Futurama Season 1 Episode 13- Fry and the Slurm Factory Reaction!

[@arthurpietrogarcia1057]

The joke about Zoidberg is that he knows how to treat every species except human and robot :).

[@epicurius1]

I think the tooth joke is that Fry drinks so many soft drinks and sugary garbage that his teeth are falling out.

[@unforeseeable2.058]

Exactly cause in the next shot it shows that Fry is missing a few teeth.

[@ammash3000]

I love the commentary behind this episode. Slurm is definitely based on Mountain Dew and the implication here is that even if this were how it were made we would still drink it 😂

[@douglas2938]

All I've learned from this episode is that Slurms McKenzie was a real one. Everyone, raise your Slurm cans as we toast to his memory!

[@jasonthayer1309]

Soylent Cola is a reference to Soylent Green, a movie where food supplements are made from people in order to reduce the Earth's population. It's where we get the famous line "Soylent Green is people!" The scary part? Soylent is an actual product!

[@zeallust8542]

I will never understand why the irl company Soylent thought it was a good idea to name themselves that

[@zeallust8542]

Like I know they make soy products, but the word soylent is literally defined as "soylent: An undesirable, lackluster, and artificial foodstuff, as a substitute for real meat." and is associated with the movie

[@marcbloom7462]

Slurms Mackenzie is inspired by Spuds Mackenzie, a dog mascot for Bud Lite. Also, remember that the F Ray killed Fry's sperm. Futurama sets things up well ahead of time.

[@kieranhoare7239]

'how are lab humans a thing'. Honestly, this first season shows that this setting really is a dystopian setting. We see a few examples of how much power the corporations really have power, for example mum's robot company and this episode. They even mention that there's a cola made out of dead people (soylant cola, a reference to the movie soylant green). The mars university has a line where fransworth laughs at fry because of 'jungles of earth'. There's even machines to commit suicide for what, a quarter? Is that how cheap society sees humans? You don't get a choice in jobs, you gotta do what you gotta do. You literally get microchipped what job the government thinks you should do. So how are lab humans a thing? The short answer is because in my opinion this season shows what corporate america would become, how people would be treated, if different regulations were removed to keep companies in check. And corporate america absolutely would grow humans in labs to test things on if they were allowed to.

[@VeerleTakino]

They're Fry's teeth. Immediately after finding "another" tooth in the soda, he smiles and like half his teeth are gone.

[@Jsspres]

It's pretty obvious that this a play on Willy Wonka. Spuds MacKenzie was a mascot for Budweiser in the 1990s.

[@itaialter]

5:24 - It says "Slurm" on Zoidberg's shirt in Hebrew (my native language). Although the dot in the middle letter actually makes it "Sloorm" lol They also used Hebrew in a couple more episodes of Futurama, which I find hilarious.

[@JuntosXlaLibertadMileyBuIIrich]

Oy vey my brotha

[@zvimur]

"Shin ש" is sometimes pronounced as S. (שיער)

[@itaialter]

@@zvimur yes, but I'm talking about the "ו" in the middle of the word. It should have the dot above the letter.

[@zvimur]

@@itaialter dot above means o dot in the middle is U or OO.

[@moneylover318]

@@itaialter It does make sense doctor zoidberg is a Jewish character

[@CyberSlayer128]

"Why are the fake factory and real factory in the same place?" Property taxes if I had to guess. Lol

[@chrissmith6097]

I thought the implication was Slurm is so acidic it causes teeth to fall out and those were all Fry’s teeth. I don’t remember teeth being in any of the cans Fry scanned.

[@hakairyu1]

“Why would you keep the fake factory right next to the real factory?” Because sci-fi planets have the surface area of a small neighbourhood.

[@hallofguns8174]

Those teeth were Fry's, they fell out because of the Slurm.

[@georgeprchal3924]

That worm sure can party. Who says there are no more heroes? Slurms Mackenzie partied for your sins.

[@dalton6173]

This is one of those series defining episodes. I didn't even remember this episode was from this early in the show I this is one of the few episodes that you just say slurm and I instantly remember the gist of the episode with a few details. That saying a lot though I have a bad memory.

[@jasonbrennan9918]

I think the tooth joke was that they were all Fry's

[@StefanTheArtist]

There's lots of things on the market in real life that contain cancer-causing ingredients. Examples of this include noodles and coca-cola. So it's really no surprise that slurm has been approved. Even cigarette packs contain warning labels about smoking and lung cancer but they're still legal.

[@vetarlittorf1807]

Coca-Cola causes cancer? I thought it just causes diabetes.

[@StefanTheArtist]

@@vetarlittorf1807 Well, I do know Pepsi causes cancer cause I remember seeing an article about it years ago. My cousin told me Coca-Cola causes cancer too but I haven't seen any articles on that, although I did hear some factories made their drinks out of human waste. The scary truth is we don't really know what ingredients are used in the products we consume and whether they cause cancer or not. It seems everyone is at risk of getting cancer at some point in their lives regardless of health or weather they smoke or not.

[@VernonParker]

The tooth thing was addressed when Fry smiled, he drinks so much that his teeth are falling out. One other thing, perhaps the most important part of the ad about slurm, that you didn't mention was that it says it is highly addictive. It's funny that she makes a super highly concentrated form of the slurm since it was always addictive.

[@benkelly2024]

Potassium bromate is legal for use as a flour improver in the US despite being a carcinogen.

[@dalton6173]

Oddly enough one time someone bought me a meal and while we were eating I started to choke on a cucumber that had lodged itself in my throat very similarly and just continued nodding along with conversation like nothing was wrong and just maneuvered my throat to dislodge the cucumber slice.

[@TROUBLESOME.87]

This is definetly my favorite episode of this season. Just so good XD

[@vetarlittorf1807]

And that concludes season 1!

[@dalton6173]

They did say concentrated sperm so it seems like they take the stuff out of her behind and dilute it with probably water or something along those lines to make it go further kind of like how nowadays you can buy at home soda makers and then buy the concentrated syrup so you take your water from at home and mix it with the syrup after pumping some carbonation into the water.

[@maxdon2001]

Great reaction! This was a great episode!

[@Emerald-t7k]

I think the excretion is supposed to be a reference to artificial vanilla. I could be wrong but I'll just say their is a striking similarity.

[@Otokichi786]

Ah, "Slurms McKenzie," the Party Worm!;) (How did they get this by Anheuser-Busch? I kinda recall "Spuds McKenzie.")

[@alwaysmore09]

Don't know why, but that moment at 3:38 always gets me!! 😂

[@sfodd1979]

Is something wrong, with Fry's brain?......Maybe, lol.

[@vaultshadow]

when they are sucked into the slurp drain, that happened to augustus gloop

[@gurvmlk]

On one hand, the Soylent Cola joke is messed up. But on the other hand, in a world with so many aliens coexisting, it wouldn't be entirely farfetched to assume that there are some that would consider humans to be food. And I imagine it's them who came up with the cola in the first place, before it wound up gaining popularity elsewhere. At least enough so that Leela's aware of it.

[@KSLAMB-uz4it]

spuds mackenzie reference

[@simonorourke4465]

I can get it though, I learned how hot dogs were made years ago and I still eat hot dogs lol. There is a saying that applies here that noone wants to see how the sausage is made which probably applies to slurp to. The teeth however are a bit far even for ne though lol.

[@Howhaveyouben]

The Stanford experiment... every single pharma grant... We still test on humans... Say you're not broke without saying it

[@ericreacts2]

I never said we no longer test on humans? The show was talking about laboratory humans, like lab rats, which is different, and we're not advertising it on television like this episode does. Be more charitable

[@Howhaveyouben]

​@@ericreacts2It's a parody of drug ads. All of the side effects are known reactions from someone who tested the drug and those are on TV all day everyday. And he doesn't find a tooth the soda is so harmful that he loses one. Go get a scholarship.

[@dalton6173]

You wouldn't need the real factory in the fake factory to be able to distribute product from the same area... I would probably have a fake factory underneath the basement and have the elevator only go to the basement and then you have to find a secret passageway down to the real factory which might have its own elevator

[@empirejeff]

At least you enjoyed the episode.

[@PaliSvapna]

I see them still drinking it like if you had snails and loved it and didn’t know they wher snails then someone told you wold you stop because you thought it was disgusting

[@zeallust8542]

Ive learned of so many foods being made in disgusting ways. I usually just go "oh thats gross, anyway" and go back to eating it because I do not care one bit as long as it tastes good and isnt like, horribly unhealthy.

[@dalton6173]

To be fair in our world the bottle cap could not make it through the hole and you would have to cut it open.

[@melvinwren]

this episode makes me thirsty for a Surge. or maybe a Squirt. ...Mellow Yellow ....

[@Bartlebycs]

Did the slurm queen remind anyone else of Queen Slug-for-a-Butt from the Earthworm Jim games? Or am I just weird?

[@dalton6173]

Two books silent spring and The jungle by Upton Sinclair. Not sure whose silent spring was written by but it's an older book both of them are older books and they talk about how food is made and a lot of it's still pretty relevant today the only thing about silent spring that's inaccurate to today is DDT... It's not used nearly as much as it used to be if it's used at all there's certain areas where it's probably still used carrots and other plants are still soaking it up from decades of putting it down and in mass quantities.

[@tookitogo]

Silent Spring was by Rachel Carson. DDT is still used to control mosquitoes in parts of the world where malaria is widespread. But rather than spraying clouds of it all over like we did in USA in the 50s, it’s used by soaking mosquito nets (over beds) and by brushing it onto walls of homes. When mosquitoes land on those surfaces to rest, they die. That way, we aren’t indiscriminately getting it into the entire environment.

[@dalton6173]

@@tookitogo it was also released in 1962... Even if they make it illegal then the company just moved one inconsequential peace & technically it's a new chemical so that version is legal & then they release it as reformulated & say it's even better/safer than ever before.

[@dalton6173]

@@tookitogo I can't eat carrots any more because they absorb ddt extremely well.

[@tookitogo]

@@dalton6173 There are other vegetables, like kale, that absorb it far more than carrots. Regardless, in USA (if that’s where you’re from), DDT has been banned for 50 years, so we’re really just seeing the last few traces of it. (The environmental half life in soil is 10-15 years, so most of it is gone already, but it’ll be decades still until there’s basically nothing left.) Given DDT’s very low toxicity in humans, DDT traces aren’t anything I’d worry about in the slightest. The pesticides in active use now are a much larger concern.

[@dalton6173]

@@tookitogo don't tell me this... Damn it now I can't eat kale either.

[@guiltywatching]

fresh slurm yum

[@dalton6173]

Yeah I think the soda that's made out of people is probably the most disgusting thing about this episode like eating or drinking another animals excretions that's a lot of the food we eat if not another animal altogether which would have some of its excretions somewhere... Shrimp still have all their intestines and poop and stuff like that inside of them whenever you eat them you eat shrimp poop every time you eat shrimp.

[@nekane6168]

Slurm is highly add1ctive, that's why They keep drinking. Nowadays we consume legal things that have proved to be carcinogenic. Tobacco, chlorine washed chicken... So no, not that far from the present.💕

[@wak773]

you know, the slurm queen makes a point. we eat food that comes from animals, how is slurm in any different?

[@GoroScornshard]

"how is that on the market if it causes cancer?" Potassium bromate, listed as a carcinogen by the WHO but fine for America also BHA and BHT. Don't overestimate American food standards.

[@dalton6173]

LOL if you're this squirmish for this episode I don't see how you're going to make it through some of the future episodes...

[@dalton6173]

I would rather have to operate on my own brain and have to stop that to suddenly operate on my hart before going to finish the brain operation than to ever have Zoidberg be my Doctor.

[@michaelleung4816]

In the future there is probably an easily available cure for cancer so Slurm causing cancer is not a big deal.

[@zeallust8542]

Pretty sure theres no cancer cure in the show. If there was, Mom wouldnt have made a fake cancer cure to sell.

[@RocketToTheMoose]

Is it really that much worse than where honey comes from?

[@dalton6173]

All I'm going to say is Fry is not infertile

[@dylanshadowstar9779]

For now.

[@fabianojeda3078]

Nice

[@ndaya11]

Ally McBeal

[@nekane6168]

He is too Young 😉

[@cias55s]

If you're grossed out by stuff like this I suggest not looking up castoreum

[@gurvmlk]

I looked it up, and all I have to say is that it really accentuates that the Slurm Queen had a point. With all the stuff we already eat, why would Slurm be such a big deal?

[@frankgunold268]

5:09 Soylent Green in German Dub !

[@frankgunold268]

6:59 Werbung German Ad 1954 "Zucker ist gesund und macht schlank" (“Sugar is healthy and makes you slim”) kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWmte2mHerGjpNk