Commentary:My Three Suns

Production Number: 1ACV07 DVD: Season 1, Disc 2

Topics of Discussion

 * After season one they stopped putting opening clips in front of the Opening Sequence
 * Why David X. Cohen's middle initial is X
 * Fry going to a strange planet and drinking the emperor was one of Matt's first ideas for episodes
 * Bender was meant to be a chef from the begining then they made him lazy then back to a chef
 * Fry has been cut up so many times in the series
 * Episode 7 is the first time they make fun of the catchphrase 'Good News Everyone'
 * Fry and Zoidbergs's faces were a bit wide or small in some scenes
 * The ship seems to land far away from where they are going to
 * They discuss Zoidberg's voice
 * Matt has never watched Star Trek
 * David is never NOT watching Star Trek
 * They researched to see if a planet could orbit three suns
 * They tried to count the number of swear words in the show but lost count
 * They asked Matt why Futurama set in the year 3000 and not in someother year
 * Where the design of Dr. Zoidberg came from

Highlights / Quotes

 * David X. Cohen: So Steward Burns you wrote this episode where does the car wash sequence come from?
 * Matt Groening: Like David said this was one of the first ideas for the shows we thought what if he was a delivery boy and what if he drank the Emperor

Commentators

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