How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back

Season 2, Episode 14, Aired
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Hermes is ordered to go on vacations thanks to the levels of stress he is going through. His replacement at Planet Express, Morgan Proctor, has an affair with Fry which Bender wants to publicize. To stop him, Morgan hides Bender's memory in the immense Central Bureaucracy.
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  • David Herman

    Terry / Lou / Spa 5 Leader / Grade #20 Bureaucrat / Laser-eyed Bureaucrat / No. 1.0

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    Katey Sagal

    Turanga Leela

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    Billy West

    Philip J. Fry / Professor Hubert Farnsworth / Dr. Zoidberg / Ipgee / Old Man in Queue / Slow-Mobile Bureaucrat

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  • Boring.

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    By that70sguy92, Oct 19, 2010 Report Abuse
    This was a pretty boring episode of Futurama. I did not like the plot, neither of the plots, in fact. I hated the Hermes plot, and I really also hated the plot about Fry and Morgan Proctor having an affair. It was stupid, and it did not make much sense. This episode was not that good, but it was most definitely not the worst episode of the show . . . it was DEFINITELY not the worst episode of the show. Seriously, Futurama has actually had worse episodes than How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back. But, allow me to tell you, there is no episode of Futurama that is not worth watching.moreless

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  • great episode starring hermes

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    By Blind_Legend, Jun 22, 2008 Report Abuse
    This was one of the best episodes in season 2 in my opinion.
    The best part was problably the song. I mean you gotta admit it was pretty cacthy. I also loved how they finally made a excellent episode based on Hermes only. Also you gotta love that camp. 'I don't miss twice campers'. LMAO. It was an excellent episode overall and I learned a couple things. Robots get lonley, beurocrats aren't just snobs, and Hermes sings pretty good. This was a grreat epsiode finally starring hermes. the humor about work was hillarious ( about the numbers, and files) I give it a 9.8 overallmoreless

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  • This one is centered around Hermes.

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    By stitch069917, Jun 19, 2008 Report Abuse
    Hermes gets all his paperwork and his office straight for the bureaucrat inspector who is coming the next day. Fry and Leela ask Hermes to stay for the card game, but he want to go home early to be ready for the next day. Leela's old co-workers come over and they start the card game with Leela, Fry and Bender. Bender is using some x-ray glasses so he can see everybody's cards. He slips up and lets on that that's what they are and Leela's old co-workers chase Bender into Hermes' office and beat him up and wreck the place. The next morning....moreless

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  • Another great political episode added to the Futurama series.

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    By Iverson82094, Feb 03, 2008 Report Abuse
    Hermes Conrad is excited because the Central Bureaucracy is conducting an inspection the next day, and he expects to be promoted to a Grade 35 bureaucrat. Leela hosts a poker game with her former co-workers from the cryogenics lab at the office that night, and Bender cheats via the use of X-ray glasses. On the run from the other players, he takes refuge in Hermes' office, but the other players find him, and the savage beating he receives trashes the office.

    The mess in his office loses Hermes his promotion, and the inspector, Morgan Proctor (voiced by Nora Dunn), places a suicidal Hermes on paid vacation ("the ultimate penalty") and appoints herself acting Planet Express bureaucrat. Doctor Zoidberg suggests Hermes and his wife LaBarbara take a trip to Spa 5, the sauna planet which gives him a bucket of krill for every patient he sends there. Fry gains a new title: Executive Delivery Boy.

    Morgan Proctor, who has a fetish for slovenly men (in her words, she is "surrounded by neat freaks all the time"), begins a secret affair with Fry (a "dirty, dirty boy!"), while Hermes and his wife discover that Spa 5 is actually a forced labor camp. After Bender discovers the illicit affair, Morgan downloads his personality and intelligence to a disk, turning him into a mindless drone, who can only say "I am Bender, please insert girder". She also sends the disk off to the Central Bureaucracy for filing.

    Hermes begins to use his natural managerial skills to reorganize the labor camp for efficiency, oblivious to the torment of his fellow workers. The rest of the Planet Express staff infiltrate the Central Bureaucracy in order to recover Bender's mind. One of the many employees they encounter is a Beholder, a Dungeon and Dragons monster, who simply hopes not to be exposed for sleeping on the job. They discover the master in-pile, an enormous pile of pneumatic tube capsules, only one of which contains Bender's brain.

    The Planet Express staff is daunted by the giant pile, but Hermes has returned from Spa 5. He had made the labor camp so efficient that they only needed one Australian man to perform the labor. In a musical number, Hermes sorts the master in-pile, recovering the disk with Bender's personality. He is restored to his original rank (a Grade 36 bureaucrat) by the head of the Central Bureaucracy for sorting the master in-pile, but immediately demoted to Grade 38 for finishing two seconds early (something bureaucrats should never do). Since Morgan was still in charge of Planet Express, she fires Fry for exposing her affair. However, Hermes exposes a mistake Morgan made on her high school prom date papers, having stamped it only four times instead of the standard five. Number 1.0 promotes him to grade 37 for this, and in turn, orders his assistants to get the papers needed to have Morgan taken away. The Professor re-hires Hermes, at severely reduced pay, and Fry asks if he can come back at a severely reduced pay as well. Hermes lets him and then gives severely reduced pay for everyone. Zoidberg begins his own musical number but the show immediately ends.moreless

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  • much better than I expected

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    By bender21345, Nov 28, 2007 Report Abuse
    most episodes about supporting charcters a bland and tasteless but this was a turn for the better

    the episode starts off with heres getting ready for a office inspection and leela is getting ready for a poker game with the guys from her old job at the cryogenics lab but hermes plan to get promoted went wrong when Bender is caught cheating in the poker game and the guys attack him in hermes office witch devesttes him and when the inaspection is over he is suspended with pay ( the worst punishment ever) while another beurocrat takes hermes place she has an affair with giving him special treatment and when bender finds out his emotion chip is taken out and fry has to get it back.moreless

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    • Leela "You didn't wear your wedding ring I didn't know you had a wife." After she says this her old boss says "and my wife doesn't know I have a job" This is not possible because in the first episode "Space Pilot 3000" it is stated that jobs are required by law. Edit
    • The job title of "Executive Delivery Boy" for Fry when he's promoted was most likely a joke on part of David X. Cohen and/or Matt Groening, who often joke on the DVD commentaries how Executive Producers simply do the DVD commentaries, etc. Edit
    • Opening theme promotion: AS FORETOLD BY NOSTRADAMUS Edit

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    • The Requisitioning Song Hermes: When I was four there was a hurricane in Kingston Town, With a foot and a half of water, Everyone was alright but I cried all night, It blew my alphabet blocks out of order, And they said, "This boy's born to be a bureaucrat, Born to be all obsessive and snotty," I made my friends and relations file long applications, To get into my 10th birthday party. LaBarbara: But something changed when my man turned pro. Hermes: I was sortin' but I wasn't smilin'. LaBarbara: He forgot that it's not about badges and ranks. Hermes: It's supposed to be about the filing! People! We didn't choose to be bureaucrats, No, that's what almighty Jah made us, We treat people like swine, And make 'em stand in line, Even if nobody paid us! They say the world looks down on the bureaucrats, They say we're anal, compulsive and weird, But when push comes to shove, You gotta do what you love, Even if it's not a good idea. Zoidberg! Zoidberg: They said I probably shouldn't be a surgeon. Farnsworth: They pooh-poohed my electric frankfurter. Leela: They said I probably shouldn't fly with just one eye. Bender: I am Bender. Please insert girder. Hermes: Everybody sing Jamaica! All: Jamaica! Hermes: Just the bureaucrats, Jamaica! Bureaucrats: Jamaica! Hermes: The grade 19's! Morgan: Jamaica. Hermes: Sing me home! When push comes to shove, You gotta do what you love, Even if it's not a good idea! Edit
    • The is the first time we see the Australian who becomes a running gag (like Sal and Scruffy). Edit
    • The people from Leela's old job return in a poker game with Leela, Fry, Bender, and Zoidberg. Edit

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    • Leela: Hermes, wait. We're having a poker party. Stay and whip off a batch of your famous jerk dip. Edit
    • Zoidberg: Now it's time for my song! When I was two, there was a tidal wave in- Closing Credits Zoidberg: Aw. Edit
    • Farnsworth: Well, it looks like I'll be needing my heroic bureaucrat back. At severely-reduced pay, of course. LaBarbara: It's better than nothing. Fry: What about me? Can I come back at severely-reduced pay? Hermes: You got it, mon! In fact, severely-reduced pay all around! Edit

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    • The creature that the group passes in the hallway ("Please, don't tell my supervisor I was sleeping!") is a Beholder from D&D. Edit
    • Title: How Hermes Requisitioned his Groove Back.

      The title and plot is a parody of the book (and later film), How Stella Got her Groove Back. Edit

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