Murderoni
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| Murderoni | |||||
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| No. | 167 | ||||
| Production number | AACV07 | ||||
| Written by | Cody Ziglar | ||||
| Directed by | Edmund Fong | ||||
| Title caption | It's Tendril-Lickin' Good | ||||
| Title caption reference | The slogan for KFC, "It's finger-lickin' good!" | ||||
| First air date | 15 September, 2025 | ||||
| Broadcast number | S13E07 | ||||
| Opening cartoon | The Milkman by Ub Iwerks (1932) | ||||
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| Season 10 | |||||
"Murderoni" is the one hundred and sixty-seventh episode of Futurama, the seventh of the tenth production season and the seventh of the thirteenth broadcast season. It aired on 15 September, 2025, on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
Plot
Act I
Hermes proudly sends his son, Dwight, off to his first day at the Young Bureaucrats Club, a profession Dwight seemingly embraces. Hermes and the Planet Express crew celebrate this milestone by going out for pizza at Family Bros. Pizza, a popular local spot run by two friendly, hard-working Cygnoids, Blek and Blazucchi.
Upon arrival, Hermes is shocked to discover that his son isn't at the club at all. Instead, Dwight is working at the pizza parlor as a server. Dwight tearfully confesses that he doesn't want to be a bureaucrat and has been hiding his true passion from his father. Hermes is furious, but Dwight's mother, LaBarbara, reveals she's known for years and fully supports him, encouraging him to follow his own path.
Meanwhile, a news report interrupts the digital menus at the restaurant, announcing that billionaire fast food magnate "Fishy" Joseph Gilman is running for city council. He pledges to impose a punitive tax on local businesses like Family Bros. Pizza to benefit big corporations. Blek and Blazucchi are distraught, as they can't afford a new tax that would ruin their business. Seeing their distress, Leela convinces the reluctant Blazucchi to run for office against Fishy Joe, and she agrees.
Blazucchi's campaign begins, but a debate with Fishy Joe quickly turns ugly. To discredit her, Fishy Joe makes a baseless claim that Blazucchi's popular pepperoni is made from human babies. The insane and completely fabricated rumor quickly spreads, with a Bender-led mob heading towards the pizzeria, believing the lie.
Act II
With the pizza parlor's reputation ruined by Fishy Joe's baseless lies, Bender leads a mob demanding to see the "baby basement." Blazucchi tries to prove they have no basement, but Fishy Joe twists the truth to keep the mob on his side. Blazucchi despairs, but Hermes steps in to help. He promises Dwight a "thrillin' adventure" involving bureaucracy to find the old paper blueprints of the restaurant, which would prove there's no basement.
At the Central Bureaucracy, Hermes uses his expertise to bypass the long line, impressing Dwight. Meanwhile, back at Family Bros. Pizza, the staff is short-handed without Dwight. Fry volunteers to help, since he worked at a pizzeria a thousand years ago. He struggles to carry a pizza, ruining his pants in the process. He's hesitant to wash them, as they are a sentimental connection to his old life. Leela convinces him to wash them, only for them to crumble into dust, leaving him heartbroken.
Back at the Central Bureaucracy, Hermes and Dwight navigate the building to find the Labyrinth of Documentation, a massive, ancient filing system. Hermes explains their quest to the Center-Square Bureaucrat, who directs them to the labyrinth. As the entrance opens, they are greeted by a group of chanting monks, ready to face the challenge of finding the pre-digital records.
Act III
Hermes and Dwight navigate the chaotic and immense Labyrinth of Documentation in search of the blueprints for Family Bros. Pizza. Hermes, using his bureaucratic expertise, explains the seemingly random filing system created by the legendary Bureaucrates, who, as it turns out, died from being lost in his own files.
During their search, the filing shelves begin to topple, trapping them. Hermes uses an approved "life-saving device"—an exceptionally long label from his label maker—to swing themselves to safety. They eventually find themselves at the top of a mountain of papers, where they are confronted by a giant paper mite. After a tedious and time-consuming effort to make paper clip chainmail, the mite falls asleep. However, Hermes insists on fighting it anyway, but his homemade paper sword shatters, and the papers he throws at the mite simply flutter to the ground. Miraculously, the mite is sliced to pieces by unseen forces, leaving Hermes and Dwight surrounded by a blinding paper blizzard.
Believing they are lost and will die, they find themselves face-to-face with the legendary Bureaucrates himself, who is still alive and has been trapped in the labyrinth for 500 years. Bureaucrates confesses that his "system" is a complete fraud, a random pile of papers that only he can navigate. Hermes, seeing this as the ultimate act of bureaucratic genius, calls him a "bottleneck" and gets him to find the blueprints. After a moment of chaos that nearly topples the entire paper temple, Bureaucrates finds the correct tube. The blueprints are found, but Bureaucrates warns there is no way out. Dwight then points out the clearly marked emergency exit, and they escape.
Back at the pizza parlor, Hermes triumphantly unrolls the blueprints, intending to prove there is no basement. Instead, he unintentionally points to a section of the plans that shows the entrance to a basement. Professor Farnsworth pushes aside an out-of-order arcade game, revealing the door, and everyone gasps as Fishy Joe opens it, seemingly proving his ridiculous lies were true.
Act IV
The crew, led by Fry, ventures into the newly discovered basement of Family Bros. Pizza. They find that the filthy, secret basement is not a "baby butcher," but rather the ruins of Panucci's Pizza, Fry's old workplace from the 20th century. Fry rediscovers his old locker, which contains a pair of his spare delivery pants, and puts them on to the relief of the entire crew.
After the discovery, the news crew retracts their sensationalist reporting, and Fishy Joe drops out of the election, ceding the race to Blazucchi. Just as Blazucchi is about to celebrate, Blek emerges from a back room in the basement with a tray of the famous, "tender" pepperoni. He reveals the secret to their beloved pepperoni: it has been dry-aging for a thousand years. Fry remembers that a thousand years ago, the only thing hanging from the ceiling in the basement was fly paper. It's revealed that the so-called pepperoni is actually compressed logs of flies that have accumulated on the fly paper over a millennium. Everyone is disgusted by this revelation, but Hermes comments that at least it's not babies.
Ultimately, Blazucchi loses the election to Boxy Robot. Despite not winning the election, Blazucchi's reputation is saved from the baby-butcher rumors. Dwight tells Hermes that he still finds bureaucracy boring, but he thinks his dad is cool. Hermes is touched by this revelation. The episode concludes with Fry presenting the crew with a new pizza, and the group discovers a new horror: it's topped with pineapple.