Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth is the extremely elderly proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service in the animated television series Futurama. The only living relative of Philip J. Fry (he is his great-great-...-great-grand-nephew -- the descendant of Philip's only sibling and brother, Yancy Fry), the Professor is pushing the limits of even 31st century old age at about 160. The episode "A Clone of My Own" gives his birthday as April 9, 2841.
The Professor roughly amounts to a mad scientist, with the same last name as Philo Farnsworth. He has taught at Mars University and worked for Mom Corp, but he currently spends his time inventing ridiculous devices and coming up with even more ridiculous missions for his crew. Some of his inventions end up threatening the fate of the universe; others are used to secure it. Some notable gadgets include the Smelloscope, the Death Clock, and the What-If Machine. He also invented the Doomsday Machine, which got him a Nobel Prize in Physics for creating it and a Nobel Peace Prize for not using it. Whilst at Mom Corp, he fell in love with the evil overlord CEO Mom.
The Professor is characterized by his catch-phrase "Good news everyone!" frequently followed by very bad news -- often one of his semi-suicide missions. Another is his exclaimation of surprise "Sweet Zombie Jesus!", which is noted to be clumsily censored (or simply muted out) on some networks.
Inventions
One Badass gravity pump - Affixed to the Planet Express Ship and used to move stars around. Co-invention with "Bubblegum" Tate of the Globetrotter University, seems to have disappeared after its application in stopping the time-skips he created. Cost all of Earth's money to build.
What-if machine - Answers any what-if question, accurate to within 1/10 of a plausibility unit.
Albino shouting gorilla - To shout out his love for Mom from rooftops.
Superhuman Mutant Basketball Team - Instead of using accelerated growth, he harvested chronotons. The results nearly destroyed the space-time continuum.
Dark matter engine.
Afterburners - Give 200% fuel efficiency.
Main Engines - They move the universe around the ship instead of moving the ship through the universe. Unknown if these are the same as the dark matter engines.
F-ray - Similar to an X-ray except it can look through anything, even metal. Uses a controlled neutrino beam in some way."You might feel a slight stinging sensation, all of you."
Smell-o-scope - Allows the users to smell odors from astronomically long distances.
The Maternifuge - An alien cross species genetic analyser that spins at 10,000 RPM to determine a subject's mother. Dr. Zoidberg lives in it. "Even I laughed at me when I created this."
A device that lets anyone sound exactly like him - used by Dwight and Cubert to send the crew on a fake delivery to Dogdoo 8.
A clock that tells the user how long they have to live when a finger is inserted.
A machine that creates glow-in-the-dark noses that can be placed on one's face. A by-product of the machine is a large amount of toxic waste. It also translates from Alien into equally incomprehensible Galactic.
Cubert
Hubert cloned himself in 2989 from skin cells on a growth on his back. The product, his son Cubert, is less enthusiastic about taking over the Professor's work when he's gone. Cubert goes to school with Hermes' son Dwight.
Professor by courtesy: a professor who is primarily and originally associated with one academic department, but has become officially associated with a second department, institute, or program within the university and has assumed a professor's duty in that second department as well.
Typically, such a professor may be invaluable to his university department in procuring research funding and/or in publishing scholarly works, and therefore the department would prefer that he not distract himself with teaching duties that are not directly linked to his research activities.
Professors belonging to the Catedrático and Professor Titular de Universidad categories have the same rights, both can have collaborators and manage money, and may become deans or department directors, but the net salary of a catedrático is about a 15% higher than that of a professor titular of the same seniority.
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (born April 9, 2841) is the extremely elderly proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service in the fictional animated television series Futurama.
The Professor is also known for his inclination toward exhibitionism and does not hesitate to make naked appearances in public, stating that, like pine trees and poodles, the "primitive notions of modesty" of the twentieth century are long gone.
Farnsworth argued that things that were 8 feet tall were not cute, thus the failure of his colossal Tammy Tinkle doll.
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