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-{{notability|date=April 2018}}
-{{Infobox character
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-| name       = Hermes Conrad
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-| series     = [[Futurama]]
-| image      = [[File:Hermes Conrad promo pic.png|Hermes Conrad|190px]]
-| gender     = Male
-| species    = Human
-| occupation = [[Bureaucrat]] Grade 35 and accountant of the [[Futurama#Planet Express|Planet Express]] delivery company.
-| spouse     = [[List of recurring characters in Futurama#LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara Conrad]] (wife)
-| children  =  [[List of recurring characters in Futurama#Dwight Conrad|Dwight Conrad]] (son)
-| voice      = [[Phil LaMarr]]
-| creator    = [[Ken Keeler]] (writer)<br>[[Matt Groening]] (designer)
-| first      = "[[The Series Has Landed]]" (1999)
-| last      = ''[[Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow]]'' (2017)
-| lbl21      = Origin
-| data21     = [[Kingston, Jamaica]]
 }}
-'''Hermes Conrad''' is a major character in the American animated series ''[[Futurama]]''. Hermes is Jamaican Rastafarian and grade 36 Bureaucrat, and proud of it. He works at Planet Express, handling stamping, filing, collating, and accounting. He is voiced by actor [[Phil LaMarr]].
-==Fictional biography==
-Hermes is a workaholic bureaucrat and the accountant at the Planet Express from [[Jamaica]] with a heavy Jamaican accent, known for his 31st-century Jamaican exclamations - for instance, ''"Sweet manatee of Galilee!"''. He manages the Planet Express delivery business with responsibilities that include paying bills, giving out legal waivers, and notifying next of kin. Hermes is very enthusiastic about the [[Limbo (dance)|Limbo]] and was once an Olympic limbo athlete.<ref name="cc">[http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=342951&title=the-voices-of-futurama-phil Phil LaMarr Comedy Central Interview]</ref> However, an accident in the 2980 Olympic Games in which a fan broke his back trying to emulate Hermes left him traumatized, and he could not bring himself to limbo again until decades later when it was needed.<ref>{{cite episode|title=[[A Flight to Remember]]|series=Futurama|date=September 26, 1999|network=Fox|season = 1|number= 10}}</ref> The series also alludes to Hermes using [[marijuana]], though he is never seen actually using it.
-Hermes frequently admonishes the staff for not working hard enough, and strongly dislikes [[Zoidberg|Doctor Zoidberg]], often treating him as a "thing" and not a person, and normally punishes Zoidberg first even when obviously innocent. Zoidberg is generally oblivious to this, considering Hermes his friend but upon learning the truth in "[[The Six Million Dollar Mon]]", he callously calls out Hermes for his treatment of him. Later episodes show them building an uneasy rapport, with Hermes slowly softening to Zoidberg. He is also known to dislike labor unions, once referring to Labor Day as created by "fat-cat union gangsters", though seconds later he exclaims "Hot damn, a day off!" upon learning that it was that very day ("[[When Aliens Attack]]"), and consulting Glurmo about firing the entire crew and replacing them with Grunka-Lunkas for half the pay ("[[Fry and the Slurm Factory]]").<ref>{{cite episode|title=[[Fry and the Slurm Factory]]|series=Futurama|serieslink=Futurama|date=November 14, 1999|network=Fox|season = 1|number = 13}}</ref> It is also a recurring gag that Hermes wants to kill some or all of the members of the Planet Express crew; in "[[The Farnsworth Parabox]]", he suggested that Leela shoot the rest of the crew and pondered ejecting the entire crew of both universes except him in Universe 1 into the sun.<ref>{{cite episode|title=[[The Farnsworth Parabox]]|series=Futurama|serieslink=Futurama|date=June 8, 2003|network=Fox|season = 4|number= 13}}</ref>
-Despite his disdain and attitude towards most of his coworkers, he has more recently been portrayed as one of the most compassionate characters in the series, and seems to have a soft spot for [[Bender (Futurama)|Bender]]. In the Season 6 episode "[[Lethal Inspection]]," it is revealed that Hermes used to work for [[Mom (Futurama)|Mom's]] Robot Factory in [[Tijuana, Mexico]] as Inspector #5, checking robots for defects as they came off the production line. Bender was built here without a backup module, but Hermes' compassion for the baby robot led him to override Bender's "defective" assessment and give him a chance at life. He turned in his resignation immediately afterward, and later destroyed all evidence of his employment there in order to prevent Bender from learning the truth, almost being killed in the process. As the episode ends, he smiles quietly at his burning personnel file and nods, showing him to be proud of his choice.<ref>{{cite episode|title=[[Lethal Inspection]]|series=Futurama|serieslink=Futurama|date=July 22, 2010|network=[[Comedy Central]]|season = 6|episode = 6}}</ref> In the earlier episode "[[How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]", he risked his bureaucratic license to rescue Bender, sorting the entire Master IN pile in under four minutes to recover the disc containing Bender's downloaded brain.<ref>{{cite episode|title = [[How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]|series = Futurama|serieslink=Futurama|date = April 2, 2000|network = Fox|season = 2|episode = 11}}</ref>
-Hermes is married to LaBarbara Conrad, with whom he has a son Dwight. However, LaBarbara was formerly married to Hermes' former Limbo rival [[List of recurring Futurama characters#Barbados Slim|Barbados Slim]],<ref>{{cite episode|title = [[Bend Her]]|series = Futurama|serieslink=Futurama|date = July 20, 2003|network = Fox|season = 4|episode = 13}}</ref> and got back with Barbados twice when Hermes was temporarily decapitated in ''[[Bender's Big Score]]''.<ref>{{cite AV media | people=Carey-Hill, Dwayne (Director) | date=November 27, 2007 | title=[[Futurama: Bender's Big Score]] | medium=Motion picture | location=Los Angeles, California | publisher=20th Century Fox Home Entertainment}}</ref> Hermes is also overweight, caused by over three decades of overeating including LaBarbara's goat curry which has made his skin too spicy and acidic for consumption by others.
-==Character==
-===Creation===
-Actor [[Phil LaMarr]] states that Hermes did not originally have a Jamaican accent and was more uptight, but was asked by series creator [[Matt Groening]] to do so for his character. This resulted in making the character more workable, according to Groening.<ref name="cc" />
-==References==
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 [[Category:Fictional accountants]]
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-[[Category:Fictional marijuana users]]
+[[Category:Television characters introduced in 1999]]