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<poem>'''PA''': We used to talk about whether we should have a very organised plan for the ship and the build, but then we just gave up.</poem> | <poem>'''PA''': We used to talk about whether we should have a very organised plan for the ship and the build, but then we just gave up.</poem> | ||
<poem>'''RM''': One of the artists the other day asked me which way the stars would be going outside of Bender's window and I don't know.</poem> | <poem>'''RM''': One of the artists the other day asked me which way the stars would be going outside of Bender's window and I don't know.</poem> | ||
<!-- I'll | <poem>'''PA''': Up!</poem> | ||
<poem>'''RM''': Yeah...</poem> | |||
:''[Fry and Amy enters the depot with Sal.]'' | |||
<poem>'''Several''': Sal!</poem> | |||
<poem>'''JD''': [Sal's voice] Hey, how you doin'? Wee-wa-wee--</poem> | |||
<poem>'''RM''': This was Sal. But it was before he added an S to all his words.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''JD''': Yeah.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''DXC''': Even to this day. Sal occupies so many blue collar jobs, even now we have debates in the– among the writers whether there are a lot of clones of Sal or whether he just moves from job to job frequently.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''JD''': This is Tress MacNeille coming up. One of the best.</poem> | |||
:''[Craterface attempts to talk Bender into giving up his beer.]'' | |||
<poem>'''RM''': A reference to ''A Trip to the Moon'', 1906, George Millac??? if I'm not mistaken.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''PA''': Have you ever seen the whole movie?</poem> | |||
<poem>'''RM''': I think I have.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''PA''': It's really good. It's really good. It doesn't end with the rocket in the eye. It keeps going.</poem> | |||
:''[Fry puts a magnet on Bender and he begins singing "Blowin' in the Wind".]'' | |||
<poem>'''JD''': Oh, this is the introduction of the folksinging.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''DXC''': That's right. And Bender's krytonite; magnets. That was hilarious animation. I love it.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''RM''': It astonishes me that we were able to get the rights to "Blowin' in the Wind", but not we wanted "If Had a Hammer" later. We were not able to get that.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''JD''': Hmmm. Peat??? seeker. Is that what it is?</poem> | |||
<poem>'''RM''': Mr Seeker is a fine upstairs gentleman.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''JD''': Hey what did that say behind him in the alien language?</poem> | |||
<poem>'''DXC''': Alien language; "tasty human burgers".</poem> | |||
<poem>'''JD''': I get to talk to myself here. Hooray, I'm like Billy West!</poem> | |||
:''[The crew is watching the Gophy Gopher Revue.]'' | |||
<poem>'''?''': Ah, the gopher jokes!</poem> | |||
<poem>'''DXC''': This scene used to be about 20 minutes long.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''?''': It was the whole show.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''DXC''': It ended up being four seconds long. But it is still pretty funny.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''?''': I think we spend probably 8 or 10 hours writing a whole bunch of gopher jokes.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''?''': I know, we got about three different versions.</poem> | |||
<poem>'''MG''': I think that's actually gonna be one of the lowest simpliments???. Gopher jokes. And we'll find out why they were cut!</poem> | |||
<poem>'''MG''': What is amazing to me – what episode number is this? Two? – how good the animation is this early in the life of the series and how close it is to the way the show looks now.</poem> | |||
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<poem>'''?''': | <poem>'''?''': | ||
-DXC | -DXC | ||
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- Note: Question marks (?) means I am not at present entirely sure who it is that is speaking.
- Note: Three question marks (???) means I am not sure of whether the word I have suggested is the correct one.
Farnsworth: [episode] I paid to have it aired during the SuperBowl.
David X. Cohen: When we wrote that line we had high hopes that we wouldn't be premièring right
after the SuperBowl. However, we did not.
Ken Keeler: Every time I see this, I remember the remember the original cold opening we had for this feature, the original Planet Express ship captain, Captain Camon??? who very quickly got angry with all the new crew members and then immediately died. But it was felt to be too dark.
Peter Avanzino: This is much cheererer. [laughter]
Rich Moore: I remember our original boards had the guys who got pulled into blob start desolving, you saw their skelletons and we were asked to pull that back. This show was going to be much much darker.
John DiMaggio: I love it when Billy gets to talk to himself during scenes.
KK: The original ending of that, had him putting on a hat with a giantic bird feather in it and walk away, big pimp head. Yes.
Matt Groening: Futurama. So let's introduce ourselves, this is Matt Groening.
PA: I'm Peter Avanzino, I directed this.
KK: I'm Ken Keeler, the writer.
JD: I'm John DiMaggio, I play Bender and a bunch of other characters.
DXC: I'm David Cohen, executive producer.
RM: And I'm Rich Moore, the supervising director.
?: Woah!
- [Hermes enters Planet Express building.]
JD: Everybody's favourite Jamaican.
DXC: Interestingly, in the original script we wrote, Hermes was named Dexter, and he was not Jamaican.
JD: No?
DXC: So he wouldn't have been our favourite Jamaican if we had stuck by that. Matt Groening decided that he should be Jamaican.
?: Correct.
KK/PA?: Didn't we actually get tracks where he didn't have an accent?
DXC: Yes, we recorded several episodes after that...
PA: Lot of people are interviews??? in this show.
KK: That was the tough part about this scene, that was introducing three of the minor characters very quickly. Not that minor.
- [Bender belches.]
JD: Real belch! [there is a giggle] I, I would–, I unfortunately cleared many rooms in my
days, Bender.
PA: Could you do one now?
- [JD belches]
PA: Oh jezz.
JD: There you go.
MG: I think that's a first one for an audio commentary.
JD: I think that is.
MG: A lot of ??? there.
- [The professor and Fry are at Dr Zoidberg's office.]
MG: Is this the introduction of Dr Zoidberg? David, this was your idea.
DXC: Part of the inspiration for the name at least, Dr Zoidberg, was a video game I spend most of my high school years working on for the Apple II, which was called Zoid. So Zoidberg is an homage to that wasted three year period.
MG: Where did the idea for the character come from?
DXC: The idea for the character was to make him a sort of a reverse of Bones McCoy on Star Trek, who was a human who often had to treat aliens like Mr Spock, and I was thinking if I were Mr Spock, I really would not want someone from a different species operating on me. So we decided we would have this doctor who did not understand human anatomy operating on our guys.
JD: You know, Billy's inspiration for the voice came from Lendor??? Coby??? character actor who used to do commercials for alpine lay swiss. [imitating professor voice] Because I care about you and you and you.
- [Amy is going over the cleaning pen on Bender's body.]
KK: I believe this is the first time Bender's head came off.
DXC: Until I just watched this right now, I forgot that Amy was an engineering student.
JD: Lauren Tom.
DXC: Hey, coming up here is a hilarious improvisation by John DiMaggio as Bender, which
really helped solidify this character's chances in our minds.
JD: You just let me scat, that's the best part. I get to doo-ba-doo-ba-doo-da-di-doo.
KK: The line was "ad lib-singing".
?: That's good writing.
RM: We had a lot of auditions for the part of Bender, just about everybody came in, auditioning for Bender, even if they were auditioning for other parts. And we could not figure out what the robot should sound like and you nailed it. That's the voice you did. That was great.
DXC: John, I auditioned for Bender, are you aware of that?
JD: Really?
DXC: It's true. In a moment of desperation after about three hundred other auditions, several people told me I sounded like a robot, so why would I ??? them? The second I sat down in the chair I was told to talk in my normal voice, I forgot how to do it.
MG: You're doing it really well now.
- [Fry and Leela sitting in the cockpit blasting off to the moon.]
MG: Oh, this is a good visual one
KK: Beautiful shot.
JD: Zarr!
KK: It's really hard to convince the 3D artists that I wanted to get from inside the building to the moon in less than 3 seconds.
MG: There's no centrifugal force in animation, thank God.
DXC: I just love the way the moon– the shots of the moon looking this awesome???, this — like, I never saw the moon look so beautiful in animation. It had just enough detail on the craters and it looks kinda– it has kinda the beauty of the real moon, but the simplicity of Matt's drawing style at the same time.
KK: Was that Amy's first... like weird phrase?
DXC: I believe it was.
Bender: [episode] Let's just burn it and said we dumped it in the sewer.
DXC: Hey, John, have you noticed that Bender's voice has changed a bit over the years?
JD: Yes, I do. Little liberty taken here and there.
DXC: Some of the people, also, the professor certainly.
?: Yeah.
KK: The ever changing hall way outside the cockpit door.
RM: There's a guy who has a website on that– blueprints of the ship and he gets mad at us all the time and how we drive him nuts– fluctuates.
PA: We used to talk about whether we should have a very organised plan for the ship and the build, but then we just gave up.
RM: One of the artists the other day asked me which way the stars would be going outside of Bender's window and I don't know.
PA: Up!
RM: Yeah...
- [Fry and Amy enters the depot with Sal.]
Several: Sal!
JD: [Sal's voice] Hey, how you doin'? Wee-wa-wee--
RM: This was Sal. But it was before he added an S to all his words.
JD: Yeah.
DXC: Even to this day. Sal occupies so many blue collar jobs, even now we have debates in the– among the writers whether there are a lot of clones of Sal or whether he just moves from job to job frequently.
JD: This is Tress MacNeille coming up. One of the best.
- [Craterface attempts to talk Bender into giving up his beer.]
RM: A reference to A Trip to the Moon, 1906, George Millac??? if I'm not mistaken.
PA: Have you ever seen the whole movie?
RM: I think I have.
PA: It's really good. It's really good. It doesn't end with the rocket in the eye. It keeps going.
- [Fry puts a magnet on Bender and he begins singing "Blowin' in the Wind".]
JD: Oh, this is the introduction of the folksinging.
DXC: That's right. And Bender's krytonite; magnets. That was hilarious animation. I love it.
RM: It astonishes me that we were able to get the rights to "Blowin' in the Wind", but not we wanted "If Had a Hammer" later. We were not able to get that.
JD: Hmmm. Peat??? seeker. Is that what it is?
RM: Mr Seeker is a fine upstairs gentleman.
JD: Hey what did that say behind him in the alien language?
DXC: Alien language; "tasty human burgers".
JD: I get to talk to myself here. Hooray, I'm like Billy West!
- [The crew is watching the Gophy Gopher Revue.]
?: Ah, the gopher jokes!
DXC: This scene used to be about 20 minutes long.
?: It was the whole show.
DXC: It ended up being four seconds long. But it is still pretty funny.
?: I think we spend probably 8 or 10 hours writing a whole bunch of gopher jokes.
?: I know, we got about three different versions.
MG: I think that's actually gonna be one of the lowest simpliments???. Gopher jokes. And we'll find out why they were cut!
MG: What is amazing to me – what episode number is this? Two? – how good the animation is this early in the life of the series and how close it is to the way the show looks now.
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