Enjoyable episode. Fry's side of the story seemed too similar to his role in "Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love", but the red tape jokes and the song and dance number made this episode entertaining.

Nits:
1. I know it's supposed to be unbelievable, but honestly, the fastest we saw Hermes organize during the song number was about six canisters in ten seconds. In 3:58 (or was it 3:56?), he couldn't have organized more than 150 canisters, and the pile seemed MUCH larger than that.

2. Farnsworth making an electric frankfurter? Don't they already have self-microwaving ones, making his invention obsolete?

And, as a side note, I feel sorry for Zoidberg. His song number was promising...

Once again, a Morgan is the villain. (Most of the time a Morgan appears in fiction it's as a villain, or as a not very nice person.)

Ok, I take back the nit about how unlikely it was that Hermes would finish in four minutes. I had forgotten about the piping he and Bender set up. (wince)

But, to make up for it:

3. When Hermes has a nervous breakdown, Morgan puts him on "paid vacation" status. At the end, Professor Farnsworth hires him back at severely reduced pay. Did I miss something here? Paid vacation usually doesn't involve firing the worker, and bureaucrats don't seem to be the type to use euphemisms.

4. Hermes manages to save Bender and his job by finishing organizing the master in pile by closing time (1:00). However, he finished with two seconds to spare, so he was demoted for untimeliness. For some reason, the bureaucrats seem not to acknowledge that, despite their concern for doing things on the second, two seconds after the song number ended was CLOSING TIME, and they should have been heading home.

Also, on a side note, Amy's only distinct line in the episode was "Why?"

Sheesh, Amy does get a couple more lines than I thought.

Don't worry, eventually I'll post something that is actually correct. :)

Re: "Farnsworth making an electric frankfurter? Don't they already have self-microwaving ones, making his invention obsolete?"

Isn't the professor renowned for inventing things that aren't necessary? Remember, he's half senile as well so the fact it's obsolete wouldn't matter.

The guy in the labour camp with the "Australian" acccent (sorry but the US never comes close when trying to imitate it) is quite obviously a nod to Crocodile Dundee.

Funny: Central Bureaucracy employs Doom cacos as guards. And CB looks like B5 from the inside up.

I thought the Doom cacos looked more like Beholders from Dungeons and Dragons.

One of the other references is the movie "Disclosure". There seemed to be a slight resemblence to that plot too.

Whoa! One of the people in the cryogenic chamber was "Wierd Al" Yankovic!

Whoops! wrong episode! Disregard.

I find it hard to believe that "all that is Bender" can be stored on a floppy disk. CD-ROM definately, but not floppy disk

This may actually be an obscure reference to an old UK Transformers comic where Optimus Prime and Megatron were convinced to play a computer game, The looser gets terminated. Megatron cheats (obviously) and Primes entire personality and memory is supposedly stored on one single 3 1/2" floppy.

Or maybe I'm just giving the writers too much credit.

The old cartoon on the big screen was none other than...FELIX THE CAT!

A similar thing happened in a Red Dwarf episode, when Lister was transfered onto, I believe, a cassette tape. The tape was then dropped into coffee. Of course, this was played for laughs, the same as it was here.