For this familiar sounding story, we start at planet express, where Hermes is helping Dwight put on a tie, since it’s his first day at the Young Bureaucrats club. Dwight winds up sneaking off the bus, Hermes, unaware, brings the Planet Express members to get some pizza, and it’s revealed that Dwight is actually working at the pizza shop. After a news report about Fishy Joe, of the Fishy Joes restaurant, is running for mayor, we see him across the street giving a speech, saying if he’s elected, he’ll put a tax on the mom-and-pop restaurants (like the Family Bros. Pizza we’re in right now). In response, Blazucchi runs for mayor to stop him.

At the debate, Fishy Joe winds up pulling a dirty move, and tries to say that the reason the pepperoni at Family Bros. Pizza is so tender, is because it is made from human babies, who are fattened up in the basement of the restaurant and used to make it. Despite Leela’s firm belief that no one could believe such a thing, people begin to start protesting outside the pizza shop, with Bender leading the charge for some reason. Leela tries to help to prove that the restaurant doesn’t have a restaurant, which doesn’t work, leaving Hermes and Dwight to save the day.

Fry tries to help the restaurant out, but winds up losing his favorite pants in the process. Hermes and Dwight arrive at the bureaucrat offices, to try and retrieve the paper records of the restaurant, to prove that it doesn’t have a basement, and are allowed to go into the labyrinth of Documentation to get it. They begin traversing the desolate paper land, through paper sinkholes caused by a giant shredder in the floor, to a shelf-alanche and more. Back at the restaurant, Bender is hypocritically eating the pizza, and Fry is still gloating over his pants loss.

Becoming more and more lost in the thick forests of paper, Hermes accepts the inevitable fate, when the rumored dead Bureaucrates rescues them. When Hermes asks him about the floor plan of the restaurant,  Bureaucrates breaks down, and admits he never had a system, and just kept piling things up. From Hermes praise of his work, Bureaucrates is moved, and after finding the plan, he refuses to leave the labyrinth with Hermes and Dwight. It turns out there actually was a secret basement, and after checking, it turns out to be the ruins of Panucci’s Pizza, where Fry used to work a thousand years ago. Fry finds his old locker, and puts on his spare pants. Fishy Joe apologizes to Blazucchi, and drops out of the race. Finally, The real secret of the melt in your mouth pepperoni is revealed to be logs of dead flies, which had accumulated in the storage closets fly traps for a thousand years. Dwight and Hermes then have a nice little father-son bonding moment

This episode was absolutely another great addition. The twist at the end was both expected and unexpected. Since this is Futurama, you can guarantee that something bizarre was going to happen with there being a basement, with some crazy secret, but the pepperoni being logs of dead flies was not on the top of the list. All in all, the episode is a great watch, not the best in the series so far of course, but still great nonetheless.  

Rating 7.8/10