Transcript:Commentary:Space Pilot 3000
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| Written by | Matt Groening & David X. Cohen |
| Transcribed by | Svip |
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Commentary Participants:
- David X. Cohen (DXC)
- Matt Groening (MG)
- Gregg Vanzo (GV)
- John DiMaggio (JD)
- Rich Moore (RM)
- Note: Question marks (?) means I am not at present entirely sure who it is that is speaking.
Matt Groening: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the audio commentary for the pilot episode of Futurama. This is Matt Groening.
Gregg Vanzo: Gregg Vanzo, co-supervising animator, director.
John DiMaggio: John DiMaggio, voice of Bender and other characters.
David X. Cohen: David Cohen, executive producer, head writer.
Rich Moore: And Rich Moore, co-supervising director and co-director of this episode... with Gregg.
GV: Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
DXC: Oh, and Matt and I wrote this episode, also.
MG: This is a tough thing, to get the show off the ground. And pilots in general probably are pretty tough for everybody. But to do a show where you're setting up a story that takes place a thousand years in the future, and what we tried to do, we tried to lay in a lot of little secrets in this episode that we would pay off later. [pause] Should we tell some of them or just leave them?
DXC: Maybe we'll just point them out and let people figure them out for themselves, and say "secret!". There's a cool one coming up in a— just a few minutes.
MG: What's great about this, and I – tip of the hat to Rough Draft, is how good this looks. The first episode is – the show have evolved a little bit, but it doesn't – you know – it doesn't look like a different show.
DXC: Rough Draft are our animation studio, by the way.
MG: Right.
DXC: [I.C. Weiner note is shown.] That's my parents' home address; 405. Different street, but that's where the number comes from.
?: Wow! Everything is of significance! [Fry is opening his beer and making his mockery toast; so along with Fry] ... millennium.
DXC: [Over the countdown montage] This idea came to me in the shower. I remember thinking about it in the shower one morning.
MG: The fact that they are during the countdown for New Year's, all around the world, is a bit of a stretch, but—
DXC: The idea that they are in different timezones—
- [Nibbler's shadow appears.]
MG & DXC: Secret!
- [Laughter erupts.]
DXC: That's gonna pay off in a few years from now. [Fry has fallen into the tube, and the days are starting to spin away.] Matt, I remember an early drawing you did that looked just like this. Your conception for this scene was in your mind early on.
?: And I have that drawing.
MG: This is inspired by the – you know – The Time Machine.