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How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back

Production Number: 2ACV11
Title Caption: As fortold by Nostradamus
First Aired: April 2, 2000

The Story

Act I: I only gamble with chumps

Hermes finishes his work for the day and receives a letter from the Central Bureaucracy. Leela Invites Fry and Bender to a poker game she's having with her former co-workers from Applied Cryogenics, Zoidberg invites himself. Hermes is happy because tomorrow there will be an inspection, potentially allowing him to be promoted from grade 36 to grade 35. As the guests arrive Ipgee informs Leela that she's fired for being over a year late for work. The Applied Cryogenics staff catch Bender cheating and beat him up in Hermes' office. Hermes is horrified by the mess when he gets to work, then the inspector, Morgan Proctor, arrives and Hermes threatens to kill himself.

Act II: Mr. Bender about last night...

When Hermes is talked out of suicide Zoidberg suggests he goes to Spa 5 to recover. Morgan takes over Hermes' job. Morgan falls for Fry because he's a slob. LaBarbara and Hermes learn too late that Spa 5 is actually a forced labour camp. Morgan gives the crew worse jobs, except Fry who he gets a promotion. She then turns up at Fry and Bender's appartment to have sex. Bender catches them. The next day Morgan removes Bender's brain and sends it to the Central Bureaucracy for fileing.

Act III: Stop hogging that healthy liver!

Fry along with Leela, Amy and the Professor head off to recover Bender's brain. Hermes begins organising the forced labour camp. The crew head to the Central Bureaucracy's fileing room. Morgan says that it would be imposible to find the brain within the master "in" pile. Hermes arrives having organised the forced labour camp so well that all the labour is now done by a single Australian man and having been brought to the Central Bureaucracy by Zoidberg. Hermes has four minutes to sort the pile or be fired, which he does successfully, unfortunately he was too fast, so he is demoted to grade 38. Hermes then reveals a mistake made by Morgan, which gets him a promotion to grade 37 andhis job back.

Additional Info

Trivia

The forced labour camp's sign reads "Spa 5 Fitness camp: recommended by Dr. Zoidberg". This, as well as the Australian slave's admition, suggests that most of the workers were provided by Zoidberg.
Grade 1.0 was used to leave a possibility for higher ranks with lower decimals.

Quotes

Outside References

The floating head is based on a creature from Dungeons and Dragons.

Fast Forward

The Australian slave reappears in A Pharaoh to Remember.

Goofs

The hover-car screeches to a halt.
Hermes badge number occasionally fluctuates incorrectly.

Characters

(In alphabetical order)

Episode Credits

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 ===Act I: I only gamble with chumps===
+[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] finishes his work for the day and receives a letter from the [[Central Bureaucracy]]. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] Invites [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] to a poker game she's having with her former co-workers from [[Applied Cryogenics]], [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] invites himself. Hermes is happy because tomorrow there will be an inspection, potentially allowing him to be promoted from grade 36 to grade 35. As the guests arrive [[Minor Characters#Ipgee|Ipgee]] informs Leela that she's fired for being over a year late for work. The Applied Cryogenics staff catch Bender cheating and beat him up in Hermes' office. Hermes is horrified by the mess when he gets to work, then the inspector, [[Morgan Proctor]], arrives and Hermes threatens to kill himself.
 ===Act II: Mr. Bender about last night...===
+When Hermes is talked out of suicide Zoidberg suggests he goes to Spa 5 to recover. Morgan takes over Hermes' job. Morgan falls for Fry because he's a slob. [[LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara]] and Hermes learn too late that Spa 5 is actually a forced labour camp. Morgan gives the crew worse jobs, except Fry who he gets a promotion. She then turns up at Fry and Bender's appartment to have sex. Bender catches them. The next day Morgan removes Bender's brain and sends it to the Central Bureaucracy for fileing.
 ===Act III: Stop hogging that healthy liver!===
+Fry along with Leela, [[Amy Wong|Amy]] and [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] head off to recover Bender's brain. Hermes begins organising the forced labour camp. The crew head to the Central Bureaucracy's fileing room. Morgan says that it would be imposible to find the brain within the master "in" pile. Hermes arrives having organised the forced labour camp so well that all the labour is now done by a single [[Australian Slave|Australian man]] and having been brought to the Central Bureaucracy by Zoidberg. Hermes has four minutes to sort the pile or be fired, which he does successfully, unfortunately he was too fast, so he is demoted to grade 38. Hermes then reveals a mistake made by Morgan, which gets him a promotion to grade 37 andhis job back.
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 ==Additional Info==
 ===Trivia===
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+*The forced labour camp's sign reads "Spa 5 Fitness camp: recommended by Dr. Zoidberg". This, as well as the Australian slave's admition, suggests that most of the workers were provided by Zoidberg.
+*Grade 1.0 was used to leave a possibility for higher ranks with lower decimals.
 ===Quotes===
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 ===Inside References===
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 ===Outside References===
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+*The floating head is based on a creature from ''Dungeons and Dragons''.
 ===Fast Forward===
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+*The Australian slave reappears in [[A Pharaoh to Remember]].
 ===Goofs===
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+*The hover-car screeches to a halt.
+*Hermes badge number occasionally fluctuates incorrectly.
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 *[[Amy Wong|Amy]]
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 *[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]
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 *Voice Actors
 **[[Billy West]]
 **[[Katey Sagal]]
 **[[John DiMaggio]]
+**[[Tress MacNeille]]
+**[[Phil LaMarr]]
+**[[Lauren Tom]]
+**[[David Herman]]
+**[[Dawnn Lewis]]
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 **[[Matt Groening]]
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 **[[John DiMaggio]]
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