Transition Announcer

Secondary character Pseudocharacter
Transition Announcer
A narrator's quote: "That'll be hard to top. I pity the next Tale of Interest"
First appearance	"Anthology of Interest I" (2ACV16)
Voices Regularly Maurice LaMarche Stand in Billy West

The Transition Announcer aka the Narrator is an unseen voiceover that occassionaly aids transitions between the scenes of Futurama. Other narrators serve a similar role within the universe for Instructional Movies, The Scary Door and other shows the Planet Express crew watches, these should not be confused as this narrator can not be heard by any of the characters.

Additional Info

Trivia

Counterpart?

• Voiced by Billy West in The Farnsworth Parabox because LaMarche was unavailable
• LaMarche says that the voice is basically Calculon doing his first voice-over.
• In most of the comics, captions appearing the corner of some frames. These are the generally equivalent of the Narrator, his voice was used for the "Futurama Returns" (US#S02)
  
  table reading, but can be any out of frame character. On at least one, fourth wall breaking, occasion the caption was on a caption-bot.

Quotes

• Narrator: Stay tuned for more tales of interest!
• Narrator: You've watched it! You can't unwatch it!
• Fry: The other me lived ten years before dying? I wonder what his life was like.
  Scruffy: I guess we'll never know.
  Zoidberg: Or will we?
  Scruffy: [bites his fingernails] Nope.
  Narrator: They won't know, but you will. Lucky you.
• Narrator: Meanwhile, in Universe-A, Hermes-A heads towards the sun... A.

Appearances

• "Anthology of Interest I" (2ACV16)
  
• "Anthology of Interest II" (3ACV18)
  
• "The Why of Fry" (4ACV10)
  
• "The Farnsworth Parabox" (4ACV15)
  
• Bender's Big Score
  
• Into the Wild Green Yonder
  
• "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" (6ACV02)
  
• Most comics; most notably, the table read of "Futurama Returns" (US#S02)