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[[Category:Commentaries]][[Category:DVD Box Sets]]
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|prev ep= Bendin' in the Wind
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|next ep= I Dated a Robot
|next ep= I Dated a Robot
|name= Time Keeps on Slippin'
|name= Time Keeps on Slippin'
|image= [[Image:Time keeps on slipping.JPG|225px]]
|image= [[File:Time keeps on slipping.png|225px]]
|number= 3ACV14
|number= 3ACV14
|season= 3
|season= 3
|disc= 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===
 
*The writers were unaware that there was a cartoon about the [[Harlem Globetrotters]] in space.
=== 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.
*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.
*Travelling forwards in time can't result in causality problems.
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*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.
*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.
*'''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.


==Commentators==
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*[[Matt Groening]]
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*[[David X. Cohen]]
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**Executive Producer
 
*[[Ken Keeler]]
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**Writer
[[Category:DVD box sets]]
*[[Susan Dietter]]
**Guest Director
*[[John DiMaggio]]
**Actor ([[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], miscellaneous)
*[[Billy West]]
**Actor ([[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]], miscellaneous)
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Latest revision as of 02:13, 5 May 2010

Commentary for
Time Keeps on Slippin'
Time keeps on slipping.png
Production number3ACV14
On DVDSeason 3
Disc 3
Additional
Transcript
Participants
Matt Groening
Creator
David X. Cohen
Co-creator
Ken Keeler
Writer
Susan Dietter
Guest Director
John DiMaggio
Actor (Bender, misc.)
Billy West
Actor (Fry, the Professor, misc.)

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.