Professor Hubert Farnsworth

Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, or simply "The Professor" is a fictional character appearing in the animated television series Futurama, voiced by Billy West. The proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service for which the main characters work, the extremely elderly Professor Farnsworth is the great (×30) nephew of Philip J. Fry, one of the series' protagonists. The Professor is a self-described mad scientist. The creators of the show named h... more

Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, or simply "The Professor" is a fictional character appearing in the animated television series Futurama, voiced by Billy West. The proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service for which the main characters work, the extremely elderly Professor Farnsworth is the great (×30) nephew of Philip J. Fry, one of the series' protagonists. The Professor is a self-described mad scientist. The creators of the show named him after electronic television inventor Philo Farnsworth, giving him the same first name as University of California Philosophy professor Hubert Dreyfus, of whom early writer and producer Eric Kaplan is a former student. The Professor is a senile, deranged, and unpredictable old man with a gift for creating doomsday devices and atomic supermen. He has put at least one parallel universe in peril with his inventions. The Professor teaches at Mars University and has worked for Momcorp on several occasions, but spends most of his time inventing... less