Commentary:Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television

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Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television

Production Number: 4ACV06
DVD: Season 4, Disc 2

Commentary

Topics of Discussion

  • Billy West and John DiMaggio do a beat 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 robot's 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 like Lrr or Horrible Gelatinous Blob.
    David X. Cohen: You have a guilty conscience, because whenever Lrr, 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 sould do his own movie promo's. Come see it again for the eighth time.
  • Billy West: He came in and said this place smells like cheese.
  • Maurice LaMarche: Look its Horrible Gelatinous Blob who doesn't sound like Morbo or Lrr.

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