Mom (Futurama) - Sons

Sons

Accompanying Mom are her trio of sycophantic, petrified, childish sons: Walt (Maurice LaMarche), Larry (David Herman) and Igner (John DiMaggio). They all wear matching uniforms and own a 0.1% share of MomCorp, indicative of the way she treats them like grunts instead of family. She frequently resorts to physical and emotional abuse as a way of enforcing discipline, incessantly slapping her sons' faces (sometimes hitting all three with one swing of her hand, Three Stooges-like) and insulting them in an often incoherent way ("Jam a bastard in it, you crap!").

The oldest son, Walt, is theoretically Mom's second in command, the tallest and best built of the brothers with the best posture, and occasionally strikes his brothers. He seems to come up with the plans for many of the lesser schemes the trio must carry out for Mom — although they always involve poor disguises and only Fry is ever taken in. In "Mother's Day" he reveals his Oedipus Complex. He usually calls Mom "Mother" and slaps both of his brothers, capable of slapping both in one swing, although he strikes Larry more often than Igner.

The middle son, Larry, has an inferiority complex and apologizes for everything, being described by Professor Farnsworth as "the snivelling middle child." He even thanks his mother for being slapped and insulted. He stands with a slouch, and can often be seen cowering whenever Mom flies into a rage. On one occasion, Walt and Mom laugh evilly, and Larry joins in nervously. Mom slaps him and asks what he is laughing about. He then comments, "...er, your laugh. It's so infectious." Mom snaps back "So is herpes, now shut up!" He usually calls Mom "Mom", and is slapped the most often through the series.

The youngest and most pitiful son, Igner, speaks more inarticulately than Walt and Larry, seems to be mentally challenged and usually finds himself assigned the worst jobs, including being forced into Mom's brassiere for the purposes of a demonstration, and playing the part of Pamela Anderson's body for her head in a jar. He habitually addresses her as "Mommy" instead of "Mom" and often repeats what his brothers say without any obvious understanding. In Bender's Game it is revealed that Professor Farnsworth is his illegitimate father.

Their one act of collective rebellion happens in "Mother's Day", when they try and stop her robot rampage against humanity, by re-uniting her with her long-lost love, Hubert J. Farnsworth, to quench her bitterness.

In Bender's Game, the three brothers pose as owl exterminators in an attempt to infiltrate the Planet Express offices and steal a crystal with the power to ruin Mom's dark matter business. When Fry leaves them at the door to announce them to Amy and Leela, they can actually be heard slapping each other in the background while he comments on how hilarious they are. Walt tries to take the crystal by claiming it is an owl egg which will hatch into an owl larva but the Professor stops them by loosing a real owl on them, which they can't handle. Later on, it is revealed that Igner is Farnsworth's illegitimate son, thus making him, like Farnsworth, a distant nephew of Fry. The commentary on the film hypothesizes that the other two may be the sons of Farnsworth's rival and Mom's ex-husband, Professor Wernstrom, but does not confirm this. Farnsworth stated that he had a relationship with Mom three times. Near the end of the film, Igner rebels against Mom by swallowing the crystal; his action ultimately causes all dark matter in the world to become totally worthless as starship fuel. On the DVD commentary track, the vowel at the end of Igner's name is specifically identified as an "e," with the writers and director commenting on how often the spelling used online is incorrect.

In Bender's Game, Farnsworth comments that his last relationship with Mom was "Thirty-something years ago". Nibbler later on adds that it was 36 years ago when Mom started mining Dark Matter. Mom was carrying Igner at this time but showed no signs of pregnancy (having only recently fired Farnsworth), making Igner approximately 35 years old, and his brothers born a year or two before him - in the movie, Larry as an infant cannot be much older than a year, while Walt at the same time is about three years old.