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Despite his career as a physician, Zoidberg is repeatedly identified as living in poverty, lonely and desperate for friendship and attention.

The crew are often disgusted by his foul habits, such as squirting ink or eating from trash cans, though he is mostly oblivious to their true feelings about him, having referred to Hermes Conrad and Bender as friends.

Hermes seems to have a more intense dislike of Zoidberg, seeing him as even more expendable than the rest of the crew.

However, when Fry reads Hermes ' mind in " Into the Wild Green Yonder ", it is revealed that Hermes sees him as " pathetic but lovable ".

Zoidberg became a hero to all of Earth when he saved Earth from enslavement to his own kind in " A Taste of Freedom ".

Fry and the Professor are usually the only ones to refer to Zoidberg as a friend, as in Bender's Big Score, in which Zoidberg says, " He was the only one of you who never struck me!

" while attending Fry's memorial.

Zoidberg has ambitions to be a stand-up comedian, but he is entirely unsuccessful at this endeavor.

In one episode, his uncle, the silent hologram star Harold Zoid ( a parody of Harold Lloyd ), advises him to give up on comedy and finance a film whose script Zoid is writing.