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Episode Number: 3ACV12
Title: Route of All Evil
Original Airdate: December 8, 2002 "The Route of All Evil" is Episode 12 in Season Three of the Futurama DVDs. This episode was originally made to be aired during Season Three but was put on the shelf by FOX. It was then to be the Fifth Season Premiere. A last minute change postponed its airing until December 8, 2002. Sources other than the DVD list classify this episode as Season Five, Episode Three. Supposedly this episode had a delayed release because Bumper Robinson, who played Hermes' son Dwight, moved to China for 10 months mid-production.
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- Lobrau is a reference to Lowenbrau beer and a pun on the word "lowbrow".
- Pabst Blue Robot is a reference to Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
- The title is taken from the phrase "the love of money is the root of all evil", derived from the Latin "radix malorum est cupiditas", the creed of the Pardoner in his prologue and tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.[1] This itself is taken from 1 Timothy 6:10 (King James Version): "The love of money is the root of all evil...etc." - and "radix enim omnium malorum est cupiditas" in the Vulgate of Saint Jerome.
- Cubert and Dwight deliver papers to the asteroid inhabited by the Little Prince character from the children's book by the French aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [2]. When his paper is thrown, the Prince catches it, but later, when the delivery mode is speeded up by Hermes shooting the papers from a gun, he gets hit, and flies off his asteroid into space, crying "Au revoir!"
- Cubert is shown playing with a device similar to a Game Boy.
- Bender considers naming the beer brewing inside him Botweiser, a reference to Budweiser beer.
- The dog chasing Dwight and Cubert as they fly through an asteroid field is eaten by a giant tube worm extending from a crater, a parody of a scene in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, in which the Millenium Falcon flies out from inside a similar beast as it tries in vain to re-eat the ship.
- Professor Farnsworth denies it, but Cubert says Farnsworth declared himself dead "as a tax dodge". The Futurama writers might deny it, but this is very similar to Hotblack Desiato, of the rock band Disaster Area, having himself declared dead as a tax dodge, in Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the second book in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams. [3]
- Bender is shown reading a Victoria's Circuit catalog; this is a parody of the clothing maker Victoria's Secret, known for their lingerie catalogs.
- A beer mentioned in the episode is given the name of St. Pauli Exclusion Principle Girl. This is a portmanteau and reference to both St. Pauli Girl beer and the Pauli Exclusion Principle. [4]
- As he stamps paperwork in his office, Hermes is singing a parody of Get Up Stand Up by Bob Marley and the Wailers, with his lyrics, "Stamp it / File it / Oh yeah / Send it overnight".
- Taco Bellevue Hospital is a portmanteau and reference to both Taco Bell and Bellevue Hospital, it is also seen in the episode Bender Gets Made.
Goofs
- The periodic table on the lunchbox has only 107 elements. 109 elements had been named when this episode aired, and even more were known to exist but were as yet unnamed. Perhaps it was supposed to be an old lunchbox, and therefore rare and collectible. Or perhaps not.
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