This post contains spoilers for “Futurama” season 11 episode 8.On top of its hilarious main ensemble, “Futurama” is home to a stable of eccentric recurring characters, ones who could only exist in a science-fiction comedy like this.
One of my favorites is Matcluck, better known as the Hyper-Chicken.
Matcluck (voiced by Maurice Lamarche) is a human-sized, blue-feathered bird and the Planet Express crew’s go-to attorney.The Hyper-Chicken’s most recent appearance was the latest “Futurama” episode, “Zapp Gets Canceled.” After the eponymous starship captain is court-martialed, Matcluck both defends and prosecutes him (on behalf of plaintiff Kif Kroker).
The lawyer eventually declares his own client guilty, and he’s thereby sentenced to both rounds of sensitivity training and to wear a Scarlet C (for “canceled”).
This pseudo-win is more of a victory than many other cases the Hyper-Chicken has tried in the past.How did the “Futurama” writers come up with such an absurd character?…
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