"Fry and the Slurm Factory" is the thirteenth and final episode in the first season of the American animated television series Futurama.
Meanwhile, Bender is sick with a high fever (900 °F); Professor Farnsworth uses this as an excuse to test his experimental "F-ray", a flashlight-like device that enables the user to look through anything, even metal.
Slurms McKenzie, exhausted from his years of partying, arrives and sacrifices himself to save Fry, Leela, his two supermodels, and Bender.
However, Fry is so addicted to Slurm that he tells the government agent that "grampa's making up crazy stories again", so that it can continue to be produced.
[1][4] The characters whom the factory paid to pretend to be workers, the Grunka Lunkas, resemble the Oompa Loompas from the film version of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and the tour guide, Glurmo, also wears a Willy Wonka-like attire, and speaks in a Gene Wilder-like voice.
[7] Professor Farnsworth's F-Ray reveals a 6502 microprocessor—a widely used CPU in home computers of the 1970s and early 1980s—in Bender's head.
[9] The beverage Slurm has many similarities to the short-lived soft drink Surge that was popular around the time of production, which included the hard-core image that advertised it.
Slurm posters were one of the first clues to deciphering the alien languages in the series and were meant to act in a manner similar to the Rosetta Stone for dedicated fans.
In the Young Avengers Special, the character Hulkling is shown attacking the Shocker using a Slurm vending machine.
[11] In 2008 Twentieth Century Fox filed to trademark Slurm, either with the intent of releasing a branded beverage or possibly to prevent others from doing so.