Commentary:Mars University

Topics of Discussion

 * Hovering technology was supposed to have completely replaced the wheel, but wheels still appear in some episodes.
 * Remixed theme music is used, apparently after hearing this they decided never to do it again, but there are a few other cases of different theme music.
 * Mars' sky is yellow instead of red to avoid Fry blending in.
 * The library's sign refers to Marilyn vos Savant who had the highest IQ in the world.
 * J. Stewart Burns regularly tries to add chess jokes.
 * Ideas were "borrowed" from numerous college movies, such as Animal House, The Program, and Revenge of the Nerds.
 * Dean Vernon was named for John Vernon who played the Dean in Animal House
 * The Simpsons characters are only to appear as objects, as they are a show in Futurama.
 * Interestingly, Futurama later became a show in some episodes of The Simpsons but real in other episodes. In the crossover comics however, The Simpsons retain fictional status and interacted with the crew via Mental Realms.
 * Early versions of the characters had five fingers to diferentiate from The Simpsons, it looked weird and was changed, through Poster Guy sometimes retains the extra finger.
 * Constant use of Apple Macintosh computers.
 * Guenter was going to be more realistic, but it looked creepy.
 * The Professor's eyes had at this point never been seen. Billy wanted to see them, Matt said that he shouldn't.
 * Billy's high quality voice work.
 * Very early on, Cubert Farnsworth was going to be the Professor's experiment and Fry's room-mate.
 * The diagram "Witten's Dog" was drawn by a physicist at Caltech, it parodies a real style of physics diagram.
 * If you look closely it's also a faeces joke.
 * Pointing out the urine on the floor of Guenter's parent's cage. Most of the commentators hadn't noticed it before.
 * Frank Welker's animal sounds.
 * Guenter was the name of Stewart's college room-mate.
 * His other room-mates are listed on the floor plan.
 * Earlier versions had more animals fall from the tree.
 * Fry's dancing was originally a random one-off character.
 * Planning to bring Guenter back.

Highlights / Quotes

 * Unknown: There's your phone number, how'd you come up with that Unknown 2: The Lambda? That was a desperate effort not to have a phone number that went 555-0155.

Goofs

 * This is said to be the first appearance of Amy's parents, but they were in the previous episode.

Commentators

 * Matt Groening
 * Creator
 * David X. Cohen
 * Executive Producer
 * Rich Moore
 * Supervising Director
 * J. Stewart Burns
 * Writer
 * Bret Haaland
 * Director
 * Gregg Vanzo
 * Supervising Director
 * Billy West
 * Actor (Fry, Professor Farnsworth, miscellaneous)