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|name= When Aliens Attack
|image= [[File:When Aliens Attack 1.jpg|225px]]
|number=1ACV12
|season=1
|disc=3
|parti A=Matt Groening
|parti A job=Creator
|parti B=David X. Cohen
|parti B job=Executive producer
|parti C=Rich Moore
|parti C job=Supervising director
|parti D=Ken Keeler
|parti D job=Writer
|parti E=Scott Vanzo
|parti E job=Director of computer graphics
|parti F=Brian Sheesley
|parti F job=Director
|parti G=John DiMaggio
|parti G job=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 [[Wikipedia:Calista Flockhart|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 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 "[[Wikipedia:Arnold Jackson (character)|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.<br/>'''Rich Moore''': Well this was our first space battle so, we went all out.<br/>'''David X. Cohen''': Where were these beds from; ''Star Trek'' or ''Star Wars''?
 
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