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|name= Time Keeps on Slippin' | |||
|image= [[File:Time keeps on slipping.png|225px]] | |||
|number= 3ACV14 | |||
|season= 3 | |||
|disc= 3 | |||
|parti A=Matt Groening | |||
|parti A job=Creator | |||
|parti B=David X. Cohen | |||
|parti B job=Co-creator | |||
|parti C=Ken Keeler | |||
|parti C job=Writer | |||
|parti D=Susan Dietter | |||
|parti D job=Guest Director | |||
|parti E=John DiMaggio | |||
|parti E job=Actor ([[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], misc.) | |||
|parti F=Billy West | |||
|parti F job=Actor ([[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]], misc.) | |||
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=== Topics of Discussion === | |||
===Topics of Discussion=== | *The writers were unaware that there was a cartoon about the [[Globetrotters|Harlem Globetrotters]] in space. | ||
*They made up their own globetrotter names as they couldn't use actual globetrotters, the actual trotters okayed the use of their group's name. | |||
*Travelling forwards in time can't result in causality problems. | |||
* | *[[John DiMaggio]] wanted to play Marv Albert, but lost out to Jeff Cesario. | ||
** | *[[Mutant Atomic Supermen|Grotrian]] is a type of piano. Armo is the arm mutant, Lazar is the optic blast mutant; these two names aren't in the actual episode. | ||
* | *Network executives always ask what the stakes are when they get a script, so the episode starts by setting the stakes at zero. | ||
*Censors made them adjust the conga line to hide more cleavage. No objection to the seven buttockses. | |||
**They also rejected the word "mutha", which became "mama" | |||
*The original story, involving [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] falling in love with a woman in a Sun, and having to move it, was derived from a Harry Stephen Keeler novel. | |||
===Highlights / Quotes=== | === Highlights / Quotes === | ||
*'''Ken Keeler''': I should say at this point that I really know virtually nothing about basketball.<br/>'''David X. Cohen''': You would never know it. I mean this is pretty accurate stuff here. | |||
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Topics of Discussion
- The writers were unaware that there was a cartoon about the Harlem Globetrotters in space.
- They made up their own globetrotter names as they couldn't use actual globetrotters, the actual trotters okayed the use of their group's name.
- Travelling forwards in time can't result in causality problems.
- John DiMaggio wanted to play Marv Albert, but lost out to Jeff Cesario.
- Grotrian is a type of piano. Armo is the arm mutant, Lazar is the optic blast mutant; these two names aren't in the actual episode.
- Network executives always ask what the stakes are when they get a script, so the episode starts by setting the stakes at zero.
- Censors made them adjust the conga line to hide more cleavage. No objection to the seven buttockses.
- They also rejected the word "mutha", which became "mama"
- The original story, involving Fry falling in love with a woman in a Sun, and having to move it, was derived from a Harry Stephen Keeler novel.
Highlights / Quotes
- Ken Keeler: I should say at this point that I really know virtually nothing about basketball.
David X. Cohen: You would never know it. I mean this is pretty accurate stuff here.
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