When Fry wins a free tour of the Slurm soda factory, he and his friends split off from the tour group and make a horrifying discovery concerning the "secret ingredient" that makes Slurm so addictive.
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Wins Above Replacement
“Fry Amp The Slurm Factory” ranks #11 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 84.4 — Elite. The episode packs 57 scored jokes at 4.1 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Fry landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Slurms McKenzie: I'll save you the only way I know how. By partying!
Fry · Leela · Fry: There's already a soda like that. Soylent Cola. - How is it? - It varies from person to person.
Grunka Lunkas: Grunka Lunka dunkity doo / We've got a friendly warning for you / Grunka Lunka dunkity dasis / The secret of Slurm's On a need-to-know basis
Slurm Queen · Slurm Queen: Yes! Which is why we'll market it as New Slurm. / When everyone hates it... we'll bring back Slurm Classic and make billions.
Bender · Amy: Bite my shiny, metal ass. / You couldn't afford it, honey.
All Jokes — 57 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Gunculon: You're my half-brother, but there's no law against killing the other half!
Gunculon Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Commercial announcer: Slurm. It's addictive!
Slurms McKenzie: Whammy-wham-wham-wazzle. Let's party!
Fry: Who says there are no more heroes?
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Professor · Fry: Odds are mathematically insignificant. / I like those odds.
Fry: Rats! Just another tooth.
Fry Absurdist Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Fry: Right up until my third heart attack.
Fry Escalation Dark/Subversive Leela: Let me check if you have a fever. Ow!
Leela Physical/Slapstick Visual Gag Professor: he's running a fever of 900 degrees
Fry · Zoidberg: I'm not Bender. I'm Fry. / I thought you were the robot. / Nope. Human.
Zoidberg: I couldn't tell him. It's fin fungus. He'll be floating upside down by morning.
Zoidberg Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bender · Amy · Bender: I'm 40% zinc. / Then Echinacea or St. John's wort. / Or a big fat placebo. It's all the same crap.
Professor: I call this the F-ray. It's an x-ray that lets you see through anything, even metal.
Professor · Everyone: The neutrino beam it emits is dangerous... so you'll all need protective goggles. / Huh?
Professor: You may feel a slight stinging sensation. All of you.
Amy · Fry: That's my watch. / I was wondering where I put that.
Amy Fry Misdirection Character Comedy Professor: And for the love of God, don't let it fall into the wrong hands.
Professor Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fry · Bender: Ow! My sperm! / Neat. Mind if I try that again?
Fry: Didn't hurt that time.
Fry Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bender · Bender: That's no lady! / One more upgrade and I'll be more lady than you can handle.
Bender · Amy: Bite my shiny, metal ass. / You couldn't afford it, honey.
Fry: Wait a second. I'm getting an idea. No. False alarm. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Wait. No. Yes!
Fry Character Comedy Escalation Fry: I never want to see another can of Slurm again. I'm thirsty!
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Glurmo: I'm Glurmo, your guide to the splendtacular Slurm factory.
Glurmo Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Fry · Glurmo: Can we have our free Slurm? - You'll have all you can drink...when you're partying with my good friend, Slurms McKenzie.
Glurmo · Glurmo · Glurmo: He better be. That's why we pay him, right? / Right. / Slurms has to party all night every night or he's fired.
Glurmo · Guide: He better be. That's why we pay him, right? - Right. Slurms has to party all night every night or he's fired.
Slurms McKenzie: I'm gonna go lie down.
Glurmo: the wondrous world of whimsy that we call... Slurm Centralized Industrial Fabrication Unit.
Glurmo Irony/Sarcasm Misdirection Glurmo · Bender: Those are the Grunka Lunkas! / Tell them I hate them.
Leela · Glurmo · Leela · Glurmo: What's the secret ingredient? / Whatever you want it to be! / But what is it really? / That's not for you to know.
Glurmo: using sensual massage
Grunka Lunkas: Grunka Lunka dunkity doo / We've got a friendly warning for you / Grunka Lunka dunkity dasis / The secret of Slurm's On a need-to-know basis
Glurmo · Grunka Lunka · Glurmo: I don't pay you to sing. You just used your bathroom break. / Hard ass. / I heard that.
Grunka Lunkas · Leela · Fry · Grunka Lunkas · Leela: Grunka Lunka dunkity dinkredient / You should not ask About secret ingredient / Okay, we get the point. / I was curious about the guards. / Grunka Lunka dunkity darmed guards- / Shut up.
Glurmo · Glurmo: They don't have a good union. / They're like slaves.
Leela · Fry: No. That's moronic. - Fine. I'll swim around and drink as much as I want.
Fry Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Bender: Everybody was doing it. I just wanted to be popular.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Leela · Fry · Leela · Fry: My God, what if the secret ingredient is people? / There's already a soda like that. Soylent Cola. / How is it? / It varies from person to person.
Fry · Leela · Fry: There's already a soda like that. Soylent Cola. - How is it? - It varies from person to person.
Amy: Weren't there more people at the start of the tour?
Amy Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline Fry: I'm never going 12 minutes without a Slurm again.
Fry Character Comedy Escalation Fry: I'm never going 12 minutes without a Slurm again.
Fry Character Comedy Escalation Fry Cringe/Discomfort Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Leela · Slurm Queen: That's the secret ingredient? / That's the only ingredient of Slurm.
Slurm Queen · Leela · Slurm Queen: Honey comes from a bee's behind. Milk is from a cow's behind. Do you use toothpaste? / Whose behind is that? / I won't say.
Slurm Queen · Slurm Queen: Yes! Which is why we'll market it as New Slurm. / When everyone hates it... we'll bring back Slurm Classic and make billions.
Slurm Queen · Slurm Queen: It's so delicious, you'll eat until you explode. / Which reminds me, put a tarp over that sofa.
Leela: You pig! Stop stuffing your craw and save us!
Leela Character Comedy Escalation Bender: I could fit if I didn't have these damn arms.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Slurms McKenzie · Slurms McKenzie: I'm partied out. All I want is to stay home and rent videos. / Is that so much to ask?
Leela · Slurms McKenzie: But she'll crush you like a worm. A smaller worm. / I'm so tired of partying. So very tired.
Slurms McKenzie: I'll save you the only way I know how. By partying!
Slurms McKenzie: Party on, Slurms. Party on, contest winners. Party on.
Nixon · Fry · Nixon: Grandpa's making up stories again. / I'm not your grandpa. You're my uncle from the year 2000. / Okay, Grandpa.
Fry: Hey, that's not that bad.
Fry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch