Commentary:Bendin' in the Wind

Topics of Discussion

 * The idea of the story was based on the idea from that Bender wanted to be a folk singer
 * Luckily there's lots of public domain folk songs.
 * They were surprised to realise they got away with showing what, in the script, is referred to as a "crazy bottle".
 * The commentators agree that, unfortunately, Patch Adams was impossible to forget.
 * Apparently the voice work is done in the same place as the commentaries. Which is on the corner of Pico and Sepulveda.
 * Beck suggested the use of more self deprecating humour.
 * His songs were searched to find weird works
 * Bender's song is written by Eric Horsted, Ken Keeler and Christopher Tyng.
 * The chase scene is based on one in Bullitt, where five hubcaps fall off the car, the same happens to Fry's van.
 * In the original version of the animation the blonde woman didn't sit up after Bender fell on her.
 * Discussing whether it should have been New San Francisco or some variant.

Highlights / Quotes

 * Matt Groening: What do Executive Producers do, anyway? Rich Moore: DVD commentaries.

Commentators

 * Matt Groening
 * Executive Producer
 * David X. Cohen
 * Executive Producer
 * Rich Moore
 * Supervising Director
 * Eric Horsted
 * Co-Executive Producer
 * Writer
 * John DiMaggio
 * Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)
 * Billy West
 * Actor (Fry, the Professor, Zoidberg, miscellaneous)