hundred miles from the nearest microscope."

Young Hubert was mentally unstable and went mad, despite his parents' attempts to keep him calm. He had a total breakdown, and was given a "full wackademic scholarship" at a mental institution, but was released only 25 years later. "It was like a minute compared to grad school!"

Professor Farnsworth has worked for Mom's Friendly Robot Company (several times) and taught at Mars University. He spends the majority of his time partially completing various inventions, many of which defy the known laws of physics.

His primary function seems to be sending delivery crews to their doom. This act is invariably foreshadowed by the Professor shouting the words "Good news, everyone!"

His lab coat size is XX-Bony (The Tip of the Zoidberg)

Abilities Edit

Hubert's greatest ability is hisexceptional intelligence: however, it is hampered by his senility. He does have more unusual "abilities" though: Since Fry's existence is cyclical and being part of Fry's bloodline, Hubert himself is an anomaly in the universe. Also, ever since "The Late Philip J. Fry", Hubert has become an out-of-universe observer. It is unknown how this may manifest itself in the future, but logically nothing that happens as a result of time travel in the current universe can affect him, since he is not a part of this universe.

For some unexplained reason, his eyes are never seen. There are only two episodes in which he has ever taken his glasses off. In the episode "Mother's Day", he is shown from the side when he does it and Carol comments "Your