Commentary:That's Lobstertainment!

Topics of Discussion

 * Usual discussion of who-voiced-who.
 * Humorbot 5.0 returning in a later episode.
 * The various sources of inspirations for Harold Zoid's old holo film.
 * There was discussion about where the ink should be coming from, but they decided that it should be vague.
 * Hank Azaria met David X. Cohen while at the recording studio used for both The Simpsons and Futurama and mentioned loving Zoidberg's voice and requesting to voice a relative of some kind.
 * Listing various Simpsons actors who've been on Futurama.
 * Dave Herman did the temporary voice for Zoid.
 * DiMaggio jokingly complains that Herman's version wasn't used.
 * Harold Zoid's name (and Zoidberg) is based on a game Cohen wrote, similar to his favourite game , for the Apple 2 in assembly called Zoid, as well as actor Harold Lloyd.
 * Matt Groening later bought Cohen a Qix machine as a present, it no longer works.
 * Mentioned the fan reception of this episode as the worst ever and that the rating on gotfuturama.com was 58/100.
 * One forum member reportedly bashed it at every opportunity, until Patric emailed to find out what was wrong with it, at which point he claimed the episode was okay.
 * Script notes in the early stages included (from Patric himself) "the first act is over joked and the third is under and some where in the middle I lost Fry and Leela". David noted the possibility of needing a C-story runner for Fry and Leela.
 * Old titles included "Zoidberg goes to Hollywood" and "Zoiddy goes to Hollywood".
 * The audience pan was sped up from 15 seconds to 2 seconds to save time but keep the animations.
 * Apparently the Star Trek nominated for product placement was actually Star Wreck.