History Recap / FuturamaS2E11HowHermesRequisitionedHisGrooveBack

-->''''Bender:''' Do a flip!

* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Bender decides to have a PetTheDog moment and warns the cryogenics lab boss about a dangerous internal parasite. Unfortunately for Bender, the boss has a EurekaMoment and realizes Bender's wearing X-Ray specs, causing the Cryogenics lab employees to chase him into Hermes' office before they give him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and also trash the office in the process, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom setting off the events of the episode.]]

* BrainTheft: Robotic variant - Bender ends up getting his memory chip, effectively his brain, stolen by Morgan when he catches her in an illicit relationship with Fry.

* CallAndResponseSong: Hermes' song while he tidies up the Central Bureaucracy has a brief section that even Morgan joins in with (against her will, it must be said).

* CallBack: The people who are invited to the poker game include Leela's old boss, who on arrival says she's fired, [[LampshadeHanging what with being two years late for work]].

** [[DrivenToSuicide Hermes attempts to commit suicide to avoid a demotion]]. However, [[BungledSuicide the suicide plan backfires]] when he realized that he didn't take into account [[VastBureaucracy how much the Central Bureaucracy has regulations for just about everything a person can do]], and if he commits suicide without filling out all the proper paperwork he'll be posthumously demoted.
--->'''Hermes:''' Life! Death! [[MortonsFork Ether way I'm demoted]] [[BlackComedy to a tiny cubicle]]!

* EasilyForgiven: Hermes swears vengeance against Dr. Zoidberg for sending him to the forced labor camp Spa 5. He seems to have gotten over this by the end, when Zoidberg apparently rescued him. Possibly justified since Zoidberg seemed ignorant about the resort's true nature and Hermes stated that Zoidberg got them back. Hermes also managed to give the camp advice that heavily reduced the physical labor.

* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Bender decides to have a PetTheDog moment and warns the cryogenics lab boss about a dangerous internal parasite. Unfortunately for Bender, the boss has a EurekaMoment and realizes Bender's wearing x-ray specs, causing the Cryogenics lab employees to chase him into Hermes' office before they give him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and also trash the office in the process, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom setting off the events of the episode.]]

* GamblingBrawl: Bender plays poker with Fry, Leela and her former co-workers. He cheats using x-ray specs and, when he's exposed, is chased into Hermes' newly-cleaned office and beaten up.

* HighFiveLeftHanging: Morgan gives Fry the position of "Executive Delivery Boy", much to the disdain of his co-workers. Fry tries to get Bender to hi-five him, but he initially refuses until Morgan orders him to. When Fry then goes for the down low, Bender kicks him in the leg.

* ILikeThoseOdds: Bureaucrat 1.0 allows Hermes to search for Bender's memory card, but he has to find it before closing time, 1 PM. Leela points out he'd have less than 4 minutes. Hermes just says "Requisition me a beat" before getting to work.

* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: How Hermes beats Morgan--he points out that a form she submitted as a teenager was only stamped four times, as opposed to the requisite five.
-->'''Number 1.0:''' Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct--the best kind of correct!
* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: The gang follow the capsule with Bender's memory chip to the central filing room, only to find the room full of thousands of identical capsules. They simply resort to brute-forcing it, filing ''every single capsule'' until the only one remaining is Bender's.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Accosted by a woman in the park who claims he stole her purse, Bender tries fending her off with some random purse he just ''happened'' to have at hand.

-->'''Bureaucrat:''' Central Filing? Of course I know where that is. I'm a Grade 20.\\

* RightBehindMe: Brilliant subverted when Bender complains about Morgan only to see his coworkers frantically gesturing for him to stop.

* RightOnQueue: The line for the Central Bureaucracy is so long there's an elderly man there still waiting for his birth certificate. At one point the line moves backwards, attributed to someone in the line giving birth.
* SayingTooMuch: Bender does this by mentioning the tapeworm inside Ipgee's intestine, thanks to his x-ray shades.
* SecretRelationship: Morgan starts an affair with Fry because she is turned on by dirty slobs, but insists it must be kept hidden from everyone. She goes as far as downloading Bender's brain, essentially subjecting him to DeathOfPersonality, when he threatens to expose them.

* UnconfessedUnemployment: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Ipji says his wife doesn't know he has a job, because he keeps his personal and professional lives separate.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Bender using his "lucky x-ray shades" to cheat his way through poker, but [[SayingTooMuch accidentally gets himself in trouble by mentioning a tapeworm going to town on Ipgee's bowels]]. [[OhCrap It was that moment Bender knew he was boned]]. Hermes' office gets destroyed [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown during the ensuing fight]], leading to him getting demoted and replaced by Morgan.
* UptightLovesWild: Morgan Proctor's an uptight, anal-retentive bureaucrat that puts Hermes to shame...but she's completely turned on by Fry's slobbery.

* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses: After Bender pisses off Leela's former co-workers into attacking him in Hermes' office, he tries to dissuade them from doing so by pointing out his x-ray glasses. It doesn't work.
-->'''Bender:''' Hey, you wouldn't hit a guy with x-ray glasses, would you?

* HighFiveLeftHanging: Morgan gives Fry the position of "Executive Delivery Boy", much to the disdain of his co-workers. Fry tries to get Bender to hi-five him, but he initially refuses until Morgan orders him to. Though Fry goes for the down low, Bender kicks him in the leg.

* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: The gang follow the capsule with Bender's memory chip to the central filing room, only to find the room full of thousands of identical capsules.

* SecretRelationship: Morgan starts an affair with Fry because she is turned on by dirty slobs, but insists it must be kept hidden from everyone.

* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning, Hermes gives his forms 5 stamps. In the end, he incriminates Morgan by pointing out that she'd used only 4 stamps rather than the requisite 5 on a form that she had filled out when she was in high school.

* FailedASpotCheck: PlayedForLaughs. As Bender is talking smack about Morgan, Leela and Fry are making shushing motions, and he says, "Uh oh, is she [[RightBehindMe behind me]]?" Morgan replies with, "No, I'm in front of you!" and Bender [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl squeaks like a mouse]].

-->'''Morgan:''' Why is there yogurt in this ball cap?\\
'''Fry:''' I can explain! It used to be milk, but, well, time makes fools of us all.

* ILikeThoseOdds: Bureaucrat 1.0 allows Hermes to search for Bender's memory card, but he has to find it before closing time, 1 PM. Leela points out he'd have less than 4 minutes. Hermes just says "Requisition me a beat" before looking.

-->'''Hermes:''' (''shivering'') Sweet... something of... s-someplace...
* MadnessMantra: After being reset to his original programming, Bender can only say "I am Bender. Please insert girder."

* PrimAndProperBun: Being an uptight bureaucrat, Morgan wears her hair like that.
* RightBehindMe: Bender goes on a rant about Morgan, then thinks she's behind him.
-->'''Morgan:''' No, I'm right in front of you.

* SeriousBusiness: Morgan's utlimately defeated when it turns out she once filled in a form about a date incorrectly.

** Morgan chews the delivery crew out for screwing up a delivery, with her irritation with Leela being that Leela left port without a full complement of olives (which only came up because Bender was having a martini-drinking contest with the autopilot and ran out of olives).

'''Morgan Proctor:''' I'm surrounded by neat freaks all day. There's nothing kinkier to me than a filthy slop-jock like you!\\

-->'''Number 1.0:''' Don't quote me regulations! I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to change the color of the book that regulation's in. ''We kept it gray.''

* MistakenForAliens: Fry believed Hermes was an "[[BuffySpeak Outer-Space Potato Man]]" rather than a Jamaican human.

* BuffySpeak: "But Bender need brain for...smart making!"
* CallBack: Among the people who are invited to the poker game includes Leela's old boss, who on arrival says she's fired, [[LampshadeHanging what with being two years late for work]].

* PrimAndProperBun: Morgan wears her hair like that.

* SexyDiscretionShot: Happens between Fry and Morgan in Bender's closet. Morgan sees Fry as she unbuttons her blouse before proceeding to have sex with Fry. Cut to Bender walking in with a candle he made for Fry and seeing them both naked under the sheets.