Transcript:Commentary:A Fishful of Dollars
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- Note: One question mark in bold (?) means that the speaker was not identified by the transcriber.
- Note: Three question marks (???) means that the word in proximity to the question marks is a suggested word, but not necessarily correctly identified, or if there is no word near the question mark (a space away is not near), then no suggested word was provided.
Matt Groening: Welcome to the audio commentary of the sixth episode of Futurama. I am Matt Groening.
Gregg Vanzo: I am Gregg Vanzo, animation director.
Patric M. Verrone: I am Patrick Verrone, writer of this episode.
John DiMaggio: I am John DiMaggio, voice of Bender and bunch of other voices.
David X. Cohen: Hi, I am David Cohen, the executive producer.
Rich Moore: And I am Rich Moore, the supervising director.
JD: And that was Phil LaMarr saying "sorry" like a Canadian.
GV: We put this graphic in on back in the day when "loading" was something that appeared on home computers.
JD: Yes.
MG: Look at-- you wanna talk about this-- about this opening sequence? I guess not.
DXC: Give him some more time.
GV: I gotta warm up, it's okay.
JD: Wonderful voices. Tress MacNeille.
PMV: This is based on a real dream, that many people have. Hey, that's me. When you buy the action figure of Fry, you actually get the Lightspeed Briefs with him.
?: Really?
PMV: Yep.
DXC: Buy now!
JD: Here's your name, man.
RM: So you want to tell us about that opening now, Gregg?
?: Yeah, you wanna tell us about the opening or wait?
GV: No thanks.
PMV: He actually makes a reference to bananas carrying advertisement, which at the time ABC was threating to do-- to put ads on bananas. I don't think they ever did it.
DXC: They did it, they just blended it in, 'cause of the yellow colour, so you couldn't see it. Here is Madison Cube Garden. Doesn't Calven Klone appear again about 2 or 3 episodes-- seasons actually - later in Los Angeles? I think it is.
RM: Yes, there's actually Calvin Klone office-- headquarters.
DXC: "Previously Used Calvin Clone".
PMV: Ah, we recycle jokes all the time. The title of this show, "Fishful of Dollars", is actually a parody of a Clint Eastwood movie called Fistful of Dollars.
DXC: This episode has a lot of good technology in it. Mirror and the dream broadcast.
RM?: This clip was actually shown at a seminar on the images of manhood conveyed to children. That's true fact, I can't-- no joke to go with that. But why? Because it showed how we consider our bodies as men.
DXC: Is this where Bender first shoplifts for the series? We had a lot of debate early on whether dollars still be the unit of currency in the future. There was various possibilities like "quadloos" and "bux", B-U-X, and "jules", J-U-L-E-S, the energy unit would be traded as money. That was one idea.
JD: I don't know if anyone noticed that, but Billy West was actually the voice of the cashier at the beginning of that, and then Dave Herman was the voice of the cashier at the end of that.
DXC: Is that true, did we screw up?
JD: No... yeah! I think yeah!
DXC: I remember David Herman doing the voice. But we have had West sneak in.
JD: Ah yeah.
DXC: It's Mom.
JD: It's Mom.
DXC: This is the introduction of the character of Mom.
JD: Voiced by Tress MacNeille.
DXC: In some early conception of the series, the entire Planet Express was gonna be a subcidera of Mom Corp.
?: Is this the introduction of the police?
DXC: No, they're in the pilot.
?: Ah, that's right, they are in the pilot. But not in a shop.
JD: Ask about our generous brutality settlements.
PMV: A social commentary in this episode.
JD: Was that about the time of the--?
PMV: There is always something going on.
JD: There's always something--
DXC: You mean like in Los Angeles, the police are always providing us with material.
?: How long did it take us to come up with the name of that bank?
DXC: It didn't take that long, but it took a while to get out and make sure there was no legal problem... there are several similar real banks. Notice the dramatic cutaway, so we don't know that price.
RM: We figured this out on three different times on Stewart Burns' pomp??? pilot.
'DXC: And three different answers?
RM: No, no. It was concidence and nobody on the news group ever proved us wrong.
'DXC: We do have-- we are only of the only shows has not one, but two PhDs in mathematics working on the staff.
<poem>'RM: That's something futuristic.
PMV: Here is actually also the first appearance of Scruffy, although he is not identified and he doesn't speak, so I don't get the character placements??? for???. Before I came to work on Futurama, I was working on a screenplay about Mona Lisa. So I felt ablied??? to work on in this script.
JD: Cosmic Ray's, a tribute to Famous Ray's.
DXC: And the Original Ray's.
JD: And the Original Ray's.
DXC: Don't forget about Famous Original Ray's.
JD: Famous Original Ray's, an original--
DXC: That's John DiMaggio, speaking of and to John DiMaggio, as the waiter here.
?: This is one of three different pizzerias that appear in the first four seasons of Futurama.
JD: That's my real voice. I normally sound like that.
DXC: The idea - I don't know if it dates to Star Trek or early - that robots can be destroyed by illogical statements was obviously a big inspiration to Futurama.
PMV: The original draft of this script was not about anchovies, it was about poptarts. It changed for the better.