This article is within the scope of WikiProject Television, a collaborative effort to develop and improve Wikipedia articles about
television programs. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can
join the discussion.
To improve this article, please refer to the
style guidelines for the type of work.TelevisionWikipedia:WikiProject TelevisionTemplate:WikiProject Televisiontelevision articles
This article has been
automatically rated by a
bot or other tool because one or more other projects use this class. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the |auto= parameter.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Animation, a collaborative effort to build an encyclopedic guide to
animation on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can
the article attached to this page, help out with the
open tasks, or contribute to the
discussion.AnimationWikipedia:WikiProject AnimationTemplate:WikiProject AnimationAnimation articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Futurama, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Futurama articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.FuturamaWikipedia:WikiProject FuturamaTemplate:WikiProject FuturamaFuturama articles
This episode also parodies the movie Aliens. The Slurm Queen is not unlike the Alien Queen, especially in the way she excretes Slurm the way the Alien Queen excreted eggs. Also the fact that Leela nearly becomes a Slurm Queen is similar to the fact that Ripley hosts an Alien Queen in Alien: Resurrection. Harley, 13 September 2006.
The Family guy one it not another parody. It is a copy which is plagiarism.
Question about Fry's Potentcy
Just a quick clarification: The episode "Fry and the Slurm Factory" implies that the F-ray sterilized Fry. But later in "Roswell That Ends Well" Fry father's his father. Did he get his Fry's Potentcy back somehow? Or is it imposible that he is his own grandpa?
68.48.174.13615:04, 30 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Keep in mind that, generally speaking, you wouldn't feel your sperm dying (unless they were exploding, in which case the rest of you most likely would to). Try not to read too much into jokes. ;-)
EVula//
talk //
☯ //16:11, 30 November 2006 (UTC)reply
I removed it because it was unsourced and qualified as
original research because it was an attempt to determine what the creators were thinking, in particular the statement "this option might have been chosen to resemble the famous Hebrew word shalom".
Stardust821212:45, 22 June 2007 (UTC)reply
I brought it back without the original research. The stuff about pronunciation is not original research, just basic knowledge of Hebrew- you wouldn't demand a citation for the claim that "Mortal Kombat" is pronounced "Mortal Combat".
Nigel Napalm07:36, 27 August 2007 (UTC)reply
I think the Hebrew reference should be brought back, along with much of the other trivia. This show is all about minuscule cultural references. --
Ra'ah ha'or (
talk)
19:45, 23 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Sources
I found a few articles which may be useful as sources for this article, unfortunately they're pay-per-view or subscription only. I'm posting them here so that maybe someone can check them out when they get a chance.
As I recently brought up at the wikiproject (
here) it is time we did something about the cultural references sections. I am moving all unsourced references to the talk pages for the time being in hopes of creating a better, more thoroughly sourced article. Please discuss this action at the wikiproject link above so as not to split it over 72 different talk pages. The information removed from the article follows.
Stardust821200:54, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
The clip on the billboard in the opening credits features
Bart,
Lisa and
Maggie from the old Tracey Ullman ShowSimpsons short where Bart, Maggie, and Lisa make ugly faces and look into the mirror.
The Slurm Queen, coupled with the way she excretes Slurm, is a parody of the
Alien Queen in the movie Aliens.
When the F ray is used on Bender, it can be seen that one of his components is labeled "6502". This is a reference to the
6502 computer processor, used in early
home computers and the
Nintendo Entertainment System.
Leela and the professor playing 3D scrabble is a reference to the
3D chess in Star Trek.
Leela's statement that "something is rotten on the planet Wormulon" is a direct parody of the famous line "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" from Shakespeare's
Hamlet.
The plot to create New Slurm- as Leela, being a commoner, would produce foul tasting slurm as a slurm queen- is a parody of
The Coca-Cola Company's attempt to introduce
New Coke, and the
urban legend/
conspiracy theory that New Coke was produced solely to make the public desire Classic Coke more.
While Zoidberg is in the gift shop, the shirt that he is wearing features the word "שלורם", which could be pronounced as "Slurm" in
Hebrew. This is another reference that Zoidberg is based on a stereotypical Jewish character. A more standard
transliteration of "Slurm" into Hebrew would be "סלארם" or even "סלרם", because "שלורם" could plausibly be pronounced "slorem".
Before Slurms MacKenzie's death Bender says "Party on, Slurms" and Slurms replies "Party on contest winners"; this is a reference to
Wayne's World.
Soylent Cola is a reference to
Soylent Green (1973), a futuristic film where the plot twist at the conclusion reveals that the "miracle food" Soylent Green is actually produced from the remains of euthanized humans.
In the Alienese at the end of the contest ad, part of it says, "And the elusive
Yak-Face". This is a reference to the hard to find figure from
Kenner's 1983 Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi action figure line.
At the end of the Slurm commercial near the beginning of the episode, three messages are displayed in succession, the last is in Alienese and reads "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."
In Dr. Zoidberg's office, the eye chart with alien markings reads "NO SQUINTING FOUR EYES"
FOX has trademarked the name Slurm. This would probably be worth including in the Slurm section of this article but since I am leaving on vacation this morning I won't have time to add it just now myself. The relevant links for this info are
Trademork which quotes this article and
TVSquad which links to this article. If nobody else takes care of it I'll try to do it from the hotel or after I get back.
Stardust821211:32, 10 March 2008 (UTC)reply