Commentary:Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television

Production Number: 4ACV06 DVD: Season 4, Disc 2

Topics of Discussion

 * Billy West and John DiMaggio do a beat for this episode's Opening Sequence instead of the traditional theme tune.
 * Monique was originally just a demo robot for the series but was popular enough to be included as a character.
 * Louis is one of the few writers to write in all four seasons. Others include David and Ken.
 * Calculon's voice is a mixture of a large number of actors.
 * The noise the Hypnotoad makes is nicknamed Angry Machine.
 * The teenage robots now have new beeping zits.
 * They couldn't come up with a name for Human Friend so they just called him Human Friend.
 * John, Billy and Maurice have had some terrible auditions.
 * Once Billy was auditioning for a radio show with a hangover and he threw up all over the recording equipment.
 * They finally get to make fun of the network executives in this episode.
 * A lot of computers in the show are similar to Apple's Mac computers.
 * They wanted to use some more pop-ups saying things like You're watching Futurama the show that doesn't encourage the cool crime of robbery.
 * Cubert was supposed to be punched by characters when he became annoying but they thought that punching a twelve year old was tight.
 * They use the joke F.A.R.T a lot in this episode.
 * Donbot seems to have a child as he is part of F.A.R.T.
 * The show produces many toy figures.
 * Whenever they see H.G. Blob, they think of the little toy figure of him.
 * Calculon isn't actually nice and is extremely greedy yet everyone loves him.

Highlights / Quotes

 * David X. Cohen: What was the idea for this episode Louis?? Louis Morton: I don't know. David X. Cohen: You came in and said "what if Bender was a TV star?".
 * Maurice LaMarche: (As Calculon) Do you think so really?
 * Maurice LaMarche: Look it's Morbo who sounds like Lrr or Horrible Gelatinous Blob. David X. Cohen: You have a guilty conscience, because whenever Lrr, or Morbo... Maurice LaMarche: I'm going for a running joke here for the people that paid attention to all the commentaries!
 * Billy West: God that guy sould do his own movie promo's. Come see it again for the eighth time.
 * Billy West: He came in and said this place smells like cheese.
 * Maurice LaMarche: Look it's Horrible Gelatinous Blob! Who sounds nothing like like Morbo or Lrr!

Other Commentary Reference

 * The commentators carry on the joke of Maurice LaMarche saying Lrrr, Morbo and H.G. Blob from The Route of All Evil (commentary).
 * They mention that the Hypnotoad is voiced by 'the Angry Machine' The Day the Earth Stood Stupid (commentary)

Commentators

 * Matt Groening
 * Executive Producer
 * David X. Cohen
 * Executive Producer
 * Rich Moore
 * Supervising Director
 * Louis Morton
 * Writer
 * Brain Sheesley
 * Director
 * John DiMaggio
 * Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)
 * Billy West
 * Actor (Fry, miscellaneous)
 * Maurice LaMarche
 * Guest Actor (Calculon, miscellaneous)