Line #72 Recap/FuturamaS1E13FryAndTheSlurmFactory


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3	'''''[[CouchGag LIVE]]''''' ''[[CouchGag from Omicron Persei 8]]''
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5	Fry and Bender take the Planet Express crew on a free trip they won to the Slurm Factory on the planet Wormulon, but things quickly turn south after Fry, Leela, and Bender are separated from the rest and discover the horrible secret about Slurm.
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7	!!Tropes present:
8	* AnArmAndALeg: Fry tries to bite his arms off at one point in order to fit through a grate.
9	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: To justify selling her excrement as Slurm, the Slurm Queen claims that honey comes from a bee's behind[[labelnote:]]Honey is regurgitated from a bee's stomach...which is also kinda gross[[/labelnote]] and milk comes from a cow's behind[[labelnote:]]Milk comes from an udder on the underside of the cow[[/labelnote]]. [[PlayedForLaughs Of course, she also claims]] ''[[PlayedForLaughs toothpaste]]'' [[PlayedForLaughs comes out of an animal's behind...]]
10	* BadBoss:
11	** Glurmo treats his employees like slaves, gives them one bathroom break a day, and will rescind that if they do something he doesn't like.
12	** After consulting with Glurmo, Hermes contemplates firing the crew and replacing them with Grunka-Lunkas at half the cost.
13	* BigNo: Fry after Leela dumps his trough of Super Slurm down a drain.
14	* BigShutUp: Bender tells the Grunka-Lunkas to "'''Shut the Hell up!'''" when they start singing the third time.
15	* CharlieAndTheChocolateParody: The episode plays around with the idea and produces a little twist for the plot. Possibly the TropeCodifier for long-form parodies.
16	-->'''Professor:''' Who are those horrible orange creatures over there?\
17	'''Glermo:''' Why those are the Grunka-Lunkas. They work here in the Slurm factory.\
18	'''Professor:''' Tell them I hate them.
19	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Fry laments that he wishes there were some way for him to see inside Slurm cans without opening them, to find the winning bottle cap. Then Bender announces how much he's enjoying using the Professor's F-Ray to look inside things without opening them. It takes Fry a ridiculously long time to realize the F-Ray is the solution to his problem.
20	* ConveyorBeltODoom: Bender is put on one by the Slurm Queen which lead to a machine that turns metal into Slurm cans. Leela saves him in time before any real damage was done but he did get a [[TorsoWithAView hole punched through his body]].
21	* CrazyMemory: {{Invoked\|Trope}}. After finding out the truth about Slurm, the professor tries to get the company shut down. However, Fry can't bear the fact that Slurm will be discontinued, so he claims, "gramps is telling crazy stories again". The professor retaliates by saying that Fry is actually his uncle from the year 2000, making him sound even crazier.
22	* CuckooFingerTwirl: Professor Farnsworth reports the truth of Slurm's origins to the police, but when the hopelessly addicted Fry figures out that will get Slurm outlawed he tries to make the Professor look like a senile old man, making the "crazy" gesture when the 160-year-old refers to him as his uncle.
23	* {{Expy}}: Slurms [=MacKenzie=] is a parody of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuds_MacKenzie Spuds MacKenzie]]
24	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Seeing Slurms [=MacKenzie=] on TV at the start of the episode Bender says, "and they say there are no heroes left", he didn't know [[HeroicSacrifice how accurate that statement would be.]]
25	* FreezeFrameBonus:
26	** When Bender is using the F-Ray on the hot dogs at the convenience store, you can very briefly see that there's debris inside them.
27	** Later, when they encounter Leela and the Professor playing Scrabble, the Professor's letters are an anagram of Futurama but with one A missing.
28	* FriendOrIdolDecision: Fry is stuck between saving Leela and Bender or getting to drink a large trough of concentrated Super Slurm. He [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option]] by dragging the trough with him while he pulls Leela out of the royal Slurm who then saves Bender from his ConveyorBeltOfDoom.
29	* FunnyXRay: While the F-Ray is showing the inside of Bender's head, a computer chip with the number 6502 on it can be seen briefly. [[note]]The 6502 was one of the processors commonly used in 8-bit home computers back in the late 1970s to early 1990s, as well as several early game consoles such as the Atari 2600 and NES.[[/note]]
30	* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Her own subjects are loyal to her, but the Slurm Queen is clearly ill-disposed to anyone else.
31	* GroinAttack: Bender renders Fry sterile with the F-Ray. Fry doesn't feel anything the second time he's zapped, though.
32	* HeroicSacrifice: Slurms [=MacKenzie=] sacrifices his life by partying hard for the last time to buy the others some time to escape from the Slurm Queen.
33	* HeroicWillpower: DoubleSubverted. Fry's unable to overcome his addiction to the Super Slurm to save his friends, but instead summons the strength to drag the heavy metal trough it's contained in over to the lever.
34	* {{Homage}}: The episode is a spoof of ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''.
35	* IAteWhat: It turns out the secret of Slurm is that it's secreted from the anus of a giant worm. That doesn't stop Fry from drinking it and makes sure no one finds out about it by discrediting the Professor.
36	-->'''Fry:''' ''That's'' the secret ingredient of Slurm?
37	-->'''Leela:''' That's the ''only'' ingredient of Slurm!
38	-->'''Fry:''' Eeewww! ''(keeps drinking his Slurm which Leela knocks out of his hand)''
39	* ImAHumanitarian: Apparently there's a soda called Soylent Cola that's made from people. The taste [[{{Pun}} varies from person to person]].
40	* ImmediateSelfContradiction: After spending the whole day looking for the golden bottle cap, Fry decides he never wants to see another Slurm can again... and immediately gets one from the fridge.
41	* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: Fry was free to escape the Slurm Queen so long as he could resist a trough of highly concentrated "Super Slurm". He manages to free Bender and Leela by dragging the trough with him.
42	* IrrationalHatred: The Professor expresses hatred for the Grunka-Lunkas for no apparent reason.
43	* JumpOffABridgeRebuttal: {{Invoked}} by Bender when, after Fry and Leela both jump into the factory's Slurm river (Fry because he wants a drink, Leela to rescue him), he surfaces with them:
44	-->'''Leela:''' Bender, why did you jump in?\
45	'''Bender:''' Everybody was doin' it. I just wanted to be popular.
46	* KarmaHoudini: The Slurm corporation faces no consequences for using the Slurm Queen's excrement to flavor their drinks, as Fry [[CrazyMemory discredits the professor]] when the latter tries to report it to the beverage bureau.
47	* LifeOfTheParty: Slurms [=McKenzie=] is the most absolutely pathetic deconstruction of this trope possible. He is contractually obligated to be an icon of partying long past being sick of it personally, and his only escape from partying is ''death''.
48	* MayContainEvil: Slurm is advertised as highly addictive.
49	* OlderThanTheyLook: Slurms Mackenzie's party babes have been working with him for at least forty years. They sure don't look like it.
50	* OwMyBodyPart: Fry says "OW! My sperm!" when he's hit with the F-Ray the first time.
51	* PainfulRhyme: Played for laughs with the Grunka-Lunkas and their songs.
52	-->'''Leela:''' Hey, what's behind that door?\
53	'''Glurmo:''' Nothing!\
54	'''Leela:''' Is it the secret ingredient?\
55	'''Grunka-Lunkas:''' ''Grunka-Lunka dunkity-dingredient, you should not ask about the secret ingredient!''\
56	'''Bender:''' OK, OK, we get the point!\
57	'''Leela:''' I was just curious because of the armed guards.\
58	'''Grunka-Lunkas:''' ''Grunka-Lunka dunkity-darmedguards...''\
59	'''Bender:''' Shut the hell up!
60	* RattlingOffLegal: The Slurm advert has a massive amount of legalese run by in Alien Language 1, stating that the competition isn't open to various animals with the word "space" in front of their name, including the "elusive space-yak."
61	* RiddleForTheAges: Which animal's butt ''does'' toothpaste come from? All we know is that [[NothingIsScarier the answer is so disgusting that]] even a giant slug queen who makes a drink from ''the slime that comes out of her ass'' doesn't want to talk about it.
62	* RuleOfThree: Fry does three spit takes after discovering the secret source of Slurm.
63	* ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The rate at which the Slurm Queen fills cans would work out to just under 30,000 cans per day, assuming she did so 24/7 with no breaks. Certainly not a number to sneeze at, but when you consider that on modern-day Earth an estimated ''1.9 billion'' cans of Coca-Cola are consumed per ''day'', you can see that the numbers would fall far short to supply a product supposedly popular throughout the galaxy. However, since there is the possibility of multiple Slurm Queens (since they almost made Leela into one), then it's possible that there are other Slurm factories with other Slurm Queens, with the one we saw as the High Queen.
64	* SleepDeprivation: Slurms [=MacKenzie=], the original party worm working in advertising for Slurm, is partied out.
65	* ShameIfSomethingHappened: The basis of the Grunka-Lunka's first song.
66	* SpecialGuest: Creator/PamelaAnderson as one of the party girls.
67	* SpitTake: When Fry, Leela and Bender find out that Slurm's ''only'' ingredient is a semi-liquid discharge from the tail of a giant slug queen, there are several exchanges of Fry drinking from a can of Slurm, Leela reminding him what it is, Fry spit-taking, and going right back to drinking (it ''is'' highly addictive, after all.)
68	* TakeThat: Against New Coke, with Slurm Queen's plan to bring out a New Slurm that won't taste as good as the original, and then bring back Slurm Classic.
69	* ThisIsGonnaSuck:
70	-->'''Bender:''' I can't see what's happening, are we boned?\
71	'''Leela:''' Yeah, we're boned.
72	* ToThePain: The Slurm Queen gives one of these to Bender, Leela, and Fry.
73	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: While messing with the Professor's F-Ray, Bender sees a smoking hot fembot whom he promptly scans to see her internal anatomy. When she turns out to be UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} (with only [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything one more upgrade to go before completing transition]]), he reacts in disgust.
74	-->'''Bender:''' Whoa, mama. Hold still, sexy lady. ''(uses F-Ray on her, then gasps)''
75	-->'''Fry:''' What is it?
76	-->'''Bender:''' That's no lady!
77	-->'''Fembot:''' Damn, chico! One more upgrade and I'll be more lady than you can handle. Why you so stupid, stupid?
78	-->'''Bender:''' Hey, bite my shiny, metal ass!
79	-->'''Fembot:''' You couldn't afford it, honey! ''(snaps fingers and walks off)''
80	* WarningSong: The Grunka Lunkas warn Fry and his tour group about inquiring too closely into the inner workings of Slurm production:
81	-->'''Grunka-Lunkas:''' Grunka-Lunka dunkity-doo.\
82	We've got a friendly warning for you.\
83	Grunka-Lunka dunkity-dasis.\
84	The secret of Slurm's on a need-to-know basis.\
85	'''Grunka-Lunka 1:''' Asking questions in school is a great way to learn.\
86	'''Grunka-Lunka 2:''' If you try that stuff here, you might get your legs broke.\
87	'''Grunka-Lunka 1:''' We once found a dead guy face down in the Slurm.\
88	'''Grunka-Lunka 1:''' It could easily happen again to you folk.\
89	'''Grunka-Lunkas:''' So keep your head down, and keep your mouth shut.\
90	Grunka-Lunka-Lunka dunkity-dut!\
91	'''Glurmo:''' Hey, I don't pay you to sing! You just used up today's bathroom break!\
92	'''Grunka-Lunka:''' Hardass.\
93	'''Glurmo:''' I heard that.
94	* WholePlotReference: To Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory.
95	* YouDontWantToKnow: When the Slurm Queen brings up the origins of toothpaste, she claims that "you don't wanna know" what animal behind it comes from.
96	* YouWereTryingTooHard: Fry tries to find the can of Slurm with the winning gold bottle cap inside, first by drinking can after can, then by using the professor's F-ray. After his search yields nothing, he gives up and has a can of Slurm... and starts choking on the winning cap.
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