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=== Highlights / Quotes === | === Highlights / Quotes === | ||
*'''Unknown''': There's your phone number, how'd you come up with that<br/>'''Unknown 2''': The Lambda? That was a desperate effort not to have a phone number that went 555-0155. | *'''Unknown''': There's your phone number, how'd you come up with that<br/>'''Unknown 2''': The Lambda? That was a desperate effort not to have a phone number that went 555-0155. | ||
*'''Billy West:''' ''(about the Professor)'' Have we ever seen his eyes?<br/>'''Matt Groening:''' No!<br/>'''Billy West:''' One day, can we see them?<br/>'''Matt Groening:''' You don't want to. | |||
*'''Billy West:''' Most of the animals that show up on the show, the voices are done by Frank Welker. He's like, the world's foremost authority. He could do, like, a chicken being chased by a steamroller. | |||
*'''David X. Cohen:''' It's funny, I was just thinking to myself, "Why is Fry laughing at what just happened?" Then I realized that's Billy laughing into the microphone.<br/>'''Billy West:''' ''(as Fry)'' Look, I told you before! Don't push me or I'll snap! | |||
=== Goofs === | === Goofs === |
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Commentary for | |||
Mars University | |||
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Production number | 1ACV11 | ||
On DVD | Season 1 Disc 3 | ||
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Topics of Discussion
- Hovering technology was supposed to have completely replaced the wheel, but wheels still appear in some episodes.
- Remixed theme music is used, apparently after hearing this they decided never to do it again, but there are a few other cases of different theme music.
- Mars' sky is yellow instead of red to avoid Fry blending in.
- The library's sign refers to Marilyn vos Savant who had the highest IQ in the world.
- J. Stewart Burns regularly tries to add chess jokes.
- Ideas were "borrowed" from numerous college movies, such as Animal House, The Program, and Revenge of the Nerds.
- Dean Vernon was named for John Vernon who played the Dean in Animal House
- The Simpsons characters are only to appear as objects, as they are a show in Futurama.
- Interestingly, Futurama later became a show in some episodes of The Simpsons but real in other episodes. In the crossover comics however, The Simpsons retain fictional status and interacted with the crew via Mental Realms.
- Early versions of the characters had five fingers to diferentiate from The Simpsons, it looked weird and was changed, though Poster Guy sometimes retains the extra finger.
- Constant use of Apple Macintosh computers.
- Guenter was going to be more realistic, but it looked creepy.
- The Professor's eyes had at this point never been seen. Billy wanted to see them, Matt said that he shouldn't.
- Billy's high quality voice work.
- Very early on, Cubert Farnsworth was going to be the Professor's experiment and Fry's room-mate.
- The diagram "Witten's Dog" was drawn by a physicist at Caltech, it parodies a real style of physics diagram.
- If you look closely it's also a faeces joke.
- Pointing out the urine on the floor of Guenter's parent's cage. Most of the commentators hadn't noticed it before.
- Frank Welker's animal sounds.
- Guenter was the name of Stewart's college room-mate.
- His other room-mates are listed on the floor plan.
- Earlier versions had more animals fall from the tree.
- Fry's dancing was originally a random one-off character.
- Planning to bring Guenter back.
Highlights / Quotes
- Unknown: There's your phone number, how'd you come up with that
Unknown 2: The Lambda? That was a desperate effort not to have a phone number that went 555-0155. - Billy West: (about the Professor) Have we ever seen his eyes?
Matt Groening: No!
Billy West: One day, can we see them?
Matt Groening: You don't want to. - Billy West: Most of the animals that show up on the show, the voices are done by Frank Welker. He's like, the world's foremost authority. He could do, like, a chicken being chased by a steamroller.
- David X. Cohen: It's funny, I was just thinking to myself, "Why is Fry laughing at what just happened?" Then I realized that's Billy laughing into the microphone.
Billy West: (as Fry) Look, I told you before! Don't push me or I'll snap!
Goofs
- This is said to be the first appearance of Amy's parents, but they were in the previous episode.
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