Commentary:Fear of a Bot Planet

Production Number: 1ACV05 DVD: Season 1, Disc 2

Topics of Discussion

 * How Blernsball name came from a made up 8th day called Blernsday
 * Other suggested names for the show included Doomsville an Aloha Mars
 * Some of Blernsball is actually pinball, some baseball and the rest is anything
 * Rules have started to be written for Blernsball as it appears in future episodes
 * Chapek 9 was named after the man who invented the word robot
 * About the inspiration for Fry an Leela's disguses
 * Reference that the Robot's scream is like the one from Bodysnatchers 2
 * How the computer is of apple make
 * The word silence constantly being repeated

Highlights / Quotes

 * Matt Groening: Well I didn't think that was going to work, but anyway hi this is Matt Groening
 * David X. Cohen: Who does these little cartoons??
 * Unknown: Actually you guys send them to us.
 * David X. Cohen: That cleaning robot originaly appeared in Space Pilot 3000 but was taken out as it was too long.
 * Unknown: He's doing the robot.
 * David X. Cohen: Tetris anyone??
 * David X. Cohen: We ought to get money for advertising apple!

Commentators

 * Matt Groening
 * Creator
 * David X. Cohen
 * Executive Producer
 * Rich Moore
 * Supervising Director
 * Gregg Vanzo
 * Supervising Director
 * John DiMaggio
 * Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)