Commentary:A Fishful of Dollars

A Fishful of Dollars

Production Number: 1ACV06
DVD: Season 1, Disc 2

Commentary

The dream Fry has is similar to ones most kids have without the Lightspeed Briefs
The Fry action figure comes with a pair of lightspeed briefs
The title is a reference to the Clint Eastwood movie A Fistfull of Dollars
This episode is the first time Bender shoplifts
They considered changing the currency from dollars to something else
The introduction of Mom
Two of the show's writers hold PhDs in Mathematics
This marks the first appearance of Scruffy, although he doesn't work for Planet Express
Argument of whether anchovies are nice or bad
The anchovies come with the Fry action figure and Mom's oil comes with Bender
The future has many animal fights: both squid and apes
Richard Nixon's Head was originally meant to help Mom's sons convince Fry he's in the year 2000
The Atomic Super men mentioned by the Professor appear in Time Keeps on Slippin'

Matt Groening: So Gregg do you want to say something about the Opening Sequence??
- Gregg Vanzo: I guess not.
Unknown: He said adverts on bananas which ABC threatened to do!
Gregg Vanzo: Fry was meant to buy another robot friend called Deluxor.
David X. Cohen: We have the largest number a gasps than any show in TV history.