8. The Brain Slugs Were Originally Going To Have A Much Bigger Role
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The brain slugs are frankly amazing. They appear in a couple of episodes, most notably 'A Head in the Polls' and 'Raging Bender', and they're just hilarious. I don't know whether it's the cold delivery or what, but nothing gets better than hearing Phil LaMarr saying "thank you - it was cold down there on the floor."
There's something about Hermes that the brain slugs clearly find attractive, as they can be seen attached to him in those aforementioned two episodes, and even in the 2003 Futurama video game. There was even a plan to have him be afflicted with a slug for all of Season 2, but the plans were shelved.
Potentially even more interesting though is the fact that the brain slugs were originally meant to play a much bigger role in the series overall. According to David X. Cohen, the slugs would've been a threat throughout the show, dropping from ceilings onto unsuspecting characters, and eventually even growing to encompass the size of someone's entire head.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
