Commentary:The Beast with a Billion Backs

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Commentary for
The Beast with a Billion Backs
Production number	5ACV05, 5ACV06, 5ACV07, 5ACV08
On DVD	The Beast with a Billion Backs
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Topics of Discussion

• Billy West in the voice of the narrator at the beginning, whom he plays.
• Peter talks about the black and white intro and Steamboat Willie being an inspiration of it.
  • John did the whistling
• This film starting off where BBS left off
• Sports programme intro was difficult, but not as difficult as one of the other scenes
• Problem with getting into another relationship
• Deleted scene on Fry and Colleen meeting again the next day.
• Maurice was very busy this movie
• Referencing ep 401 - Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch
  • Originally planned to go back to Amphibios 9 to revisit their babies nearly turning them into Kif lookalikes and then coming up with an idea for Kif's parents and what they would be.
• 3D flies
• Tress plays a lot of characters
• A lot of talk about Barb-o-mite, It will be coming soon, John wouldn't want Mites in his hair, due to the pile of dead mites on your head afterwards
• Bender's Big Score had Everybody Loves Hypno-Toad, Maurice suggests a full episode of All My Circuits
• 2D tunnel of love - looking at Colleen was used again thanks to the editor
• 2nd guest, 2nd appearance, Professor Stephen Hawking
  • David thinking maybe his mouth could move but still have robot voice but was more of "In a way how the heads were best remembered by.
• Gary Gygax passed away not long ago, and was a big influence for what is the next movie, Bender's Game
• The Institute for Advanced Book Learnin' was originally called Institute for Advanced Studlies and the scientists had tremendous physiques.
• Matt and David are fond of the Deathball scene.
  • David first thought the 3D animators had used motion capture to create Fry's subtle hand movements while he is riding the ball.
• Recommended to listen to the epic in 5.1 surround sound
• Phil once played Schlomo, but it was Maurice in the final version.
• Dave Herman as the Coffee Enema bot
• Dark Matter's secret will be told in DVD 3
• Professor's steam out of his ass, The Professor's moan is disturbing and funny, almost losing the will to live.
• The idea was Fry involved in the relationship and it's too much for him and saying that he can't deal with a girlfriend with 5 boyfriends but later becomes spokesman for the opposite point of view with Yivo, being pope of the religion espousing the relationship with billions of people, which makes the Fry and Colleen story a mini version of the giant story later where he is in the opposite side of the argument.
• Less butt than BBS
• Great wide shots, even more helpful in wide screen format
• The anomaly was a fractal edge and a lot of discussion on it. Looks electrical, not seen at the back.
• Noticing the bricks as Bender and the Ship fly away from the anomaly
• "Ow" was a "sock barrel" repetitive joke.
• List of games in the arcade.
• Bender's wheels in War is the H-Word.
• Crotch shot was Eric Kaplan's idea.
• When Fry broke up with Colleen, Fry got the Virtual Companion, which would help his ego.
• Calculon shocked Billy when he Threw the Doctor (Though he thought Calculon threw Bender at first)
• Noise with the Smell-o-scope
  • • Maurice: "The one thing they've cured in the future is obsessive-compulsive disorder"
  • Smell-o-scope originally used in A Big Piece of Garbage
• Pocket Pal (Same as what is said in Less Than Hero commentary) a miniature robot that was so cute he drove Bender crazy, first designed and hard to redesign, was going to explain things to Fry.
• Paul Lynde impressions
• Nixon lines with added cheek flap
  • Billy is tired of impressions and boiled Nixon down to a noise.
• Billy does Paris Hilton impression.
• The Pac-Man sound effects are from the original arcade game, and provided on a disc by Atari.
• Reminding people that the lightsaber just conk people on the head.
  • Billy: "Like the ones at Comic Con"
• Hover vehicles and helicopters, force field blades.
• Adorable Bender
• Matt hates cartoon characters crying "Blue liquid" and there eyes are big, which makes animating it hard.
• Bender pins his note on Zoidberg: "Ow" sock barrel
• Suicide booths still there
• Nimbus meaning Halo or a glow, a type of cloud and a song either by Mike Nesmith or Monkees song, but chosen because it sounds like a name used for a ship.
• How the LOR know Bender would go to that specific suicide booth would be all of them are.
• What Kif and Calculon are thinking.
• The name sounds like the first name that came to mind (Nothing is said on whether it really was or not.)
• LOR merchandise
• Dave Herman as the duffer bot, believed to be Phil Lamar who plays Billionaire bot (Similar)
• Listen close to Kif being hold down to the missile and perhaps you may hear Kif sigh again.
• Bender burping on the Human eye, Maurice wondering how it still works.
• Nice Kif and Fry scene that you don't see often, like each other enough to say hi in the middle of space.
• Kif flavours and Zapp disgustingly eating his goo.
• Amy's attractive legs and Hermes kilt.
• Jon Lovitz by Maurice.
• Amy wearing the hottest funeral dress ever.
• Hitting the ketchup out, sometimes best hit the 57.
• Tress improved the melody and David wrote Kaplin's nonsense words.
• Lauren Tom, good work.
• URL has a great voice.
• Cell lasers are supposed to be Tholian web lasers, in reference to Star Trek.
• Horse repair and eating and drinking horse's (The Luck of the Fryrish) references
• Photoshoped portraits seen in the background of the League's hideout.
• Billionair Bot played by Phil LaMar, from Raging Bender
• The Robot Rules Of Order book title is based on Robert's Rules
  • Robert's Rules has been attempted by Maurice, both him and David say it is really bad.
    • Matt: "POINT OF ORDER, Point of Order, I Disagree."
• A Black Velvet painting in the background, similar to one.
• Boxy the robot is loved but Maurice says he never does anything quite right.
• Fulcrum Prism - 2 puns in 1 title, made to look like a prism.
• The return of Pazuzu, from Teenage Mutant Leela Hurdles
• Moe forgetting he was guard no. 2.
• Claudia likes the fact that in Future prisons, you're attached by the neck.
• Fry seeing Yivo for the first time, his exhaling is what is known as the death rattle.
• Moe wants a bathroom break.
• It would be scary in real life when Yivo come into the universe.
• Moe also forgeting he was Amy's phone.
• The monster movie genre begins.
• Christopher Tyng's music is fantastic.
• Hank Azaria was busy elsewhere, and Moe plays Harold Zoid.
• The ships battling Yivo is a great shot and a good setup whilst Zapp is in the restaurant showing the scale of the sky.
  • Eric Whited built the scene and Chris Graham storyboarded it. The fact that there was a big battle at the end of the last DVD, that fight had to be done in one shot.
• David was involved with mixing the sound, which took 80 hours to do, and it was the same as DVD 1, and it included alot of chaos in surround sound but Peter Cole (Mixer) and Travis Powers(Editor), put in more time. And its difficult to have the audio funny and dramatic and Peter said before people don't know what he does as a mixer, and you don't think about it when its done right but you notice when it goes wrong.
  • The spaceships fighting Yivo was easy to mix because Zapp was talking over it
• Sal is becoming a popular character and people strart using s'es at the end of sentenceses .
• Commentators say it is horrific when Fry comes out of Yivo.
• Billy found it difficult to do Fry because he had to make him sound coherent, like he knew what he was talking about.
• The whip sound effects where used to make it sound more painful.
• Morgan Proctor retuns, but played by Tress this time around, and Fishy Joe returns again.
• People running away from the tenticalal is something Moe connected to and understood because it was like something out of a child's nightmare, somethings chasing you.
• The cast enjoying the movie.
• The line about Fry not being in love the way Hollywood tells it is an Eric Kaplin line, because this movie is his version of a love story.
• Diamondium and Diamondillium were names that were hard to come up with and other names were already used elsewhere.
  • Billy believes they make up as many words as they can and copywrite them.
• Slurm is now trademarked by FOX.
• Another sick shot, when Fry turns his back whilst talking to Bender.
  • Mike: "I had that in the Navy" (Note, this quote will now show up alot in this commentary.)
  • Its a joke to use on weird names and long last names.
• Morbo is like what people thought aliens would look like in the '50's.
• David likes people shooting guns for too long.
• The tentacle out of a toilet is a disturbing thing, advised not to show this when potty training babies.
• "Talking bout the..." is used in so many songs, to remind you what there talking about.
• The professor's tentacle was well hidden.
• It's a first for the professor being that happy.
• The music wasn't quite rocking at first, but that version can be found on a menu in the DVD.
• Hyperchickin's advertisement on the bus with Futuristic phone number, including greek letter lambda.
• Moe hoping $6421 would be the result of 79 cents, which might of happened but was forgotten about and Moe would be disapointed if it wasn't.
  • Mike worked with Dial-A-Joke, one of them being "Bought a great book, The History of Crazy Glue". I can't put it down." That joke is free with this commentary.
• Having part of the movie be more of a horror movie, the number of people still outside of the horror
• The term "the beast with two backs" actually pre-dates Shakespeare and his plays, it is found in a 1532 novel called Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais (Shakespeare was born in 1564).

Commentators

• Matt Groening
  • Executive Producer
• David X. Cohen
• John DiMaggio
  • Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)
• Billy West
  • Actor (Fry, The Professor, miscellaneous)
• Maurice LaMarche
  • Guest Actor (Kif, Calculon, miscellaneous)
• Claudia Katz
  • Producer of Rough Draft Studios
• Peter Avanzino
  • Director
• Michael Rowe
  • Writer
• Lee Superchinski
  • Producer

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