1ACV13 Fry & the Slurm Factory
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Futurama: Season One: 1ACV13 Fry & the Slurm Factory
Bender shows up sick at a group meeting. Farnsworth takes the chance to try out his new F-Ray device and diagnoses him with a swallowed watch. He instructs Bender and Fry to make sure it doesn’t fall in the wrong hands. Naturally, they use it to scan 90 thousands of cans of Slurm, an addictive soft drink. They search for the winning entry, but they don’t find it until Fry chokes on the prize winning bottle cap. Their prize is a VIP tour of the Slurm factory and a chance to party with Slurms McKenzie. The tour guide makes a special point of keeping the secret ingredient that makes Slurm so addictive secret.

Fry, Leela, and Bender get separated from the group and end up wandering into a secret room. They are horrified to learn that the secreted ingredient comes out of a giant worm queen’s rear end. They are found and sent to a torture chamber. Fry must pry himself away from some addictive royal Slurm and save his friends. He barely manages to do so. The group tries to escape the giant worm queen, but she is gaining on them. A partied-out Slurms sacrifices himself to save the group. The group has one last party in his honor, complete with Slurms’s babes.
By Keith Alan Morgan on Sunday, November 14, 1999 - 10:19 pm:

"It's Slurms Mackenzie!" Wow! A Spuds Mackenzie spoof. How cutting edge.

Live from Omicron Persei 8. Well, I guess that means this episode was broadcast a 1001 years, 3 months ago. ;-)

The little cartoon is one of the original Simpsons shorts from The Tracey Ullman Show.

The tour guide seems to be like Willie Wonka.

The Slurm Queen says, "milk comes out of a cow's behind". Actually it comes from a cow's udders, but wasn't it said in an earlier episode that cows are extinct?

By Mark Morgan on Sunday, November 14, 1999 - 10:44 pm:

Willie Wonka is one of my favorite movies. I'd say they've done a great job of capturing Gene Wilder's character, including his slightly creepy side.

I swear, I knew a guy in high school who drank as much Jolt as Fry drinks Slurm. Which I suppose makes it not a nit.

By ScottN on Monday, November 15, 1999 - 12:40 am:

Great Line:

[Fry asks how Soylent Cola tastes]
Leela: It varies from person to person.

By G. Hans on Monday, November 15, 1999 - 5:59 am:

I couldn't stop laughing at the faux-Oompa Loompas songs...".....cret ingredient!" Bender: "We get the point!"

The F-Ray was also amusing: "Wait, I think I'm getting an idea...no, yes, no, no wait a minute, yes, no, yes, yes, yes!, no......YES!"

By Mike Konczewski on Monday, November 15, 1999 - 8:01 am:

The queen's methods of execution were similar to ones used by the Wicked Witch in "The Wiz."

The Slurm gift shop was a take off of the Coca-Cola HQ gift ship, complete with Slurm shirts in Hebrew.

The gay/TV robot that insults Bender was similar to John Leguizmo's character in "To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar."

By ScottN on Monday, November 15, 1999 - 8:57 am:

Thanks, Mike! I knew I forgot something! I loved the slurm Hebrew t-shirt! I used to have a Hebrew Coca-Cola shirt. It read (transliterated) "Shtu Coca-Cola" ("Shtu" being the hebrew imperative form of "to drink").

By Murray Leeder on Monday, November 15, 1999 - 11:09 am:

Favourite line - "Tell them I hate them!"

By Chris Booton (Cbooton) on Monday, November 15, 1999 - 1:05 pm:

Honey does not come from a bee's bottom, it is actually in essence be vomit. When they take the pollen, to get it out into the hive they must puke it up.

By J. Goettsche on Monday, November 15, 1999 - 5:05 pm:

Now I am REALLY glad I put sugar in my coffee instead of honey.

By Lea Frost on Monday, November 15, 1999 - 6:03 pm:

Thanks for the lovely image, Chris! (gag, choke, retch)

Agree with G. Hans about the faux Oompa-Loompas, though. And with ScottN about the Hebrew Slurm shirt...

By D. Stuart on Tuesday, November 16, 1999 - 2:12 pm:

Slurms McKenzie's female bikini-wearing dancers are thanked by Slurms McKenzie himself for their forty-year service, yet the women look no older than twenty. Although this may sound as if it is a nitpick, I believe it was intended as a joke. Take Morgan Fairchild and Cher for example.

By Corey Hines on Monday, November 22, 1999 - 3:41 pm:

In case anyone is wondering the disclaimer on the third screen in the contest commercial reads: "THE FOLLOWING SPECIES ARE INELIGIBLE, SPACE WASPS, SPACE BEAVERS, ANY OTHER ANIMAL WITH THE WORD SPACE IN FRONT OF IT, SPACE CHICKENS AND THE ELUSIVE YAK FACE"

By Mr. Annoying on Tuesday, November 23, 1999 - 2:00 pm:

What if we weren't wondering? What does it say then?

By Jo-Hanna Goettsche (Jgoettsche) on Tuesday, November 23, 1999 - 3:01 pm:

In that case, it displays a recipe for space potato pie. :)

By Corey Hines on Tuesday, November 23, 1999 - 6:03 pm:

The eye chart in Zoidberg's exam room says "NO SQUINTING FOUR EYES"

By Chris Thomas on Friday, March 03, 2000 - 9:10 pm:

Who did Pamela Anderson voice in this episode?

By Scott McClenny on Monday, March 27, 2000 - 6:34 pm:

Obviously the Slurm Queen must be part Ferengi from the way she mentioned how they were going to
reap the profits from introducing New Slurm and then wait for the consumers to demand the return of Classic Slurm.

Uh..shouldn't Fry,even with the minute portion of his small brain that he rarely uses,have been able to figure out that since the tour guide was a
worm he would eventually divide into two tour guides once Fry chopped him in half?
(Actually shouldn't it be it?I believe worms are
hermaphroditic or something like that.)

BTW:The Slurm worms reminded me of Mestor the evil
giant egomanic slug from the DR.WHO episode THE TWIN DILEMMA!:)

Happy,happy,that they finally put FUTURAMA on a
time that I could watch it!!!:)

By ScottN on Monday, March 27, 2000 - 8:17 pm:

Who did Pamela Anderson voice in this episode?

Didn't she voice her own head? Otherwise, she was probably one of Slurms McKenzie's babes.

By Chris Thomas on Tuesday, March 28, 2000 - 12:38 am:

No, Pamela Anderson wasn't playing herself in this episode. Which babe you reckon?

By Merat on Friday, May 12, 2000 - 10:26 pm:

Wasnt "Yak Face" a character in Star Wars?

By Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Wednesday, September 13, 2000 - 12:37 am:

The chess board that Leela & the Professor are playing on has several more boards than the 3D chess set on Star Trek. (The scene where Fry & Bender come back from using the F-ray around town.)

If Slurms MacKenzie had simply left the radio, turned to full volume, he could have escaped, as I doubt his gyrating actually did much to bring the cave down. However, if he had escaped, he would have been forced to party with Fry & Bender, and probably decided that death was the better option.

By Electron on Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 8:16 pm:

The F-Ray reveals that Bender runs on a 6502 CPU.

By Chris Diehl on Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 12:33 pm:

I think the idea of a valuable, addictive substance coming from the back end of a giant worm is a reference to Dune. It would have been funny if Fry drank so much Slurm, or ate so much royal Slurm, his eyes turned green and he developed special powers.

By Mike Nuss on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 7:24 am:

GREAT LINE:

Gronka Lonkas: Gronka lonka donkity darned guard...

Bender: SHUT THE HELL UP!

By Hachy on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 7:51 am:

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA this is BY FAR the best episode!!!

Gronka Lonka .... we once found a dead guy faced down on the slurm...

ha ha ha ha

By Moe the Bartender on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 5:55 pm:

Re:Yak Face reference
It's a reference to the Star Wars "Yak Face" Collectable figure, which was promoted in the U.S, but was never sold for some reason...
(it was sold in South Korea, though...).

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