"How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" is episode eleven in season two of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on April 2, 2000. The title references the 1998 film and popular novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
Hermes Conrad is excited because the Central Bureaucracy is conducting an inspection the next day, and he expects to be promoted to a Grade 35 bureaucrat. Leela hosts a poker game with her former co-workers from the cryoge...
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"How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" is episode eleven in season two of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on April 2, 2000. The title references the 1998 film and popular novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
Hermes Conrad is excited because the Central Bureaucracy is conducting an inspection the next day, and he expects to be promoted to a Grade 35 bureaucrat. Leela hosts a poker game with her former co-workers from the cryogenics lab at the office that night, and Bender cheats via the use of X-ray glasses. On the run from the other players, he takes refuge in Hermes’ office, but the other players find him, and the savage beating he receives trashes the office.
The resulting mess costs Hermes his promotion, and the inspector, Morgan Proctor, places a suicidal Hermes (who is so emotional he cannot recite his own catchphrase, murmuring 'Sweet something of...someplace!') on paid vacation, which Hermes considered a penalty. Morgan appoints herself as an acting Planet...
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