Futurama episode
"The Route of All Evil"
Episode no.	44
Prod. code	3ACV12
Airdate	December 8, 2002
Writer(s)	Dan Webber
Director	Brian Sheesley
Opening subtitle	Disclaimer: Any Resemblance To Actual Robots Would Be Really Cool
Opening cartoon	Unknown
Season 3 January 2001 – December 2002
Amazon Women in the Mood Parasites Lost A Tale of Two Santas The Luck of the Fryrish The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz Bendless Love The Day the Earth Stood Stupid That's Lobstertainment! The Cyber House Rules Where the Buggalo Roam Insane in the Mainframe The Route of All Evil Bendin' in the Wind Time Keeps on Slippin' I Dated a Robot A Leela of Her Own A Pharaoh to Remember Anthology of Interest II Roswell That Ends Well Godfellas Future Stock The 30% Iron Chef
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"The Route of All Evil" is episode twelve in season three of the Futurama DVDs. This episode was originally made to be aired during Season 3 but was put on the shelf by FOX. It was also going to be the 5th Season Premiere but FOX made a last minute change and aired it on December 8, 2002. Other sources list this episode as season 5, episode 3. Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, also the creator of The Simpsons, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... Image File history File links Futurama_ep44. ... is the 342nd day of the year (343rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Brian Sheesley is an animation director who has worked on several comedy shows, including directing duties on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, two episodes of The Critic, nine episodes of Futurama and two episodes of King of the Hill. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Amazon Women in the Mood is the first episode in season three of Futurama. ... Parasites Lost is the 2nd episode in series 3 of Futurama. ... A Tale of Two Santas is the third episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... The Luck of the Fryrish is the fourth episode in season three of Futurama. ... The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz is the fifth episode in season three of Futurama. ... Bendless Love is the sixth episode in season three of Futurama. ... The Day the Earth Stood Stupid is the seventh episode in season three of Futurama. ... Thats Lobstertainment! is the 8th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... The Cyber House Rules is the ninth episode in season three of Futurama. ... Where the Buggalo Roam is the tenth episode in season three of the animated television series Futurama. ... “Insane in the Mainframe” is the eleventh episode in season three of Futurama. ... This section has been identified as trivia. ... The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline for Television episodes. ... I Dated a Robot is the fifteenth episode in season three of Futurama. ... A Leela Of Her Own is the sixteenth episode in the third season of the animated series Futurama. ... A Pharaoh to Remember is episode seventeen of Futuramas third season. ... Anthology of Interest II is the eighteenth episode of the third season of Futurama. ... Roswell That Ends Well is the nineteenth episode of the third production season of the TV show Futurama. ... Godfellas is the twentieth episode of the third season of Futurama. ... Future Stock is the 21st episode in the third season of Futurama. ... “The 30% Iron Chef” is the twenty-second episode in season three of Futurama. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, also the creator of The Simpsons, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... is the 342nd day of the year (343rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ...

Plot

Having been suspended from school for salting Bret Blob, Dwight and Cubert find themselves stuck with their fathers. After having sent the Planet Express crew on a fake mission to deliver pizza to a non-existent planet and generally annoying the staff, the boys are overcome with boredom. They decide to start up a company to rival Planet Express: a paper route. They become so successful that they take over Planet Express when it is discovered that the Professor was declared legally dead three years ago. The name of the company is then changed to the name of the boys' delivery route, 'Awesome Express'. Meanwhile, Fry, Leela and Bender brew beer inside Bender, treating the robot like an expectant mother. Futuramas recurring characters: Spoiler warning: // In the episode A Big Piece of Garbage, Ron Popeil, his severed head floating in a large jar, mentions several of his inventions including the (fictional) technology to keep human heads alive in jars, implicitly arresting the aging process. ... Cubert Farnsworth is Professor Hubert Farnsworths clone from the fictional animated television series Futurama. ... Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (born April 9, 2841) is the extremely elderly proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service in the fictional animated television series Futurama. ... Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama and is voiced by Billy West. ... Turanga Leela (referred to as simply Leela) is the primary female character in the animated television series Futurama. ... “Bender” redirects here. ... Leffe, a Belgian beer, served in branded glasses Schlenkerla Rauchbier straight from the cask Beer brewed from wheat. ...

Dwight and Cubert end up taking on too many customers and cannot deliver the papers and need help from Hermes and the professor to solve the problem. All the papers are successfully delivered; however, as they pass Bret Blob's house the boys admit that they broke his window last week. Hermes and the Professor take the boys to apologize. When Mr. Blob doesn't accept the apology, he beats them up, but later apologizes in the hospital. Bender comes in with his beers to enjoy, and everything ends happily except for Cubert and Dwight who are swallowed by Bret Blob. Hermes Conrad is a character in the Futurama animated series. ... Cubert Farnsworth is Professor Hubert Farnsworths clone from the fictional animated television series Futurama. ...

Cultural references

• The title is taken from the phrase "money is the root of all evil", derived from the Latin "radix malorum est cupiditas", the creed of the Pardoner in his prologue and tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. This itself is taken from 1 Timothy 6:10 (King James Version): "The love of money is the root of all evil...etc." - and "radix enim omnium malorum est cupiditas" in the Vulgate of Saint Jerome.
• One of the asteroids to which Cubert and Dwight deliver papers seems to be the planet inhabited by the Little Prince. The first time they deliver papers, the Prince catches his with no problem; the time with Hermes shooting them from a gun, however, he gets hit, and flies off into space crying "Au revoir!"
• Cubert is shown playing with a device similar to a Game Boy.
• Bender considers calling his beer Botweiser, a reference to Budweiser beer.
• While flying through the asteroid belt the dog chasing Dwight and Cubert is eaten by a giant worm in a crater, a parody of a scene in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
• Professor Farnsworth having himself declared dead as a supposed tax dodge, though he had really only been taking a nap in a ditch in the park, is probably a reference to a similar tax dodge used by the character Hotblack Desiato in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy book series.
• Several scenes feature references to the video game Paperboy.
• Bender is shown reading a Victoria's Circuit catalog while he is sitting on the stove in order to brew beer inside of him. Victoria's Circuit is a parody of the clothing maker Victoria's Secret, known for their lingerie catalogs.
• A beer mentioned in the episode is given the name of St. Pauli Exclusion Principle Girl. This combines St. Pauli Girl beer and the Pauli exclusion principle.
• When stamping paperwork in his office Hermes is singing a parody of Get Up Stand Up with the lyrics "Stamp it, file it, Oh yeah, send it overnight".

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Production notes

• This episode had a delayed release because Bumper Robinson, who played Hermes' son Dwight, moved to China for 10 months mid-production.
• Klein bottles of beer can be seen near the start of the episode. This is a visual joke, as klein bottles are really four-dimensional objects and cannot be properly formed in three dimensions.
• The periodic table on the lunchbox has only 107 elements, actually fewer than the number known to exist when this episode aired, and two less than the number of named elements at that time.

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