’s day is coming? Oh crap, I forgot to get a girlfriend again.”
The writers for Futurama did an excellent job of coming up with lines that would only be perfect for Fry. He tends to lack a certain amount of common sense and maybe some smarts.
He’s always getting himself into trouble like the time he drank a bottle of water that was actually some kind of foreign emperor and he ended up becoming an emperor himself. And most of the time, it’s always Leela coming to his rescue.
Bender
Bender is one hilarious robot. He sits on our ranked list off at the top spot because where else could we put him?
He tends to say some of the funniest stuff sometimes and doesn’t appear to have a human emotion sensor either; meaning he always says whatever the heck he wants despite how it may make others feel. He can sometimes be downright mean at times too.
Bender’s full name is Bender Bending Rodriguez. His lovely vocals come from John Dimaggio. When you think of Bender, you probably think of him holding a beer, smoking a cigar, or doing both things at the same time.
