I know that techniaclly Matt Groening announced that his mother liked to call herself the Futurama Mama, but I am talking about the creators. We need to take time to reflect on the best times each one of them have brought us. Who is your favorite Futurama Mama?

Personally I, myself love Tress MacNeille. She is capable of so many voices. She has to be the most talented person I have ever heard. Her voices are phenomenal. Isn't she great? I mean come on, maybe this list of voices will convince you:

               TRESS MACNEILLE

Mom
Linda
Hattie McDoogal
Monique
Tinny Tim
Ndnd
Vyolet
Petunia
Big Apple Bank Teller
Turanga Munda
Leela's Wrist Computer voice
Fiona (aka Female Nibblonian)
Circus Fortunes Gypsy Robot
Suicide Booth Voice (1ACV01)
Craterface (1ACV02)
Lulubell 7 (1ACV02)
Daisy May 128k (1ACV02)
Gopher #1 (1ACV02)
Bachelor Chow Voice (1ACV03)
Wendy (1ACV05)
Nervous Robot #1 (1ACV05)
Teacher in Fry's Dream (1ACV06)
Calvin Clone Saleswoman (1ACV06)
Beauty Specialist (1ACV06)
Collect Call voice (1ACV07)
Stephanie (1ACV08)
Stripping Female Scientist (1ACV08)
Churchgoing Robot #1 (1ACV09)
Hookerbot 5000 (1ACV09)
Woman with Purse (1ACV09)
The Countess De La Roca (1ACV10)
Limbo Kid (1ACV10)
Guenter (1ACV11)
Intercom Voice (1ACV11)
Jenny McNeal (1ACV12)
Female Lawyer in Stall (1ACV12)
Slurm Queen (1ACV13)
Slurm Babe Trixie (1ACV13)
Glab (2ACV02)
Amazonian (2ACV02)
Campaign Manager (2ACV03)
Edna (2ACV05)
Rude Female Decapod #2 (2ACV05)
Rude Female Decapod #3 (2ACV05)
Strip-bot (2ACV06)
Angry Amazonian (2ACV06)
Teenbot (2ACV08, 4ACV14)
Floozies (2ACV08, 4ACV03)
Ratman's Girlfriend (2ACV09)
Five-Eyed Woman (2ACV09)
Sandy (2ACV09)
Neptunian Waitress (2ACV13)
Q.T. McWhiskers (2ACV14)
Deep Blue (2ACV16)
Abominable Snowmobile Fembot (2ACV18)
7¹¹ Clerk (2ACV17)
Jellyfish Nurse (2ACV17)
Butch (2ACV19)
Butch's Girlfriend (2ACV19)
Butch's Mother (2ACV19)
Coffee Waitress (3ACV02)
Thog (3ACV01)
Kug (3ACV01, 4ACV12)
Phone Voice (3ACV01)
Tonk (3ACV01)
Tonk's Twin (3ACV01)
Tom Sawyer (3ACV07)
Hollywood Tour Guide (3ACV08)
Joan Rivers' Head (3ACV08, 4ACV08)
Mrs. Fry (3ACV04, 4ACV07)
Nurse Ratchet (3ACV11)
Chest Signing Fembot (3ACV13)
Little Girl (3ACV15)
Little Girl's Mother (3ACV15)
Billy's Mother (3ACV15)
Mavis (3ACV15)
Madeleine Albright's Head/Robot (3ACV15)
Nicole Kidman's Head (3ACV15)
Mildred (3ACV19)
Letter Writing Kid #2 (3ACV03)
Who Ask? Machine (3ACV18)
Ms. Pacman (3ACV18)
Gwen (4ACV03)
Dummy-liking Test Woman (4ACV03)
Mutant Doctor (4ACV02)
Female Martian (3ACV10)
Malachi's Wife (3ACV20)
Monastery Welcome voice (3ACV20)
Ms. Johnson (3ACV21)
Mama Cygnoid (3ACV16)
Martha Stewart's Head (3ACV22)
Akiu (3ACV22)
Iron Cook Countdown voice (3ACV22)
Omega System Warning voice (4ACV11)
Melllvar's Mother (4ACV11)
Suzy (4ACV08)
Museum Guide (4ACV07, 4ACV04)
Clone-o-mat Voice (4ACV07)
Brett Blob (3ACV12, 4ACV06)
Cocoa-getting Decapodian (4ACV05)
Chief Justice Myrtle Fu (4ACV05)
Sandra Day O'Connor's Head (4ACV05)
The Grand Midwife (4ACV01)
SewerCom Announcer (4ACV04)
Andrew (4ACV04)
Captain Yesterday's Admirer (4ACV04)
Kid with Two-by-Four (4ACV04)
Wanda (4ACV09)
Mandy (4ACV09)
Garbage Can-bot (4ACV10)
Detonator Countdown (4ACV10)
Queen Bee (4ACV12)
Female Stem Cells Scientist (4ACV16)
Water Park Coffee Seller (4ACV16)
Professor Farnsworth's Girlfriend (4ACV16)
Gender-testing Announcer (4ACV13)
Lisa the Waterwheel-bot (4ACV14)
Stage Mom 7.0 (4ACV06)
McCauley Caulcon (4ACV06)
Executive Gamma (4ACV06)
Mrs. Mellinger (4ACV18)
Holophonor-Playing Kid (4ACV18)
Holophonor Kid's Mother (4ACV18)

Tress MacNeille has always made me laugh. She's in a lot of my favorite cartoons and has great range. Babs Bunny is one of my favorite running characters, and Linda's knowing laugh after Morbo makes anti human remarks tickles me to no end.

Yeah, I love Katey. That was pretty great when they ripped off of Married with Children on "Biclops Built for Two". If Futurama came back, then they might could rip off of Eight Simple Rules for my Female Daughter.

And she mentions her mother every time Wernstrum is on the screen. I think she's great on the commentaries. 

Hattie is that strange old woman with the eye problem, that keeps popping up in places as a "generic character".

She's kind of like a female Sal.

ya mean Sal isnt ugly? You need to remind yourself just how ugly he really is.

Personally, I think all of Tress MacNeille's voices sound too similar. My favorite VA is Billy West, but Maurice Lamarche deserves mention too.

How dare you! Her cat is pretty and smells nice! Don't you guys just love Tress's natural voice? It's so great.

I think the list speaks for itself.  120 characters, give or take a few, on one show has to be some sort of record.

Correction, she does basically every secondary/one shot female character's voice... and most of the children. Nothing to sneer at.

Actually, some of the characters on shoopbender's list were voiced by Lauren Tom.

 

Originally posted by David A:
Actually, some of the characters on shoopbender's list were voiced by Lauren Tom.

Sorry if that is so, the list was supplied by The Leela Zone.

 

Originally posted by KAH:
How dare you! Her cat is pretty and smells nice! Don't you guys just love Tress's natural voice? It's so great.

On the commentaries, she sounds just like the characters she voices, with maybe a slight difference. I don't think she's changing her voice that much, especially compared to voices like Zoidberg and Morbo. However, I do like her natural voice.

My favorite has gotta be Bily West, voicing Fry, thr Professor and Zoidberg, I couldn't tell until I listen to the commentaries. I also like John Dimaggio simply because he voices my favorite character. Bender Rules!!! 

Billy rules. I wouldn't have known he did both Fry and the Prof without the use of a list, but after listening to their voices for a while I can start to hear a very slight similarity that comes and goes. Anyone else found this?

hmmmm.... I don't think so.

Listen to Zoidberg say "Oooh, that box!" in 'Farnsworth Parabox'. It sounds very similar to how Farnsworth would say it.