https://theinfosphere.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=JediRogue&feedformat=atomThe Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T22:26:23ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.36.3https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Dr._Amy_Wong&diff=80100Dr. Amy Wong2011-02-26T05:40:02Z<p>JediRogue: /* Personality */ "technically we were fonfon ru so we were never really married"</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Dr. Amy Wong<br />
|image=[[File:Amy promo 2.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=A [[promotional picture]] of Amy.<br />
|type=p<br />
|species=[[Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Mars]]<br />
|age={{age|2979|12}}<br />
|birth date=Somewhere between 22 November and 22 December, 2979<br />
|voiced by=Lauren Tom<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV02}}<br />
|family=''See [[#Family|family]] section''<br />
|job=Long-term Intern at [[Planet Express]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Amy Wong''', '''Ph.D.''', is a human from [[Mars]] who is of Chinese descent, sole heir to half the planet, and a Doctor of Applied Physics. She is a primary character and is known as a klutz and socialite.<br />
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== Personality ==<br />
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Amy is friendly and easily gets along with others but she is also a bit of a klutz. She has attracted a fair few men in her time, most notably [[Kif Kroker]] who is her [[fonfon ru]]. However Amy also appears to have some level of vanity and is concerned about her appearance. She is engaged in a constant low-intensity feud with [[Turanga Leela]], the only other female at Planet Express, and often accuses her of not being ladylike enough to be a true woman. However they are friends nevertheless. As shown in {{e|6ACV08}} Amy is an extremely intelligent young woman.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
[[File:Amy - Junior Champion.png|right|thumb|Mini-golf junior champion]]<br />
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=== Early Life ===<br />
Amy Wong was raised by her parents, [[Leo and Inez Wong|Leo and Inez]], on [[Wong Ranch]], a buggalo farm that covers the entire western hemisphere of Mars. During her teenage years she had a weight problem, but enjoyed the perks that come from having rich parents such as having multiple ponies and a pet [[Betsy|buggalo]]. In her spare time Amy took up miniature golf in an attempt to impress her father, becoming a champion in tournaments.<br />
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=== Mars University and an Internship ===<br />
Joining [[Mars University (Place)|Mars University]]'s student body, thanks to a donation from her parents, Amy began an engineering degree and joined the family sorority, Kappa Kappa Wong. In [[2998]], while studying at MU she took an internship at [[Planet Express]], a company owned by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], one of her teachers. While the job involves engineering work, Amy would occasionally join the delivery crew on the [[Planet Express Ship|ship]], learning how to fly it and control the winch in order [[The Series Has Landed|to save]] the current crew.<br />
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=== A chance meeting ===<br />
On [[A Flight to Remember|a company vacation]] aboard the [[Titanic]] Amy claimed to have a boyfriend. Fortunately for her, this ruse ended shortly before evacuating, and her parents finally set her up with someone she liked; the ship's new captain [[Kif Kroker]]. After being dropped off back at Planet Express by her [[Amphibiosans|Amphibiosan]] love interest, he became too nervous to talk to her and instead began calling and hanging up, which he did for an entire year. They also managed to avoid seeing each other during his brief stint as the company's ship's First Mate. Amy moved on and resumed dating other men, including [[Put Your Head on My Shoulder|a short term romance]] with [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], which ended with his head surgically attached to her body. Fortunately, his body was soon repaired and the head was put back in place.<br />
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Eventually, after one of Kif's failed phone calls, [[Zapp Brannigan|Zapp]] used the couple for a chance to get close to [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]. Zapp crashed and burned, taking the restaurant-ship with him, but [[Kif-Amy relationship|Kif and Amy's relationship]] managed to begin anew. Despite having introduced them, Amy's parents did not approve of Kif when she brought him home for [[Mars Day]] and although he later saved her life when she was kidnapped by the [[Native Martians]], they didn't believe it.<br />
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=== Long distance relationship ===<br />
Due to Kif's [[DOOP|career]], the couple were forced to maintain the relationship long distance. Amy spent this time at work, [[Bendin' in the Wind|following a band on tour]] and becoming an honourary [[Globetrotters|Globetrotter]] but eventually decided to sneak on board the Planet Express ship and steal it while the crew was sleeping. This rendezvous led to Kif's impregnation, which almost split the couple up, but once it became clear that they would remain in a swamp for twenty years to develop into children, she came around. Not too long after this she [[Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles|became a child again]] herself due to an accident at a health spa, and may have come out of the experience slightly younger than where she started. They continued to date, [[Three Hundred Big Boys|spending the day on a paddle plane]] or spending the night at a reception for the silk surplus.<br />
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=== Fonfon Rubok ===<br />
[[File:Fonfon Rubok.png|right|thumb|Amy's and Kif's Fonfon Rubok]]<br />
In the following years Amy had grown her hair long until it was burned down to the previous length by [[Bender]]. Soon after became one of many victims of [[Scammer Aliens|scammers]] who took control of the whole of planet [[Earth]]. After the planet was reclaimed, Amy and Kif had a [[coinage#F|Fonfon Rubok]] the marriage fell apart soon after, when Kif was killed by Zapp's incompetence. He was brought back, but after learning that she and Zapp had spent a night together, he left her.<br />
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=== The golfing feminist ===<br />
Having long sought the approval of her father, she initially defended him against Leela for his views on women but eventually couldn't take the criticism, joining the [[Feministas]] to get back at him. The group's history leads to their arrest, but they are broken out by Bender and after Leo's plan is foiled, she is reunited with Kif as they and her co-workers escape from Zapp down a wormhole.<br />
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=== Proposition Infinity ===<br />
After crashing the ship into Earth and being [[Rebirth|rebirthed]], Amy has a long fight with Kif that leads to their break-up when he cannot stand her flirting with bad boys. Supporting this theory, Amy starts a [[robosexuality|robosexual]] relationship with [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], and they decide to marry and votes to [[Proposition Infinity|legalize robosexual marriage]]. However Bender leaves her upon realising she wants a monogamous wedding, and she returns to Kif, who now has turned a bad boy for her.<br />
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=== Doctor of Applied Physics ===<br />
[[File:Dr. Amy Wong.jpg|right|thumb|Amy's graduation from Mars University]]<br />
In 3010, having worked as an intern for twelve years, Amy presented her thesis to the Professors at [[Mars University (place)|Mars University]]. She fails to get her doctorate the first time, but it is revealed that [[Professor Morris Katz]], one of the Professors that failed her, was actually an alien cat who then stole the [[Earth]]'s rotational energy using the very device Amy had just designed and been failed for. Amy used her skills as a scientist to solve the problem by causing the Earth to rotate in the opposite direction and earn her PhD in applied physics. Despite this achievement, however, she stays at [[Planet Express]] after [[Professor Fisherprice Shpeekenshpell]] describes the job market as "rough".<br />
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== Family ==<br />
*[[Leo and Inez Wong]] - parents<br />
*[[Sir Reginald Wong]], Leo's paternal ancestor who bought [[Mars]] from its natives with a [[Giant Diamond|bead]]<br />
*Hundreds of Kif's unnamed children (adoptive; Leela is the mother)<br />
*[[Kif Kroker]] - [[coinage#F|Fonfon Ru]], or husband (''see [[Kif-Amy relationship]] for more info'')<br />
**Kif's entire [[Kif Kroker#Family|family]] through [[coinage#F|Fonfon Rubok]]<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
[[File:Amy promo.png|right|thumb|Amy Wong]]<br />
*Amy is a notorious klutz. She loses things, is the victim/cause of many accidents, and frequently falls over or trips on things.<br />
*Before she met Kif, Amy had many boyfriends and often made Leela jealous or angry of her looks.<br />
*At Mars U., Amy was a member of the sorority Kappa Kappa Wong and was an engineering student of [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]].<br />
*On two occasions, she has had a relationship with [[Fry]]. (''see [[Fry-Amy relationship]] for more info'')<br />
*Despite being socially aware and 'bubbly', she is a bit of a ditz and suffers from her own naivete (physically and socially) in many episodes.<br />
*Amy speaks Yeti.<br />
*Like her [[Leo and Inez Wong|parents]], When she gets mad or frustrated, she is actually speaking Cantonese (Chinese Dialect). Seen in {{e|1ACV02}}, {{e|2ACV12}}, {{e|3ACV01}}, {{f|1}}, {{f|4}}, & {{e|6ACV08}}.<br />
*She is an honorary [[Globetrotters|Globetrotter]].<br />
*Only staff member not seen in [[Futurama (video game)|the game]].<br />
*Has several tattoos at various places, including at least four [[Talking Tattoo|talking tattoos]] (one on her upper right arm and three presumably on her buttock (she also has a tattoo of [[Inez Wong|her mother]] on her ass) one of which neighs like a horse) and one [[Amy's Obscene Tattoo|obscene tattoo]] on her left upper arm, which cannot be viewed on a standard definition TV.<br />
*Has the same blood type as [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]. This is probably the only reason Professor Farnsworth keeps her around. ([[The Series Has Landed|1ACV02]]).<br />
*Has a pet [[Buggalo]] named [[Betsy]].<br />
*An alternate version of her named [[Gynecaladriel]] appeared in {{f|3}}.<br />
*Her email is awong79@marslink.web, suggesting she is born in 2979.<br />
*Is highly allergic to cats.<br />
*Her star sign is {{w|Sagittarius (astrology)|Sagittarius}}, which puts her birth date in late November or early to mid December.<br />
** Except that on 1st December 2979 the Sun as seen from Mars is on the border between Virgo and Leo. Sagittarius is on the opposite side of the sky. Of course one shouldn't expect astrology to have anything to do with the actual positions of objects in the sky, but still...<br />
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=== Catchphrase ===<br />
Amy doesn't have a specific catchphrase, but frequently spouts futuristic slang in place of common modern colloqiualisms, the most common being one that replaces "Duh!".<br />
Variations include:<br />
*Guh! ([[The Series Has Landed|1ACV02]]), ([[Love's Labours Lost in Space|1ACV04]]), ([[A Fishful of Dollars|1ACV06]])<br />
*Buh! ([[Love's Labours Lost in Space|1ACV04]]), ([[A Clone of My Own|2ACV10]])<br />
*Fluh! {{et|2ACV04}}<br />
*Spluh! ([[Put Your Head on My Shoulder|2ACV07]]), ([[The Farnsworth Parabox|4ACV15]]), ([[Bender's Big Score Part 1|5ACV01]])<br />
*Abraca-Duh! {{et|3ACV18}}<br />
*Guh-oh. {{et|6ACV04}}<br />
*Shmich! {{et|4ACV16}}<br />
*What the shmell happened? ([[A Clockwork Origin|6ACV09]], [[Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences|6ACV11]])<br />
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In the same vein, Amy also routinely utters variations on the word "Sheesh!", for example, "Spleesh!" Being the only young, hip character on the show, this constantly shifting slang is obviously a nod to the constantly changing "cool things to say" that pop culture tosses around and then tosses aside over time.<br />
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Also, whenever she falls or slips, she screams and the same soundbite is used each time. The sound of something breaking usually follows.<br />
She also frequently comments on Leela's looks or hygiene in a very tactless, catty and often insulting way.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Congratulations, Fry, you snagged the perfect girlfriend. Amy's rich, she's probably got other characteristics...</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': Sporty go-cart, Leela, so hip and sexy. Not like you at all.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': Ew, pukeatronic!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': Oh, so this is where you shop for your boots.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': Hey, let's go car shopping! My parents said if I got all B's they'd buy me a bar. And I got all C's!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': Hey Professor, what's all this scrumpf blorking out of the machine?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': Spam, Spam... Hi, How Are You? Ooh, that must be from Kiffy.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I have sweaty boot rash.<br />
'''Amy''': No spluh, why do you think I'm sitting over here in the stink-free zone?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Dr. Ogden Wernstrom''': Young lady, have you been drinking?<br />
'''Amy''': Well, yes. But that's not revelant.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
While Amy appears in most episodes, films and comics (except for "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", "[[Brannigan, Begin Again]]", "[[The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz]]" and "[[Roswell that Ends Well]]"), these categories may be of interest:<br />
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*[[:Category:A plots focusing on Amy|A plots focusing on Amy]]<br />
*[[:Category:B plots focusing on Amy|B plots focusing on Amy]]<br />
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[[Category:Doctors]]<br />
[[Category:Globetrotters]]<br />
[[Category:Humans]]<br />
[[Category:Planet Express]]<br />
[[Category:Scientists]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:Orson_Welles%27_head&diff=80099Talk:Orson Welles' head2011-02-26T03:59:51Z<p>JediRogue: that example stopped making sense.</p>
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[[User:JediRogue|JediRogue]]: Regarding [http://www.theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Orson_Welles%27s_head&diff=77667&oldid=77647 your move], I thought the possessive case of words ending in an ''S'' actually just required the apostrophe. I had [http://www.theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Enos_Fry&diff=77086&oldid=77050 reverted an edit of yours] once, and even provided a link to a conversation Svip and Teyrn of Highever had about this. And furthermore, isn't ''Welles'' a last name? [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 23:14, 8 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:The problem with possessives is that there is an argument between writers about this. Some say that add the apostrophe and some say don't. JediRogue and I learned one style and Svip learned another. I say undo the changes and add something in the Infosphere's manual of style to clarify for other users and avoid inconsistency. [[User:Teyrn of Highever|Teyrn of Highever]] 23:24, 8 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::That is a good idea. (It'd be in [[I:MOS#Language|the ''Language'' section]], wouldn't it?) Looks like we're just gonna have to wait for an admin to "dictate the rules", then. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 16:15, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::Other than the apostrophe issue, can anyone think of anything else that should be added? The only thing I can think of is the serial comma. It is only mentioned in relation to a specific article name. [[User:Teyrn of Highever|Teyrn of Highever]] 19:57, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::::The only thing I am worried about is that by making these suggestions, we stray to close to a specific variant of English. That could cause problems for other users. Just going to wait for an admin. [[User:Teyrn of Highever|Teyrn of Highever]] 19:59, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::From what I understood, you can use BrE everywhere, except for the title of pages. Example: [[Walt, Larry and Igner]]. That's good enough for me. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 20:12, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::Another example: [[Mom]]. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 20:17, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::::::That's just it, "can". By adding to the manual of style we restrict to certain variants, removing choice. Still, no point worrying. At least not until an admin says something. [[User:Teyrn of Highever|Teyrn of Highever]] 20:42, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::::The only place you can't use your preferred English variant is in pre-existing articles that you aren't overhauling, date formats and names of places and people (no calling [[Mom]] "Mum", okay to call Inez "Amy's Mum" although I'd prefer "mother" over either in such cases). I'm actually unsure which I learnt for family names but [http://humbleapostrophe.com/propernouns.html this site] (by a fellow Australian) says both are acceptable even though she seems to prefer without (which is what I think I learned and probably did). I have been working on the general rule that if it has an 's' on the end adding apostrophe indicates ownership, if it has no 's' you need to add "'s". If it needs to be pluralised do that first, then follow this rule. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 22:43, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::::::::I would willing argue that '''{{'}}''' often represents a removal of a part of a word, e.g. '''nothin{{'}}''', though from the context (of lacking an s on the end in most cases), it is pretty clear what is being said.<br />
::::::::I took the liberty of adding it to the MoS. My main concern is 'standardisation'. I would prefer that all '''-'s head''' were treated the same way. Or generally possessives in titles. If [[Santa Claus]] is treated different than [[Orson Welles]], I think there is a problem. So where do we stand? The style I learnt is the same as Quolnok. We use the same style in my native language, Danish, which doesn't include an apostrophe in general (e.g. 'Hans'' vs. 'Peters'), but that's another subject.. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|talk]]</sup> 02:40, 10 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::::::Good to know. So, does this mean the article will be moved back? [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 18:29, 10 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::::::::::What am I saying? Of course it does! [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 22:22, 11 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::::::::Moved it. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 22:36, 11 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:Okay, if you revert my edit because I'm wrong, ''especially'' more than once, you have to assume I didn't see the first time and go to my talk page. I only just saw this was moved back. Second, the apostrophe is still followed by the s if the name ends in s. It only doesn't if it is a plural possessive ending in s. See: [http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-possessive-apostrophe/]. Like I said, it's not a bunch of guys named Orson Welle whose head this is. I'm very pro standardization but at least make sure the rule is correct. It may be that there are different rules outside of the US but I don't believe I've ever heard that it was correct the other way. Usually it is that someone does not know the rule. Frankly however, if it is a matter of british vs american, I would think that, because the ''show'' is American, that would take some precedence. &mdash;'''[[User:JediRogue|Jedi<font color=red>&hearts;</font>Rogue]]''' 04:50, 26 February 2011 (CET)<br />
::Here it is on Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Singular_nouns_ending_with_an_.E2.80.9Cs.E2.80.9D_or_.E2.80.9Cz.E2.80.9D_sound] cited from the MLA handbook as well. Again, you don't drop the trailing s with proper nouns (Jimmy Jones's hat). Normal nouns (all the boys' hats) is when it is correct to drop the S. &mdash;'''[[User:JediRogue|Jedi<font color=red>&hearts;</font>Rogue]]''' 04:57, 26 February 2011 (CET)</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:Orson_Welles%27_head&diff=80098Talk:Orson Welles' head2011-02-26T03:57:10Z<p>JediRogue: </p>
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<div>== Title ==<br />
[[User:JediRogue|JediRogue]]: Regarding [http://www.theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Orson_Welles%27s_head&diff=77667&oldid=77647 your move], I thought the possessive case of words ending in an ''S'' actually just required the apostrophe. I had [http://www.theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Enos_Fry&diff=77086&oldid=77050 reverted an edit of yours] once, and even provided a link to a conversation Svip and Teyrn of Highever had about this. And furthermore, isn't ''Welles'' a last name? [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 23:14, 8 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:The problem with possessives is that there is an argument between writers about this. Some say that add the apostrophe and some say don't. JediRogue and I learned one style and Svip learned another. I say undo the changes and add something in the Infosphere's manual of style to clarify for other users and avoid inconsistency. [[User:Teyrn of Highever|Teyrn of Highever]] 23:24, 8 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::That is a good idea. (It'd be in [[I:MOS#Language|the ''Language'' section]], wouldn't it?) Looks like we're just gonna have to wait for an admin to "dictate the rules", then. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 16:15, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::Other than the apostrophe issue, can anyone think of anything else that should be added? The only thing I can think of is the serial comma. It is only mentioned in relation to a specific article name. [[User:Teyrn of Highever|Teyrn of Highever]] 19:57, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::::The only thing I am worried about is that by making these suggestions, we stray to close to a specific variant of English. That could cause problems for other users. Just going to wait for an admin. [[User:Teyrn of Highever|Teyrn of Highever]] 19:59, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::From what I understood, you can use BrE everywhere, except for the title of pages. Example: [[Walt, Larry and Igner]]. That's good enough for me. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 20:12, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::Another example: [[Mom]]. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 20:17, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::::::That's just it, "can". By adding to the manual of style we restrict to certain variants, removing choice. Still, no point worrying. At least not until an admin says something. [[User:Teyrn of Highever|Teyrn of Highever]] 20:42, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::::The only place you can't use your preferred English variant is in pre-existing articles that you aren't overhauling, date formats and names of places and people (no calling [[Mom]] "Mum", okay to call Inez "Amy's Mum" although I'd prefer "mother" over either in such cases). I'm actually unsure which I learnt for family names but [http://humbleapostrophe.com/propernouns.html this site] (by a fellow Australian) says both are acceptable even though she seems to prefer without (which is what I think I learned and probably did). I have been working on the general rule that if it has an 's' on the end adding apostrophe indicates ownership, if it has no 's' you need to add "'s". If it needs to be pluralised do that first, then follow this rule. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 22:43, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::::::::I would willing argue that '''{{'}}''' often represents a removal of a part of a word, e.g. '''nothin{{'}}''', though from the context (of lacking an s on the end in most cases), it is pretty clear what is being said.<br />
::::::::I took the liberty of adding it to the MoS. My main concern is 'standardisation'. I would prefer that all '''-'s head''' were treated the same way. Or generally possessives in titles. If [[Santa Claus]] is treated different than [[Orson Welles]], I think there is a problem. So where do we stand? The style I learnt is the same as Quolnok. We use the same style in my native language, Danish, which doesn't include an apostrophe in general (e.g. 'Hans'' vs. 'Peters'), but that's another subject.. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|talk]]</sup> 02:40, 10 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::::::Good to know. So, does this mean the article will be moved back? [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 18:29, 10 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::::::::::What am I saying? Of course it does! [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 22:22, 11 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::::::::Moved it. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 22:36, 11 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:Okay, if you revert my edit because I'm wrong, ''especially'' more than once, you have to assume I didn't see the first time and go to my talk page. I only just saw this was moved back. Second, the apostrophe is still followed by the s if the name ends in s. It only doesn't if it is a plural possessive ending in s. See: [http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-possessive-apostrophe/]. Like I said, it's not Orson Welle whose head this is. I'm very pro standardization but at least make sure the rule is correct. It may be that there are different rules outside of the US but I don't believe I've ever heard that it was correct the other way. Usually it is that someone does not know the rule. Frankly however, if it is a matter of british vs american, I would think that, because the ''show'' is American, that would take some precedence. &mdash;'''[[User:JediRogue|Jedi<font color=red>&hearts;</font>Rogue]]''' 04:50, 26 February 2011 (CET)<br />
::Here it is on Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Singular_nouns_ending_with_an_.E2.80.9Cs.E2.80.9D_or_.E2.80.9Cz.E2.80.9D_sound] cited from the MLA handbook as well. Again, you don't drop the trailing s with proper nouns (Jimmy Jones's hat). Normal nouns (all the boys' hats) is when it is correct to drop the S. &mdash;'''[[User:JediRogue|Jedi<font color=red>&hearts;</font>Rogue]]''' 04:57, 26 February 2011 (CET)</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:Orson_Welles%27_head&diff=80097Talk:Orson Welles' head2011-02-26T03:50:21Z<p>JediRogue: /* Title */</p>
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<div>== Title ==<br />
[[User:JediRogue|JediRogue]]: Regarding [http://www.theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Orson_Welles%27s_head&diff=77667&oldid=77647 your move], I thought the possessive case of words ending in an ''S'' actually just required the apostrophe. I had [http://www.theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Enos_Fry&diff=77086&oldid=77050 reverted an edit of yours] once, and even provided a link to a conversation Svip and Teyrn of Highever had about this. And furthermore, isn't ''Welles'' a last name? [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 23:14, 8 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:The problem with possessives is that there is an argument between writers about this. Some say that add the apostrophe and some say don't. JediRogue and I learned one style and Svip learned another. I say undo the changes and add something in the Infosphere's manual of style to clarify for other users and avoid inconsistency. [[User:Teyrn of Highever|Teyrn of Highever]] 23:24, 8 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::That is a good idea. (It'd be in [[I:MOS#Language|the ''Language'' section]], wouldn't it?) Looks like we're just gonna have to wait for an admin to "dictate the rules", then. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 16:15, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::Other than the apostrophe issue, can anyone think of anything else that should be added? The only thing I can think of is the serial comma. It is only mentioned in relation to a specific article name. [[User:Teyrn of Highever|Teyrn of Highever]] 19:57, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::::The only thing I am worried about is that by making these suggestions, we stray to close to a specific variant of English. That could cause problems for other users. Just going to wait for an admin. [[User:Teyrn of Highever|Teyrn of Highever]] 19:59, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::From what I understood, you can use BrE everywhere, except for the title of pages. Example: [[Walt, Larry and Igner]]. That's good enough for me. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 20:12, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::Another example: [[Mom]]. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 20:17, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::::::That's just it, "can". By adding to the manual of style we restrict to certain variants, removing choice. Still, no point worrying. At least not until an admin says something. [[User:Teyrn of Highever|Teyrn of Highever]] 20:42, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::::The only place you can't use your preferred English variant is in pre-existing articles that you aren't overhauling, date formats and names of places and people (no calling [[Mom]] "Mum", okay to call Inez "Amy's Mum" although I'd prefer "mother" over either in such cases). I'm actually unsure which I learnt for family names but [http://humbleapostrophe.com/propernouns.html this site] (by a fellow Australian) says both are acceptable even though she seems to prefer without (which is what I think I learned and probably did). I have been working on the general rule that if it has an 's' on the end adding apostrophe indicates ownership, if it has no 's' you need to add "'s". If it needs to be pluralised do that first, then follow this rule. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 22:43, 9 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::::::::I would willing argue that '''{{'}}''' often represents a removal of a part of a word, e.g. '''nothin{{'}}''', though from the context (of lacking an s on the end in most cases), it is pretty clear what is being said.<br />
::::::::I took the liberty of adding it to the MoS. My main concern is 'standardisation'. I would prefer that all '''-'s head''' were treated the same way. Or generally possessives in titles. If [[Santa Claus]] is treated different than [[Orson Welles]], I think there is a problem. So where do we stand? The style I learnt is the same as Quolnok. We use the same style in my native language, Danish, which doesn't include an apostrophe in general (e.g. 'Hans'' vs. 'Peters'), but that's another subject.. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|talk]]</sup> 02:40, 10 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::::::Good to know. So, does this mean the article will be moved back? [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 18:29, 10 January 2011 (CET)<br />
::::::::::What am I saying? Of course it does! [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 22:22, 11 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:::::::::::Moved it. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 22:36, 11 January 2011 (CET)<br />
:Okay, if you revert my edit because I'm wrong, ''especially'' more than once, you have to assume I didn't see the first time and go to my talk page. I only just saw this was moved back. Second, the apostrophe is still followed by the s if the name ends in s. It only doesn't if it is a plural possessive ending in s. See: [http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-possessive-apostrophe/]. Like I said, it's not Orson Welle whose head this is. I'm very pro standardization but at least make sure the rule is correct. It may be that there are different rules outside of the US but I don't believe I've ever heard that it was correct the other way. Usually it is that someone does not know the rule. Frankly however, if it is a matter of british vs american, I would think that, because the ''show'' is American, that would take some precedence. &mdash;'''[[User:JediRogue|Jedi<font color=red>&hearts;</font>Rogue]]''' 04:50, 26 February 2011 (CET)</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Pat_Shinagawa&diff=80096Pat Shinagawa2011-02-26T03:35:05Z<p>JediRogue: </p>
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'''Patty Shinagawa''' (credited as '''Pat Shinagawa''' on ''[[Futurama]]'') is a director and former animation timer. She directed the episodes "[[Where the Buggalo Roam]]" and "[[Where No Fan Has Gone Before]]". Outside of ''Futurama'', he has worked on ''[[The Simpsons]]'', for which she won a primetime Emmy along the rest of the crew for "{{w|Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind}}". In addition to that, she has directed on ''{{w|The Super Hero Squad Show}}'', ''Sherm!'', ''{{w|Grim & Evil}}'', ''{{w|Evil Con Carne}}'', ''{{w|The Angry Beavers}}'' and ''{{w|King of the Hill}}''.<br />
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'''Patty Shinagawa''' (credited as '''Pat Shinagawa''' on ''[[Futurama]]'') is a director and former animation timer. She directed the episodes "[[Where the Buggalo Roam]]" and "[[Where No Fan Has Gone Before]]". Outside of ''Futurama'', he has worked on ''[[The Simpsons]]'', for which she won a primetime Emmy along the rest of the crew for "{{w|Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind}}". In addition to that, he has directed on ''{{w|The Super Hero Squad Show}}'', ''Sherm!'', ''{{w|Grim & Evil}}'', ''{{w|Evil Con Carne}}'', ''{{w|The Angry Beavers}}'' and ''{{w|King of the Hill}}''.<br />
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[[Category:Directors]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Hank_Azaria&diff=80094Hank Azaria2011-02-26T02:57:56Z<p>JediRogue: this is from the commentary for thats lobstertainment and thats cohen telling this not groening</p>
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'''Hank Azaria''' is an American actor and comedian, who provided the voice of [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg's]] uncle [[Harold Zoid]] on ''[[Futurama]]''.<br />
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[[Category:Voice actors|Azaria, Hank]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Transcript:Commentary:The_Beast_with_a_Billion_Backs&diff=79844Transcript:Commentary:The Beast with a Billion Backs2011-02-22T05:54:55Z<p>JediRogue: that one is definitely that.</p>
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*[[David X. Cohen]] (DXC)<br />
*[[Matt Groening]] (MG)<br />
*[[Claudia Katz]] (CK)<br />
*[[Peter Avanzino]] (PA)<br />
*[[Michael Rowe]] (MR)<br />
*[[Lee Supercinski]] (LS)<br />
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<poem>'''[[Billy West]]''': [as Announcer] There is nothing wrong with your DVD. The Beast with a Billion Backs. What are ya waitin' for? A commentary? ''[people laughing]'' Release date: June 24 2008. The proud result of...</poem><br />
:''[Title Caption appears.]''<br />
<poem>'''BW''': ... prison labour, that's what it says? Oh, hi, I'm Billy West. And, uh, this, is commentary for Beast with a Billion Backs, eagerly awaited and, uh, we got a whole crowd with us today. Umm... hi Mo. </poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Maurice LaMarche]]''' [comedic voice]: Hey, what a crowd! What a crowd! I tell ya' I'm alright now, but last week I was in rough shape. [normal voice] Oh, look at this. I love this. This is, this is gonna be amazing. I'm Maurice LaMarche. I'm an actor on the show. I play Kif, Morbo, Calculon, Schlomo, Sportsbot 5000, Hedonism Bot, Destructor, Elderly King Kong, Lrrr, Horrible Gelatinous Blob and Fishy Joe. </poem><br />
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:''[Alternate Opening Cartoon appears.]''<br />
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<poem>'''[[David X. Cohen]]''': Okay, let's finish introducing ourselves after this. Pete Avanzino, director, you wanna talk a little about this black and white section and the inspirations. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Excellent. </poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Peter Avanzino]]''': I'm Pete Avanzino, the director. I was fortunate enough, uh, you guys wrote this great scene and we had the great Steven DiStefano, who's a comic book artist and Popeye historian, storyboard it and we pretty much traced his drawings for the design and, uh...umm... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Any inspirations? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Well, of course, Steamboat Mickey, Steamboat Willie, one... I mean. Is that the inspiration you want? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Sure. ''[people laughing]'' And, uh, John DiMaggio did the whistling that you heard. </poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Michael Rowe]]''': And we owe Disney money now. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': John's here? Where? </poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Matt Groening]]''': Cartoons are written? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Matt Groening! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': So now that I sound like a raving egomaniac 'cause I'm the only person who introduced all his credits. Ladies and gentlemen, please let me introduce Matt Groening. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Hi, this is Matt Groening. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Hi. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is David X. Cohen. X-ecutive producer. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': This is Katie Segal and I have a cold. ''[people laughing]'' This is Mike Rowe, one of the, uh, writers somewhere in here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Claudia Katz]]''': Claudia Katz, producer for Rough Draft. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': It's Peter Avanzino again. Director. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Uhh, Lee Supercinski. A producer. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And I'm John DiMaggio. Voice of Bender and Randy, who you just saw a second ago. [as Randy] 'Cause he's great! I can't believe he's still around. My God! Stuff happens. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And, obviously, this movie actually starts out where the last one left off. Very surprisingly. Normally when a cartoon ends with the universe blowing up you just go, "Oh, it's a cartoon. They're not gonna deal with that," but we decided to deal with it so... </poem><br />
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:''[Intro to Sports with Sportsbot 5000.]''<br />
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<poem>'''JD''': [laughing] I just noticed the dude playing marbles in the uh... There's a guy playing marbles in the highlights in sports. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': That scene is packed with great sports footage. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I didn't - I... that's great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Rough Draft did a lot of work for that. It was a lot of animation for a joke. </poem><br />
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<poem>'''PA''': Ya, when you guys write a joke like that I don't like to cheat on it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Well you have it even worse later. We'll get to it later, but there's that screen with 64 simultaneous bits of information later, so we'll talk about that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yes and I think you guys said "Well, can't you just repeat some?" and... I'm not gonna do that. </poem><br />
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:''[Professor ignites his own head.]''<br />
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<poem>'''BW''': Hey, he's burnin' up. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': This is the first time I'm seeing this, so I'm just gonna watch. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
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:''[Fry enters with Colleen.]''<br />
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<poem>'''DXC''': That's guest star Brittany Murphy there as Colleen. ''[people cheering]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Shaft] Yeah, that's right. Brittany Murphy. Aw, she a bad mutha'... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Watch yo' mouth. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Shaft] I'm just talkin' 'bout Brittany Murphy, baby. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': We can dig it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Shaft] Aw, man. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': L-O-L. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': ''[laughs]'' [surfer voice] Totally hot. Wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Rofflemow (as in R.O.F.L.M.A.O.) </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I see her bellybuttons. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Shaft] That's crazy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So, we had some qualms about this a little bit - although it didn't stop us - about Fry is immediately smitten with this other woman, apparently days after the last episode in which he and Leela has this real big love story going, but we figured "Ah, well, six months will pass between people actually seeing that one and this one so they'll probably forgive us about this story twist." </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Until now, you let the cat out of the bag. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [as Fry] I've always been a bit of a hussie. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I listen to my commentaries at home in the nude. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
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:''[Fry and Zoidberg talking about Colleen in the park.]''<br />
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<poem>'''MM''': I love this little bit right here with the... just snaking us in and then... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I liked the little blood on the pancakes joke. I laughed ''out loud'' when I heard that joke. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': A flashback within a flashback. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Sorry. (for interrupting MM)</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There used to be a third part to this sequence and if you watch the Deleted Scenes extras in the DVD you'll see this actually continued another step further. Fry and Colleen met each other the next day. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Shaft] Those Deleted Scenes are a bad mutha'-</poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': You chose to break the rules. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We stuck to two. </poem><br />
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:''[Bender is turned back on.]''<br />
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<poem>'''BW''': Hey, is that Iron Man? ''[does excessive electronic sounds, then stops]'' Sorry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Nice segue, Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': MM, you have a lo-. You have, actually, a large role in this... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I have a story line. Yah, I was very thrilled. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You're actually playing Kif, who's involved in this story line, and Calculon, who is heavily involved in another story line. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': [as Calculon] Yes I am indeed, my friend, Mr. Cohen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And Hedonism Bot, who also has a heavy role in that story and... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': [as Hedonism Bot] I'm afraid you're making a weight reference and I will not acknowledge it. ''[people laughing]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And Morbo, who explains everything to us, so I'd have to say MM has a... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I think we should just change it to "Mo-arama" at this point. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Aw, yeah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And we're done. Yah, I actually selfishly went through and counted all my characters in the episode just to make sure I still work here. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': (drowned MM's previous comments) Hey, did I...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Did you what? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Never mind. </poem><br />
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:''[Flying toward Amphibious 9.]''<br />
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<poem>'''MM''': Wait, we're on Amphibious 9 now. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yes, that's right. We're on your home planet. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': You're character's home planet. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Alright. This is-</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': It's about you, Mo. ''[MM laughing]'' It's about you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, I'm just thrilled that I'm doing this. </poem><br />
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:''[Leela exits the ship-eating plant with a blow torch.]''<br />
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<poem>'''BW''': That's sexy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I'll break out the... the Stoke-Longer. ''[people laughing]'' I just invented it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': "Mo's Big Score." </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': A new thing. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': The Back Patter. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now this planet was established for "Kif Gets Up..." [confused mouth sound] "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch," episode 401. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But we've never seen it at night. </poem><br />
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:''[Enter Kif's parents.]''<br />
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<poem>'''DXC''': And we've never seen Kif's parents before. But one interesting this is when we last saw this planet Kif was giving birth to his and Leela's babies due to the strange circumstances of that episode and so we were originally planning to revisit their babies here but we just decided it was so confusing to anyone that didn't have a clear memory that it was him and Leela and he gave birth. They were tad poles so we decided we would not deal with that, but on the other hand the fact that they start as tad poles and turn into whatever Kif is inspired us to say, "Hey, what if they then turn into something else?" So that's where these flies came from. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': What David is saying... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': These Hook Flies, are these a real type of fly or did you make them up? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': They're very cool. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Flying Hook Worms? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I really don't think that's a real thing. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I think they're... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Okay. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [in Kif's father's voice] Nice to meet you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's a great effect though. That computer graphics there. And the audio. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And that was Billy doing that voice without any... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': How many flies are there? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Billy was not audio effected. That's just Billy doing Billy. that's how genius he is. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [in Kif's father's voice] Thank you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [weird voice] That's just Billy being Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [in Kif's father's voice] I love you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There's also an audio effect on it, there is. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [weird voice] That's just Billy being Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Billy did the voice for each one of those flies. ''[DXC and KK laugh]'' </poem><br />
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:''[Leela is playing Pong on her wrist.] [MM laughs]''<br />
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<poem>'''DXC''': How many flies are animated there? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Who cares? It was a buyout. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Thousands! </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Uhh, those are 3-D. I dunno, somebody would have to count them. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I think they're some sort of particle based effect. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yah, we... flying bugs are something that come out choppy a lot in 2-D so... </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': The research was very difficult to... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': They were inspired by what we found on John's back. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': After coming back from Thailand. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Tress MacNeille, ladies and gentlemen, coming up. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Tress also has a huge number of roles in this DVD. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': She's every woman in the... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I had a number of roles for lunch. Does that count? ''[people laughing]'' I had to say it, I'm sorry. Cut that in post. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I like the look on Leo Wong's face. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love that she's wearing something borrowed, something blue. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, yah! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh, she's got the blue garters on! Nice! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Nice! </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': We don't miss anything. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': This scene came from the inspiration of my wedding. ''[people laughing]'' Don't want to get into it, but... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Nice. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': There ya' go. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Did the mud burn? That's all I wanna know. Did it burn? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I want a transcript of this audio commentary. ''[DXC and MG laugh]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Uh, by the way, I gotta credit Eric Kaplan, the writer of the DVD who could not be here today. In fact he's out of the country, but fantastic script Eric Kaplan. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Abu dabu. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Long story. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Is he coming back? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I actually drove past him on the street the other day and noticed it was him as I passed and I yelled out "Mister Kaplan!" And I looked in the mirror and he was like. ''[people laughing]'' Where did that mystery voice come from? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': John is acting this out on a voice commentary. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yes! It's something that you can't see at home! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But the facial expression was priceless. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [high pitched voice] Wow! Incredible! </poem><br />
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:''[Kif pulls out his bouquet.]''<br />
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<poem>'''MM''': Now is this some organ of Kif's or umm...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Cause I played it that way. ''[DXC and KK laugh]'' </poem><br />
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:''[Fry and Colleen star into each others eyes.]''<br />
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<poem>'''JD''': Wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Which one is Fry? ''[people laugh]'' </poem><br />
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:''[Zoidberg devours the bouquet.] [groans of disgust are shared throughout the group]''<br />
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<poem>'''BW''': [as Zoidberg] But I have sweet breath. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I love this. This is great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Bed head. (does a electric razor noise) [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Awesome. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Good timing. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': You know what happens is you create stuff like this in fiction and then people go on to create it in real, you know, actual scientists create it in real life. So within 20 years there will be Barb-O-Mite. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Would you use it though? I wouldn't want mites on my hair. Even if they... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': If I could get the same haircut, the perfect haircut every time? I dunno. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Only if you knew that the lifespan of the mite was, like if it ate that much it would die. Like, you'd have to... no there'd be too much! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So you're okay with having a head full of dead mites? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah, see, yah. That's the thing. They'd be alive when you put 'em in and then like eat the hair and then because of that... </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Maybe they decompose. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Into a nice conditioner. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': See, that's the other thing. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': A leave on conditioner. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Well, you know. It's... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': The director's saying, "Why aren't they talking about the colours?" </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I don't know. All I know is Barb-O-Mite. [Bender as announcer] Everybody's favourite stuff to put in their hair! It's Barb-O-Mite! </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Bender pulls out a head of cabbage for Fry.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': I love how... watch the cabbage. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Done. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': How about the Flow-Bumblebee? ''[MG laughs]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love how Bender has the talent to actually draw.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I like this part. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Wilson! </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Bender draws a really good Fry for being upset. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': So, on the last DVD we did a full episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad. Can I put in my two cents now and say on the third DVD, a full episode of All My Circuits? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Oooh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, get started on that. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Nice job dude. Way to go. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry and Colleen enter 2-D ride.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MG''': I think this is one of my favourite scenes of all time on the show. This is great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I like barker. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': This is conceptionally great and well executed. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Actually there's a shot coming up that we fought... ''[side view of Fry.]'' Well that, that's a great shot in itself. Sterling animation. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': If you blow that up like 200 times you would not believe what's going on there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': That is the scene that I animated myself. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I like this-... oh really? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, this is the scene I animated myself. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is the angle I love, right there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That is great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And this one. wait... the one that. That one. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That, a credit to our editor Paul Calder who had the idea to use that as... to reuse that as a reaction shot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': "At the fuut of the bed." At the... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And John DiMaggio, that dog whimper was not called for in the script. You just did that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I think I... yah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It just had like "pathetic whimper" or something and then John did that dog whimper and we used it for Bender. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': I drew him like a cat though. [people laughing] A cat rubbing his head. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': See? Yep. There goes- there goes that Annie award. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Get ready for our next guest star. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Here he comes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ah... oh... and... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Making his second appearance in Futurama. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Stephen Hawking descends into frame.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Professor Stephen Hawking. </poem><br />
:''[people clapping]''<br />
<poem>'''PA''': Do you remember our discussion on how Stephen should... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That was amazing. He actually has terrific timing. ''[DXC laughs]'' I was watching this last night going "Hawking is funny. He's got really great timing." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You know what it is? He's got that Stephen Wright style of comedy. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': What's funny is his phone machine sounds normal. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Hey, uhh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' [as Stephen Hawking] I saw a wooden man the other day. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Hey is somebody... I don't mean to, I don't mean to bring it down, but somebody that was on the show, umm... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Just passed away recently. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Gary Gygax. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Gary Gygax, and I think we should say just, you know... ah, best... you know... say the best. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Heavy inspiration of our third DVD, Bender's Game, um... so, yes, thanks to Gary Gygax for the inspiration and the good times. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': May he rest in peace. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Not that we're giving away much about DVD three. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': ''[laughs]'' He's reduced to throwing his teeth now, that's so great. I'm not gonna come down there and punch him out. ''[chomps teeth]'' Ow! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ooh! ''[chomps teeth]'' Ow! </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Hey, Pete, is this our largest crowd ever in lab coats? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': In lab coats. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Definitely. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Are lab coats hard to draw? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There was an early version where this was called the Institute for Advanced Studlies and the scientists all had tremendous physiques. ''[MR laughs]'' We decided that it was just confusing the issue. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': "I didn't know I could do that." ''[MM laughs]'' Funny. Funny, funny, funny. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': I remember David, you were maybe contemplating Hawkins' head could actually move. Like his mouth would move, but he would still have the robot voice. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, we had to decide what to do in the future, like, would he change technology, but we decided "you know what, everyone's preserved in the jar the way you best remember them." My guess from their career, what they're known for. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Their quintessential version. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, so we stuck with the straight up. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Scene: Deathball.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MG''': So David and I can't get over this scene. We played this over and over again watching the animation in this. It's, uh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I love this. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': We actually built a life sized version of this at Rough Draft and our workman's comp. rates are just outta control. ''[LL laughs]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Well, when Fry's riding that ball. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': This should be the next Halloween party. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Yah, this should be the next... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh, that would be awesome. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [as Zoidberg] Think of the insurance. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I'm gonna point out this scene that blows me away when it's gets there. I mean, it all does, but it's a use of 3D in a way we've not used it before. For one thing, you know, it's just a totally novel use of 3D in the show. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': I think we're gonna do a special on this somewhere, but... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Okay, watch Fry's hands in this shot, the subtlety of like... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': The finger movements! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': He's balancing with, like, his fingers. That is unbelievable. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That is great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I actually thought you guys had done motion capture when I saw that shot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Please! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's so... it looks so detailed. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': We did, uh... we did, umm... It's a weird combination, 'cause we built scenes like that one in 3D. The floor is tilting and then we print them out and the layout artist draws the layouts on top of those print outs. And then the end, we send all the print outs to Korea and they have to register all the drawings to each print out, one by one. And that shot of Fry on top of the ball, it came out really incredible and, um... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Who did the... </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': J. Kim did the layouts. I should say, Edmund Fong boarded this whole section and we planned it from the start. We knew all the... everything, you know, all the scenes, but there's about a dozen or 15 where the floors really tilt well and then we replaced all the balls. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': In 3D, right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': The bocce ball type things. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Look at his little butt! </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': We mixed these movies in 5.1 and that scene in particular, every... I hope everyone's listening to it in 5.1 at home. The subwoofer roar of the balls, and it's a fantastic mix on that part. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, in the surround sound you can really hear that those balls weigh about ten thousand tonnes each as the "boom." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Well, when I'm in my tub at night I-.. no! ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I like sitting on my subwoofer. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You sunk my battleship! ''[JJ still laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is Phil LaMarr as Ndulu, Maurice as Schlomo and, by the way, the character of Schlomo with the bow tie there, that is... that's an old design based on Eric Kaplan. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Eric Kaplan! I was gonna say. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Totally. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And Bolt Rolands, the other boyfriend, is also Phil LaMarr from episode 104. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Phil LaMarr was doing every voice in that scene at one point. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': At one point he was also Schlomo. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Did you guys ever think of having a.. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But you decided to give it to a real Jew. ''[people laughing]'' A real Jew with a fake French name. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': well... you're outing yourself. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I had no idea. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Once you've had your brake lines cut it's just... you know. Hey, I wanna tell ya... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now, oh! A, just a general com-... oh and the Enema Bot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And the Enema Bot. I love the Enema Bot. That's hilarious. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Was that... who was that? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's Dave Herman. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh, course! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Course! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Course! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Dave, why are you never here? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Dave "Everything I Touch Turns To Gold." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' [as Dave Herman] Because I'm not stupid. I don't have money to travel like you guys do. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Comedy gold. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But we just live here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' [as Dave Herman] I live in Texas. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Now they... that's how they load the Dark Matter onto the...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This week. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': In this episode. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's very funny. Well enjoy that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': They got strong. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We're gonna finally learn the deep dark secrets of Dark Matter in DVD number three. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's right! That was my cryptic comment. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Kif's head expands with pressure.] [MM laughs]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Another new feature of Kif there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I like this part. ''[Kif's eye sticks out and Amy pokes in back in.]'' Pow. </poem><br />
:''[Professor stands behind Enema Bot and slightly groans.]''<br />
<poem>'''JD''': HA HOO! ''[people laughing]'' Sorry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That Professor "moan" there is so disturbing. It sounds so... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Well there's steam coming off his behind. You didn't see that? Of course you saw that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, I missed that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Can you rewind? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': You missed that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I missed that, I did. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's so, the moan is so quiet. It just sounds like he lost the will to live. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That was the "death rattle." </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': After a hot coffee enema, pretty much... yah. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry fails to catch his futon.] [DXC laughs]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ow. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry looks up at Colleen's apartment complex.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Any significance to the numbers there, David? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, not that I know of, actually. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Really? Just random 2-4... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[The complex lowers into the ground.] [BW laughs]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': This is a funny bit. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': It's gonna happen some day. ''[DXC laughs]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Here's a, I was gonna make a writing note to explain our thinking process a little bit with this non-monogamous relationship story here. The idea here, if it was not obvious, is that Fry gets involved with this relationship and he... it's just too much for him. He gets overwhelmed and he says, you know, "I can't deal with this woman who's got five boyfriends," but later he becomes the ultimate spokesman for the opposite point of view with Yivo where he is the pope of this religion espousing this relationship with a quadrillion people, so this is kind of a micro version of the giant story later in which Fry finds himself on the opposite side of the yard. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Would that be foreshadowing? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I don't know what it'd be called. It might just be repetition. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Oh, okay. But you need to know for the test. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Maybe we should say spoiler at this point. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Hermes performs the Crack-Slam on Wernstrom.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': By the way, that made me laugh really hard. The crack-slam. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Really, a naked butt made John DiMaggio laugh? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. Yah. Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I think there's a lot less naked butt in this one than the first one. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Do you think people... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': The crack-slam! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': ...people, there's nobody who's gonna listen to the commentary track first and then watch the movie. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': No, no. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': We're not really spoiling... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': We're not spoiling it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': They're watched the movie once, right? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': If they watch... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Write us if you've watched... if you've actually put this in and watched this first and listened to us first and then watched the actual movie. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': But then mail the envelope first and then write the letter. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Bender] I love Bender dot com. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[The six-some have dinner at a table in Colleen's apartment.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This dinner scene is inspired by Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing." There's a scene with several boyfriends at the table at once, so... certain type of... an homage. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ohh. An homage to Spike Lee. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Except nobody's on a dolly walking. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yes! ''[DXC laughs]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': He stole that from us, that's our trademark. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And Public Enemy isn't playing in the background. (long pause) Hello? [people laughing] Hello? Did I say something wrong? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, I was joining in with... mumbling on... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Public Enemy's awesome. Their tunes are great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I got involved with my character Schlomo, who you can see to the left of your screen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I even like "25th Hour" for cryin' out loud. Come on. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': John. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Hello? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': W-G-A-S. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Wha... uh... oh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': What? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I don't know what the... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': On the computer. W-G-A-S. Who gives a... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ahh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ohh! Got it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Nobody cares. Now we can sing it at you! "Nobody cares!" </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Anything that starts with W-G-A, I assume it's the Writer's Guild of America. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh. Is Patrick here? </poem><br />
<br />
:''Bender poops multiple bricks.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Speaking of, uhh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh my God. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Call back and top 'er! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Dating to the pilot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': The very pilot. Only I notice these bricks are not metallic covered, er, coloured. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': And they were set up like a mason did it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Were they metallic coloured in the pilot? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, he dropped a... that was a regular brick. </poem><br />
<poem>'''Everybody''': (a mix of yes, no and "umm")</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Maybe they were cinder blocks. Could have been cinder block-ish. [MG laughing] </poem><br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Cinder blocks. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [as announcer/jingle singer] I know it sounds a bit bazaar, but with cinder blocks! That's how conditions are. [JJ laughing] Sorry. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Bender begins his walk toward the Anomaly.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Here comes a beautiful cinematic sequence. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I love these real wide shots. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': That's one thing that 16:9 has been really fun to work in. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You gotta tell us how you did that uh... the Anomaly effect. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [deep voice] Aww, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Umm, you're design notes were that you wanted a fractal edge on the... which you had to explain that to me a number of times and then I and the 3-D supervisor had many discussions. This scene came out really good. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Bender gets blown away from Anomaly:''[<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': That was the greatest scream. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': There's a few extra bricks there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yep. More. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Turns out he wasn't quite finished. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I never saw those bricks. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I missed those bricks the first time. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Yah! That's good. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Did you have bean bricks for lunch? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yep. Yep. I did. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Bender was full when they took off that day. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The Anomaly's in 3-D. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': So, yah. The Anomaly's in 3-D and we did the main thing that I think helps the fractal is it kind of... instead of the edges moving smoothly it kind of pops a little and, uhh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Little more electrical. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Cause the whole thing, we've decided that the other universe has kind of an electrical theme- electro-matter and lightning when you go into it and it destroys machinery at the cost of that - so there's, everything was supposed to have kind of an electrical feel about that interface. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': And it's got a nice, kind of reflective surface on it and we never see the back. I think if you went around the back it would disappear. Notice we never see it! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': This is great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I'm sorry, I'm talking through acting. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': "...sit through a tampon commercial," I love that joke. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now, you see this. This is Billy was Judge Whitey here. Now this joke "ow." This is what's known as, you'll see as we come to it, there's another joke that is essentially identical later that we, it got through unnoticed by us that we had used the same joke twice. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Well it's noticed now. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That is known in writing circles as a "sock barrel" when you do two very similar jokes twice by accident. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I believe the origin of that is, you have a barrel of socks of all different colours and you happen to pull out two of the same colour. Is that right, Mike or is there... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': It's the rule of two "ows." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': ...you're a comedy writer. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I never understood the sock barrel theory. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I never pursued it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I just guessed that that's the etymology of it. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry is onscreen crying in a Psychiatrist's office.]''<br />
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<poem>'''BW''' [as Fry] It all started when I auditioned for this show called Futurama. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry is onscreen playing in an arcade.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Honkey Kong. Oooh...! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Normal Combat. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I invite everyone to freeze frame... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [different voice] Yes! A game called Honkey Kong! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': ''[laughing]'' Ms. Marple Madness! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I think I made up most of those video game names as somebody who had spent a lot of time in video game arcades, except, actually Normal Combat. That was you, Pete. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I think I wrote that, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You wrote that one. But Honkey Kong, that was me. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Due to a strike. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Bender had his built in wheelchair once before in the "War is the H Word" episode. So nothing's new. It's all just cobbled together. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': But it's the way you reuse them. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': We have seen too many body bags and ball sacks. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Calculon's operation scene.] [JJ intermittently laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I was looking back at, kind of, some of the earlier versions of the script and the outline. Eric Kaplan had this idea early on that we had to drop because it was too complicated, but uhh... oh, wait! I'm going to interrupt myself. Look at this shot. The "Crotch P.O.V. Shot." ''[people laughing]'' That was called for actually by Eric Kaplan so I just want to credit him, I love that shot. Anyway... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Is that the "sock-crotch theory?" </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Eric had this idea that Fry, after he got really lonely from this break-up, he got this thing called the virtual companion. It was this robot that bucked him up and stooped his ego. But... seemed like too much on top of everything else. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That scared, that shocked me that move. His last move of throwing Bender. It was like, "Wow, this guy's come to life." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That wasn't Bender, that was the doctor. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh, the Doctor or rather. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Are you still shocked? ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah, I'm still shocked. Well he got arnory. Or ornery. </poem><br />
<br />
:''["No time, woman! No time!".] [JJ laughs]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': There's a lot of- We always imaging the future of being very sanitary... ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. It's gross though. Every time somebody puts their nose on the Smell-o-Scope there's this disgusting noise. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': A little "shlurp." </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': It's just like, it's so gross. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': And there's no Alco-Gel or whatever you use to... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ohh... no. It's hilarious. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': The one thing they've cured in the future is obsessive compulsive disorder. ''[people laughing]'' Nobody cares about germs at all. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Everybody has a perfect immunity system. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The Smell-O-Scope is one of many things in Futurama that we just threw in once as a joke back in episode 108, still uhh... my memory's still working here - the Big Ball of Garbage {A Big Piece of Garbage}, and we just though it... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Wernstrom is onscreen in a thong.] [everybody "ewws"]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''PA''': Speaking of big ball of garbage. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But we though the Smell-O-Scope was a throw away joke, but now it's come back 50 times, so. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': It's so beautiful because instead of sending your eyes out millions of miles away you're sending your nose out there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I do not recommend the toy though. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Matt, will you talk about that character we just saw? Pocket Pal. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Well, back at the beginning, the first couple of years when we were just thinking about this and writing this, we came up with a bunch of character that we never got around to introducing and that's, I think, is that the last character that we... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I think so. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Last character that was supposed to be in the original series. Pocket Pal. That little robot that we just killed. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Yah, I remember him being one of the first designs when we first started... </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': And he was actually very hard to design for this show because I knew I had seen drawings of him aand it took us like a week to find 'em. I didn't want to just do them over. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The idea is that his body's the exact size to accommodate a Double-A battery and that's it, he's just filled with battery. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Farnsworth and Wernstrom are throwing Pocket Pals into the mini-Anomaly.] [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So we killed it... </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': And apparently quite inexpensive. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Pretty much using up all the storyline right there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We killed him off, but by showing all those other ones we left open the possibility that another Pocket Pal could come back, so. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': The original idea was that Fry was going to have Pocket Pal as his little pocket pal and Bender would be jealous. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And Fry would carry him around in his pocket and he would help explain the future to Fry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But we just realized that wasn't really necessary, to explain everything. You just do it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' [as Zoidberg] Just let it happen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Is Pocket Pal seriously a... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': It's funnier if he doesn't understand it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Is it a reference to an adult thing? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': It could be... ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': By that I mean... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Setting: The White House.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Why is there a stegosaurus on the White House? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': What? Why is there a pterodactyl on the front lawn-</poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, a stegosaurus. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': A stegosaurus. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': 'Cause it's the future! </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Was that scripted or was... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': ''[laughing]'' "'Cause it's the future!" </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': [as Paul Lynn] "It's the future!" </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Paul Lynn] It's the future, people! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Everybody do Paul Lynn. ''[MG laughs]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Paul Lynn] Ah... I love Nixon. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [as Paul Lynn] Well here's proof we didn't go to war in Iraq. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Nixon speaks.] [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love how you throw in, Billy, a cheek flap in the m- at the end of a Nixon line. It was so serious. I can't remember which one it was. But there's this extra little ''[flaps cheek into mic]''. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Well I have to give credit to the editors. I heard a little "wiz-bang" noise and I swear I couldn't make it and I think they edited it together. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Sometimes you put them in the middle of a word too. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, it's, that, that, that is really... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Nixon] Arrooou! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You know what it is? I'm tired of doing impressions, so you boil somebody down to a noise. You know, [as Nixon] Barrooou! ''[people laughing]'' ''[growls more]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Look at that crowd. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Billy, what would Paris Hilton sound like in a bottle? ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, speaking of boiling. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Okay, in a jar. It's not a bottle, it's a jar. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': In a jar, here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [as Pairs Hilton in a jar] That's really hot. ''[people laughing]'' [normal voice] Hey, ever hear of the Holocaust? [as Paris Hilton] That's really hot. ''[people laughing]'' [normal voice] Hey, you know your brother's going to jail for D.U.I.? [as Paris Hilton] Dude, that's so hot. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[people laughing]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Heads in a jar. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': The views expressed on this are ''[makes fart noise]'', excuse me. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Colleen is beating Wernstrom over the head with her nightstick.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We had to, ah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I love this! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, we had to be very careful to remind ourselves that these futuristic saber-like devices just conk you on the head like a broom handle and the sound effects... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Like the ones at ComiCon. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I thought you weren't going to talk about that night as ComiCon, Billy? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah, I know. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': My head still hurts. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': You were supposed to let that go, Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Hey, Pete. How come there's hover vehicles everywhere, but also helicopters? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': The... there aren't helicopters. They look helicopter-ish, but they're hovering. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': They're hovering, they just have... [Jewish voice] ...they have a beanie on top! </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Even if you freeze frame and see that the blades are spinning... ''[helicopter is seen flying onscreen.]'' Oh, they are spinning. Those are force field blades. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oops, I forgot. Billy was actually... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ahh... got it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': This looks great. I can't wait to buy it. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': It'll be out. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Over onto Amazon. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Bender] Leaguey weaguey. [normal voice] Sorry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There's something so adorable whenever Bender has these childish fantasies of... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's because I'm adorable. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Like all this other insane stuff goes on in Futurama and they're making fun of Bender for, you know. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Believing in the League of Robots. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Like, "how dare you." </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Bender speaks.] [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Way to play the game, John. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Sorry. </poem><br />
<br />
:''["Tears" scene.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': This is brilliant. This part, with the tears. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I, I guess that's some kind of wiper fluid coming out of Bender's eye. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Professor is onscreen being beaten.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': ComiCon. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I know Matt always... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Nope, he's become a real boy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I know Matt always hates it when cartoon characters cry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': (laughing) "Stowaway hatch." </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': And I think it's really an emotional thing, but he says it's-</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Well what's coming out of their eyes? (speaks as if he were tearing up) It's ju-... it's this blue... liquid. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Bubble bath. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''' (as if he were crying): It's Drain-</poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Windex. [BW and MG laugh] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': It's hard to animate characters in this world crying because their eyeballs are so big. You see. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Setting: Bender writing his note.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': This is the "Marquis de Bender." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': By the way, listen to all the beautiful music in this by Christopher Tyng. :''[Bender pins his note on Zoidberg's chest.]'' Oh, here's the sock barrel! So there Zoidberg says "ow" after the fact, so that's the, what I was referring to as a "sock barrel." </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': An underplayed "ow." Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': It's awfully close to that other "ow." </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Setting: Bender by/in a Suicide Booth.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Hey, look what's back! Look what's back, sittin' there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Hey. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': What? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I thought they got rid of those booths? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The Suicide Booths? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': No way. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': No? They've always been around? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': They were in DVD one. Indirectly. Didn't he go into a phone booth and... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': He thought it was a Suicide Booth. In Bender's Big Score. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yep. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Setting: The Nimbus approaches the Anomaly.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''CK''': Looks like they've repaired the Nimbus. [MG laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Can, can someone remind me what the name Nimbus comes from? Again. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, I believe Nimbus means a halo or a glow and it also is a type of cloud. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': It was also, I believe, a Mike Nesmith song. A Monkees song. Am I right? Anybody? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Nimbus? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': No? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Nimbus. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': It was also a... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Maybe it was! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But the reason we chose it for the ship is it also sounds like, you know, nimrod or... It sounds like a word you would use to... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Also Nimbus Nine Productions. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Nimbecile. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Peter Tork's nickname. Monkey. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': ...a famed Canadian in rock and roll producer. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I think you were right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Maurice, tell us about Kif's thoughts. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Kif's thoughts? At this moment? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': As, uh... well. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': He thinks about Mike Nesmith a lot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Actually, oh. It's the sequence coming up. Hold that-, get ready! Get ready to do that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Okay. I'm waiting. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': This is true, going into that. They have a meeting tomorrow with Micky Dolenz. It's very exciting. This is true</poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But by the time this comes out that meeting will already have taken place, so maybe you can print the results on the back... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': No, the next DVD after this. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': If you see the guy with the wool hat, tell him it's really hot out. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': (laughs) That was Peter Tort. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': No, it was Mike Nesmith. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, you're right. It was Mike Nesmith. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Hottest day of July, he's got that freakin' hat on. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Bender falls through the Suicide Booth floor.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': A logical question: I'm going to ask it because I know fans are going to ask it. How did the League of Robots know Bender was going to go to that Suicide Booth? That, being the secret entrance to their lair apparently. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Maybe all Suicide Booths are secret entrances to the lairs. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That was going to be my guess. Yes. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Setting: Fry is next to the Anomaly.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''LS''': Nice reflection of the Nimbus. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I like that the torpedo loads in the bridge. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And comes... yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Seems like not a great idea. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': The ergonomics... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': For the purpose of the upcoming scenes it had to be that way. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': It's a fantastic idea. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Zapp): I planned the recoil myself. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Zapp tricks Kif.]'' [people laughing] </poem><br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Here's where I started to wonder what Kif's thinking. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Well, he's basically thinking (as Kif): (sighs) [DXC laughs] (normal voice): You know, the, I love the fact that we've returned to the Kif side here in this... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Zapp yells at Francine.]'' [JJ laughs] :''["Be a dear.".]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh great. I'm sorry, I got interrupted by, by the action about to come up. For those of you that are watching the commentary first... [people laughing] ...and didn't watch it already, this is a very tragic scene coming up. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Maybe you should alternate between what Kif's thinking and what Calculon is thinking. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (as Calculon): Why I think that would be an excellent idea. I can tell you right now that Calculon is thinking about... Calculon. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I really like the name "the League of Robots" 'cause it's so unadorned. It's so unclever. It's the first thing that would come to your mind. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': It's great. It's great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I think that there should be League of Robots t-shirts. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Ooh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Do it. Do it. Do it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Done! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Everything you think of is... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': So being a robot is like being in college. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': League of Robots chess set. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': We could make t-shirts and right now I could say there are t-shirts. [people laughing] When the time comes up. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Was that Phil LaMarr doing the voice of that duffer robot? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, that's Dave Herman. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That was Dave Herman too?! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But there's two robots like that. There's, the other one is Billionaire Bot, we'll see with the monocle later, that one is Phil LaMarr. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Kif is launched toward the Anomaly.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Now didn't we originally do this where he's being stretched and stretched and it's like "(groans)" and then all of a sudden in the middle of the stretch there's a "(sighs like Kif, goes back to groaning)." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, it might even be in there, but the music is... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': May have over lapped it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The dramatic music is, was deemed, and the stretching sound effect, were deemed critical to the moment, so. So we had to kind of weave in and out of the dialogue and the music and sound effects so people would definitely understand the stretching-ness of it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Was that another sock barrel where he burped and burned the guy's head? [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Paris Hilton): That's hot. That's really hot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Like when the Professor's... head was burnt. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': He burped, but he burped on the organic eye, so how come the eye still works? That, that was my big question. That kept me up all night. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Don't make trouble. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Kif and Fry meet next to the Anomaly.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': (laughs) I like this because Kif and Fry don't often have scene together when they show their true friendship. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I like that they know each other. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': They do, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You know, enough to say "hi" in the middle of space. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': In the middle of space, yah. [BW and MM laugh] If you're gonna bump into somebody, have it be somebody you know already. </poem><br />
:''[Kif is getting pulled back into the Nimbus.]''<br />
<poem>'''MM''': And... he's boned. [MG laughs] </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Kif's juices land on the sandwich.]'' [people go "ew"]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Zapp): Twidle di dit di... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': So we assume that Kif is tasty. What sort of flavour do you think comes with his green-ness? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Well... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Is that a vegetable kind of thing or...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, you have like a green liquid or something the flavour is green. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Amy is on screen in a dress.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Look at those legs! Look at those legs! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love that, I love that Hermes is wearing a kilt like as though there's something... something vaguely Scottish. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Why are you lookin' there, I was looking right where the focal point is. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Well you said "look at those legs." I... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Not his, hers! I was looking at hers. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I thought you were looking at something else besides the legs. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Look at the... yah! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Look, she, look. All women are beautiful, so shut up. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Stop drawing Amy Wong so hot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': It's a cartoon guys. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Stop doing it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Zapp): Alright, sweetikens. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Wait, is the kilt a gay test or something? Did I just like, fail it. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JJ and BW''': No. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Did I just fail the gay test? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': No. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Not yet. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (as Jon Lovitz): I'm not gay. I'm also not on this show. Hello. Jon Lovitz and I've never been on Futurama. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Jon Lovitz): And so what if I am. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Amy in her dress is onscreen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Huh? Look at this! That's the hottest funeral dress ever! EVER! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That is so... shot. </poem><br />
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:''[Kif's last picture is onscreen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': That picture is so wrong. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': EVER! EVER! I'm sorry! That's so wrong. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Paris Hilton in a jar): That's hot. That's really hot. That dress it hot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ugh, it's a cartoon! WHAT? Oh, yah. ''[Leo Wong sprays Kif's parents with a breath mint.]'' Kill 'em all. </poem><br />
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:''[Bender places a L.O.R. banner on Kif's jar.]'' [BW laughs] [JJ laughs]<br />
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<poem>'''DXC''': This is one of my favourite scenes coming up with a ketchup bottle. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Did you see this before? Just kidding. [MM laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': You know, you hit it on the "57." That's where you hit it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's exactly right. The first time someone told me that I said like, "Aw, you hit it upward also. You hit it with an upward motion," right? You tilt the bottle down, hit... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yep, right on the label. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': No, you tap it. You tap the, right about the "57." </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': As long as you hit it parallel to the "57" it works. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': If it's stuck in there, you tap the "57." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': No, the first... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I've been hitting it on the "56." [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The first time someone told me that I said "Ah, that's, that's ridiculous." Then I tried it and ketchup went, a flood of ketchup poured out all over my plate. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Awh... "I got most of it." </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yep. Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': But see, that's wrong. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': No, well, you tap it. You don't slam it. You were like, (in a slow minded kind of voice) "And 'den I, 'den I hit it, like 'dat! Douuuuuy." </poem><br />
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[people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MG''': You gotta use a little English. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Nice language. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Don't suck. That's what I always say. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Didn't, ah, Tress cooked this up herself, this little song. Didn't she? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, Eric Kaplan wrote that although Tress made up the melody on the spot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, did he? Okay. Okay, there it is. </poem><br />
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:''[Amy is onscreen again.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Look at those ankles! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's what I meant. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Also, I gotta say. It was really funny 'cause Eric Kaplan dictated the nonsense words and then you, David, you wrote them, you were typing them up. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': You were sitting at the computer. It was very funny to me. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And then Tress improvised the melody. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Correct. </poem><br />
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:''[Zapp hits on Leela.]''<br />
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<poem>'''BW''': Slob. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': We've been waiting a long time for that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Amy's turnin' me on. What do I do, like what do I do? I call up Lauren Tom tonight and just say, "Hey, your work is really good." [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's ridiculous. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I really, uhh... I think Lauren Tom's acting in these scenes where she's sad is phenomenal 'cause she's delivering these jokes, but also she's crying. I love the line reading. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah. It is. </poem><br />
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:''[URL appears onscreen in the prison scene.]''<br />
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<poem>'''JD''': URL! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': But you made her look... (as Paris Hilton in a jar): ...hot. </poem><br />
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:''[URL speaks.]'' [people laugh]<br />
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<poem>'''BW''': That's so great. That voice is great, John. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (as URL): Yah, respect. "Look-a like-a freak." </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I spent a lot of time on a very nerdy joke with those, the lasers on the cell. They're supposed to be the Tholian web lasers. [people go "Ooo"]</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': (gasps) Star Trek reference. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''' (in a awe-struck voice): I don't know what that means. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Play it back. </poem><br />
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:''[Leela puts on her "virtual eyes" glasses.]''<br />
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<poem>'''JD''': I like that joke. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (at MG): That's right. You've never seen Star Trek. </poem><br />
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:''[Scene at Horse Repair store.]''<br />
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<poem>'''BW''': Horse repair! (laughs) </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (as Horse D'ourves Salesman from “Luck of the Fryrish“): No Horse Coke. Horse Pepsi okay? (normal voice): Remember that? (as Horse D'ourves Salesman): Yah. Horse Burgers, Horse Dogs. (normal voice): That guy showed up earlier. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': He's like Iron Man. Is horse a funny word? Is that why we use it so much in this show? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': I always laugh at how mad Bender gets when he has the wrong horse's name. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (as Bender): Come on, Lasty! </poem><br />
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:''[Setting: LOR HQ.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now, this is a question for Pete. Are there several portraits on the walls in this movie that I love. One is that horse we just saw, but the one I really love is this one you see in the background on the left there. You'll see better... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': There's two here. There's Robot and Robbie is on the other side, but we have really nice Photoshopped paintings of him and I'm not sure if Robbie ever even shows up. He's on the design, but ah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And of course these are artistic renditions of... they're inspired by Robot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Wait a minute. Is that... that's Robot from Lost in Space. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yah, they're... probably the founders. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But that's such a detailed painting, it's like... No one would put that effort into the background of a cartoon. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Nobody but me. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': What the hell is he thinking about doing to himself. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's the character played by Phil. Billionaire Bot, from the, uh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': “Raging Bender.” </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': ...“Raging Bender” episode. Exactly. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yah, he was a wrestler? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. </poem><br />
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:''[Bender politely asks for the human eye monocle.]'' [people laughing] :''[Bender smashes the eye under the shovel and it pops.]'' [people are disgusted]<br />
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<poem>'''DXC''': Subtle joke there on the book cover. Has anyone here ever read Roberts... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I've attempted it and yah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It is so boring and stupid. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': It is unbelievable. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The idea that... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Until you try to run a meeting-</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Point of order. Point of order. I disagree. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I second it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Is it that thick? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': No. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, it's really not. It's probably... </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I think it's kinda little. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Paper back-y, actually. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Is that like a black velvet painting back there? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': It looked like it in that scene. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I love Boxy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Boxy robot is awesome. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Boxy, who never does anything quite right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Spillin' stuff. It's beautiful. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Boxy's allegiance shifting to Bender there. </poem><br />
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:''[Setting: Fulcrum Prism.]''<br />
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<poem>'''PA''': Here was a... another... in the script you wrote that this is a prism. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I love this. Another Smell-O-Scope. I was so excited when I saw that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': You called this thing, the ah... what is it called? Fulcrum Prism. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Fulcrum Prism. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Two puns in one title. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': One pun and then, you know, we have to decide whether are we drawing a prism or... [MG laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You better! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Attica! Attica! Attica! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah, check out the guy back there with the robot arm. Pretty cool. Bionic man. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': And he doesn't really do much, he's just looking. I love that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': I think that there were more prisoners in some of the earlier drafts, like more action... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Why was there no blood on the screw driver? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': There all up in this scene. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Was there a reason for no blood on the screw driver? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': It's the magic of cartoons. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Have we used up our bodily excretions quota? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (as Professor): Pazuzu! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, Pazuzu's back! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Pazuzu. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I love Pazuzu. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Lee, what episode was Pazuzu in? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Oh, no. I forgot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': It was the... it was the one where they all got young. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Oh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's it! A... “Teenaged Mutant Leela's Hurtles.” That's it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh wait, I forgot I'm also Guard #2 here. [people laughing] Let me add that to my list of credits. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Mo, it's a tour de force today. Thanks. You were great. I wanted to thank you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Thank you from the man who plays everybody! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': No. When I saw the episode I said "That's Mo, that's Mo, that's Mo" and it's great. Now you'll get off my back. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Why you lousy mother father. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Some of it itches. </poem><br />
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:''[Professor speaks to Nixon's head.]''<br />
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<poem>'''BW''' (as Nixon's head): No I don't, you hatchet head. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I like those neck shackles. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Yep. I like that in the future you're attached by necks. [MG laughs] </poem><br />
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:''[Fry floating through space.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': This is where you said to do the "death rattle." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh yah, here it comes. Let's hear it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Cue the smoke. (laughs at the size of Yivo) </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': (does the "death rattle")</poem><br />
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:''[Setting: Yivo first attacks Earth.]''<br />
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<poem>'''MM''': I have to go to the bathroom. Can we take a break? [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Did he get that laser eye surgery? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's awesome. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Look at that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Wow. That's so gross. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I mean ,can you imagine how terrified you would be if this really happened in real life? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Scaredy cat super hero. That's good. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (as Jerry Seinfeld): And that's what the show is about. It's a... (normal voice): oh, wait a second, I was also that guy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is basically where the monster movie aspect begins</poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I'm gonna start pointing out my jokes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (as Jerry Seinfeld): It's a show about how scared you'd be if this happened. [BW laughs] Who are these people? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': We talked about the music earlier, but this music in this episode is Ting's Monster Movie Score. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': This is beautiful. He won't pay for colour. [BW laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Of course, 'cause it's gotta be in black and white. Oh, wait a second, I got to play Harold Zoid in this too. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You did. We never found a convenient time to get Hank Azaria, sorry Hank, who played Uncle Zoid the first time so Maurice ably stepped into his shoes as Uncle Zoid. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': He should have a rotary instead. The rotary dial. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah, yah Hank... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, 'cause I temp'ed it. I remember temping it, but... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah, Hank. We'll call you. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Here comes a shot that will just blow your socks off. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Are you socks still no? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That, I love. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Lucky for you, they are 'cause I missed my pedicure. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': This took like two hours to do! [people laughing] It took [i]so[/i] long. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': How many crayons? How many boxes of crayons did this take? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': That's great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is one of the great shots, 3-D or otherwise, in Futurama history. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I think the Simpsons writers are in jeopardy right now after that. </poem><br />
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:''[Setting: Zapp fighting Yivo while sitting in the diner.]''<br />
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<poem>'''DXC''': By the way, I love the layout of the next shot, this one that Zapp's in there... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I mean, that looks tenticular up there in the sky like that. That is, ah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So, there's that incredible 3-D shot, but actually the layout is just perfect on that diner shot also to show that the, you know the scale of it in the sky and... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah! But the movement of those tentacles from that shot really, it looks as though that's a creature, I mean it looks live action. It made me want Sushi... Spok. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Shatner): We're losing a plot point here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I think we decided they already watched, didn't they? I should commend Eric Whited, the guy who built that whole scene and also Chris Graham storyboarded that. You know, we know you just had the big fight in DVD one and so we wanted to do something different and the idea of doing that in one, man I would never... I would never have tried that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is another staggering 3-D shot, by the way, they're just back-to-back here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh my God, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': David, what did you say, the amount of hours just to mix the sound? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Um... I personally was in the, was involved for about 80 hours. Same as DVD one though. It's just like, these have so much chaos and it's in surround sound and if that's, you know, there's much more time put into it by Peter Cole, the mixer and Travis Powers, the sound effects editor. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': And you haven't even started on the audio commentary. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah! </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Good luck with that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': It's three weeks, three weeks of mixing... </poem><br />
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:''[Sal is onscreen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': This character became so popular as far as I can see when I read all kinds of stuff. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Sal! Everybody loves Sal. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah.<br />
<poem>'''JD''': He adds "s" to everything. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And makes everything a plural. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': But people are writing like that... you know? Like "I don'ts knows." </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (as Sal): Writings likes thats. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': By the way, one thing about that 3-D shot, going back to the tentacle, 3-D space battle shot and the subject of mixing the audio. The mixing is when we put in the music and the sound effects and try to get it all to work with the dialogue and still be funny, but dramatic. It's very difficult, it's much, it's so... it's one of those things where Peter himself said "People don't understand what he does for a living as the mixer. It's something that sounds easy because if you do it right you don't think about it, the music is setting the mood and the sound effects just seem to be what they are." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Mhmm. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': "But if you do it wrong, then you notice. So it's a strange, very strange thing where if you do it right, people don't appreciate what you're doing. [people laughing] But ah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': We should do a bad mix for one... one version. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Just so everyone will appreciate it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But that space battle was easier to mix than almost any other shout because of the fact that Zapp Brannigan is talking the whole time. We had to just turn everything else down and not over do it so it actually made it easier, strangely enough because he was talking the whole time. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I have an announcement to make. I'm grossed out. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah, I was just thinking of how much my father's gonna be really disgusted at that part. He's gonn-... he will-... ugh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': We're not talking about the movie, by the way. [people laughing] It's what's goin' on in here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': It's what's goin' on in the room. </poem><br />
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:''[Randy appears.]''<br />
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<poem>'''JD''': Yayyy, it's Randy again! </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Do you feel that the tentacle with Fry coming out of it reached the level of disgusting that you hoped for, David? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I think it exceeded the level I was hoping for. If I could I'd go back and take it back a notch. It's so horrible. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (as Randy): Finally! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Actually I wouldn't. I love it just the way it is, but it's more disgusting than I envisioned it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': This was a hard performance with Fry because I had to make him sound coherent like he knew what he was talking about. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We put in some whip sound effects to make it a little more painful here. </poem><br />
<br />
.]''Morgan Proctor comes out of the Tube System..]''<br />
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<poem>'''DXC''': That's Morgan Proctor. Originally played my Nora Dunn, although Tress took over the role for that three word line. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And was that Fishy Joe, the last one? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Fishy Joe! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Fishy Joe Gilman. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Who plays Fishy Joe, Maurice? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (as Fishy Joe): Why that would be my's truly. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah, Horrible Gelatinous Blob was shown earlier, he didn't say anything though. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I did not. Well I had already credited him. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh, did you? </poem><br />
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:''[Scene where tentacles are chasing the crew into the Planet Express building..]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': You know, this whole sequence here, I really connect with this emotionally because this is every nightmare that every little kid has. There's something, something's chasing you and... and... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': And it's pink! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And it's pink. [people laughing] Okay, that's just my childhood then, I guess, I dunno. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': In your adult life. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But, I mean, it's a viscera. </poem><br />
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:''[Professor is onscreen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Those glasses gave me nightmares. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': 'Lotta Theremin in the music in this episode. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': 'Lotta big words. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And you see there... </poem><br />
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:''[Leela aims at Fry's head with her gun.]''<br />
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<poem>'''BW''': This is great! Awh, this is so cool. Women rule. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (distinguished, English accent): Unfortunately. Dear boy. </poem><br />
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:''[Leela pulls out a second gun in her other hand..]''<br />
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<poem>'''BW''': That's a good shot. Ohh, this is so good. I'm just gonna sit here and enjoy it. The hell with trying to be funny. It ain't working. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': This is a line that kinda sums up everything I know about Eric Kaplan. "Different from the Hollywood love story." This is his version of a love story. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': In Eric Kaplan's mind this is just a little bit different from a regular love story, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Slight twist. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Did you ask him, like, "We want this show to be a love story and this is what you got?" </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's very Eric Kaplan-y again. He's not here to defend himself, but when Eric Kaplan does a script there's usually a romantic element and it's got some kind of observation about real life no matter how disgusting or ridiculous it is. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Farnsworth mentions Diamondillium.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We had to work hard on the names Diamondium and Diamondillium because we had other versions of them and then we got notes from the legal department at Fox that they existed... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Those products existed. </poem><br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': They had all these fake, you know, varnishes and things that are called whatever. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': See don't kill all the lawyers 'cause sometimes you need them if you wanna make a cartoon. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I just think they make up as many words as they can and copyright 'em hoping to snag something every now and then. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': By the way, speaking of crazy words we just saw on an Internet news search that Fox has trademarked the word "Slurm"...</poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's right! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': ...for use as any kind of a beverage. I have no idea if they plan to ever do that, probably not, but they've defended their trademark on the word "Slurm." </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': As long as they make a sugar-free Slurm I won't have a problem with that. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And we're seeing the Slurm billboard in the background just doubly reminding me of that. </poem><br />
:''[We see the tentacle reaching from Fry's upper neck to lower spine..]''<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I love this shot. Look at that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Owh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ooh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I had that in the Navy. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That is the Mike Rose special. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': That's right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That, that joke. It's amazing how often you can use that exact joke. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': And I wasn't ever even in the Navy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Imagine how often you could use it if you had been in the Navy. It comes in handy in real life. Start thinking about places you can say "I had that when I was in the Navy" and you'll realize... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': You can also use it if someone has a long, funny sounding last name. You could say it right after that. Like, "What is your name?" "My name is Michael Metrokevich." "Oh, I had that in the Navy." [people laughing] Little party favourite for all the people watching. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I always loved Morbo. He's like that 50's... what people thought aliens would look like. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I like that you say "Now we know better." Back in the 50's they were all wrong. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That's right. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Amy and Leela begin aimlessly firing their weapons..]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I love it when people shoot guns for too long in cartoons. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': A little Tarantino here. [MG laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Kind of the second time we've done that also if you count the Pazuzu scene earlier. </poem><br />
:''[Land squid is onscreen.]''<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Billy! That was Billy West starring as the Land Squid there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Really? That was that... silly... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Well Billy works so hard. Billy, how hard do you work Billy? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as MLK): When I works, I works hard. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Tentacle comes out of toilet.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': That, that, that disturbs... that disturbs me the most. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': (makes Land Squid noises) </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The toilet shot? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Because that can, that's our primal fear. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Everybody's worst fear. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, advice to parents who are potty training your toddler: don't show them this. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': This may not be the video to baby-sit them with. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as a small child): (makes fart noise) 'Scuse me. Sorry. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[The Funkalistics are onscreen.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
:''[Leela drinks a Red Minotaur.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Red Minotaur. I can't wait. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I just love the "talkin' 'bout the" 'cause that's in so many songs. (singing): Talkin' 'bout the thaang. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Well, they gotta remind you they're talking about it while they're talking about. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (singing): Talkin' 'bout the thaang. Talkin' 'bout the well well. It's my f... (laughs). Thank you Billy Clancy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': My favourite is when they give out their sign. "My name is John DiMaggio and I'm a scorpion. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yess... yes! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Here's a logical question: the Professor has obviously already been infected with the tentacle. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yes. But we don't see it at all. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I don't see it. It must be down his shirt right now. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And where, into the floor? I mean... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah, it's a lavaliere. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': To that I say, "shh." [people laughing] </poem><br />
<br />
:''[The Professor laughs after revealing his tentacle secret.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love how happy this thing makes everybody. But, of course, they're being bred with, who isn't happy at that moment? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': They said, "just be super happy and I've never seen the guy be like, unbelievably happy, so he just lost it. (laughs like the Professor) </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Wernstrom chases Leela and Amy.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': I like this shot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, this is nice. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh yah, this... so you hear this rocking music that Chris Tyng composed. He did an earlier version that was less rocking and we said "we'd like it to be more rocking" and you'll hear that other, alternative... the alternate music you'll hear over one of the DVD menus as a very bazaar, strange, extra treat. You'll hear that cue over one of our menus and the alternate one over another one. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Everyone notice Leela's elbow talons there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yes! She usually, ah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And the Hyper-Chicken advertisement on the bus. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (Mexican accent): Accidentes? (normal voice): What were those numbers by the way, those...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, that was the Greek letter Lambda. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's what I thought it was. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': 'Cause we don't... we can't show a real phone number and I hate "555," I passionately... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': 800-Lambda-Lambda-Lambda-Lambda-Lambda-Lambda-Lambda. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': You know they actually now are using 555 for some telephone numbers. It's not any longer, so they're not non telephone numbers. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Really? </poem><br />
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:''[Colleen is brought to Fry.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': ...never happens in real life, so... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Dial-A-Joke. [people laughing] Wooord. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Really good performance by... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And I would be that $6421 is a result of multiplying a bunch of 79 centses. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I think we did do that, but I forgot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': We did. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I would have to check. We did? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': We did. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We did, okay. So it divides evenly then. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh, man. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I would be disappointed on this show if it didn't, David. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as a teen fan): Umm, on the commentary you guys said that you multiplied... there was one more that you missed which was at the top of the frame. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Guess you could divide the total of the bill by 79 cents, figure out the total calls. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Let's figure out how many calls there were, yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as a teen fan): That's what I would have done. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Do... do we fact check that Pete? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Uhh, I just wanna know who paid that for a futon. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I could probably say that I have the record for the number of Dial-a-Jokes of person on Dial-A-Joke. Thank you very much. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': (clapping) Ohh... Mike Rowe, ladies and gentlemen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Did you submit the jokes or did you actually read them in your voice? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I read them in my voice as the comedian I once was... in the early 80's. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Can you tell us one of them? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Uhh... I bought a great book: The History of Crazy Glue. I can't put it down. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So, I hope everybody out there appreciates that 'cause you would have had to spend 79 cents normally. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, I got that joke! I want my 79 cents back. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Mike, Mike, you're an old soul. Man that's great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I like that. That's a good one. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I think we all owe Mike 79 cents. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I think we do. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': If you only knew the half of it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That'd be 4-... 34 and a half cents. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now, of course, this being the horror movie segment of our production, we had to gradually reduce the number of people who are still, you know, left outside of the horror. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And this is the night thing I was talking about. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Right. And Leela gets more and more isolated. Right now there's the three of them and it was the whole crew and now it's down to three and we wanted to gradually get down to the point where Leela was the last person, thinking person on it. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Zapp, Amy and Leela say please to Bender.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''CK''': I like this. </poem><br />
<br />
:''["My leg feels funny!".]'' [KK laughs]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So we, a bunch of our robots I guess came from that Raging Bender episode. Destructor is also from that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': There was a joke there about, ah... "If you're lookin' for a leg rub, you're barkin' up the wrong Bender." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': That was cut. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Setting: In Destructor's leg.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': This is cozy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This one of the few points, if maybe the only point, where our two stories come together. The monster horror story and the Bender story, until the big ending, of course. Kind of the cross over point of the story. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But wouldn't the alcohol boil off and therefore would Bender not find it less satisfying? [people laughing] Just call me Nit-Picking Mo. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''' (as Paul Lynn): It's the future! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': That's space alcohol. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Seryan Brandy or something. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's like, the easiest way to make a Futurama joke, but also the worst is you take anything and put the word "space" in front of it. [people laughing] "I gotta go to the space museum." [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I gotta go to the space bathroom first. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Your joke was better 'cause it had "bathroom" in it. It's half of a joke better. Hedonism Bot, Maurice LaMarche! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': One of my favourite side characters. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Was that robot tweaking his own chest or something? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': He was! He was talking about how much he loved his nipples rubbed by sand paper. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Imagine the nerve of that thing? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Or, did... what did he call it... not sand paper. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Industrial sandpaper. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (as Hedonism Bot): Industrial sandpaper! [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Now wasn't Hedonism Bot blue at one time? Did he...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': He's... I think he's only solid gold. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That was when he was trying erotic auto-asphyxiation. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The idea is that he's made of solid gold and he weighs just a huge amount and that's why he crushed Boxy there. </poem><br />
:''[Setting: Abandoned soup cabin.]''<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So Matt, did we go too far with this love triangle here? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': No! Yes! [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': 'Cause it was, you know, big discussion in very early days of the series "should we have Zapp and Leela get together?" so to speak, but now we've made it much worse by complicating all of their... entangling all of their romantic lives. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Everyone has slept with everyone. Right? Kind of. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Just about. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Except for Zoidberg. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Much like the writers. [PA laughs] </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Zapp is talking to Amy.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love that we finally establish exactly where Kif came in the pecking order on the Nimbus. [people laughing] Fourth Lieutenant. I've been playing him as though he were, like, Second Officer... he's only the Fourth Lieutenant. Just happy to be on the Bridge alive. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is really great acting, Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh, thanks. (laughs) </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Listen to the delivery at the end here. </poem><br />
<br />
:''["Closer.".]'' [people laugh]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': I'd a slept with him. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Zapp): I'll get you an agent in Hollywood, I promise. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's pretty much the same M.O. he used on Leela way back in season one of just being so pathetic and crying, yah. And it works for him. </poem><br />
<br />
:''["I was hoping you'd see it on YouTube.".]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': What's that on... what's that mounted on the wall behind them? A single... (laughs) </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': A single antler. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[The tentacles finally grab Zapp and Amy.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We really just wanted that to go on and on with the audience knowing exactly where it was gonna... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': David, do you happen to know what that plunging noise is? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ahh... no! I don't. Travis makes a lot of... Do you know, uhh, Lee, where, how, what they wet noise is that Travis provided? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': You know, I'm not, but he always says it's real live things and all his sound effects are generated from real live things. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh. Eww... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Professor and Hermes are playing a Pac-Man/Checkers game.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''LS''': Speaking of real live things, umm... the video game there, the Pac-Man, that's the actual Pac-Man body noise from the good folks at Namco. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Which is the first scratching that you ever heard before rap was around. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[The Professor defecates.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''CK''': Oeww... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ohh... and that's, that's really... that part really grossed me out. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And actually, the effort that went into that Pac-Man noise is much greater than you would expect. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Yah, I mean we, they wanted us... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': That's why we paid $100 000. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': They wanted us to be sure to use the actual Pac-Man sound effects, so they sent me a sound file that had the video game with the sirens going off and the Pac-Man guy, and I, you know, told them jokingly that we'll just have to recreate it 'cause it wouldn't work... unless you guys have the original, you know, 1980 sound file of [i]just[/i] Pac-Man eating, uhh, which they e-mailed me a week later. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh my goodness, that's great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': My father's gonna be so grossed out by this. (as his father): Oh! My son, what is this? What is this with the tenticle over here? I don't want the tenticle! He's scarin' me! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Your father? How 'bout my son? [people laughing] I gotta explain this to my son. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh, yah. That's right. :''[Zoidberg uses the comedy Pope Staff.]'' I love that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (in deep voice): Oh, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You know, you write all the script and then that hundred year old slide whistle sound is the biggest laugh. [DXC and BW laugh] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Well, along with... accompany by the visual of anything drooping. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I like how they have adorned Fry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That wastebasket on his head. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry reveals the monster's name.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Now explain the name. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Uh, I wish Eric was here. I... in my... I can tell you my interpretation... I think Eric had some specific thing in mind, but I don't know exactly what it was. But I remember when I saw it my reaction of it was "Oh, it's kinda half-Jehovah and half-Tivo." [people laughing] So, that's how it is in my mind. I don't think... I think he had some deeper meaning for it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I dunno, that's pretty deep, David. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': What's the math on Colleen's shirt there? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, yes. That is the, the upside down "A" is the mathematical symbol meaning "for all." So it says "For all x I love x." So it means "I love everything" in math language. :''[Yivo speaks.]'' There's David Cross! [people cheering] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Very funny. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Yivo is shown speaking on the Jumbotron.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''PA''': That's a great sequence, it's really cool how his voice... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': They came out with that pretty darn fast. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Those were the only children, I think... snuck through here. We were trying to avoid showing kids getting... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I love that bartender</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh yah, we did want to suggest that kids were involved in this billion person relationship, so... </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Especially when you find out... yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Especially when... yah, what's about to be revealed. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So that why you'll notice... yah, none of the kids really are... </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Maybe they just look really young. And they're not kids. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': They could be little people. That's what they are. Yah, that's it! </poem><br />
:''[Yivo says "ow" after being kicked in Fry's face.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MG''': Another "ow." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now this was a debate, what to... when Leela reveals what they're called, Genticles here. There was actually a brief debate. I remember "should they be called 'genticles' or 'genicles'"? Those were the two choices. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': No "gesticles" or...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Both... both are wrong. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, speaking of genticles, that reminds me I forgot to point out, much earlier, but I'm going to bring this up because it's disgusting and on the same subject so it's worth mentioning therefore... Back on Kif's... at Kif's wedding on his home planet the father says "That was my left testicle," when Amy's mother squashes the bug on her neck editor, Paul Calder, raised the question "What was his left testicle doing on her neck at that point?" [people laughing] Anyway. That comment is about an hour late, but. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Go to deleted scenes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But still golden. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Another alien, Matt, who doesn't behave as a traditional sci-fi alien. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Yes. Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': It's also interesting to know David Cross was on a Scooby Doo episode as himself. [people laughing] It's true. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Scooby): Ravid Ross? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And yet he was willing to take a step down to do Futurama. That was nice of him. Everyone is hovering now. It must have made the animation a big pain. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Or the camera work. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Everybody except who is hovering? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Is somebody not hovering? </poem><br />
<br />
<poem>'''PA''': There's somebody not hovering. Leela, of course. </poem><br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, right. You're right. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Yivo is sucking up Kif and transporting him to Earth.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Mmmm. (makes finger licking noises) </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We had David Cross in the studio making these, these like vomiting and constipating noises for like half an hour straight. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Welcome to my world. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Yivo throws up Kif.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': This is... uh, yah that's... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Nice! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': My father: (as his father):"Oh! Ooohhhh!! [MG laughs] Why, he's gotta throw up the green guy for cryin' out loud." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': But he'll watch Tough man competition. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Two hundred. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh yah. Forget about it. They're like, (as father):"John. What is this? I mean it's funny, but... ew! I didn't need to see that. The green guy comin' out his mouth, the whole thing. Ey, what is that then with the, everybody gets yanked over here, whoa! Look at this and they're all gone and all of a sudden it's nice and pretty and..." [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Wait, the super hero character didn't have hard enough skin. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': It's the future. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (rough voice): John, not for notin.'</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The tentacles are made of electro-matter, Maurice. I think you've obviously forgotten the key fact. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, that's right. So even through plutonium molecular density it can pass. Well plutonium-like. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Shh! Maurice, you're on. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So, I believe this setting is supposed to be the site of the Aaron Burr duel across the Hudson River from Manhattan. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I couldn't find any actual reference that wasn't like an 18th century engraving, but the board artist lives in Hapolken, so I guess he's right across from it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': So it's the Raymond Burr duel. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Raymond Burr): I'm going to shoot you in the head and save your body. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Hedonism Bot sands his chest.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Here it is. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Everything's the nipples with this guy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Where's the... the dinosaur, it went extinct since the other shot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Where'd the Stegosaurs go? </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Zapp plays the message from Yivo.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''CK''': I like the technology of the answering machine. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You can hear both the rewind and the old phone hanging up on that one message there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Billy, do your phone machine rewind noises. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': (makes rewind noises) </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Billy West, ladies and gentlemen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': That was for free, that one. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Three Eyed Zebra is the only opposed.]'' [KK laughs]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Dave Herman as the Zebra. How come Bender only got from six to seven during that entire White House scene? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Slow counting. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Bender's shot continues through New New York. It vaporizes a patient of Dr. Adlai Atkins, leaving only an oversized wart..]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': This is great. [people laugh] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Who knows who that character is? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Oh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Uo know? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Adlai? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Adlai! From the episode “The Cyber House Rules.” Leela's doctor boyfriend. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Who played? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Our... Dave- no... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Tom Kenny. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Tom Kenny! You're right. Tom Kenny. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Ohh yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Had no speaking role in this DVD. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': He's the funniest thing in pants, that tom Kenny. That Sponge Bob. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is Carmen Miranda singing "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)" from the movie "That Night In Rio." 1941. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh, it's so great. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Zoidberg is onscreen shaving off barnacles from his back.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ohh, (gags). </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Ohh, barnacles. </poem><br />
<br />
:''["Multiple scene" scene is onscreen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Here's where we drove the animators crazy. "Jungle Boogie" by Cool and the Gang. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I love that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': This is actually, yah, 64 scenes all laid out as one. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[LoR spinning logo is onscreen.]'' [MM and BW laugh]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Little tip of the hat to... Phil Doesur. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So, basically, in two seconds of time... two times 64 seconds of animation. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': We're still trying to pay for that. That was a lay away scene. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Billy, you got a few bucks? [BW laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We didn't expect the... it to be so different, you know from one... we thought maybe this tenticle would be doing the same thing in each one, but... </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Yah, but... okay, so? The tenticle does the same thing and there's 64 other people who are doing... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Well that's easy. That's the easy part. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': We'll all chip in and pay for it though. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[M5438 speaks.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Alright, Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as M5438): Yes? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': M5438, I believe, is this character's name from episode 104. To prove that we did not put an effect on that: </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as M5438): He was the ball of light (normal voice): in that episode. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's coming out of your mouth and your nose at the same time-<br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as M5438): No it isn't. You're dreaming. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': W- where is it... well then what part of you is it coming out of? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Don't ask. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as M5438): My chest. (normal voice): I have another mouth... down at the end of my oesophagus. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': His other mouth. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as M5438): It's fun to do that stuff. (normal voice): You know what I'm- I'm just doin' everything I did when I was, like, eight. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Can you do Fry? [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Fry is basically young you, right? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, you said that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah it is. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry scrolls through his cell phone phonebook.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''PA''': Scruffy-Home and Scruffy-Cell. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Like he's ever anywhere else. Besides the closet. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Scruffy was in this episode at one point and if you check our deleted scenes you'll see the one place he once appeared. Unfortunately he's now... he was cut... he was left on the cutting room floor for time. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Scruffy): Scruffy. Cheater. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Hyper-chicken was in this for a little bit, wasn't he? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, same. We just... everything just... we had too much of the monster attack segment, we just had to take some trims down. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I did see him dancing in the Jungle Boogie scene there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, I'm in the, I'm in the Jungle Boogie scene by the way. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You are? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I did not call for it, but just seeing it in the editing room I noticed that there's me in the bottom row. Did you know that Pete Avanzino? Or Claudia Katz? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': No. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Either of you responsible? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I should know that, uh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': So everybody that's watching this, just go back there right now, we need a bathroom break. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': We'll wait. We'll wait, just scan backwards and we'll be here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': We'll wait for you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': You sure that wasn't our caricature of Fabio you're looking at? [people laughing]] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I like the Hot Pocket joke coming up. The reaction by Zoidberg. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Aforementioned gag takes place.]'' [people laughing] </poem><br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That off-screen stuff by Zoidberg replaced an old joke. The Hot Pocket used to visibly hit a copy of Life magazine and the joke was too subtle. We decided that Bender throwing this thing at the concept of life, the abstract concept. It was way too subtle and didn't make any sense. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, I got it. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I got it now that you explained it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Well, we at Mensa, you know... don't have any problems with that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': However, we at Densa do. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Psht, Densa! (laughs) </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': For those of you with an IQ below 90. Join us at Densa. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Our final guest star, Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, coming up. He is so funny. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Is he working? [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You know, a weird thing was the day we were working on the audio for this DVD I was driving to the mixing studio and I turn on the radio and Dan Castellaneta was on the radio on a morning show talking about an album of his called "Two Lips" and they played a song from it that is great and I recommend it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': It's his Beatles, kinda tribute. It's great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh, yah. You know... is it a sound track that's out? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': It's out! "Two Lips." T-W-O Lips. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I'm gonna get it. Cause his work is just beautiful. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So we almost let this go by. Bender's son here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': It turns out Bender has a son. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's a huge revelation in the history of the series. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Or had a son. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's one of those things you discuss for hours. Can Bender have a son? I don't know. [people laughing] If he does have a son can he kill him the second we find out about it? Like, we really... we could spend days, and we do, worrying about things like that. Then it happens in final form, it happens in five seconds and you just laugh at it. All the suffering we put into it is gone. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': 'Cause even if though, even though we killed him we didn't kill him. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Well that was just his first born son, right? [MG and DXC laugh] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Can I ask a science question? The wooden rocket there, the wooden pod. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': What would happen to that was, you know, really going on? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Uhh, let's watch and see. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Okay. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': A very scientific answer. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I mean, if it, if there was no air pressure inside I think you'd be alright. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': You could build a wooden structure that could withstand the vacuum of space, couldn't you? Thick walls? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I could. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': With hard wood. No pine. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I have to point out, I love the headless body of Agnew. Every time it makes me laugh. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': (groans like Angew) </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': I like he's got like a sewer cap on his neck. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': The great taste of Charleston Chew! I love that joke. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's him saying he likes you too. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is the second time, yah we've done that joke, even the Charleston Chew fireworks, before. That's a standard part of presidential celebrations in the future. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': It's Charle-... the great taste of Charleston Chew. I like the chocolate on chocolate. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I'm with you John. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I... I do. I'm a big fan of Charleston Chew. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': And frozen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And frozen! You gotta freeze it. Freeze it and then crack it! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': What a shot! </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': That was a cool shot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': How many, how many robots in this shot? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Virtually thousands. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': How many literally? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Maybe like eight distinct robots. [DXC laughs] Repeated over and over and over. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This was a really nice thing Eric Kaplan did here. We had some big speech here at one point and Bender had this grand thing and Eric Kaplan pointed out that we really should just make it more petty and how Fry wouldn't spend more time with him going back to, you know, just their relationship. I think it's so much funnier with Bender just assembling this huge army for the most childish and petty reasons and not about the whole "Earth doing things that robots don't care about," but just about him and Fry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': This language was killing me when we were recording this. "Shklee. Shkler. Shklim." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I wonder if we have the tape of that. It took, I remember it took like 50 takes of to get a straight read through that. And no one comment on the no "Shclit" there? I'm happy that no one did. So no... please. Nobody even raise the subject of that. [MG laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Okay.<br />
<poem>'''CK''': What? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Shcragree. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I won't. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's best not to talk about it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': A shclare world. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I love this music here, again. And maybe I'm saying that too many time, but... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Residents are shown leaving Trisol on the elevators.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': "My Three Suns" reference. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yes, from the episode "My Three Suns." This is from... these are all... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': "A Clone of My Own." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Take it to say. All of them. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Amazon... women. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC'': "Take it to say?" That doesn't make any... take it, uhh... without saying. These are all from previous episodes of Futurama. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Petunia is speaking.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': One thing we learned on the Internet is that Nutley's actually quite nice. Actually near where I grew up, in fact. But it's a town in New Jersey. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': (laughing) It's a condition. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': A funny sounding... By the way, Nutley? I had... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Home of Hoffman La Roche Pharmaceuticals, if I'm not mistaken. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's right. You're very correct. That's my... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Nutley, by the way, I had in the Navy. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': My mother dated a guy that used to work at Hoff... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Hoffman La Roche, my uncle in law. My uncle in law? Was one of their scientists. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Nice. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': They had to kill him. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah. Invented Desenex, actually. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Here's a logical point that only occurred to me just in the last couple of days: how did, how come these seemingly mechanical escalators work through the anomaly? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': They're organic. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Well, yes. They come from the electro... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Pete is correct. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Bone matter. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And Lee will back me up on this. I thought that and I said like "Oh, what am I going to say when the fans ask why the escalator works?" and I'll say "The escalator is made of living tissue." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Not buying it. [people laughing] Nice try David X. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yah, what about the zipper on Fry's jeans? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': That's what I wondered about. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Well that's not mechanical... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': It's metal. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's metal, but it's not electrical. You know what I mean... he would just get... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, 'cause his space suit shouldn't have gone through. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': He would just suffer a lot of severe shocks to the groin, but it wouldn't cease functioning. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Robot 1-X! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': What were... Mike what were you going to say something there? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': And that's happened to him before. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': No, no. Not in mixed company. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Setting: The Crew bounding around on Yivo.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''LS''': All of the sounds effects of the folding of this have to be like rubber. Everyone's walking on clouds for like the next five minutes or so. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Sounds like fun. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Beautiful. The colours. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is the writers attempting to cover their rear ends here, like "Why does it look so much like Heaven?" So hence this explanation here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': You're trying to say this isn't heaven though? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I'm saying... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': You're explanation says there is no Heaven and the artists have been painting a tenticle monster for the last 500 years. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Jakabirds land and eat parasites.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It could look like this, I'm just saying that, you know, we don't know for sure. There's a good chance. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[A field of Tulip rooms is onscreen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''LS''': Speaking of tulips. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': It turns out you get your own tulip apartment. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We had to pick a real recognizable colour for this paper so that the ending would make sense. So, hence the lovey-dovey pink colour. </poem><br />
:''[Fry's note as a paper airplane flies around NNY.]''<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Fry has good aim, by the way, when he throws a paper airplane, doesn't he? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': [laughing] Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Hey, it's the... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Well pink is a real aerodynamically friendly colour. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': ...it's the Mafia bots. You see the Mafia bots sitting there on the street corner? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': It says Heaven. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (whispering): John, John. There's no Mafia. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': There's no Mafia bots. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': There's no Mafia. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Sorry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': How come Fry's return address is Heaven? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': How come Fry's return address is written at the same place where the letter must be written? [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's cold hearted, man. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Don't think about it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (deep voice): I didn't, I didn't say 'notin.'</poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Go with the flow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Hey, Mike. What time is it? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Three o'clock. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Aw, you blew it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Why? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You're supposed to go three and I go "o'clock?!" [people laughing] You know you're losing when you're explaining stuff. Joe Biden, 1989. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Alright, this has to be Heaven. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, credit to my old friend David Sheminovich, an astrophysicist at Columbia for providing this blackboard which has about five different jokes beyond the scope of this commentary. [MG laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I only got like three of them. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It involves the Mersenne Primes and some music references, so go nuts, fans. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': David, what was your friend's name? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': David Sheminovich. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Oh, I had that in the Navy. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as party pooper executive): So how did, like, the blackboard get through the Anomaly? Wait, I'll figure it out. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, there's, for you freeze framers out there who also like to see Zapp's anatomy, I noticed that there's about two frames where you can see full rear nudity on Zapp. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Wa haa... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Two and a half frames. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Not right there I think it was a minute ago. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': You know, the, when it came back from Korea you could see him full and they drew like a black box floating on... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Is that true? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yah, so we just kinda shuffled the levels so he stays behind them. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Zapp): Only a dream until now. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There is a scene where Zapp is sliding down the stairs earlier when they're on the run through the city when it's him, Leela and Amy and Zapp trips and slides down the stairs on his rear end, there is a scene where it seems like you could see his front side, his business, but there's nothing there so I don't know. Maybe the skirt is actually just long enough, I'm not sure. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': It seems like you guys are spending a lot of time looking. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': In the course of doing the sound you basically end up freezing it at every part of the video at some point, so you end up seeing things that weren't meant to be seen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': That's bad, 'cause you see a lot of drawings that you shouldn't freeze frame onto. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There's one shot coming up here inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean II. This shot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Right here? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Kraken. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Thank you for making me watch that. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yivo really has it all, 'cause he can talk perfectly well, but now he chooses to just do these lion roars or whatever. So I guess, again if I had to explain, this must be the mouth he talks out of when he's doing the Heaven voice when you hear that big booming version of his voice, I guess it's that beak, right? Uhh... that right, John? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I guess. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': No-.. again, no shrugging on audio commentaries. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I guess it is. I guess you're right. [MG laughs] I wasn't there when David recorded. But the, but... </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': You woke John. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. It's alright. I just liked the noise I made when I pulled the sword out of my mouth. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I've never... have you guys ever worked with a mouth chart for a tenticle before? Where he's talking and saying syllables and all that? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': We had to make a mouth chart, right Pete? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I mean this must... obviously you have these huge scale issues with, you had to relate this character the size of a planet to normal people. I guess the solution is have the tenticle do the acting. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's always worked for me. [KK laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Well you have to have them looking at each other and Yivo turning away from Fry. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Yivo putting people on Bender's ship is onscreen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''LS''': These are 3-D people. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There were 3-D people getting on those escalators before also. I forgot to point out. Unbelievable. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I saw myself on that boat! [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (comedy club announcer): Mike Rowe, ladies and gentlemen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Did you have that boat in the Navy? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Actually, as you were saying that the word "gonorrhoea" was being said. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I know, the one time. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The "straight line" was being said. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW'' (under voice): Going, going, gonorrhoea. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Billy, do Tony Bennett waking up on the panel in the middle of the Mike Douglas Show. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Mike Douglas): Hey, hey Tony. (as Tony Bennett): I don't know about that, but that Ray Charles is the greatest. [people laughing] (normal voice): He fell asleep-... ah, this is ancient history, I'm not even gonna go there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': People are goin,' "Who's Mike Douglas? Who's Ray Charles?" </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Man, this is... that just remind me of really scary Japanese anime porn. This scene right here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Just this scene? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, wait! Speaking of which. We never discussed the meaning of the title "The Beast with a Billion Backs." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Let's talk about that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But, uh, many people credit it to Shakespeare, the phrase "the beast with two backs" referring to the act of love making. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Is that Shakespeare of Karma Sutra? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But, I checked on the Internet, it was used at least as early as 1532 by Rabelais, French writer in "Gargantua and Pantagruel." But it seemed from its usage to have already existed at that time, so apparently not coined by Shakespeare as is often... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Blah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': You mean "the beast with two backs." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's right, "the beast with two backs."<br />
<poem>'''MR''': Also a reference to Joan Rivers. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I thought she had one of those surgically removed? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Joan Rivers): They need to add another television channel so I can be somewhere. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Where's Tress MacNeille when you need her? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Joan Rivers): Melissa, go to him, he's a doctor. [DXC and JJ laugh] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Zapp's gotten punched in the stomach twice also. Two, twice in the stomach and one in, and well, twice in the face, but they were simultaneous punches to the face. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': It's about time. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': So that's also a sock thing? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Uhh... I think... I call that one a runner as I feel he's been deserving it all throughout</poem><br />
<br />
:''[Enema Bot gets everybody's attention.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That peg leg sound effect is so crummy. We intentionally used it 'cause it's just such a clatter, wooden sound. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Enema Bot with the little hat looked like Squidly Diddly. [people laughing] Look! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And we just wanted to see Enema Bot again, so he's the first mate now. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': First coffee mate. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This speech here is our biblical reference. We always have one, right? To First Corinthians, Chapter 13. It's often used at weddings and it was used at my wedding. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Mine too. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': My next wedding. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Used when I was in the Navy. [people laughing] </poem><br />
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:''[Credits begin to roll.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': I know those guys. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Good work everyone. And check, hey cast members, check it out cast members</poem><br />
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:''[Arrayed voiced characters credits appears.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, wow! </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': This surprised me. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': So there was no need for me to read all my characters. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': No, there's not. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': See! The joke's on you now! </poem><br />
<br />
:''[JJ's credits appear.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': There you go. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We always wanted to do this and we never had time 'cause it's always such a rush at the last minute... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Tress MacNeille's credits fill the screen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MG''': Ooooh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yess! She's everyone in the world. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Woow! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': See. And actually there's a few characters that don't even... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[MM's credits appear.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MG''': Oooh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': See Mo? See that? Freeze frame that. Mo, look at it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': There you go. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Wow. Thank you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You did a good job, man. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And I gotta boast here. Editor Paul Calder and I did these in Photoshop ourselves the last day before handing this over to Fox. Just by taking snippets from the movie. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': They look good. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[David Cross' credit appears.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's cool. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Do I get my picture for commentary? [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Well now it's, now I just say "Just buy the DVD" when they go "Who'd you play in it?" "Buy it. Watch it. Go to the end. Stay with it." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But it's really overwhelming when you see them all at once and there's actually a couple extra characters that didn't even make it into the picture, like Guard #2, Maurice. Your favourite. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Guard #2 was not there, I have to say it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I don't think Randy was on there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But you've got Photoshop so you can fix it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Was Randy on there, I don't think... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Um, Randy is John. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': He is? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Upper right um, look a little more carefully next time. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ah. Oh! Sorry! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Recording Facility: The L.A. Studios. Where we are right now! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (to the rhythm of the theme): Time, time. For, for. Fut-, fut-, -urama. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW and MM''' (to the rhythm of the theme): Time, time. For, for. Fut-, fut-, -urama. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, you guys. This is the extended remix, but you guys did the regular length sing along. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That was fun. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': (whistles the same as the alternate intro for Spanish Fry) </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Another great commentary. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Excellent. </poem><br />
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[people cheering]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''PA''': The next movie coming out, we believe Holidays... '08. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Paris Hilton in a jar): That's hot. [MM laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Only have to wait another six months. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Paris Hilton in a jar): Thank you. That's so hot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Let's do the... can I do the laugh and clap? [begins clapping] [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': (does cricket sounds) </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Carbon neutral! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yayy! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Sit, Booboo, sit. </poem><br />
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:''[L.O.R. logo pops up.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah, that should definitely be a t-shirt. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Nice. Definitely.</poem><br />
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*[[David X. Cohen]] (DXC)<br />
*[[Matt Groening]] (MG)<br />
*[[Claudia Katz]] (CK)<br />
*[[Peter Avanzino]] (PA)<br />
*[[Michael Rowe]] (MR)<br />
*[[Lee Supercinski]] (LS)<br />
*[[Billy West]] (BW)<br />
*[[Maurice LaMarche]] (MM)<br />
*[[John DiMaggio]] (JD)<br />
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<poem>'''[[Billy West]]''': [as Announcer] There is nothing wrong with your DVD. The Beast with a Billion Backs. What are ya waitin' for? A commentary? ''[people laughing]'' Release date: June 24 2008. The proud result of...</poem><br />
:''[Title Caption appears.]''<br />
<poem>'''BW''': ... prison labour, that's what it says? Oh, hi, I'm Billy West. And, uh, this, is commentary for Beast with a Billion Backs, eagerly awaited and, uh, we got a whole crowd with us today. Umm... hi Mo. </poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Maurice LaMarche]]''' [comedic voice]: Hey, what a crowd! What a crowd! I tell ya' I'm alright now, but last week I was in rough shape. [normal voice] Oh, look at this. I love this. This is, this is gonna be amazing. I'm Maurice LaMarche. I'm an actor on the show. I play Kif, Morbo, Calculon, Schlomo, Sportsbot 5000, Hedonism Bot, Destructor, Elderly King Kong, Lrrr, Horrible Gelatinous Blob and Fishy Joe. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Alternate Opening Cartoon appears.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''[[David X. Cohen]]''': Okay, let's finish introducing ourselves after this. Pete Avanzino, director, you wanna talk a little about this black and white section and the inspirations. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Excellent. </poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Peter Avanzino]]''': I'm Pete Avanzino, the director. I was fortunate enough, uh, you guys wrote this great scene and we had the great Steven DiStefano, who's a comic book artist and Popeye historian, storyboard it and we pretty much traced his drawings for the design and, uh...umm... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Any inspirations? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Well, of course, Steamboat Mickey, Steamboat Willie, one... I mean. Is that the inspiration you want? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Sure. ''[people laughing]'' And, uh, John DiMaggio did the whistling that you heard. </poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Michael Rowe]]''': And we owe Disney money now. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': John's here? Where? </poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Matt Groening]]''': Cartoons are written? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Matt Groening! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': So now that I sound like a raving egomaniac 'cause I'm the only person who introduced all his credits. Ladies and gentlemen, please let me introduce Matt Groening. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Hi, this is Matt Groening. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Hi. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is David X. Cohen. X-ecutive producer. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': This is Katie Segal and I have a cold. ''[people laughing]'' This is Mike Rowe, one of the, uh, writers somewhere in here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Claudia Katz]]''': Claudia Katz, producer for Rough Draft. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': It's Peter Avanzino again. Director. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Uhh, Lee Supercinski. A producer. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And I'm John DiMaggio. Voice of Bender and Randy, who you just saw a second ago. [as Randy] 'Cause he's great! I can't believe he's still around. My God! Stuff happens. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And, obviously, this movie actually starts out where the last one left off. Very surprisingly. Normally when a cartoon ends with the universe blowing up you just go, "Oh, it's a cartoon. They're not gonna deal with that," but we decided to deal with it so... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Intro to Sports with Sportsbot 5000.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': [laughing] I just noticed the dude playing marbles in the uh... There's a guy playing marbles in the highlights in sports. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': That scene is packed with great sports footage. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I didn't - I... that's great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Rough Draft did a lot of work for that. It was a lot of animation for a joke. </poem><br />
<br />
<poem>'''PA''': Ya, when you guys write a joke like that I don't like to cheat on it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Well you have it even worse later. We'll get to it later, but there's that screen with 64 simultaneous bits of information later, so we'll talk about that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yes and I think you guys said "Well, can't you just repeat some?" and... I'm not gonna do that. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Professor ignites his own head.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Hey, he's burnin' up. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': This is the first time I'm seeing this, so I'm just gonna watch. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry enters with Colleen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's guest star Brittany Murphy there as Colleen. ''[people cheering]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Shaft] Yeah, that's right. Brittany Murphy. Aw, she a bad mutha'... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Watch yo' mouth. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Shaft] I'm just talkin' 'bout Brittany Murphy, baby. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': We can dig it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Shaft] Aw, man. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': L-O-L. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': ''[laughs]'' [surfer voice] Totally hot. Wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Rofflemow (as in R.O.F.L.M.A.O.) </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I see her bellybuttons. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Shaft] That's crazy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So, we had some qualms about this a little bit - although it didn't stop us - about Fry is immediately smitten with this other woman, apparently days after the last episode in which he and Leela has this real big love story going, but we figured "Ah, well, six months will pass between people actually seeing that one and this one so they'll probably forgive us about this story twist." </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Until now, you let the cat out of the bag. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [as Fry] I've always been a bit of a hussie. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I listen to my commentaries at home in the nude. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry and Zoidberg talking about Colleen in the park.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love this little bit right here with the... just snaking us in and then... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I liked the little blood on the pancakes joke. I laughed ''out loud'' when I heard that joke. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': A flashback within a flashback. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Sorry. (for interrupting MM)</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There used to be a third part to this sequence and if you watch the Deleted Scenes extras in the DVD you'll see this actually continued another step further. Fry and Colleen met each other the next day. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Shaft] Those Deleted Scenes are a bad mutha'-</poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': You chose to break the rules. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We stuck to two. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Bender is turned back on.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Hey, is that Iron Man? ''[does excessive electronic sounds, then stops]'' Sorry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Nice segue, Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': MM, you have a lo-. You have, actually, a large role in this... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I have a story line. Yah, I was very thrilled. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You're actually playing Kif, who's involved in this story line, and Calculon, who is heavily involved in another story line. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': [as Calculon] Yes I am indeed, my friend, Mr. Cohen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And Hedonism Bot, who also has a heavy role in that story and... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': [as Hedonism Bot] I'm afraid you're making a weight reference and I will not acknowledge it. ''[people laughing]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And Morbo, who explains everything to us, so I'd have to say MM has a... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I think we should just change it to "Mo-arama" at this point. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Aw, yeah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And we're done. Yah, I actually selfishly went through and counted all my characters in the episode just to make sure I still work here. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': (drowned MM's previous comments) Hey, did I...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Did you what? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Never mind. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Flying toward Amphibious 9.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Wait, we're on Amphibious 9 now. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yes, that's right. We're on your home planet. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': You're character's home planet. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Alright. This is-</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': It's about you, Mo. ''[MM laughing]'' It's about you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, I'm just thrilled that I'm doing this. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Leela exits the ship-eating plant with a blow torch.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': That's sexy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I'll break out the... the Stoke-Longer. ''[people laughing]'' I just invented it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': "Mo's Big Score." </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': A new thing. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': The Back Patter. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now this planet was established for "Kif Gets Up..." [confused mouth sound] "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch," episode 401. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But we've never seen it at night. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Enter Kif's parents.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And we've never seen Kif's parents before. But one interesting this is when we last saw this planet Kif was giving birth to his and Leela's babies due to the strange circumstances of that episode and so we were originally planning to revisit their babies here but we just decided it was so confusing to anyone that didn't have a clear memory that it was him and Leela and he gave birth. They were tad poles so we decided we would not deal with that, but on the other hand the fact that they start as tad poles and turn into whatever Kif is inspired us to say, "Hey, what if they then turn into something else?" So that's where these flies came from. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': What David is saying... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': These Hook Flies, are these a real type of fly or did you make them up? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': They're very cool. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Flying Hook Worms? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I really don't think that's a real thing. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I think they're... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Okay. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [in Kif's father's voice] Nice to meet you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's a great effect though. That computer graphics there. And the audio. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And that was Billy doing that voice without any... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': How many flies are there? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Billy was not audio effected. That's just Billy doing Billy. that's how genius he is. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [in Kif's father's voice] Thank you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [weird voice] That's just Billy being Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [in Kif's father's voice] I love you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There's also an audio effect on it, there is. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [weird voice] That's just Billy being Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Billy did the voice for each one of those flies. ''[DXC and KK laugh]'' </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Leela is playing Pong on her wrist.] [MM laughs]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': How many flies are animated there? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Who cares? It was a buyout. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Thousands! </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Uhh, those are 3-D. I dunno, somebody would have to count them. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I think they're some sort of particle based effect. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yah, we... flying bugs are something that come out choppy a lot in 2-D so... </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': The research was very difficult to... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': They were inspired by what we found on John's back. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': After coming back from Thailand. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Tress MacNeille, ladies and gentlemen, coming up. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Tress also has a huge number of roles in this DVD. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': She's every woman in the... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I had a number of roles for lunch. Does that count? ''[people laughing]'' I had to say it, I'm sorry. Cut that in post. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I like the look on Leo Wong's face. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love that she's wearing something borrowed, something blue. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, yah! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh, she's got the blue garters on! Nice! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Nice! </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': We don't miss anything. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': This scene came from the inspiration of my wedding. ''[people laughing]'' Don't want to get into it, but... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Nice. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': There ya' go. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Did the mud burn? That's all I wanna know. Did it burn? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I want a transcript of this audio commentary. ''[DXC and MG laugh]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Uh, by the way, I gotta credit Eric Kaplan, the writer of the DVD who could not be here today. In fact he's out of the country, but fantastic script Eric Kaplan. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Abu dabu. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Long story. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Is he coming back? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I actually drove past him on the street the other day and noticed it was him as I passed and I yelled out "Mister Kaplan!" And I looked in the mirror and he was like. ''[people laughing]'' Where did that mystery voice come from? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': John is acting this out on a voice commentary. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yes! It's something that you can't see at home! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But the facial expression was priceless. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [high pitched voice] Wow! Incredible! </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Kif pulls out his bouquet.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Now is this some organ of Kif's or umm...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Cause I played it that way. ''[DXC and KK laugh]'' </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry and Colleen star into each others eyes.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Which one is Fry? ''[people laugh]'' </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Zoidberg devours the bouquet.] [groans of disgust are shared throughout the group]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': [as Zoidberg] But I have sweet breath. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I love this. This is great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Bed head. (does a electric razor noise) [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Awesome. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Good timing. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': You know what happens is you create stuff like this in fiction and then people go on to create it in real, you know, actual scientists create it in real life. So within 20 years there will be Barb-O-Mite. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Would you use it though? I wouldn't want mites on my hair. Even if they... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': If I could get the same haircut, the perfect haircut every time? I dunno. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Only if you knew that the lifespan of the mite was, like if it ate that much it would die. Like, you'd have to... no there'd be too much! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So you're okay with having a head full of dead mites? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah, see, yah. That's the thing. They'd be alive when you put 'em in and then like eat the hair and then because of that... </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Maybe they decompose. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Into a nice conditioner. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': See, that's the other thing. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': A leave on conditioner. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Well, you know. It's... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': The director's saying, "Why aren't they talking about the colours?" </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I don't know. All I know is Barb-O-Mite. [Bender as announcer] Everybody's favourite stuff to put in their hair! It's Barb-O-Mite! </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Bender pulls out a head of cabbage for Fry.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': I love how... watch the cabbage. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Done. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': How about the Flow-Bumblebee? ''[MG laughs]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love how Bender has the talent to actually draw.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I like this part. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Wilson! </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Bender draws a really good Fry for being upset. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': So, on the last DVD we did a full episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad. Can I put in my two cents now and say on the third DVD, a full episode of All My Circuits? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Oooh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, get started on that. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Nice job dude. Way to go. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry and Colleen enter 2-D ride.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MG''': I think this is one of my favourite scenes of all time on the show. This is great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I like barker. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': This is conceptionally great and well executed. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Actually there's a shot coming up that we fought... ''[side view of Fry.]'' Well that, that's a great shot in itself. Sterling animation. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': If you blow that up like 200 times you would not believe what's going on there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': That is the scene that I animated myself. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I like this-... oh really? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, this is the scene I animated myself. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is the angle I love, right there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That is great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And this one. wait... the one that. That one. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That, a credit to our editor Paul Calder who had the idea to use that as... to reuse that as a reaction shot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': "At the fuut of the bed." At the... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And John DiMaggio, that dog whimper was not called for in the script. You just did that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I think I... yah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It just had like "pathetic whimper" or something and then John did that dog whimper and we used it for Bender. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': I drew him like a cat though. [people laughing] A cat rubbing his head. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': See? Yep. There goes- there goes that Annie award. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Get ready for our next guest star. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Here he comes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ah... oh... and... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Making his second appearance in Futurama. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Stephen Hawking descends into frame.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Professor Stephen Hawking. </poem><br />
:''[people clapping]''<br />
<poem>'''PA''': Do you remember our discussion on how Stephen should... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That was amazing. He actually has terrific timing. ''[DXC laughs]'' I was watching this last night going "Hawking is funny. He's got really great timing." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You know what it is? He's got that Stephen Wright style of comedy. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': What's funny is his phone machine sounds normal. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Hey, uhh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' [as Stephen Hawking] I saw a wooden man the other day. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Hey is somebody... I don't mean to, I don't mean to bring it down, but somebody that was on the show, umm... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Just passed away recently. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Gary Gygax. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Gary Gygax, and I think we should say just, you know... ah, best... you know... say the best. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Heavy inspiration of our third DVD, Bender's Game, um... so, yes, thanks to Gary Gygax for the inspiration and the good times. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': May he rest in peace. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Not that we're giving away much about DVD three. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': ''[laughs]'' He's reduced to throwing his teeth now, that's so great. I'm not gonna come down there and punch him out. ''[chomps teeth]'' Ow! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ooh! ''[chomps teeth]'' Ow! </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Hey, Pete, is this our largest crowd ever in lab coats? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': In lab coats. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Definitely. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Are lab coats hard to draw? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There was an early version where this was called the Institute for Advanced Studlies and the scientists all had tremendous physiques. ''[MR laughs]'' We decided that it was just confusing the issue. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': "I didn't know I could do that." ''[MM laughs]'' Funny. Funny, funny, funny. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': I remember David, you were maybe contemplating Hawkins' head could actually move. Like his mouth would move, but he would still have the robot voice. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, we had to decide what to do in the future, like, would he change technology, but we decided "you know what, everyone's preserved in the jar the way you best remember them." My guess from their career, what they're known for. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Their quintessential version. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, so we stuck with the straight up. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Scene: Deathball.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MG''': So David and I can't get over this scene. We played this over and over again watching the animation in this. It's, uh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I love this. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': We actually built a life sized version of this at Rough Draft and our workman's comp. rates are just outta control. ''[LL laughs]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Well, when Fry's riding that ball. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': This should be the next Halloween party. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Yah, this should be the next... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh, that would be awesome. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [as Zoidberg] Think of the insurance. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I'm gonna point out this scene that blows me away when it's gets there. I mean, it all does, but it's a use of 3D in a way we've not used it before. For one thing, you know, it's just a totally novel use of 3D in the show. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': I think we're gonna do a special on this somewhere, but... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Okay, watch Fry's hands in this shot, the subtlety of like... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': The finger movements! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': He's balancing with, like, his fingers. That is unbelievable. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That is great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I actually thought you guys had done motion capture when I saw that shot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Please! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's so... it looks so detailed. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': We did, uh... we did, umm... It's a weird combination, 'cause we built scenes like that one in 3D. The floor is tilting and then we print them out and the layout artist draws the layouts on top of those print outs. And then the end, we send all the print outs to Korea and they have to register all the drawings to each print out, one by one. And that shot of Fry on top of the ball, it came out really incredible and, um... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Who did the... </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': J. Kim did the layouts. I should say, Edmund Fong boarded this whole section and we planned it from the start. We knew all the... everything, you know, all the scenes, but there's about a dozen or 15 where the floors really tilt well and then we replaced all the balls. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': In 3D, right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': The bocce ball type things. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Look at his little butt! </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': We mixed these movies in 5.1 and that scene in particular, every... I hope everyone's listening to it in 5.1 at home. The subwoofer roar of the balls, and it's a fantastic mix on that part. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, in the surround sound you can really hear that those balls weigh about ten thousand tonnes each as the "boom." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Well, when I'm in my tub at night I-.. no! ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I like sitting on my subwoofer. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You sunk my battleship! ''[JJ still laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is Phil LaMarr as Ndulu, Maurice as Schlomo and, by the way, the character of Schlomo with the bow tie there, that is... that's an old design based on Eric Kaplan. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Eric Kaplan! I was gonna say. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Totally. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And Bolt Rolands, the other boyfriend, is also Phil LaMarr from episode 104. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Phil LaMarr was doing every voice in that scene at one point. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': At one point he was also Schlomo. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Did you guys ever think of having a.. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But you decided to give it to a real Jew. ''[people laughing]'' A real Jew with a fake French name. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': well... you're outing yourself. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I had no idea. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Once you've had your brake lines cut it's just... you know. Hey, I wanna tell ya... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now, oh! A, just a general com-... oh and the Enema Bot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And the Enema Bot. I love the Enema Bot. That's hilarious. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Was that... who was that? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's Dave Herman. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh, course! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Course! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Course! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Dave, why are you never here? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Dave "Everything I Touch Turns To Gold." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' [as Dave Herman] Because I'm not stupid. I don't have money to travel like you guys do. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Comedy gold. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But we just live here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' [as Dave Herman] I live in Texas. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Now they... that's how they load the Dark Matter onto the...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This week. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': In this episode. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's very funny. Well enjoy that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': They got strong. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We're gonna finally learn the deep dark secrets of Dark Matter in DVD number three. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's right! That was my cryptic comment. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Kif's head expands with pressure.] [MM laughs]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Another new feature of Kif there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I like this part. ''[Kif's eye sticks out and Amy pokes in back in.]'' Pow. </poem><br />
:''[Professor stands behind Enema Bot and slightly groans.]''<br />
<poem>'''JD''': HA HOO! ''[people laughing]'' Sorry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That Professor "moan" there is so disturbing. It sounds so... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Well there's steam coming off his behind. You didn't see that? Of course you saw that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, I missed that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Can you rewind? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': You missed that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I missed that, I did. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's so, the moan is so quiet. It just sounds like he lost the will to live. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That was the "death rattle." </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': After a hot coffee enema, pretty much... yah. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry fails to catch his futon.] [DXC laughs]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ow. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry looks up at Colleen's apartment complex.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Any significance to the numbers there, David? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, not that I know of, actually. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Really? Just random 2-4... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[The complex lowers into the ground.] [BW laughs]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': This is a funny bit. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': It's gonna happen some day. ''[DXC laughs]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Here's a, I was gonna make a writing note to explain our thinking process a little bit with this non-monogamous relationship story here. The idea here, if it was not obvious, is that Fry gets involved with this relationship and he... it's just too much for him. He gets overwhelmed and he says, you know, "I can't deal with this woman who's got five boyfriends," but later he becomes the ultimate spokesman for the opposite point of view with Yivo where he is the pope of this religion espousing this relationship with a quadrillion people, so this is kind of a micro version of the giant story later in which Fry finds himself on the opposite side of the yard. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Would that be foreshadowing? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I don't know what it'd be called. It might just be repetition. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Oh, okay. But you need to know for the test. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Maybe we should say spoiler at this point. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Hermes performs the Crack-Slam on Wernstrom.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': By the way, that made me laugh really hard. The crack-slam. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Really, a naked butt made John DiMaggio laugh? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. Yah. Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I think there's a lot less naked butt in this one than the first one. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Do you think people... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': The crack-slam! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': ...people, there's nobody who's gonna listen to the commentary track first and then watch the movie. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': No, no. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': We're not really spoiling... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': We're not spoiling it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': They're watched the movie once, right? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': If they watch... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Write us if you've watched... if you've actually put this in and watched this first and listened to us first and then watched the actual movie. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': But then mail the envelope first and then write the letter. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Bender] I love Bender dot com. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[The six-some have dinner at a table in Colleen's apartment.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This dinner scene is inspired by Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing." There's a scene with several boyfriends at the table at once, so... certain type of... an homage. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ohh. An homage to Spike Lee. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Except nobody's on a dolly walking. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yes! ''[DXC laughs]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': He stole that from us, that's our trademark. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And Public Enemy isn't playing in the background. (long pause) Hello? [people laughing] Hello? Did I say something wrong? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, I was joining in with... mumbling on... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Public Enemy's awesome. Their tunes are great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I got involved with my character Schlomo, who you can see to the left of your screen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I even like "25th Hour" for cryin' out loud. Come on. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': John. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Hello? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': W-G-A-S. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Wha... uh... oh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': What? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I don't know what the... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': On the computer. W-G-A-S. Who gives a... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ahh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ohh! Got it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Nobody cares. Now we can sing it at you! "Nobody cares!" </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Anything that starts with W-G-A, I assume it's the Writer's Guild of America. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh. Is Patrick here? </poem><br />
<br />
:''Bender poops multiple bricks.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Speaking of, uhh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh my God. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Call back and top 'er! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Dating to the pilot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': The very pilot. Only I notice these bricks are not metallic covered, er, coloured. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': And they were set up like a mason did it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Were they metallic coloured in the pilot? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, he dropped a... that was a regular brick. </poem><br />
<poem>'''Everybody''': (a mix of yes, no and "umm")</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Maybe they were cinder blocks. Could have been cinder block-ish. [MG laughing] </poem><br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Cinder blocks. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [as announcer/jingle singer] I know it sounds a bit bazaar, but with cinder blocks! That's how conditions are. [JJ laughing] Sorry. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Bender begins his walk toward the Anomaly.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Here comes a beautiful cinematic sequence. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I love these real wide shots. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': That's one thing that 16:9 has been really fun to work in. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You gotta tell us how you did that uh... the Anomaly effect. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [deep voice] Aww, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Umm, you're design notes were that you wanted a fractal edge on the... which you had to explain that to me a number of times and then I and the 3-D supervisor had many discussions. This scene came out really good. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Bender gets blown away from Anomaly:''[<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': That was the greatest scream. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': There's a few extra bricks there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yep. More. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Turns out he wasn't quite finished. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I never saw those bricks. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I missed those bricks the first time. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Yah! That's good. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Did you have bean bricks for lunch? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yep. Yep. I did. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Bender was full when they took off that day. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The Anomaly's in 3-D. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': So, yah. The Anomaly's in 3-D and we did the main thing that I think helps the fractal is it kind of... instead of the edges moving smoothly it kind of pops a little and, uhh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Little more electrical. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Cause the whole thing, we've decided that the other universe has kind of an electrical theme- electro-matter and lightning when you go into it and it destroys machinery at the cost of that - so there's, everything was supposed to have kind of an electrical feel about that interface. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': And it's got a nice, kind of reflective surface on it and we never see the back. I think if you went around the back it would disappear. Notice we never see it! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': This is great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I'm sorry, I'm talking through acting. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': "...sit through a tampon commercial," I love that joke. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now, you see this. This is Billy was Judge Whitey here. Now this joke "ow." This is what's known as, you'll see as we come to it, there's another joke that is essentially identical later that we, it got through unnoticed by us that we had used the same joke twice. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Well it's noticed now. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That is known in writing circles as a "sock barrel" when you do two very similar jokes twice by accident. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I believe the origin of that is, you have a barrel of socks of all different colours and you happen to pull out two of the same colour. Is that right, Mike or is there... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': It's the rule of two "ows." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': ...you're a comedy writer. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I never understood the sock barrel theory. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I never pursued it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I just guessed that that's the etymology of it. </poem><br />
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:''[Fry is onscreen crying in a Psychiatrist's office.]''<br />
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<poem>'''BW''' [as Fry] It all started when I auditioned for this show called Futurama. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
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:''[Fry is onscreen playing in an arcade.]''<br />
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<poem>'''JD''': Honkey Kong. Oooh...! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Normal Combat. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I invite everyone to freeze frame... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [different voice] Yes! A game called Honkey Kong! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': ''[laughing]'' Ms. Marple Madness! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I think I made up most of those video game names as somebody who had spent a lot of time in video game arcades, except, actually Normal Combat. That was you, Pete. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I think I wrote that, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You wrote that one. But Honkey Kong, that was me. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Due to a strike. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Bender had his built in wheelchair once before in the "War is the H Word" episode. So nothing's new. It's all just cobbled together. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': But it's the way you reuse them. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': We have seen too many body bags and ball sacks. </poem><br />
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:''[Calculon's operation scene.] [JJ intermittently laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I was looking back at, kind of, some of the earlier versions of the script and the outline. Eric Kaplan had this idea early on that we had to drop because it was too complicated, but uhh... oh, wait! I'm going to interrupt myself. Look at this shot. The "Crotch P.O.V. Shot." ''[people laughing]'' That was called for actually by Eric Kaplan so I just want to credit him, I love that shot. Anyway... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Is that the "sock-crotch theory?" </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Eric had this idea that Fry, after he got really lonely from this break-up, he got this thing called the virtual companion. It was this robot that bucked him up and stooped his ego. But... seemed like too much on top of everything else. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That scared, that shocked me that move. His last move of throwing Bender. It was like, "Wow, this guy's come to life." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That wasn't Bender, that was the doctor. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh, the Doctor or rather. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Are you still shocked? ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah, I'm still shocked. Well he got arnory. Or ornery. </poem><br />
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:''["No time, woman! No time!".] [JJ laughs]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': There's a lot of- We always imaging the future of being very sanitary... ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. It's gross though. Every time somebody puts their nose on the Smell-o-Scope there's this disgusting noise. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': A little "shlurp." </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': It's just like, it's so gross. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': And there's no Alco-Gel or whatever you use to... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ohh... no. It's hilarious. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': The one thing they've cured in the future is obsessive compulsive disorder. ''[people laughing]'' Nobody cares about germs at all. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Everybody has a perfect immunity system. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The Smell-O-Scope is one of many things in Futurama that we just threw in once as a joke back in episode 108, still uhh... my memory's still working here - the Big Ball of Garbage {A Big Piece of Garbage}, and we just though it... </poem><br />
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:''[Wernstrom is onscreen in a thong.] [everybody "ewws"]<br />
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<poem>'''PA''': Speaking of big ball of garbage. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But we though the Smell-O-Scope was a throw away joke, but now it's come back 50 times, so. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': It's so beautiful because instead of sending your eyes out millions of miles away you're sending your nose out there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I do not recommend the toy though. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Matt, will you talk about that character we just saw? Pocket Pal. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Well, back at the beginning, the first couple of years when we were just thinking about this and writing this, we came up with a bunch of character that we never got around to introducing and that's, I think, is that the last character that we... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I think so. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Last character that was supposed to be in the original series. Pocket Pal. That little robot that we just killed. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Yah, I remember him being one of the first designs when we first started... </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': And he was actually very hard to design for this show because I knew I had seen drawings of him aand it took us like a week to find 'em. I didn't want to just do them over. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The idea is that his body's the exact size to accommodate a Double-A battery and that's it, he's just filled with battery. </poem><br />
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:''[Farnsworth and Wernstrom are throwing Pocket Pals into the mini-Anomaly.] [people laughing]<br />
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<poem>'''DXC''': So we killed it... </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': And apparently quite inexpensive. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Pretty much using up all the storyline right there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We killed him off, but by showing all those other ones we left open the possibility that another Pocket Pal could come back, so. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': The original idea was that Fry was going to have Pocket Pal as his little pocket pal and Bender would be jealous. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And Fry would carry him around in his pocket and he would help explain the future to Fry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But we just realized that wasn't really necessary, to explain everything. You just do it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' [as Zoidberg] Just let it happen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Is Pocket Pal seriously a... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': It's funnier if he doesn't understand it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Is it a reference to an adult thing? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': It could be... ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': By that I mean... </poem><br />
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:''[Setting: The White House.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Why is there a stegosaurus on the White House? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': What? Why is there a pterodactyl on the front lawn-</poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, a stegosaurus. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': A stegosaurus. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': 'Cause it's the future! </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Was that scripted or was... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': ''[laughing]'' "'Cause it's the future!" </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': [as Paul Lynn] "It's the future!" </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Paul Lynn] It's the future, people! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Everybody do Paul Lynn. ''[MG laughs]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Paul Lynn] Ah... I love Nixon. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [as Paul Lynn] Well here's proof we didn't go to war in Iraq. </poem><br />
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:''[Nixon speaks.] [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love how you throw in, Billy, a cheek flap in the m- at the end of a Nixon line. It was so serious. I can't remember which one it was. But there's this extra little ''[flaps cheek into mic]''. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Well I have to give credit to the editors. I heard a little "wiz-bang" noise and I swear I couldn't make it and I think they edited it together. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Sometimes you put them in the middle of a word too. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, it's, that, that, that is really... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Nixon] Arrooou! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You know what it is? I'm tired of doing impressions, so you boil somebody down to a noise. You know, [as Nixon] Barrooou! ''[people laughing]'' ''[growls more]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Look at that crowd. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Billy, what would Paris Hilton sound like in a bottle? ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, speaking of boiling. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Okay, in a jar. It's not a bottle, it's a jar. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': In a jar, here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': [as Pairs Hilton in a jar] That's really hot. ''[people laughing]'' [normal voice] Hey, ever hear of the Holocaust? [as Paris Hilton] That's really hot. ''[people laughing]'' [normal voice] Hey, you know your brother's going to jail for D.U.I.? [as Paris Hilton] Dude, that's so hot. </poem><br />
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:''[people laughing]''<br />
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<poem>'''JD''': Wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Heads in a jar. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': The views expressed on this are ''[makes fart noise]'', excuse me. </poem><br />
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:''[Colleen is beating Wernstrom over the head with her nightstick.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We had to, ah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I love this! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, we had to be very careful to remind ourselves that these futuristic saber-like devices just conk you on the head like a broom handle and the sound effects... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Like the ones at ComiCon. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I thought you weren't going to talk about that night as ComiCon, Billy? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah, I know. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': My head still hurts. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': You were supposed to let that go, Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Hey, Pete. How come there's hover vehicles everywhere, but also helicopters? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': The... there aren't helicopters. They look helicopter-ish, but they're hovering. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': They're hovering, they just have... [Jewish voice] ...they have a beanie on top! </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Even if you freeze frame and see that the blades are spinning... ''[helicopter is seen flying onscreen.]'' Oh, they are spinning. Those are force field blades. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oops, I forgot. Billy was actually... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ahh... got it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': This looks great. I can't wait to buy it. ''[people laughing]'' </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': It'll be out. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Over onto Amazon. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': [as Bender] Leaguey weaguey. [normal voice] Sorry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There's something so adorable whenever Bender has these childish fantasies of... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's because I'm adorable. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Like all this other insane stuff goes on in Futurama and they're making fun of Bender for, you know. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Believing in the League of Robots. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Like, "how dare you." </poem><br />
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:''[Bender speaks.] [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Way to play the game, John. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Sorry. </poem><br />
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:''["Tears" scene.]''<br />
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<poem>'''MM''': This is brilliant. This part, with the tears. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I, I guess that's some kind of wiper fluid coming out of Bender's eye. </poem><br />
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:''[Professor is onscreen being beaten.]''<br />
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<poem>'''BW''': ComiCon. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I know Matt always... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Nope, he's become a real boy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I know Matt always hates it when cartoon characters cry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': (laughing) "Stowaway hatch." </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': And I think it's really an emotional thing, but he says it's-</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Well what's coming out of their eyes? (speaks as if he were tearing up) It's ju-... it's this blue... liquid. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Bubble bath. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''' (as if he were crying): It's Drain-</poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Windex. [BW and MG laugh] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': It's hard to animate characters in this world crying because their eyeballs are so big. You see. </poem><br />
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:''[Setting: Bender writing his note.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': This is the "Marquis de Bender." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': By the way, listen to all the beautiful music in this by Christopher Tyng. :''[Bender pins his note on Zoidberg's chest.]'' Oh, here's the sock barrel! So there Zoidberg says "ow" after the fact, so that's the, what I was referring to as a "sock barrel." </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': An underplayed "ow." Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': It's awfully close to that other "ow." </poem><br />
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:''[Setting: Bender by/in a Suicide Booth.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Hey, look what's back! Look what's back, sittin' there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Hey. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': What? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I thought they got rid of those booths? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The Suicide Booths? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': No way. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': No? They've always been around? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': They were in DVD one. Indirectly. Didn't he go into a phone booth and... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': He thought it was a Suicide Booth. In Bender's Big Score. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yep. </poem><br />
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:''[Setting: The Nimbus approaches the Anomaly.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''CK''': Looks like they've repaired the Nimbus. [MG laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Can, can someone remind me what the name Nimbus comes from? Again. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, I believe Nimbus means a halo or a glow and it also is a type of cloud. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': It was also, I believe, a Mike Nesmith song. A Monkees song. Am I right? Anybody? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Nimbus? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': No? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Nimbus. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': It was also a... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Maybe it was! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But the reason we chose it for the ship is it also sounds like, you know, nimrod or... It sounds like a word you would use to... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Also Nimbus Nine Productions. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Nimbecile. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Peter Tork's nickname. Monkey. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': ...a famed Canadian in rock and roll producer. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I think you were right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Maurice, tell us about Kif's thoughts. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Kif's thoughts? At this moment? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': As, uh... well. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': He thinks about Mike Nesmith a lot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Actually, oh. It's the sequence coming up. Hold that-, get ready! Get ready to do that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Okay. I'm waiting. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': This is true, going into that. They have a meeting tomorrow with Micky Dolenz. It's very exciting. This is true</poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But by the time this comes out that meeting will already have taken place, so maybe you can print the results on the back... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': No, the next DVD after this. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': If you see the guy with the wool hat, tell him it's really hot out. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': (laughs) That was Peter Tort. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': No, it was Mike Nesmith. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, you're right. It was Mike Nesmith. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Hottest day of July, he's got that freakin' hat on. </poem><br />
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:''[Bender falls through the Suicide Booth floor.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': A logical question: I'm going to ask it because I know fans are going to ask it. How did the League of Robots know Bender was going to go to that Suicide Booth? That, being the secret entrance to their lair apparently. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Maybe all Suicide Booths are secret entrances to the lairs. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That was going to be my guess. Yes. </poem><br />
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:''[Setting: Fry is next to the Anomaly.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''LS''': Nice reflection of the Nimbus. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I like that the torpedo loads in the bridge. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And comes... yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Seems like not a great idea. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': The ergonomics... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': For the purpose of the upcoming scenes it had to be that way. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': It's a fantastic idea. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Zapp): I planned the recoil myself. </poem><br />
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:''[Zapp tricks Kif.]'' [people laughing] </poem><br />
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<poem>'''DXC''': Here's where I started to wonder what Kif's thinking. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Well, he's basically thinking (as Kif): (sighs) [DXC laughs] (normal voice): You know, the, I love the fact that we've returned to the Kif side here in this... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Zapp yells at Francine.]'' [JJ laughs] :''["Be a dear.".]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh great. I'm sorry, I got interrupted by, by the action about to come up. For those of you that are watching the commentary first... [people laughing] ...and didn't watch it already, this is a very tragic scene coming up. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Maybe you should alternate between what Kif's thinking and what Calculon is thinking. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (as Calculon): Why I think that would be an excellent idea. I can tell you right now that Calculon is thinking about... Calculon. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I really like the name "the League of Robots" 'cause it's so unadorned. It's so unclever. It's the first thing that would come to your mind. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': It's great. It's great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I think that there should be League of Robots t-shirts. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Ooh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Do it. Do it. Do it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Done! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Everything you think of is... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': So being a robot is like being in college. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': League of Robots chess set. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': We could make t-shirts and right now I could say there are t-shirts. [people laughing] When the time comes up. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Was that Phil LaMarr doing the voice of that duffer robot? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, that's Dave Herman. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That was Dave Herman too?! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But there's two robots like that. There's, the other one is Billionaire Bot, we'll see with the monocle later, that one is Phil LaMarr. </poem><br />
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:''[Kif is launched toward the Anomaly.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Now didn't we originally do this where he's being stretched and stretched and it's like "(groans)" and then all of a sudden in the middle of the stretch there's a "(sighs like Kif, goes back to groaning)." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, it might even be in there, but the music is... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': May have over lapped it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The dramatic music is, was deemed, and the stretching sound effect, were deemed critical to the moment, so. So we had to kind of weave in and out of the dialogue and the music and sound effects so people would definitely understand the stretching-ness of it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Was that another sock barrel where he burped and burned the guy's head? [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Paris Hilton): That's hot. That's really hot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Like when the Professor's... head was burnt. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': He burped, but he burped on the organic eye, so how come the eye still works? That, that was my big question. That kept me up all night. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Don't make trouble. </poem><br />
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:''[Kif and Fry meet next to the Anomaly.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': (laughs) I like this because Kif and Fry don't often have scene together when they show their true friendship. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I like that they know each other. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': They do, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You know, enough to say "hi" in the middle of space. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': In the middle of space, yah. [BW and MM laugh] If you're gonna bump into somebody, have it be somebody you know already. </poem><br />
:''[Kif is getting pulled back into the Nimbus.]''<br />
<poem>'''MM''': And... he's boned. [MG laughs] </poem><br />
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:''[Kif's juices land on the sandwich.]'' [people go "ew"]<br />
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<poem>'''BW''' (as Zapp): Twidle di dit di... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': So we assume that Kif is tasty. What sort of flavour do you think comes with his green-ness? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Well... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Is that a vegetable kind of thing or...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, you have like a green liquid or something the flavour is green. </poem><br />
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:''[Amy is on screen in a dress.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Look at those legs! Look at those legs! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love that, I love that Hermes is wearing a kilt like as though there's something... something vaguely Scottish. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Why are you lookin' there, I was looking right where the focal point is. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Well you said "look at those legs." I... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Not his, hers! I was looking at hers. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I thought you were looking at something else besides the legs. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Look at the... yah! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Look, she, look. All women are beautiful, so shut up. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Stop drawing Amy Wong so hot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': It's a cartoon guys. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Stop doing it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Zapp): Alright, sweetikens. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Wait, is the kilt a gay test or something? Did I just like, fail it. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JJ and BW''': No. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Did I just fail the gay test? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': No. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Not yet. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (as Jon Lovitz): I'm not gay. I'm also not on this show. Hello. Jon Lovitz and I've never been on Futurama. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Jon Lovitz): And so what if I am. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Amy in her dress is onscreen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Huh? Look at this! That's the hottest funeral dress ever! EVER! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That is so... shot. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Kif's last picture is onscreen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': That picture is so wrong. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': EVER! EVER! I'm sorry! That's so wrong. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Paris Hilton in a jar): That's hot. That's really hot. That dress it hot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ugh, it's a cartoon! WHAT? Oh, yah. ''[Leo Wong sprays Kif's parents with a breath mint.]'' Kill 'em all. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Bender places a L.O.R. banner on Kif's jar.]'' [BW laughs] [JJ laughs]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is one of my favourite scenes coming up with a ketchup bottle. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Did you see this before? Just kidding. [MM laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': You know, you hit it on the "57." That's where you hit it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's exactly right. The first time someone told me that I said like, "Aw, you hit it upward also. You hit it with an upward motion," right? You tilt the bottle down, hit... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yep, right on the label. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': No, you tap it. You tap the, right about the "57." </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': As long as you hit it parallel to the "57" it works. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': If it's stuck in there, you tap the "57." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': No, the first... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I've been hitting it on the "56." [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The first time someone told me that I said "Ah, that's, that's ridiculous." Then I tried it and ketchup went, a flood of ketchup poured out all over my plate. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Awh... "I got most of it." </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yep. Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': But see, that's wrong. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': No, well, you tap it. You don't slam it. You were like, (in a slow minded kind of voice) "And 'den I, 'den I hit it, like 'dat! Douuuuuy." </poem><br />
<br />
[people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MG''': You gotta use a little English. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Nice language. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Don't suck. That's what I always say. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Didn't, ah, Tress cooked this up herself, this little song. Didn't she? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, Eric Kaplan wrote that although Tress made up the melody on the spot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, did he? Okay. Okay, there it is. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Amy is onscreen again.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Look at those ankles! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's what I meant. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Also, I gotta say. It was really funny 'cause Eric Kaplan dictated the nonsense words and then you, David, you wrote them, you were typing them up. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': You were sitting at the computer. It was very funny to me. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And then Tress improvised the melody. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Correct. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Zapp hits on Leela.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Slob. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': We've been waiting a long time for that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Amy's turnin' me on. What do I do, like what do I do? I call up Lauren Tom tonight and just say, "Hey, your work is really good." [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's ridiculous. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I really, uhh... I think Lauren Tom's acting in these scenes where she's sad is phenomenal 'cause she's delivering these jokes, but also she's crying. I love the line reading. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah. It is. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[URL appears onscreen in the prison scene.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': URL! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': But you made her look... (as Paris Hilton in a jar): ...hot. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[URL speaks.]'' [people laugh]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': That's so great. That voice is great, John. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (as URL): Yah, respect. "Look-a like-a freak." </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I spent a lot of time on a very nerdy joke with those, the lasers on the cell. They're supposed to be the Tholian web lasers. [people go "Ooo"]</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': (gasps) Star Trek reference. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''' (in a awe-struck voice): I don't know what that means. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Play it back. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Leela puts on her "virtual eyes" glasses.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': I like that joke. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (at MG): That's right. You've never seen Star Trek. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Scene at Horse Repair store.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Horse repair! (laughs) </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (as Horse D'ourves Salesman from “Luck of the Fryrish“): No Horse Coke. Horse Pepsi okay? (normal voice): Remember that? (as Horse D'ourves Salesman): Yah. Horse Burgers, Horse Dogs. (normal voice): That guy showed up earlier. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': He's like Iron Man. Is horse a funny word? Is that why we use it so much in this show? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': I always laugh at how mad Bender gets when he has the wrong horse's name. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (as Bender): Come on, Lasty! </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Setting: LOR HQ.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now, this is a question for Pete. Are there several portraits on the walls in this movie that I love. One is that horse we just saw, but the one I really love is this one you see in the background on the left there. You'll see better... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': There's two here. There's Robot and Robbie is on the other side, but we have really nice Photoshopped paintings of him and I'm not sure if Robbie ever even shows up. He's on the design, but ah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And of course these are artistic renditions of... they're inspired by Robot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Wait a minute. Is that... that's Robot from Lost in Space. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yah, they're... probably the founders. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But that's such a detailed painting, it's like... No one would put that effort into the background of a cartoon. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Nobody but me. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': What the hell is he thinking about doing to himself. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's the character played by Phil. Billionaire Bot, from the, uh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': “Raging Bender.” </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': ...“Raging Bender” episode. Exactly. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yah, he was a wrestler? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Bender politely asks for the human eye monocle.]'' [people laughing] :''[Bender smashes the eye under the shovel and it pops.]'' [people are disgusted]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Subtle joke there on the book cover. Has anyone here ever read Roberts... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I've attempted it and yah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It is so boring and stupid. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': It is unbelievable. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The idea that... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Until you try to run a meeting-</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Point of order. Point of order. I disagree. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I second it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Is it that thick? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': No. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, it's really not. It's probably... </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I think it's kinda little. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Paper back-y, actually. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Is that like a black velvet painting back there? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': It looked like it in that scene. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I love Boxy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Boxy robot is awesome. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Boxy, who never does anything quite right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Spillin' stuff. It's beautiful. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Boxy's allegiance shifting to Bender there. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Setting: Fulcrum Prism.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''PA''': Here was a... another... in the script you wrote that this is a prism. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I love this. Another Smell-O-Scope. I was so excited when I saw that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': You called this thing, the ah... what is it called? Fulcrum Prism. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Fulcrum Prism. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Two puns in one title. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': One pun and then, you know, we have to decide whether are we drawing a prism or... [MG laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You better! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Attica! Attica! Attica! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah, check out the guy back there with the robot arm. Pretty cool. Bionic man. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': And he doesn't really do much, he's just looking. I love that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': I think that there were more prisoners in some of the earlier drafts, like more action... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Why was there no blood on the screw driver? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': There all up in this scene. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Was there a reason for no blood on the screw driver? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': It's the magic of cartoons. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Have we used up our bodily excretions quota? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (as Professor): Pazuzu! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, Pazuzu's back! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Pazuzu. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I love Pazuzu. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Lee, what episode was Pazuzu in? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Oh, no. I forgot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': It was the... it was the one where they all got young. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Oh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's it! A... “Teenaged Mutant Leela's Hurtles.” That's it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh wait, I forgot I'm also Guard #2 here. [people laughing] Let me add that to my list of credits. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Mo, it's a tour de force today. Thanks. You were great. I wanted to thank you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Thank you from the man who plays everybody! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': No. When I saw the episode I said "That's Mo, that's Mo, that's Mo" and it's great. Now you'll get off my back. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Why you lousy mother father. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Some of it itches. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Professor speaks to Nixon's head.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Nixon's head): No I don't, you hatchet head. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I like those neck shackles. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Yep. I like that in the future you're attached by necks. [MG laughs] </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry floating through space.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': This is where you said to do the "death rattle." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh yah, here it comes. Let's hear it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Cue the smoke. (laughs at the size of Yivo) </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': (does the "death rattle")</poem><br />
<br />
:''[Setting: Yivo first attacks Earth.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': I have to go to the bathroom. Can we take a break? [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Did he get that laser eye surgery? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's awesome. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Look at that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Wow. That's so gross. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I mean ,can you imagine how terrified you would be if this really happened in real life? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Scaredy cat super hero. That's good. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (as Jerry Seinfeld): And that's what the show is about. It's a... (normal voice): oh, wait a second, I was also that guy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is basically where the monster movie aspect begins</poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I'm gonna start pointing out my jokes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (as Jerry Seinfeld): It's a show about how scared you'd be if this happened. [BW laughs] Who are these people? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': We talked about the music earlier, but this music in this episode is Ting's Monster Movie Score. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': This is beautiful. He won't pay for colour. [BW laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Of course, 'cause it's gotta be in black and white. Oh, wait a second, I got to play Harold Zoid in this too. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You did. We never found a convenient time to get Hank Azaria, sorry Hank, who played Uncle Zoid the first time so Maurice ably stepped into his shoes as Uncle Zoid. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': He should have a rotary instead. The rotary dial. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah, yah Hank... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, 'cause I temp'ed it. I remember temping it, but... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah, Hank. We'll call you. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Here comes a shot that will just blow your socks off. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Are you socks still no? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That, I love. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Lucky for you, they are 'cause I missed my pedicure. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': This took like two hours to do! [people laughing] It took [i]so[/i] long. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': How many crayons? How many boxes of crayons did this take? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': That's great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is one of the great shots, 3-D or otherwise, in Futurama history. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I think the Simpsons writers are in jeopardy right now after that. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Setting: Zapp fighting Yivo while sitting in the diner.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': By the way, I love the layout of the next shot, this one that Zapp's in there... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I mean, that looks tenticular up there in the sky like that. That is, ah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So, there's that incredible 3-D shot, but actually the layout is just perfect on that diner shot also to show that the, you know the scale of it in the sky and... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah! But the movement of those tentacles from that shot really, it looks as though that's a creature, I mean it looks live action. It made me want Sushi... Spok. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Shatner): We're losing a plot point here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I think we decided they already watched, didn't they? I should commend Eric Whited, the guy who built that whole scene and also Chris Graham storyboarded that. You know, we know you just had the big fight in DVD one and so we wanted to do something different and the idea of doing that in one, man I would never... I would never have tried that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is another staggering 3-D shot, by the way, they're just back-to-back here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh my God, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': David, what did you say, the amount of hours just to mix the sound? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Um... I personally was in the, was involved for about 80 hours. Same as DVD one though. It's just like, these have so much chaos and it's in surround sound and if that's, you know, there's much more time put into it by Peter Cole, the mixer and Travis Powers, the sound effects editor. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': And you haven't even started on the audio commentary. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah! </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Good luck with that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': It's three weeks, three weeks of mixing... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Sal is onscreen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': This character became so popular as far as I can see when I read all kinds of stuff. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Sal! Everybody loves Sal. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah.<br />
<poem>'''JD''': He adds "s" to everything. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And makes everything a plural. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': But people are writing like that... you know? Like "I don'ts knows." </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (as Sal): Writings likes thats. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': By the way, one thing about that 3-D shot, going back to the tentacle, 3-D space battle shot and the subject of mixing the audio. The mixing is when we put in the music and the sound effects and try to get it all to work with the dialogue and still be funny, but dramatic. It's very difficult, it's much, it's so... it's one of those things where Peter himself said "People don't understand what he does for a living as the mixer. It's something that sounds easy because if you do it right you don't think about it, the music is setting the mood and the sound effects just seem to be what they are." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Mhmm. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': "But if you do it wrong, then you notice. So it's a strange, very strange thing where if you do it right, people don't appreciate what you're doing. [people laughing] But ah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': We should do a bad mix for one... one version. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Just so everyone will appreciate it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But that space battle was easier to mix than almost any other shout because of the fact that Zapp Brannigan is talking the whole time. We had to just turn everything else down and not over do it so it actually made it easier, strangely enough because he was talking the whole time. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I have an announcement to make. I'm grossed out. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah, I was just thinking of how much my father's gonna be really disgusted at that part. He's gonn-... he will-... ugh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': We're not talking about the movie, by the way. [people laughing] It's what's goin' on in here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': It's what's goin' on in the room. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Randy appears.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yayyy, it's Randy again! </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Do you feel that the tentacle with Fry coming out of it reached the level of disgusting that you hoped for, David? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I think it exceeded the level I was hoping for. If I could I'd go back and take it back a notch. It's so horrible. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (as Randy): Finally! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Actually I wouldn't. I love it just the way it is, but it's more disgusting than I envisioned it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': This was a hard performance with Fry because I had to make him sound coherent like he knew what he was talking about. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We put in some whip sound effects to make it a little more painful here. </poem><br />
<br />
.]''Morgan Proctor comes out of the Tube System..]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's Morgan Proctor. Originally played my Nora Dunn, although Tress took over the role for that three word line. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And was that Fishy Joe, the last one? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Fishy Joe! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Fishy Joe Gilman. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Who plays Fishy Joe, Maurice? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (as Fishy Joe): Why that would be my's truly. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah, Horrible Gelatinous Blob was shown earlier, he didn't say anything though. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I did not. Well I had already credited him. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh, did you? </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Scene where tentacles are chasing the crew into the Planet Express building..]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': You know, this whole sequence here, I really connect with this emotionally because this is every nightmare that every little kid has. There's something, something's chasing you and... and... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': And it's pink! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And it's pink. [people laughing] Okay, that's just my childhood then, I guess, I dunno. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': In your adult life. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But, I mean, it's a viscera. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Professor is onscreen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Those glasses gave me nightmares. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': 'Lotta Theremin in the music in this episode. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': 'Lotta big words. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And you see there... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Leela aims at Fry's head with her gun.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': This is great! Awh, this is so cool. Women rule. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (distinguished, English accent): Unfortunately. Dear boy. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Leela pulls out a second gun in her other hand..]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': That's a good shot. Ohh, this is so good. I'm just gonna sit here and enjoy it. The hell with trying to be funny. It ain't working. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': This is a line that kinda sums up everything I know about Eric Kaplan. "Different from the Hollywood love story." This is his version of a love story. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': In Eric Kaplan's mind this is just a little bit different from a regular love story, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Slight twist. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Did you ask him, like, "We want this show to be a love story and this is what you got?" </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's very Eric Kaplan-y again. He's not here to defend himself, but when Eric Kaplan does a script there's usually a romantic element and it's got some kind of observation about real life no matter how disgusting or ridiculous it is. </poem><br />
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:''[Farnsworth mentions Diamondillium.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We had to work hard on the names Diamondium and Diamondillium because we had other versions of them and then we got notes from the legal department at Fox that they existed... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Those products existed. </poem><br />
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<poem>'''DXC''': They had all these fake, you know, varnishes and things that are called whatever. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': See don't kill all the lawyers 'cause sometimes you need them if you wanna make a cartoon. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I just think they make up as many words as they can and copyright 'em hoping to snag something every now and then. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': By the way, speaking of crazy words we just saw on an Internet news search that Fox has trademarked the word "Slurm"...</poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's right! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': ...for use as any kind of a beverage. I have no idea if they plan to ever do that, probably not, but they've defended their trademark on the word "Slurm." </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': As long as they make a sugar-free Slurm I won't have a problem with that. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And we're seeing the Slurm billboard in the background just doubly reminding me of that. </poem><br />
:''[We see the tentacle reaching from Fry's upper neck to lower spine..]''<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I love this shot. Look at that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Owh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ooh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I had that in the Navy. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That is the Mike Rose special. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': That's right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That, that joke. It's amazing how often you can use that exact joke. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': And I wasn't ever even in the Navy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Imagine how often you could use it if you had been in the Navy. It comes in handy in real life. Start thinking about places you can say "I had that when I was in the Navy" and you'll realize... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': You can also use it if someone has a long, funny sounding last name. You could say it right after that. Like, "What is your name?" "My name is Michael Metrokevich." "Oh, I had that in the Navy." [people laughing] Little party favourite for all the people watching. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I always loved Morbo. He's like that 50's... what people thought aliens would look like. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I like that you say "Now we know better." Back in the 50's they were all wrong. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That's right. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Amy and Leela begin aimlessly firing their weapons..]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I love it when people shoot guns for too long in cartoons. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': A little Tarantino here. [MG laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Kind of the second time we've done that also if you count the Pazuzu scene earlier. </poem><br />
:''[Land squid is onscreen.]''<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Billy! That was Billy West starring as the Land Squid there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Really? That was that... silly... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Well Billy works so hard. Billy, how hard do you work Billy? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as MLK): When I works, I works hard. </poem><br />
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:''[Tentacle comes out of toilet.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': That, that, that disturbs... that disturbs me the most. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': (makes Land Squid noises) </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The toilet shot? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Because that can, that's our primal fear. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Everybody's worst fear. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, advice to parents who are potty training your toddler: don't show them this. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': This may not be the video to baby-sit them with. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as a small child): (makes fart noise) 'Scuse me. Sorry. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[The Funkalistics are onscreen.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
:''[Leela drinks a Red Minotaur.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Red Minotaur. I can't wait. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I just love the "talkin' 'bout the" 'cause that's in so many songs. (singing): Talkin' 'bout the thaang. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Well, they gotta remind you they're talking about it while they're talking about. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (singing): Talkin' 'bout the thaang. Talkin' 'bout the well well. It's my f... (laughs). Thank you Billy Clancy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': My favourite is when they give out their sign. "My name is John DiMaggio and I'm a scorpion. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yess... yes! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Here's a logical question: the Professor has obviously already been infected with the tentacle. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yes. But we don't see it at all. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I don't see it. It must be down his shirt right now. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And where, into the floor? I mean... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah, it's a lavaliere. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': To that I say, "shh." [people laughing] </poem><br />
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:''[The Professor laughs after revealing his tentacle secret.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love how happy this thing makes everybody. But, of course, they're being bred with, who isn't happy at that moment? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': They said, "just be super happy and I've never seen the guy be like, unbelievably happy, so he just lost it. (laughs like the Professor) </poem><br />
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:''[Wernstrom chases Leela and Amy.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': I like this shot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, this is nice. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh yah, this... so you hear this rocking music that Chris Tyng composed. He did an earlier version that was less rocking and we said "we'd like it to be more rocking" and you'll hear that other, alternative... the alternate music you'll hear over one of the DVD menus as a very bazaar, strange, extra treat. You'll hear that cue over one of our menus and the alternate one over another one. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Everyone notice Leela's elbow talons there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yes! She usually, ah... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And the Hyper-Chicken advertisement on the bus. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (Mexican accent): Accidentes? (normal voice): What were those numbers by the way, those...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, that was the Greek letter Lambda. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's what I thought it was. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': 'Cause we don't... we can't show a real phone number and I hate "555," I passionately... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': 800-Lambda-Lambda-Lambda-Lambda-Lambda-Lambda-Lambda. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': You know they actually now are using 555 for some telephone numbers. It's not any longer, so they're not non telephone numbers. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Really? </poem><br />
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:''[Colleen is brought to Fry.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': ...never happens in real life, so... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Dial-A-Joke. [people laughing] Wooord. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Really good performance by... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And I would be that $6421 is a result of multiplying a bunch of 79 centses. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I think we did do that, but I forgot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': We did. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I would have to check. We did? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': We did. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We did, okay. So it divides evenly then. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh, man. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I would be disappointed on this show if it didn't, David. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as a teen fan): Umm, on the commentary you guys said that you multiplied... there was one more that you missed which was at the top of the frame. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Guess you could divide the total of the bill by 79 cents, figure out the total calls. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Let's figure out how many calls there were, yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as a teen fan): That's what I would have done. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Do... do we fact check that Pete? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Uhh, I just wanna know who paid that for a futon. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I could probably say that I have the record for the number of Dial-a-Jokes of person on Dial-A-Joke. Thank you very much. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': (clapping) Ohh... Mike Rowe, ladies and gentlemen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Did you submit the jokes or did you actually read them in your voice? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I read them in my voice as the comedian I once was... in the early 80's. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Can you tell us one of them? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Uhh... I bought a great book: The History of Crazy Glue. I can't put it down. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So, I hope everybody out there appreciates that 'cause you would have had to spend 79 cents normally. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, I got that joke! I want my 79 cents back. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Mike, Mike, you're an old soul. Man that's great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I like that. That's a good one. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I think we all owe Mike 79 cents. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I think we do. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': If you only knew the half of it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That'd be 4-... 34 and a half cents. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now, of course, this being the horror movie segment of our production, we had to gradually reduce the number of people who are still, you know, left outside of the horror. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': And this is the night thing I was talking about. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Right. And Leela gets more and more isolated. Right now there's the three of them and it was the whole crew and now it's down to three and we wanted to gradually get down to the point where Leela was the last person, thinking person on it. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Zapp, Amy and Leela say please to Bender.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''CK''': I like this. </poem><br />
<br />
:''["My leg feels funny!".]'' [KK laughs]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So we, a bunch of our robots I guess came from that Raging Bender episode. Destructor is also from that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': There was a joke there about, ah... "If you're lookin' for a leg rub, you're barkin' up the wrong Bender." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': That was cut. </poem><br />
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:''[Setting: In Destructor's leg.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': This is cozy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This one of the few points, if maybe the only point, where our two stories come together. The monster horror story and the Bender story, until the big ending, of course. Kind of the cross over point of the story. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But wouldn't the alcohol boil off and therefore would Bender not find it less satisfying? [people laughing] Just call me Nit-Picking Mo. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''' (as Paul Lynn): It's the future! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': That's space alcohol. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Seryan Brandy or something. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's like, the easiest way to make a Futurama joke, but also the worst is you take anything and put the word "space" in front of it. [people laughing] "I gotta go to the space museum." [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I gotta go to the space bathroom first. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Your joke was better 'cause it had "bathroom" in it. It's half of a joke better. Hedonism Bot, Maurice LaMarche! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': One of my favourite side characters. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Was that robot tweaking his own chest or something? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': He was! He was talking about how much he loved his nipples rubbed by sand paper. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Imagine the nerve of that thing? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Or, did... what did he call it... not sand paper. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Industrial sandpaper. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (as Hedonism Bot): Industrial sandpaper! [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Now wasn't Hedonism Bot blue at one time? Did he...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': He's... I think he's only solid gold. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That was when he was trying erotic auto-asphyxiation. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The idea is that he's made of solid gold and he weighs just a huge amount and that's why he crushed Boxy there. </poem><br />
:''[Setting: Abandoned soup cabin.]''<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So Matt, did we go too far with this love triangle here? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': No! Yes! [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': 'Cause it was, you know, big discussion in very early days of the series "should we have Zapp and Leela get together?" so to speak, but now we've made it much worse by complicating all of their... entangling all of their romantic lives. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Everyone has slept with everyone. Right? Kind of. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Just about. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Except for Zoidberg. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Much like the writers. [PA laughs] </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Zapp is talking to Amy.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': I love that we finally establish exactly where Kif came in the pecking order on the Nimbus. [people laughing] Fourth Lieutenant. I've been playing him as though he were, like, Second Officer... he's only the Fourth Lieutenant. Just happy to be on the Bridge alive. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is really great acting, Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh, thanks. (laughs) </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Listen to the delivery at the end here. </poem><br />
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:''["Closer.".]'' [people laugh]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': I'd a slept with him. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Zapp): I'll get you an agent in Hollywood, I promise. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's pretty much the same M.O. he used on Leela way back in season one of just being so pathetic and crying, yah. And it works for him. </poem><br />
<br />
:''["I was hoping you'd see it on YouTube.".]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': What's that on... what's that mounted on the wall behind them? A single... (laughs) </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': A single antler. </poem><br />
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:''[The tentacles finally grab Zapp and Amy.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We really just wanted that to go on and on with the audience knowing exactly where it was gonna... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': David, do you happen to know what that plunging noise is? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ahh... no! I don't. Travis makes a lot of... Do you know, uhh, Lee, where, how, what they wet noise is that Travis provided? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': You know, I'm not, but he always says it's real live things and all his sound effects are generated from real live things. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh. Eww... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Professor and Hermes are playing a Pac-Man/Checkers game.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''LS''': Speaking of real live things, umm... the video game there, the Pac-Man, that's the actual Pac-Man body noise from the good folks at Namco. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Which is the first scratching that you ever heard before rap was around. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[The Professor defecates.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''CK''': Oeww... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ohh... and that's, that's really... that part really grossed me out. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And actually, the effort that went into that Pac-Man noise is much greater than you would expect. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Yah, I mean we, they wanted us... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': That's why we paid $100 000. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': They wanted us to be sure to use the actual Pac-Man sound effects, so they sent me a sound file that had the video game with the sirens going off and the Pac-Man guy, and I, you know, told them jokingly that we'll just have to recreate it 'cause it wouldn't work... unless you guys have the original, you know, 1980 sound file of [i]just[/i] Pac-Man eating, uhh, which they e-mailed me a week later. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh my goodness, that's great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': My father's gonna be so grossed out by this. (as his father): Oh! My son, what is this? What is this with the tenticle over here? I don't want the tenticle! He's scarin' me! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Your father? How 'bout my son? [people laughing] I gotta explain this to my son. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh, yah. That's right. :''[Zoidberg uses the comedy Pope Staff.]'' I love that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''' (in deep voice): Oh, yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You know, you write all the script and then that hundred year old slide whistle sound is the biggest laugh. [DXC and BW laugh] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Well, along with... accompany by the visual of anything drooping. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I like how they have adorned Fry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': That wastebasket on his head. </poem><br />
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:''[Fry reveals the monster's name.]''<br />
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<poem>'''MM''': Now explain the name. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Uh, I wish Eric was here. I... in my... I can tell you my interpretation... I think Eric had some specific thing in mind, but I don't know exactly what it was. But I remember when I saw it my reaction of it was "Oh, it's kinda half-Jehovah and half-Tivo." [people laughing] So, that's how it is in my mind. I don't think... I think he had some deeper meaning for it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I dunno, that's pretty deep, David. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': What's the math on Colleen's shirt there? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, yes. That is the, the upside down "A" is the mathematical symbol meaning "for all." So it says "For all x I love x." So it means "I love everything" in math language. :''[Yivo speaks.]'' There's David Cross! [people cheering] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Very funny. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Yivo is shown speaking on the Jumbotron.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''PA''': That's a great sequence, it's really cool how his voice... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': They came out with that pretty darn fast. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Those were the only children, I think... snuck through here. We were trying to avoid showing kids getting... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I love that bartender</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh yah, we did want to suggest that kids were involved in this billion person relationship, so... </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Especially when you find out... yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Especially when... yah, what's about to be revealed. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So that why you'll notice... yah, none of the kids really are... </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Maybe they just look really young. And they're not kids. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': They could be little people. That's what they are. Yah, that's it! </poem><br />
:''[Yivo says "ow" after being kicked in Fry's face.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MG''': Another "ow." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now this was a debate, what to... when Leela reveals what they're called, Genticles here. There was actually a brief debate. I remember "should they be called 'genticles' or 'genicles'"? Those were the two choices. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': No "gesticles" or...? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Both... both are wrong. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, speaking of genticles, that reminds me I forgot to point out, much earlier, but I'm going to bring this up because it's disgusting and on the same subject so it's worth mentioning therefore... Back on Kif's... at Kif's wedding on his home planet the father says "That was my left testicle," when Amy's mother squashes the bug on her neck editor, Paul Calder, raised the question "What was his left testicle doing on her neck at that point?" [people laughing] Anyway. That comment is about an hour late, but. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Go to deleted scenes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But still golden. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Another alien, Matt, who doesn't behave as a traditional sci-fi alien. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Yes. Yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': It's also interesting to know David Cross was on a Scooby Doo episode as himself. [people laughing] It's true. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Scooby): Ravid Ross? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And yet he was willing to take a step down to do Futurama. That was nice of him. Everyone is hovering now. It must have made the animation a big pain. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Or the camera work. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Everybody except who is hovering? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Is somebody not hovering? </poem><br />
<br />
<poem>'''PA''': There's somebody not hovering. Leela, of course. </poem><br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, right. You're right. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Yivo is sucking up Kif and transporting him to Earth.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': Mmmm. (makes finger licking noises) </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We had David Cross in the studio making these, these like vomiting and constipating noises for like half an hour straight. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Welcome to my world. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Yivo throws up Kif.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': This is... uh, yah that's... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Nice! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': My father: (as his father):"Oh! Ooohhhh!! [MG laughs] Why, he's gotta throw up the green guy for cryin' out loud." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': But he'll watch Tough man competition. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Two hundred. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh yah. Forget about it. They're like, (as father):"John. What is this? I mean it's funny, but... ew! I didn't need to see that. The green guy comin' out his mouth, the whole thing. Ey, what is that then with the, everybody gets yanked over here, whoa! Look at this and they're all gone and all of a sudden it's nice and pretty and..." [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Wait, the super hero character didn't have hard enough skin. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': It's the future. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (rough voice): John, not for notin.'</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The tentacles are made of electro-matter, Maurice. I think you've obviously forgotten the key fact. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': No, that's right. So even through plutonium molecular density it can pass. Well plutonium-like. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Shh! Maurice, you're on. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So, I believe this setting is supposed to be the site of the Erin Bird duel across the Hudson River from Manhattan. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I couldn't find any actual reference that wasn't like an 18th century engraving, but the board artist lives in Hapolken, so I guess he's right across from it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': So it's the Raymond Burr duel. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Raymond Burr): I'm going to shoot you in the head and save your body. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Hedonism Bot sands his chest.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Here it is. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Everything's the nipples with this guy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Where's the... the dinosaur, it went extinct since the other shot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Where'd the Stegosaurs go? </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Zapp plays the message from Yivo.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''CK''': I like the technology of the answering machine. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You can hear both the rewind and the old phone hanging up on that one message there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Billy, do your phone machine rewind noises. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': (makes rewind noises) </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Wow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Billy West, ladies and gentlemen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': That was for free, that one. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Three Eyed Zebra is the only opposed.]'' [KK laughs]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Dave Herman as the Zebra. How come Bender only got from six to seven during that entire White House scene? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Slow counting. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Bender's shot continues through New New York. It vaporizes a patient of Dr. Adlai Atkins, leaving only an oversized wart..]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': This is great. [people laugh] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Who knows who that character is? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Oh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Uo know? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Adlai? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Adlai! From the episode “The Cyber House Rules.” Leela's doctor boyfriend. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Who played? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Our... Dave- no... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Tom Kenny. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Tom Kenny! You're right. Tom Kenny. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Ohh yah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Had no speaking role in this DVD. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': He's the funniest thing in pants, that tom Kenny. That Sponge Bob. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is Carmen Miranda singing "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)" from the movie "That Night In Rio." 1941. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh, it's so great. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Zoidberg is onscreen shaving off barnacles from his back.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ohh, (gags). </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Ohh, barnacles. </poem><br />
<br />
:''["Multiple scene" scene is onscreen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Here's where we drove the animators crazy. "Jungle Boogie" by Cool and the Gang. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I love that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': This is actually, yah, 64 scenes all laid out as one. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[LoR spinning logo is onscreen.]'' [MM and BW laugh]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''MM''': Little tip of the hat to... Phil Doesur. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So, basically, in two seconds of time... two times 64 seconds of animation. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': We're still trying to pay for that. That was a lay away scene. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Billy, you got a few bucks? [BW laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We didn't expect the... it to be so different, you know from one... we thought maybe this tenticle would be doing the same thing in each one, but... </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Yah, but... okay, so? The tenticle does the same thing and there's 64 other people who are doing... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Well that's easy. That's the easy part. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': We'll all chip in and pay for it though. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[M5438 speaks.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Alright, Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Billy. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as M5438): Yes? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': M5438, I believe, is this character's name from episode 104. To prove that we did not put an effect on that: </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as M5438): He was the ball of light (normal voice): in that episode. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's coming out of your mouth and your nose at the same time-<br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as M5438): No it isn't. You're dreaming. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': W- where is it... well then what part of you is it coming out of? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Don't ask. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as M5438): My chest. (normal voice): I have another mouth... down at the end of my oesophagus. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': His other mouth. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as M5438): It's fun to do that stuff. (normal voice): You know what I'm- I'm just doin' everything I did when I was, like, eight. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Can you do Fry? [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Fry is basically young you, right? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, you said that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yah it is. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Fry scrolls through his cell phone phonebook.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''PA''': Scruffy-Home and Scruffy-Cell. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Like he's ever anywhere else. Besides the closet. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Scruffy was in this episode at one point and if you check our deleted scenes you'll see the one place he once appeared. Unfortunately he's now... he was cut... he was left on the cutting room floor for time. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Scruffy): Scruffy. Cheater. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Hyper-chicken was in this for a little bit, wasn't he? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yah, same. We just... everything just... we had too much of the monster attack segment, we just had to take some trims down. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I did see him dancing in the Jungle Boogie scene there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, I'm in the, I'm in the Jungle Boogie scene by the way. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You are? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I did not call for it, but just seeing it in the editing room I noticed that there's me in the bottom row. Did you know that Pete Avanzino? Or Claudia Katz? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': No. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Either of you responsible? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I should know that, uh... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': So everybody that's watching this, just go back there right now, we need a bathroom break. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': We'll wait. We'll wait, just scan backwards and we'll be here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': We'll wait for you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': You sure that wasn't our caricature of Fabio you're looking at? [people laughing]] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I like the Hot Pocket joke coming up. The reaction by Zoidberg. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Aforementioned gag takes place.]'' [people laughing] </poem><br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That off-screen stuff by Zoidberg replaced an old joke. The Hot Pocket used to visibly hit a copy of Life magazine and the joke was too subtle. We decided that Bender throwing this thing at the concept of life, the abstract concept. It was way too subtle and didn't make any sense. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Oh, I got it. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I got it now that you explained it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Well, we at Mensa, you know... don't have any problems with that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': However, we at Densa do. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Psht, Densa! (laughs) </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': For those of you with an IQ below 90. Join us at Densa. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Our final guest star, Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, coming up. He is so funny. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Is he working? [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You know, a weird thing was the day we were working on the audio for this DVD I was driving to the mixing studio and I turn on the radio and Dan Castellaneta was on the radio on a morning show talking about an album of his called "Two Lips" and they played a song from it that is great and I recommend it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': It's his Beatles, kinda tribute. It's great. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Oh, yah. You know... is it a sound track that's out? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': It's out! "Two Lips." T-W-O Lips. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I'm gonna get it. Cause his work is just beautiful. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So we almost let this go by. Bender's son here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': It turns out Bender has a son. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's a huge revelation in the history of the series. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Or had a son. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's one of those things you discuss for hours. Can Bender have a son? I don't know. [people laughing] If he does have a son can he kill him the second we find out about it? Like, we really... we could spend days, and we do, worrying about things like that. Then it happens in final form, it happens in five seconds and you just laugh at it. All the suffering we put into it is gone. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': 'Cause even if though, even though we killed him we didn't kill him. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Well that was just his first born son, right? [MG and DXC laugh] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Can I ask a science question? The wooden rocket there, the wooden pod. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Right. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': What would happen to that was, you know, really going on? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Uhh, let's watch and see. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Okay. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': A very scientific answer. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I mean, if it, if there was no air pressure inside I think you'd be alright. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': You could build a wooden structure that could withstand the vacuum of space, couldn't you? Thick walls? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I could. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': With hard wood. No pine. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I have to point out, I love the headless body of Agnew. Every time it makes me laugh. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': (groans like Angew) </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': I like he's got like a sewer cap on his neck. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': The great taste of Charleston Chew! I love that joke. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's him saying he likes you too. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is the second time, yah we've done that joke, even the Charleston Chew fireworks, before. That's a standard part of presidential celebrations in the future. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': It's Charle-... the great taste of Charleston Chew. I like the chocolate on chocolate. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I'm with you John. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I... I do. I'm a big fan of Charleston Chew. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': And frozen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And frozen! You gotta freeze it. Freeze it and then crack it! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': What a shot! </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': That was a cool shot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': How many, how many robots in this shot? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Virtually thousands. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': How many literally? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Maybe like eight distinct robots. [DXC laughs] Repeated over and over and over. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This was a really nice thing Eric Kaplan did here. We had some big speech here at one point and Bender had this grand thing and Eric Kaplan pointed out that we really should just make it more petty and how Fry wouldn't spend more time with him going back to, you know, just their relationship. I think it's so much funnier with Bender just assembling this huge army for the most childish and petty reasons and not about the whole "Earth doing things that robots don't care about," but just about him and Fry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': This language was killing me when we were recording this. "Shklee. Shkler. Shklim." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I wonder if we have the tape of that. It took, I remember it took like 50 takes of to get a straight read through that. And no one comment on the no "Shclit" there? I'm happy that no one did. So no... please. Nobody even raise the subject of that. [MG laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Okay.<br />
<poem>'''CK''': What? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Shcragree. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': I won't. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's best not to talk about it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': A shclare world. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I love this music here, again. And maybe I'm saying that too many time, but... </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Residents are shown leaving Trisol on the elevators.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''BW''': "My Three Suns" reference. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yes, from the episode "My Three Suns." This is from... these are all... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': "A Clone of My Own." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Take it to say. All of them. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Amazon... women. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC'': "Take it to say?" That doesn't make any... take it, uhh... without saying. These are all from previous episodes of Futurama. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Petunia is speaking.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': One thing we learned on the Internet is that Nutley's actually quite nice. Actually near where I grew up, in fact. But it's a town in New Jersey. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': (laughing) It's a condition. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': A funny sounding... By the way, Nutley? I had... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Home of Hoffman La Roche Pharmaceuticals, if I'm not mistaken. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's right. You're very correct. That's my... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Nutley, by the way, I had in the Navy. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': My mother dated a guy that used to work at Hoff... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Hoffman La Roche, my uncle in law. My uncle in law? Was one of their scientists. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Nice. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': They had to kill him. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah. Invented Desenex, actually. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Here's a logical point that only occurred to me just in the last couple of days: how did, how come these seemingly mechanical escalators work through the anomaly? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': They're organic. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Well, yes. They come from the electro... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Pete is correct. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Bone matter. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And Lee will back me up on this. I thought that and I said like "Oh, what am I going to say when the fans ask why the escalator works?" and I'll say "The escalator is made of living tissue." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Not buying it. [people laughing] Nice try David X. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yah, what about the zipper on Fry's jeans? </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': That's what I wondered about. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Well that's not mechanical... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': It's metal. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's metal, but it's not electrical. You know what I mean... he would just get... </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yah, 'cause his space suit shouldn't have gone through. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': He would just suffer a lot of severe shocks to the groin, but it wouldn't cease functioning. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Robot 1-X! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': What were... Mike what were you going to say something there? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': And that's happened to him before. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': No, no. Not in mixed company. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Setting: The Crew bounding around on Yivo.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''LS''': All of the sounds effects of the folding of this have to be like rubber. Everyone's walking on clouds for like the next five minutes or so. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Sounds like fun. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Beautiful. The colours. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This is the writers attempting to cover their rear ends here, like "Why does it look so much like Heaven?" So hence this explanation here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': You're trying to say this isn't heaven though? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I'm saying... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': You're explanation says there is no Heaven and the artists have been painting a tenticle monster for the last 500 years. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[Jakabirds land and eat parasites.]'' [people laughing]<br />
<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It could look like this, I'm just saying that, you know, we don't know for sure. There's a good chance. </poem><br />
<br />
:''[A field of Tulip rooms is onscreen.]''<br />
<br />
<poem>'''LS''': Speaking of tulips. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': It turns out you get your own tulip apartment. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We had to pick a real recognizable colour for this paper so that the ending would make sense. So, hence the lovey-dovey pink colour. </poem><br />
:''[Fry's note as a paper airplane flies around NNY.]''<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Fry has good aim, by the way, when he throws a paper airplane, doesn't he? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': [laughing] Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Hey, it's the... </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Well pink is a real aerodynamically friendly colour. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': ...it's the Mafia bots. You see the Mafia bots sitting there on the street corner? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': It says Heaven. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (whispering): John, John. There's no Mafia. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': There's no Mafia bots. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': There's no Mafia. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Sorry. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': How come Fry's return address is Heaven? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': How come Fry's return address is written at the same place where the letter must be written? [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's cold hearted, man. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Don't think about it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (deep voice): I didn't, I didn't say 'notin.'</poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Go with the flow. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Hey, Mike. What time is it? </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Three o'clock. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Aw, you blew it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Why? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You're supposed to go three and I go "o'clock?!" [people laughing] You know you're losing when you're explaining stuff. Joe Biden, 1989. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Alright, this has to be Heaven. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, credit to my old friend David Sheminovich, an astrophysicist at Columbia for providing this blackboard which has about five different jokes beyond the scope of this commentary. [MG laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': I only got like three of them. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It involves the Mersenne Primes and some music references, so go nuts, fans. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': David, what was your friend's name? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': David Sheminovich. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Oh, I had that in the Navy. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as party pooper executive): So how did, like, the blackboard get through the Anomaly? Wait, I'll figure it out. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, there's, for you freeze framers out there who also like to see Zapp's anatomy, I noticed that there's about two frames where you can see full rear nudity on Zapp. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Wa haa... </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Two and a half frames. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Not right there I think it was a minute ago. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': You know, the, when it came back from Korea you could see him full and they drew like a black box floating on... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Is that true? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yah, so we just kinda shuffled the levels so he stays behind them. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Zapp): Only a dream until now. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There is a scene where Zapp is sliding down the stairs earlier when they're on the run through the city when it's him, Leela and Amy and Zapp trips and slides down the stairs on his rear end, there is a scene where it seems like you could see his front side, his business, but there's nothing there so I don't know. Maybe the skirt is actually just long enough, I'm not sure. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': It seems like you guys are spending a lot of time looking. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': In the course of doing the sound you basically end up freezing it at every part of the video at some point, so you end up seeing things that weren't meant to be seen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': That's bad, 'cause you see a lot of drawings that you shouldn't freeze frame onto. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There's one shot coming up here inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean II. This shot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Right here? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Kraken. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Thank you for making me watch that. [DXC laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yivo really has it all, 'cause he can talk perfectly well, but now he chooses to just do these lion roars or whatever. So I guess, again if I had to explain, this must be the mouth he talks out of when he's doing the Heaven voice when you hear that big booming version of his voice, I guess it's that beak, right? Uhh... that right, John? </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I guess. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': No-.. again, no shrugging on audio commentaries. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I guess it is. I guess you're right. [MG laughs] I wasn't there when David recorded. But the, but... </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': You woke John. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yah. It's alright. I just liked the noise I made when I pulled the sword out of my mouth. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': I've never... have you guys ever worked with a mouth chart for a tenticle before? Where he's talking and saying syllables and all that? </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': We had to make a mouth chart, right Pete? </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Yep. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I mean this must... obviously you have these huge scale issues with, you had to relate this character the size of a planet to normal people. I guess the solution is have the tenticle do the acting. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': That's always worked for me. [KK laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Well you have to have them looking at each other and Yivo turning away from Fry. </poem><br />
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:''[Yivo putting people on Bender's ship is onscreen.]''<br />
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<poem>'''LS''': These are 3-D people. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There were 3-D people getting on those escalators before also. I forgot to point out. Unbelievable. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': I saw myself on that boat! [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''' (comedy club announcer): Mike Rowe, ladies and gentlemen. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Did you have that boat in the Navy? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Actually, as you were saying that the word "gonorrhoea" was being said. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': I know, the one time. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The "straight line" was being said. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW'' (under voice): Going, going, gonorrhoea. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Billy, do Tony Bennett waking up on the panel in the middle of the Mike Douglas Show. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Mike Douglas): Hey, hey Tony. (as Tony Bennett): I don't know about that, but that Ray Charles is the greatest. [people laughing] (normal voice): He fell asleep-... ah, this is ancient history, I'm not even gonna go there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': People are goin,' "Who's Mike Douglas? Who's Ray Charles?" </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Man, this is... that just remind me of really scary Japanese anime porn. This scene right here. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Just this scene? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, wait! Speaking of which. We never discussed the meaning of the title "The Beast with a Billion Backs." </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': Yes. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Let's talk about that. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But, uh, many people credit it to Shakespeare, the phrase "the beast with two backs" referring to the act of love making. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Is that Shakespeare of Karma Sutra? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But, I checked on the Internet, it was used at least as early as 1532 by Rabelais, French writer in "Gargantua and Pantagruel." But it seemed from its usage to have already existed at that time, so apparently not coined by Shakespeare as is often... </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Blah. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': You mean "the beast with two backs." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's right, "the beast with two backs."<br />
<poem>'''MR''': Also a reference to Joan Rivers. [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I thought she had one of those surgically removed? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Joan Rivers): They need to add another television channel so I can be somewhere. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Where's Tress MacNeille when you need her? </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Joan Rivers): Melissa, go to him, he's a doctor. [DXC and JJ laugh] </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Zapp's gotten punched in the stomach twice also. Two, twice in the stomach and one in, and well, twice in the face, but they were simultaneous punches to the face. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': It's about time. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': So that's also a sock thing? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Uhh... I think... I call that one a runner as I feel he's been deserving it all throughout</poem><br />
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:''[Enema Bot gets everybody's attention.]'' [people laughing]<br />
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<poem>'''DXC''': That peg leg sound effect is so crummy. We intentionally used it 'cause it's just such a clatter, wooden sound. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Enema Bot with the little hat looked like Squidly Diddly. [people laughing] Look! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And we just wanted to see Enema Bot again, so he's the first mate now. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': First coffee mate. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This speech here is our biblical reference. We always have one, right? To First Corinthians, Chapter 13. It's often used at weddings and it was used at my wedding. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Mine too. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': My next wedding. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Used when I was in the Navy. [people laughing] </poem><br />
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:''[Credits begin to roll.]''<br />
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<poem>'''BW''': I know those guys. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Good work everyone. And check, hey cast members, check it out cast members</poem><br />
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:''[Arrayed voiced characters credits appears.]''<br />
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<poem>'''MM''': Oh, wow! </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': This surprised me. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': So there was no need for me to read all my characters. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': No, there's not. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': See! The joke's on you now! </poem><br />
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:''[JJ's credits appear.]''<br />
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<poem>'''JD''': There you go. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': We always wanted to do this and we never had time 'cause it's always such a rush at the last minute... </poem><br />
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:''[Tress MacNeille's credits fill the screen.]''<br />
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<poem>'''MG''': Ooooh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Yess! She's everyone in the world. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Woow! </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': See. And actually there's a few characters that don't even... </poem><br />
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:''[MM's credits appear.]''<br />
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<poem>'''MG''': Oooh! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': See Mo? See that? Freeze frame that. Mo, look at it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': There you go. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Wow. Thank you. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': You did a good job, man. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And I gotta boast here. Editor Paul Calder and I did these in Photoshop ourselves the last day before handing this over to Fox. Just by taking snippets from the movie. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': They look good. </poem><br />
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:''[David Cross' credit appears.]''<br />
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<poem>'''JD''': That's cool. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MR''': Do I get my picture for commentary? [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Well now it's, now I just say "Just buy the DVD" when they go "Who'd you play in it?" "Buy it. Watch it. Go to the end. Stay with it." </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': But it's really overwhelming when you see them all at once and there's actually a couple extra characters that didn't even make it into the picture, like Guard #2, Maurice. Your favourite. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Guard #2 was not there, I have to say it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I don't think Randy was on there. </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': But you've got Photoshop so you can fix it. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Was Randy on there, I don't think... </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Um, Randy is John. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': He is? </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Upper right um, look a little more carefully next time. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ah. Oh! Sorry! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Recording Facility: The L.A. Studios. Where we are right now! </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (to the rhythm of the theme): Time, time. For, for. Fut-, fut-, -urama. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW and MM''' (to the rhythm of the theme): Time, time. For, for. Fut-, fut-, -urama. </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, you guys. This is the extended remix, but you guys did the regular length sing along. </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That was fun. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': (whistles the same as the alternate intro for Spanish Fry) </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Another great commentary. </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Excellent. </poem><br />
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[people cheering]<br />
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<poem>'''PA''': The next movie coming out, we believe Holidays... '08. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Paris Hilton in a jar): That's hot. [MM laughs] </poem><br />
<poem>'''LS''': Only have to wait another six months. </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''' (as Paris Hilton in a jar): Thank you. That's so hot. </poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Let's do the... can I do the laugh and clap? [begins clapping] [people laughing] </poem><br />
<poem>'''BW''': (does cricket sounds) </poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Carbon neutral! </poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yayy! </poem><br />
<poem>'''MM''': Sit, Booboo, sit. </poem><br />
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:''[L.O.R. logo pops up.]''<br />
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<poem>'''JD''': Yah, that should definitely be a t-shirt. </poem><br />
<poem>'''CK''': Nice. Definitely.</poem><br />
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|name=Orson Welles<br />
|image=[[File:Orson Welles.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=[[Earth|Erth]] News Bulletin with Orson Welles' head.<br />
|age={{age|1915|05|06}}<br />
|birth date=6 May, 1915<br />
|voiced by=Maurice LaMarche<br />
|first appear={{e|6ACV11}}<br />
|wikipedia=Orson Welles<br />
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'''Orson Welles''' was an American filmmaker, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer. He is most famous for directing and narrating a [[Timeline|1938]] radio adaptation of {{w|H. G. Wells|H. G. Wells's}} novel ''{{w|The War of the Worlds}}'' and recreating it in August of [[3010]] merely to deceive and impress [[Ndnd]], the wife of a skinny reptile named [[Lrrr]], also known as the ruler of [[Omicron Persei 8]]. He currently lives in the [[Head Museum]] as a [[Head jars|head in a jar]].<br />
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[[File:Well heads.png|thumb|left|220px|In the [[Head Museum]] talking to [[Lrrr]], [[Fry]] and [[Leela]].]]<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Not only is Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast parodied, but his infamous "Frozen Peas" recording session is parodied. LaMarche often likes to parody this session as a warmup before doing voiceovers. He even got to use it in the ''Animaniacs'' episode, "Yes, Always", as the Brain, whose voice is also an impression of Welles.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Orson Welles' head''': Damn, I'm good! Now, may I please have that cheese log?</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|6ACV11}}<br />
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[[Category:Heads in jars]]<br />
[[Category:Historical figures]]<br />
[[Category:Human characters voiced by Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
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|name=Nudar<br />
|image=[[File:Nudar.png|225px|Nudar]]<br />
|type=s<br />
|type2=d<br />
|death date= 31 December, [[3007]]<br />
|age=<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|origin=Possibly [[Nude Beach Planet]]<br />
|job=Scammer<br />
|family=Once referred to two of his associates, [[Schlump]] and [[Fleb]], as "brothers," though whether they truly were related is unknown<br />
|first appear={{clink|US#S02|Futurama Returns}}<br />
|voiced by=David Herman<br />
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'''Nudar''' was the leader of the [[Scammer Aliens|alien nudist scammers]] and the main antagonist in ''[[Bender's Big Score]]''. He scammed the entire [[Planet Express]] crew out of their business, took control of [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] (of which he was uncertain it would work), and discovered the [[machine language time code]] on [[Philip J. Fry]]'s butt. Using the power of time travel, he sent Bender back in time to steal all of history's valuables, and eventually scammed all of [[Earth]], forcibly evicting all its residents. However, in the [[The Battle for Earth, 3007|ensuing confrontation]], his ship was destroyed by the [[Spheroboom]], which was fired directly at him. Nudar, however, survived the event thanks to a [[doomproof platinum vest]], but he was soon killed by [[Lars Fillmore]] when he pinned him to a [[time paradox duplicate]] of Bender which exploded.<br />
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Nudar had been known to be extremely impatient in several situations, yet he never objected to being prepared for anything, thus making him quite a cunning adversary.<br />
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== Additional Information ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
* He is [[David X. Cohen]]'s favourite character.<!--Note to user Chabby, look at the discussion on your talk page (http://futurama.overt-ops.com/User_talk:Chabby), both spellings are correct as we are global no change between is permitted--><br />
* It is interesting to note how well educated Nudar is in Earth's history, and thus know everything of value in Earth's history. Although he at no point makes it clear that he means Earth's or the universe's valuables.<br />
* Nudar once had intercourse with himself.<br />
* In an early draft of the script, Nudar was to duck and cover with Fry and Leela, leaving Lars to commit suicide by grabbing onto the doomed Bender duplicate. Nudar would then be knocked unconscious by Leela as she runs to Lars' body.<br />
* The only times Nudar was seen without [[Schlump]] and [[Fleb]] was in the cryogenics lab near the end of the film and to a lesser extent in the time sphere.<br />
* Even though Nudar said how he survived the explosion and radiation, it is still unknown how he got back down to Earth, as no escape ships were seen. If he fell through Earth's atmosphere it would be near impossible to have survived.<br />
* Nudar is the only deceased character and the first movie character in Toynami's Futurama Figure line (So far...). He is also one of the few non-robot villians in the line.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Nudar''': That's just what the guys who oppose the things you support want you to do.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Nudars 1 and 2''': Hello, Howdy.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': ''[After Nudar created a copy of himself.]'' There was one, but now there's two!<br />
'''Nudar 1''': Nothing gets past ''you'', eagle-eye.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Nudar''': You've got no code, no porn, and you're ugly. Let's dance!</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{clink|US#S02|Futurama Returns}}<br />
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**{{e|5ACV02}}<br />
**{{e|5ACV03}}<br />
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[[Category:Planet Express]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=User:JediRogue&diff=77664User:JediRogue2011-01-08T16:33:49Z<p>JediRogue: </p>
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<div>Hi, I'm [[Heather]]. [[File:Futuramapilot.jpg|thumb|Awesome]]<br />
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*I'm from the [[Old New York]] area. <br />
*I have a BS in Computer Science and a Masters in Game Development (yes, my degree is in making video games).<br />
*I know how to use MediaWiki better than most (but not all!) people.<br />
**As far as I know, I'm the only User:JediRogue in the world of wikis so if you see the name, its probably me. <br />
*I had a copy of the originally aired [[Space Pilot 3000]] but I deleted it for the DVD version. This is sad because I already had the DVD version on the DVD. I miss the "JFK Jr. Airport" joke.<br />
*I think Baby Bender is adorable.<br />
*The theme song is my ringtone... but I really want the remixed theme from ''[[Bender's Big Score]]''<br />
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*I'm also sad my poster from the Pilot was torn when I took it down so I'm going to need a new one to frame because its stunning and I love movie posters<br />
*I will sign any petition and write letters to keep Futurama on the air if the need arises. <br />
*I usually cry when I watch [[Leela's Homeworld]], [[Jurassic Bark]], and [[Luck of the Fryrish]]<br />
*Favorites:<br />
**[[The Late Philip J. Fry]] was the best of the new episodes.<br />
**[[Bender's Big Score]] was the best movie.<br />
**[[Roswell That Ends Well]] is probably my favorite of the classics.<br />
***And I just noticed that all three are time-travel episodes. Which is funny because I'm picky about time-travel in sci-fi because I think paradoxes that are unacknowledged are sloppy. Futurama just handles them in a funny/clever way.<br />
**[[Fry]] is probably my favorite character because he's living his dream in a sci-fi fantasy.</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=A_Pharaoh_to_Remember&diff=77663A Pharaoh to Remember2011-01-08T16:30:25Z<p>JediRogue: /* Trivia */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=A Pharaoh to Remember<br />
|no=49<br />
|image=[[File:A Pharoh to Remember.png|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=4<br />
|number=3ACV17<br />
|caption=Psst... big party at your house after the show!<br />
|first aired=10 March, 2002<br />
|written by=Ron Weiner<br />
|directed by=Mark Ervin<br />
|title reference=''{{w|An Affair to Remember}}''<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon="Toys Will Be Toys"<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S04E07<br />
|prev ep=A Leela of Her Own<br />
|next ep=Anthology of Interest II<br />
|broad prev=Where the Buggalo Roam<br />
|broad next=Godfellas<br />
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"'''A Pharaoh to Remember'''" is the forty-ninth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the seventeenth of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the seventh of the [[Broadcast season 4|fourth broadcast season]]. It aired 10 March, 2002 on FOX. [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] is getting desperate for being remembered when he's gone, and a trip to [[Osiris 4]], where he becomes Pharaoh seems to be just the satisfaction he needs.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Fame is mine" ===<br />
[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] is outraged when he robs a swimming pool, an act which should land him on the nightly TV news, but no one realizes it was him, with witnesses mistakenly calling the criminal human. He then makes a variety of attempts to become famous, only to be ignored or ridiculed by witnesses.<br />
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=== Act II: "This is the worst funeral ever" ===<br />
He heads to work, depressed, where the rest of the [[Planet Express]] crew try to cheer him up by throwing him a funeral to show how he'll be remembered. He is highly disappointed by the group's efforts and becomes angered by their idiocy. This is especially true with Dr. [[Zoidberg]], who sings ''Danny Boy'', only to be hit in the head with Bender's martini glass. After the disappointing funeral, Bender storms off, outraged that no one will remember him when he dies. The next day, the crew has to deliver a giant sandstone block to the planet [[Osiris 4]]. After the block is signed for, they are taken as slaves of the [[Pharaoh Hamenthotep]].<br />
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=== Act III: "Quit giving the slave drivers pointers" ===<br />
On the boat to the work site, Bender admires the Pharaohs' tombs and realizes that everyone would remember him if he could have a memorial like them. He begins to give the slave drivers pointers on how to make slaves work harder and faster to get the job done sooner. Hermenthotip arrives and is happy with the work of the slaves and just as he is about to free them he is crushed by his statue's nose and killed. It is announced the pharaoh's succesor will be determined the next day after consulting the [[Wall of Prophecy]]. The slaves all party in their quarters since only that night they're not slaves of anyone. Bender is upset by the death, but changes the Wall of Prophecy to make it look like he is supposed to be the Pharaoh's successor. After a short ceremony to determine the new Pharaoh looking at the wall everyone believes Bender to be the next pharaoh, so he is chosen, despite his crude drawing on the Wall of Prophecy.<br />
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=== Act IV: "Crawl pigs" ===<br />
Bender becomes a crueler pharaoh than Hermenthotip, and makes the slaves work hard to build a much larger statue (1 Billion cubits tall) of him so he will be remembered for all eternity. Bender is unhappy with the statue because it is so big, people will probably remember the statue instead of him. He demands to have it torn down so that the slaves can start over and build a smaller statue. The slave drivers have had enough of Bender's orders and attack him, tying him up like a mummy and throwing him in his tomb, announcing that he suddenly died. He requests his loyal servants to be entombed with him, and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] are thrown in as well.<br />
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=== Act V: "Let's blow this tomb" ===<br />
Bender’s tomb turns out to have a working casino in it, along with an eternity's worth of liquor. Fry and Leela try some pomegranate schnapps and determine it is 100% alcohol. Leela wants to use the explosive alcohol to blow the tomb open and escape, but Bender refuses to allow her. Leela and Fry pretend to forget who Bender is, and he then reluctantly agrees. Moving all the liquor to one wall, Leela uses Bender's wrappings as a makeshift fuse and blow the tomb open. The explosion causes the rest of the statue to fall apart, saddening Bender. Leela tells him that he will still be remembered as a tyrannical ruler, even though there is no monument left. As they return home, Bender mentions that he will try to take over Earth next.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*The non-human people of Osiris 4 are based on various Egyptian gods.<br />
*Fry says, "call it a hunch, but [[starwars:I have a bad feeling about this|I have a bad feeling about this]]!". This is an oft-used phrase in [[starwars:Star Wars|Star Wars]].<br />
*A cubit is eighteen inches, which means one billion cubits is about 457,200 kilometers, about 36 times Earth's diameter, and about 1/3 the diameter of the sun.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Fry''': ''[After Bender having angrily throwen a beer bottle at the TV, breaking it.]'' [annoyed] Hey!? Now what am I supposed to watch and drink all day!?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Danny Boy?! You're at my funeral, singing about some stiff named Danny Boy!? You really are a massive bonehead!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': I'm expressing my sorrow!<br />
'''Bender''': Get lost! I'd say don't quit your day job, but you're awful at that too!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': [furious] I hope you're all happy! You've succeeded in showing me life is worth living... by showing how bad my funeral will suck!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': ''[After Bender having throwen a bouquet and that lands in the Professor's lap.]'' I know whose funeral we'll be attending next.<br />
'''Professor''': [blushing] Oh, stop.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Incredible. This place is just like the Ancient Egypt of my day.<br />
'''High Priest''': That is no coincidence. For our people visited your Egypt thousands of years ago.<br />
'''Fry''': I knew it! Insane theories, one; regular theories, a billion.<br />
'''High Priest''': We learned many things from the mighty Egyptians, such as pyramid-building, space travel and how to prepare our dead so as to scare Abbott and Costello.</poem><br />
<poem>'''High Priest''': Great Wall of Prophecy, reveal to us God's will that we may blindly obey.<br />
'''Priests''': Free us from thought and responsibility.<br />
'''High Priest''': We shall read things off you.<br />
'''Priests''': Then do them.<br />
'''High Priest''': Your words guide us.<br />
'''Priests''': We're dumb.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': News, everyone! Today you're going to Osiris 4 to deliver this enormous sandstone block. ''[He points to a block the size of the ship sitting next to them.]''<br />
'''Fry''': I thought something looked different in here.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': This society is a bunch of idiots!'''</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Allusions =====<br />
Elton John-An Elton John parody sings many of John's songs during the funeral of the Pharoh <br />
Abbott and Costello-Inscribed into the wall and explained when the newly enslaved Leela and Fry are given a tour of the underground<br />
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=== Questions ===<br />
*Who did that?<br />
**Fry did.--><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*The Pharaoh's aide mention that they travelled to Egypt many years ago, but if that is true, how could they have learnt of space travel from them?<br />
**One such answer could be that the Egyptians visited them first, and taught them space travel, so they could visit the Egyptians.<br />
**A more likely answer is that the explanation is merely an allusion to ''Stargate''.<br />
*Before the building is destroyed Sal is wearing a green shirt. Then in the next scene he is wearing his usual white shirt.<br />
*Hamenthotep's organs that are lowered into his tomb included four eyes.<br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
'''Time''': 14:30<br /><br />
'''Location''': On the Wall of Prophecy<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': Rock on! [[Eddie Rosas]]<br />
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=== Prerequisites ===<br />
*{{ep-sgt|"[[A Flight to Remember]]"|A and to Remember are used in the episode title}}<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Australian Guy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Linda]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*'''Debut''': Pharaoh [[Hamenthotep]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Preacherbot]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Mark Ervin]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|name=A Pharaoh to Remember<br />
|no=49<br />
|image=[[File:A Pharoh to Remember.png|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=4<br />
|number=3ACV17<br />
|caption=Psst... big party at your house after the show!<br />
|first aired=10 March, 2002<br />
|written by=Ron Weiner<br />
|directed by=Mark Ervin<br />
|title reference=''{{w|An Affair to Remember}}''<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon="Toys Will Be Toys"<br />
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|broadcast number=S04E07<br />
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"'''A Pharaoh to Remember'''" is the forty-ninth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the seventeenth of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the seventh of the [[Broadcast season 4|fourth broadcast season]]. It aired 10 March, 2002 on FOX. [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] is getting desperate for being remembered when he's gone, and a trip to [[Osiris 4]], where he becomes Pharaoh seems to be just the satisfaction he needs.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Fame is mine" ===<br />
[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] is outraged when he robs a swimming pool, an act which should land him on the nightly TV news, but no one realizes it was him, with witnesses mistakenly calling the criminal human. He then makes a variety of attempts to become famous, only to be ignored or ridiculed by witnesses.<br />
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=== Act II: "This is the worst funeral ever" ===<br />
He heads to work, depressed, where the rest of the [[Planet Express]] crew try to cheer him up by throwing him a funeral to show how he'll be remembered. He is highly disappointed by the group's efforts and becomes angered by their idiocy. This is especially true with Dr. [[Zoidberg]], who sings ''Danny Boy'', only to be hit in the head with Bender's martini glass. After the disappointing funeral, Bender storms off, outraged that no one will remember him when he dies. The next day, the crew has to deliver a giant sandstone block to the planet [[Osiris 4]]. After the block is signed for, they are taken as slaves of the [[Pharaoh Hamenthotep]].<br />
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=== Act III: "Quit giving the slave drivers pointers" ===<br />
On the boat to the work site, Bender admires the Pharaohs' tombs and realizes that everyone would remember him if he could have a memorial like them. He begins to give the slave drivers pointers on how to make slaves work harder and faster to get the job done sooner. Hermenthotip arrives and is happy with the work of the slaves and just as he is about to free them he is crushed by his statue's nose and killed. It is announced the pharaoh's succesor will be determined the next day after consulting the [[Wall of Prophecy]]. The slaves all party in their quarters since only that night they're not slaves of anyone. Bender is upset by the death, but changes the Wall of Prophecy to make it look like he is supposed to be the Pharaoh's successor. After a short ceremony to determine the new Pharaoh looking at the wall everyone believes Bender to be the next pharaoh, so he is chosen, despite his crude drawing on the Wall of Prophecy.<br />
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=== Act IV: "Crawl pigs" ===<br />
Bender becomes a crueler pharaoh than Hermenthotip, and makes the slaves work hard to build a much larger statue (1 Billion cubits tall) of him so he will be remembered for all eternity. Bender is unhappy with the statue because it is so big, people will probably remember the statue instead of him. He demands to have it torn down so that the slaves can start over and build a smaller statue. The slave drivers have had enough of Bender's orders and attack him, tying him up like a mummy and throwing him in his tomb, announcing that he suddenly died. He requests his loyal servants to be entombed with him, and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] are thrown in as well.<br />
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=== Act V: "Let's blow this tomb" ===<br />
Bender’s tomb turns out to have a working casino in it, along with an eternity's worth of liquor. Fry and Leela try some pomegranate schnapps and determine it is 100% alcohol. Leela wants to use the explosive alcohol to blow the tomb open and escape, but Bender refuses to allow her. Leela and Fry pretend to forget who Bender is, and he then reluctantly agrees. Moving all the liquor to one wall, Leela uses Bender's wrappings as a makeshift fuse and blow the tomb open. The explosion causes the rest of the statue to fall apart, saddening Bender. Leela tells him that he will still be remembered as a tyrannical ruler, even though there is no monument left. As they return home, Bender mentions that he will try to take over Earth next.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*The non-human people of Osiris 4 are based on various Egyptian gods.<br />
*Fry says, "call it a hunch, but [[starwars:I have a bad feeling about this|I have a bad feeling about this]]!". This is a well known line in [[starwars:Star Wars|Star Wars]].<br />
*A cubit is eighteen inches, which means one billion cubits is about 457,200 kilometers, about 36 times Earth's diameter, and about 1/3 the diameter of the sun.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': ''[After Bender having angrily throwen a beer bottle at the TV, breaking it.]'' [annoyed] Hey!? Now what am I supposed to watch and drink all day!?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Danny Boy?! You're at my funeral, singing about some stiff named Danny Boy!? You really are a massive bonehead!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': I'm expressing my sorrow!<br />
'''Bender''': Get lost! I'd say don't quit your day job, but you're awful at that too!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': [furious] I hope you're all happy! You've succeeded in showing me life is worth living... by showing how bad my funeral will suck!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': ''[After Bender having throwen a bouquet and that lands in the Professor's lap.]'' I know whose funeral we'll be attending next.<br />
'''Professor''': [blushing] Oh, stop.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Incredible. This place is just like the Ancient Egypt of my day.<br />
'''High Priest''': That is no coincidence. For our people visited your Egypt thousands of years ago.<br />
'''Fry''': I knew it! Insane theories, one; regular theories, a billion.<br />
'''High Priest''': We learned many things from the mighty Egyptians, such as pyramid-building, space travel and how to prepare our dead so as to scare Abbott and Costello.</poem><br />
<poem>'''High Priest''': Great Wall of Prophecy, reveal to us God's will that we may blindly obey.<br />
'''Priests''': Free us from thought and responsibility.<br />
'''High Priest''': We shall read things off you.<br />
'''Priests''': Then do them.<br />
'''High Priest''': Your words guide us.<br />
'''Priests''': We're dumb.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': News, everyone! Today you're going to Osiris 4 to deliver this enormous sandstone block. ''[He points to a block the size of the ship sitting next to them.]''<br />
'''Fry''': I thought something looked different in here.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': This society is a bunch of idiots!'''</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Allusions =====<br />
Elton John-An Elton John parody sings many of John's songs during the funeral of the Pharoh <br />
Abbott and Costello-Inscribed into the wall and explained when the newly enslaved Leela and Fry are given a tour of the underground<br />
<br />
=== Questions ===<br />
*Who did that?<br />
**Fry did.--><br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*The Pharaoh's aide mention that they travelled to Egypt many years ago, but if that is true, how could they have learnt of space travel from them?<br />
**One such answer could be that the Egyptians visited them first, and taught them space travel, so they could visit the Egyptians.<br />
**A more likely answer is that the explanation is merely an allusion to ''Stargate''.<br />
*Before the building is destroyed Sal is wearing a green shirt. Then in the next scene he is wearing his usual white shirt.<br />
*Hamenthotep's organs that are lowered into his tomb included four eyes.<br />
<br />
=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
'''Time''': 14:30<br /><br />
'''Location''': On the Wall of Prophecy<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': Rock on! [[Eddie Rosas]]<br />
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=== Prerequisites ===<br />
*{{ep-sgt|"[[A Flight to Remember]]"|A and to Remember are used in the episode title}}<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Australian Guy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Linda]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*'''Debut''': Pharaoh [[Hamenthotep]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Preacherbot]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Mark Ervin]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|no=36<br />
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|season=3<br />
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|no=36<br />
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|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=3ACV04<br />
|caption=Broadcast simultaneously one year in the future<br />
|first aired=11 March, 2001<br />
|written by=Ron Weiner<br />
|directed by=Chris Loudon<br />
|title reference=The old saying, "The Luck of the Irish"<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=''Boom Boom'' (1936)<br />
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|broadcast number=S03E10<br />
|nomination='''Annie Awards'''<br />Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production, 2001, [[Ron Weiner]] (won)<br />
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"'''The Luck of the Fryrish'''" is the thirty-sixth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fourth of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the tenth of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]]. It aired 11 March, 2001 on FOX. [[Philip J. Fry]] discovers that he is not only person by that name, and suspects his [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|brother]] of stealing his name, but in the end Fry discovers that his brother named [[Philip J. Fry, II|his son]] in Fry's honour.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Get your piping hot horse-burgers!" ===<br />
In [[Old New York]], sometime in the 20<sup>th</sup> century, [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Mrs. Fry]] is in labour. However, her attention seems to be on her portable radio, which is tuned in to a Mets game. [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Yancy Fry, Sr.]] names the child [[Philip J. Fry|Philip]], after those screwdrivers. [[Yancy Fry, Jr.]] is jealous of the name, but his father informs him that he's named after a proud line of Yancy Fry's. Yancy Fry, Sr. leaves the room, and Yancy steals a rocketship from a mobile hung over Philip's crib.<br />
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Back in the year 3000, the crew is attending the horseraces. Fry does horribly with his bets. [[Amy Wong|Amy]] is with her parents in the luxury box, and, in their constant quest for grandchildren, they attempt to set up Amy with their best jockey. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] go to the concession stand for some horse-themed (and horse-derived) food. Meanwhile in the stables, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] is drugging the horses with a hypo-spray. He is interrupted by a jockey, but drugs him as well. Fry prays to the horse-god in hopes of winning the final race, but his horse falls asleep due to Bender's drugging. Fry proclaims that he'll hold on to his last dollar, which then blows away. It lands on a power line, and after Fry is unable to reach it, he tries again with a rake. But lightning strikes the rake and electrocutes him. He seems only slightly hurt, but lightning strikes twice, knocking him from the telephone pole. He lands in a garbage can, and the concession stand cook dumps trash on top of him.<br />
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=== Act II: "Dirt doesn't need luck." ===<br />
In the past, Philip and Yancy are having a one-on-one game of basketball, where Fry is doing poorly. However, when sent to retrieve the ball, he finds a seven-leaf clover. After tucking it into his wristband, he makes an amazing shot and Yancy storms off.<br />
<br />
In the year 3000, Bender counts his winnings from fixing the race, and Fry's head is still smoking from the lightning strike. Fry mentions his clover to the crew, and a wig-robot arrives with Fry's replacement hair. Zoidberg suggests that maybe the clover is still in the place he left it, so Fry plans to enter the ruins of Old New York to look for his clover. He recruits the help of Leela, who he'll need to bend the bars which might be blocking the tunnels. Bender, however, points out that "bending" is his middle name&mdash;Literally. Together, Fry, Leela, and Bender climb down a manhole to the ruins.<br />
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=== Act III: "Stop hogging the clover!" ===<br />
Walking through the ruins of Old New York, Fry does the things he could never do before. Like proclaiming that Howard Stern is overrated, leaving payphones off the hook, and jaywalking. Though this last is foiled by a large lizard trampling Fry.<br />
<br />
In the past, Yancy and Philip are trying out for a breakdancing troupe, who wish to win a competition, which gives parachute pants as a prize. After Philip's tryout, Yancy does the exact same routine, with poorly-disguised names. To show up Yancy, Philip performs the septuple headspin, three more rotations than the previoius record. Yancy then attempts to steal the clover from Philip, but Philip runs home.<br />
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Fry determines to get his clover back, and assumes it might still be at his old house. In the ruins of Old New York, Bender mounts the subway tracks and Fry and Leela hop aboard. They arrive at Newkirk Avenue, a station in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. While walking through Fry's old neighborhood, Fry reminisces about the past, and meets one of his old neighbors. They arrive at Fry's old house, which, although in horrible condition, seems to have survived the alien attacks without damage (or at least, without ''further'' damage).<br />
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=== Act IV: "Allow me!" ===<br />
Philip arrives home with Yancy in hot pursuit. Philip tries telling his mother, but she is, as usual, distracted by sports (this time, golf). Philip goes into the storage room/bomb shelter, where he hides the clover inside the sleeve for the Breakfast Club soundtrack, which is in turn locked into the [[Ronco Record Vault]].<br />
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Fry, Bender, and Leela enter the storage room, and after the lock on the vault proves to be jammed, Bender opens it by oscillating on the structural resonance frequency of the vault. But Fry finds that the clover (as well as whatever else was hidden within the record sleeve) is missing. They leave Fry's house in defeat, but before they can leave the ruins of Old New York, they come upon a statue resembling Yancy, but with an inscription reading "Philip J. Fry"&mdash;and Fry's seven-leaf clover in his lapel. In rage, Fry strikes the statue, injuring his hand (Fry rants "He stole my life...and he broke my hand!", to which Bender quips "His legend lives on!").<br />
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=== Act V: "I should be the one in that grave!" ===<br />
Somehow, they bring the statue back to Planet Express, where they learn about the person immortalized by the statue. A [[Instructional Movies#Fry|video]] on the internet shows Philip J. Fry's life. After a string of good luck, including being the first person on Mars, it is shown that he was buried with the clover, so it could bring him luck in the next life (perhaps, some Egyptians believe). Fry decides they should go to the cemetary and dig up the body to retrieve his clover.<br />
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In the past, Yancy prepares for his wedding, putting on the camouflage tuxedo that his father wore in Vietnam. While looking for music to play at the wedding, Yancy forces the lock on the Ronco Record Vault, and finds the Breakfast Club soundtrack. Inside it, he finds the seven-leaf clover.<br />
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[[File:Philip J. Fry's Grave.jpg|right|thumb|Philip J. Fry, II's grave]]<br />
On the [[Orbiting Meadows|Orbiting Meadows Cemetary]], Fry, Leela, and Bender arrive at the gravesite, and begin digging. While digging, Fry knocks loose a chunk of moss from the tombstone.<br />
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Back in the past, Yancy and his wife are cuddling their newborn child. Yancy pulls the clover out of his pocket and gives it to the child. Yancy names the child [[Philip J. Fry, II|Philip J. Fry]], in honour of his lost brother.<br />
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While Fry is reading the inscription he uncovered (''"Here lies Phillip J. Fry. Named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"''), realising the grave is not his brother's, but his nephew's, Bender strikes the casket and emerges with the clover (and his wedding ring). Leela, however, understands that Fry needs a moment alone, and sets off with Bender. Fry replaces the clover in his nephew's grave.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*After one of the races, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]] tears up his ticket exclaiming "You changed the outcome by measuring it!", a reference to the {{w|Observer effect (physics)|observer effect}}.<br />
*Fry's line, "It's cloverin' time!" is a reference to the Fantastic Four's The Thing, whose catchphrase is "It's klobberin' time!"<br />
*The hypo-spray Bender uses is modeled after the ones on Star Trek.<br />
*The drug Bender uses on the horses is "Comatonin".<br />
*The closeup of the manhole was the logo for the Fox show, "The PJ's", who reciprocated by putting a picture of Fry on a milk carton in their show.<br />
*This episode is noted as a fan favorite because of its dramatic ending.<br />
*This episode is named #9 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p2.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #1 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*The "[[people hose]]" placed duplicates of a character in the stands at the races, but she's probably just a clone, or maybe even a twin.<br />
*When rummaging through Fry's belongings, Yancy pulls a banner out that says "Whitefish". This is a call back to the episode "[[Mars University]]" in season one when Fry states that he is a dropout of Coney Island College and shouts, "Go Whitefish!" "Coney Island whitefish" is slang for publicly-discarded used condoms.<br />
*In "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]", [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Yancy Sr.]] told [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|Yancy Jr]] "your name is Yancy, just like me and my grandfather and so on. All the way back to minuteman Yancy Fry, who blasted commies in the American Revolution." It is believed that Mildred pretended her child was Enos' son and named it after Enos' father due to the difficulties she would otherwise have had in the 1940's as the mother of an illegitimate child.<br />
**"Yancy" was also the middle name of Douglas Yancy Funnie, the eponymous character of the early-1990s Nickelodeon cartoon ''{{w|Doug}}''. Doug was voiced by [[Billy West]]; both West and the guest voice of Yancy Jr., [[Tom Kenny]], voice acted for many 1990s Nickelodeon cartoons.<br />
*While in Old New York, Fry announces "{{w|Howard Stern}} is overrated." [[Billy West]], the voice of Fry, worked on the {{w|The Howard Stern Show|Howard Stern Show}} for many years.<br />
*Fry, Leela, and Bender get off the subway line at the Newkirk Avenue subway station, implying that Fry's 20th century home is in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Old New York.<br />
*The newspaper dispenser Fry stands on has a New York Post reading ''MAYOR PREDICTS VICTORY OVER ALIENS''<br />
*A sign at the horse races in alien code reads "Not Without My Egg Case- Tonight on Lifetime." This is a reference to the Sally Field movie "Not Without My Daughter" which, as a film with a woman struggling to save her daughter and herself, would definitely appear on 'Lifetime, TV for Women.'<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Inscription on tombstone''': Here lies Philip J. Fry. Named for his uncle to carry on his spirit.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': You're twice the ''the'' he ever was!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Dirt doesn't need luck.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Race Track Announcer''': And it's a dead heat! They're checking the electron microscope. And the winner is number 3, in a quantum finish.<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth''': No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it.<br />
'''Leela''': How'd you do, Fry?<br />
'''Fry''': I'll tell you when my horse finishes... Bad.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Mrs. Wong''': We just put our best jockey out to stud, Amy. He's perfect for you! ''[The Jockey walks up to Amy.]''<br />
'''Jockey''': Hey, baby! Ever do it in a suitcase?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Bender, we're going grave robbing.<br />
'''Bender''': I'll get my kit.</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Andy Goldman]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Leo and Inez Wong]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Mrs. Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Noticeably F.A.T.]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Philip J. Fry, II]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy Fry, Jr.]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy Fry, Sr.]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Chris Loudon]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Tom Kenny]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
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"'''The Luck of the Fryrish'''" is the thirty-sixth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fourth of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the tenth of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]]. It aired 11 March, 2001 on FOX. [[Philip J. Fry]] discovers that he is not only person by that name, and suspects his [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|brother]] of stealing his name, but in the end Fry discovers that his brother named [[Philip J. Fry, II|his son]] in Fry's honour.<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Get your piping hot horse-burgers!" ===<br />
In [[Old New York]], sometime in the 20<sup>th</sup> century, [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Mrs. Fry]] is in labour. However, her attention seems to be on her portable radio, which is tuned in to a Mets game. [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Yancy Fry, Sr.]] names the child [[Philip J. Fry|Philip]], after those screwdrivers. [[Yancy Fry, Jr.]] is jealous of the name, but his father informs him that he's named after a proud line of Yancy Fry's. Yancy Fry, Sr. leaves the room, and Yancy steals a rocketship from a mobile hung over Philip's crib.<br />
<br />
Back in the year 3000, the crew is attending the horseraces. Fry does horribly with his bets. [[Amy Wong|Amy]] is with her parents in the luxury box, and, in their constant quest for grandchildren, they attempt to set up Amy with their best jockey. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] go to the concession stand for some horse-themed (and horse-derived) food. Meanwhile in the stables, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] is drugging the horses with a hypo-spray. He is interrupted by a jockey, but drugs him as well. Fry prays to the horse-god in hopes of winning the final race, but his horse falls asleep due to Bender's drugging. Fry proclaims that he'll hold on to his last dollar, which then blows away. It lands on a power line, and after Fry is unable to reach it, he tries again with a rake. But lightning strikes the rake and electrocutes him. He seems only slightly hurt, but lightning strikes twice, knocking him from the telephone pole. He lands in a garbage can, and the concession stand cook dumps trash on top of him.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "Dirt doesn't need luck." ===<br />
In the past, Philip and Yancy are having a one-on-one game of basketball, where Fry is doing poorly. However, when sent to retrieve the ball, he finds a seven-leaf clover. After tucking it into his wristband, he makes an amazing shot and Yancy storms off.<br />
<br />
In the year 3000, Bender counts his winnings from fixing the race, and Fry's head is still smoking from the lightning strike. Fry mentions his clover to the crew, and a wig-robot arrives with Fry's replacement hair. Zoidberg suggests that maybe the clover is still in the place he left it, so Fry plans to enter the ruins of Old New York to look for his clover. He recruits the help of Leela, who he'll need to bend the bars which might be blocking the tunnels. Bender, however, points out that "bending" is his middle name&mdash;Literally. Together, Fry, Leela, and Bender climb down a manhole to the ruins.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "Stop hogging the clover!" ===<br />
Walking through the ruins of Old New York, Fry does the things he could never do before. Like proclaiming that Howard Stern is overrated, leaving payphones off the hook, and jaywalking. Though this last is foiled by a large lizard trampling Fry.<br />
<br />
In the past, Yancy and Philip are trying out for a breakdancing troupe, who wish to win a competition, which gives parachute pants as a prize. After Philip's tryout, Yancy does the exact same routine, with poorly-disguised names. To show up Yancy, Philip performs the septuple headspin, three more rotations than the previoius record. Yancy then attempts to steal the clover from Philip, but Philip runs home.<br />
<br />
Fry determines to get his clover back, and assumes it might still be at his old house. In the ruins of Old New York, Bender mounts the subway tracks and Fry and Leela hop aboard. They arrive at Newkirk Avenue, a station in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. While walking through Fry's old neighborhood, Fry reminisces about the past, and meets one of his old neighbors. They arrive at Fry's old house, which, although in horrible condition, seems to have survived the alien attacks without damage (or at least, without ''further'' damage).<br />
<br />
=== Act IV: "Allow me!" ===<br />
Philip arrives home with Yancy in hot pursuit. Philip tries telling his mother, but she is, as usual, distracted by sports (this time, golf). Philip goes into the storage room/bomb shelter, where he hides the clover inside the sleeve for the Breakfast Club soundtrack, which is in turn locked into the [[Ronco Record Vault]].<br />
<br />
Fry, Bender, and Leela enter the storage room, and after the lock on the vault proves to be jammed, Bender opens it by oscillating on the structural resonance frequency of the vault. But Fry finds that the clover (as well as whatever else was hidden within the record sleeve) is missing. They leave Fry's house in defeat, but before they can leave the ruins of Old New York, they come upon a statue resembling Yancy, but with an inscription reading "Philip J. Fry"&mdash;and Fry's seven-leaf clover in his lapel. In rage, Fry strikes the statue, injuring his hand (Fry rants "He stole my life...and he broke my hand!", to which Bender quips "His legend lives on!").<br />
<br />
=== Act V: "I should be the one in that grave!" ===<br />
Somehow, they bring the statue back to Planet Express, where they learn about the person immortalized by the statue. A [[Instructional Movies#Fry|video]] on the internet shows Philip J. Fry's life. After a string of good luck, including being the first person on Mars, it is shown that he was buried with the clover, so it could bring him luck in the next life (perhaps, some Egyptians believe). Fry decides they should go to the cemetary and dig up the body to retrieve his clover.<br />
<br />
In the past, Yancy prepares for his wedding, putting on the camouflage tuxedo that his father wore in Vietnam. While looking for music to play at the wedding, Yancy forces the lock on the Ronco Record Vault, and finds the Breakfast Club soundtrack. Inside it, he finds the seven-leaf clover.<br />
<br />
[[File:Philip J. Fry's Grave.jpg|right|thumb|Philip J. Fry, II's grave]]<br />
On the [[Orbiting Meadows|Orbiting Meadows Cemetary]], Fry, Leela, and Bender arrive at the gravesite, and begin digging. While digging, Fry knocks loose a chunk of moss from the tombstone.<br />
<br />
Back in the past, Yancy and his wife are cuddling their newborn child. Yancy pulls the clover out of his pocket and gives it to the child. Yancy names the child [[Philip J. Fry, II|Philip J. Fry]], in honour of his lost brother.<br />
<br />
While Fry is reading the inscription he uncovered (''"Here lies Phillip J. Fry. Named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"''), realising the grave is not his brother's, but his nephew's, Bender strikes the casket and emerges with the clover (and his wedding ring). Leela, however, understands that Fry needs a moment alone, and sets off with Bender. Fry replaces the clover in his nephew's grave.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*After one of the races, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]] tears up his ticket exclaiming "You changed the outcome by measuring it!", a reference to the {{w|Observer effect (physics)|observer effect}}.<br />
*Fry's line, "It's cloverin' time!" is a reference to the Fantastic Four's The Thing, whose catchphrase is "It's klobberin' time!"<br />
*The hypo-spray Bender uses is modeled after the ones on Star Trek.<br />
*The drug Bender uses on the horses is "Comatonin".<br />
*The closeup of the manhole was the logo for the Fox show, "The PJ's", who reciprocated by putting a picture of Fry on a milk carton in their show.<br />
*This episode is noted as a fan favorite because of its dramatic ending.<br />
*This episode is named #9 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p2.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #1 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*The "[[people hose]]" placed duplicates of a character in the stands at the races, but she's probably just a clone, or maybe even a twin.<br />
*When rummaging through Fry's belongings, Yancy pulls a banner out that says "Whitefish". This is a call back to the episode "[[Mars University]]" in season one when Fry states that he is a dropout of Coney Island College and shouts, "Go Whitefish!" "Coney Island whitefish" is slang for publicly-discarded used condoms.<br />
*In "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]", [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Yancy Sr.]] told [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|Yancy Jr]] "your name is Yancy, just like me and my grandfather and so on. All the way back to minuteman Yancy Fry, who blasted commies in the American Revolution." It is believed that Mildred pretended her child was Enos' son and named it after Enos' father due to the difficulties she would otherwise have had in the 1940's as the mother of an illegitimate child.<br />
**"Yancy" was also the middle name of Douglas Yancy Funnie, the eponymous character of the early-1990s Nickelodeon cartoon ''{{w|Doug}}''. Doug was voiced by [[Billy West]]; both West and the guest voice of Yancy Jr., [[Tom Kenny]], voice acted for many 1990s Nickelodeon cartoons.<br />
*While in Old New York, Fry announces "{{w|Howard Stern}} is overrated." [[Billy West]], the voice of Fry, worked on the {{w|The Howard Stern Show|Howard Stern Show}} for many years.<br />
*Fry, Leela, and Bender get off the subway line at the Newkirk Avenue subway station, implying that Fry's 20th century home is in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Old New York.<br />
*The newspaper dispenser Fry stands on has a New York Post reading ''MAYOR PREDICTS VICTORY OVER ALIENS''<br />
*A sign at the horse races in alien code reads "Not Without My Egg Case- Tonight on Lifetime." This is a reference to the Sally Field movie "Not Without My Daughter" which, as a film with a woman struggling to save her daughter and herself, would definitely appear on 'Lifetime, TV for Women.'<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Inscription on tombstone''': Here lies Philip J. Fry. Named for his uncle to carry on his spirit.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': You're twice the ''the'' he ever was!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Dirt doesn't need luck.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Race Track Announcer''': And it's a dead heat! They're checking the electron microscope. And the winner is number 3, in a quantum finish.<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth''': No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it.<br />
'''Leela''': How'd you do, Fry?<br />
'''Fry''': I'll tell you when my horse finishes... Bad.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Mrs. Wong''': We just put our best jockey out to stud, Amy. He's perfect for you! ''[The Jockey walks up to Amy.]''<br />
'''Jockey''': Hey, baby! Ever do it in a suitcase?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Bender, we're going grave robbing.<br />
'''Bender''': I'll get my kit.</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Andy Goldman]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Leo and Inez Wong]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Mrs. Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Noticeably F.A.T.]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Philip J. Fry, II]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy Fry, Jr.]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy Fry, Sr.]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Chris Loudon]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Tom Kenny]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|title reference=The old saying, "The Luck of the Irish"<br />
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|opening cartoon=''Boom Boom'' (1936)<br />
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"'''The Luck of the Fryrish'''" is the thirty-sixth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fourth of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the tenth of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]]. It aired 11 March, 2001 on FOX. [[Philip J. Fry]] discovers that he is not only person by that name, and suspects his [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|brother]] of stealing his name, but in the end Fry discovers that his brother named [[Philip J. Fry, II|his son]] in Fry's honour.<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Get your piping hot horse-burgers!" ===<br />
In [[Old New York]], sometime in the 20<sup>th</sup> century, [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Mrs. Fry]] is in labour. However, her attention seems to be on her portable radio, which is tuned in to a Mets game. [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Yancy Fry, Sr.]] names the child [[Philip J. Fry|Philip]], after those screwdrivers. [[Yancy Fry, Jr.]] is jealous of the name, but his father informs him that he's named after a proud line of Yancy Fry's. Yancy Fry, Sr. leaves the room, and Yancy steals a rocketship from a mobile hung over Philip's crib.<br />
<br />
Back in the year 3000, the crew is attending the horseraces. Fry does horribly with his bets. [[Amy Wong|Amy]] is with her parents in the luxury box, and, in their constant quest for grandchildren, they attempt to set up Amy with their best jockey. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] go to the concession stand for some horse-themed (and horse-derived) food. Meanwhile in the stables, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] is drugging the horses with a hypo-spray. He is interrupted by a jockey, but drugs him as well. Fry prays to the horse-god in hopes of winning the final race, but his horse falls asleep due to Bender's drugging. Fry proclaims that he'll hold on to his last dollar, which then blows away. It lands on a power line, and after Fry is unable to reach it, he tries again with a rake. But lightning strikes the rake and electrocutes him. He seems only slightly hurt, but lightning strikes twice, knocking him from the telephone pole. He lands in a garbage can, and the concession stand cook dumps trash on top of him.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "Dirt doesn't need luck." ===<br />
In the past, Philip and Yancy are having a one-on-one game of basketball, where Fry is doing poorly. However, when sent to retrieve the ball, he finds a seven-leaf clover. After tucking it into his wristband, he makes an amazing shot and Yancy storms off.<br />
<br />
In the year 3000, Bender counts his winnings from fixing the race, and Fry's head is still smoking from the lightning strike. Fry mentions his clover to the crew, and a wig-robot arrives with Fry's replacement hair. Zoidberg suggests that maybe the clover is still in the place he left it, so Fry plans to enter the ruins of Old New York to look for his clover. He recruits the help of Leela, who he'll need to bend the bars which might be blocking the tunnels. Bender, however, points out that "bending" is his middle name&mdash;Literally. Together, Fry, Leela, and Bender climb down a manhole to the ruins.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "Stop hogging the clover!" ===<br />
Walking through the ruins of Old New York, Fry does the things he could never do before. Like proclaiming that Howard Stern is overrated, leaving payphones off the hook, and jaywalking. Though this last is foiled by a large lizard trampling Fry.<br />
<br />
In the past, Yancy and Philip are trying out for a breakdancing troupe, who wish to win a competition, which gives parachute pants as a prize. After Philip's tryout, Yancy does the exact same routine, with poorly-disguised names. To show up Yancy, Philip performs the septuple headspin, three more rotations than the previoius record. Yancy then attempts to steal the clover from Philip, but Philip runs home.<br />
<br />
Fry determines to get his clover back, and assumes it might still be at his old house. In the ruins of Old New York, Bender mounts the subway tracks and Fry and Leela hop aboard. They arrive at Newkirk Avenue, a station in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. While walking through Fry's old neighborhood, Fry reminisces about the past, and meets one of his old neighbors. They arrive at Fry's old house, which, although in horrible condition, seems to have survived the alien attacks without damage (or at least, without ''further'' damage).<br />
<br />
=== Act IV: "Allow me!" ===<br />
Philip arrives home with Yancy in hot pursuit. Philip tries telling his mother, but she is, as usual, distracted by sports (this time, golf). Philip goes into the storage room/bomb shelter, where he hides the clover inside the sleeve for the Breakfast Club soundtrack, which is in turn locked into the [[Ronco Record Vault]].<br />
<br />
Fry, Bender, and Leela enter the storage room, and after the lock on the vault proves to be jammed, Bender opens it by oscillating on the structural resonance frequency of the vault. But Fry finds that the clover (as well as whatever else was hidden within the record sleeve) is missing. They leave Fry's house in defeat, but before they can leave the ruins of Old New York, they come upon a statue resembling Yancy, but with an inscription reading "Philip J. Fry"&mdash;and Fry's seven-leaf clover in his lapel. In rage, Fry strikes the statue, injuring his hand (Fry rants "He stole my life...and he broke my hand!", to which Bender quips "His legend lives on!").<br />
<br />
=== Act V: "I should be the one in that grave!" ===<br />
Somehow, they bring the statue back to Planet Express, where they learn about the person immortalized by the statue. A [[Instructional Movies#Fry|video]] on the internet shows Philip J. Fry's life. After a string of good luck, including being the first person on Mars, it is shown that he was buried with the clover, so it could bring him luck in the next life (perhaps, some Egyptians believe). Fry decides they should go to the cemetary and dig up the body to retrieve his clover.<br />
<br />
In the past, Yancy prepares for his wedding, putting on the camouflage tuxedo that his father wore in Vietnam. While looking for music to play at the wedding, Yancy forces the lock on the Ronco Record Vault, and finds the Breakfast Club soundtrack. Inside it, he finds the seven-leaf clover.<br />
<br />
[[File:Philip J. Fry's Grave.jpg|right|thumb|Philip J. Fry, II's grave]]<br />
On the [[Orbiting Meadows|Orbiting Meadows Cemetary]], Fry, Leela, and Bender arrive at the gravesite, and begin digging. While digging, Fry knocks loose a chunk of moss from the tombstone.<br />
<br />
Back in the past, Yancy and his wife are cuddling their newborn child. Yancy pulls the clover out of his pocket and gives it to the child. Yancy names the child [[Philip J. Fry, II|Philip J. Fry]], in honour of his lost brother.<br />
<br />
While Fry is reading the inscription he uncovered (''"Here lies Phillip J. Fry. Named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"''), realising the grave is not his brother's, but his nephew's, Bender strikes the casket and emerges with the clover (and his wedding ring). Leela, however, understands that Fry needs a moment alone, and sets off with Bender. Fry replaces the clover in his nephew's grave.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*After one of the races, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]] tears up his ticket exclaiming "You changed the outcome by measuring it!", a reference to the {{w|Observer effect (physics)|observer effect}}.<br />
*Fry's line, "It's cloverin' time!" is a reference to the Fantastic Four's The Thing, whose catchphrase is "It's klobberin' time!"<br />
*The hypo-spray Bender uses is modeled after the ones on Star Trek.<br />
*The drug Bender uses on the horses is "Comatonin".<br />
*The closeup of the manhole was the logo for the Fox show, "The PJ's", who reciprocated by putting a picture of Fry on a milk carton in their show.<br />
*This episode is noted as a fan favorite because of its dramatic ending.<br />
*This episode is named #9 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p2.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #1 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*The "[[people hose]]" placed duplicates of a character in the stands at the races, but she's probably just a clone, or maybe even a twin.<br />
*When rummaging through Fry's belongings, Yancy pulls a banner out that says "Whitefish". This is a call back to the episode "[[Mars University]]" in season one when Fry states that he is a dropout of Coney Island College and shouts, "Go Whitefish!" "Coney Island whitefish" is slang for publicly-discarded used condoms.<br />
*In "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]", [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Yancy Sr.]] told [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|Yancy Jr]] "your name is Yancy, just like me and my grandfather and so on. All the way back to minuteman Yancy Fry, who blasted commies in the American Revolution." It is believed that Mildred pretended her child was Enos' son and named it after Enos' father due to the difficulties she would otherwise have had in the 1940's as the mother of an illegitimate child.<br />
**"Yancy" was also the middle name of Douglas Yancy Funnie, the eponymous character of the early-1990s Nickelodeon cartoon ''{{w|Doug}}''. Doug was voiced by [[Billy West]]; both West and the guest voice of Yancy Jr., [[Tom Kenny]], voice acted for many 1990s Nickelodeon cartoons.<br />
*While in Old New York, Fry announces "{{w|Howard Stern}} is overrated." [[Billy West]], the voice of Fry, worked on the {{w|The Howard Stern Show|Howard Stern Show}} for many years.<br />
*Fry, Leela, and Bender get off the subway line at the Newkirk Avenue subway station, implying that Fry's 20th century home is in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Old New York.<br />
*The newspaper dispenser Fry stands on has a New York Post reading ''MAYOR PREDICTS VICTORY OVER ALIENS''<br />
*A sign at the horse races in alien code reads "Not Without My Egg Case- Tonight on Lifetime." This is a reference to the Sally Field movie "Not Without My Daughter" which, as a film with a woman struggling to save her daughter and herself, would definitely appear on 'Lifetime, TV for Women.'<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Inscription on tombstone''': Here lies Philip J. Fry. Named for his uncle to carry on his spirit.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': You're twice the ''the'' he ever was!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Dirt doesn't need luck.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Race Track Announcer''': And it's a dead heat! They're checking the electron microscope. And the winner is number 3, in a quantum finish.<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth''': No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it.<br />
'''Leela''': How'd you do, Fry?<br />
'''Fry''': I'll tell you when my horse finishes... Bad.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Mrs. Wong''': We just put our best jockey out to stud, Amy. He's perfect for you! ''[The Jockey walks up to Amy.]''<br />
'''Jockey''': Hey, baby! Ever do it in a suitcase?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Bender, we're going grave robbing.<br />
'''Bender''': I'll get my kit.</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Andy Goldman]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Leo and Inez Wong]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy and Mrs. Fry|Mrs. Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Noticeably F.A.T.]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Philip J. Fry, II]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy Fry, Jr.]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy Fry, Sr.]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
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*Writer<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Chris Loudon]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Tom Kenny]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring sports]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Brittany_Murphy&diff=77380Brittany Murphy2011-01-03T21:21:57Z<p>JediRogue: </p>
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'''Brittany Murphy''' (10 November, 1977 – 20 December, 2009) was a well-known actress and singer who provided the voice of [[Colleen]] in ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]''.<br />
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Prior to this, Murphy provided the singing and speaking voice of Gloria the penguin in ''Happy Feet''. She's also the voice of Luanne in ''King of the Hill''. She's also appeared in such movies as ''Clueless'', ''Uptown Girls, Sidewalks of New York,'' and ''Drop Dead Gorgeous''.<br />
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Sadly, she passed away on 20 December, 2009, in Los Angeles from cardiac arrest. <br />
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== Characters Voiced ==<br />
[[Colleen]]<br />
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[[Category:Voice actors]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=User:JediRogue&diff=77361User:JediRogue2011-01-03T18:48:26Z<p>JediRogue: </p>
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<div>Hi, I'm [[Heather]]. [[File:Futuramapilot.jpg|thumb|Awesome]]<br />
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*I'm from the [[Old New York]] area. <br />
*I have a BS in Computer Science and a Masters in Game Development (yes, my degree is in making video games).<br />
*I know how to use MediaWiki better than most (but not all!) people.<br />
**As far as I know, I'm the only User:JediRogue in the world of wikis so if you see the name, its probably me. <br />
*I had a copy of the originally aired [[Space Pilot 3000]] but I deleted it for the DVD version. This is sad because I already had the DVD version on the DVD. I miss the "JFK Jr. Airport" joke.<br />
*I think Baby Bender is adorable.<br />
*I'm also sad my poster from the Pilot was torn when I took it down so I'm going to need a new one to frame because its stunning and I love movie posters<br />
*I will sign any petition and write letters to keep Futurama on the air if the need arises. <br />
*I usually cry when I watch [[Leela's Homeworld]], [[Jurassic Bark]], and [[Luck of the Fryrish]]<br />
*Favorites:<br />
**[[The Late Philip J. Fry]] was the best of the new episodes.<br />
**[[Bender's Big Score]] was the best movie.<br />
**[[Roswell That Ends Well]] is probably my favorite of the classics.<br />
***And I just noticed that all three are time-travel episodes. Which is funny because I'm picky about time-travel in sci-fi because I think paradoxes that are unacknowledged are sloppy. Futurama just handles them in a funny/clever way.<br />
**[[Fry]] is probably my favorite character because he's living his dream in a sci-fi fantasy.</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Twice_Told_Tales_of_Interest&diff=77291Twice Told Tales of Interest2011-01-03T05:04:43Z<p>JediRogue: /* Characters */ added a location for the guy who is assumed to be agnew in case anyone wants to decide for themselves</p>
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|name=Twice Told Tales of Interest<br />
|image=[[File:Twicetoldtales.JPG|225px]]<br />
|us no=024<br />
|uk no=037, 038<br />
|written by=Ian Boothby<br />
|art A by=James Lloyd<br />
|art B by=Mike Kazaleh<br />
|title caption=No caption on US edition<br />
|caption2=What if you bought this comic?<br />
|caption2region=AU<br />
|us publish=22 March, 2006<br />
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"'''Twice Told Tales of Interest'''" is the twenty-fourth [[comic]] issue and the first [[Anthology of Interest]] comic issue, which was released 22 March, 2006 in the US. <!-- insert brief plot summary here --><br />
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== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I ===<br />
[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] is playing poker at the Planet Express workbench, and since [[Philip J. Fry | Fry]] is asleep, Bender decides to take advantage of him, and soon Fry is broke. [[Turanga Leela | Leela]] confronts Bender and tells him not to take advantage of Fry, so Bender then builds a robot out of the What If? machine so that he can have a poker buddy. Fry wakes up, and unawarely asks a What If? question (What if it was Xmas every day?). The What If? machine reveals his programming which forces him to reveal the answer, and then we are shown what it would be like if it were Xmas every day...[[Richard Nixon's head|Nixon]] makes a deal with [[Robot Santa]] so that he can be head of weapons if it is Xmas every day. Soon, everyone on Earth is enslaved into Santa's army. Leela gets the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] to build a giant Easter Rabbit robot, and soon they (as well as [[Amy Wong|Amy]], thanks to her clumsiness) destroy Santa.<br />
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=== Act II ===<br />
Leela decides to ask the next question, but Bender, being selfish, asks the machine "What if we skip Leela's question?". Fry decides to ask the final question, so he asks "What if life were like a sitcom?". In a parody of "I Dream of Jeannie", Fry discovers a bottle containing a genie named Leela. He takes Leela home, where that night, she goes on a date. Fry doesn't want to be left alone, so he organizes a date with a witch named Amantha (Amy) (a parody of Samantha from "Bewitched"). Amantha and Leela soon have a fight, to which Fry becomes happy, since he's never had two girls fight over him before. Suddenly, the Professor arrives and tells Bender that the What If? machine has been using it's software to cheat at poker, to which Bender says he installed an [[Empathy Chip|empathy chip]] so the robot would feel bad. However, the Professor then goes on to say it was really a self-destruct chip, and instantly the What If? machine blows up. The Professor complains that it'll take a year to rebuild.<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
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*The What If? machine has been seen previously in the Futurama episodes "[[Anthology of Interest I]]" and "[[Anthology of Interest II]]", and in the comic "[[New Year's Rockin' Evil]]"<br />
**The Professor developed three similar machines for "How's about?", "What's the deal with?" and "Who the hell wants to know?" questions.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Aren't you going to end this with a witty remark or hilarious punchline that sums everything up?<br />
'''Bender''': Hmm... [pause] No.</poem><br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*Amantha/Amy drops a 16-ton weight on Leela, a reference to a recurring joke in {{w|Monty Python's Flying Circus}}.<br />
*[[Robot Santa]] says "I'm not fat--I'm big-bolted" a parody of {{w|Eric Cartman}}'s "I'm not fat! I'm big-boned!" from ''{{w|South Park}}''.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*In the Anthology of Interest episodes, the Planet Express crew had to manually turn the machine on after asking each question. In this story, the machine responds as soon as the question is asked. Although this may be due to the machine's robotic status in this comic.<br />
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*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Headless body of Agnew]]<!--I think, page 6--><br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head|Nixon]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Robot Santa Claus|Santa]]<br />
*[[Yancy and Mrs. Fry]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
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== Comic Credits ==<br />
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*Script<br />
**[[Ian Boothby]]<br />
*Pencils<br />
**[[James Lloyd]] and [[Mike Kazaleh]]<br />
*Inks<br />
**[[Andrew Pepoy]] and [[Mike Kazaleh]]<br />
*Colors<br />
**Colorbot 3000<br />
*Letters<br />
**[[Karen Bates]]<br />
*Editor<br />
**[[Bill Morrison]]<br />
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[[Category:Media wherein characters run away]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Bolt_Rolands&diff=77290Bolt Rolands2011-01-03T04:37:43Z<p>JediRogue: /* Appearances */ (running as the Planet Express Ship lands in LA)</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Bolt Rolands<br />
|type=t<br />
|image=[[File:Bolt rolands.png|225px]]<br />
|species=[[Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|voiced by=Phil LaMarr<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV04}}<br />
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'''Bolt Rolands''' is a Hyper-Sled racer who has scored ten wins in the current Pro-Circuit season. Bolt was very interested in [[Leela]] and [[Amy]] introduced them at [[the Hip Joint]], although Leela's feelings were not mutual. [[Bender]] believes him to be gay, though he did not make use of his [[GayDar]].<br />
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He makes an appearance in ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'' as one of [[Colleen]]'s five boyfriends. He also apparently loves porno. He was recently seen at the [[Trevi Fountain]] where he was caught by the giant alien octopus.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Bolt can be seen in ""[[Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]"" running on a treadmill in the front of the gym.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Amy''': Bolt is a hyper-sled racer with ten wins on the pro-circuit.<br />
'''Bolt Rolands''': Hello beautiful.<br />
'''Bender''': I think she means ten wins on the gay-circuit.<br />
'''Bolt''': I wish! Those cats can really fly.</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV04}}<br />
*{{e|2ACV05}}<br />
*{{e|2ACV19}} <br />
*{{e|3ACV14}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV05}}<br />
*{{f|2}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV01}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV03}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV05}}<br />
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[[Category:Humans]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Aki&diff=77289User talk:Aki2011-01-03T02:36:14Z<p>JediRogue: /* Cancellation of Futurama */ new section</p>
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<div>So this is my talk page. Leave a message if you want something.<br />
== Beep ==<br />
I'm not getting good reception on your talk page. Call me back on [[User talk:San Saber|my shellphone]]! (AGAIN.) [[User:San Saber|San Saber]] 23:43, 5 October 2010 (CEST)<br />
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== 13 episodes a season ==<br />
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http://ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=3955<br />
In the eyes of DXC, the 26 ep production season is two 13 ep broadcast seasons. "Season 7" is consists of all 13 episodes from 2010 and "Season 8" is 13 episodes that will be shown in 2011. The DVDs will follow the 2010/2011 divide. As a result I undid your edit to [[Resurrection]]. I hope you understand [[User:Thegreyanomaly|Thegreyanomaly]] 03:44, 6 October 2010 (CEST)<br />
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== ([[The Futurama Holiday Spectacular|6ACV13]]) ==<br />
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Hi, Aki. Just noticed you've been replacing the ([[Episode|Production Code]]) thingies with the "ein" template. I know it's kind of our standard, but it looks terrible, while the other one's actually pretty eye-pleasing... at least, the way I see it. (And that's what we want, right? The readers should be happy with the pages they're reading.) I was wondering if you were gonna start changing articles so they'll all use the template. If so: Please, don't! [[User:San Saber|San Saber]] 01:16, 5 December 2010 (CET)<br />
:As you say it is our standard. If it is bad then the standard must be changed. In my opinion the ein template should continue, but be changed into something more eyepleasing. I'll work on it, and while I do, please don't change any of the templates. [[User:Aki|Aki]] 01:59, 5 December 2010 (CET)<br />
::I've started a discussion on [[template talk:Ein|the template talk page]]. Please join in! [[User:Aki|Aki]] 02:12, 5 December 2010 (CET)<br />
:::Joined in. :) [[User:San Saber|San Saber]] 19:16, 5 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Multiple redirects ==<br />
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You recently created [[2851]] which redirects to [[2850s]] which redirects to [[29th century]] which redirects to [[Timeline]]. Why wouldn't you just redirect 2851 to the section of the timeline you want ([[Timeline#2500 — 2899]], the pound will bring a person to a section of a page)? I don't know if there is a set policy around here (feel free to enlighten me if there is!), but in my experience , double redirects are generally frowned on because they aren't helpful. Redirects will only direct once. Double redirects are always found at [[Special:DoubleRedirects]]. &mdash;'''[[User:JediRogue|Jedi<font color=red>&hearts;</font>Rogue]]''' 02:55, 29 December 2010 (CET)<br />
:I am going to assume it was a casual mistake due to a lot of articles being turned into redirects, so the editor might not have paid attention to that. But you are correct, double redirects are frown upon. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|talk]]</sup> 12:54, 29 December 2010 (CET)<br />
::Svip is correct, it was a mistake. I was editing and decided to redirect it to the articles as they were all ones I plan to create in the close future. Thanks for the notice though. [[User:Aki|Aki]] 20:43, 29 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== FA nominations ==<br />
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Hey, Heyki. I think you might've missed [[Infosphere:Featured article nominations#Sweden|my latest comment on the ''Sweden'' article being featured]]. Here's hoping you'll read it soon. [[User:San Saber|San Saber]] 01:58, 30 December 2010 (CET)<br />
:Hisbri! Yeah, I missed that. I've answered now though. [[User:Aki|Aki]] 21:26, 30 December 2010 (CET)<br />
::No kidding!! [http://www.theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Infosphere:Featured_article_nominations&curid=1748&diff=77097&oldid=77065 So] did I. [[User:San Saber|San Saber]] 01:50, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Cancellation of Futurama]] ==<br />
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You have had the working tag up there for over a week. What are you doing over there? Writing an opus? lol &mdash;'''[[User:JediRogue|Jedi<font color=red>&hearts;</font>Rogue]]''' 03:36, 3 January 2011 (CET)</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Infosphere&diff=77284Infosphere2011-01-03T02:03:34Z<p>JediRogue: /* Trivia */ weird wording anyway</p>
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<div>{{about|the [[Brain Spawn]]'s memory bank|the wiki|The Infosphere (website)}}<br />
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{{item infobox<br />
|name=Infosphere<br />
|image=[[Image:Infosphere.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=<br />
|inventor=[[Brain Spawn]]<br />
|type=Database<br />
|usage=Store all infomation in [[Universe Γ|the Universe]]<br />
|status=In [[pocket dimension]]<br />
|first appear={{e|4ACV10}}<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Infosphere''' is a massive biological memory bank created by the [[Brain Spawn]] to catalogue all the information in [[Universe Γ|the Universe]]. Once it had completed its task, the Universe was to be destroyed so that no new information could be created. However, the Brain Spawn's plan was foiled by [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], who sent the Infosphere into a [[pocket dimension]] using a [[Quantum Interphase Bomb]] created by the [[Nibblonians]] {{et|4ACV10}}.<br />
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== Details ==<br />
It is twice the size of three ordinary memory banks (i.e., six times the capacity of a standard memory bank), and took one thousand years to construct, although the massive brain that makes up its core seems to have been alive since at least the time of the [[dinosaurs]].<br />
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== Image Gallery ==<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Infosphere Scanning.jpg|The Infosphere scans the last few bits of information.<br />
Image:Infosphere Interior.jpg|The interior of the Infosphere.<br />
</gallery><br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*The Infosphere, whose purpose is to store all data in [[Universe Γ|the Universe]], has laid its name for [[The Infosphere (website)|this Wiki itself]], which only seems to care about ''[[Futurama]]'' related stuff.<br />
*The statement 11>4 is seen being stored in the Infosphere, but, since there are an infinite number of numbers, the process to store all of these would take an infinite amount of time.<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|4ACV10}}<br />
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[[Category:Star Wars]]<br />
[[Category:Technology]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=War_between_the_Nibblonians_and_the_brain_spawn&diff=77283War between the Nibblonians and the brain spawn2011-01-03T02:02:41Z<p>JediRogue: </p>
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<div>{{battle infobox<br />
|name=Nibblonian-Brain Spawn War<br />
|image=[[File:Nibblonians eat Brain Spawn.png|225px]]<br />
|date=Beginning milliseconds after the [[Big Bang]], and ending in [[3004]]<br />
|location=Throughout the universe<br />
|result=All Brain Spawn are closed in [[Alternate Universes|a parallel universe]]<br />
|side1=[[Brain Spawn]]<br />
|side2=[[Nibblonians]]<br />
|leaders1=[[Big Brain]]<br />
|leaders2=[[Ken]] & [[Fiona]]<br />
|forces1=Brain Spawn and their [[Mental Realm]]<br />
|forces2=Nibblonians Ships and the [[Quantum Interphase Bomb]]<br />
|casual1=All Brain Spawn trapped in a parallel universe<br />
|casual2=Unknown<br />
|appearance={{e|3ACV07}}<br />
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The '''war between the [[Nibblonians]] and the [[Brain Spawn]]''' was an immense conflict which began milliseconds after the [[Big Bang]] when the Brain Spawn were created. Their only goal was to learn all knowledge of the universe before destroying it, they apparently killed several species, or at least the Dinosaurs. By [[1999]], the Brain Spawn built an immense center of knowledge, the [[Infosphere]]. [[Nibbler]], one of the Nibblonians, asks for a pizza from [[Panucci's Pizza]] as someone called "[[I. C. Wiener]]" so that the only person who can save the universe, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], will go to [[Applied Cryogenics]] for a delivery, and so Nibbler can freeze him for one thousand years in the [[Cryogenic Freezing Chamber|freezing chamber]].<br />
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In [[3002]] the Brain Spawn invaded Earth and made every human stupid with the exception of [[Fry]] who stopped the invasion, and the Nibblonians ate the last brains. <br />
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Later, in [[3004]], the Brain Spawn had nearly finished acquiring the knowledge of universe, but [[Nibbler]] sent Fry to active the [[Quantum Interphase Bomb]] which propels the Infosphere and all Brain Spawn to a [[parallel universe]] where it's impossible to return to our universe.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|3ACV07}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV10}}<br />
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[[Category:Battles]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Forward_time_machine&diff=77282Forward time machine2011-01-03T01:59:11Z<p>JediRogue: /* Trivia */</p>
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|name=Forward time machine<br />
|image=[[File:Forward Time Machine.png|225px]]<br />
|first appear={{e|6ACV07}}<br />
|inventor=[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]<br />
|type=Time machine<br />
|use=Time travel<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Forward time machine''' is a time machine invented by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]. It is able to go forwards in time, but is unable to travel backwards. The Professor, along with [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] were originally supposed to test drive it by going forward one minute into the future. However, they accidentally ended up going forward 6,990 years. They are forced to use the machine to keep on going forward to find a backwards time machine, but ultimately end up at the end of all life.<br />
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The three of them find out that time works like a {{w|Möbius strip}}: when the universe ends, the [[Big Bang]] occurs and an identical universe is created. They use the machine to travel forward to the year [[3010]], but miss it. Finally, after time traveling the entire length of the universe's existence again, the machine makes it "back" to 3010.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Due to a [[time paradox]], there are now [[Time paradox duplicate|two]] Forward time machines in the current universe.<br />
**See also: [[The Late Philip J. Fry#Time travel| a similar take on this (with a picture)]].<br />
*Has enough power to go forward in time to [[the end of the universe]] at least twice.<br />
*Is possibly indestructible, seeing how it survived the destruction of the [[Universe]] and the Big Bang twice.<br />
**The machine travels forward in time in the [[fourth dimension]].<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|6ACV07}}<br />
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[[Category:Farnsworth's creations]]<br />
[[Category:Technology]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Gizmometer&diff=77281Gizmometer2011-01-03T01:57:29Z<p>JediRogue: /* Trivia */</p>
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|image=[[File:Gizmometer.png|225px]]<br />
|name=Gizmometer<br />
|inventor=[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
|first appear={{e|4ACV12}}<br />
|owner=Professor Farnsworth<br />
|use=Scan a person's head<br />
|status=Debatable<br />
}}<br />
The '''Gizmometer''' is a device invented by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]. It is used to scan people's heads easily. The Professor first tries to behead people before using the Gizmometer. It can also be used to determine how royal jelly can affect pieces of DNA. <br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*It was used to examine [[Fry]] after he was brought back in [[Leela]]'s Dream in "The Sting"<br />
*It is unknown whether or not this invention actually exists, as we only see it in Leela's dream.<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|4ACV12}}<br />
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[[Category:Technology]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Professor_Hubert_J._Farnsworth&diff=77280Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth2011-01-03T01:45:55Z<p>JediRogue: /* Creations */</p>
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|name=Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth<br />
|image=[[File:Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth.jpg|225px]]<br />
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|age={{age|2841|4|9}}<br />
|birth date=9 April, 2841<br />
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Professor '''Hubert J. Farnsworth''' is an aged, eccentric inventor, founder and owner of [[Planet Express]] and an honorary [[Globetrotter]]. He is crotchety, absent-minded and sometimes brilliant, most well-known for his work in [[Sport-Utility Robot|30th century robotics]]. In 2999 he was the last known relative of [[Philip J. Fry]], later, Professor Farnsworth discovered that he had fathered a son, as well as the [[Cubert|clone]] that he had kept hidden. In addition, he also serves as a tenured professor at [[Mars University (place)|Mars University]] teaching the Mathematics of Quantum Neutrino Fields. Farnsworth is an inventor of both useful and impractical things, some of which are extremely dangerous devices such as his [[Doomsday devices]].<br />
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Personality wise, he varies from callous disregard to sentimental affection. He has no objection to sending his crew to missions which may eventually mean death to his crew, and has sent previous crews to their deaths before. Farnsworth is the oldest living member of the [[Academy of Inventors]], where he often competes with his arch nemesis, [[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom]].<br />
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== Personality ==<br />
Hubert Farnsworth is a mad scientist, though how extreme this tendency is varies depending on how writers feel best suits the episode. Farnsworth's name comes from {{w|Philo Farnsworth}}, who invented the television. In addition, his first name, Hubert, may come from [[Eric Kaplan]]'s former professor, {{w|Hubert Dreyfus}}. The only thing his name has in common with the name of Philip J. Fry is the unsettled "J." as their middle initial, but this may just be a common joke [[Matt Groening]] sets for his characters.<br />
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Though Proffesor Farnsworth is a genius he is also very senile and sometimes forgets things that had happened only moments earlier. He also has a habit of saying "Good news everyone" which more often than not means bad news. Hubert also often appears indifferent to the wellfare of his crew, often sending them on dangerous missions which could get them killed, though it's highly unlikely that he does this intentionally. He could also sometimes have periods of maniacal laughter. However Farnsworth isn't actually a bad person and appears to share some level of friendship with the other members of Planet Express. He also cares about his clone, Cubert, treating him as though he were his biological son.<br />
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Farnsworth also enjoys public nudity, and may have been convicted. His urge to undress becomes much greater around [[Xmas]].<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
=== Early Life ===<br />
[[File:YoungFarnsworth.png|right|thumb]]<br />
Hubert J. Farnsworth was born on 9 April, {{year|2841}} &ndash; although claimed until {{year|3001}} that it was actually 2851 &ndash; in the nerdiest slum of [[New New York]], [[Hell's Laboratory]]. At age 8, he learnt to read, albeit while still in diapers.<br />
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Hubert enjoyed his teenage years as a nerd with an affection for role-playing games. After 14 years of graduate school, Farnsworth became a scientist and designed such things as [[fast cars]], [[trendy night spots]] and [[beautiful women]], all out of his one-room apartment. Evidence suggests that he may also have been a hippie and a disco boy, possibly during graduate school.<br />
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=== Career path ===<br />
By {{year|2900}} Farnworth had taken a teaching position at [[Mars University (place)|Mars University]] where his most promising student was an up and coming young science undergrad<!--around 20yrs old, probably undergrad then--> named [[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom|Ogden Wernstrom]]. Sadly, the two had a falling out over a pop-quiz score which lead to Wernstrom's hundred year quest for revenge. While retaining a role at the university, Hubert was eventually hired at [[Mom's Friendly Robot Company]], staying there for the next fifty years. During this time his inventiveness lead to the creation of many new products and breakthrough technologies, such as the use of [[Dark Matter]] as fuel, the [[First Robot Capable of Qualifying for a Boat Loan|first robot capable of qualifying for a boat loan]] and a [[Sport-Utility Robot|sport-utility robot]], the design of which would become the basis of all robots running in the early 31st century. It was during this time he also began an [[Mom-Farnsworth relationship|on-again, off-again relationship]] with [[Mom]], the owner of the company, who was having a similar relationship with Wernstrom. By the end of this period, Mom had fallen pregnant with [[Igner|their child]], a secret she would keep from him for many years.<br />
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=== Planet Express ===<br />
After numerous tries with Mom, and with a need for money to fund his research, he founded [[Planet Express]], an interstellar delivery company. Early on, he hired his oldest friend, [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg]] as the company's staff doctor. In addition, he hired [[Hermes Conrad]] as the company's bureaucrat. In {{year|2998}}, [[Amy Wong]] entered the company as an engineering intern, but has since remained in the company for several years. Also in his employ is Scruffy, the company janitor who lives in the basement of Planet Express.<br />
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Farnsworth has had numerous crews, whom he frequently sends to their doom. As a result many have died horribly or gone missing. Shortly after one such instance, late on the [[Space Pilot 3000|31st of December 2999]], he learned that he was not the last surviving member of his family. His long lost and far removed uncle, [[Philip J. Fry]], had just been defrosted. Fry, [[Turanga Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodríguez]] were hired early the next morning and have been his longest surviving crew, who despite 10 years in the company remain alive.<br />
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Farnsworth doesn't always just send his crew on simple delivery missions, but has sent them on charity missions as well as highly controversial missions. Even when his crew and company is unrelated or unsuited to the task, he isn't shy to send them along anyway.<br />
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=== Legacy ===<br />
[[File:A Clone of My Own.jpg|right|thumb]]<br />
As a member of the [[Academy of Inventors]], the Professor has created [[#Creations|many things]]. Often these don't live up to his expectations and are ridiculed by his fellow inventors. Occasionally, however, they can help save the day; the [[Smell-O-Scope]] for instance was laughed at by colleagues and Wernstrom had his revenge by giving it a poor grade, shortly afterward it detected a giant ball of garbage in space that was on a collision course with [[New New York]]. After the Planet Express crew averted the crisis, Wernstrom once more announced a thirst for revenge.<br />
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After his 150th birthday party, Hubert realised that he had no one to continue his work when he is gone. After days hidden in the lab, he emerged announcing that the clone he'd been growing the past twelve years would be his heir. Unfortunately, [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]] did not want to follow in his footsteps. Farnsworth finally decided that his life was over, and revealed his actual age, 160, the age at which [[Sunset Squad Robot]]s would come and take him away to the [[Near Death Star]]. Soon after a rescue by his crew, Cubert finally decided to carry on with Farnsworth's research.<br />
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=== Corporate Takeover ===<br />
After a brief reunion with Mom on [[Mother's Day (holiday)|Mother's Day]] of the previous year, 3002 saw Farnsworth's company taken over twice. On the first occasion, Cubert and Hermes' son [[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]] expanded their paper route to consume Planet Express. Soon after this takeover, [[Awesome Express]] fell apart due to poor management. On the second occasion, a shareholder meeting resulted in a [[Steve Castle|mysterious stranger]] taking over as CEO from Farnsworth. Castle's running of the company was more successful, despite no deliveries being made during this time. Inevitably the company dropped back to it's original poor stock price after the new CEO's death and Farnsworth's reinstatement.<br />
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=== Old Problems ===<br />
When a heatwave hits and the usual method to counteract [[global warming]] fail, the Professor is forced to admit that all modern robots are descended from his designs, which produce lots of pollution. The scientists at the conference plan to destroy the robots is soon thwarted and Hubert received a medal for saving [[Earth|the planet]] and its robots. About a week later after his staff decided that he had become too old, they took him to [[The Bubbling Geezer]] a visit that resulted in everyone becoming younger. The eventual resolution of this situation took them to the [[Fountain of Aging]], where the waters made him "even older" than he had been.<br />
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=== Dark Matters ===<br />
[[File:FarnsworthIgner.png|right|thumb]]<br />
Over the years, Farnsworth's feud with Wernstrom continued to grow, and when an [[anomaly]] forms a short distance from the Earth the pair compete in [[Deathball]] to decide who will investigate. After Farnsworth's investigation proved unsuccessful the pair found themselves united for the first time since the pop quiz as the collaborated in research together, protested and shared a prison cell. But their new found friendship fell apart once more following an inter-universe relationship with [[Yivo]].<br />
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When Mom faked a dark matter shortage in {{year|3008}} in order to increase the price of dark matter worldwide, Farnsworth finally told the tale of how he discovered it, and decided to end it all, so that scientist could spend their time on developing cleaner fuels, such as [[Whale Oil]]. Farnsworth managed to enter Mom's dark matter mine on Alaska, which turned out to be a [[Nibblonian]] farm, where Mom had kept Nibblonians imprisoned for years to produce dark matter. However, with the help of his crew and his long lost son Igner, Farnsworth managed to bring the crystals close enough together to render dark matter useless. After converting to whale oil and receiving a few bribes for scientific endorsements, he joined the rest of the crew on a journey into a wormhole. Although most of the crew were killed as the ship crashed into Earth in early [[3010]], he survives and helps bringing them [[Rebirth|back to life]].<br />
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== Relationships ==<br />
[[File:Farnsworth promo.png|right|thumb|125px|Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]<br />
Farnsworth has at least on 3 accounts went back with [[Farnsworth-Mom relationship|his major love]], [[Mom]]. At around age 90, he worked for [[Mom's Friendly Robot Company]], where he designed robots for the company as well as toys, such as [[Q. T. McWhiskers]], but Mom's suggestion of turning the toy into a giant made Farnsworth leave her, because she simply didn't understand him and from then on [[Mom-Farnsworth conflict|conflict grew between them]].<br />
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He would later return to Mom's company to work on creating actual robots, but back then, robots were stiff moving and not very efficient, however, when he sacrificed fuel efficiency, he succeeded, unfortunately, this robot design also caused [[global warming]]. Why he left Mom this time remains unsettled, but it may be because he once realised she was evil.<br />
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On a third occasion, Farnsworth was once again at the company with Mom, where he discovered the secret of [[Dark Matter]], around the time where [[Walt, Larry and Igner|Mom's sons]] were born. But when he found out she had left him for [[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom]], he left once again.<br />
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While his relationship with Mom has certainly be his largest, it has not been his only one, during a brief period of regaining the appearance of youth using stem cells from [[GeneWorks, S.K.G.]], he found a [[Farnsworth's girlfriend|girl willing to date him]], although she also turned out to have used her tax rebate for a belly ring to make her appear thinner. There was also a breif fling with [[Hattie]] while they were on the [[Titanic]].<br />
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In the episode "[[Proposition Infinity]]", it is shown that the Professor had a 40 year long relationship with a woman whom he met before [[Mom]]. This woman cheated on the Professor with a robot which caused the Professor's hatred towards [[Robosexuality|robossexual]] couples. It was also later revealed that that woman was herself a robot, and her name was [[Unit 47]].<br />
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A creepy utilization of his body occurred in "[[The Prisoner of Benda]]", when he trades bodies with Amy. Amy then proceeds to trade bodies with Leela, causing Fry to himself trade bodies with Dr. Zoidberg. Leela used Farnsworth's body to prove that her relationship with Fry is partially physical. At dinner, Leela (in Farnsworth's Body) is disgusted by Fry (in Zoidberg's body), and vice-versa. When Leela-Farnsworth tells Fry-Zoidberg to prove his love, Fry-Zoidberg passionately kisses Leela-Farnsworth. This eventually leads to Leela-Farnsworth having Intercourse with Fry-Zoidberg. this marks the first known time he physically slept with a male. Mentally, however, Leela was the one who slept with Fry-Zoidberg.<br />
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== [[:Category:Farnsworth's Creations|Creations]] ==<br />
The professor, being a vivid inventor, has created numerous inventions, ranging from very sophisticated to down right crazy.<br />
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Here is a list of the Professor's inventions (in alphabetical order)<br />
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*[[Adolf Hitler Shark]]<br />
*[[Albino Shouting Gorillas]]<br />
*[[Anti-Pressure Pill]]<br />
*[[Atomic Supermen]]<br />
*[[Bacterial Spew Chamber]]<br />
*[[Bad-Ass Gravity Pump]]<br />
*[[Beautiful Women]]<br />
*[[Birthing Machine]]<br />
*[[Clone-O-Mat]] <br />
*[[Colossal Tammy-Tinkle Doll]]<br />
*[[Cool-O-Meter]]<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]], technically<br />
*[[Dark Matter Afterburner]]<br />
*[[Dark Matter Engines]]<br />
*[[Death Clock]]<br />
*[[A Device That Makes Anyone Sound Like Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Doomsday Devices]]<br />
*[[Electronium Hat]]<br />
*[[Electric Frankfurter]]<br />
*[[Empathy Chip]]<br />
*[[Enlarging Ray]]<br />
*[[F-Ray]]<br />
*[[Fast Cars]]<br />
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*[[Fing-Longer]]<br />
*[[The First Robot Capable of Qualifying for a Boat Loan]]<br />
*[[Galactic Terminatrix 3000]]<br />
*[[Gizmometer]]<br />
*[[Killbots]]<br />
*[[Makeup for Dogs]]<br />
*[[Maternifuge]]<br />
*[[Micro-Droid Machine]]<br />
*[[Net Suit]]<br />
*[[Nose Machine]]<br />
*[[Parallel Universe Box]]<br />
*[[Planet Express Ship]]<br />
*[[Pointy Rock Tied to a Stick]]<br />
*[[Q. T. McWhiskers]]<br />
*[[Reanimator]]<br />
*[[Relative Box]]<br />
*[[Robots]]<br />
*[[Smell-O-Scope]]<br />
*[[Sport-Utility Robot]]<br />
*[[Trendy Night Spots]]<br />
*[[Universal Translator]]<br />
*[[What-If Machine]]<br />
*[[Who-Ask Machine]]<br />
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== Family ==<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], Farnsworth's many-times-great-uncle and at the same time many-times-grand-father.<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]], Farnsworth's clone/son.<br />
*[[Igner]], Farnsworth's son.<br />
*A grandmother who keeps / kept cranberry raisin typhoon in jars.<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry, II]], distant grandfather<br />
*[[Yancy Fry, Jr.]], distant grandfather<br />
*[[Yancy and Mrs. Fry]], distant grandparents<br />
*[[Mildred Fry]], distant grandmother<br />
*[[Yivo]], ex-spouse.<br />
[[File:Professor's eyes.JPG|right|thumb|Professor Farnsworth's eyes]]<br />
[[File:Farnsworth's Reading Glasses.jpg|right|thumb|Professor's reading glasses]]<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*He was named "Farnsworth" in honor of Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of modern television, which was unveiled to America at the same World's Fair as the Futurama exhibit that the show is named for.<br />
*Throughout the series, we are never shown the professor's eyes, until the comic "[[Downsized!]]". This may or may not have been authorized by [[Matt Groening]].<br />
*Has the same blood type as [[Amy Wong]]. He has stated that is one of the reasons why he likes "keeping her around" ([[The Series Has Landed|1ACV02]]).<br />
*His bank account number is 299792458, which is the speed of light in meters per second.<br />
*Became a wizard (quite possibly a parody of {{w|Gandalf}}) in {{f|3}}.<br />
*A certain running gag with the writers is to drop hints in the show that the professor is a cannibal of sorts.<br />
*Also known as the ''Catman'', due to his ability to land on his feet after falling great distances. However, it has apparently been so long since the last time he used this ability that even the Professor himself has forgotten why they called him the Catman.<br />
*Has a "Thug Life" tattoo on his back.<br />
*His driving position is up against the windscreen of the ship, a parody of the stereotypes of elderly drivers.<br />
*Like his extremely distant relative Fry, he had orange hair when he was younger.<br />
*At the start of the series his voice was nearly identical to Fry's, only slightly deeper and much older-sounding. As time went on however, the Professor's voice became much more distinct from Fry's, partly due to concerns by the creators that viewers with poor or no eyesight would find it hard to distinguish between the two.<br />
*Is the probably oldest living human on [[Earth]], excluding the [[heads in jars]] and peoples who were cryogenically frozen, because of his escape from the [[Near Death Star]].<br />
*Occasional references to cannibalism.<br />
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=== Catchphrase ===<br />
Originally, the professor's catchphrase was going to be "...though [[I am already in my pajamas]]." This was only used in [[Space Pilot 3000|the first]] and [[The Series Has Landed|second]] episodes.<br />
<br/> The professor's basic catchphrase is "[[Good news, everyone]]!" The phrase is used so frequently that it was already possible to joke about it in the [[My Three Suns|seventh episode]].<br /><br />
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He also occasionally refers to "[[Zombie Jesus]]" either by saying "Sweet Zombie Jesus" or "Holy Zombie Jesus".<br />
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When he is spoken to or asked a question, he also commonly says "Eh-wha?" This is used often to emphasize his senility and hearing loss. <br />
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Occasionally, he will say something along the lines of "What in ________ happened?!" For instance, "What in Sega Genesis happened to you?!" or "What in Satan's glorious name is going on here?!"<br />
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Another "catchphrase" used by the Professor is "Oh My..."<br />
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The last catchphrase used by the Professor is "Wernstrom!"<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Why bother remembering anything? You're just going to forget it five minutes later.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': And so we say goodbye to our beloved pet, Nibbler, who's gone to a place where I, too, hope one day to go. The toilet.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Sweet zombie Jesus!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oh Lordy Lou, HELP! Buddha! Zeus! God! One of you guys, do something! Help! Satan, you owe me!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Yes, it's the Apocalypse alright. I always knew I'd have a hand in it.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Dear God, they'll be killed on our doorstep! And there's no trash pickup until 3 January!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Good news, everyone! I've taught the toaster to feel love!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Good news, everyone! There's a report on TV with some very bad news!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Goodbye, cruel world. Goodbye, cruel lamp. Goodbye, cruel velvet drapes, lined with what would appear to be some sort of cruel muslin and the cute little pom-pom curtain pull cords. Cruel though they may be...</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oh dear! She's stuck in an infinite loop, and he's an idiot! Well, that's love for you.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oh, how awful. Did he at least die painlessly? ...To shreds, you say. Well, how is his wife holding up? ...To shreds, you say!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': ''[About altering the timeline.]'' And remember, don't do anything that affects anything, unless it turns out you were supposed to, in which case, for the love of God, don't not do it!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oh, I don't have time for this. I have to go and buy a single piece of fruit with a coupon and then return it, making people wait behind me while I complain.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Ah, yes! John Quincy Adding Machine. He struck a chord with the voters when he pledged not to go on a killing spree.<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth''': But, like most politicians, he promised more than he could deliver.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Anyhoo, your net-suits will allow you to experience Fry's worm infested bowels as if you were actually wriggling through them.<br />
'''Dr. Zoidberg''': There's no part of that sentence I didn't like!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Hubert Farnsworth''': Who are those horrible orange creatures over there?<br />
'''Glurmo''': Why, those are the Grunka-Lunkas. They work here in the Slurm factory.<br />
'''Professor Hubert Farnsworth''': Tell them I hate them.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Richard Nixon's Head''': Good evening, ignorant pigs. Put down your crack pipes and your beer bongs and pay attention, as I sign a historic peace accord with ambassador Kong of planet [[Nintendu 64]].<br />
'''Fry''': Wait a second, I know that monkey, his name is Donkey!<br />
'''Professor Hubert Farnsworth''': Monkey's aren't donkeys, quit messing with my head!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Colleen''': Have you seen how much cotton candy he can eat?<br />
'''Professor Hubert Farnsworth''': Oh, my, yes. 5.1 pounds. That's why his blood is so good on pancakes.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Belay that Parcheesi tournament!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oh, and if you kill anyone, make sure to eat their heart to gain their courage, their rich, tasty courage. *smacks lips*</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Well, it doesn't look like I'll make it inside with the rest of you but good luck. Just leave me where I drop.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': I know a paradox when I see one!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': The easy part was getting the brain out. The hard part was getting the brain out. [insane cackling]</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Remember, Professor, Bender is Santa. So we don't need to hurt him, right?<br />
'''Farnsworth''': Yes, yes, yes. You sound like a broken MP3! ''[Bender lands in the fireplace...]''<br />
'''Bender''': Ho, ho- ''[...and gets shot by the Professor.]''<br />
'''Bender''': Ow!<br />
'''Leela''': Professor! Don't you remember what I told you?!<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth''': No!!!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Damn it Mom! No one kills my crew except for me! You're going down.<br />
'''Mom''': Oh please! You wouldn't hit a lady!<br />
'''Professor''': I suppose you're right. Though I would do this! Hoyyaa! ''[He punches her.]''<br />
'''Mom''': You broke my hip!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth A''': Astonishing! I must have created a parallel universe.<br />
'''Farnsworth 1''': Baldercrap! I created ''your'' universe. All you created was my fist parallel to your face.</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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While Professor Farnsworth appears in most episodes, films and comics, with the exception of "[[The Why of Fry]]" and "[[Where No Fan Has Gone Before]]", these categories may be of interest:<br />
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*[[:Category:A plots focusing on Professor Farnsworth|A plots focusing on Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[:Category:B plots focusing on Professor Farnsworth|B plots focusing on Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
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[[Category:Doctors]]<br />
[[Category:Globetrotters]]<br />
[[Category:Humans]]<br />
[[Category:Planet Express]]<br />
[[Category:Scientists]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Twice_Told_Tales_of_Interest&diff=77279Twice Told Tales of Interest2011-01-03T01:00:29Z<p>JediRogue: /* Allusions */ surprised that quote is originally from south park but the internet seems to agree</p>
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|name=Twice Told Tales of Interest<br />
|image=[[File:Twicetoldtales.JPG|225px]]<br />
|us no=024<br />
|uk no=037, 038<br />
|written by=Ian Boothby<br />
|art A by=James Lloyd<br />
|art B by=Mike Kazaleh<br />
|title caption=No caption on US edition<br />
|caption2=What if you bought this comic?<br />
|caption2region=AU<br />
|us publish=22 March, 2006<br />
|paperback=<br />
|prev=The A-Team<br />
|next=Robot Robin Hood<br />
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"'''Twice Told Tales of Interest'''" is the twenty-fourth [[comic]] issue and the first [[Anthology of Interest]] comic issue, which was released 22 March, 2006 in the US. <!-- insert brief plot summary here --><br />
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== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I ===<br />
[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] is playing poker at the Planet Express workbench, and since [[Philip J. Fry | Fry]] is asleep, Bender decides to take advantage of him, and soon Fry is broke. [[Turanga Leela | Leela]] confronts Bender and tells him not to take advantage of Fry, so Bender then builds a robot out of the What If? machine so that he can have a poker buddy. Fry wakes up, and unawarely asks a What If? question (What if it was Xmas every day?). The What If? machine reveals his programming which forces him to reveal the answer, and then we are shown what it would be like if it were Xmas every day...[[Richard Nixon's head|Nixon]] makes a deal with [[Robot Santa]] so that he can be head of weapons if it is Xmas every day. Soon, everyone on Earth is enslaved into Santa's army. Leela gets the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] to build a giant Easter Rabbit robot, and soon they (as well as [[Amy Wong|Amy]], thanks to her clumsiness) destroy Santa.<br />
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=== Act II ===<br />
Leela decides to ask the next question, but Bender, being selfish, asks the machine "What if we skip Leela's question?". Fry decides to ask the final question, so he asks "What if life were like a sitcom?". In a parody of "I Dream of Jeannie", Fry discovers a bottle containing a genie named Leela. He takes Leela home, where that night, she goes on a date. Fry doesn't want to be left alone, so he organizes a date with a witch named Amantha (Amy) (a parody of Samantha from "Bewitched"). Amantha and Leela soon have a fight, to which Fry becomes happy, since he's never had two girls fight over him before. Suddenly, the Professor arrives and tells Bender that the What If? machine has been using it's software to cheat at poker, to which Bender says he installed an [[Empathy Chip|empathy chip]] so the robot would feel bad. However, the Professor then goes on to say it was really a self-destruct chip, and instantly the What If? machine blows up. The Professor complains that it'll take a year to rebuild.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
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*The What If? machine has been seen previously in the Futurama episodes "[[Anthology of Interest I]]" and "[[Anthology of Interest II]]", and in the comic "[[New Year's Rockin' Evil]]"<br />
**The Professor developed three similar machines for "How's about?", "What's the deal with?" and "Who the hell wants to know?" questions.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Fry''': Aren't you going to end this with a witty remark or hilarious punchline that sums everything up?<br />
'''Bender''': Hmm... [pause] No.</poem><br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*Amantha/Amy drops a 16-ton weight on Leela, a reference to a recurring joke in {{w|Monty Python's Flying Circus}}.<br />
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|name=Waltazar, Larius and Ignus<br />
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|family=Momon, [[The Great Wizard Greyfarn]]<br />
|first appear={{f|3}}<br />
|voice A=Waltazar<br />
|voice B=Larius<br />
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'''[[Waltazar]], [[Larius]] and [[Ignus]]''' are three demon versions of brothers [[Walt, Larry and Igner]]. They live in [[Cornwood]] with their mother [[Momon]].<br />
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=== Waltazar ===<br />
He is a demon version of Mom's oldest son, Walt; he is the leader of the three. He is usually the first to get angry at his siblings and slap them, he also has the largest horns because he is the eldest of the three.<br />
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=== Larius ===<br />
He is a demon version of Mom's middle son, Larry; he is the second-in-command. He is relatively competent and is usually the one to stick up for his younger brother Ignus, however at the same time be the one to slap him the most.<br />
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=== Ignus ===<br />
He is a demon version of the youngest of Mom's sons, Igner. He is highly incompetent but is apparently skilled at duelling. He overheard Momon telling his brothers a terrible secret about him, and later tried to help the [[Fellowship]] to defeat her, but failed, when he aggravated Greyfarn by calling a magic arachnid a magic bug. The two had a duel which ended when Ignus revealed that he is [[Great Wizard Greyfarn|Greyfarn]]'s son. He also has the shortest horns.<br />
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* They are a parody of The Black Riders, or Nazgûl.<br />
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* {{f|3}}</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:%22Fishy%22_Joseph_Gilman&diff=77277Talk:"Fishy" Joseph Gilman2011-01-03T00:42:21Z<p>JediRogue: /* Lovecraft "reference" a coincidence. */ new section</p>
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<div>== Hmm ==<br />
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You know, I just thought of something: He isn't known as "Fishy" alone, nor as "Fishy Joseph", so shouldn't the title technically be "Joseph "Fishy Joe" Gilman"? The quote nesting is a little weird, but you get it, right? --[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 18:37, 24 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
:Interesting. That would make more sense. If his name is Joseph we should go with that ''then'' his nickname. Good thinking. Chris of the Futurama 20:15, 24 December 2008 (UTC) <!--What is wrong with my freaking tidles!?--><br />
:Agreed, it is commonly that the nicknames are between your first name and surname. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|Talk]]</sup> 23:08, 24 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
::Probably would be better, but Linda says "We have with us the CEO of Fishy Joe's, Mr. "Fishy" Joseph Gilman." - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 07:41, 25 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Lovecraft "reference" a coincidence. ==<br />
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In the commentary they say that the name is merely from the fact that fish have gills. That seems to say that it is '''not''' a Lovecraft reference. To suggest that it might be a reference to that implies that we have some reason to draw the connection. What we have instead is a coincidence not a reference. And there are plenty of coincidences that we could point out. But at what point do we go from having a factual collection of information about Futurama to every little tidbit that may or may not be related to the show? <br />
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I've seen it on other wikis: the temptation to document a connect you made regardless of any actual connection. And in some wikis, it may be agreed that it will be accepted when we don't know the answer to suggest any ideas that come to mind on the article page as opposed to the discussion page. But are we still to do it when we ''know'' what the reference is? <br />
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In the commentary for [[The Problem with Popplers]], there was a discussion as to the origins of Fishy Joe's name. [[Patric M. Verrone]] admitted that he couldn't recall where the name Fishy Joe came from but stated "I do remember naming him Joe ''Gilman'' because gills; fish have gills and he's a man. So he's a gill man." So unless you want to argue that they were kidding around, I'd say that stating that its a reference to anything else is just wrong. Suggestions like that are best moved to the talk page where discussing interesting coincidences can go on to the writers' content. &mdash;'''[[User:JediRogue|Jedi<font color=red>&hearts;</font>Rogue]]''' 01:42, 3 January 2011 (CET)</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Frank_Welker&diff=77261Frank Welker2011-01-02T23:13:08Z<p>JediRogue: still not sure i follow the logic on these sections.</p>
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|surname = Welker<br />
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|birth date = 12 March, 1946<br />
|wikipedia = Frank Welker<br />
|imdb = nm0919798<br />
|voice category = Frank Welker<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
'''Frank Welker''' is known on [[Futurama]] primarily for providing both the animalistic and speaking voices of [[Nibbler]]. He is famous as a voice actor for his ability to imitate (or invent) nearly every animal sound imaginable. His longest running role is that of Freddy from the Scooby-Doo show, which he has played in most versions and even parodies and cameos. He also played some characters from "Animaniacs". Both [[Billy West]] and [[John DiMaggio]] have referred to him as a "voice acting god" in the commentaries.<br />
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He has done over 1,200 voices during his career. He has provided voices for 8 of the original 14 Decepticons in The Transformers, including Megatron and Soundwave, {{sw|Jorak Uln}}, {{sw|Sunry}}, {{sw|Gar (Dantooine)|Gar}}, Swoop Fan & Additional Voices in ''[[Star Wars]]{{sw|Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic|: Knights of the Old Republic}}'', Outpost commander in {{sw|Star Wars: The Clone Wars (video game)|''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' (video game)}} and {{sw|Pekt}}, {{sw|Sith Master}} & {{sw|Utric Sandov}} in ''{{sw|Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds}}''.<br />
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In "[[Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences]]", he has a cameo as [[Frank Welker's head|his head in a jar]] in the [[Head Museum]].<br />
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=== Major Characters ===<br />
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*[[Seymour Asses]]<br />
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*All cat's meows in "[[That Darn Katz!]]"<br />
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[[Category:Voice actors|Welker, Frank]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Frank_Welker&diff=77260Frank Welker2011-01-02T23:11:53Z<p>JediRogue: kind of confusing how recurring is one episode here... el chupanibre is only like one scene</p>
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|surname = Welker<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
'''Frank Welker''' is known on [[Futurama]] primarily for providing both the animalistic and speaking voices of [[Nibbler]]. He is famous as a voice actor for his ability to imitate (or invent) nearly every animal sound imaginable. His longest running role is that of Freddy from the Scooby-Doo show, which he has played in most versions and even parodies and cameos. He also played some characters from "Animaniacs". Both [[Billy West]] and [[John DiMaggio]] have referred to him as a "voice acting god" in the commentaries.<br />
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He has done over 1,200 voices during his career. He has provided voices for 8 of the original 14 Decepticons in The Transformers, including Megatron and Soundwave, {{sw|Jorak Uln}}, {{sw|Sunry}}, {{sw|Gar (Dantooine)|Gar}}, Swoop Fan & Additional Voices in ''[[Star Wars]]{{sw|Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic|: Knights of the Old Republic}}'', Outpost commander in {{sw|Star Wars: The Clone Wars (video game)|''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' (video game)}} and {{sw|Pekt}}, {{sw|Sith Master}} & {{sw|Utric Sandov}} in ''{{sw|Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds}}''.<br />
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In "[[Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences]]", he has a cameo as [[Frank Welker's head|his head in a jar]] in the [[Head Museum]].<br />
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=== Major Characters ===<br />
*[[Nibbler]] (animal and speaking voice)<br />
*[[Seymour Asses]]<br />
*[[Fleb]]<br />
*[[Thubanian leader]] (meows)<br />
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*All cat's meows in "[[That Darn Katz!]]"<br />
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[[Category:Voice actors|Welker, Frank]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Dinosaurs_Extinction&diff=77255Dinosaurs Extinction2011-01-02T22:40:51Z<p>JediRogue: clean up double redirect</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Dinosaur extinction]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=%22Fishy%22_Joseph_Gilman&diff=77254"Fishy" Joseph Gilman2011-01-02T22:31:57Z<p>JediRogue: /* Trivia */ I can do this!</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|type=s<br />
|name="Fishy" Joseph Gilman<br />
|catname=Fishy Joe<br />
|image=[[File:Fishy Joe.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=Fishy Joe in [[3010#August|August of 3010]].<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|species=[[Humans|Human]]<br />
|origin=Probably [[Earth]], [[United States of America|USA]], [[New New York]]<br />
|first appear={{e|2ACV15}}<br />
|voiced by=Maurice LaMarche<br />
}}<br />
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'''Joseph Gilman''', also known as '''Fishy Joe''', is the owner of various restaurant chains, such as [[Fishy Joe's]] fast food franchise and [[Family Bros. Pizza]]. He is also the leader of [[Circus Roboticus]]. Gilman mostly sells any kind of animal at his restaurants as long as it tastes well, and will buy any kind of products if it is popular. He doesn't care about the environment and, as a result, is hated by [[Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment|MEAT]].<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
He can be blamed for the [[Second Omicronian Invasion of Earth]] as he was the one selling [[Popplers]] (at [[Fishy Joe's]]) in the first place {{et|2ACV15}}, bought the [[Family Bros. Pizza]] franchise for $100,000 because of its biggest seller, ''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]'s Bean Pizza'', which consists of six kinds of beans, plus several things that look like beans {{et|3ACV16}}, unintentionally mated with [[Yivo|a planet-sized monster]] ([[The Beast with a Billion Backs|TBWABB]]), attended the [[Violet Dwarf Star Implosion]] ceremony ([[Into the Wild Green Yonder|ITWGY]]), was seen in a recorded video shown in the [[V-GINY]] {{et|6ACV02}}, and hired [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Nonchalanto]] and [[Robot Clowns]] to work in [[Circus Roboticus]] {{et|6ACV10}}.<br />
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== Image Gallery ==<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Fishyjoe.png|Fishy Joe in [[3002#May|May of 3002]].<br />
Image:Billboard Crash.jpg|Gilman on a billboard.<br />
</gallery><br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*In the commentary for ''[[The Problem with Popplers]]'' its stated that his last name is simply because "fish have gills".<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fishy Joe''': If these [[Popplers|guttermouth creatures]] are so smart why don't they defend themselves?</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV15}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV16}}<br />
*{{f|2}}<br />
*{{f|4}} (in [[Audience scene|audience]])<br />
*{{e|6ACV02}} (in the [[V-GINY]])<br />
*{{e|6ACV10}}<br />
*{{clink|US#034|Planet Michelle}}<br />
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[[Category:Humans]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=%22Fishy%22_Joseph_Gilman&diff=77253"Fishy" Joseph Gilman2011-01-02T22:31:32Z<p>JediRogue: /* Trivia */</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|type=s<br />
|name="Fishy" Joseph Gilman<br />
|catname=Fishy Joe<br />
|image=[[File:Fishy Joe.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=Fishy Joe in [[3010#August|August of 3010]].<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|species=[[Humans|Human]]<br />
|origin=Probably [[Earth]], [[United States of America|USA]], [[New New York]]<br />
|first appear={{e|2ACV15}}<br />
|voiced by=Maurice LaMarche<br />
}}<br />
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'''Joseph Gilman''', also known as '''Fishy Joe''', is the owner of various restaurant chains, such as [[Fishy Joe's]] fast food franchise and [[Family Bros. Pizza]]. He is also the leader of [[Circus Roboticus]]. Gilman mostly sells any kind of animal at his restaurants as long as it tastes well, and will buy any kind of products if it is popular. He doesn't care about the environment and, as a result, is hated by [[Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment|MEAT]].<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
He can be blamed for the [[Second Omicronian Invasion of Earth]] as he was the one selling [[Popplers]] (at [[Fishy Joe's]]) in the first place {{et|2ACV15}}, bought the [[Family Bros. Pizza]] franchise for $100,000 because of its biggest seller, ''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]'s Bean Pizza'', which consists of six kinds of beans, plus several things that look like beans {{et|3ACV16}}, unintentionally mated with [[Yivo|a planet-sized monster]] ([[The Beast with a Billion Backs|TBWABB]]), attended the [[Violet Dwarf Star Implosion]] ceremony ([[Into the Wild Green Yonder|ITWGY]]), was seen in a recorded video shown in the [[V-GINY]] {{et|6ACV02}}, and hired [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Nonchalanto]] and [[Robot Clowns]] to work in [[Circus Roboticus]] {{et|6ACV10}}.<br />
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== Image Gallery ==<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Fishyjoe.png|Fishy Joe in [[3002#May|May of 3002]].<br />
Image:Billboard Crash.jpg|Gilman on a billboard.<br />
</gallery><br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*In the commentary for ''[[The Problem with Popplars]]'' its stated that his last name is simply because "fish have gills".<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fishy Joe''': If these [[Popplers|guttermouth creatures]] are so smart why don't they defend themselves?</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV15}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV16}}<br />
*{{f|2}}<br />
*{{f|4}} (in [[Audience scene|audience]])<br />
*{{e|6ACV02}} (in the [[V-GINY]])<br />
*{{e|6ACV10}}<br />
*{{clink|US#034|Planet Michelle}}<br />
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[[Category:Humans]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=%22Fishy%22_Joseph_Gilman&diff=77252"Fishy" Joseph Gilman2011-01-02T22:31:15Z<p>JediRogue: /* Trivia */ no need to ascribe a complex explanation to something we have a simple explanation for.</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|type=s<br />
|name="Fishy" Joseph Gilman<br />
|catname=Fishy Joe<br />
|image=[[File:Fishy Joe.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=Fishy Joe in [[3010#August|August of 3010]].<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|species=[[Humans|Human]]<br />
|origin=Probably [[Earth]], [[United States of America|USA]], [[New New York]]<br />
|first appear={{e|2ACV15}}<br />
|voiced by=Maurice LaMarche<br />
}}<br />
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'''Joseph Gilman''', also known as '''Fishy Joe''', is the owner of various restaurant chains, such as [[Fishy Joe's]] fast food franchise and [[Family Bros. Pizza]]. He is also the leader of [[Circus Roboticus]]. Gilman mostly sells any kind of animal at his restaurants as long as it tastes well, and will buy any kind of products if it is popular. He doesn't care about the environment and, as a result, is hated by [[Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment|MEAT]].<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
He can be blamed for the [[Second Omicronian Invasion of Earth]] as he was the one selling [[Popplers]] (at [[Fishy Joe's]]) in the first place {{et|2ACV15}}, bought the [[Family Bros. Pizza]] franchise for $100,000 because of its biggest seller, ''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]'s Bean Pizza'', which consists of six kinds of beans, plus several things that look like beans {{et|3ACV16}}, unintentionally mated with [[Yivo|a planet-sized monster]] ([[The Beast with a Billion Backs|TBWABB]]), attended the [[Violet Dwarf Star Implosion]] ceremony ([[Into the Wild Green Yonder|ITWGY]]), was seen in a recorded video shown in the [[V-GINY]] {{et|6ACV02}}, and hired [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Nonchalanto]] and [[Robot Clowns]] to work in [[Circus Roboticus]] {{et|6ACV10}}.<br />
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== Image Gallery ==<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Fishyjoe.png|Fishy Joe in [[3002#May|May of 3002]].<br />
Image:Billboard Crash.jpg|Gilman on a billboard.<br />
</gallery><br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*In the commentary for ''[[The Problem with Poplars]]'' its stated that his last name is simply because "fish have gills".<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fishy Joe''': If these [[Popplers|guttermouth creatures]] are so smart why don't they defend themselves?</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV15}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV16}}<br />
*{{f|2}}<br />
*{{f|4}} (in [[Audience scene|audience]])<br />
*{{e|6ACV02}} (in the [[V-GINY]])<br />
*{{e|6ACV10}}<br />
*{{clink|US#034|Planet Michelle}}<br />
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[[Category:Humans]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=How_Hermes_Requisitioned_His_Groove_Back&diff=77251How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back2011-01-02T21:34:23Z<p>JediRogue: </p>
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|name=How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back<br />
|no=24<br />
|image=[[File:How Hermes Requisitioned his Groove Back.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=2<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=2ACV11<br />
|caption=As foretold by Nostradamus<br />
|first aired=2 April, 2000<br />
|written by=Bill Odenkirk<br />
|directed by=Mark Ervin<br />
|title reference="{{w|How Stella Got Her Groove Back}}"<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=''Felix the Cat Trifles with Time'' (1925)<br />
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|broadcast number=S02E14<br />
|special guest=[[Nora Dunn]]<br />
|prev ep=A Clone of My Own<br />
|next ep=The Deep South<br />
|broad prev=A Bicyclops Built for Two<br />
|broad next=A Clone of My Own<br />
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"'''How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back'''" is the twenty-fourth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the eleventh of the [[Season 2|second production season]] and the fourteenth of the [[Broadcast season 2|second broadcast season]]. It aired 2 April, 2000 on FOX. It guest stars [[Nora Dunn]] as [[Morgan Proctor]]. Having ruined his hopes getting his bureaucrat rating raised, [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] attempts to kill himself, but Proctor forces him on paid vacation on [[Spa 5]]. Meanwhile [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] finds himself in a secret relationship with Proctor.<br />
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=== Act I: "I only gamble with chumps" ===<br />
[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] finishes his work for the day and receives a letter from the [[Central Bureaucracy]]. He's happy to learn that there will be an inspection tomorrow, potentially allowing him to be promoted from grade 36 to grade 35.<br />
<br />
[[Turanga Leela|Leela]] invites [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] to a poker game she's having with her former co-workers from [[Applied Cryogenics]]. [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] invites himself. As the guests arrive [[Ipgee]] informs Leela that she's fired for being over a year late for work. The Applied Cryogenics staff catch Bender cheating and beat him up in Hermes' office.<br />
<br />
When he arrives to work the next day, Hermes is horrified by the mess. The inspector, [[Morgan Proctor]], arrives and Hermes threatens to kill himself by jumping off the Planet Express building. Bender recommends that he do a flip.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "Mr. Bender about last night..." ===<br />
Hermes is talked out of suicide, and Zoidberg suggests he visits [[Spa 5]] to recover. [[LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara]] and Hermes learn, too late, that Spa 5 is actually a forced labour camp.<br />
<br />
Morgan takes over Hermes' job while he's off. She complains that Fry is a slob, but falls in love with him because of it. Morgan gives the crew worse jobs, except for Fry, who gets a promotion. She then turns up at Fry and Bender's apartment to have sex. Bender catches them, and the next day he tries to blackmail her, but Morgan removes Bender's brain and sends it to the Central Bureaucracy for filing.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "Stop hogging that healthy liver!" ===<br />
Fry along with Leela, [[Amy Wong|Amy]] and [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] head off to recover Bender's brain. The crew heads to the Central Bureaucracy's filing room, but Morgan says that it would be impossible to find the brain within the master "in" pile. <br />
<br />
Meanwhile, Hermes begins organising the forced labour camp. Zoidberg delivers Hermes to Central Bureaucracy; having organised the forced labour camp all the work is now carried out by a single [[Australian Guy|Australian man]]. Hermes has four minutes to sort the pile or be fired. Launching into song, he beats the clock, but was too fast and so he is demoted to grade 38, which would no longer allow him to work at Planet Express. Hermes then points out a mistake that Morgan made, which gets him a promotion to grade 37 and his job back.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Bureaucrat song lyrics ===<br />
{{see|List of song performances#Bureaucrat Song}}<br />
<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*The forced labour camp's sign reads "Spa 5 Fitness camp: recommended by Dr. Zoidberg". This, as well as the Australian slave's admission, suggests that most of the workers were provided by Zoidberg, who openly admits that he gets a free bucket of krill for every person he sends there.<br />
*Grade 1.0 was used to leave a possibility for higher ranks with lower decimals.<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
*The [[Australian man]] reappears in "[[A Pharaoh to Remember]]".<br />
*This is the last appearance of the [[Number 9 Man]] until ''[[Bender's Big Score]]''.<br />
<br />
=== Allusions ===<br />
*The [[Beholder|floating head]] is based on a creature from ''Dungeons and Dragons'', a so-called ''Beholder''.<br />
*The filing cabinet lined walls of the central bureaucracy are a nod to the Terry Gilliam film 'Brazil', which is set in an inefficient bureaucracy. ([http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7QzTivhVTs4/SD09eYDEDvI/AAAAAAAAASY/4i5K7tvR1Nw/s400/brazil_11.jpg picture])<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Jamaican? I thought you were some kinda outer-space potato man.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': ''[On top of the Planet Express Building.]'' I'm going to jump!<br />
'''Planet Express Crew''': No! Don't do it!<br />
'''Bender''': Do a flip!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': I wasn't cut out to be a bureaucrat anyway! I'm only anal 78.36% of the time!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': Sweet something of ... of someplace.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Morgan''': Why is there yogurt in this cap?<br />
'''Fry''': Uh, I can explain that. See, it used to be milk and, well, time makes fools of us all.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': You can't just waltz into the Central Bureaucracy. It's a tangled web of red tape and regulations. I've never been, but a friend of mine went completely mad trying to find the washroom there.<br />
'''Leela''': Then we'll need a guide. Someone who's been there before.<br />
'''Farnsworth''': Oh, I've been there. Lots of times! ''[He laughs maniacally.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': When push comes to shove, you gotta do what you love, even if it's not a good idea!</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*The hover-car and Number 1.0's plane screech to a halt. Which shouldn't be the case as they are hovering, and do not touch the ground.<br />
*Hermes' badge number occasionally fluctuates incorrectly.<br />
*It is shown in this episode that Bender's mind and memories can be downloaded into a disk inserted in the neck of any [[Bending Units]]. In "[[Lethal Inspection]]", however, Bending Uunit minds are saved daily into a backup body, which Bender was made without.<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Australian Man]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Beholder]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Ipgee]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Lou]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Morgan Proctor]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Number 1.0]]<br />
*[[Number 9 Man]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Old man]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Terry]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Bill Odenkirk]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Mark Ervin]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Dawnn Lewis]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Bill Odenkirk]]<br />
**[[Paul Calder]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
*Special Guest<br />
**[[Nora Dunn]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|broad prev=A Bicyclops Built for Two<br />
|broad next=A Clone of My Own}}<br />
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[[Category:A plots focusing on Hermes]]<br />
[[Category:Media featuring singing]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Nine&diff=77250Nine2011-01-02T21:25:21Z<p>JediRogue: original concept for #9 was abandoned</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name="Number 9 Man"<br />
|catname=Number 9 Man<br />
|type=s<br />
|image=[[Image:Number 9 Man.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=Seen here on the far left in "[[A Flight to Remember]]"<br />
|first appear={{elink|1ACV01|Space Pilot 3000}}<br />
|voiced by=David Herman<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|job=Grand Curator of the [[Legion of Mad Fellows]]<br />
|species=[[Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
}}<br />
The '''Number 9 Man''' (or just '''Number 9''' or simply '''Nine''') was a cameo character appearing in the [[Season 1|first]] and [[Season 2|second]] production seasons of ''[[Futurama]]''. He was used merely as an Easter Egg in crowd scenes. But much like the [[career chip]]s and the professor's [[I am already in my pajamas|PJ-joke]], he was slowly forgotten and did not appear in season 3 and 4.<br />
<br />
However, he made a reappearance in ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'' and ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]'' where his story was revealed.<br />
<br />
==The Legion of Mad Fellows==<br />
{{further|Legion of Mad Fellows}}<br />
When Nine became grand curator is unknown, but the [[Commentary:Into the Wild Green Yonder|audio commentary]] of ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]'' seems to hint that he was in the Legion prior to the year {{year|3000}}.<br />
<br />
As grand curator (which is essentially a knowledgeable leader) of the Legion, he becomes the story teller for [[Philip J. Fry]]'s mission to possibly end the [[Arms Race of Evolution|an epic long battle between two ancient races]], as they by {{year|3009}} have noticed that the [[Chi]] have been re-emerging.<br />
<br />
==Original purpose==<br />
The reason for his number was to indicate a yet to be revealed society caste system, where lower numbers were basically slaves, and higher numbers were of kingly status but this was abandoned before the series went live. 9's were drones who walked around all depressed. <br />
<br />
His actual story was changed by the writers when given a speaking role. The re-assigned purpose of the 9 on his shirt appears to be that it is his name.<br />
<br />
==Additional info==<br />
===Trivia===<br />
*It is very interesting that he can read others' thoughts and keeps on a tinfoil hat to block them out, as well as the [[Dark Ones]] psychic attack. In season 1 & 2, as well as Bender's Big Score, he wasn't wearing it. This may have been to conceal his involvement with the Legion of Mad Fellows, but this would have required not thinking about the Dark Ones, or Legion of Mad Fellows, as well as dealing with the thoughts of others coming into his head.<br />
<br />
===Quotes===<br />
*'''Number 9 Man:''' Aw, shoot! I got hot sauce on my Number 9 shirt!<br />
===Appearances===<br />
* {{elink|1ACV01|Space Pilot 3000}}<br />
* {{elink|1ACV07|My Three Suns}}<br />
<!--* {{elink|1ACV08|A Big Piece of Garbage}}--><br />
* {{elink|1ACV10|A Flight to Remember}}<br />
* {{elink|1ACV12|When Aliens Attack}}<br />
* {{elink|2ACV06|The Lesser of Two Evils}}<br />
* {{elink|2ACV08|Raging Bender}}<br />
* {{elink|2ACV11|How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back}}<br />
* {{flink|Bender's Big Score}}<br />
* {{flink|Into the Wild Green Yonder}}<br />
* {{clink|US#011|The Cure for the Common Clod}} [debatable]<br />
**A man that resembles him is seen in the crowd of people (bottom left of comic page) acting unlike themselves, as he is also doing so he isn't wearing the "9" shirt.<br />
<br />
===Gallery===<br />
<gallery perrow="3"><br />
Image:Number 9 Man in Pilot.png|Seen in the crowd wearing a green shirt in "Space Pilot 3000"<br />
Image:Number 9 Man in My Three Suns.png|Seen on the right in "My Three Suns"<br />
Image:Number 9 Man.png|Seen on the left in "A Flight to Remember"<br />
Image:Number 9 Man in When Aliens Attack.png|Seen on the left in "When Aliens Attack"<br />
Image:Number 9 Man In Lesser of 2 evils.png|Seen in "The Lesser of Two Evils", but only from the neck up.<br />
Image:Number 9 Raging Bender.jpg|Seen walking outside a movie theatre in "Raging Bender".<br />
Image:Number 9 Man in How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back.png|Seen on the right in the line in "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back"<br />
Image:Number 9 Man in Bender's Big Score.png|Seen in the back row at the wedding in ''Bender's Big Score''.<br />
Image:Crowd Scene US011.jpg|Near the bottom of the left page in a blue shirt in "The Cure for the Common Clod"<br />
File:Promo 2ACV16 (2).png|Below the hover taxi on the December - 2002 Calendar<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
[[Category:Humans]]<br />
[[Category:Abandoned ideas]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Nine&diff=77249Nine2011-01-02T21:24:05Z<p>JediRogue: /* Gallery */</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name="Number 9 Man"<br />
|catname=Number 9 Man<br />
|type=s<br />
|image=[[Image:Number 9 Man.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=Seen here on the far left in "[[A Flight to Remember]]"<br />
|first appear={{elink|1ACV01|Space Pilot 3000}}<br />
|voiced by=David Herman<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|job=Grand Curator of the [[Legion of Mad Fellows]]<br />
|species=[[Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
}}<br />
The '''Number 9 Man''' (or just '''Number 9''' or simply '''Nine''') was a cameo character appearing in the [[Season 1|first]] and [[Season 2|second]] production seasons of ''[[Futurama]]''. He was used merely as an Easter Egg in crowd scenes. But much like the [[career chip]]s and the professor's [[I am already in my pajamas|PJ-joke]], he was slowly forgotten and did not appear in season 3 and 4.<br />
<br />
However, he made a reappearance in ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'' and ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]'' where his story was revealed.<br />
<br />
==The Legion of Mad Fellows==<br />
{{further|Legion of Mad Fellows}}<br />
When Nine became grand curator is unknown, but the [[Commentary:Into the Wild Green Yonder|audio commentary]] of ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]'' seems to hint that he was in the Legion prior to the year {{year|3000}}.<br />
<br />
As grand curator (which is essentially a knowledgeable leader) of the Legion, he becomes the story teller for [[Philip J. Fry]]'s mission to possibly end the [[Arms Race of Evolution|an epic long battle between two ancient races]], as they by {{year|3009}} have noticed that the [[Chi]] have been re-emerging.<br />
<br />
==Original purpose==<br />
The reason for his number was to indicate a yet to be revealed society caste system, where lower numbers were basically slaves, and higher numbers were of kingly status but this was abandoned before the series went live. 9's were drones who walked around all depressed. <br />
<br />
His actual story was changed by the writers when given a speaking role. The re-assigned purpose of the 9 on his shirt appears to be that it is his name.<br />
<br />
==Additional info==<br />
===Trivia===<br />
*It is very interesting that he can read others' thoughts and keeps on a tinfoil hat to block them out, as well as the [[Dark Ones]] psychic attack. In season 1 & 2, as well as Bender's Big Score, he wasn't wearing it. This may have been to conceal his involvement with the Legion of Mad Fellows, but this would have required not thinking about the Dark Ones, or Legion of Mad Fellows, as well as dealing with the thoughts of others coming into his head.<br />
<br />
===Quotes===<br />
*'''Number 9 Man:''' Aw, shoot! I got hot sauce on my Number 9 shirt!<br />
===Appearances===<br />
* {{elink|1ACV01|Space Pilot 3000}}<br />
* {{elink|1ACV07|My Three Suns}}<br />
<!--* {{elink|1ACV08|A Big Piece of Garbage}}--><br />
* {{elink|1ACV10|A Flight to Remember}}<br />
* {{elink|1ACV12|When Aliens Attack}}<br />
* {{elink|2ACV06|The Lesser of Two Evils}}<br />
* {{elink|2ACV08|Raging Bender}}<br />
* {{elink|2ACV11|How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back}}<br />
* {{flink|Bender's Big Score}}<br />
* {{flink|Into the Wild Green Yonder}}<br />
* {{clink|US#011|The Cure for the Common Clod}} [debatable]<br />
**A man that resembles him is seen in the crowd of people (bottom left of comic page) acting unlike themselves, as he is also doing so he isn't wearing the "9" shirt.<br />
<br />
===Gallery===<br />
<gallery perrow="3"><br />
Image:Number 9 Man in Pilot.png|Seen in the crowd wearing a green shirt in "Space Pilot 3000"<br />
Image:Number 9 Man in My Three Suns.png|Seen on the right in "My Three Suns"<br />
Image:Number 9 Man.png|Seen on the left in "A Flight to Remember"<br />
Image:Number 9 Man in When Aliens Attack.png|Seen on the left in "When Aliens Attack"<br />
Image:Number 9 Man In Lesser of 2 evils.png|Seen in "The Lesser of Two Evils", but only from the neck up.<br />
Image:Number 9 Raging Bender.jpg|Seen walking outside a movie theatre in "Raging Bender".<br />
Image:Number 9 Man in How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back.png|Seen on the right in the line in "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back"<br />
Image:Number 9 Man in Bender's Big Score.png|Seen in the back row at the wedding in ''Bender's Big Score''.<br />
Image:Crowd Scene US011.jpg|Near the bottom of the left page in a blue shirt in "The Cure for the Common Clod"<br />
File:Promo 2ACV16 (2).png|Below the hover taxi on the December - 2002 Calendar<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
[[Category:Humans]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=New_Justice_Team&diff=77200New Justice Team2011-01-02T07:41:02Z<p>JediRogue: /* Superking */</p>
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<div>{{group infobox<br />
|name=New Justice Team<br />
|image=[[File:New Justice Team.png|225px]]<br />
|location=[[New New York]]<br />
|business=Superheros<br />
|first appear={{e|4ACV04}}<br />
|status=Retired<br />
}}<br />
The '''New Justice Team''' was a short-lived team of crime-fighting super-heros. The source of the human members super-powers was [[Dr. FlimFlam's Miracle Cream]]. They worked the New New York area, and were on call for [[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer|Mayor Poopenmeyer]] when the city was in need. The team had three members, Clobberella, Captain Yesterday, and Superking. The group thwarted many crimes, and even found a nemesis in the [[The Zookeeper|Zookeeper]]. Their careers ended after the Zookeeper kidnapped Clobberella's parents and forced the team to steal the [[Quantum Gemerald]] in exchange for their release. The fact that they ran out of cream was probably a factor as well.<br />
<br />
== Members ==<br />
=== Clobberella ===<br />
{{character infobox<br />
|name=Clobberella<br><small>(Turanga Leela)</small><br />
|catname=Leela<br />
|image=[[File:Clobberella.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=''See [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] for details on this character.''<br />
|first appear={{e|4ACV04}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Secret Identity''': [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br><br />
'''Super Powers''': Super-strength, lickity-speed, and invulnerability<br><br />
'''Description''': Quick-tempered and with a very head-first approach to crime-fighting, Clobberella defeats many foes with a roundhouse kick to the head.<br><br />
'''Name Reference''': The name is a spoof of the 1960s science fiction heroine ''Barbarella'', played by Jane Fonda.<br><br />
'''Costume''': A red jumpsuit with an image of a hand holding a rolling pin. Also includes a black mask, orange boots and gloves and a hairdo like the one in "[[A Bicyclops Built for Two]]".<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
=== Captain Yesterday ===<br />
{{character infobox<br />
|name=Captain Yesterday<br><small>(Philip J. Fry)</small><br />
|catname=Fry<br />
|image=[[File:Captain Yesterday.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=''See [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] for details on this character.''<br />
|first appear={{e|4ACV04}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Secret Identity''': [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br><br />
'''Super Powers''': Super-strength, lickity-speed, invulnerability and healing factor<br><br />
'''Description''': More calm and cool than Clobberella, Captain Yesterday relies heavily on his super-speed to make up for his slow mind.<br><br />
'''Name Reference''': His name refers to nobody, except possibly ''Captain America''. He is a parody of Tony Manero (John Travolta).<br><br />
'''Costume''': A white and blue jump suit with bell-bottom pants, a 1970s style haircut, a golden cape, a necklace with "C.Y." similar to a 45 record adaptor and a black mask.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
=== Superking ===<br />
{{character infobox<br />
|name=Superking<br><small>(Bender Bending Rodríguez)</small><br />
|catname=Bender<br />
|image=[[File:Super King.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=''See [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] for details on this character.''<br />
|first appear={{e|4ACV04}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Secret Identity''': [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]<br><br />
'''Super Powers''': Super-strength, extendable arms and legs, and door on his chest<br><br />
'''Description''': Superking is a bit of a rogue (or an anti-hero), and while he fights crime with the team, he has been known to abuse his powers for his own gain.<br><br />
'''Name Reference''': Most Likely ''Superman'' or ''Burger King'', but it could also be a simple figment of Bender's egocentricity, since mid-way through the team's existance, he wants to change his name to "El Zilcho".<br><br />
'''Costume''': A purple fringed cape, a purple mask and a jewel-encrusted crown.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
== Theme Song ==<br />
:Go, Go, Go New Justice Team<br />
:Go, team,<br />
:Go, team,<br />
:Team, team, team<br />
:Who's the newest Justice Team?<br />
:The New Justice Team!<br />
:<br />
:Captain Yesterday is fast,<br />
:Also he is from the past,<br />
:Not just fast but from the past<br />
:Captain Yesterday!<br />
:<br />
:Superking has all the powers of a king<br />
:Plus all the powers of superman<br />
:also he's a robot<br />
:Aint he cool?<br />
:Superking, you rule!<br />
:<br />
:Clobberella beats you up,<br />
:Clobberella beats you up,<br />
:Who does she beat up? <br />
:You!<br />
:Clobberella!<br />
:<br />
:Citizens, never fear<br />
:Crazy do-good freaks are here,<br />
:Until they run out of steam<br />
:Miracle cream,<br />
:Miracle cream,<br />
:Gives the power to the team,<br />
:It's effects wear off for sure,<br />
:So they just slop on some more,<br />
:The New Justice Team!<br />
<br />
:Go, go, go, New Justice Team<br />
:Fighting justice is their quest<br />
:Superking, Clobberella, and all the rest<br />
:Here's to you New Justice Team<br />
:Do the things that make your team,<br />
:Help each other do some things,<br />
:Winners don't use drugs!<br />
:The New Justice Team!<br />
<br />
== Appearances ==<br />
*{{e|4ACV04}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV13}} ([[Captain Yesterday]] only) {{disputed canon}}<br />
*{{clink|US#035|Son of the Sun}}<br />
*{{clink|US#046|Follow the Reader}}<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Superheroes]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Table:Death_in_infobox&diff=77199Table:Death in infobox2011-01-02T07:38:01Z<p>JediRogue: /* Discussion */ late to the party</p>
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== Discussion ==<br />
I think there should be a death spot in the characters' infobox, just like there are birth spots. Ideas? [[User:Aki|Aki]] 23:12, 5 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
:Nobody replied?! Personally, I find the new conference table hard to keep up with, since the old one I was subscribed to and I got notifications whenever it updated. But now each new topic is its own thing, so I have to subscribe individually. And I never remember to come check here. Long story short: Yes. I agree. --[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 05:15, 13 December 2010 (CET)<br />
::I don't like it in general because its a spoiler right near the top of the page. A person may be browsing and stumble across a page for a character they haven't met yet and be like "what? They died? I'm not up to that!" On the other hand, this kind of spoiler is less of an issue on Futurama (I don't think anyone has died in a manner that would ruin much to know in advance. Also, there is a general sense of non-concern about spoilers here, I sense. Finally, the kind of information in an infobox is generally the basic facts of which death seems to qualify. I'm surprised it isn't already in there. &mdash;'''[[User:JediRogue|Jedi<font color=red>&hearts;</font>Rogue]]''' 08:38, 2 January 2011 (CET)</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=A_Leela_of_Her_Own&diff=77077A Leela of Her Own2010-12-30T22:20:03Z<p>JediRogue: /* Trivia */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=A Leela of Her Own<br />
|no=48<br />
|image=[[File:A Leela of Her Own.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=4<br />
|number=3ACV16<br />
|caption=Scratch here to reveal prize<br />
|first aired=7 April, 2002<br />
|written by=Patric M. Verrone<br />
|directed by=Swinton O. Scott III<br />
|title reference=The film "''A League of Their Own''"<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=The Goal Rush<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S04E10<br />
|special guest=[[Hank Aaron's Head|Hank Aaron]]<br />[[Bob Uecker's Head|Bob Uecker]]<br />
|prev ep=I Dated a Robot<br />
|next ep=A Pharaoh to Remember<br />
|broad prev=Future Stock<br />
|broad next=The 30% Iron Chef<br />
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"'''A Leela of Her Own'''" is the forty-eighth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the sixteenth of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the tenth of the [[Broadcast season 4|fourth broadcast season]]. It aired on 7 April, 2002. It guest stars [[Hank Aaron's Head|Hank Aaron]] and [[Bob Uecker's Head|Bob Uecker]] as themselves in [[Head Jars|jars]]. [[Turanga Leela]] finds herself being the first female ever to play major league [[Blernsball]], but not because it is any good at it, but because she is a great crowd pleaser.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I: "We got guano. Very fresh" ===<br />
After the wall of a nearby strip club fell down, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] took to looking out the window. But eventually noticed a pizza parlor opening next door. After Fry reminisces about his old job, the crew decide to go and welcome their new [[Cygnoids|Cygnoid]] neighbours. The pizzas turn out to be disgusting, so Fry decides to teach them, concluding with a [[Blernsball]] lesson. [[Planet Express]]'s staff and family play a game against [[Family Bros. Pizza|the Cygnoid's pizzeria]]. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] proves to be a terrible pitcher, hitting the batters in the head each time. Her bad playing draws a crowd and she is recruited for the [[New New York Mets|Mets]].<br />
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=== Act II: "Now pitching for the Mets, Turanga Leela" ===<br />
[[File:Colourbarrier.jpg|left|thumb|The various colour barriers.]]<br />
Leela's pitching "skills" prove popular with Mets fans. Leela garners many fans and some advertising appearances, thanks to her agent, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]].<br />
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=== Act III: "I'm not doing this for the wad" ===<br />
During a signing at Family Bros. Pizza, [[Jackie Anderson]], an NNYU blernsballer tells Leela off for ruining the chances for competent women players. After a quick review of Leela's statistics [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] informs her that she is likely to become the worst player ever, and Leela vows not to let that happen.<br />
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=== Act IV: "You better get a batting helmet" ===<br />
The crew visit the current worst player, [[Hank Aaron XXIV]], at the [[Blernsball Hall of Fame]]. Hank manages to teach Leela not to hit batters in the head.<br />
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=== Act V: "Ancient Cygnoid secret" ===<br />
The Cygnoids open a franchise, then sell to [[Fishy Joe's]]. Leela convinces the coach to let her play after having trained with ''a'' Hank Aaron. As Leela takes the mound, Jackie comes in to bat on the third strike Jackie hits the ball hard enough to break the string and send the ball into the "win the game" hole, scoring a grand slam blern. Leela is now officially the worst player ever, and retires, having inspired women to prove they aren't all terrible.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*This episode comes closest to explaining Blernsball, the writers intend to make the sport confusing and so they threw in a few oddities at the end of the episode.<br />
*Hank Aaron was reluctant to be in this episode, but agreed when he found out Bob Uecker had agreed.<br />
* Jackie Anderson's name and uniform number (24) is a reference to Jackie Robinson, the first black player in Major League Baseball.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I didn't hit the batter! For once I was pitching and not just belly-itching!<br />
'''Aaron Jr.''': Oh, you got that too? I think there's a rash goin' around.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Wow! I must say, I'm impressed. You look just like a ball player. Can I pat you on the butt?<br />
'''Leela''': Fry, I'm a professional athlete! So go ahead.<br />
'''Fry''': Oh! Now I'm too nervous.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Cygnoid''': Please, lady, I want to live. Can I use bat to protect head?<br />
''[Leela beans him.]''<br />
'''Bender''': Apparently not.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bob Uecker''': Mulligan drives the ball, it's going, going and caught by the shortstop. Man I haven't seen play this bad since the days of Bob Uecker! This is Bob Uecker saying thanks for watching!</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*[[Hank Aaron XXIV]] is shown to have played for the Atlanta Braves but, as we learned in "[[The Deep South]]", Atlanta has been submerged in the Atlantic Ocean for quite some time. Unless his lifespan is somehow incredibly longer than everyone else's, he would have to be either a mermaid or a [[head in a jar]].<br />
**This was something the production staff were aware of and the Atlanta Braves logo is updated from the 20th century design, which used a tomahawk, to feature a trident.<br />
*In the episode "[[Anthology of Interest I]]" Shea Stadium is shown to be a complete bowl, but in this episode, it is shown to be more like the actual Shea Stadium, and is open in the outfield.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Abner Doubledeal]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Blek]] and his [[Blek's wife|wife]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Bob Uecker's Head]]<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]]<br />
*[["Fishy" Joseph Gilman|Fishy Joe]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Hank Aaron's Head]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Hank Aaron XXIV]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Jackie Anderson]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Randy Munchnik|Randy]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
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=== Prerequisites ===<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
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*Writer<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Swinton O. Scott III]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Dawnn Lewis]]<br />
**[[Tom Kenny]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
**[[Swinton O. Scott III]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
*Special Guests<br />
**[[Hank Aaron's Head|Hank Aaron]]<br />
**[[Bob Uecker's Head|Bob Uecker]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|type=s<br />
|name=Alcazar<br />
|image=[[File:Realalcazar.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=His real form.<br />
|origin=Probably [[Cyclopia]]<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|species=[[List of alien species|Alien]] rhino<br />
|family=''See [[#Family|Family]]''<br />
|first appear={{e|2ACV09}}<br />
|voiced by=David Herman<br />
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'''Alcazar''' is a male [[List of alien species|alien]] grasshopper who can change shape, was engaged to "five weirdos" at the same time, and tricked them into believing he was the ruler of [[Cyclopia]] (where he lives in five identical castles) in [[3001]] ([[A Bicyclops Built for Two|2ACV09]]). After discovering that [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] was the only one of her species, he morphed into a cyclops and told her they were the only ones left. Alcazar treated Leela like his servant and would have gotten married to her if [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] hadn't revealed he was planning to marry four other women, who would later take revenge on their groom by giving him a savage beating, after which he returned to his real form. He later attended the [[Violet Dwarf Star Implosion]] ceremony in [[3009]] ([[Into the Wild Green Yonder|ITWGY]]).<br />
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== Character Description ==<br />
=== Relationships ===<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]], former bride.<br />
*[[Sandy]], former bride.<br />
*[[Five-Eyed Woman]], former bride.<br />
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== Image Gallery ==<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:A Bicyclops Built for Two.jpg|In his cyclops form.<br />
Image:Five eyes Alcazar.png|In his five-eyed form.<br />
Image:Rhino Alcazar.png|In his rhinoceros form.<br />
Image:Purple alien Alcazar.png|In his purple alien form.<br />
Image:Grey alien Alcazar.png|In his grey alien form.<br />
Image:Five forms Alcazar.png|In all of his forms.<br />
Image:Five Brides.png|With his five brides.<br />
</gallery><br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Alcazar''': We don't want to look like slobs in front of the other species, do we?<br />
'''Leela''': No.<br />
'''Alcazar''': Then get to work on these dishes. Then organize my collection of naked celebrity photos by name and what you can see.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV09}}<br />
*{{f|4}} (seen in [[Audience scene|audience]])<br />
*{{clink|US#046|Follow the Reader}}<br />
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[[Category:Aliens]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=A_Bicyclops_Built_for_Two&diff=77075A Bicyclops Built for Two2010-12-30T22:15:00Z<p>JediRogue: /* Act III: "It's time for this bird to walk!" */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=A Bicyclops Built for Two<br />
|no=22<br />
|image=[[File:A Bicyclops Built for Two.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=Leela with [[Alcazar]] who altered his appearance to look like a "Cyclops"<br />
|season=2<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=2ACV09<br />
|caption=This episode has been modified to fit your primitive screen<br />
|first aired=19 March, 2000<br />
|written by=Eric Kaplan<br />
|directed by=Susan Dietter<br />
|title reference=A lyric from the song "{{w|Daisy Bell}}"<br />
|caption reference=The disclaimer before letterbox films played on 4:3 television screens<br />
|opening cartoon="Hollywood Capers"<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S02E13<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
|nomination='''Emmy Awards'''<br />Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation, 2000, [[Bari Kumar]] (colour stylist) '''(won)'''<br />'''Annie Awards'''<br />Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television Production, 2000, [[Susie Dietter]]<br />
|prev ep=Raging Bender<br />
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|broad next=How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back<br />
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"'''A Bicyclops Built for Two'''" is the twenty-second episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the ninth of the [[Season 2|second production season]] and the thirteenth of the [[Broadcast season 2|second broadcast season]]. It aired 19 March, 2000 on FOX. While searching for her origins, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] runs into another lost cyclops, [[Alcazar]], but his story may not be what it appears to be.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I: "We're online!" ===<br />
After trying and failing several years ago, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] finally connects to [[the Internet]] through AOL. Everyone except the Professor logs in to the virtual world. After fighting many ads flying around, they visit the "Filthy Chat Room" and the "Filthy Filthy Chat Room". Later, they eventually come together in a "video game", ''Death Factory III: The Legend of Death Factory II''. Inside the game world, they fight each other by shooting lasers with their fingers. Farnsworth appears some times to tell the crew they have a delivery, but they ignore him. When looking for [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] meets [[Alcazar|another cyclops]], but Fry kills his character and wins the game, preventing Leela learning about her species. On the delivery, Leela receives an email from Alcazar, the other cyclops, who invites her to their home planet. The crew dumps their cargo, which drifts into the sun of the destination planet.<br />
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=== Act II: "Look at that statue, it's only got one eye." ===<br />
The crew arrive on the [[Cyclopia|planet]], where [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] immediately sets about stealing Alcazar's possessions. Alcazar takes Leela to see the ruins of the planet, which include a mosaic of their goddess of beauty (who looks like Leela), The Forbidden Valley, a holy sanctuary where no one may tread and Alcazar's giant castle. Leela asks Alcazar what happened to their people, but he says it's too painful to speak of. At night, Leela hears Alcazar crying. Alcazar tells Leela about her heritige. He tells of their people's demise when the "Eyeless Mole People" of "Subterra 3" shot missiles to the planet because they were jealous of the visual ability of the Cyclops and tells her that they shot lots of missiles hoping to destroy Cyclopia and, unfortunately, one of the missiles destroyed the planet. Alcazar and a baby who was rescued and sent to the [[Earth]] were the only survivors. Leela tells him their species will not end with them, and they start to make love. The next morning, Alcazar, or "Al", soon begins to show his true colours, a lowlife jerk. In spite of this, Leela decides to try and continue the species, and Leela and Al get engaged. Fry is upset, and attempts to search The Forbidden Valley, but falls into the dungeon in the process.<br />
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=== Act III: "It's time for this bird to walk!" ===<br />
The rest of the staff arrives for the wedding. Fry escapes from the dungeon, and he and Bender search the forbidden valley. They find that it holds four identical castles, the first they visit has cyclops statues replaced with 5-eyed-aliens. Just as Leela is about to say "I do", Fry and Bender burst in with Alcazar's other fianc&eacute;es. He is revealed to be a shape-shifting grasshopper-type-alien, who is using the same story to wed several lonely aliens. All weddings are called off and Leela continues wondering where she's from.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
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{{colbegin|2}}<br />
*The video game played by the crew is "Death Factory III: The Legend of Death Factory II"<br />
*This episode makes several obvious references to the TV Series "Married with Children", where [[Katey Sagal]] played Peg Bundy.<br />
*To make room for more stolen items Bender dumps his goldfish bowl, [[toasters|toaster]] and two more goldfish bowls.<br />
*This episode won an Emmy, outstanding colour direction for [[Bari Kumar]]<br />
*This episode was named #8 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*[[David X. Cohen]] and three other crew members appear as internet nerds.<br />
**Cohen wears a [[Wristlojackimator]].<br />
*In "[[Love's Labours Lost in Space]]", Leela says she doesn't care how many eyes a guy has as long as it's less than five. One of Alcazar's forms has five eyes.<br />
{{colend}}<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*[[Alcazar]] owns [[Lightspeed Briefs]], which Leela is seen hanging to dry.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
[[File:July2007calendar.JPG|thumb|July - 2007 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
*The playing of "{{w|Also sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss)|Also sprach Zarathustra}}" when the Planet Express crew logs on to the Internet, and Fry's line "My God, it's full of ads!" are references to ''2001: A Space Odyssey''.<br />
*Hermes dodges a pop-up ad the same way Neo dodged bullets in ''The Matrix'', which he is able to do because he is a former limbo champion<br />
*The appearance of the internet is based heavily on its description in Neal Stephenson's novel {{w|Snow Crash}}.<br />
*The scene with Alcazar and Leela at the couch, and Leela's new outfit/hairstyle, is a reference to one of Katey Sagal's older series ''{{w|Married with Children}}''.<br />
*[[Donkey Kong]] makes his second Futurama appearance in ''Death Factory III'', he was previously spotted in the opening of "[[Space Pilot 3000]]". he his also seen in "[[Anthology of Interest II]]", and also in "[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]"<br />
*The Professor's head appearing as a giant blue [[starwars:Hologram|hologram]] could be a reference to [[starwars:Palpatine|Palpatine's]] appearance in [[starwars:Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back]].<br />
*A [[Wikipedia:Macintosh|Macintosh]] style menu is used by Bender when selecting a disguise.<br />
*One of the alien beings Alkazar transforms into is a {{w|Great Race of Yith|Yithian}} from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time"<br />
*The music for the video game sequence, when the crew fights each other online, is from the early 1970's video game ''{{w|Space Invaders}}''.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': No I'm... doesn't.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Is there a place on the web that panders to my lust for violence?<br />
'''Bender''': Is the Space Pope reptilian?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Alcazar''': Well, this is the real me. But I can explain: We all have needs. Mine was to make it with five weirdos and have them scrub my five castles. I gave you all what you wanted and of course I made a few bucks letting Pig watch through the two-way mirror. Can any of you say you wouldn't have done the exact same thing in my position?<br />
'''Bender''': He's a saint!</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*Towards the end, Leela asks, "If you could change form, why didn't you change it in the one place that counts?" The shot with the crowd laughing shows Fry with four arms.<br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
'''Time''':01:38<br /><br />
'''Location''': Sign in the internet<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': plump. juicy. humans. web <br />
<br />
'''Time''': 02.39<br /><br />
'''Location''': door of a chatroom<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL2|AL2]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': codebreakers chat room<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Alcazar]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Five-eyed woman]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Pig]]<br />
*[[Religion#Preacherbot|Preacherbot]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Rat Man]] and his girlfriend<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Sandy]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Susan Dietter]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Frank Welker]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
**[[Susan Dietter]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring weddings]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Transcript:Commentary:Love%27s_Labours_Lost_in_Space&diff=77074Transcript:Commentary:Love's Labours Lost in Space2010-12-30T21:57:18Z<p>JediRogue: </p>
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|episode=Love's Labours Lost in Space<br />
|thanks to=Svip<br />
|prev=I, Roommate<br />
|next=Fear of a Bot Planet<br />
|iscommentary=yes<br />
|participants=<br />
*[[David X. Cohen]] (DXC)<br />
*[[Matt Groening]] (MG)<br />
*[[Brian Kelley]] (BK)<br />
*[[Brian Sheesley]] (BS)<br />
*[[Rich Moore]] (RM)<br />
*[[Scott Vanzo]] (SV)<br />
*[[John DiMaggio]] (JD)<br />
}}<br />
*'''''Note:''' One question mark in bold ('''?''') means that the speaker was not identified by the transcriber.''<br />
*'''''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.''<br />
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<poem>'''[[Matt Groening]]''': Hey, space pals, welcome to episode four of ''Futurama''. This is Matt Groening.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Scott Vanzo]]''': I'm Scott Vanzo, director of computer graphics.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Brian Kelley]]''': Brian Kelley, I'm a writer.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[John DiMaggio]]''': John DiMaggio, voice of Bender and other characters.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Brian Sheesley]]''': Brian Sheesley, the director of the episode.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[David X. Cohen]]''': David Cohen, executive producer.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Rich Moore]]''': And Rich Moore, supervising director.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Scott.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Yeah?</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You have some discussion of the 3D while we're watching this fabulous 3D coming up here?</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': The final is kinda difficult for us to create, it has over 80 levels of 3D animation that are composited together, a lot of cheats, probably the single biggest scene that we have ever done, or at least we view it as a scene, so... I don't know what else to say.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': How long did it take just to animate that 28 seconds?</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': I think we did it in about four or five weeks, all together. With two 3D people and myself directing as well as Mike Smith who was directing the title.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': How long does it take &mdash; out of curiosity, I don't even the answer to this &mdash; how long does it take to render one frame of that kind of degree of computer&ndash; 3D computer graphics?</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': We split it into a lot of different levels, because it was taking so long, and that way we can fix things a lot easier. I would say, probably about an hour a frame for that title.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And 30 frames per second? So that adds up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Yeah. Sure does.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': That is uncredible. ''[laughter]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Amy..!</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Brian Kelley.</poem><br />
<poem>'''BK''': Yeah.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I have a question for you.</poem><br />
<poem>'''BK''': Yes, David! Go go! I am not going to start on my own.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': 30 thousand quadroploops on&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I saw your name go by as writer, you were in as a freelance to write this episode.</poem><br />
<poem>'''BK''': That's right.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I happen to remember, it is a day that stands out of my mind, because I quit the day you came in to write this episode. I imagine it was kinda interesting to walk in and sort of a confused maelstrom activity going on. Of course, I came crawling back about 5 days later. Having gotten some sleep, which was main problem, but what was going through your mind, did you think that this whole show was going down the tubes or what?</poem><br />
<poem>'''BK''': Well, yeah, that was my initial impression and you know, history bored out and I was correct. I always like, I always dreamt writing a sentence, when you guys asked me to do this, I was really thrilled. And that ruined it all, but...</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It has come full circle now, you do write for ''The Simpsons''.</poem><br />
<poem>'''BK''': I do, yeah, a few months ago. So by the time you are listening to this, I will have been fired.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Well, we paved the way for that --</poem><br />
:''[Zoidberg cannot grasp onto his glass, but spots a lobster in a tank.]''<br />
<poem>'''?''': It's a natural reaction.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Little soft focus.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Oh yes.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Took us a lot of gelliton to do that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There is some more 3D.</poem><br />
:''[M5438 is on screen.]''<br />
<poem>'''SV''': Yeah, he's made out of particles and some geometry.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That doesn't mean anything.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': It does for the 3D artist to make the cheapest old ''Star Trek'' effect in the book.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': When&ndash; actually, interesting, when&ndash; that's Billy West's voice doing that, he has the ability to hit those kind of&ndash; there's no effect on that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yeah, it is like two notes going at once in his voice. You're absolutely right, that's not processed. That noise came out of Billy West's mouth. On that subject, Billy was into record an episode recently and we had to shot down the operation for ten or fifteen minutes, because we thought there was some feedback problem, because we were getting a second note like that. And they rewired the whole studio, before they realised that it was Billy's vocal cords acting up a little bit. Crazy whistle through his nose.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yeah!</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': I remember on the janitor that we just did, that&ndash; there was an original funny voice, 'cause we were kinda going for a Scatman Crothers on there, but it got changed later on.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': [Professor voice] Oh eh.</poem><br />
:''[Hologram of Vergon 6.]''<br />
<poem>'''SV''': Holograms are always done in 3D. And this is&ndash; I'm not sure this is the first time we see holograms, I always like them a lot, I like the colour palettes and stuff.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I like the way you guys use the lighting lit by the thing.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Yeah, our colours vary; Bari Kumar does all the colouration on the characters for these types of things, does a really good job.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Who was the genius who came up with the idea of dark matter?</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': That was you&ndash; that was David, right?</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yeah, I thought of it before Einstein. ''[laughter]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': You thought of it as the fuel.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yes.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Employing it as a fuel.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's true, yes. We wanted to think of something that was not well understood, so no matter what we said about, people couldn't dispute.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': It is strange how much the voice has changed, I said it before, and I'll say it again.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Is that deliberate or is&mdash;?</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': No, it just&ndash; I think it just happened. The introduction of Zapp.</poem><br />
:''[Zapp Brannigan on screen.]''<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Zapp Brannigan! Billy West as Zapp. Maurice LaMarche as Kif Kroker. Matt, you had some ideas about these characters early on, I think you wanted one may show here.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Well, I just thought that I'd&ndash; it would be nice to have an alien assistant who would be totally frustrated. And passive aggressive, it seemed like Mr Spock should always be moaning in exasperation at Captain Kirk, so that's where this came from.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Zapp seems kinda half Captain Kirk, half actual William Shatner.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Exactly!</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': That's the way it was described to me, originally. When you gave me the script, it was "pretend that William Shatner is the captain of the Enterprise", not captain Kirk. And it described it perfectly.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': I think this is the first time we see the Nimbus as a 3D model. And I think it came out really well, it is one of my favourite models, 'cause it has the fewest number of moving parts.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': He wasn't coaxed?.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': And the 3D modeller told me that there's over 2200 that was put on. So I had to put that on there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Is that true?</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Yes.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So there is actually&ndash; so it is actually rendering all 2200 windows?</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': That would be Eric Whitehead, the 3D modeller.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Well, that&ndash; now that I know that, I want to knows what's inside those windows! On a big screen TV, I want to be able to see what's inside of everyone of those windows. You guys&ndash; you're slacking off over there!</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': That's the next format, you'll be able to&ndash; DVDs is not good enough, but there will be a new format coming along soon, and then&ndash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I like this close up on Zapp, there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': A lot of these poses that Zapp is sitting in his chair are taken from captain Kirk. So there was a lot of reference going on there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': When we were&ndash; when Matt was designing Zapp, every time we would draw a revision, the skirt would get a little shorter.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': You guys made me&ndash; you guys made me tone it down actually, 'cause he used to have really sexy gogo-boots and the skirt used to go out a little&ndash; flare out a little bit more.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': He came back from Korea a couple of times with his crotch fully exposed. You guys never saw that!</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': You know, it's another country.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': A lot of inbetweening.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': In editing, extend that laughter for about 30 seconds.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Who came to the Halloween party as Zapp Brannigan?</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': That was Mr Peter Avanzino.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': That's right.</poem><br />
:''[Zapp is explaining how he killed the killbots.]''<br />
<poem>'''MG''': I love the movement on his shoulders in this shot. Right there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Soldier''': [episode; off screen] You suck!</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': My father knew that was me when&ndash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It wasn't from the voice, it was from the context.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yeah, it was.</poem><br />
:''[Zapp Brannigan is talking.]''<br />
<poem>'''JD''': It's interesting about Billy West's choice in this&ndash; this vocal quality, it's basically based on a disc jokey, that loves the sound of his own voice. [Zapp like voice] Guy who likes to sit and listen. [normal] And every syllable, just rings through.</poem><br />
:''[Kif walks up the ladder right below Zapp.]''<br />
<poem>'''?''': Oh god...</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': One of my favourite shots of animation right here. We all know that Zapp Brannigan's a man's man, but we gotta have him do a special ??? scene.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That is one of the most memorable scenes from this season for me.</poem><br />
:''[Zapp and Kif are talking.]''<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There's a little bit of Jon Lovitz creeping into Kif's voice here. I love the shorts ???&ndash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Coming up is one of my favourite shots, the interior of Zapp's bedroom. We designed it after the last shot in 2001 and Rich and I decided to go with the portrait of JFK that hangs in the White House.</poem><br />
:''[Leela pulls out the plug on Zapp's hover bed.]''<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': One of our first decisions to make things hover, a long list of items in the present are futurised by presenting them to hover.</poem><br />
<poem>'''BS''': This is a tricky episode&ndash; beginning&ndash; we weren't a hundred percent sure about how adult the show should be. So, coming up with this bed scene&ndash; it was&ndash; it seemed like it might be too risky. What you think, Matt? Did we go over the line with this upcoming stuff?</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': No, we established our line. [laughter] No no, no I-- this was a turning point in the series, because this showed that we could take the heroine of the series and really degrade her and so a lot of people liked the show.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Bender gets modest whenever he is in like a steam room, a hot tub...</poem><br />
:''[Leela and Zapp lying in bed together.]''<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The foot sticking up is a great touch in that scene.</poem><br />
:''[Zapp is lying on the bed talking to Leela with his gut exposed.]''<br />
<poem>'''?''': Ah, that's&ndash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': The gut is genius.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Oh, the gut was supposed to grow and grow over each scene, but it got a little too grotesque, so we had to pull it back a bit.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': So great he got Kirk chest. It's awesome.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': We tried to do every shot, where we saw either a piece of Zapp as one of the sculptures or one of the pictures, just whatever... to remind you that, he's in love with himself.</poem><br />
:''[Zapp is standing up addressing Kif.]''<br />
<poem>'''?''': Originally&ndash; he was&ndash; had both hands on his hip, and then we had to make sure he had to hold it with one hand.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Hold what?</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': The blanket.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Ah, okay. I love the shots where the maximum possible amount of skin is exposed. Through the magic of animation, that the corner of the towel ???.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Easy in animation too...</poem><br />
:''[The crew are harvesting animals on Vergon 6.]''<br />
<poem>'''?''': This is actually the first time, I think, we went to another planet, where we can do something with colour and sky, and trees and everything around the environment.</poem><br />
:''[Fry throws the net over Leela.]''<br />
<poem>'''MG''': Boy, he's stupid.</poem><br />
:''[Nibbler.]''<br />
<poem>'''JD''': Here's Nibbler. Voiced by Frank Welker. Freddie on ''Scobby Doo''. My man goes back, how far back? [URL voice] Way back.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Nibbler plays a larger and larger role in later seasons of the series.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Since this being the first time, we had to talk with Matt a lot on how to develop the character, onto what his specific movements was; more like a cat, more like a monkey, or what have you, so.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Wasn't he gonna fly at some point?</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Yeah, in the original design, he had bat wings.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Frank Welker is a genius. He's done so much stuff&ndash; he used to know Elvis. Elvis used to make him do dog impressions. [Elvis voice] Hey, do that&ndash; do that dog impression for me, Frankie. Hey, Frankie. [normal] I'm serious, no lie. He knew Elvis. But he is known amongst the Hollywood voice community as the guy you hire. He can do a flock of geese in one take. It's like, he's out of control.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': In designing Nibbler I went&ndash; I wanted to do&ndash; I wanted to see if I could make a character that was really ugly when you looked at the components, he's got one nostril, he's got fangs and an eye ball on a stock on the top of his head. And yet he is really&ndash; pretty cute, huh?</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': At one point, did you want mucous to be dripping out of his nose?</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Yeah there was a&ndash; wasn't there a ??? just hanging there, yeah.</poem><br />
:''[Leela is calling Zapp.]''<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I don't think we have any two episodes where the phone technology is the same.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Several different types.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Dial some times, whether with or without picture. This time there is 16 numbers on the phone. 45 maybe.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': The part of Zapp Brannigan was originally meant for Phil Hartman and we knew how great he was, we said "you don't have to come and audition", but he said no, he wanted to, and he came in and of course he nailed the part and he was ready to go and then, you know, he was killed just a couple of weeks later. And you know, it was incredible sad to see this guy, when he came in, so full of life, so much fun. And I don't think I've ever seen an actor enjoy himself as much as Phil Hartman did, not only his own work, but obviously the people who he was playing with.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And I&ndash; regarding Billy West ended up doing the part, he came into audition also and he does it the way he did when he came into audition, he never do an impression of Phil Hartman. We let him do his take on it, once Phil wasn't available...</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I think when you see the signs and you read the lines, that's the way to go.</poem><br />
:''[They are watching Nibbler's litter box.]''<br />
<poem>'''MG''': I think that&ndash; alien equivalent of a cat box is probably a first for prime time animation. What you say?</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': A full cat box.</poem><br />
:''[Vergon 6 explodes.]''<br />
<poem>'''SV''': We used kinda of a warp effect to crumble that planet down and the difficult thing was to get the cartoon lines to kinda show up during the warp.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': A couple of episodes ago, it took them one second to get to the moon, now apparently, it's gonna be an overnight journey... the last miles.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': One thing about the Nimbus &ndash; the design &ndash; going back between Mili [''Smythe''], Matt, Rich and myself. If you look at it, it is a large floating can of ham.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Where did Maurice get that groan from, something we told him? The Kif groan? Anybody know, John?</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ah, actually, I don't know that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Maybe it's a Maurice original.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': We directed him, that would be the response of someone who had no ability to dispute his barboonish captain's orders, he would just moan. No, actually, David, that's your moan that he is doing!</poem><br />
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*[[David X. Cohen]] (DXC)<br />
*[[Matt Groening]] (MG)<br />
*[[Rich Moore]] (RM)<br />
*[[Eric Horsted]] (EH)<br />
*[[Peter Avanzino]] (PA)<br />
*[[Scott Vanzo]] (SV)<br />
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*'''''Note:''' One question mark in bold ('''?''') means that the speaker was not identified by the transcriber.''<br />
*'''''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.''<br />
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<poem>'''[[Matt Groening]]''': Welcome back, planet pals. This is Matt Groening.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Scott Vanzo]]''': Scott Vanzo, director of computer graphics.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Eric Horsted]]''': Eric Horsted, writer and co-executive producer.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[John DiMaggio]]''': This is John DiMaggio, voice of Bender and other characters.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Peter Avanzino]]''': I'm Peter Avanzino, I directed this episode.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[David X. Cohen]]''': I am David Cohen, the executive producer.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Rich Moore]]''': And I am Rich Moore, the supervising director of the series.</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': This was show ten of the first season, when it was actually aired as the season premiere of the second season. So you can see how, sometimes, production seasons and air seasons don't match up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Actually, it affected the reception of this show, probably. 'Cause when this episode was conceived, it was right after the movie ''Titanic'' was out, and it was a giant hit. And of course, over the year a it would have taken anyway to produce this, it would have gotten a little behind the times, but then the additional delay by holding it over the summer may it sort of nostalgic remembrance of the movie, the ''Titanic''.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I miss the cold opening.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': The cold opening was meek&ndash; I think, on the audio track it was like two or three stings. We looped it to about eight for that. The big&ndash; the cut arounds.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And we ended up keeping it just as you delivered it. And we even left the stings in, it was temporary stings that were so corny, that we&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': I think we got the same stings on every tape over and over.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I believe that scene replaced about 10 minutes of material that we originally wrote. It was far too long to go on the&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': We asked Leonardo DiCaprio in this upcoming scene and&ndash; he was busy, so&ndash; well, you'll see what we did.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': The number 9 man.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': What's the story with that man with the number 9 on his shirt?</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, wait, there's Leonardo DiCaprio, hang on. Hah! Take that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You were saying about the number 9 on the shirt?</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': I think... Matt, weren't there going to be people that wore gowns with numbers on them?</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': The original idea was that there was a caste system in the future and people were known by their numbers. There were different levels and mutants and submutants, which ended up getting around to, but we sort of dropped the idea of gown-wearing zombie slaves.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': The ''Titanic'' is one of the more complicated 3D models that we had released at that point of the series. I think it turned out pretty well.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I love all those reflections in the floor. Clear glass and those kind of subtle details like that&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': That was a scene that really took advantage of the computer compositing, 'cause it was very flat, when it first came back and we were able to change the reflection floor from wood to marble.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's John DiMaggio vamping there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': So, if you wrote this episode today, Zoidberg would probably not be receiving a stately room.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': He got a lot poorer since we wrote this.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I am one of the five people in the world that did not see the movie ''Titanic''. So I&ndash; I don't know what this was all in reference to.</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': I had to watch it to write the episode, otherwise I&ndash; God, I cried.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': How was that created?</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': A little 2D warp.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh! A little 2D warp! Far out!</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Standard household 2D warp.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': You can't give away all the secrets.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Yep, it's true.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Or we can't bore you with that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': This is the first visor vision, isn't it?</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I think so, yeah.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I really like this.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Those are 3D dice.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Those look 4D to me, sure they're 3D?</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Nah, just the 3.</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': Little tribute to the Love Boat. "Ah yeah".</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Phil LaMarr as iZac. Yet another use of the copyrighted Apple Macintosh, logos and iMac, iZac. Similarity there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Countess de la Roca voiced by Tress MacNielle.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Named after producer Claudia de la Roca on the show.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yes.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I think, or is it a coincidence.</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': It was a total coincidence.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': You can see Zapp there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': I like how the wheel's just spinning there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There was a scene there where, there was nothing in the scene but a character and a button.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That is science-fiction.</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': You're on the edge of your seat, "what's gonna happen?"</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So many possibilities.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This episode is pretty unusual, in that we follow about&ndash; five different stories, maybe? Four or five? Usually we limit to two or three or one.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': It's Lauren Tom talking to herself with Billy West, right there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': Not sure he was the best guy. The sniffing we heard.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': We made a lot of different coloured nebulas on the show. I know Peter&ndash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Peter ??? are ready.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Yeah. We keep on changing it from red to blue to green.</poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Red is hard colour.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There is one of those extra syllables, Billy puts in the end. "Reboun-the".</poem><br />
<poem>'''R''': Brian and I designed a special mouth chart for him when does that, where he talks through his teeth.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Wow.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': But it was my idea to use it there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Just for the viewer at home, if you want to make an episode like this, you mix one part ''Titanic'', two parts Love Boat and one part Three's Company.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': Let me get that, one part ''Titanic''. Got it!</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Who did- who decided that Leela was gonna show her naval in this scene? That's adorable.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': That was a group decision.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': A lot of the clothing of the future has revealing holes in it.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': You made us cover up the nipples.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You've never forgiven us for that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There's a great callback to this jewel in episode&ndash; in season 3.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': The Amazon...</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's the&ndash; yes, the episode 301, they go to the Amazon planet, there's a flashback about the ''Titanic''. And we see an extra scene which we never saw here, in which Bender throws that gem in a trash can.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I'd like to ask you something, if&ndash; is that a magnetic bowtie?</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yes, magnets on Bender's chest are fine.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ah!</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': On his head, they cause a failure of his inhibition unit.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I see.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': May I point out, that you said you've never seen the movie ''Titanic'', nor have I. Nor have I seen the ''Love Boat'', nor have I seen ''Three's Company''.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': What about ''Star Trek''?</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': No. So I don't get anything in this episode.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I really like this episode, just because there's so many things going on. It just feels really lively to me, every time I see it.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's Dawnn Lewis as LaBarbara.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': This is getting into story number five.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Yet another.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Hey, if I say this now, I won't forget, I think we should do an episode that centres on Hermes taking up limboing again. Competitive limboing.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': It is the best crack.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That is&ndash; most bone crunching crack. I&ndash; my knee hurt when that happen.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': That guy's black hair in the background doesn't work well against outer space.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': And?</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': It looks like a huge crack.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': See! Just by looking at him you can see it wasn't causing any problem, I don't know what the confusion was.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': This is 3D Bender, 3D countess, 3D ship.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Another thing I like about this episode is the music.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Yeah.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Christopher Tyng's score for this really makes it for watching the movie.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Epic shots. Epic music.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Big chicken.</poem><br />
<poem>'''PA?''': One thing that was difficult about this show, was we always had stars in scenes and they are always panning in a certain direction, so we animators made sure they hooked up from scene to scene. And figuring the point of view for each scene was sometimes kind of difficult, when you're kinda working on these scenes out of order.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': In a TV show when people lean near each other, no one else can hear them. It's one of the laws of TV acoustics.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Many people did not know that anytime we have like hum a song, sing a song, we have to pay a fortune for the rights. It's why you rarely hear any songs on a sitcom like this.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's why you hear when Bender whistles, it's always [whistles]. That doesn't&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And when he sings, "Comin' Round the Mountain" or any other song who is 99 years' copyright has expired.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Never "Happy Birthday".</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Camptown Races.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now we invented our version of "Happy Birthday" in a later episode, also saved us the trouble of paying for the real one. Also makes some sense that it would have changed over a thousand years.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': The black hole was hard in this episode, because we don't want it to look completely realistic, but we wanted it to look cool at the same time. It was kinda difficult to get it balanced, we wanted to fit in with the cartoon stuff, but look cool at the same time.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': Realistic would be a black hole, right?</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Actually.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': Against?? stars.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There often is a disc of material, the accretion disc flowing a circle around the black hole, so I think you did a pretty realistic job, personally. Am I right, guys?</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': And it looks cool.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': The most over-qualified staff in television.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': Well not me.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Not me either, I&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': I often go look on the web after these shows and the only thing I read every time is that people are upset that Fry and Leela haven't kissed yet.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I love this gag.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': I am glad they did that in 2D.</poem><br />
<poem>'''PA?''': I think the music really took off in this third act, just adventure.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The huge wides&ndash; huge wide shots like that, it&ndash; you really believe you're in a big space, it's really great.</poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': This scene, from the whole fire thing, if you look at how they are fire lit in every shot and Bender jumps in, he jumps into the fire light and when the fire goes out here, it fades off of them. Just&ndash; it's really amazing.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Oh, where's the family?</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Here comes the yacht&ndash; the yacht shot as more 2D orbs.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': We did&ndash; we did all these water effects that kinda make it look like they are under water. But we're also like behind the propeller, turbulence.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh wait, that's in an upcoming scene.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Oh, I gave it away.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Guess what&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': That's right. They're gonna drown, actually.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': That's part of what was cut, Scott.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yeah, now we get the suspense going again.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': I love that music here.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Unless this some kind of cartoon, he's out of luck.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': What happened to that tray of platters?</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Zoidberg ate it.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': That's all 3D. They're all inside the broken ship.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I've never noticed that before, all the different floors of the ship.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Why aren't seeing the professor's head right now? Oh!</poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': That was kind of a tight close up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's interesting, it started as just a joke that her parents set up Amy with Kif, now it has guided the direction of Kif and Amy's roles in the series in later seasons.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': That shot was also in 3D. The ship warping. We worried that he model wouldn't hold up.</poem><br />
:''[Shareware joke.]'<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Still proud of that one, Eric?</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': It holds up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Then again, what other show would do a joke about shareware? We get extra points for that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Bender is all 3D as well as the capsule.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Our first really sad ending, I think. We did a few since then.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Do you remember the original version of this? There was an intelligent slot machine.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yeah, Bender was playing the slot machine so much that he fell in love with the slot machine. And that was the origin of the countess.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And that was the countess' real boyfriend or&mdash;?</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There was a few variations, I think there was a bomb in the slot machine.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': No no, the slot machine always made Bender lose.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh right.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': And they decided to play the slots one last time to see who would be sacrificed.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's right.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': And the slot machine sacrificed himself and his love.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': So does that mean that Bender&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's right, in the original one the slot machine had a heroic role and the sacrifice&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Well, the twist at the end&ndash; I didn't think you realise the slot machine was intelligent and the last thing the slot machine said was "I love you" to the countess.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And think we did it better with this one. Our options would have been limited with the talking slot machine. Unless you were talking about cherries and apples.</poem><br />
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*[[David X. Cohen]] (DXC)<br />
*[[Matt Groening]] (MG)<br />
*[[Rich Moore]] (RM)<br />
*[[Eric Horsted]] (EH)<br />
*[[Peter Avanzino]] (PA)<br />
*[[Scott Vanzo]] (SV)<br />
*[[John DiMaggio]] (JD)<br />
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*'''''Note:''' One question mark in bold ('''?''') means that the speaker was not identified by the transcriber.''<br />
*'''''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.''<br />
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<poem>'''[[Matt Groening]]''': Welcome back, planet pals. This is Matt Groening.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Scott Vanzo]]''': Scott Vanzo, director of computer graphics.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Eric Horsted]]''': Eric Horsted, writer and co-executive producer.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[John DiMaggio]]''': This is John DiMaggio, voice of Bender and other characters.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Peter Avanzino]]''': I'm Peter Avanzino, I directed this episode.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[David X. Cohen]]''': I am David Cohen, the executive producer.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Rich Moore]]''': And I am Rich Moore, the supervising director of the series.</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': This was show ten of the first season, when it was actually aired as the season premiere of the second season. So you can see how, sometimes, production seasons and air seasons don't match up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Actually, it affected the reception of this show, probably. 'Cause when this episode was conceived, it was right after the movie ''Titanic'' was out, and it was a giant hit. And of course, over the year a it would have taken anyway to produce this, it would have gotten a little behind the times, but then the additional delay by holding it over the summer may it sort of nostalgic remembrance of the movie, the ''Titanic''.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I miss the cold opening.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': The cold opening was meek&ndash; I think, on the audio track it was like two or three stings. We looped it to about eight for that. The big&ndash; the cut arounds.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And we ended up keeping it just as you delivered it. And we even left the stings in, it was temporary stings that were so corny, that we&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': I think we got the same stings on every tape over and over.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I believe that scene replaced about 10 minutes of material that we originally wrote. It was far too long to go on the&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': We asked Leonardo DiCaprio in this upcoming scene and&ndash; he was busy, so&ndash; well, you'll see what we did.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': The number 9 man.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': What's the story with that man with the number 9 on his shirt?</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh, wait, there's Leonardo DiCaprio, hang on. Hah! Take that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You were saying about the number 9 on the shirt?</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': I think... Matt, weren't there going to be people that wore gowns with numbers on them?</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': The original idea was that there was a caste system in the future and people were known by their numbers. There were different levels and mutants and submutants, which ended up getting around to, but we sort of dropped the idea of gown-wearing zombie slaves.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': The ''Titanic'' is one of the more complicated 3D models that we had released at that point of the series. I think it turned out pretty well.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I love all those reflections in the floor. Clear glass and those kind of subtle details like that&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': That was a scene that really took advantage of the computer compositing, 'cause it was very flat, when it first came back and we were able to change the reflection floor from wood to marble.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's John DiMaggio vamping there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': So, if you wrote this episode today, Zoidberg would probably not be receiving a stately room.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': He got a lot poorer since we wrote this.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I am one of the five people in the world that did not see the movie ''Titanic''. So I&ndash; I don't know what this was all in reference to.</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': I had to watch it to write the episode, otherwise I&ndash; God, I cried.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': How was that created?</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': A little 2D warp.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Oh! A little 2D warp! Far out!</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Standard household 2D warp.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': You can't give away all the secrets.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Yep, it's true.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Or we can't bore you with that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': This is the first visor vision, isn't it?</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I think so, yeah.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I really like this.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Those are 3D dice.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Those look 4D to me, sure they're 3D?</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Nah, just the 3.</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': Little tribute to the Love Boat. "Ah yeah".</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Phil LaMarr as iZac. Yet another use of the copyrighted Apple Macintosh, logos and iMac, iZac. Similarity there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Countess de la Roca voiced by Tress MacNielle.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Named after producer Claudia de la Roca on the show.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Yes.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I think, or is it a coincidence.</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': It was a total coincidence.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': You can see Zapp there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': I like how the wheel's just spinning there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There was a scene there where, there was nothing in the scene but a character and a button.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That is science-fiction.</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': You're on the edge of your seat, "what's gonna happen?"</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': So many possibilities.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': This episode is pretty unusual, in that we follow about&ndash; five different stories, maybe? Four or five? Usually we limit to two or three or one.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': It's Lauren Tom talking to herself with Billy West, right there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': Not sure he was the best guy. The sniffing we heard.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': We made a lot of different coloured nebulas on the show. I know Peter&ndash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Peter ??? are ready.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Yeah. We keep on changing it from red to blue to green.</poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': Red is hard colour.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There is one of those extra syllables, Billy puts in the end. "Reboun-the".</poem><br />
<poem>'''R''': Brian and I designed a special mouth chart for him when does that, where he talks through his teeth.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Wow.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': But it was my idea to use it there.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Just for the viewer at home, if you want to make an episode like this, you mix one part ''Titanic'', two parts Love Boat and one part Three's Company.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': Let me get that, one part ''Titanic''. Got it!</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Who did- who decided that Leela was gonna show her naval in this scene? That's adorable.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': That was a group decision.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': A lot of the clothing of the future has revealing holes in it.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': You made us cover up the nipples.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': You've never forgiven us for that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There's a great callback to this jewel in episode&ndash; in season 3.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': The Amazon...</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's the&ndash; yes, the episode 301, they go to the Amazon planet, there's a flashback about the ''Titanic''. And we see an extra scene which we never saw here, in which Bender throws that gem in a trash can.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I'd like to ask you something, if&ndash; is that a magnetic bowtie?</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yes, magnets on Bender's chest are fine.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Ah!</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': On his head, they cause a failure of his inhibition unit.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': I see.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': May I point out, that you said you've never seen the movie ''Titanic'', nor have I. Nor have I seen the ''Love Boat'', nor have I seen ''Three's Company''.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': What about ''Star Trek''?</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': No. So I don't get anything in this episode.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I really like this episode, just because there's so many things going on. It just feels really lively to me, every time I see it.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's Dawnn Lewis as LaBarbara.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': This is getting into story number five.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Yet another.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Hey, if I say this now, I won't forget, I think we should do an episode that centres on Hermes taking up limboing again. Competitive limboing.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': It is the best crack.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That is&ndash; most bone crunching crack. I&ndash; my knee hurt when that happen.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': That guy's black hair in the background doesn't work well against outer space.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': And?</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': It looks like a huge crack.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': See! Just by looking at him you can see it wasn't causing any problem, I don't know what the confusion was.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': This is 3D Bender, 3D countess, 3D ship.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Another thing I like about this episode is the music.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Yeah.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Christopher Tyng's score for this really makes it for watching the movie.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Epic shots. Epic music.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Big chicken.</poem><br />
<poem>'''PA?''': One thing that was difficult about this show, was we always had stars in scenes and they are always panning in a certain direction, so we animators made sure they hooked up from scene to scene. And figuring the point of view for each scene was sometimes kind of difficult, when you're kinda working on these scenes out of order.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': In a TV show when people lean near each other, no one else can hear them. It's one of the laws of TV acoustics.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Many people did not know that anytime we have like hum a song, sing a song, we have to pay a fortune for the rights. It's why you rarely hear any songs on a sitcom like this.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': That's why you hear when Bender whistles, it's always [whistles]. That doesn't&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And when he sings, "Comin' Round the Mountain" or any other song who is 99 years' copyright has expired.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Never "Happy Birthday".</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Camptown Races.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Now we invented our version of "Happy Birthday" in a later episode, also saved us the trouble of paying for the real one. Also makes some sense that it would have changed over a thousand years.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': The black hole was hard in this episode, because we don't want it to look completely realistic, but we wanted it to look cool at the same time. It was kinda difficult to get it balanced, we wanted to fit in with the cartoon stuff, but look cool at the same time.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': Realistic would be a black hole, right?</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Actually.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': Against?? stars.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There often is a disc of material, the accretion disc flowing a circle around the black hole, so I think you did a pretty realistic job, personally. Am I right, guys?</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': And it looks cool.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': The most over-qualified staff in television.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': Well not me.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Not me either, I&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': I often go look on the web after these shows and the only thing I read every time is that people are upset that Fry and Leela haven't kissed yet.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': I love this gag.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': I am glad they did that in 2D.</poem><br />
<poem>'''PA?''': I think the music really took off in this third act, just adventure.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': The huge wides&ndash; huge wide shots like that, it&ndash; you really believe you're in a big space, it's really great.</poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': This scene, from the whole fire thing, if you look at how they are fire lit in every shot and Bender jumps in, he jumps into the fire light and when the fire goes out here, it fades off of them. Just&ndash; it's really amazing.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Oh, where's the family?</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': Here comes the yacht&ndash; the yacht shot as more 2D orbs.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': We did&ndash; we did all these water effects that kinda make it look like they are under water. But we're also like behind the propeller, turbulence.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh wait, that's in an upcoming scene.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Oh, I gave it away.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Guess what&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': That's right. They're gonna drown, actually.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': That's part of what was cut, Scott.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yeah, now we get the suspense going again.</poem><br />
<poem>'''RM''': I love that music here.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Unless this some kind of cartoon, he's out of luck.</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': What happened to that tray of platters?</poem><br />
<poem>'''?''': Zoidberg ate it.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': That's all 3D. They're all inside the broken ship.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': I've never noticed that before, all the different floors of the ship.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Why aren't seeing the professor's head right now? Oh!</poem><br />
<poem>'''PA''': That was kind of a tight close up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': It's interesting, it started as just a joke that her parents set up Amy with Kif, now it has guided the direction of Kif and Amy's roles in the series in later seasons.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': That shot was also in 3D. The ship warping. We worried that he model wouldn't hold up.</poem><br />
:''[Shareware joke.]'<br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Still proud of that one, Eric?</poem><br />
<poem>'''EH''': It holds up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Then again, what other show would do a joke about shareware? We get extra points for that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''SV''': Bender is all 3D as well as the capsule.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Our first really sad ending, I think. We did a few since then.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Do you remember the original version of this? There was an intelligent slot machine.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Yeah, Bender was playing the slot machine so much that he fell in love with the slot machine. And that was the origin of the countess.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': And that was the countess' real boyfriend or&mdash;?</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': There was a few variations, I think there was a bomb in the slot machine.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': No no, the slot machine always made Bender lose.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': Oh right.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': And they decided to play the slots one last time to see who would be sacrificed.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's right.</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': And the slot machine sacrificed himself and his love.</poem><br />
<poem>'''JD''': So does that mean that Bender&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': That's right, in the original one the slot machine had a heroic role and the sacrifice&mdash;</poem><br />
<poem>'''MG''': Well, the twist at the end&ndsah; I didn't think you realise the slot machine was intelligent and the last thing the slot machine said was "I love you" to the countess.</poem><br />
<poem>'''DXC''': And think we did it better with this one. Our options would have been limited with the talking slot machine. Unless you were talking about cherries and apples.</poem><br />
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<div>It doesn't really matter now, but I would have made these plot pages subpages of the main page on the topic and used that as a regular inclusion rather than templates. Its a weird usage of the template namespace lol. &mdash;'''[[User:JediRogue|Jedi<font color=red>&hearts;</font>Rogue]]''' 22:00, 30 December 2010 (CET)</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=President_Fxjkhr&diff=77067President Fxjkhr2010-12-30T20:55:12Z<p>JediRogue: /* Trivia */</p>
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|name=President Fxjkhr<br />
|type=t<br />
|type2=d<br />
|type3=p<br />
|image=[[Image:FXJKHR.jpg|225px]]<br />
|first appear={{elink|2ACV03|A Head in the Polls}}<br />
|job=60th [[President of Earth]]<br />
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'''Fxjkhr''' was the 60th [[President of Earth]]. He seems to be an anthropophagus (he eats humans) as a statue of him shows him eating a person as well as skulls surrounding him. It is unknown if he was the first alien president of [[Earth]] and may have got into power through the use of violence and blackmail or his species may have invaded and made him the new leader.<br />
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==Additional Info==<br />
===Trivia=== <br />
*The Fxjkhr monument in [[Washington DC]] is based on the Lincoln Memorial.<br />
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===Appearances===<br />
*{{elink|2ACV03|A Head in the Polls}}<br />
*{{elink|4ACV05|A Taste of Freedom}}<br />
===See Also===<br />
*[[President of Earth]]<br />
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[[Category:Aliens]]<br />
[[Category:Earth presidents]]</div>JediRoguehttps://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=War_Is_the_H-Word&diff=77064War Is the H-Word2010-12-30T19:53:59Z<p>JediRogue: /* Act I: "War were declared" */</p>
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|name=War Is the H-Word<br />
|no=30<br />
|image=[[File:War is the H-word.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=2<br />
|broadcast season=3<br />
|number=2ACV17<br />
|caption=Touch eyeballs to screen for cheap laser surgery<br />
|first aired=26 November, 2000<br />
|written by=Eric Horsted<br />
|directed by=Ron Hughart<br />
|title reference=General Sherman's words "War is Hell"<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon={{w|Felix the Cat}} in "Neptune Nonsense"<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S03E02<br />
|special guest=[[Todd Susman]]<br />
|prev ep=Anthology of Interest I<br />
|next ep=The Honking<br />
|broad prev=The Honking<br />
|broad next=The Cryonic Woman<br />
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"'''War Is the H-Word'''" is the thirtieth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the seventeenth of the [[Season 2|second production season]] and the second of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]]. It aired 26 November, 2000 on FOX. It guest stars [[Todd Susman]] as the speaker at the DOOP camp. [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] are enrolled into the [[DOOP Army|army]] and are forced into a [[The Battle of Spheron 1|battle against the Spheroids]].<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "War were declared" ===<br />
[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] are visiting a [[7¹¹]] where they see an army sergeant get a 5% military discount. After being denied a similar discount because they are not in the military, Fry and Bender sign up, intending to quit after using the discount. Unfortunately, they are thwarted by the outbreak of war - they are stuck in the [[DOOP Army|army]]. The crew accompany them to [[South Street Spaceport]] where the ''Nimbus'', under the command of [[Zapp Brannigan]], is made ready for the expedition. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] wants to enlist, but Zapp refuses as the military has a strict men-only policy. The ship leaves for [[Spheron 1]], the target of the operation, although no specific reason for the conflict becomes apparent. While the recruits go through their training, one is surpassing all the others: a purple-haired and purple-bearded man who always wears goggles, known as Lee Lemon. Zapp is instantly interested in him for reasons unclear to himself. The ''Nimbus'' reaches its destination, and the soldiers are unloaded onto the surface.<br />
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=== Act II: "The enemy - they're balls!" ===<br />
It turns out that the enemy are enormous crowds of living balls who attack the Earthican troops by bouncing up and down on them. The soldiers defend themselves and inflict casualties with the enemy, Fry excels by an act of cowardice through which they are overrun. As a bomb is rolling into the Earthican lines, Bender throws himself onto the bomb so it detonates harmlessly inside his chest cabinet. The wounded are brought to a field hospital that has an air of ''M*A*S*H'' around it, [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] is part of the surgical team and having his differences with [[iHawk]]. Zapp Brannigan makes Fry [[Kif Kroker|Kif]]'s assistant for his cowardice. Meanwhile Bender is not too well, but [[Richard Nixon's head]] orders him fixed as he has some plans with him. Once Bender is whole again, he is sent on a mission of peace to the enemy leaders, the [[Brain Balls]], and with him goes [[Earth]]'s top peace negotiator, [[Henry Kissinger's Head]]. However, in the shower Fry and Lee Lemon overhear Zapp and Nixon planning to blow up the whole planet with a bomb hidden inside Bender, which is activated by Zapp with a remote control as Bender and Kissinger are already negotiating with the Brain Balls.<br />
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=== Act III: "Make Bender happy or he blows up the planet!" ===<br />
The Earth troops are preparing to leave the planet, but Lee Lemon wants to know when the bomb will explode. It turns out it is voice-activated, and will trigger when Bender says the word that is on the first place of his Top Ten of most-used words: ASS. Lee Lemon and Fry steal a chopper to save Bender, but Zapp Brannigan tries to stop them. Lemon beats him up (giving him a black eye) and reveals himself to be Leela. She pilots the stolen chopper to the place of the negotiations, where she pushes Fry out of the vehicle so he can land and save Bender. Fry is just in time to prevent Bender from saying the A-word so he won't blow them all to the H-word. Bender promptly uses the new situation to put the screws on the Brain Balls, who give in to Earths demands in order to prevent Bender from blowing up the whole planet. The balls leave Spheron 1, the war is over. Back at [[Planet Express]], the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] and Zoidberg are unable to remove the bomb, so they reset the word that triggers it - a word from the list of words Bender almost never uses. Bender is curious to know what word it is, but the crew think it is better if he doesn't know. Bender, however, is now set on finding out the word, and as he finds it, the bomb goes off.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:Promo 2ACV17.jpg|right|thumbnail|[[Promo pic]] of this episode]]<br />
[[File:Promo 2nd 2ACV17.jpg|right|thumbnail|The second promo pic of this episode]]<br />
[[File:May 2002.JPG|right|thumbnail|May - 2002 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The episode’s original east coast airing was interrupted by a special news bulletin. Unfortunately, the interruption came a minute before the very end of the episode, right before the audience was to learn Bender’s fate after supposedly triggering the bomb on Earth.<br />
*'Bender’s Top Ten Most Frequently Uttered Words’ in full:<br />
**10. 'Chump'<br />
**9. 'Chumpette'<br />
**8. 'Yours'<br />
**7. 'Up'<br />
**6. 'Pimpmobile'<br />
**5. 'Bite'<br />
**4. 'My'<br />
**3. 'Shiny'<br />
**2. 'Daffodil'<br />
**1. 'Ass'<br />
*Bender says every one of these words at least once in the episode.<br />
*Bender believes his least frequently uttered words to be:<br />
**8.'Please'<br />
**7.'Thanks'<br />
**6.'Sorry'<br />
**5.'Funderful'<br />
**4.'Non-alcoholic'<br />
**3.'Compassion'<br />
**2.'Shrimp-Toast'<br />
**1.'Antiquing'<br />
[[File:Round Hips.jpg|thumb|Round Hips Sink Ships]]<br />
*At the end, Bender says “I’m all right,” but the captions say “Hootenanny?”. The Region 2 DVD shows the correct words.<br />
*At the beginning of the episode, Fry is shown looking at these gum brands, contemplating which to buy:<br />
**Spider Yum ( A reference to the urban legend that Bubble Yum brand gum contained [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/bubbleyum.asp spider eggs]<br />
**Hubble Bubble (A cross reference between the [[Hubble Telescope]] and Dubble Bubble Gum, plus a possible reference to Hubba Bubba)<br />
**Liquid Nitrogum (A parody on Liquid nitrogen)<br />
**Big Pink (A parody on Big Red) - Fry chooses this because it is the only gum with the breath freshening power of ham. And according to Bender it "pinkens your teeth while you chew."<br />
**Oozy F___ (A parody of Juicy Fruit)<br />
*This is the second episode in which the words "ding dong" is mentioned in the same room as Nixon, the first being "[[A Head in the Polls]]".<br />
*The recruiting poster outside the recruitment centre says "Join the Army - What are you, chicken? Buk buk buk". Inside we see a poster of a flag-draped coffin labeled "Employee of the Month".<br />
*The army's men-only policy is accentuated by propaganda posters, slogan ''Round hips sink ships'' - a reference to World War II posters saying ''Loose lips sink ships'' warning against possible German agents.<br />
*On the hull of the ''Nimbus'' a poster says "Buy bonds - sell stocks".<br />
*Outside the Officer's club stands a sign that reads "We don't know but we've been told our beer on tap is mighty cold". A parody of common military cadence calls that begin, "I don't know, but I've been told..." In addition, this may be a direct parody of a cadence call from the film "Full Metal Jacket" that goes "I don't know, but I've been told Eskimo p***y is mighty cold."<br />
*The Earthicans used positron shooters against the brains.<br />
*This episode is named #7 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p2.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #4 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Oooh, Big Pink - the only gum with the breath freshening power of ham!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': This is the worst kind of discrimination, the kind against me!<br />
'''Clerk''': Alright, look, our policy is: If for any reason you're not ''completely'' satisfied... I hate you.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': Alas, after a series of deadly blunders caused by distracting low-cut fatigues and lots of harmless pinching, the Army decided women weren't fit for service. Not when I’m in charge.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': Men, you're lucky men. Soon you'll all be fighting for your planet. Many of you will be dying for your planet. A few of you will be forced through a fine mesh screen for your planet. They'll be the luckiest of all.<br />
'''Bender''': Great. We're gonna die.<br />
'''Fry''': And this ham gum is all bones!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Uh, just so we'll know - who's the enemy?<br />
'''Zapp Brannigan''': A valid question! We know nothing about their language, their history or what they look like. But we can assume this: they stand for everything we don't stand for. Also they told me you guys look like dorks!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': [lee] Lemon, you're a man. You're a man's man. You're a man's man's man. And more importantly your hand, while strong and masculine, is soft as a velvet child.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': Private Lee Lemon may well be the finest recruit I've seen in all my years of service. That young man fills me with hope. And some other emotions which are weird and deeply confusing.<br />
'''Kif''': Eeh!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': As you all know, the key to victory is the element of surprise. Surprise! ''[Pushes button, the soldiers fall onto the surface of Spheron 1.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': [about Bender] This is the bravest soldier I've seen since my mirror got grease on it. I hereby order that in Bender's honour, he be melted down and made into a statue of himself.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': ''[About to parachute down to rescue Bender.]'' OK, this is it. My best friend's life is at stake. I can finally prove I am not a coward. [hesitates] Will you push me?<br />
'''Leela''': I already did.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Henry Kissinger's Head''': Young man, you have the bravery of a hero. And breath as fresh as a summer ham.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Prof. Hubert J. Farnsworth''': Now, be careful, Fry. And if you kill anyone, make sure to eat their heart to gain their courage. Their rich, tasty courage.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': We want to join because we, "love our planet" [sniggers] '.<br />
'''Recruitment Officer''': Sign here, patriots, and I'll give you your discount cards.<br />
'''Fry''': Hey, just out of mere curiosity, we can use the discount cards to buy gum, then immediately quit the army, right?<br />
'''Bender''': You know, play you off for chumps.<br />
'''Recruitment Officer''': Correct, there are no obligations. ''[Fry and Bender snigger.]'' Unless of course, war were declared. [siren sounds]<br />
'''Fry''': What was that?<br />
'''Recruitment Officer''': War were declared.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': [performing surgery] Scalpel... blood bucket... priest... next patient.</poem><br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
'''Time''': 09:59<br /><br />
'''Location''': Hospital Tent<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': M*E*A*T<br />
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=== Outside References ===<br />
*A sign outside the shop Fry and Bender are in at the start of the episode reads "Free bag of Ice-9 with 6-pack", a reference to the substance Ice-9, created by Kurt Vonnegut in his novel ''Cat’s Cradle''.<br />
*Zapp Brannigan briefs the troops in front of a large Earthican flag, a parody of the opening scene of the movie ''Patton''.<br />
*Zapp Brannigan tells Kif to send in a quip to Humor in Uniform, a regular article in "Reader's Digest"<br />
*The Piñata [[starwars:Lightsaber|Lightsaber]] scene parodies the scene where [[starwars:Obi-Wan Kenobi|Obi-Wan Kenobi]] trains [[starwars:Luke Skywalker|Luke Skywalker]] in [[starwars:Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]].<br />
**This clip was also featured in [[starwars:The Birth of the Lightsaber|"The Birth of the Lightsaber"]] featurette on the [[starwars:Star Wars Trilogy (DVD)|25 anniversary trilogy DVD]].<br />
*Bender is treated by a robot doctor named iHawk — a parody of Alan Alda’s Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce (voiced by actor/impersonator Maurice LaMarche), and the Apple line of iProducts. At one point, the robot flips a switch from “irreverent” to “maudlin,” a reference to the duality of Alda’s character portrayal. Additionally, [[Todd Susman]] provides the voice of the P.A. announcer as he did in ''M*A*S*H''.<br />
*An extended ''M*A*S*H'' joke is played in the episode when Bender is evacuated to a mobile hospital. A “Suicide Is Painless” soundalike appears in the score, and many of the ensuing jokes are in M*A*S*H style. The alienese on the tent says *M*E*A*T, hence “mash meat.” Also, the first time that iHawk and Dr. Zoidberg are in the tent, it's a parody of Hawkeye fighting with Major Frank Burns: Zoidberg is Frank, the unnamed nurse is Major Margaret Houlihan, and iHawk is Hawkeye.<br />
*Bender’s Top Ten Used Words list is a reference to ''David Letterman’s Top Ten''.<br />
*There are numerous references to the ball aliens as testicles: “These balls are making me testy!”; Brannigan is referring to the “Brain Balls” as having a lot of brains, and a lot of chutzpa (which he says while cupping his hand and raising it); the formerly mentioned newspaper headline, “Balls Thoroughly Licked”; and the plea for peace by Kissinger that "we have all seen too many body bags and ball sacks," are a few.<br />
*The war on Spheron 1 and the equipment of the Earthican troops seems to be inspired by the movie ''Starship Troopers''. Additionally, the Brain Balls are analogous to the Brain Bugs of Starship Troopers.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[7¹¹ Clerk]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Brain balls]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[iHawk]]<br />
*[[Jellyfish Nurse]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Henry Kissinger's Head]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Horsted]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Ron Hughart]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Eric Horsted]]<br />
**[[Ron Hughart]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
*Special Guest<br />
**[[Todd Susman]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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