Commentary:The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz

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Commentary for
The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz
Production number	3ACV05
On DVD	Season 3 Disc 1
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Transcript

Topics of Discussion

• Zoidberg commentates instead of Billy.
  • He constantly points himself out and says what a good actor he is.
• Identifying the cartoon at the beginning as Koko The Clown.
• The origin of the story was a idea with Bender crashing a tanker into a planet.
• First episode directed by James Purdum
• Fry was going to draw comics more often.
• Pointing out Phil Hendrie as Free Waterfall Sr. and that the next family member will appear in a season four episode.
  • The family members always die at the end of their appearances.
• The Captain's Handbook has a pop-up sextant.
• Sci-Fi generally ignores the fact that spaceships can move in three dimensions not just two.
  • One of the Star Trek movies addresses this.
• Design of the hat is similar to that of Captain Crunch (US breakfast cereal mascot).
  • The food is very detailed.
• File photos are always unflattering in cartoons.
• Hyper-Chicken is a character that was only going to appear once
  • He was more like Foghorn Leghorn in earlier designs.
• Early episode names included Emperor Benguin.
• The video game system has antenna and a wire.
• The episode is very environmental.
  • They wanted to make a point about hunting, but they weren't sure what their point was.
  • These types of episodes need arguments for both sides in the stories.
• There is an orange line between the black and white of the penguins.
  • They are all hand drawn.
• Futurama has more gasps per minute than any other show.
• Bender has six reset modes, others include "wombat", "ravioli" and "children's book author" (this is most likely just a joke and won't come up in future storylines)
• The Penguin music from Batman could not be obtained.
• After winning an environmental award the previous year for The Problem with Popplers, they were sent a reminder to enter again and this episode was suggested. They entered it but failed to be nominated.

Highlights / Quotes

• Matt Groening [after seeing the Fing-Longer invented in reality]: I thought all of season three was a dream.
• David X. Cohen: John, how come you're so good at playing drunk?
  John DiMaggio: It's something I, uh... I don't know, it's... You guys got any booze?
• Leela [episode]: ...with wind-chill it's 20 degrees below absolute zero.
  David X. Cohen: Take that physicists. A blow to your precious logic.

Commentators

• Matt Groening
  • Executive Producer
• David X. Cohen
  • Executive Producer
• Rich Moore
  • Supervising Director
• Dan Vebber
  • Writer
• John DiMaggio
  • Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)
• Billy West
  • Actor (Fry, Zoidberg, Professor Fransworth, miscellaneous)
• Zoidberg

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