Commentary:A Fishful of Dollars
Production Number: 1ACV06
DVD: Season 1, Disc 2
Commentary
Topics of Discussion
- The dream Fry has is similar to ones most kids have without the Lightspeed Briefs
- The Fry action figure comes with a pair of lightspeed briefs
- The title is a reference to the Clint Eastwood movie A Fistfull of Dollars
- This episode is the first time Bender shoplifts
- They considered changing the currency from dollars to something else
- The introduction of Mom
- Two of the show's writers hold PhDs in Mathematics
- This marks the first appearance of Scruffy, although he doesn't work for Planet Express
- Argument of whether anchovies are nice or bad
- The anchovies come with the Fry action figure and Mom's oil comes with Bender
- The future has many animal fights: both squid and apes
- Richard Nixon's Head was originally meant to help Mom's sons convince Fry he's in the year 2000
- The Atomic Super men mentioned by the Professor appear in Time Keeps on Slippin'
Highlights / Quotes
- Matt Groening: So Gregg do you want to say something about the Opening Sequence??
- Gregg Vanzo: I guess not.
- Unknown: He said adverts on bananas which ABC threatened to do!
- Gregg Vanzo: Fry was meant to buy another robot friend called Deluxor.
- David X. Cohen: We have the largest number a gasps than any show in TV history.
Commentators
- Matt Groening
- Creator
- David X. Cohen
- Executive Producer
- Rich Moore
- Supervising Director
- Patric M. Verrone
- Writer
- Gregg Vanzo
- Co-Director
- Supervising Director
- John DiMaggio
- Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)