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===Topics of Discussion===
===Topics of Discussion===
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*One of the most challenging episodes to write due to telling the story in two different time periods.
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**Made use of differently coloured story cards, to indict the time periods.
*Attempted to insert secrets into the episode to set up the future episodes and plan to point them out in the commentary.
**This technique was inspired by ''The Godfather II''.
**Secrets included the Nibbler shadow, at several other points the group randomly said "Secret!" despite nothing important being on screen.
*Needed to remind people that [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]'s first name was Philip.
*Simultanious countdown is a stretch.
*Horses are hard to animate, they researched them by going to the track.
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*Quantum mechanics joke ([[Wikipedia:Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle|Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle]]) is probably the only one of it's kind anywhere.
*Origin of horse based food salesman's voice.
*Originally, the [[comatonin]] was to be in a hypodermic, but it was too creepy.
**Also the jockey who came in was originally just a "guy who loved horses"
*Pointing out the advertising on the stands.
*Finding four leaf clovers.
*The [[Hair Robot]].
*Tribute to ''The PJs'', and their reciprocation.
*[[John DiMaggio]]'s beat-boxing and his stand up gigs.
*Design of Fry's crew.
*[[Andy Goldman]] is a childhood friend of one of Ron's friends from collage.
*The Fry family's house is [[Eric Kaplan]]'s house. The station was based on his local subway station.
*Musical interlude.
*The vault was originally to be opened with a laser from [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]'s [[Wristlojackimator]]
*There was lots of discussion about which album the clover should be in.
*A variety of shout-outs.
*The idea of Fry having a brother was only developed for this episode, however with Fry being Farnsworth's distant uncle, he had to have a sibling.
*The actual version of Doh-Doh can apparently be used in the way [[Yancy Fry, Jr.|Yancy]] uses it.
*Apparently went through ten celebrity body parts for Bender to take.
*[[Ron Weiner]] won an Annie for writing for this episode.
*Comments from [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.futurama/topics alt.tv.futurama].


===Highlights / Quotes===
===Highlights / Quotes===
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*'''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.
*'''Internet forum user''': I want to know what that creepy hair-robot thing was.<br/>'''Rich''': I wrote that.
*'''Unknown''': I think this is the first time we see Leela.
 
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===Goofs===
*The origin of Bender being Mexican is said to be [[Amazon Women in the Mood|episode 301]] when his door falls off, but he was already revealed to be from America's heartland of Mexico in [[Raging Bender|208]].
*Pointing out that the bum seemed to disappear.
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==Commentators==
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Commentary for
The Luck of the Fryrish
The Luck of the Fryrish.jpg
Production number3ACV04
On DVDSeason 3
Disc 1
Additional
Transcript

Topics of Discussion

  • One of the most challenging episodes to write due to telling the story in two different time periods.
    • Made use of differently coloured story cards, to indict the time periods.
    • This technique was inspired by The Godfather II.
  • Needed to remind people that Fry's first name was Philip.
  • Horses are hard to animate, they researched them by going to the track.
  • Quantum mechanics joke (Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle) is probably the only one of it's kind anywhere.
  • Origin of horse based food salesman's voice.
  • Originally, the comatonin was to be in a hypodermic, but it was too creepy.
    • Also the jockey who came in was originally just a "guy who loved horses"
  • Pointing out the advertising on the stands.
  • Finding four leaf clovers.
  • The Hair Robot.
  • Tribute to The PJs, and their reciprocation.
  • John DiMaggio's beat-boxing and his stand up gigs.
  • Design of Fry's crew.
  • Andy Goldman is a childhood friend of one of Ron's friends from collage.
  • The Fry family's house is Eric Kaplan's house. The station was based on his local subway station.
  • Musical interlude.
  • The vault was originally to be opened with a laser from Leela's Wristlojackimator
  • There was lots of discussion about which album the clover should be in.
  • A variety of shout-outs.
  • The idea of Fry having a brother was only developed for this episode, however with Fry being Farnsworth's distant uncle, he had to have a sibling.
  • The actual version of Doh-Doh can apparently be used in the way Yancy uses it.
  • Apparently went through ten celebrity body parts for Bender to take.
  • Ron Weiner won an Annie for writing for this episode.
  • Comments from alt.tv.futurama.

Highlights / Quotes

  • Billy West: Tom Kenny's the funniest guy in pants.
  • Ron Weiner [on his creation of Hair Robot]: They laughed at me, but you'll see. You'll all see.
  • Internet forum user: I want to know what that creepy hair-robot thing was.
    Rich: I wrote that.

Goofs

  • The origin of Bender being Mexican is said to be episode 301 when his door falls off, but he was already revealed to be from America's heartland of Mexico in 208.
  • Pointing out that the bum seemed to disappear.

Commentators

Futurama episode/film commentaries
1ACV
(Season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" (Animatic commentary) • "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
2ACV
(Season 2)		 "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "A Clone of My Own" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "Mother's Day" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Anthology of Interest I" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Honking" • "The Cryonic Woman"
3ACV
(Season 3)		 "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Parasites Lost" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "The Route of All Evil" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Roswell that Ends Well" (Directors commentary) • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "The 30% Iron Chef"
4ACV
(Season 4)		 "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Love and Rocket" • "Less than Hero" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "Jurassic Bark" (Writers commentary) • "Crimes of the Hot" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" • "The Sting" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
5ACV
(Season 5)
Bender's Big Score The Beast with a Billion Backs Bender's Game Into the Wild Green Yonder
6ACV
(Season 6)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Möbius Dick" • "Law and Oracle" • "Benderama" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Neutopia" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
7ACV
(Season 7)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" (Animators commentary) • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama" • "Forty Percent Leadbelly" • "2-D Blacktop" • "T.: The Terrestrial" • "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" • "The Inhuman Torch" • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" (Animators commentary) • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
8ACV
(Season 8)		 "The Impossible Stream" • "Children of a Lesser Bog" • "How the West Was 1010001" • "Parasites Regained" • "Related to Items You've Viewed" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" • "Rage Against the Vaccine" • "Zapp Gets Cancelled" • "The Prince and the Product" • "All the Way Down"
S01E
(Broadcast season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" (Animatic commentary)
S02E
(Broadcast season 2)		 "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory" • "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "A Clone of My Own" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Mother's Day" • "Anthology of Interest I"
S03E
(Broadcast season 3)		 "The Honking" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Cryonic Woman" • "Parasites Lost" • "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot"
S04E
(Broadcast season 4)		 "Roswell that Ends Well" (Directors commentary) • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Love and Rocket" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "The 30% Iron Chef" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
S05E
(Broadcast season 5)		 "Crimes of the Hot" • "Jurassic Bark" (Writers commentary) • "The Route of All Evil" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Less than Hero" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "The Sting" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
S06E
(Broadcast season 6)		 "Bender's Big Score Part 1" • "Bender's Big Score Part 2" • "Bender's Big Score Part 3" • "Bender's Big Score Part 4" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 2" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 3" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 4" • "Bender's Game Part 1" • "Bender's Game Part 2" • "Bender's Game Part 3" • "Bender's Game Part 4" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 1" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 2" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 3" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 4"
S07E
(Broadcast season 7)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular"
S08E
(Broadcast season 8)		 "Neutopia" • "Benderama" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Law and Oracle" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Möbius Dick" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
S09E
(Broadcast season 9)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" (Animators commentary) • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama"
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