Commentary:Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles

Topics of Discussion

 * Matt Groening leaves during the introduction to make a phone call and doesn't return.
 * The initial idea for the episode was to have Leela live with her parents.
 * Only a few of the vehicles during the scene where Professor Farnsworth drove the Planet Express Ship needed to be created from scratch.
 * The space station blown up is Deep Space Nine, from the Star Trek series of the same name.
 * Leela's book's cover features an based on the Gorn from Star Trek.
 * The 2000 election recounts.
 * Deleted scenes included Farnsworth selecting soft foods at the salad bar.
 * This commentary was recorded a little over a week after the episode premiered.
 * Popularity of botulism injections and use as an actual medical treatment.
 * Actors needed to adjust their voices for the character variations.
 * The commentators are especially impressed by those of Billy West, due to the sheer number of variations required of him.
 * The producers considered nominating him for an Emmy.
 * Designing younger versions of characters.
 * Fry and Leela already had some young versions in earlier episodes.
 * Zoidberg's progression through various species.
 * Bender's younger forms include the antennae ears that were in the early concept art.
 * The race was inspired by Star Wars: 's s.
 * The (mostly) scientific origins of the oil eating bacteria.
 * David X. Cohen once lost an auction of trilobite fossils to.
 * Pazuzu is named for the Assyro-Babylonian god, king of the demons of the wind, and was also the name of the demon in .
 * David questioning if perhaps it was in the Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook Deities & Demigods, and being told it isn't. (It's instead in the Monster Manual, and one of the types of creatures that worship it are gargoyles.)
 * Maurice LaMarche is credited despite not acting. Brian Cowan, a producer who happened to be there, confirmed that Maurice won't be paid for the episode.