Commentary:A Pharaoh to Remember

Topics of Discussion

 * Intending to be serious this time.
 * A lot o though was put into the colour of Bender's speedos to make them sexier.
 * Fry and Bender supply commentary for this episode instead of Billy and John, though John doesn't do this consistently.
 * Fry thinks his acting sucks.
 * Ron Weiner tends to have dancing in all his episodes.
 * The first idea for the episode was the fake funeral.
 * Funerals have seemingly replaced courtroom scenes in Futurama as the serious moment with formal procedure.
 * Chemical composition of Bender.
 * High quality of music from Christopher Tyng.
 * The hieroglyphics used are not translatable into readable language.
 * The discussion at the weight loss booth was improvised by Billy and John
 * A scene with Fry running from a block sliding down the pyramid was removed.
 * Follows Stark Trek tradition of having another planet exactly like an ancient time on Earth.
 * Good to focus on a character's need to be remembered, this emotion is rare on TV.
 * Bender was possibly too mean.
 * The animators usually try to put the women in skimpier outfits than the slave clothes.
 * The original version of the explosion burned the entire planet.
 * This version keeps the people alive, or at least most of them.

Highlights / Quotes

 * Fry: I can't watch this. It's unwatchable. I'm so embarrassed of my acting in this. I suck! I shouldn't be on TV this is crazy.
 * Matt: We don't need writers, just animate this.
 * Farnsworth: They cut the bee sting scene out.
 * David X. Cohen: Hey Fry, what do you think of Billy West? Fry: What do I think of him? I don't know him. David X. Cohen: He knows you.
 * Farnsworth: I'm sitting here naked with a tin foil hat.

Goofs

 * Bender is able to lift massive weights but the ending of one episode showed that he couldn't lift, only bend. Bender's explanation is that "Bender is great".