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*In earlier versions, the garbage chute only ejected garbage. | *In earlier versions, the garbage chute only ejected garbage. | ||
*The pillars read "yummy tummy" | *The pillars read "yummy tummy" | ||
*Episodes with higher sci-fi content need a lot more explanation, so | *Episodes with higher sci-fi content need a lot more explanation, so they had to have Fry pushed and knocked around to keep the plot moving during explanations. | ||
*Animators got paid to re animate the content from the [[Space Pilot 3000|pilot]], though it was the same footage. | *Animators got paid to re animate the content from the [[Space Pilot 3000|pilot]], though it was the same footage. | ||
**[[Nibbler]]'s shadow was in the pilot as part of the set up for this episode. | **[[Nibbler]]'s shadow was in the pilot as part of the set up for this episode. | ||
**They had the option to avoid time travel as Nibbler is just very old. | **They had the option to avoid time travel as Nibbler is just very old. | ||
*There was going to be a long sequence of shots covering the 1000 year period Fry travels through. | *There was going to be a long sequence of shots covering the 1000 year period Fry travels through. | ||
===Highlights / Quotes=== | ===Highlights / Quotes=== | ||
*'''David X. Cohen''': Dripping water is the locker room equivalent of a cricket. | *'''David X. Cohen''': Dripping water is the locker room equivalent of a cricket. |
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Production number | 4ACV10 | ||
On DVD | Season 4 Disc 2 | ||
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Topics of Discussion
- Maurice claims not to be in the episode.
- The idea of this episode had been planned from before the show started.
- The connection to Roswell that Ends Well was not part of the original plan.
- The Professor is not in this episode or the next one, these are the only two episodes without him.
- Frank Welker's voice work.
- Bill Odenkirk was once at a restaurant where the bread had baby roaches crawling out of it, he only noticed after eating some.
- David's sister once ate in a pancake house where cockroaches had been caught in the dried syrup on a plate of syrup containers.
- There are lots of revisits to previous episodes in this episode.
- In earlier versions, the garbage chute only ejected garbage.
- The pillars read "yummy tummy"
- Episodes with higher sci-fi content need a lot more explanation, so they had to have Fry pushed and knocked around to keep the plot moving during explanations.
- Animators got paid to re animate the content from the pilot, though it was the same footage.
- Nibbler's shadow was in the pilot as part of the set up for this episode.
- They had the option to avoid time travel as Nibbler is just very old.
- There was going to be a long sequence of shots covering the 1000 year period Fry travels through.
Highlights / Quotes
- David X. Cohen: Dripping water is the locker room equivalent of a cricket.
- Maurice LaMarche: I am in this episode. 'Cause I play the brain.
Billy West: Do that voice, the creepy voice.
Maurice LaMarche: You mean The Brain?
Billy West: Yeah, the creepy voice.
Maurice LaMarche: "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" Oh, wrong Brain.
Commentators
- Matt Groening
- Executive Producer
- David X. Cohen
- Executive Producer
- Writer
- Wes Archer
- Director
- Billy West
- Maurice LaMarche
- Actor (Transition Announcer, The Big Brain, miscellaneous)
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