The Route of All Evil
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Is Futurama S5 E3 OK for kids?

The Route of All Evil

Prof. Farnsworth's and Hermes' 12 year old sons combine forces to take over Planet Express, but their ambition is more than their ability and they need their fathers' help to save the day.

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Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Preview first — about 11+

Futurama S5 E3, “The Route of All Evil”, scores 3/5 for violence, 1/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 3/5 — Preview first — about 11+. Prof. Farnsworth's and Hermes' 12 year old sons combine forces to take over Planet Express, but their ambition is more than their ability and they need their fathers' help to save the day.

Across the episode we counted 16 flagged moments in 3 themes: Violence & injury (5); Swearing (5); Alcohol & drugs (6). Every moment below is either a direct quote from the episode transcript or a short description of what happens on screen, so you can decide before you press play.

Watch for — every moment, theme by theme

Violence & injury 5 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S5 E3:

  • …Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
  • …Hot Enough" • "Fifty Shades of Green" • "The Numberland Gap" • "Scared Screenless" • "Wicked Human" • "Murderoni" • "Crab Splatter" • "The Trouble with Truffles" • "The White Hole"
  • Fry I can't drink that! The metal shavings make my throat bloody.
  • Scene: Maple Craters. The port torpedo hatch opens and a gun pops out.
  • Cut to: Ships Torpedo Room. Hermes sits behind the gun with the papers scattered around the room.

Swearing 5 moments

How Swearing shows up in Futurama S5 E3:

  • …• "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Möbius Dick" • "Law and Oracle" • "Benderama" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Neutopia" • "Yo…
  • …"Law and Oracle" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Möbius Dick" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
  • Farnsworth Damn right we are! Now come on, let's go do a little father-son weaselling out of this.
  • Horrible Gelatinous Blob: What the hell do you want?
  • …Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" • "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm…

Alcohol & drugs 6 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S5 E3:

  • Scene: 7^11. Fry, Bender and Leela peruse the beer fridge.
  • Bender Ah, beer! So many choices, and it makes so little difference.
  • Leela Hey, hey! We can all fight when we're drunk. Now, listen, why don't we just brew our own beer?
  • Dwight Yeah, but why are you mad at us? Your dummy brigade wasted a week on an obviously fake mission.
  • Cubert We just busted our bums delivering a million papers and this is how you greet us, with a bunch of frosty, cold beers?
  • Farnsworth Uh, might a homeless old man have a touch more beef bourguignon? And another tequila slammer? [LaBarbara scoffs.] Please?

What to watch in Futurama · Season 5 guide

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