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Professor Hubert 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.


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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.

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