Professor Farnsworth
| Hubert J. Farnsworth | |
|---|---|
| Futurama character | |
 |
|
| First appearance | "Space Pilot 3000" |
| Last appearance | "Meanwhile" [Futurama last episode] |
| Voiced by |
Billy West David Herman ("Reincarnation", "Action Delivery Force" segment) |
| Information | |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | CEO/Owner of Planet Express |
| Family |
Velma Farnsworth (mother) Ned Farnsworth (father) Floyd Farnsworth (brother) |
| Significant other(s) | Mom (ex-girlfriend) |
| Children |
Cubert Farnsworth (clone) Igner (biological son) |
| Relatives |
Philip J. Fry (distant uncle)Turanga Leela(distant aunt) Yancy Fry, Jr. (deceased distant grandfather) |
| Origin | New New York City, New York, U.S. |
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, or simply Professor, is a fictional character in the American animated television series Futurama. Farnsworth is the mad scientist proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service, for whom the main characters work. He is the great (×30) nephew of Philip J. Fry, the series' protagonist. He alternates between intelligence and amoral senility due to his centenarian age – he has always mastered any field of science necessary for the series' plots, and is suggested to be one of the most brilliant inventors on Earth, but he falls asleep constantly, and he is implied to have routinely sent his former crews on suicide missions.
The Professor is a self-described mad scientist. The Professor is a senile, amoral, deranged, and unpredictable old man with very thick glasses and a gift for creating doomsday devices and atomic supermen. He has put at least one parallel universe in peril with his inventions and visited dozens more (see The Farnsworth Parabox).
The Professor teaches at Mars University and has worked for Momcorp on several occasions, but spends most of his time inventing ridiculous devices and sending the Planet Express delivery crew on suicide missions. While at Momcorp, he fell in love with the CEO, Mom, only to leave her and Momcorp when she decided to weaponize his "Q.T. McWhiskers" toy. What he is a professor of is never explicitly stated. In the episode Mars University when asked what he is teaching, he responds: "The same thing I teach every semester, the mathematics of quantum neutrino fields. I made up the title so no student would dare take it"; however, this declaration has not precluded the professor from demonstrating mastery of whatever field of science is convenient for a given episode's plot, as shown in Bender's Big Score when he proclaims, "I can wire anything directly into anything! I am the Professor!" Approximately 100 years before the series' timeline, he taught a young (not yet Professor) Wernstrom, whom Farnsworth regarded as a prized student. After he returned a pop quiz to Wernstrom with a grade of A-minus (for poor penmanship), the two became bitter rivals (established in "A Big Piece of Garbage").
...
Wikipedia