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===Topics of Discussion===
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*Simultanious countdown is a stretch.
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===Highlights / Quotes===
=== Topics of Discussion ===
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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.
**Episode parodies her show ''Ally McBeal''.
*'''Unknown''': I think this is the first time we see Leela.
*The pullback from Earth to [[Omicron Persei 8]] was the longest 3D one they'd done at that point.
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**Omicron Persei is an actual star about 1000 light years away
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===Goofs===
*Clarifying the names of [[Lrrr]] and [[Ndnd]]
List any mistakes made in the commentary, like erroneous statements, someone recieving a phone call, etc or even where the commentators point out an episode goof.
*Sand done digitally in Photoshop, allowing individual grains to be seen.
*[[Monument Beach]] is based on ''Independence Day'''s destruction of the White House.
**A lot of shots were copied from other Sci-Fi.
*Deliberate early introduction of [[Bender]]'s head being a camera.
*Lrrr having trouble with the microphone was a quick joke, but resulted in him always having difficulties with similar technology.
*[[Zapp Brannigan|Zapp]] has jumped in rank from Captain to 25-Star General.
*New designs were needed for vehicles in this episode.
**Such as the school bus with a gun on it.
*The battle was described in the script as "a huge space battle ensues".
*[[Matt Groening|Matt]]'s son Will came up with the salute.
*Awesome 3D.
*The [[Hubble Telescope]] that was destroyed was not the same one that exists today.
*[[Morbo]] was deliberately left out of the episode.
*Old light (and TV signals) travels at the old light speed, only the light produced after scientists increased it's speed travels at the new speed.
*Writers often put notes (called internals) on dialogue to say how it should be read, Bender's "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]?" was noted with "{{w|Arnold Jackson (character)|Arnold}}".
*Electricity den's street is shown briefly, as is the [[Number 9 Man]].


===Related DVD Features===
=== Highlights / Quotes ===
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<poem>'''Unknown''': A lot of science fiction fans will find out, the same shots we kinda pulled from ''[[Star Wars]]'', and ''[[Star Trek]]''.
'''Rich Moore''': Well, this was our first space battle so, we went all out.
'''David X. Cohen''': Where were these beds from; ''Star Trek'' or ''Star Wars''?</poem>
<poem>'''John DiMaggio''': [about the professional beach bully] Ladies, I'm just as ripped.
'''Rich Moore''': That was designed after you, wasn't it? The image.
'''John DiMaggio''': Oh, yeah.
'''Rich Moore''': Before the 'problem'.
'''John DiMaggio''': With the food and booze and flayven.</poem>
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==Commentators==
*[[Matt Groening]]
**Creator
*[[David X. Cohen]]
**Executive Producer
*[[Rich Moore]]
**Supervising Director
*[[Ken Keeler]]
**Writer
*[[Scott Vanzo]]
**Director of Computer Graphics
*[[Brian Sheesley]]
**Director
*[[John DiMaggio]]
**Actor ([[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], miscellaneous)
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Commentary for
When Aliens Attack
When Aliens Attack 1.jpg
Production number1ACV12
On DVDSeason 1
Disc 3
Additional
Transcript
Participants
Matt Groening
Creator
David X. Cohen
Executive producer
Rich Moore
Supervising director
Ken Keeler
Writer
Scott Vanzo
Director of computer graphics
Brian Sheesley
Director
John DiMaggio
Actor (Bender, etc.)

Topics of Discussion

  • WNYW is the name of the actual Fox affiliate in New York.
  • One of the commentators went to college with Calista Flockhart
    • Episode parodies her show Ally McBeal.
  • The pullback from Earth to Omicron Persei 8 was the longest 3D one they'd done at that point.
    • Omicron Persei is an actual star about 1000 light years away
    • During the pullback the Viking or Pioneer probe can be seen.
  • Clarifying the names of Lrrr and Ndnd
  • Sand done digitally in Photoshop, allowing individual grains to be seen.
  • Monument Beach is based on Independence Day's destruction of the White House.
    • A lot of shots were copied from other Sci-Fi.
  • Deliberate early introduction of Bender's head being a camera.
  • Lrrr having trouble with the microphone was a quick joke, but resulted in him always having difficulties with similar technology.
  • Zapp has jumped in rank from Captain to 25-Star General.
  • New designs were needed for vehicles in this episode.
    • Such as the school bus with a gun on it.
  • The battle was described in the script as "a huge space battle ensues".
  • Matt's son Will came up with the salute.
  • Awesome 3D.
  • The Hubble Telescope that was destroyed was not the same one that exists today.
  • Morbo was deliberately left out of the episode.
  • Old light (and TV signals) travels at the old light speed, only the light produced after scientists increased it's speed travels at the new speed.
  • Writers often put notes (called internals) on dialogue to say how it should be read, Bender's "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Fry?" was noted with "Arnold".
  • Electricity den's street is shown briefly, as is the Number 9 Man.

Highlights / Quotes

    Unknown: A lot of science fiction fans will find out, the same shots we kinda pulled from Star Wars, and Star Trek.
    Rich Moore: Well, this was our first space battle so, we went all out.
    David X. Cohen: Where were these beds from; Star Trek or Star Wars?

    John DiMaggio: [about the professional beach bully] Ladies, I'm just as ripped.
    Rich Moore: That was designed after you, wasn't it? The image.
    John DiMaggio: Oh, yeah.
    Rich Moore: Before the 'problem'.
    John DiMaggio: With the food and booze and flayven.

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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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