Planet Express headquarters

The Planet Express headquarters is located on the west side of Manhattan on 57th Street in New New York. The building includes a tower and a hangar, as well as a seaside facility. The tower is directly connected to the rooms, and rooms such as the conference room and Farnsworth's laboratory have a clear view of the hangar behind it. The building is also home to the Professor and his clone.

At the top of the tower is an attic. There also seems to be a lift from the top of the tower to the bottom of the complex. Below the headquarters is a limestone cavern, where Professor Farnsworth on occasion uses the elements of the Earth itself to clone things.

When exactly the building was constructed remains unknown, but it is safe to suggest it was before 2961, when The Professor hired his first crew.

Interior


There are many rooms in the Planet Express headquarters, and some rooms also change position whenever the writers need it. And some rooms are only shown once or twice, purely for the purpose of a scene.

Attic
The attic is a large, round room in which inventions like the Smell-O-Scope are kept. It can be extracted entirely from the building through a cord to perform tasks such as shooting Diamondium at enemies.

Hangar
The largest and most important room and the heart of the operation of Planet Express, in here, the Planet Express ship is kept, which requires no lane to take off, although, there is an option for angling the floor up to assist in a take off of the ship. The hangar has direct access to the conference room and Farnsworth's laboratory. In Futurama (video game), the Hangar is big enough to fit two Planet Express ships in it, but the game is not considered canon.

Conference room
The conference room consists of the conference table, where all meetings at the company are held. The conference room also includes a kitchen from the opposite side of the hangar, as well as a chemical shower. There is also a big monitor, where videos are often shown, especially educational films. The conference room overlooks the hangar as well, connecting with the employee lounge.

The conference room as also been referred to as the "mandatorium" by the Professor.

The Chamber of Understanding
The Chamber of Understanding is a dome where the Professor spends his time trying to understand things. It comes down from the ceiling and doesn't require turning any switch to be activated. A disco ball is also anchored to the top of the dome, and disco music is played when someone is inside the chamber.

Locker room
The locker room consists of the lockers and also a unisex shower room. The locker room appears to be accessible from the conference room.

Farnsworth's laboratory
Underneath the conference room is Farnsworth's laboratory. In here, Farnsworth spends most of his time working on his many inventions.

Bedrooms
While the rest of their crew live in their own apartments, houses and dumpsters, the Professor and his clone Cubert live at the Planet Express Headquarters permanently. The Professor's bedroom is first seen in "The Lesser of Two Evils", and later again in Bender's Game. Cubert's bedroom was first seen in "A Clockwork Origin". It is also possible that Scruffy lives at the Planet Express Headquarters, since it is shown that he has a bed in "That Darn Katz!", but it could also just be for resting. Dr. Zoidberg lives in a dumpster just outside the headquarters.



Lobby
Just inside the front door is the lobby. It is only really used when they are greeting new people. Its door includes intuitive features such as "slam!".

Employee lounge
The favourite room by the company's employees, where they spend most of the time watching television and hanging out. Besides a TV, there is a coffee table as well as a sofa near the window. At the other end of the room is a dining table and some chairs.

While the employee lounge leads to the conference room on one side, the other door seems to lead to whatever the writers find appropriate; the toilet, the kitchen, the hallway, the hangar and much more.

Hermes' office
Hermes Conrad, being the company's bureaucrat, has his own office, which he keeps tidy for the mandatory inspections that occur now and then. Beside a table, it includes a tube connected to the Central Bureaucracy, a disintegrator and stamp devices of all kinds. His office is located directly underneath the employee lounge.

Zoidberg's office


The staff doctor of the company, Dr. Zoidberg has his own office as well, though, Dr. Zoidberg is unfortunately not that knowledgeable of humans, so his office seems to be somewhat strangely furnished, with a diagram of a human upside down. His office also seems to have a depot for the company attached at the back.

Fry's office
While usually not in use, Philip J. Fry has on occasion been granted with his own office, located next to the office of Hermes. It first appeared in "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", after Morgan Proctor promoted Fry to "executive delivery boy". Fry's office later reappeared in "Future Stock".

Accusing parlour
A room only visited twice, wherein a member of the company can describe a certain crime which have been under way at the company, and finally reveal the culprit. The accusing parlour is designed in a dark early 1920s style, reminiscing much like housing in 's time. With a grandfather clock, bookshelves and of course, big furniture. There is a room with a similar design to the accusing parlor which appeared in "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles". It has several bookshelves, as well as a moose head.

Boiler room
A downstairs room where the plasma-fusion boiler is located. Scruffy often spends time down here, and in can be seen sleeping on the job here in the game. The room is below ground level; directly underneath Hermes' office.

Angry Dome
An exterior dome where the Professor goes when he is angry.

Balcony
On the riverside of the building, there is a balcony where the crew spends time on hot days. The balcony has a Freedom tub, which was once filled with Goat vomit.

Tower
The tower holds many of the Professor's inventions, but before it was used as a control tower to oversee the take-off of the Planet Express ship.

Widow's Walk
The tower is surrounded by a large circular railed platform, known as a. The platform was not constructed with the original building, and was only added after the disappearance of the first Planet Express crew. The Professor keeps vigil on the platform for the return of the crew.

Location


In Bender's Game we learnt the exact location of the Planet Express headquarters, when Mom zooms in on it on a satellite image. David X. Cohen mentions on the commentary of the film that they intended for the location of the building to be on, Manhattan, New New York. Because of its location next to the Hudson River, the intersecting street is most likely, however, its futuristic incarnation is a much narrower road than Henry Hudson Parkway in the present day. Another possible location is the FedEx building on 49th Street.

In "Viva Mars Vegas", Clamps puts the dumpster on 72nd street, and then the dumpster is shown in front of the ventilation fans on the rear end of the building. That would put the front end (address) of the building one street away.

Neighbours
There is a lesbian coven next door, and a Pottery Barn across the street. Fry and Leela have also been seen visiting a café directly across the street, and in the commentary, the staff mentioned that it's a pity they don't visit it more often. There is also a pizzeria owned by Cygnoids, in which Bender temporarily gets a job when put into the witness relocation programme.

Voice
The Planet Express headquarters was voiced by Billy West when it was reconceived in the animation style of classic black-and-white in "Reincarnation".

Alternate appearances/modifications

 * Painted green.
 * Changed to a design as a result of the crew's time travel.
 * Reconceived in the animation styles of classic black-and-white ("C") and old-school videogame ("FC3") and located on a cliff ("ADF").

Trivia

 * The word "headquarters" was not used for referring to the building until "The Bots and the Bees", the one hundred and fifteenth episode.

Appearances

 * The Planet Express headquarters, along with the company, appears in every episode, comic or film of Futurama as well as the game, with the sole exception of "Where the Buggalo Roam" and "Naturama". This list covers episodes that either feature an alternative version of the headquarters, that reveal new information of the headquarters, or when the headquarters plays a major role in the story.


 * (the headquarters appears for the first time)
 * (an Emerald Building is shown in a dream of Leela's)
 * (an alternate blue building is shown to exist in universe 1)
 * (the location of the headquarters is revealed)
 * (many key rooms can be explored during the first level)
 * (after the sudden disappearance of Fry, Bender and the Professor, Leela takes over the company and turns it into a massive corporation. Although the layout of the original building seems to remain, several additions are made to it. This building, however, only exists in the first and second universes and is absent from the third and fourth, this pattern is probably repeated until the universe's real end)
 * (an older version of the headquarters is seen in a flashback)
 * (the headquarters is reconceived in the animation styles of classic black-and-white ["C"] and old-school videogame ["FC3"] and is located on a cliff ["ADF"])