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Personally, 35/40
|next ep=The Series Has Landed
|name= Space Pilot 3000
|image= [[File:Space Pilot 3000.jpg|225px]]
|number= 1ACV01
|season= 1
|disc= 1
|hastranscript=yes
|parti A=Matt Groening
|parti A job=Writer, creator
|parti B=David X. Cohen
|parti B job=Writer, executive producer
|parti C=Rich Moore
|parti C job=Co-director, supervising director
|parti D=Gregg Vanzo
|parti D job=Co-director, supervising director
|parti E=John DiMaggio
|parti E job=Actor ([[Bender]], etc.)
}}


== Commentary ==
Great for a pilot, but where is the avion.
=== Topics of Discussion ===
Ich weiss, dass es ist nicht gut, aber ich bin sehr BAD.
*They attempted to insert secrets into the episode to set up the future episodes and plan to point them out in the commentary.
**Secrets included the [[Nibbler]] shadow; at several other points the group randomly said "Secret!" despite nothing important being on screen.
*Simultaneous countdown is a stretch.
*The sequence while [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] is frozen was inspired by ''The Time Machine''
*Script changed many times, but it was seen as important to end the cold opening in the future.
**An early version of the script featured Fry being sold at an auction to the professor for spare organs.
**Another early version had Fry as a night watchman at the (1999) cryogenics lab.
**Fry was to be the captain of the ship.
**He may also have been an army man.
**A  removed scene featured flashbacks of important parts of Fry's life; Birth, College, etc.
***Such long scenes caused them to have two hours worth of material.
*The first shot of New New York was also the first 3D sequence in the show, and an experiment of sorts.
*It was decided all technology was to malfunction, much like it does in the present.
*Character design
**Difficulties animating a cyclops, origins of the [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] character.
**Designers didn't want Leela's nose as big as it is, Matt had to push for it, the belief was that female leads had to have tiny noses.
**[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] used to have ear antennas.
**Fry's outfit is based on James Dean in ''Rebel Without a Cause''.
**All designs in [[Matt Groening]]'s style are intended to be recognisable from silhouette.
*Fox was shocked at the high ratings the pilot received and didn't understand most of the concepts, particularly the suicide booths.
*Bender's voice was what [[John DiMaggio]] thought the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] should sound like.
*The Statue of Liberty was going to be robotic.
*[[Suicide Booth]]s are based on a Donald Duck cartoon, in which Donald went to a museum of the future and used coin-op devices that injured him.
*[[Career Chip]]s were going to be much more important.
*[[David X. Cohen|Cohen]] points out a sign with alien language one on it and discusses the languages.
*The group was thrilled to have "approval" from Leonard Nimoy, and to be able to still make fun of [[Richard Nixon's head|Nixon]].
*Notes that the French language is gone.
 
=== Highlights / Quotes ===
*'''David X. Cohen''': That's my parent's home address "405". It's a different street, but that's where the number came from.<br/>[laughter]<br/>'''Matt Groening''': Wow! Everything is of significance.
*'''Rich Moore''': I think this is the first time we see Leela?
*'''Fox''' (a production note made on the script): Standard caution on the probulator.
 
=== Goofs ===
*They note that they are aware Leela's armband is on the wrong arm.
 
=== Related DVD Features ===
*Season 1, Disc 1
**Animatics
**Script<br/>The script contains an early version of the episode, which includes a mild profanity; divided by the introduction ([[Media:Naughty_Fry.jpg|A]], [[Media:Naughty_Fry_2.jpg|B]])
**Storyboard
 
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Revision as of 19:21, 28 July 2010

Personally, 35/40

Great for a pilot, but where is the avion. Ich weiss, dass es ist nicht gut, aber ich bin sehr BAD.

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