Commentary:Bendin' in the Wind

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Commentary for
Bendin' in the Wind
Production number	3ACV13
On DVD	Season 3 Disc 3
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Transcript
Participants
Matt Groening Creator David X. Cohen Executive producer Rich Moore Supervising director Eric Horsted Co-executive producer, writer John DiMaggio Actor (Bender, misc.) Billy West Actor (Fry, the Professor, Zoidberg, misc.)

Topics of Discussion

• The idea of the story was based on the idea from "The Series Has Landed" that Bender wanted to be a folk singer.
  • Luckily there's lots of public domain folk songs.
• They were surprised to realise they got away with showing what, in the script, is referred to as a "crazy bottle".
• The commentators agree that, unfortunately, Patch Adams was impossible to forget.
• Apparently the voice work is done in the same place as the commentaries. Which is on the corner of Pico and Sepulveda.
• Beck suggested the use of more self deprecating humour.
  • His songs were searched to find weird works.
• Bender's song is written by Eric Horsted, Ken Keeler and Christopher Tyng.
• The chase scene is based on one in Bullitt, where five hubcaps fall off the car, the same happens to Fry's van.
• In the original version of the animation the blonde woman didn't sit up after Bender fell on her.
• Discussing whether it should have been New San Francisco or some variant.

Highlights / Quotes

• Matt Groening: What do Executive Producers do, anyway?
  Rich Moore: DVD commentaries.

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