Commentary:Time Keeps on Slippin'

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Commentary for
Time Keeps on Slippin'
Production number	3ACV14
On DVD	Season 3 Disc 3
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Transcript
Participants
Matt Groening Creator David X. Cohen Co-creator Ken Keeler Writer Susan Dietter Guest Director John DiMaggio Actor (Bender, misc.) Billy West Actor (Fry, the Professor, misc.)

Topics of Discussion

• The writers were unaware that there was a cartoon about the Harlem Globetrotters in space.
• They made up their own globetrotter names as they couldn't use actual globetrotters, the actual trotters okayed the use of their group's name.
• Travelling forwards in time can't result in causality problems.
• John DiMaggio wanted to play Marv Albert, but lost out to Jeff Cesario.
• Grotrian is a type of piano. Armo is the arm mutant, Lazar is the optic blast mutant; these two names aren't in the actual episode.
• Network executives always ask what the stakes are when they get a script, so the episode starts by setting the stakes at zero.
• Censors made them adjust the conga line to hide more cleavage. No objection to the seven buttockses.
  • They also rejected the word "mutha", which became "mama"
• The original story, involving Fry falling in love with a woman in a Sun, and having to move it, was derived from a Harry Stephen Keeler novel.

Highlights / Quotes

• Ken Keeler: I should say at this point that I really know virtually nothing about basketball.
  David X. Cohen: You would never know it. I mean this is pretty accurate stuff here.

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