Commentary:Bender's Big Score

Topics of Discussion

 * The return of Futurama, how they finally got the movie deaL.
 * They thought they were lying all those times that they said it was coming back.
 * The jokes aimed at executives are towards the Fox Network, not the studio or home video departments.
 * Changes required to make the films in wide screen.
 * Discussions about using a HD format started during development of season one.
 * Clips from old episodes had to be re-done to get the high-def quality and the extra edges, this also applies to some of the other movies.
 * The character Lars Fillmore.
 * The various clues put in about his history, and the method of disguising him.
 * The pens in the pocket are apparently a sign of maturity.
 * The Nude Beach Planet, which was an idea that had been hanging around for years.
 * The nudists' voices.
 * The ilovebender.com website.
 * At the time of recording it had been registered but was not yet set up. The site now exists.
 * Trying to make it more obvious that Bender was being controlled.
 * This is the most complicated of the four stories.
 * They had previously avoided time travel, with one exception, due to the big mess it can create.
 * David and Ken originally wrote the "paradox-free" time travel as joke and a way to avoid the need to make perfect sense, but the errors started to annoy them so they went back and fixed them.
 * Bender can life for hundreds or thousands of years, not hundreds of thousands of years. because steel is actually a liquid that over time will eventually go to its full liquid state.
 * This apparently relates to
 * The nudists' folds of fat we intended to cover the parts you don't want to see, but the folds are still very disturbing
 * This commentary is done earlier than usual, using an incomplete black-and-white version of the movie.
 * Some of the actors did have a little difficulty remembering the right voices.
 * The code used to have a meaning until script changes required it to be altered.
 * It reads the same in a mirror, but it used to be the six wining numbers on a lotto ticket from 2000-something.
 * Whether some numbers are funnier or more interesting than others.
 * Deciding the most valuable treasures to steal was left to the designers after Ken kept putting it off.
 * The equation of time is a real equation, used for correcting the time given by a sundial. There is an extra piece added here for the doom field.
 * There's going to be more, elaborate, mini golf in
 * Gleisner is actually Ken's mother's maiden name.
 * They made rub-on tattoos of the Bender tattoo, which were given out at Comic-Con.
 * The "19 seconds earlier" had said 10 seconds until they realised there were no cuts so they could go back and count it up.

Highlights / Quotes

 * Billy West: I don't know why you're sayin' you're back, I've been in this room for four and a half years.
 * David X. Cohen: Whenever you watch a sci-fi movie or TV show with time travel generally as a sci-fi fan, you get mad. Something happens that makes you mad.
 * David X. Cohen: This is a reference to another episode Ken Keeler wrote also. Ken: I did?
 * Matt Groening:This whole series has many amputations and decapitations. Claudia Katz: Not enough as far as I'm concerned.

Related DVD Features

 * They mention Professor Greenwald who lectures about math in The Simpsons and Futurama and is in one of the special features of the film's DVD.

Commentators

 * Matt Groening
 * Executive Producer
 * David X. Cohen
 * Executive Producer
 * Writer
 * Billy West
 * Actor (Fry, The Professor, miscellaneous)
 * John DiMaggio
 * Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)
 * Phil LaMarr
 * Actor (Hermes, miscellaneous)
 * Claudia Katz
 * Animation Direcor
 * Dwayne Carey-Hill
 * Director
 * Ken Keeler
 * Writer