Commentary:The Day the Earth Stood Stupid

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Commentary for
The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
Production number	3ACV07
Recorded date	August 13, 2002
On DVD	Season 1 Disc 2
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Transcript
Participants
Matt Groening Creator David X. Cohen Executive producer Rich Moore Supervising director Jeff Westbrook Writer Brian Sheesley Guest director John DiMaggio Actor (Bender, misc.) Billy West Actor (Fry, Zoidberg, misc.) Tress MacNeille Actress (Linda, misc.)

[edit] Topics of Discussion

• Twennis 12 has a brilliant explosion.
• How Tress likes ham.
• The character of the Hypnotoad.
  • The Hypnotoad is everyone's favourite character.
  • The Hypnotoad is voiced by 'the Angry Machine'.
• How the animators drew the invisible dog.
• Dave Spiegel and Fluffers appear in both episodes written by Patric M. Verrone.
• The episode has great music.
• In high school David drew a cartoon about flying stomachs which was the idea for the Flying Brains.
• Frank Welker's voice
  • How he voices most animals on the show.
  • He voices Nibbler's animal and speaking voice.
• This is the first time AL1 and AL2 appear in the same shot.
• They discuss AL2.
  • Jeff actually came up with the idea of AL" and designed it.
• It is hard to animate tattoos on cartoon characters.
• If Hertfordshire actually is where Pride and Prejudice is set.
• There are many gruesome shots in the show.

[edit] Highlights / Quotes

• Tress MacNeille: That is awesome.
• John DiMaggio: Ha no pooping.
• David X. Cohen: Tress I know what I'm getting you for Christmas.
  Tress MacNeille: What?
  David X. Cohen: A ham.
• Tress MacNeille: I can put my legs behind my head.
• Jeff Westbrook: Yummy Tummy.
• Billy West: If you say Libary instead of Library then you're a Jerk.

[edit] Other Commentary Reference

• They mention that the Hypnotoad is voiced by 'the Angry Machine' in Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television (commentary)

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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