Commentary:The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings

Production Number: 4ACV18 DVD: Season 4, Disc 4

Topics of Discussion

 * Fry's Holophonor recital is like Ken's when he was younger.
 * The Holophonor makes its second appearance.
 * The Crew thought there was a 50/50 chance that this episode would be the last one when they were writing it.
 * The Devil's voice is based on a old actor's voice.
 * All the Robots on the Devil's Wheel of Robots appear in the show.
 * The crew tried to fit most of the characters into the last episode.
 * The music on Fry's music advert is a referance to musician John Williams.
 * They don't know what the public thinks of Hedonism Bot as the episode hadn't been aried yet.
 * Its actually hard for the actors to scream when they aren't using their own voice.
 * Lots of secondary characters appear in the background in this episode.
 * They think its funny that they still make fun of Nixon in the last episode.
 * Katey Sagal had a bad throat whilst recording and not all of her lines were recorded on the day, then they couldn't record the lines she missed as Katie was worked on 8 Simple Rules.
 * Most voice actors seem to have great singing voices.
 * Maurice points out though that when he sang his only singing part as Kif in 3ACV01 he couldn't get notes right for hours.
 * Dr. Zoidberg has money in this episode.

Highlights / Quotes

 * David X. Cohen: Look its Dan Castellaneta as the Robot Devil.
 * David X. Cohen: Every robot on this wheel appeared in the show and we made sure they weren't robots like Cleaning Bot that appeared for a second.
 * Billy West: I love Ken's opreas.
 * Bret Haaland: Yes thats a real song from erm.
 * David X. Cohen: That grand singing of the word Dork always makes me laugh.
 * Matt Greoning: That joke's great.
 * Bret Haaland: Well it said he disappeared but I thought a robot can't do magic.
 * Billy West: (As Zoidberg) I wanted to go out good.

Commentators

 * Matt Groening
 * Creator
 * David X. Cohen
 * Executive Producer
 * Ken Keeler
 * Writer
 * Bret Haaland
 * Director
 * Billy West
 * Actor (Fry, miscellaneous)
 * Maurice LaMarche
 * Guest Actor (Calculon, miscellaneous)
 * Dan Castellaneta
 * Guest Actor (Robot Devil)