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Futurama character
Mom
Age	Unknown (likely around 157)
Gender	Female
Species	Human
Planet of Origin	Earth
Job	President of Mom's Friendly Robot Company
Relatives	Sons: Walt, Larry and Ignar
First Appearance	A Fishful of Dollars
First Line	Hello, shoppers. It's me, Mom!
Voiced by	Tress MacNeille

Mom in her first appearance, wearing her fatsuit and kindly public persona

Mom is a fictional character and recurring antagonist on the animated series Futurama, voiced by Tress MacNeille. She is the bitter, ruthless, and 99.7% shareholder of Momcorp, the largest industrial conglomerate known to man, with subsidiaries ranging from Mom's Friendly Robot Company to Mom's Old-Fashioned Video Surveillance Unit. She is the richest person on Earth and maintains a public image of being a sweet, matronly figure through use of a fatsuit, a heart-shaped hairdo and talented acting, when in fact she is extremely thin, foul-mouthed, and malevolent. Her catchphrases usually involve her telling her sons to "cram/shove a _____ in it" whenever they try to talk, followed by a slap in the face. She even shows contempt for her appearances at charity events, on one occasion complaining that she's "off to some charity BS for knocked-up teenaged sluts". Squirrels in particular are something she threatens people with.

Her impatience sometimes prompts her to publicly display her true personality, as on one occasion when a business partner dropped dead during takeover negotiations (Future Stock): "Pry out his fillings, feed him to the jackals and let's get on with the sale!" She sometimes appears to throw on curse words, particularly the word "bastard," at random, such as "Jam a bastard in it, you crap!" and "Holy crap, that bastard's itchy!"

She was once romantically involved with Professor Farnsworth, but their breakup left her even more bitter. Some seventy years later, she still harbored feelings of hatred which quickly but temporarily changed to sexual passion. She may be partly based on "Mommy", the character played by Shelley Winters in Cleopatra Jones or on "Mom", a mob boss in Doctor Detroit, played by Kate Murtagh. According to the DVD commentary for A Fishful of Dollars, Mom 'basically became Doctor Laura' when her character was decided.

Mom's sons, left to right: Ignar, Larry and Walt

Mom is frequently accompanied by her three sons, Walt (Maurice LaMarche), Larry (David Herman) and Ignar (John DiMaggio). Like Mom's henchmen in Doctor Detroit, the sons wear grey double-breasted uniforms similar to those worn by chauffeurs or the Imperial Commander characters from Star Wars. They each own 0.1% of Momcorp. Their personalities and mildly violent interaction resemble those of the Three Stooges.

Mom maintains discipline by slapping her sons, sometimes all three with one swing. Walt, the tallest, is second in the hierarchy and sometimes slaps his brothers. Walt usually displays the most devious or malevolent tendencies of the three, and appears more intelligent than Larry or Ignar. His voice is virtually identical to another Maurice LaMarche character, The Brain, and thus is a deliberate imitative mix of Orson Welles and Vincent Price. Larry is less intelligent than Walt, but still more so than Ignar, usually catching onto any of Mom or Walt's plots with reasonable swiftness. He has the largest number of cameo and incidental appearances. Ignar is the least intelligent, sometimes even appearing mentally retarded, and gets all the worst jobs, including being forced to dress in women's underwear.

Larry and Ignar are both afraid of women, while Walt apparently suffers from an Oedipus Complex, having once said that he wants someday to marry a girl like Mom. They are all fiercely loyal to (and deeply afraid of) their mother, though they took action to stop her when she made all robots rebel in the episode "Mother's Day", threatening to doom Earth.

The identity and status of their father(s) is unknown and the subject of much fan speculation. Though Mom calls Professor Farnsworth "the only man I ever loved," their relationship ended 70 years before the main events of the series, while the sons only appear in their mid-forties at the eldest; indeed, neither the sons nor the Professor seem to consider the possibility of a relationship. Considering that Mom is more than 100 years old anyway, it is very possible they were adopted, or are the results of advanced fertility treatments; but again, this leaves their paternity unknown.

In the second Futurama Comics crossover with The Simpsons, Mom begins a relationship with Mr. Burns, the one man as evil as she. After he leaves, she has apparently created a clone of him, and vows that together they shall rule the world.