10 Best Futurama Guest Stars (Who Played Themselves)
8. Beck
Bendin’ in the Wind, one of season three’s many great episodes, saw Bender’s arms and legs rendered useless after being attacked by the can opener at Planet Express. While lying in hospital, he just so happened to be one bed over from one of his heroes, Beck. The musician poet who transcends genres even as he reinvents them gave the robot a reason to keep living.
The rest of the story follows Bender as part of Beck’s touring group, allowing the musician a lot of screen time in his only appearance, and he is excellent. There are so many jokes made by Beck at his own expense, from playing a song for three hours because he forgot how it ended, to using annoying noises in his music, and not understanding his own lyrics.
Many of Futurama's guest stars are limited to just a couple of scenes, but the show was able to build an entire episode around Beck, and he is simply hilarious throughout.