Commentary:Three Hundred Big Boys

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Commentary for
Three Hundred Big Boys
Production number	4ACV16
Recorded date	January 30, 2003
On DVD	Season 4 Disc 4
Additional
Transcript

Topics of Discussion

• Episode had not aired at the time of commentary recording.
• At the time this was being written, there was a very big story in the news that President George W. Bush was planning a similar $300 tax rebate. But then there was a terrorist attack and everyone forgot about the rebate.
  • One of the cigars' names was going to be a suicide bomber joke (script handed in on 10 September 2001).
• Episode is similar to The Simpsons' episode 22 Short Films About Springfield, which David co-wrote, but couldn't quite remember the correct name of.
  • The film Nashville also follows a similar style.
• Increased challenge in the writing and animating process, especially when it needed to be cut down.
• David is asked in annual interviews what items from Futurama he'd like to exist, his new answer is the flying bicycle, Matt suggests the Fing-Longer.
• Suicide Booths and whether they could exist already.
• There was more offensive stuff about the stem cells earlier in the process.
• The Whale Biologist.
• Process of making the battle.
• Leela making a "karate noise" while doing something ordinary also happens in Crimes of the Hot. This was done when they had cut another joke or didn't have one.
• The security camera transition is from Blue from the "tricolor trilogy" by Kieslowski.
• The writers often had too much coffee.
• Only some of the hyperactive Fry talking required electronic speeding up.
• The vomiting noise had to be duplicated as they couldn't record enough of it.
• They attempted to get as many side characters in as possible
  • Randy and his lover were to have fought over how to spend the money, accidentally burnt it, then decided that their love was more important.
• Roseanne Barr's appearance.
  • The correct pronunciation of ambergris was discussed at length during production.
• Logistics of the tax refund.
• Cigar originally landed in an awkward position on the silk image of Zapp.
• Hyper speed Fry music is original by Christopher Tyng.

Related DVD Features

• A mention of the deleted scene with Bender on the roof talking about his sister.

Commentators

• Matt Groening
  • Executive Producer
• David X. Cohen
  • Executive Producer
• Rich Moore
  • Supervising Director
• Eric Kaplan
  • Writer
• Swinton O. Scott III
  • Director
• Billy West
  • Actor (Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Zoidberg, miscellaneous)

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