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*[[John DiMaggio|John]] was constantly using the "Why you so stoopid, stoopid?" line before it was written in.
*3D scrabble is inspired by the game 3D chess from ''Star Trek''.
*[[Billy West]], while recording for [[Glurmo]], stared at a picture of {{q|Gene Wilder}}
**Glurmo was going to be Slurmy Slonka
*Early on, the [[Grunka Lunkas]] were to be seen shovelling a mountain of cocaine.
**They were to be caracatures of the Oompa Lompas, but [[Matt Groening]] (who'd never seen ''{{w|Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory}}'') redesigned them.
**There was originally a joke about them having a good union.
*After this episode, the writers' room gained a sign reading "Real Writers' Room".
*Some of the Slurm shirts are in Hebrew.
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]'s scream when she falls down is always the same recording, [[Lauren Tom|Lauren]] records a few every time anyway.
*The Slurm extraction process used to be more disgusting.
*Two thirds of the episodes feature a trial and/or running away.
*The [[Slurm Queen]]'s torture scene is similar to situations in old ''Batman'' episodes.
*Time cards are reused wherever possible. The one reading "Run away" is wearing out.
*[[Slurms MacKenzie|Slurms]]' party music was originally a temporary track.


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*A commentator notes that Fry became sterile in this episode later [[Roswell that Ends Well|impregnated his grandmother]], thinking this to be an error. However the worms from "[[Parasites Lost]]", between the two episodes, fix the problem.
*[[Matt Groening]]
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*[[David X. Cohen]]
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*[[John DiMaggio]]
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Commentary for
Fry and the Slurm Factory
Fry and the Slurm Factory.jpg
Production number1ACV13
On DVDSeason 1
Disc 3
Additional
Transcript
Participants
Matt Groening
Creator
David X. Cohen
Executive producer
Rich Moore
Supervising director
Lewis Morton
Writer
Ron Hughart
Director
John DiMaggio
Actor (Bender, etc.)

Topics of Discussion

  • Identifying actors
  • The translation of the Alien Language is:
    • 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.
      • Yak face is a rare Star Wars figure of Saelt-Marae not released in the USA. Mint figures have sold for thousands of dollars.
  • Slurm is intended to sound disgusting.
    • It was one of the earliest ideas, they decided to fill the universe with numerous pop culture items.
  • Bender is slightly different color when sick.
  • Bender's 6502 processor is from the Apple 2 home computer
  • John was constantly using the "Why you so stoopid, stoopid?" line before it was written in.
  • 3D scrabble is inspired by the game 3D chess from Star Trek.
  • Billy West, while recording for Glurmo, stared at a picture of

      Gene Wilder

      • Glurmo was going to be Slurmy Slonka
    • Early on, the Grunka Lunkas were to be seen shovelling a mountain of cocaine.
    • After this episode, the writers' room gained a sign reading "Real Writers' Room".
    • Some of the Slurm shirts are in Hebrew.
    • Amy's scream when she falls down is always the same recording, Lauren records a few every time anyway.
    • The Slurm extraction process used to be more disgusting.
    • Two thirds of the episodes feature a trial and/or running away.
    • The Slurm Queen's torture scene is similar to situations in old Batman episodes.
    • Time cards are reused wherever possible. The one reading "Run away" is wearing out.
    • Slurms' party music was originally a temporary track.

    Highlights / Quotes

      David X. Cohen: [quoting the Fox censor] "Incidentally, some X-Rays can see through metal".

      Lewis Morton: That would make a good coffee table book. "The Lame Machines of Futurama".

      Lewis Morton: This is the episode for three-year-olds.
      [John DiMaggio laughs uproariously.]
      David X. Cohen: That's okay, because anyone over two counts in the Nielsen ratings.

    Goofs

    • A commentator notes that Fry became sterile in this episode later impregnated his grandmother, thinking this to be an error. However the worms from "Parasites Lost", between the two episodes, fix the problem.
    Futurama episode/film commentaries
    1ACV
    (Season 1)    		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" (Animatic commentary) • "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
    2ACV
    (Season 2)    		 "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "A Clone of My Own" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "Mother's Day" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Anthology of Interest I" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Honking" • "The Cryonic Woman"
    3ACV
    (Season 3)    		 "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Parasites Lost" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "The Route of All Evil" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Roswell that Ends Well" (Directors commentary) • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "The 30% Iron Chef"
    4ACV
    (Season 4)    		 "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Love and Rocket" • "Less than Hero" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "Jurassic Bark" (Writers commentary) • "Crimes of the Hot" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" • "The Sting" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
    5ACV
    (Season 5)
    Bender's Big Score The Beast with a Billion Backs Bender's Game Into the Wild Green Yonder
    6ACV
    (Season 6)    		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Möbius Dick" • "Law and Oracle" • "Benderama" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Neutopia" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
    7ACV
    (Season 7)    		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" (Animators commentary) • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama" • "Forty Percent Leadbelly" • "2-D Blacktop" • "T.: The Terrestrial" • "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" • "The Inhuman Torch" • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" (Animators commentary) • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
    8ACV
    (Season 8)    		 "The Impossible Stream" • "Children of a Lesser Bog" • "How the West Was 1010001" • "Parasites Regained" • "Related to Items You've Viewed" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" • "Rage Against the Vaccine" • "Zapp Gets Cancelled" • "The Prince and the Product" • "All the Way Down"
    S01E
    (Broadcast season 1)    		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" (Animatic commentary)
    S02E
    (Broadcast season 2)    		 "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory" • "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "A Clone of My Own" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Mother's Day" • "Anthology of Interest I"
    S03E
    (Broadcast season 3)    		 "The Honking" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Cryonic Woman" • "Parasites Lost" • "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot"
    S04E
    (Broadcast season 4)    		 "Roswell that Ends Well" (Directors commentary) • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Love and Rocket" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "The 30% Iron Chef" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
    S05E
    (Broadcast season 5)    		 "Crimes of the Hot" • "Jurassic Bark" (Writers commentary) • "The Route of All Evil" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Less than Hero" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "The Sting" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
    S06E
    (Broadcast season 6)    		 "Bender's Big Score Part 1" • "Bender's Big Score Part 2" • "Bender's Big Score Part 3" • "Bender's Big Score Part 4" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 2" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 3" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 4" • "Bender's Game Part 1" • "Bender's Game Part 2" • "Bender's Game Part 3" • "Bender's Game Part 4" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 1" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 2" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 3" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 4"
    S07E
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    S08E
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    S09E
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