Futurama: Every Planet Express Crew Member Ranked

17. LaBarbara Conrad

Hermes’ wife LaBarbara is a pretty average character against the weird and wonderful backdrop of Futurama, too straight and narrow to really shine. She’s occasionally important to the plot, but with Hermes-centric episodes being rare anyway, even that doesn’t happen all too often.

She’s at her best when they play up her love triangle with Barbados Slim; something which doesn’t happen during her short stint at Planet Express, so having her as their lowest ranked was a relatively unavoidable conclusion.

LaBarbara is hired by Hermes in the episode Neutopia, under the guise of helping them spend more time together while helping Hermes around the office. However, it’s actually because they need more female employees to make a girlie calendar; Amy and Leela alone can’t pose for all 12 months.

During the episode, they crash on a genderless planet and after some decent screen time for LaBarbara, first their gender characteristics are removed, then switched.

Obviously the focus is on the more prominent members of the crew from here on out, and LaBarbara quietly fades into the background. The short time on the crew is never spoken of again, and that feels like it’s for the best.