Awesome Express was the short-lived delivery company founded by Dwight Conrad and Cubert J. Farnsworth, originally in an attempt to impress their fathers. They started out as a simple newspaper delivery company but soon became more profitable than Planet Express, eventually acquiring the rights to the Planet Express ship and the Planet Express building through a legal technicality. Shortly after hiring Bender Bending Rodríguez, Philip J. Fry and Turanga Leela to work for them, it was discovered that they had not actually been delivering the papers they had been getting paid for, but were depositing them in a crater on the moon. The boys were forced to go to their parents for help. Hubert J. Farnsworth and Hermes Conrad agree to help and use a shooter to deliver the remainder of the newspap