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"**The Route of All Evil**"
"The Route of All Evil"
Futurama episode
	File:Futurama ep44.jpg Dwight and Cubert's lunches getting sucked into a black hole.
Episode no.	Season three;
Directed by	Brian Sheesley
Written by	Dan Vebber
Original air date	December 8, 2002
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"The Route of All Evil" is episode twelve in season three of the Futurama DVDs. This episode was originally made to be aired during Season 3 but was put on the shelf by FOX. It was also going to be the season premiere for the fifth season but FOX made a last minute change and aired it on December 8, 2002. Other sources list this episode as season 5, episode 3. ^{[citation needed]}

Plot

Having been suspended from school for salting the bully Bret Blob (who appears to have the same weakness as slugs), Dwight and Cubert find themselves stuck with their fathers. After the boys send the Planet Express crew on a fake mission to deliver pizza to a non-existent planet and generally annoy the staff, their fathers order them to get jobs. They decide to start up a company to rival Planet Express: a paper route. They become so successful that they take over Planet Express when it is discovered that the Professor was declared legally dead three years ago (he was really taking a nap in a ditch in the park). The name of the company is then changed to the name of the boys' delivery route, 'Awesome Express'. Humiliated, Hermes and the Professor leave Planet Express. Meanwhile, Fry, Leela and Bender brew beer inside Bender, treating the robot like an expectant mother.

Dwight and Cubert end up taking on too many customers and cannot deliver the papers. In a panic, they run to Hermes and the professor to solve the problem. All the papers are successfully delivered; however, as they pass Bret Blob's house the boys admit that they broke his window last week. Hermes and the Professor take the boys to apologize. When Mr. Blob does not accept the apology and insults them, the boys' fathers take offense and start a fight. Blob beats them up, but later apologizes in the hospital. Bender comes in with his beers to enjoy, and everything ends happily except for Cubert and Dwight who are swallowed by Bret Blob.

Broadcast and reception

In its initial airing, the episode received a Nielsen rating of 2.6/4, placing it 97th among primetime shows for the week of December 2–8, 2002.^[1]

Cultural references

While Bender, Leela and Fry are buying beer near the beginning of the episode, one brand is called 'Klein's' and is in a Klein bottle. One other brand on the shelf is St. Pauli's Exclusion Principle.
Norm from Cheers appears as a background character in the liquor store.
When Dwight and Cubert deliver the paper the first time round, they also deliver one to The Little Prince. He even yells "Au Revoir", after he is shot off his planet by Hermes in the end, referencing to the French origin of the novella.
Dwight and Cubert send the crew on a prank mission to the planet "Dogdoo VIII," but the crew find that the universe ends after Dogdoo VII. Later, in the episode I Dated a Robot, Fry expresses a longtime wish to journey to the end of the universe, which is exactly what he does in this episode, an experience which leaves him unimpressed. Presumably, in I Dated a Robot, the crew travel to the perhaps more interesting other end of the universe.

References

^ "Nielsen Watch: Dec. 2-8. (Programming).(television ratings)(Illustration)". Broadcasting & Cable. Reed Business Information. 2002-12-16. Retrieved 2009-03-07.

External links

The Route of All Evil at The Infosphere.

[Ratings-1] "Nielsen Watch: Dec. 2-8. (Programming).(television ratings)(Illustration)". Broadcasting & Cable. Reed Business Information. 2002-12-16. Retrieved 2009-03-07.

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 * [[Norm Peterson|Norm]] from ''[[Cheers]]'' appears as a background character in the liquor store.
 * When Dwight and Cubert deliver the paper the first time round, they also deliver one to [[The Little Prince]]. He even yells ''"Au Revoir"'', after he is shot off his planet by Hermes in the end, referencing to the French origin of the novella.
+* Dwight and Cubert send the crew on a prank mission to the planet "Dogdoo VIII," but the crew find that the universe ''ends'' after Dogdoo VII. Later, in the episode ''[[I Dated a Robot]]'', Fry expresses a longtime wish to journey to the end of the universe, which is ''exactly'' what he does in this episode, an experience which leaves him unimpressed. Presumably, in ''I Dated a Robot'', the crew travel to the perhaps more interesting ''other'' end of the universe.
 ==References==

v t e Futurama episodes
Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Season 1	"Space Pilot 3000" "The Series Has Landed" "I, Roommate" "Love's Labours Lost in Space" "Fear of a Bot Planet" "A Fishful of Dollars" "My Three Suns" "A Big Piece of Garbage" "Hell Is Other Robots" "A Flight to Remember" "Mars University" "When Aliens Attack" "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
Season 2	"I Second That Emotion" "Brannigan, Begin Again" "A Head in the Polls" "Xmas Story" "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" "The Lesser of Two Evils" "Raging Bender" "A Bicyclops Built for Two" "A Clone of My Own" "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" "The Deep South" "Bender Gets Made" "Mother's Day" "The Problem with Popplers" "Anthology of Interest I" "War Is the H-Word" "The Honking" "The Cryonic Woman"
Season 3	"Amazon Women in the Mood" "Parasites Lost" "A Tale of Two Santas" "The Luck of the Fryrish" "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" "Bendless Love" "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" "That's Lobstertainment!" "The Cyber House Rules" "Where the Buggalo Roam" "Insane in the Mainframe" "The Route of All Evil" "Bendin' in the Wind" "Time Keeps On Slippin'" "I Dated a Robot" "A Leela of Her Own" "A Pharaoh to Remember" "Anthology of Interest II" "Roswell That Ends Well" "Godfellas" "Future Stock" "The 30% Iron Chef"
Season 4	"Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" "Leela's Homeworld" "Love and Rocket" "Less Than Hero" "A Taste of Freedom" "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV" "Jurassic Bark" "Crimes of the Hot" "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" "The Why of Fry" "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" "The Sting" "Bend Her" "Obsoletely Fabulous" "The Farnsworth Parabox" "Three Hundred Big Boys" "Spanish Fry" "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
Season 5	"Bender's Big Score" (Part 1–4) "The Beast with a Billion Backs" (Part 1–4) "Bender's Game" (Part 1–4) "Into the Wild Green Yonder" (Part 1–4)
Season 6	"Rebirth" "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" "Attack of the Killer App" "Proposition Infinity" "The Duh-Vinci Code" "Lethal Inspection" "The Late Philip J. Fry" "That Darn Katz!" "A Clockwork Origin" "The Prisoner of Benda" "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" "The Mutants Are Revolting" "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" "The Silence of the Clamps" "Möbius Dick" "Law and Oracle" "Benderama" "The Tip of the Zoidberg" "Ghost in the Machines" "Neutopia" "Yo Leela Leela" "Fry Am the Egg Man" "All the Presidents' Heads" "Cold Warriors" "Overclockwise" "Reincarnation"
Season 7	"The Bots and the Bees" "A Farewell to Arms" "Decision 3012" "The Thief of Baghead" "Zapp Dingbat" "The Butterjunk Effect" "The Six Million Dollar Mon" "Fun on a Bun" "Free Will Hunting" "Near-Death Wish" "31st Century Fox" "Viva Mars Vegas" "Naturama" "Forty Percent Leadbelly" "2-D Blacktop" "T.: The Terrestrial" "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" "The Inhuman Torch" "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" "Calculon 2.0" "Assie Come Home" "Leela and the Genestalk" "Game of Tones" "Murder on the Planet Express" "Stench and Stenchibility" "Meanwhile"