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This article provides a list of animals which make significant or recurring appearances in the animated television series Futurama.

Contents [hide] 1 Anchovy 2 Hypnotoad 3 Lion That Eats Tofu 4 Lovey Bears 5 Nibbler 6 Owls 7 Penguins 8 Seymour 9 Vergon 6 Animals 10 References

[edit] Anchovy

The anchovy in the 31st Century is a long extinct animal. Professor Farnsworth tells Fry in "A Fishful of Dollars" that the animal was fished to death in the 2200s, right around the same time Dr. Zoidberg's race came to Earth. In fact, Zoidberg himself exclaims that it was his race indeed who wiped out the anchovy population. At an auction, Fry manages to buy the last known can of Angry Norwegian Anchovies which contains the last anchovies on Earth. By the end of the episode, however, Fry shares the fish with his friends on a pizza; Zoidberg ends up eating the rest. In the same episode, Mom reveals that a single drop of the anchovy's natural oil would be enough to lubricate 10 robots permanently.

[edit] Hypnotoad

The Hypnotoad is a large toad with oscillating multicolored eyes that emits a loud and ominous humming sound, and also emits a small amount of light. The Hypnotoad has the power to hypnotize almost any living thing it wants at will, ranging from sheep to humans. It can even hypnotize mass numbers of creatures with little effort. It first appeared in the episode "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid", where it won a pet show by hypnotizing sheep to herd themselves into a pen, and by hypnotizing the judges and the entire audience. A running gag in the series is that the Hypnotoad has it's own television show Everybody Loves Hypnotoad in which it hypnotizes the audience. The DVD release of Futurama: Bender's Big Score includes a twenty minute long full episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad as a special feature.^[1][2][3]

[edit] Lion That Eats Tofu

A tofu-eating lion appeared in the episode "The Problem with Popplers". It was used as a demonstration from the hippies that animals could be taught to not eat other animals, in defiance of nature. When shown, the lion is horribly malnourished, and coughs intermittently. The lion has made no other appearances in the series.

[edit] Lovey Bears

Seemingly extremely cute teddy bear gifts manufactured by Romanticorp, Lovey Bears are actually genetically-engineered animals (it was cheaper to produce them this way). According to the episode "Love and Rocket", they frolic in the Lovey Forest until their first birthday, when the "cuddly-uddliest" ones are chosen and placed on a conveyor belt to a "Bear Hospital" where they are stuffed with fire-retardant "Love Fluff". The advertising states, however, that they are "kissed together out of blanket cloth and magic buttons".

[edit] Nibbler

See also: Nibbler (Futurama)

An animal that Leela found on Vergon 6 in "Love's Labours Lost in Space". A small black three–eyed creature in a diaper and cape that has an enormous appetite, and excretes dark matter. He walks like a small monkey and is held like a baby. However, Nibbler is part of a superintelligent race (the Nibblonians) that was 17 years old when the Big Bang happened. This is not known because he protects Earth and Fry from the brains. It is seen but forgotten in "The Why of Fry", "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" and several comics. He also tripped Fry, making him fall into the cryogenic freezer that brought him to the year 3000.

[edit] Owls

The first appearance of the Futurama owls is in "I, Roommate" at the very beginning of the episode. In the Futurama universe, owls have replaced pigeons in New New York as well as rats; in fact, pigeons, rats, and even mice are all extinct (although this is forgotten by the writers occasionally as rats and pigeons have appeared in several episodes). The owls feed upon garbage and generally are seen as pests. In the same episode, Hermes Conrad refers to setting up owl traps, the equivalent to rat/mouse traps in the 20th century. The presence of owls as pests may be a reference to then-President George H. W. Bush's statement during his 1992 re-election campaign, that if Bill Clinton and Al Gore were elected, their environmental policies would ensure that "We'll be up to our necks in owls..."[1] Adult Swim also made references to the owl problem in its commercials; one advertised "Owl Tarps" for protecting owls for the future, while the next would advertise "Owl Traps" for killing owls in the future. - Another possible reference is Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, in which owls were the first animals to be extinct.

[edit] Penguins

Penguins appear in "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz". They live on a penguin preserve on Pluto. In this episode Bender becomes the leader of a group of penguins and tries to save them from some animal rights activists who are trying to kill the penguins to lower the population after a dark matter spill causes the population to greatly increase.

[edit] Seymour

(Voiced by Frank Welker) - Fry's 20th-century dog, first appearing in the episode "Jurassic Bark". Fry finds the hungry dog circa 1997 on the streets of New York, befriends him and names him "Seymour" after a pizza delivery prank, eventually teaching him to bark/sing "Walking on Sunshine". When Fry later falls into a cryogenics tube, where he would remain for 1000 years, Seymour leads members of Fry's family to the cryogenics laboratory but cannot convince them to examine the tube. They drag Seymour away.

Seymour's fossilized remains are found by Fry in the 31st century at a museum exhibit of Panucci's Pizza. Professor Farnsworth has the technology to extract DNA from the remains and create a clone of Seymour, complete with memories, but Fry declines, reasoning that since the readings indicated Seymour had lived to the age of 15, 12 years after Fry was frozen, Seymour must have formed new memories and eventually forgotten Fry. In reality, Seymour had waited outside Panucci's Pizza for Fry's return every day until he died. Seymour could be a reference to Argus, Odyessus' dog from the Iliad, who waited twenty years by a dung heap, confident that his master would return from war. It could also be a reference to Greyfriars Bobby, who supposedly sat on his master's grave for 14 years. Furthermore, Seymour could have also been based on the true story of a dog in Japan named Hachikō.

Seymour's remains appear briefly at Fry's funeral in "The Sting" (the funeral actually occurred while Leela was in a coma).

It is also said he will appear in the upcoming film "Bender's Big Score".

[edit] Vergon 6 Animals

In "Love's Labours Lost in Space", Leela, Bender, and Fry are sent to the planet Vergon 6 in order to save a collection of animals found nowhere else in the universe:

• Purple Fruit Snake- Large, purple, multi-eyed snake.
• Sharktopus- Octopus-Shark combination.
• Chilean Space Bass
• Parasitic Puppy
• Gretchen Mole (a pun on Gretchen Mol)
• Windy Shrimp- Land dwelling shrimp that can blow strong winds
• Vampire Slug
• Excommunicated Cardinal
• Four-Legged Mimic- Horselike creature capable of imitating features such as skin, hair, etc.
• Molotov Cockatoo (a pun on molotov cocktail, an improvised explosive device.)
• Hermaphlamingo- Two headed flamingo, with one female head and one male head. Assumingly capable of reproduction within itself.

All the animals are saved and put into the hold of the Planet Express Ship, but Nibbler eats them all. However, when the planet implodes, a few of the animals survive on asteroids, presumably with no gravity or atmosphere, of the defunct planet adrift in space.

[edit] References

[hide] v • d • e Futurama
Media	Episodes (by Broadcast Order) · Comic books · Video game · DVD movies
Main Characters	Philip J. Fry · Turanga Leela · Bender · Professor Farnsworth · Doctor Zoidberg · Hermes Conrad · Amy Wong
Recurring Characters	Zapp Brannigan · Kif Kroker · Nibbler · Cubert Farnsworth · Calculon · Mom · Recurring human characters · Recurring robot characters · Recurring alien characters
Planets	Amphibios 9 · Eternium · Omicron Persei 8
Alien races	Cygnoid · Decapodian · Neptunian
Politics and religion	United States of Earth  · Democratic Order of Planets  · Religion in Futurama
Technology	Cryonics · List of fictional devices in Futurama · Nimbus · Planet Express Ship · Robots in Futurama  · Suicide booth
Other	Planet Express Corporation · Blernsball · Chroniton · List of Futurama places · List of Futurama animals