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*There was debate about whether to reveal [[Turanga Morris and Munda|Leela's parents]] to the audience before Leela learned the truth.
*[[Al Gore]]'s appearance in the show was due to it being one of his two favourite shows more than the fact that his daughter was on staff. He was actually on the show before her.
*Leela's parents later receive a letter she flushes to them, in much the same way they gathered the items in their home.
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*Determining which bits are 2D and which are 3D.
*Originally the [[Nose Machine]] and translator were separate machines.
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]]'s line "it may take a minute or 100 million years" is in reference to the concept of the halting problem; where in general you can't tell if a program is going to stop or not.
*Leela's parents were last shown no more mutated than her and for this episode they needed more mutations.
**Munda initially had one tentacle, because only one arm was hidden. Apparently, she sometimes wears a skin arm over one of her tentacles.
*The montage was inspired by the television series ''{{w|Homicide: Life on the Street|Homicide}}''.


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*'''Matt Groening''': I love it when characters are being pursued by a mob and they can just jump through a window and then everything's fine.
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*'''Unknown''': Where'd he get that plank?


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*The whale dumped by [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] is claimed to be [[Mushu]], but this is impossible because Mushu doesn't appear for another fourteen episodes. They were probably confused by the non-sequential commentary recordings.
*[[Matt Groening]]
**Mushu may be a trademarked name given to various whales, much like the name {{w|Shamu}} has been borne by multiple {{w|orcas}} since the [[1960s]], with some bearing the name simultaneously.
**Executive Producer
 
*[[David X. Cohen]]
=== Related DVD Features ===
**Writer
*While not all [[List of deleted scenes|deleted scenes]] mentioned appear on the disc, [[Warden Vogel]] dishing out dirt on the [[orphans]] does.
**Executive Producer
*[[Rich Moore]]
**Supervising Director
*[[John DiMaggio]]
**Actor ([[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], miscellaneous)


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Commentary for
Leela's Homeworld
Leela's Homeworld.jpg
Production number4ACV02
On DVDSeason 4
Disc 1
Additional
Transcript
Participants
Matt Groening
Executive Producer
David X. Cohen
Executive Producer
Rich Moore
Supervising Director
Kristin Gore
Writer
Swinton O. Scott III
Guest Director
Billy West
Actor (Fry, Professor Farnsworth, miscellaneous)

Topics of Discussion

  • This episode's basis was planned before the series had been pitched to FOX. They needed to decide an appropriate length of time to wait before revealing Leela's origin as mutant rather than alien.
  • An idea that they didn't quite stick to was having different tiers of society. This was indicated by the Number 9 Man. There were groups of people "and they're like zombies or drones or something." This idea was abandoned, though the concept art was kept.
  • The alien language translates as indicated by the episode dialogue.
  • First episode of television written by Kristin Gore.
  • Whether panning across multiple jokes at once is a good idea.
    • The man shouting "Woooo" behind Leela is a call back to one of these pictures.
    • News broadcast was actually about the plaque, not Leela.
  • There was debate about whether to reveal Leela's parents to the audience before Leela learned the truth.
  • Al Gore's appearance in the show was due to it being one of his two favourite shows more than the fact that his daughter was on staff. He was actually on the show before her.
  • Leela's parents later receive a letter she flushes to them, in much the same way they gathered the items in their home.
  • Whisper acting.
  • Determining which bits are 2D and which are 3D.
  • Originally the Nose Machine and translator were separate machines.
  • Farnsworth's line "it may take a minute or 100 million years" is in reference to the concept of the halting problem; where in general you can't tell if a program is going to stop or not.
  • Leela's parents were last shown no more mutated than her and for this episode they needed more mutations.
    • Munda initially had one tentacle, because only one arm was hidden. Apparently, she sometimes wears a skin arm over one of her tentacles.
  • The montage was inspired by the television series Homicide.

Highlights / Quotes

  • Matt Groening: I love it when characters are being pursued by a mob and they can just jump through a window and then everything's fine.
  • Unknown: Where'd he get that plank?

Goofs

  • The whale dumped by Bender is claimed to be Mushu, but this is impossible because Mushu doesn't appear for another fourteen episodes. They were probably confused by the non-sequential commentary recordings.
    • Mushu may be a trademarked name given to various whales, much like the name Shamu has been borne by multiple orcas since the 1960s, with some bearing the name simultaneously.

Related DVD Features

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1ACV
(Season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" (Animatic commentary) • "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
2ACV
(Season 2)		 "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "A Clone of My Own" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "Mother's Day" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Anthology of Interest I" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Honking" • "The Cryonic Woman"
3ACV
(Season 3)		 "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Parasites Lost" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "The Route of All Evil" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Roswell that Ends Well" (Directors commentary) • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "The 30% Iron Chef"
4ACV
(Season 4)		 "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Love and Rocket" • "Less than Hero" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "Jurassic Bark" (Writers commentary) • "Crimes of the Hot" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" • "The Sting" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
5ACV
(Season 5)
Bender's Big Score The Beast with a Billion Backs Bender's Game Into the Wild Green Yonder
6ACV
(Season 6)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Möbius Dick" • "Law and Oracle" • "Benderama" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Neutopia" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
7ACV
(Season 7)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" (Animators commentary) • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama" • "Forty Percent Leadbelly" • "2-D Blacktop" • "T.: The Terrestrial" • "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" • "The Inhuman Torch" • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" (Animators commentary) • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
8ACV
(Season 8)		 "The Impossible Stream" • "Children of a Lesser Bog" • "How the West Was 1010001" • "Parasites Regained" • "Related to Items You've Viewed" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" • "Rage Against the Vaccine" • "Zapp Gets Cancelled" • "The Prince and the Product" • "All the Way Down"
S01E
(Broadcast season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" (Animatic commentary)
S02E
(Broadcast season 2)		 "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory" • "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "A Clone of My Own" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Mother's Day" • "Anthology of Interest I"
S03E
(Broadcast season 3)		 "The Honking" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Cryonic Woman" • "Parasites Lost" • "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot"
S04E
(Broadcast season 4)		 "Roswell that Ends Well" (Directors commentary) • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Love and Rocket" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "The 30% Iron Chef" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
S05E
(Broadcast season 5)		 "Crimes of the Hot" • "Jurassic Bark" (Writers commentary) • "The Route of All Evil" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Less than Hero" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "The Sting" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
S06E
(Broadcast season 6)		 "Bender's Big Score Part 1" • "Bender's Big Score Part 2" • "Bender's Big Score Part 3" • "Bender's Big Score Part 4" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 2" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 3" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 4" • "Bender's Game Part 1" • "Bender's Game Part 2" • "Bender's Game Part 3" • "Bender's Game Part 4" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 1" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 2" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 3" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 4"
S07E
(Broadcast season 7)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular"
S08E
(Broadcast season 8)		 "Neutopia" • "Benderama" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Law and Oracle" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Möbius Dick" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
S09E
(Broadcast season 9)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" (Animators commentary) • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama"
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