Commentary:A Big Piece of Garbage

Production Number: 1ACV08
DVD: Season 1, Disc 2

Commentary

Topics of Discussion

• David Herman's great performance as Wernstrom
• The young professor has red hair proving he's related to Fry
• Ron Popeil sold them 80,000 dollars to appear on the show
• Wernstrom's fish is named after David's cat
• Secrets include
  • The coffee stain is the animation studio's logo
• The episode was nominated for the Emmys but was beat by King of the Hill
• The writer can't make a joke about Uranus as its now named Urectum
• Matt and David wanted to include a documentary in each season
• The character of Cubert Farnsworth was supposed to be in this episode
• The public still don't know what the really filthy country was
• The characters of Morbo and Linda
• That the episode refects the movie Armagaddon
• The ending song is from Dr. Strangelove

Highlights / Quotes

• Matt Groeing: That was the only joke all year with the word symposiam in it in all of television
• David X. Cohen: The fish's name cinnamon after my cat
• David X. Cohen: How did we ever get permission for that

Commentators

• Matt Groening
  • Creator
• David X. Cohen
  • Executive Producer
• Rich Moore
  • Supervising Director
• Lewis Morton
  • Writer
• Susan Dietter
  • Director
• John DiMaggio
  • Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)