Transcript:Planet Espresso

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Planet Espresso
Written byBill Odenkirk
Transcribed byJasonbres


[Scene: Earth at the dawn of time, not unlike the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey. "Also sprach Zarathustra" even plays in the background.]

Caption: 5 million years ago, 7:00 AM

[A bunch of hominids are sleeping in a cave. One of them wakes up and scratches its rear and sees a monolith much like the one in the film. Close-up and spin on the monolith to reveal a giant coffee mug. The hominids approach it with curiosity. One of them dips its hand into the coffee, sniffs it, and sips. It splashes right into the mug. Many more hominids get the taste of coffee, with one even dunking a donut into it. He hurls it into the air and into space, much like the bone from the movie, and we crossfade into the theme song.]
[Opening Credits. Caption: Also available as a suppository!]
[Scene: The Planet Express conference room. Close-up on a coffee mug with the Planet Express logo on it. Hermes lifts it up and approaches the crew, who are enjoying their own mugs of joe.]

Hermes: First up on today's agenda… [slurps] Ah!

[The doorbell rings. Cut to the crew at the door. Hermes answers it and sees Dwayne at the door dressed in a Western Union outfit and holding his guitar.]

Dwayne: Singing hologram for Hermes Conrad?

Hermes: Ooh! Fun!

Dwayne: [singing] Oh…

Hologram Dwayne 1: [singing] Oh…

Hologram Dwayne 2: [singing] Oh…

Hologram Dwayne 3: [singing] Oh…

[The B string on Dwayne's guitar breaks and one of the holograms disappears.]

Dwayne: Aw, rats. I'll just say it. Your father's on his deathbed in Jamaica.

[The crew gasps.]

Farnsworth: Oh, no!

Dwayne and Holograms: [singing] Oh, yeah!

[Hermes drops his mug and it breaks. Bender claps.]

Bender: Once more from the top!

[Scene: Jamaica. The Planet Express ship flies over the island. Cut to inside the ship. LaBarbara and Dwight are accompanying Hermes along with the usual crew.]

Hermes: I can't believe it. I didn't even know my father was alive.

Bender: But not for much longer.

Dwight: Sorry about your pops, Pops. I didn't realize you had a pops.

Hermes: I never mentioned him because he was a terrible man. I haven't seen him since I was four.

[Flashback: Kingston Town in the midst of a hurricane, much like the one Hermes sang about in "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back."]

Hermes: [voiceover] A hurricane swept Jamaica with a pressure drop so low, it destroyed my father's barometer store.

[Cut to inside the shop.]

Mrs. Conrad: How low can it go?

Badrick: Not this low!

[The glass cases of the barometers break. Cut to the dining room. Young Hermes is playing with his out of order alphabet blocks as his parents watch.]

Hermes: [voiceover] It was our last night togeder as a family.

Badrick: We need money to rebuild. And dey say, a man can make a good livin' doing weird stuff in de jungle.

Young Hermes: Not de jungle, Daddy! Dere's green snakeses in dere!

Badrick: Aw, dere's green snakes in lotsa t'ings. But I'll be home soon, son.

[Badrick carries his bindle stick and leaves. Young Hermes cries. Zoom out to reveal his blocks reading "Childhood twauma".]
[Scene: Back in the present.]

Hermes: But de miserable cruff never did come back. He abandoned us! Dey say he went off into de woods to grow some exotic crop!

Fry: Exotic Jamaican crop? It could be anything.

Hermes: Step on it, Leela! We've got to get dere fast, so I can tell him I hate him before he dies!

[Scene: Jamaica. The crew exits the ship. Hermes approaches a female shopkeeper.]

Shopkeeper: Sure, I know your daddy. He run a growin' operation up in de Blue Mountains.

Fry: [whispering] I hope it's pumpkins.

Shopkeeper: [closing her shop] I'm scorin' a few kilos from the man today. Come now, I'm gon' take you dere.

[Cut to the shopkeeper driving the gang in her hover Jeep. They pass a zombie crossing sign. They finally stop at a high security barbed-wire fence with two signs on it. One reading "Welcome to Badrick's Coffee Estate" and another reading "Keep out!!".]

Hermes: Coffee? He's growin' coffee?

Shopkeeper: Best in the Blue Mountains. What'ja think he was growin'?

Hermes: [lying] Uh… Pumpkins. Medicinal pumpkins.

[They open the gates and find it smoke-filled. LaBarbara coughs from the fumes.]

Dwight: The crops are all burnt!

Shopkeeper: It is not like Badrick to let dis happen. He treats dose beans like dey were his own children!

Hermes: [scoffs] I'd say much better dan his own children!

[Hermes marches up to Badrick's house.]
[Scene:: Badrick's bedroom. A very sickly Badrick is lying in his bed. Hermes slams open the door.]

Hermes: Dere you are, ya low-down licky-licky harbor shark! Now listen to me…

Badrick: Is that you, son? Hang on, I gotta put my hearin' aids in…

[He does so.]

Hermes: Now listen to me, ya low-down licky-licky harbor shark…

Badrick: …and turn dem on.

[He activates the hearing aids and they produce feedback.]

Hermes: Okay, ya lowdown licky-licky etcetera, now see here!

Badrick: I need to see somet'in'? Wait, lemme find my glasses.

[He turns to his other nightstand, which has two pairs of glasses on them. He puts one of them one.]

Hermes: Are you ready? Can I rip you a new one yet?

Badrick: Oops, dese my reading glasses. Is dere somet'in' I'll have to read?

Hermes: Yah, my lips!

Badrick: Mmm. Then I'll need my regular glasses. [He switches his glasses.] [gasps] I can see ya now, son! You look awful!

Hermes: Dad, dere are t'ings I've needed to say to you for a long time. Ever since that day you walked out on us all dose years ago. What kind of man abandons his only son? What kind of man leaves his family to fend for themselves? I'll tell you what kind!

[Badrick chokes and expires.]
[Scene: The funeral. Badrick's body is laid out on a bed of flowers and a wooden coffin. Mournful steel drums play. Hermes takes the podium.]

Hermes: Though I and I never saw eye-to-eye with him and him, I daren't speak ill of de dead, so… Dat's all I got.

[Hermes leaves and more upbeat steel drums play.]

Amy: [sobs] I always get so sad when I hear steel drums.

[Cut to reveal Bender acting as one of the steel pans.]

Bender: Forty percent steel, baby!

[LaBarbara takes the podium.]

LaBarbara: Now, to honor Badrick's last cuckoo banana wishes, he gon' be buried in a burlap coffee sack.

[Fry lifts up the coffin and Hermes puts Badrick's body in the sack. Hermes lifts up the sack, accidentally bumping Fry.]
[Scene: Later that night. Hermes and the Professor lift Badrick's body.]

Hermes: T'anks for your help, Professor. To be honest, you've been more of a father to me than he ever was.

Farnsworth: I feel the same way. You've been a father to me.

[They drop his body near an outhouse.]'

Hermes: Let's bury him here, between the outhouse and the pigsty.

Farnsworth: Good thing I always carry my pocket gravedigger. At my age, you never know when you'll need it.

[He activates the device revealing a crank and a shovel. It rapidly digs until it hits something. Hermes and the Professor gasp, as they are drawn to the mysterious blue light. Farnsworth's teeth fall out.]
[Scene: That same spot. It is revealed what the Professor and Hermes gasped at was a hatch buried in the ground.]

Hermes: It's some kind of mysterious buried hatch. [he lifts it open] Should we go in?

Farnsworth: [sarcastically] No, let's wait until I'm older. Of course, we should go in!

[Farnsworth goes in, followed by Hermes.]
[Scene: Inside the hatch. Farnsworth and Hermes explore it.]

Hermes: Sweet UFO of Tupelo! It's a spaceship!

Farnsworth: And not of this Earth. It must have come from space. Look at the size of that engine! And these would be fuel lines. [He touches one of the fuel lines and licks it from his finger.] Coffee? A ship fueled by coffee? Amazing!

Hermes: More amazin' dan de fact you licked de drippings off an alien rocket pipe? I think not.

[Cut to another part of the ship. It is surrounded by cylinders with locations on them written in AL1.]

Hermes: What are dese weird cylinders and dose weird signs?

Farnsworth: Stop calling everything "weird." You should get out more. I'll just use my trusty hand translator.

[He gets out the hand translator, which turns out to also be the pocket gravedigger. He uses them on the AL1 markings and reads them.]

Farnsworth: "Ethiopia?" "Indonesia?" "Brazil?" All of the world's most important sandal-wearing cultures!

Hermes: Yes, but also de world's most important coffee producers!

[Hermes uses the hand translator on another sign which decodes it as…]

Hermes: [gasps] "Jamaica!" And somehow, it's full of fresh-picked beans!

[He dispenses some beans, which the Professor analyzes with his pocket gravedigger.]

Farnsworth: Not that fresh. According to my pocket carbon-dater, they're five million years old. They predate human civilization!

Hermes: Five-million-year-old coffee? If yah come across their half-and-half, don't open it.

[Cut to the ship's control room, which is in shambles and full of corpses.]

Farnsworth: Ah! Lifeless alien bodies. That's probably an important piece of the puzzle.

[Hermes lifts the helmet of one of the bodies revealing an alien skull. The Professor licks the residue.]

Farnsworth: Coffee?

Hermes: Stop tastin' stuff!

[He looks at one of the cups and sniffs it.]

Farnsworth: There's coffee in these mugs, too!

[Hermes lifts up one of the mugs and takes a sip.]

Hermes: Mmm! It's actually quite good.

Farnsworth: You drank it? Gross! [he takes a sip] Still rich in flavor after all these…

[Suddenly, the room starts to distort and become a trippy coffee trip.]

Farnsworth: Ih, what's going on? I'm seeing every color of the coffee rainbow!

Hermes: Me, too! It's a double mocha hallucaccino!

[One of the bodies appears and the head comes back to life. The coffee drains and the rest of the bodies also come back to life.]

Hermes: Now what's happenin'? [gasps] Did dey come back to life?

Farnsworth: No way, man. We're just whacked out of our gourds! It's like a vision of what went down five million years ago. Dig?

Thermosian Captain: Helmsman, set a course for planet Kl'zank.

[Farnsworth uses his pocket gravedigger to decode the AL1 map's destination.]

Farnsworth: That means Earth.

Hermes: The empty glass cylinders! They must have come here to steal our coffee!

Thermosian Captain: We weren't stealing it! We brought it to your planet as a great gift!

Hermes: Oh. Sorry.

Thermosian Captain: No need to apologize. We've been dead millions of years and can't hear you.

[Crossfade to a montage of the captain explaining their origins.]

Thermosian Captain: We came from Planet Thermos, a world of steaming brown beauty, where the sacred Java plant blooms each morning, and don't talk to us before then! Hot rain filters through the blooms to produce the sacred coffee, which flows to the sea, source of all life. The coffee goosed along our development. We skipped right past the age of dinosaurs. Didn't need it! Blessed by the bean, we made it our mission to spread the sacrament of coffee throughout the galaxy.

Hermes: Look, it's Kl'zank!

Thermosian Captain: Our first destination on your planet was Ethiopia, where we delivered coffee to the ancestors of man.

[Flash to robotic arms dropping the giant coffee mug seen in the prologue, and even adding a packet of sugar to it.]

Farnsworth: Fascinating! Do you make decaf, too?

Thermosian Captain: We're aliens, not perverts! Coffee would trigger huge advances wherever it appeared. The Pyramids, the Industrial Revolution, the Boston Tea Party… The first and only good use of tea.

Thermosian Pilot: Pfffft! Tea!

Thermosian Captain: Finally, we headed for the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, to plant the most potent beans of all. This coffee would inspire the final stage of humanity's development, allowing you to reach undreamt-of heights in the arts and sciences.

Hermes: Even choreography?

Thermosian Captain: Especially choreography! But tragedy derailed our mission.

[The pilot drops his mug, and it spill on his crotch, burning it. The ship goes out of control.]

Thermosian Pilot: Mayday! Mayday! Coffee crotch!

[Everyone screams as the ship crashes into the ground.]

Thermosian Captain: Thus, mankind was deprived of our final gift, and never reached its full potential.

[Scene: The next day. Hermes and Farnsworth exit the ship.]

Farnsworth: That was astonishing! We've got to tell everyone the entire story. The loose coffee cup lid and all the other stuff, too!

Hermes: No, Professor! We can't tell anyone what we saw or heard or drank here. People will think we're crazy.

Farnsworth: Crazier! [laughs maniacally]

[Scene: Sunset. Hermes kicks Badrick's corpse into the ground. Farnsworth uses the pocket gravedigger to cover him. Later, he is fully buried with a wooden tombstone reading, "Badrick Conrad: No-good father and scoundrel. Hermes pours his coffee onto the plot.]

Hermes: For you, Dad. Sorry, it's cold, but dat's how yah serve revenge. [laughs] Oh, wait! You liked iced coffee!

Farnsworth: What heights humanity might have reached with the power of this brew. If only those aliens had lived to plant the beans.

Hermes: Maybe we could plant them. We're alive!

Farnsworth: Oh-ho-ho, you flatter me.

Hermes: And de beans are still down there. It's up to us to complete their noble mission.

Farnsworth: For humanity!

[They clink their mugs.]
[Scene: Outside Badrick's house. The crew are getting back onto the ship. Hermes and Farnsworth join them.]

LaBarbara: Ah! There you are. I'm so glad yah buried de hatchet wid your daddy. Dat way, if he's still alive, he can hack his way out. Now, let's go home.

Hermes: Uh, hes. You should go. But, uh, I'm stayin' here to rebuild the farm.

[The crew gasps.]

Fry: What?

Dwight: Dad?

LaBarbara: Husband, what do you know about coffee? It take yah an hour to make instant.

Zoidberg: Zing!

LaBarbara: Are yah really goin' to abandon your boy de way your fadder did?

Hermes: Dis is more important dan you know, but I'll be home soon, son.

Farnsworth: That's a good, non-crazy idea, Hermes. And we're all going to help. We're a coffee company now!

Leela: We are? Don't we deliver things, or something?

Farnsworth: Indeed we do! We deliver the world's best coffee, or our name isn't…

[Cut to the tail of the ship revealing the new logo reading…]

Farnsworth: Planet Espresso!

[The ship takes off, leaving Hermes behind. Dwight sadly waves goodbye to his father, and Hermes waves back. Close-up on Badrick's grave, where a coffee-plant suddenly starts to sprout.]
[Scene: The Planet Express building, now refashioned into the Planet Espresso building, with the observatory tower now shaped like a coffee pot. There is a line of customers outside.]
[Cut to inside. Fry is working as a barista.]

Fry: Are the beans ready, Bender? I got a lotta orders here.

[Cut to Bender working as the roaster.]

Bender: Bite my shiny metal roaster! You can't rush Bender's Bendy Blend! Light, medium, and…, bendissimo!

[He opens a hole in his chest cavity and drops several coffee beans into a coffee can.]

Kyle MacLachlan's head: Excuse me, a little service, please?

Fry: Sorry, Mr. MacLachlan. Here's your usual.

[He pours some coffee into MacLachlan's jar.]

MacLachlan: Ah. That's a damn fine bath of coffee.

Sal: [pushing MacLachlan's jar] Outta my ways, Kwisatz Haderachses.

[He slams his thermos onto the counter.]

Fry: Whoa!

Sal: Fill'ers up, coffee jerk!

[Fry pours some coffee into Sal's thermos. Sal leaves and Randy walks up.]

Randy: Um, hello? Today I'm all about fun. Meaning a half-caf, teeny-weeny-mocha-cheenie with a plop-top of froth foam and do not even think of whipping that dollop.

Fry: I won't.

Randy: Are you sure? Because you look like a dollop-whipper.

[Scene: Back in Jamaica, night. Zoidberg is helping Hermes gather the coffee beans.]

Zoidberg: Look at me harvest! I've got the energy of ten fiddler crabs.

[He slurps some of the beans into his mouth.]

Hermes: It's this miracle coffee. Ever since I started drinkin' it, I haven't had to sleep. Which gives me more time to drink coffee. [sips]

[Zoidberg whoops as Hermes drops a sack into the pile.]
[Scene: Back at Planet Espresso. There is an even longer line waiting outside. Cut to the counter. Fry has bloodshot eyes and some stubble. Petunia walks up to him.]

Petunia: I asked for lukewarm coffee, but this is barely room temperature!

[Fry sticks his finger in Petunia's cup.]

Fry: Ow! It's almost boiling. What room is that temperature?

Petunia: This one, sugarpuss. ‘Cause you're heatin' it up right now. When do you get off work?

Fry: I don't. I work 24 hours a day. Somehow. [He pours himself some coffee into his mug and sips.]

Sal: I'm heres for my frees refill?

Fry: Yeah, well, today's a new day, so it's a new coffee at full price.

Sal: If it's my faults the Earth rotates, then it's the Earth's faults I did thises!

[He pours the coffee from the thermos onto Fry's apron.]

Fry: Yow! That's it! I've had it! [tosses his apron on the floor] I'm going on strike with all the other employees. Who's with me?

Farnsworth: Fry, you dolt! You're the only employee. The rest of us are management.

Bender: Not me, baby. I'm equipment.

Amy: What we really have here is an employee problem. I say we managers strike until Fry learns to work better and cheaper.

Farnsworth: Yeah!

Leela: Right on!

Bender: What she said!

Scruffy: A-yup.

[Scene: Outside the building. Everyone is marching in a circle carrying picket signs.]

Crew: [chanting Hey-hey! Who-who! Who will tell you what to do? Hey-hey! Who-who! Who will tell you what to do?

Fry: All right, fine! I'll accept worse working conditions, but in return, I expect lower pay. Much lower!

[Scene: Hermes' office. He is at his desk talking on his phone.]

LaBarbara: Poor little Dwight. He can't understand why you're gone. Last night, he asked if you're havin' an affair. It was the first good laugh we've had since you left. [laughs]

Hermes: [laughs] If I told you the details, you'd call me crazy. All I can say is it's about the future of mankind.

LaBarbara: Dat was more dan enough detail to call you crazy.

Hermes: I'm sorry, LaBarbara, but I got to go. I'm meeting with de shareholders, and you're not a shareholder.

LaBarbara: We share a child.

Hermes: Yes, yes, but nuttin' of value.

[Scene: Badrick's house. Hermes meets with the Planet Espresso crew in the kitchen.]

Hermes: Business is boomin', people! Our one cafe can't keep up wit' the demand.

Farnsworth: We'll either have to open a second location or start poisoning our customers.

Fry: Oh, no, I'm not learnin' how to make any new drinks.

[Hermes gives Fry a mug and Fry pushes on Bender's antenna. Bender's eyes fill up with coffee. Fry attaches a nozzle to where Bender's nose should be and pours himself a cup.]

Leela: How can we afford a second location? Irish cream syrup alone is $400 a barrel.

[The door opens revealing…]

Mom: How about a silent but deadly partner?

[The crew gasps.]

Mom: You're thinking too small. You don't need a second location. You need ten thousand.

Walt: Mother always aims for the sky.

[Mom slaps her sons as usual.]

Walt, Larry, and Igner: Ow!

Mom: When I had you, I should have aimed for the trash!

Hermes: Explain your plan widdout hitting me.

Mom: We'll put franchises everywhere. They'll spread across the world like steaming hot acne.

Farnsworth: This is it, Hermes! With Mom's help, our coffee will bring civilization to the next level. Plus, we can all go back to our families.

[Hermes looks to a framed photo of LaBarbara and Dwight in tears.]

Hermes: I do miss them. But why did I frame that photo?

Mom: We'll get the whole world addicted. And that's when we jack up the profit margin, by mixing in cheap trash beans. [Larry gives Mom a can of Chock full o' Bugs.]

Hermes: [gasps]

Farnsworth: Over my almost dead body.

Mom: Who's gonna taste the difference? You burn the beans enough, it's like drinking caffeinated cigar ashes.

Hermes: Understand this. We will triple-never double-ever disrespect this coffee!

Farnsworth: Get out! And take your dirty, sexy money with you!

[The Professor swipes a dollar bill at Mom. It slowly slaps her face.]
[Scene: Later that night. Both the Planet Espresso ship and Mom's ship depart the coffee plantation. Hermes walks past Zoidberg still snipping beans.]

Hermes: We'll stick with the plan. No one messes with my shrubs.

[He does a double take at a strange-looking coffee plant.]

Hermes: Weird. Dis one looks almost like my father. Zoidberg, you're doing topiary?

Zoidberg: Nopiary!

[He picks one of the beans from the plant.]

Badrick: Quit pluckin' my beans, son.

Hermes: [gasps]

Badrick: You're scared o'shrubs? I really was a bad fadder.

Hermes: Huh? D-D-Dad? Have you come back to life, or am I trippin' beans?

Badrick: De coffee done brought me back to life, son. Dat's de kinda stuff coffee do. But hear me now. ‘Cause I don't want you ta end up like me.

Hermes: I'm nothin' like you! I made a success o' dis place. After you let it burn to de ground.

Badrick: I didn't let it burn! I set fire to it myself.

Hermes: Den you're a fool! You never knew what you were growin' here!

Badrick: Of course I knew, ya ding-dong! I drank de space coffee. I saw de space vision. I didn't have a TV, so I'd watch it over and over. Heh. My favorite part is where dey…

Hermes: Spilled de coffee? I mean, get a cup holder!

[They both laugh.]

Badrick: Dey were ding-dongs, a'right. But I was a ding-dong too. Too late, I realized I'd wasted my life.

Hermes: Wasted? How?

Badrick: I became obsessed wid de farm. I was workin' for de good of all humanity. Except ma own family. Dere's only one grow'n season for a fadder and son, an' I missed it.

[Hermes removes his glasses to wipe away a tear.]

Hermes: Oh, Dad, all this time, I've been holding on to ma hatred, filin' it deep in a mental filing cabinet marked "revenge." But now, [sniffs] all I want to say to you is…

[Zoidberg snips the Badrick shrub and lets it fall.]

Zoidberg: I'm good at this!

[Scene: The Conrad house. Cut to the kitchen. LaBarbara gives Dwight some milk and coookies.]

Dwight: Why won't Pops come home? Did I do something to disappoint him?

LaBarbara: Plenty. But dat's not de reason.

[The door opens revealing…]

Hermes: De reason is, I was a ding-dong!

Dwight: Pops!

[Dwight runs up to his father.]

LaBarbara: My ding-dong husband!

[Hermes hugs his son and wife.]

Hermes: I am so, so sorry. You both mean more to me dan all de talkin' shrubs and prehistoric space aliens in Jamaica. Can you ever forgive me?

LaBarbara: Come on in, I'll make yah some coffee.

Hermes: Oh, God, no! I've had enough coffee for the rest of my entire… mornin'. Eh, I guess I could have a little.

[Scene: Planet Espresso. The door now has a banner reading "Out of buzz-ness. See you latte-r". Sal operates a crane removing the Planet Espresso sign from the door.]

Sal: Sorry, I ain'ts had my coffees today. [The sign drops onto him.] Owses!

[Cut to inside. Everyone watches as several construction workers remove the equipment.]

Hermes: Well, that's that. I sold off the whole coffee estate to Mom.

Farnsworth: I'm sure she's in Jamaica right now, adulterating those beautiful beans and counting her money.

[Pan left to reveal Mom at a table with piles of money and sipping a tiny mug of coffee.]

Mom: You couldn't be more partially wrong.

[Hermes and Farnsworth gasp.]

Mom: I already resold the whole crapload for a butt-truck of ass-cash!

Hermes: Re-sold it? To who?

Mom: Who knows? A bunch of rich coffee snobs. [sips]

LaBarbara: I know it was hard to sell de farm, husband, but your daddy, oh, he would be proud. I'm sure he's smiling down on you right now.

Hermes: I'm sure he is.

[Zoom out to reveal Zoidberg finishing potting the Badrick shrub.]

Hermes: Come here, son.

[He lifts Dwight onto his lap.]

Dwight: Um, Pops, aren't I a little old to be sittin' on your lap?

Hermes: And heavy, too. But stay just a little longer.

[Scene: The coffee plant. Several workers are gathering beans, including Hattie, Abner Doubledeal, Scoop Chang, Petunia and Randy.]

Randy: Harvest, harvest, harvest, coffee break! [slurps] Harvest, harvest, harvest, coffee break! [slurps]

[Zoom out to reveal astronauts not unlike the Thermosians. A giant ship descends onto the hill. The hatch opens revealing an older Thermosian.]

Thermosian leader: It's been five million years. Has mankind undergone the great transition?

Thermosian 1: Uh, almost?

Thermosian leader: Excellent. Deploy the habitat!

[The dome of the ship opens revealing a coffee oasis filled with double-tailed mermaid-like aliens.]

Thermosian leader: Thanks to the holy bean, humanity will soon be elevated to its final subjugation.

Thermosian 2: Oh, okay.

Thermosian 3: Sounds good.

Thermosian leader: Freed from the shackles of sleep, they shall serve us nonstop, all… How many hours are there on this planet?

Thermosian 4: Twenty-four.

Thermosian leader: That's all? Fine. Twenty-four hours a day. Toiling in our fields, foaming our lattes, and never, ever sleeping for all eternity!

[The Thermosians laugh as the image of the leader crossfades into a logo similar to that of Starbucks. Pull out to reveal coffee shop franchises all over Earth on every corner.]
[Closing Credits.]