How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back story
"How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" is the eleventh episode in the second season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 2, 2000. The title references the 1998 film and popular novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Directed by: Mark Ervin. Story by: Bill Odenkirk.
13 total · 8 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| bureaucracy | major | The Central Bureaucracy was central to the story. |
| bureaucratic dystopia | major | The Central Bureaucracy was central to the story. |
| friendship | major | Fry went on a mission to recover Bender's downloaded personality at the Central Bureaucracy. |
| human vs. Kafkaesque institution | major | Hermes had to navigate through the Central Bureaucracy. |
| infatuation | major | Bureaucrat Morgan Proctor was turned on by Fry because of his slobbiness. |
| office romance | major | Fry and bureaucrat Morgan Proctor. |
| opposites attract | major | Bureaucrat Morgan Proctor was turned on by Fry because of his slobbiness. |
| sloppy character vs. tidy character | major | Bureaucrat Morgan Proctor was turned on by Fry because of his slobbiness. |
| contemplating suicide | minor | Hermes had to be talked down from jumping off the Planet Express building. |
| coping with a bad boss | minor | The Planet Express team had to deal with pedantic bureaucrat Morgan Proctor taking over for Hermes. |