Commentary:A Fishful of Dollars

A Fishful of Dollars

Production Number: 1ACV06
DVD: Season 1, Disc 2

Commentary

Topics of Discussion

• The dream Fry has is similar to ones most kids have without the Lightspeed Briefs
• The Fry action figure comes with a pair of lightspeed briefs
• The title is a reference to the Clint Eastwood movie A Fistfull of Dollars
• The episode is the first time Bender shoplifts
• They considered to change the currency from dollars to something else
• The introduction of Mom
• The show has two people with PHDs in Maths working on the show
• This marks the first appearance of Scruffy although he doesn't work for Planet Express
• Arguement of whether anchovies are nice or bad
• The anchovies come with the Fry action figure and Mom's oil comes with Bender
• The future has many animal fights both squid and apes
• Richard Nixon's Head was originaly meant to help Mom's sons convince Fry he's in the year 2000
• The Atomic Super men mentioned by the Proffesor appears in Time Keeps on Slippin'

Highlights / Quotes

• Matt Groening: So Gregg do you want to say something about the Opening Sequence
  • Gregg Vanzo: I guess not
• Unknown: He said adverts on bananas which ABC threatened to do
• Gregg Vanzo: Fry was meant to buy another robot friend called Delauxor
• David X. Cohen: We have the largest number a gasps than any show in TV history

Commentators

• Matt Groening
  • Creator
• David X. Cohen
  • Executive Producer
• Rich Moore
  • Supervising Director
• Patric M. Verrone
  • Writer
• Gregg Vanzo
  • Co-Director
  • Supervising Director
• John DiMaggio
  • Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)