Commentary:A Big Piece of Garbage

Topics of Discussion

 * David Herman's great performance as Wernstrom
 * The young professor has red hair proving he's related to Fry
 * Ron Popeil sold them 80,000 dollars to appear on the show
 * Wernstrom's fish, Cinnamon, is named after David's cat
 * Secrets include:
 * The coffee stain is the animation studio's logo
 * The episode was nominated for an Emmys but was beaten by King of the Hill
 * The writer can't make a joke about Uranus as its now named Urectum
 * Matt and David wanted to include a documentary in each season
 * The character of Cubert Farnsworth was supposed to first appear in this episode
 * The public still don't know what the really filthy country was
 * The characters of Morbo and Linda
 * That the episode reflects the movie Armageddon
 * The ending song is from Dr. Strangelove

Highlights / Quotes

 * Matt Groeing: That was the only joke all year with the word symposium in it in all of television
 * David X. Cohen: The fish's name cinnamon after my cat
 * David X. Cohen: How did we ever get permission for that??

Commentators

 * Matt Groening
 * Creator
 * David X. Cohen
 * Executive Producer
 * Rich Moore
 * Supervising Director
 * Lewis Morton
 * Writer
 * Susan Dietter
 * Director
 * John DiMaggio
 * Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)