Commentary:The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz
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The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz | |||
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Production number | 3ACV05 | ||
On DVD | Season 3 Disc 1 | ||
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Topics of Discussion
- Zoidberg commentates instead of Billy.
- He constantly points himself out and says what a good actor he is.
- Identifying the cartoon at the beginning as Koko The Clown.
- The origin of the story was a idea with Bender crashing a tanker into a planet.
- First episode directed by James Purdum
- Fry was going to draw comics more often.
- Pointing out Phil Hendrie as Free Waterfall Sr. and that the next family member will appear in a season four episode.
- The family members always die at the end of their appearances.
- The Captain's Handbook has a pop-up sextant.
- Sci-Fi generally ignores the fact that spaceships can move in three dimensions not just two.
- One of the Star Trek movies addresses this.
- Design of the hat is similar to that of Captain Crunch (US breakfast cereal mascot).
- The food is very detailed.
- File photos are always unflattering in cartoons.
- Hyper-Chicken is a character that was only going to appear once
- He was more like Foghorn Leghorn in earlier designs.
- Early episode names included Emperor Benguin.
- The video game system has antenna and a wire.
- The episode is very environmental.
- They wanted to make a point about hunting, but they weren't sure what their point was.
- These types of episodes need arguments for both sides in the stories.
- There is an orange line between the black and white of the penguins.
- They are all hand drawn.
- Futurama has more gasps per minute than any other show.
- Bender has six reset modes, others include "wombat", "ravioli" and "children's book author" (this is most likely just a joke and won't come up in future storylines)
- The Penguin music from Batman could not be obtained.
- After winning an environmental award the previous year for "The Problem with Popplers", they were sent a reminder to enter again and this episode was suggested. They entered it but failed to be nominated.
Highlights / Quotes
Matt Groening: [after seeing the Fing-Longer invented in reality]: I thought all of season three was a dream.
David X. Cohen: John, how come you're so good at playing drunk?
John DiMaggio: It's something I, uh... I don't know, it's... You guys got any booze?
Leela: [episode] ...with wind-chill it's 20 degrees below absolute zero.
David X. Cohen: Take that physicists. A blow to your precious logic.
John DiMaggio: Hunting is great when you gotta kill off a lot of animals.
Billy West: [as Zoidberg] It's even better when you have a thirty-aught-six and a snoot full of vodka.
Billy West: [as Zoidberg] Look at where I'm not!
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