Futurama/The Route of All Evil

The Route of All Evil
Season 5, Episode 3
Airdate	December 8, 2002
Production Number	3ACV22
Written by	Dan Vebber
Directed by	Brian Sheesley
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Futurama — Season Five

The Route of All Evil is the third episode of the fifth season of Futurama, and the fifty-ninth episode overall This episode focuses on Cubert and Dwight. When Cubert and Dwight get suspended from school, their parents demand that they get jobs. But after they begin to compete with and take over Planet Express will they be able to handle to additional workload?

Guest Stars: Phil LaMarr (Hermes), Kath Soucie (Cubert), Bumper Robinson (Dwight Conrad), Dawnn Lewis (LaBarbara Conrad)

Plot Overview

The episode opens with Bender, Fry and Leela shopping for beer. When they can't agree on anything, they decide to brew their own beer. Back at Planet Express, Dwight and Cubert have been suspended from school for dissolving the horrible gelatinous blob's son. Eventually, Prof. Farnsworth and Hermes pawn the kids off on Fry, Leela and Bender who are at the first stage of brewing their beer. The kids leave the three and go back to hassling their parents. The kids use the Professor's machine to allow someone to imitate his voice exactly to send the crew on a delivery mission to Dog Doo 8. The crew comes back and destroy's Dwight's video game after they figure out that the universe ends after Dog Doo 7. In response to this, their parents demand that the kids get jobs. The two reveal their plans for a new delivery company called Awesome Express to their parents, who kick in their sign as their first act of corporate sabotage.

The two kids reveal that their delivery company is really just a paper route and their parents mock them for it. The two kids send away for a personal spacecraft to start their route with and set out for their first delivery in their craft. This is followed by a paper delivery montage where they antagonize the horrible gelatinous blob's son again. The kids get more and more ambitious with their route and end up with a million customers. With their newfound wealth, the kids decide to buy out Planet Express and hire Bender, Fry and Leela in their place. They rename the company "Awesome Express" and decide not to hire back on the Professor and Hermes.

Fry and Leela finally distill the beer they were fermenting in Bender and the two kids come back from their delivery. Leela asks how they delivered a million papers in one hours but before they can own up to the deceit, the phone rings and a customer demands to know where their paper is. Their kids come crawling back to their parents and explain that they've been dumping their papers in a crater on the moon instead of delivering them. They pick the newspapers back up and shoot them at the houses to make up for the lack of delivery. At the last house they confront the horrible gelatinous blob and apologize, but he ends up fighting Hermes and the Professor. The two end up in the hospital in full body casts, and the blob comes in to apologize and be a good role model for his son.

Notes

Alien Language Sightings

• No alien language letters appear in this episode.

Characters

• Bender: Bender's feminine qualities (from when he partially merged minds with the ship and when he had an emotion chip put in his head) come back again when he's used as a brewery for beer.

Referbacks

• 2x15 - A Clone Of My Own: Cubert Farnsworth first appeared in the second season when Professor Farnsworth cloned him as his heir.
• 4x03 - Anthology of Interest II: Dwight first appered as part of the second Anthology of Interest episode. He appeared again as a background character in A Leela of Her Own.

Trivia

The Show

• Opening Caption: Disclaimer: Any Resemblance To Actual Robots Would Be Really Cool
• Benderbrau: The label that they put on the beers fermented from Bender's torso is roughly the same label that writer Dan Vebber put on the beer that he makes with his family.

Behind the Scenes

• Showing Delays: This episode was originally to be shown in the third season but was delayed for ten months because Bumper Robinson went to China in order to shoot a movie. It was then supposed to air first in the 5th season but FOX executives changed it at the last minute.

Allusions and References

• The Little Prince: The boy on the astroid who the boys give a paper to is a character from the book Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
• Wacky Packs: The stickers that the kids use to patch up holes are a reference to the wacky pack product parody stickers from the 70s.

Memorable Moments

• Leela, Fry and Bender brewing beer in a makeshift distillery made out of Bender's torso.
• Dwight and Cubert in a newspaper delivering montage styled like Paperboy.
• Professor Farnsworth and Hermes fighting with the horrible gelatinous blob.

Quotes

• Cubert: Plus, you're making bootleg beer inside company property!
  Bender: Lies! Lies and slander!
  Prof. Farnsworth: Accusing gentle Bender of a misdeed? That's the last straw! You boys have been underfoot long enough!

• Prof. Farnsworth: He's come to finish the job! Someone toss me out the window!

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