Hercules and his class have to spend a week in the work force. Hercules quickly gets sick of his demeaning job and quits, and Zeus arranges for him to get a much more impressive one: driving Apollo's sun chariot.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- An Aesop: Two of them, one for Hercules and one for Zeus.
- However humble your job is, it's still worth doing with pride and care.
- Nepotism is a mistake. While of course you want only the best for your children, you're not doing them any favours by putting them in positions they don't have the qualifications to handle.
- Burger Fool: Herc ends up working at Gyro Wurld, serving mutton while wearing a ridiculous sheep costume.
- Decided by One Vote: The vote whether to let Zeus remain King of the Gods comes down to Apollo having the settling vote.
- Legally Ousted Leader: Hades arranges for a vote of no confidence for Zeus, so that he can take over.
- Mundane Utility: Hades steals the sun and hides it in the underworld... then takes the opportunity to work on his tan.
- Nepotism: Zeus gives Hercules a job he's insanely unqualified for, just on the basis that his son deserves the best.
- The Night That Never Ends: When Hades steals the sun, this is naturally what ensues.
- Sadistic Choice: No one who votes for Hades is happy about it, it's just that after Zeus managed to lose the sun Hades seems a marginally better choice for them.
- Violent Glaswegian: The bandits who start plundering during The Night That Never Ends speak with a Scottish accent. In ancient Greece.
