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Zapp Brannigan (voiced by Billy West) is a 25-Star general in the military of the Democratic Order Of Planets (D.O.O.P.), although his title varies. Brannigan was first seen in the episode " Love's Labours Lost in Space " as Captain of the starship Nimbus , where he imprisons Fry , Leela and Bender for violating "Brannigan's Law".
When the Zapp Brannigan role was originally cast, the creators chose Saturday Night Live alumnus and semi-frequent Simpsons voice actor Phil Hartman. When Hartman was murdered by his wife in 1998, however, the role was given to Billy West (who was already cast as Phillip Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, and others). [ 1 ]
[22] [23] Nielsen Media Research, which records streaming viewership on U.S. television screens, estimated that the series was the third most streamed original series, [24] with 506 million minutes of watch time during the week of July 24-30, 2023. [25] It was later watched for 349 million minutes from September 11 through September 17, 2023. [26]
The episode ranked highly in large part due to the character of Zapp Brannigan, particularly the Midnight Cowboy parody with Kif and Brannigan as Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, respectively. [2] In the site's 2019 reranking, several years after the show's first revival finished, "Brannigan Begin Again" only dropped to sixth. [3]
The alien attempts to do so, but inadvertently switches their genders. Before the alien can fix its mistake, it is vaporized by Zapp Brannigan. Back at Planet Express, Leela, Amy and LaBarbara don't like being men while Fry, Bender, Farnsworth, Hermes, Zoidberg and Scruffy love being women—as their company is still facing foreclosure, the ...
Set after the events of Into the Wild Green Yonder, Fry finds his body covered in severe burns but cannot remember why. Professor Farnsworth reveals that the wormhole the Planet Express crew flew through to escape Zapp Brannigan led them back to Earth, where both ships crashed and killed everyone else.
The Wongs, more unhappy with Kif than ever, call in Zapp Brannigan to resolve the situation. Brannigan, Kif, and the rest of the crew set off for the face on Mars, one of the two entrances to the Martian reservation. Brannigan botches the negotiations, and the Martians call up another dust storm, which engulfs Amy.
Although Billy West stated in an interview that the name "Philip" was given to Fry by Matt Groening as a homage to the late Phil Hartman, for whom the role of Zapp Brannigan was created, [4] Groening said during the 2013 Futurama panel at San Diego Comic-Con that Fry was in fact named after Groening's father, Homer Philip Groening, [5] who was ...