Of course we are all Bender at heart. Many of us aspire to be Leela, but only Nicole can really pull it off. On my best days, I’m part Fry, with a little bit of the super-smart monkey from the Mars University episode in Season 2 who didn’t fit in anywhere.
But like most of you, who I really am when no one’s watching…is Zoidberg. Friendless, insecure, yet with an innate dignity that cannot be taken away no matter how many times I have eaten trash, uncertain about the functions of the human body.
11. “During the first season, jokes surrounding Zoidberg usually focused on his incompetence as a doctor, his poor understanding of human anatomy, and the fact that all of his co-workers hate him. As the series progressed, writers gradually introduced the themes that Zoidberg is also poor, homeless, friendless, smelly, undignified, and repulsive.”
10. “Zoidberg has been depicted as able to consume things not considered food by humans, such as fish bones, wood, and chess pieces. In the episode “Bendin’ in the Wind”, Zoidberg produces tie-dye blue pearls after consuming large amounts of dirt. Zoidberg also habitually eats clothing and once, an Earth flag.”
9. “He has been shown as unable to tell the difference between robots and humans (or human males and females), believes food is digested in the heart, and that humans have multiple mouths and a dorsal fin.”
8. “Zoidberg generally attempts to make himself look refined, successful, and important in front of others, though this illusion is quickly dashed when pointed out.”
7. “Young Decapodians progress through various crustacean, invertebrate, and fish-like larval forms before reaching their adult form such as coral, a starfish, a sea sponge, and clam.”
6. The way he says “robot” like “roh-but.”
5. “When frightened or fleeing from danger, Zoidberg makes a high-pitched whooping sound, similar to Curly of The Three Stooges, or squirts ink at his attacker.”
4. “He is an honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters, and a talented hand-to-claw combatant; he severs Fry’s arm in an honor-duel (“Claw-Plach”) and eventually fights and defeats the dangerous robot Clamps.”
3. “Despite his career as a physician, Zoidberg is repeatedly identified as living in poverty, lonely and desperate for friendship and attention.”
2. “The crew are often disgusted by his foul habits, such as squirting ink or eating from trash cans, though he is mostly oblivious to their true feelings about him, having referred to Hermes Conrad and Bender as friends.”
1. “Zoidberg is depicted as being ignorant of human customs, and socially inept, to the point of inspiring great aggravation in others. In “Where the Buggalo Roam” during his stay at the ranch of Amy Wong’s parents, he bathes in their champagne, breaks their television, fertilizes the caviar before Amy’s father eats it, draws mustaches on several portraits around the house, tears up their couch, fills their pool with brine shrimp and refers to the ranch as “Rancho Zoidberg,” enraging the Wongs.”
[Image of Zoidberg provided by John Leavitt]
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0. Last name that ends in “-berg”.
for competition’s sake the name of the artwork is “Time Enough For Zoidberg.”
“Many of us aspire to be Leela, but only Nicole can really pull it off.”
Damn it! You are right, of course.
+1 username/post combo perfection
Call me roh-but dinosaur, because I love Zoidberg so so much.
Excited for the future of the Space Jews tag
If you want to read a female-fronted YA Sci-fi coming of age story with queer themes and SPACE JEWS I recommend Phoebe North’s “Starglass”
Uh, YES OF COURSE I DO
Space Jews are my second favorite kind of Speculative Jews, after High Fantasy Jews (ie dwarves. always dwarves).
“after High Fantasy Jews ” also not to be confused with Hi Chews.
Also Ferengi.
But in that instance it must be said with a lilt and jazz hands.
All I do basically is be lonely, be broke as fuck, and eat garbage, so, yeah
also: pretty sure I am the definition of Space Jew
when i give my guinea pig vegetables, he snatches it from my hand and runs away making the zoidberg whoo-whoo-whoo sound. it’s pretty much my favorite trait of his
Just be sure those wheeks don’t attract Zoidberg because
Friends! Help! A guinea pig tricked me!
While I rarely defer to men of any stripe, I’m going to have to go with Asimov on this: RO-but is the only correct pronunciation of robot.
It just sounds better!
I’m basically Mom from MomCorp.
I wish I could embrace my inner Mom because “Jam a bastard in it you crap!” is my very favorite thing to say, and I have a shade of purple lipstick that matches hers, but no, I am still Zoidberg, as we are all Zoidberg.
Can I do one of these but for Lumpy Space Princess?
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huh, I always heard it as “ro-bit”
Yeah, me too.
Ro-but is how most people would say it. Zoidberg says it like ro-bit. (I guess the “i” should be a schwa, but ro-bit is a lot closer to how he says it than ro-but.)
woop woop woop
“One art, please.”
I always say that to the ether when on home decorating/remodeling shows, people just paint stripes on a canvas or frame boring wallpaper.
No one of us is all of Zoidberg, but we are all Zoidberg, each in our own ways. This is my belief system now and forever.
My husband probably gets tired of hearing it from me in museums, farmers markets and Michaels.
Whenever something goes wrong in our condo I look at my husband, waggle my arms and say “ZOIDBERG, HOMEOWNER!”
Because that scene somehow encapsulates all of my feelings about the fact that I have a mortgage.
I work in what is kind of a big borg of an office in DC that interacts with the government a lot so on my best days I am Hermes, making order out of chaos. It is a point of pride that I have never used any of my sick days in this position. How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back is one of my favorite episodes of all time.
Day to day I am Kif (sans cute spouse like Amy) – an accident prone, disheartened low-to-mid level worker under the power of larger egos.
gosh I love Kif. I relate to his wobbly anxiousness so hard
The preamble is perfection. You know us.
My husband just got a relatively well paying job after years of research assisting and I’ve been “Three Hundred Big Boys” Zoidberg ever since.
I just wanna be Hedonism Bot.
LET US CAVORT LIKE THE GREEKS OF OLD
you know the ones i mean
Djambi! The chocolate icing!
How wonderfully decadent~
I APOLOGIZE FOR NOTHING
My husband made a coworker cry when he told him that the next Futurama movie (when they weren’t all out yet) was going to be called Zoidberg Gets A Meal.
Also our dumb, lovable, redheaded dog is named Phillip (sic) J. Fry.
My brother’s given name is actually Philip, and his resemblance to Fry both physically and in life aspirations is uncanny.
(Ok actually he is attempting to major in Philosophy, but eh.)
Let’s have Lobster Zoidberg. I mean Lobster Newburg. I mean DOCTOR Zoidberg.
“Casual hello. It’s me, Zoidberg. Act naturally.”
NOW ZOIDBERG IS THE POPULAR ONE
The part where he sells all his shares in Planet Express for a sandwich, and then forgets to refrigerate it.
The part where he sells all his shares in Planet Express for a sandwich, and then forgets to refrigerate it.