Mom

Mom manages and owns 99.7% of MomCorp, a large, multi-billion dollar industrial complex with numerous subsidiaries and a monopoly on robot production. Publicly, she retains the corporate image of a sweet, bustling old woman who often slips into the stereotype of a Deep South grandmother (she wears antiquated clothes that greatly accentuate her bust and general figure, while using rustic metaphors such as 'squeaking like an old screen door'). Behind the scenes, however, Mom is a thin, malevolent, foul-mouthed, chain-smoking, deeply bitter, cruel and narcissistic gravel-voiced crow, who routinely abuses her terrified sons (see below) into submission, treating them like gofers. In the episode "Mother's Day", it is heavily implied that at least some of her bitterness originates from an ill-fated romance with Professor Farnsworth who, while reformatting the basic robot design, terminated their affair following savage rows about his work. According to Bender's Game, this happened three consecutive times (due to Farnsworth's increasing senility, he would forget why they originally broke up or that they had even broken up in the first place).

She occasionally attends charity functions as a way of boosting her public image, but really has no empathy for any of the people she's supposed to be supporting (in "A Fishful of Dollars" she describes one such gathering as 'some charity BS for knocked up teenage sluts').

According to the DVD commentary for the aforementioned episode, Mom 'basically became Doctor Laura' when her character was decided.

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