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==Commentary==
===Topics of Discussion===
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*[[All My Circuits#Monique|Monique]] was originally just a demo [[robot]] for the series but was popular enough to be included as a character.
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*John, Billy and Maurice have had some terrible auditions.
**Once Billy was auditioning for a radio show with a hangover and he threw up all over the recording equipment.
*They finally get to make fun of the network executives in this episode.
*A lot of computers in the show are similar to Apple's Mac computers.
*They wanted to use some more pop-ups saying things like ''You're watching [[Futurama]] the show that doesn't encourage the cool crime of robbery''.
*[[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]] was supposed to be punched by characters when he became annoying but they thought that punching a twelve year old was tight.
*They use the joke F.A.R.T a lot in this episode.
*[[Donbot]] seems to have a child as he is part of F.A.R.T.
*The show produces many toy figures.
**Whenever they see [[Horrible Gelatinous Blob|H.G. Blob]], they think of the little toy figure of him.
*[[Calculon]] isn't actually nice and is extremely greedy yet everyone loves him.


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*'''David X. Cohen:''' What was the idea for this episode Louis??<br>'''Louis Morton:''' I don't know.<br>'''David X. Cohen:''' You came in and said "what if [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] was a TV star?".
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==Commentators==
*'''Maurice LaMarche:''' (As Calculon) Do you think so really?
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*'''Billy West:''' God that guy should do his own movie promos. Come see it again for the eighth time.
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*'''Billy West:''' He came in and said this place smells like cheese.
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Commentary for
Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television
Bender-TV.JPG
Production number4ACV06
On DVDSeason 4
Disc 2
Additional
Transcript
Participants
Matt Groening
Executive Producer
David X. Cohen
Executive Producer
Rich Moore
Supervising Director
Lewis Morton
Writer
Brian Sheesley
Director
John DiMaggio
Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)
Billy West
Actor (Fry, miscellaneous)
Maurice LaMarche
Guest Actor (Calculon, miscellaneous)

Topics of Discussion

  • Billy West and John DiMaggio beat box for this episode's Opening Sequence instead of the traditional theme tune.
  • Monique was originally just a demo robot for the series but was popular enough to be included as a character.
  • Louis is one of the few writers to write in all four seasons. Others include David and Ken.
  • Calculon's voice is a mixture of a large number of actors.
  • The noise the Hypnotoad makes is nicknamed Angry Machine.
  • The teenage robots now have new beeping zits.
  • They couldn't come up with a name for Human Friend so they just called him Human Friend.
  • John, Billy and Maurice have had some terrible auditions.
    • Once Billy was auditioning for a radio show with a hangover and he threw up all over the recording equipment.
  • They finally get to make fun of the network executives in this episode.
  • A lot of computers in the show are similar to Apple's Mac computers.
  • They wanted to use some more pop-ups saying things like You're watching Futurama the show that doesn't encourage the cool crime of robbery.
  • Cubert was supposed to be punched by characters when he became annoying but they thought that punching a twelve year old was tight.
  • They use the joke F.A.R.T a lot in this episode.
  • Donbot seems to have a child as he is part of F.A.R.T.
  • The show produces many toy figures.
    • Whenever they see H.G. Blob, they think of the little toy figure of him.
  • Calculon isn't actually nice and is extremely greedy yet everyone loves him.

Highlights / Quotes

  • David X. Cohen: What was the idea for this episode Louis??
    Louis Morton: I don't know.
    David X. Cohen: You came in and said "what if Bender was a TV star?".
  • Maurice LaMarche: (As Calculon) Do you think so really?
  • Maurice LaMarche: Look it's Morbo who sounds nothing like Lrrr or Horrible Gelatinous Blob.
    David X. Cohen: You have a guilty conscience, because whenever Lrrr, or Morbo...
    Maurice LaMarche: I'm going for a running joke here for the people that paid attention to all the commentaries!
  • Billy West: God that guy should do his own movie promos. Come see it again for the eighth time.
  • Billy West: He came in and said this place smells like cheese.
  • Maurice LaMarche: Look it's Horrible Gelatinous Blob! Who sounds nothing like like Morbo or Lrrr!
Futurama episode/film commentaries
1ACV
(Season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" (Animatic commentary) • "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
2ACV
(Season 2)		 "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "A Clone of My Own" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "Mother's Day" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Anthology of Interest I" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Honking" • "The Cryonic Woman"
3ACV
(Season 3)		 "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Parasites Lost" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "The Route of All Evil" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Roswell that Ends Well" (Directors commentary) • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "The 30% Iron Chef"
4ACV
(Season 4)		 "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Love and Rocket" • "Less than Hero" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "Jurassic Bark" (Writers commentary) • "Crimes of the Hot" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" • "The Sting" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
5ACV
(Season 5)
Bender's Big Score The Beast with a Billion Backs Bender's Game Into the Wild Green Yonder
6ACV
(Season 6)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Möbius Dick" • "Law and Oracle" • "Benderama" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Neutopia" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
7ACV
(Season 7)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" (Animators commentary) • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama" • "Forty Percent Leadbelly" • "2-D Blacktop" • "T.: The Terrestrial" • "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" • "The Inhuman Torch" • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" (Animators commentary) • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
8ACV
(Season 8)		 "The Impossible Stream" • "Children of a Lesser Bog" • "How the West Was 1010001" • "Parasites Regained" • "Related to Items You've Viewed" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" • "Rage Against the Vaccine" • "Zapp Gets Cancelled" • "The Prince and the Product" • "All the Way Down"
S01E
(Broadcast season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" (Animatic commentary)
S02E
(Broadcast season 2)		 "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory" • "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "A Clone of My Own" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Mother's Day" • "Anthology of Interest I"
S03E
(Broadcast season 3)		 "The Honking" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Cryonic Woman" • "Parasites Lost" • "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot"
S04E
(Broadcast season 4)		 "Roswell that Ends Well" (Directors commentary) • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Love and Rocket" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "The 30% Iron Chef" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
S05E
(Broadcast season 5)		 "Crimes of the Hot" • "Jurassic Bark" (Writers commentary) • "The Route of All Evil" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Less than Hero" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "The Sting" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
S06E
(Broadcast season 6)		 "Bender's Big Score Part 1" • "Bender's Big Score Part 2" • "Bender's Big Score Part 3" • "Bender's Big Score Part 4" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 2" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 3" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 4" • "Bender's Game Part 1" • "Bender's Game Part 2" • "Bender's Game Part 3" • "Bender's Game Part 4" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 1" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 2" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 3" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 4"
S07E
(Broadcast season 7)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular"
S08E
(Broadcast season 8)		 "Neutopia" • "Benderama" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Law and Oracle" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Möbius Dick" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
S09E
(Broadcast season 9)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" (Animators commentary) • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama"
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