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|name= Time Keeps on Slippin' | |name= Time Keeps on Slippin' | ||
|image= [[ | |image= [[File:Time keeps on slipping.png|225px]] | ||
|number= 3ACV14 | |number= 3ACV14 | ||
|season= 3 | |season= 3 | ||
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|parti F job=Actor ([[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]], misc.) | |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. | *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. | ||
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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. | ||
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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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