The Six Million Dollar Mon

"The Six Million Dollar Mon" is the one hundred and twenty-first episode of Futurama, the seventh of the seventh production season and the ninth broadcast season. Hermes upgrades his body with robot parts.

Production
On 28 July 2011, it was revealed at that, in an episode of the seventh production season, "Hermes [would] realize he [was] less efficient than a machine, so he [would] chop some unnecessary parts of his body and [would] become a cyborg". On 30 August, a photograph of the cover of the episode's production script was posted on a blog - revealing the episode's title. On 29 February 2012, CGEF confirmed the episode's title and revealed its writer to be Ken Keeler and its director to be Peter Avanzino.

In June, Countdown to Futurama began releasing promotional material for the episode. It has so far released seven items: A promotional picture showing Leela, Amy, Zoidberg, Farnsworth, a  Hermes, Bender and Fry in the Planet Express employee lounge and a design of the mecha Hermes - together with the revelation that the episode was the one associated with the Hermes plot at the San Diego Comic-Con - on 6 June, a design of the cover of the magazine Astounding Tales on 7 June, part of the storyboard showing Bender suggest to Hermes getting an implant on 8 June, a design of a new character, Mark 7-G, on 9 June and a design of Hermes with an extendo arm and cycloscanner eyes and a design of four stages undergone by a ventriloquist dummy of Hermes on 10 June.

By 8 June, had revealed the episode's air date.

Allusions

 * The episode's title is a reference to the American television series  -  is, like Hermes here, a cyborg - and the fact that Hermes pronounces "man" as "mon".
 * Astounding Tales is a reference to the American science fiction magazine ' - which was initially published as "Astounding Stories" - and the American anthology comic book series '.

Characters

 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Farnsworth
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Leela
 * Debut: Mark 7-G
 * Scruffy
 * Zoidberg