Commentary:Time Keeps on Slippin'

Production Number: 3ACV14 DVD: Season 3, Disc 3

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.

Commentators

 * Matt Groening
 * Executive Producer
 * David X. Cohen
 * Executive Producer
 * Ken Keeler
 * Writer
 * Susan Dietter
 * Guest Director
 * John DiMaggio
 * Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)
 * Billy West
 * Actor (Fry, the Professor, miscellaneous)