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Hey, space pals, welcome to episode four of Futurama. This is Matt Groening. | Hey, space pals, welcome to episode four of Futurama. This is Matt Groening. | ||
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One of our first decissions to make things hover, | One of our first decissions to make things hover, a long list of items in the present are futurised by presenting them to hover. | ||
This is a tricky episode-- beginning-- we weren't a hundred percent sure about how adult the show should be. So, coming up with this bed scene-- it was-- it seemed like it might be too risky. What you think, Matt? Did we go over the line with this upcoming stuff? | |||
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No, we established our line. [laughter] No no, no I-- this was a turning point in the series, because this showed that we could take the heroine of the series and really degrade her and so a lot of people liked the show. | |||
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Bender gets modest whenever he is in like a steam room, a hot tub... | |||
The foot sticking up is a great touch in that scene. | |||
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Ah, that's-- | |||
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The gut is genius. | |||
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Oh, the gut was supposed to grow and grow over each scene, but it got a little too grotesk, so we had to pull it back a bit. | |||
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So great he got Kirk chest. It's awesome. | |||
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We tried to do every shot, where we saw either a piece of Zapp as one of the scultupres or one of the pictures, just whatever... to remind you that, he's in love with himself. | |||
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Originally-- he was-- had both hands on his hip, and then we had to make sure he had to hold it with one hand. | |||
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Hold what? | |||
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The blanket. | |||
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Ah, okay. I love the shots where the maximum possible amount of skin is exposed. Through the magic of animation, that the corner of the towel ??? | |||
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Easy in animation to ... | |||
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This is actually the first time, I think, we went to another planet, where we can do something with colour and sky, and trees and everything around the environment. | |||
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Boy, he's stupid. | |||
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Here's Nibbler. Voiced by Frank Welker. Freddie on Scobby Doo. My man goes back, how far back? [URL voice] Way back. | |||
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Nibbler plays a larger and larger role in later seasons of the series. | |||
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Since this being the first time, we had to talk with Matt a lot on how to develop the character, onto what his specific movements was; more like a cat, more like a monkey, or what have you, so. | |||
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Wasn't he gonna fly at some point? | |||
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Yeah, in the original design, he had batwings. | |||
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Frank Welker is a genius. He's done so much stuff-- he used to know Elvis. Elvis used to make him do dog impressions. [Elvis voice] Hey, do that-- do that dog impression for me, Frankie. Hey, Frankie. [normal] I'm serious, no lie. He knew Elvis. But he is known amongst the Hollywood voice community as the guy you hire. He can do a flock of geass in one take. It's like, he's out of control. | |||
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In designing Nibbler I went-- I wanted to do-- I wanted to see if I could make a character that was really ugly when you looked at the components, he's got one nostril, he's got fangs and an eye ball on a stock on the top of his head. And yet he is really-- pretty cute, huh? | |||
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At one point, did you want mugous to be dripping out of his ??? ? | |||
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Yeah there was a-- wasn't there a ??? just hanging there, yeah. | |||
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I don't think we have any two episodes where the phone technology is the same. | |||
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Several different types. | |||
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Dial some times, whether with or without picture. This time there is 16 numbers on the phone. 45 maybe. | |||
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The part of Zapp Brannigan was originally meant for Phil Hartman and-- we knew how great he was, we said "you don't have to come and audition", but he said no, he wanted to, and he came in and of course he nailed the part and-- he was ready to go and then-- you know, he was killed just a couple of weeks later. And you know, it was incredible sad to see this guy, when he came in, so full of life, so much fun. And I don't think I've ever seen an actor enjoy himself as much as Phil Hartman did, not only his own work, but obviously the people who-- he was playing with. | |||
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And I-- regarding Billy West ended up doing the part, he came into audition also and he does it the way he did when he came into audition, he never do an impression of Phil Hartman. We let him do his take on it, once Phil wasn't available... | |||
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I think when you see the signs and you read the lines, you're ready to go. | |||
I think that-- alien equiliviant of a cat box is probably a first for prime time animation. What you say? | |||
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A full cat box. | |||
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We used kinda of a warp effect to crumble that planet down and the difficult thing was to get the cartoon lines to kinda show up during the warp. | |||
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A couple of episodes ago, it took them one second to get to the moon, now apparently, it's gonna be an overnight journey... the last miles. | |||
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One thing about the Nimbus - the design - going back between Kelly???, Matt, Rich and myself. If you look at it, it is a large floating can of ham. | |||
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Where did Maurice get that grown from, something we told him? The Kif grown? Anybody know, John? | |||
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Ah, actually, I don't know that. | |||
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Maybe it's a Maurice original. | |||
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We directed him, that would be the response of someone who had no ability to dispute his barboonish captain's orders, he would just moan. No, actually, David, that's your moan that he is doing! | |||
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