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Recap / Craig Of The Creek S 4 E 34 Craiggy And The Slime Factory

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Written & storyboarded by Jason Dwyer & Angel Lorenzana

The Stump crew receives a special invitation to the mysterious Slime Factory, where all is not as it seems as things go wrong during the tour.


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  • Charlie and the Chocolate Parody: The episode is basically Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but told in 11 minutes, and considerably slimier. Several plot elements are taken specifically from the 1971 adaptation, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. There's also references to the Tom and Jerry version and the remake, where J.P. and Kelsey arrive after getting caught in slime changed from the process of cleaning them up.
  • Covered in Gunge: J.P. falls into one of the slides where the slime is mixed and is covered in glue, which then hardens around him. This trope happens again when everyone gets the lifetime supply of slime, in the form of a large amount of pink slime being dunked on them.
  • Didn't See That Coming: After Ooey reveals they were testing Craig during the tour to see if he's worthy of getting the cube piece, Craig asks if J.P. and Kelsey getting hurt was part of it, but they admit them getting hurt during the tour was completely unexpected.
  • Elemental Hair Composition: All the employees of the Slime Factory have different colored slime covering their hair.
  • Not So Great Escape: Carl tries to ominously walk backwards but trips and falls in the bushes.
  • Secret Test of Character: Ooey was holding one of the cube pieces, but just couldn't hand it over without seeing if Craig was worthy and orchestrated the whole thing as a test.
  • Shout-Out: A caricatured version of Gene Wilder's portrayal of Willy Wonka is seen on the wall of the slime factory. But given this picture bears a resemblance to one of the memetically infamous frames of the Tom and Jerry crossover, and J.P.'s reaction of a disgusted "ooh!", this is likely a Take That! aimed at that crossover.
  • Sticky Situation: A natural expectation when you're dealing with slime.
  • Theme Naming: The slime kids are named Ooey, Gooey, and Loogie, and the slime factory's founder is named Ptooie. All of them have an "oo" sound followed by an "ee" sound, and all are associated with some form of slime, with "ooey-gooey" being an informal descriptor of slime, "loogie" being a slime made inside the mouth, and "ptooie" being onomatopoeia for spitting.
  • Violation of Common Sense: The group is rather confused as to why they can't touch any of the slime in the factory when slime exists to be touched and played with. When Craig finally snaps and calls Ooey out for it after she fakes being very disappointed and showed them the exit rather than the promised life-time supply of slime, she then reveals that was all a Secret Test of Character involving a piece of the cube.

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