Commentary:A Pharaoh to Remember

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Commentary for
A Pharaoh to Remember
Production number	3ACV17
On DVD	Season 3 Disc 3
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Topics of Discussion

• Intending to be serious this time.
• A lot o though was put into the colour of Bender's speedos to make them sexier.
• Fry and Bender supply commentary for this episode instead of Billy and John, though John doesn't do this consistently.
  • Fry thinks his acting sucks.
• Ron Weiner tends to have dancing in all his episodes.
• The first idea for the episode was the fake funeral.
  • Funerals have seemingly replaced courtroom scenes in Futurama as the serious moment with formal procedure.
• Chemical composition of Bender.
• High quality of music from Christopher Tyng.
• The hieroglyphics used are not translatable into readable language.
• The discussion at the weight loss booth was improvised by Billy and John
• A scene with Fry running from a block sliding down the pyramid was removed.
• Follows Stark Trek tradition of having another planet exactly like an ancient time on Earth.
• Good to focus on a character's need to be remembered, this emotion is rare on TV.
• Bender was possibly too mean.
• The animators usually try to put the women in skimpier outfits than the slave clothes.
• The original version of the explosion burned the entire planet.
  • This version keeps the people alive, or at least most of them.

Highlights / Quotes

• Fry: I can't watch this. It's unwatchable. I'm so embarrassed of my acting in this. I suck! I shouldn't be on TV this is crazy.
• Matt: We don't need writers, just animate this.
• Farnsworth: They cut the bee sting scene out.
• David X. Cohen: Hey Fry, what do you think of Billy West?
  Fry: What do I think of him? I don't know him.
  David X. Cohen: He knows you.
• Farnsworth: I'm sitting here naked with a tin foil hat.

Goofs

• Bender is able to lift massive weights but the ending of one episode showed that he couldn't lift, only bend. Bender's explanation is that "Bender is great".

Commentators

• Matt Groening
  • Executive Producer
• David X. Cohen
  • Executive Producer
• Rich Moore
  • Supervising Director
• Ron Weiner
  • Writer
• John DiMaggio
  • Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)
• Billy West
  • Actor (Fry, Professor Farnsworth, miscellaneous)
• Bender Bending Rodriguez
• Philip J. Fry
• Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth

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