Commentary:Fear of a Bot Planet

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Commentary for
Fear of a Bot Planet
Production number	1ACV05
On DVD	Season 1 Disc 2
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Transcript
Participants
Matt Groening Creator David X. Cohen Executive producer Rich Moore Supervising director Gregg Vanzo Supervising director John DiMaggio Actor (Bender, etc.)

[edit] Topics of Discussion

• How Blernsball name came from a made up 8th day called Blernsday
• Other suggested names for the show included Doomsville and Aloha Mars
• Some of Blernsball is actually pinball, some baseball and the rest is anything
• Rules have started to be written for Blernsball as it appears in future episodes
• Chapek 9 was named after the man who invented the word robot
• About the inspiration for Fry and Leela's disguses
• Reference that the Robot's scream is like the one from Bodysnatchers 2
• How the computer is of apple make
• The word silence constantly being repeated

[edit] Highlights / Quotes

Matt Groening: Well I didn't think that was going to work, but anyway hi this is Matt Groening.

David X. Cohen: Who does these little cartoons??
Unknown: Actually you guys send them to us.

David X. Cohen: That cleaning robot originally appeared in "Space Pilot 3000", but was taken out as it was too long.

Unknown: He's doing the robot.

David X. Cohen: Tetris anyone??

David X. Cohen: We ought to get money for advertising apple!

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 Shoulder" • "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

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