List of Futurama animals

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Many different and unique animals appear in the series Futurama. Here is a comprehensive list of all of the futuristic animals.

1 Anchovy
2 Cow
3 Dog with Two Heads
4 Hypnotoad
5 Lion That Eats Tofu
6 Lovey Bears
7 Miniature Human
8 Nibbler
9 Owls
10 Penguins
11 Seymour
12 Vergon 6 Animals

[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] Cow

Amy implies that cows are extinct when Fry says: "This will be the best extinct animal you'll ever eat!" and Amy says: "I don't know, I've had cow."

[edit] Dog with Two Heads

In the episode "I Second That Emotion", a dog with two heads. The second head is located where the dog's tail would normally be and the owner is reminded that it should receive the suppository rather than a pill.

[edit] Hypnotoad

"All glory to the Hypnotoad!"

The Hypnotoad is a large toad with oscillating multicolored eyes that emits a loud and ominous humming sound. 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 the judges and the entire audience.

In "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV", it is revealed that the Hypnotoad stars in its own television show, Everybody Loves Hypnotoad, which consists entirely of a steady shot of the Hypnotoad staring at the camera while emitting its trademark buzzing. Fry claims that the show has been going downhill since season three. The show's title is a reference to the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. In an interview with ToyFare magazine, David X. Cohen indicated "we are looking into producing a full 22-minute episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad for the (upcoming 5th production season) DVD release. I am serious." The hum (named angry machine) was a sound effect used to fill in a mistake in recording.

[edit] Lion That Eats Tofu

A Lion That Eats Tofu 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. When shown, the lion appears very malnourished and sick. The lion 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] Miniature Human

In the episode "I Second That Emotion" various animals are shown in the office waiting room, including a human with a pet cat and a cat-like alien with a miniature human as a pet. The mannerisms of the miniature human are distinctly catlike. The small human also makes a brief appearance as the third prize winner for a pet show in,"The Day the Earth Stood Stupid".

[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 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 tipped Fry, making him fall into the cryognic 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.

[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

Fry with 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 Greyfrair's Bobby, who supposedly sat on his master's grave for 14 years.

Seymour's remains appear briefly at Fry's funeral in "The Sting".

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

Seymour in episode Jurassic Bark may have been based on the true story of a dog named Hachikō.

[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
Sharktopus
Chilean Space Bass
Parasitic Puppy
Gretchen Mole (a pun on Gretchen Mol)
Windy Shrimp
Vampire Slug
Excommunicated Cardinal
Four-Legged Mimic
Molotov Cockatoo (a pun on molotov cocktail)
Hermaphlamingo

All the animals are saved and put into the hold of the Planet Express spaceship, but Nibbler eats them all. However, when the planet implodes, a few of the animals survive.

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