Commentary:The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
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The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings | |||
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Production number | 4ACV18 | ||
On DVD | Season 4 Disc 4 | ||
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Topics of Discussion
- Fry's Holophonor recital is like Ken's when he was younger.
- The Holophonor makes its second appearance.
- The Crew thought there was a 50/50 chance that this episode would be the last one when they were writing it.
- The Devil's voice is based on a old actor's voice.
- All the Robots on the Devil's Wheel of Robots appear in the show.
- The crew tried to fit most of the characters into the last episode.
- The music on Fry's music advert is a reference to musician John Williams.
- They don't know what the public thinks of Hedonism Bot as the episode hadn't been aired yet.
- Its actually hard for the actors to scream when they aren't using their own voice.
- Lots of secondary characters appear in the background in this episode.
- They think its funny that they still make fun of Nixon in the last episode.
- Katey Sagal had a bad throat whilst recording and not all of her lines were recorded on the day, then they couldn't record the lines she missed as Katey was worked on 8 Simple Rules.
- Most voice actors seem to have great singing voices.
- Dr. Zoidberg has money in this episode.
Highlights / Quotes
- David X. Cohen: Look its Dan Castellaneta as the Robot Devil.
- David X. Cohen: Every robot on this wheel appeared in the show and we made sure they weren't robots like Cleaning Bot that appeared for a second.
- Billy West: I love Ken's operas.
- Bret Haaland: Yes that's a real song from ERM.
- David X. Cohen: That grand singing of the word Dork always makes me laugh.
- Matt Greoning: That joke's great.
- Bret Haaland: Well it said he disappeared but I thought a robot can't do magic.
- Billy West: (As Zoidberg) I wanted to go out good.
Commentators
- Matt Groening
- Creator
- David X. Cohen
- Executive Producer
- Ken Keeler
- Writer
- Bret Haaland
- Director
- Billy West
- Actor (Fry, miscellaneous)
- Maurice LaMarche
- Guest Actor (Calculon, miscellaneous)
- Dan Castellaneta
- Guest Actor (Robot Devil)
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