Futurama: 10 Worst Episodes

4. The Route of All Evil

The Episode: Pushing the main cast into the background, The Route Of All Evil focused on Professor Farnsworth's teenage clone, Cubert, as he set up a paper route with Hermes' son Dwight. The business quickly grows until it rivals Planet Express, eventually taking over the older company. Meanwhile, Leela, Fry, and Bender decide to brew their own beer.

Why It Sucks: Although Cubert was an intriguing idea to start off with, the character never really went anywhere. He was used so infrequently that any episode featuring him required a heavy-handed reminder of how he related to the rest of the characters. The episode partnered him with Hermes' son Dwight, an equally forgettable and vapid character. The whole thing was incredibly dull because Dwight and Cubert simply didn't have enough personality or audience appeal to carry an episode on their own.

The focus on Cubert and Dwight also left the main cast in a meandering subplot where Bender gives birth to his own brand of beer. Bender as a pregnant woman wore thin pretty quickly and was, if anything, worse than the other episodes that flipped his gender.

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With a (nearly) useless degree in English literature and a personal trainer qualification he's never used, Freddie spends his times writing things that he hopes will somehow pay the rent. He's also a former professional singer, and plays the saxophone and ukulele. He's not really used to talking about himself in the third person, and would like to stop now, thanks.