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{{quote|''"Of course, it's all just an excuse to get us covered in as much gunge as possible."''|'''Gwen, the excited-looking pink dragon girl''', ''Industrial Zone, Episode 1''}}
 
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Installments are quite long (usually around 20,000 words each), so the publishing schedule is quite irregular, but the stories have a loyal following and it’s managed to keep going despite its distinctly niche appeal.
 
If you're looking for a zone where industrial activities take place, you might be looking for [[Industrial Ghetto]].
 
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* [[British English]]: The slime is usually referred to as “gunge”.
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** Within the series, some of the characters themselves are clearly WAM fetishists and are going on the show entirely because they’re going to get gunged.
** The spinoff stories usually show one of the characters reliving their experience outside of the show.
* [[Furry Fandom]]: The ''other'' main point of the show.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: The sludge cube. The presenters assure everyone that the sludge cube is completely safe, but for some reason the idea of getting into a cube that fills up with thick gray sludge puts off even the most enthusiastic contestants.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Alternatively a celebrity cameo, if you’re part of the [[Furry Fandom]]. Zig Zag from ''[[Sabrina Online (Webcomic)|Sabrina Online]]'' turns up as the guest character one episode to be interviewed by Alex. There’s a side game where she has to avoid saying a certain word or she gets covered in gallons and gallons of slime. Unsurprisingly she gets gunged, and ends up looking about as messy as the rest of the cast did after two rounds.
* [[Pie in Thethe Face]]: Surprisingly, given the show’s reliance on mess, nobody actually gets a pie in the face, though this did happen to the characters from the first episode in a side story written by collaborating author.
* [[Rule 34]]: Not many canon examples, but they do exist.
** The first episode had Gwen, the dragon girl, who fell at the “extreme” end of enjoying getting covered in gunge. In the original version of the first episode she liked it so much that during one gunging that was unseen by the rest of the cast, she took off all her clothes and got a happy ending from the gunge. This was changed in later editions so she no longer had [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms]]. She still takes off her clothes though.
** Gwen returns in a spinoff story where she watches herself on the show with her boyfriend, and after confessing to him that getting slimed turned her on, the two of them decided to forgo the Saturday night movie and go straight to bed . . .
** The first episode also makes reference to contestants losing clothing to avoid the gunge, though the 'clothing penalties' are extremely rare, always optional, and continue to get rarer as the series continues.
*** Additionally, the first episode references that sometimes they boobytrap the showers to gunge contestants while in the shower, but this has only happened once in the stories.
* [[Shout -Out]]: The title (and in more general terms, the entire concept of the programme) came from the real-life game show ''[[The Crystal Maze]]''. Many of the rounds played on the show are adaptations of games from it or other British shows.
* [[Spin-Off]]: Several other shows set in the same universe have been written about. All of which involve gunge and variations on 1990s British TV shows.
** More recently fans of the series have begun to add their own additions to the IZ canon, a lot of it one-shot with at least one planned spin-off series - Backstage Crew.
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