Also called Professor Farnsworth Good News Everyone · Futurama Good News · Good News Everybody
Professor Farnsworth raises both hands to announce something. Open with good news, then reveal whether the update is a welcome surprise or a problem wearing an optimistic label.
The professor’s enthusiasm sets an expectation before the actual news arrives. A genuinely useful update can fulfill that promise; an inconvenient one can reverse it.
The joke works especially well for announcements whose speaker is happier than the people hearing them. One more task can sound wonderful to the person assigning it.
“Good news, everyone” is Professor Farnsworth’s recurring announcement in Futurama. It first appears in the 1999 episode “My Three Suns,” as he gives the crew a delivery assignment in the Forbidden Zone. [1] [2] [3]
The line became a reaction and an image-caption opening outside the show. Documented online examples include a 2010 post inviting readers to hear the line in the professor’s voice and a Meme Generator template in 2011. [2]
“My Three Suns” introduces the professor’s familiar announcement. [3]
An archived example invites readers to imagine the professor saying the words. [2]
Meme Generator hosts a Good News Everyone caption format. [2]
Use the upper edge for the announcement opening and the space across the lower coat for the actual update. Keep Farnsworth’s glasses, mouth, and raised hands visible.
Decide whether the news is sincere or ironic. For irony, state the inconvenient part plainly and let the cheerful opening create the mismatch.
Original captions to try with this template.
The familiar opening introduces news the audience is likely to enjoy.
Finding a problem is useful progress, even when it means more work.
An ordinary chore earns the professor’s full announcement treatment.
References for this template. Example captions are original.
Lists the catchphrase’s appearances, beginning with My Three Suns.
Traces the catchphrase and documented 2010 and 2011 meme examples.
Describes the delivery assignment and records the professor’s first use of the catchphrase.
