Dear Johnny Fanboy,

In the Futurama episode Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles, Professor Farnsworth is forced by his crew into being "youthasised" at a galactic spa. He protests strongly both before and after the process. "But I like being old," he says. "I don't have to talk to my parents, no one asks me to help move their stuff, and I don't need to understand today's 'edgy TV sitcoms.'" He also hates "going to the bathroom like clockwork every three hours! And those jerks at social security stopped sending me cheques! Now I have to pay them!"

So, given that he loves being old and hates being young, why does he then try out an anti-ageing cream in Three Hundred Big Boys?

Ricardo Ferreira

Johnny Fanboy replies:

Hey, isn't an old guy allowed to change his mind every once in a while? This is Hubert Farnsworth that we're talking about, after all - a man who has trouble remembering what he ate for breakfast, never mind what opinions he may have voiced several weeks or months ago.

In any case, he does explain the reason why being old has currently fallen out of favour with him in Three Hundred Big Boys. "It has become too much of a chore for me to clean out my wrinkles each day," he claims.

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