Episode Capsule: [3ACV12] The Route Of All Evil

Title: The Route Of All Evil
Written by: Dan Vebber
Directed by: Brian Sheesley
Opening theme promotion: Disclaimer: Any Resemblance to actual Robots would be really cool

Synopsis

Cubert - the clone of the Professor - and Dwight - Hermes' son - are suspended from school for illegal use of the AV equipment. Upon their return to the Planet Express, they form a business -- a competing delivery company that threatens the existence of Planet Express. Meanwhile, Leela, Fry and Bender brew up a batch of homemade beer.

Voice Credits

Starring

• Billy West (Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Prof. Farnsworth)
• Katey Sagal (Leela)
• John DiMaggio (Bender)
• Tress MacNeille

Guest Starring

• Phil LaMarr
• Kath Soucie
• Bumper Robinson
• Dawnn Lewis

Also Starring

• Maurice LaMarche

Did You Notice…

• Cubert has a Zapp Brannigan lunchbox, and Dwight has a periodic table lunchbox. — Alan Hamilton
• Once again, Fry is fooled by a phony pizza delivery prank. This time, though, he's not alone, as both Leela and Bender were also fooled. — Jonah Falcon
• Futurama continues The Simpsons tradition of bashing FOX. — Jonah Falcon
• The spacecraft Cubert and Dwight purchase looks nothing like the craft in the comic book page? They learned the lesson that every kid who bought Space Monkeys or sold GRIT found out - it's all a big rip-off. — Jonah Falcon
• Apparently, skill is needed to send or receive items through a mail tube, too. — Jonah Falcon

External References

St Pauli

• The red light district of Hamburg, Germany. — Marc Wichterich Löbrau

• Probably a reference to the German Löwenbräu (lions' brew) which is manufactured in Munich. — Marc Wichterich Sam Adams

• American beer brand named after Samuel Adams who led the Boston Tea Party. — Marc Wichterich Victoria's Secret (lingerie)

• Bender is reading the robot version Victoria's Circuit — Marc Wichterich The Little Prince (novell)

• The boy on top of the small planet is a refence to this book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Marc Wichterich Wacky Packs stickers

• These stickers featured parodies of products and were hugely popular in the 1970s. — Alan Hamilton The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars movie)

• The dog chasing the hover-wagon is eaten by a space slug from this film. — Alan Hamilton The Real World (TV series)

• This MTV-produced series followed the lives of people in different cities (the city name was usually a subtitle). Although it supposedly showed unscripted real life, a lot of people found it really unconvincing. — Alan Hamilton The Bible

• The title is based on 1 Timothy 6:10: "For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs." — Alan Hamilton Paper Boy

• In this old Nintendo game, you have to deliver papers, by bike, like the two boys (somehow). Just the way the whole scenes are made up, remind me very much of that game, as everything sorta fits. — Daniel Stahl

• The streets, Dwight and Cubert do the paper route in, looks like those in this game from the first Nintendo console. — Daniel Stahl

• The dog that chases the two, also appeares in this game. — Daniel Stahl

• The sound of the crashing of the Blob's window, is the exact one from Paper Boy, I think. — Daniel Stahl The Little Prince (novell)

• The Little Prince's baobab tree is missing, however. — Jonah Falcon Pabst Blue Ribbon (beer)

• Pabst Blue Robot is a reference to the Milwaukee brewing company, which brews Pabst Blue Ribbon and Old Milwaukee, among others. — Jonah Falcon Old English Malt Liquor

• Olde Fortran Malt Liquor is probably a reference to the Pabst-brewed malt liquor Old English. (English is a human language, Fortran is a computer language.) — Jonah Falcon Gerald Ford

• The New New York Daily News headline "Space Monster to City: Grrrrrrr" is reminiscient of the famous New York Daily News headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead". — Jonah Falcon Klein Bottles

• One of the beers is Klein's Beer, and is contained in a Klein Bottle, which is a one sided object similar to a moebius strip. — Fick 1984 (Ad)

• The Professor says "We Shall Prevail" in a manner much like the one in the ad by Apple for its Macintosh. — Vladimir Manwich (food)

• ConAgra Foods' famous sloppy joe sandwich brand. — Jonah Falcon The Tommyknockers (Stephen King book/miniseries)

• Inventing a device that adjusts your voice too sound like someone else, then using it to mislead people by phone. — Matty Jorissen St Pauli

• St Pauli's Exclusion Principle Girl beer also refers to Wolfgang Pauli's Exclusion Principle which states no two electrons in an atom can have the same quantum number. Wolfgang Pauli was a physist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1945. — IO II

Futurama References

[1ACV01] Space Pilot 3000

• Fry was frozen with a can of Löbrau beer — Alan Hamilton [2ACV12] The Deep South

• Dwight says "My Manwich!" like his dad. — Alan Hamilton [1ACV01] Space Pilot 3000

• Fry is sent on a prank pizza delivery. — Alan Hamilton [1ACV10] A Flight To Remember

• A picture of Hermes' Olympic limbo competition is in his dining room. — Alan Hamilton [2ACV17] War Is The H-Word

• The futuristic 7-11 (7 to the Eleventh) is revisited. — Jonah Falcon [1ACV01] Space Pilot 3000

• Something shoots out of a transport tube violently, rather than gently arrives. — Jonah Falcon

• Fortran Beer appears in space pilot, incidently it is also an old computer programing language. — Matt [1ACV06] A Fishful of Dollars

• Mom's Robot oil appears. — Matt [2ACV11] How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back

• Hermes paper shredder and recycler features in Hermes office — Matt [2ACV10] A Clone of My Own

• Cubert is introduced. — Michael Nissen [3ACV18] Anthology of Interest 2

• Introduced Dwight, but this was supposed to be introduced in this episode... — David Kirkham

Freeze Frame Fun

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OLDE FORTRAN
 MALT LIQUOR

   KLEIN'S
    BEER

     ST PAULI
EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE
       GIRL
  BIER      BEER

   SAM ADAMS'
      HEAD
  BOSTON LAGER

    LÖBRAU
     BEER

    PABST
  BLUE ROBOT

VICTORIA'S
 CIRCUIT

DAILY
    SUPERNOVA

  SPACE 
 MONSTER
TO CITY:
 GRRRRRR

Build A
Hoverwagon
              Neptunian
                Boody
               Building

MOM'S
MORON OIL

FOR DUMB
 ROBOTS

MAPLE
      CRATERS
An exclusive field of
  planetary debris

DAILY
   SUPERNOVA

PAPER BOYS
WIN AWARD
ON SLOW
NEWS DAY!

BENDËRBRÄU

 Let's 
Get Drunk!
  
 Cold-fusion Steam Beer

TACO
      BELLEVUE
      HOSPITAL
  Urine Samples in
Collectible NASCAR Cups!

Animation, Continuity, and Other Goofs

• Dwight starts complaining about the late delivery of the hoverwagon before 4 seconds have elapsed. — Alan Hamilton
• This third season episode aired during the fifth season. — Jonah Falcon
• If Farnsworth had been declared dead 3 years ago, the sunset police would never have come for him, among other things. — Zyxer
• When Farnsworth speaks into the voice-machine you can hear his own and the machine-generated voice. However, when someone else speaks into it you hear only the machine-generated voice. — Johannes Lempp
• The woman at Maple Craters speaks the dead language French — dave nangle

Comments and Other Observations

• A Klein bottle is a three-dimentional figure with only one surface. — Alan Hamilton
• The Pauli Exclusion Principle states that every electron in an atom must have a unique set of quantum numbers. — Alan Hamilton
• A real Klein Bottle is a 4D object which can not be filled with liquids. The 3D one seen in this episode has only one surface which is both inside and outside. It can be filled with liquids, but one needs to go through its bottom with shaky motions. Not the best idea. — Marc Wichterich

Original capsule author: Can't Get Enough Futurama <www.gotfuturama.com>