Commentary:A Fishful of Dollars

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Commentary for
A Fishful of Dollars
Production number	1ACV06
On DVD	Season 1 Disc 2
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Participants
Matt Groening Creator David X. Cohen Executive producer Rich Moore Supervising director Patric M. Verrone Writer Gregg Vanzo Co-director, supervising director John DiMaggio Actor (Bender, etc.)

Topics of Discussion

• The dream Fry has is similar to ones most kids have without the Lightspeed Briefs
• The Fry action figure comes with a pair of lightspeed briefs
• The title is a reference to the Clint Eastwood movie A Fistfull of Dollars
• This episode is the first time Bender shoplifts
• They considered changing the currency from dollars to something else
• Billy West and Dave Herman each do lines for one character
• The introduction of Mom
• Two of the show's writers hold PhDs in Mathematics
• This marks the first appearance of Scruffy, although he doesn't work for Planet Express
• Argument of whether anchovies are nice or bad
• The anchovies come with the Fry action figure and Mom's oil comes with Bender
• The future has many animal fights: both squid and apes
• Richard Nixon's Head was originally meant to help Mom's sons convince Fry he's in the year 2000
• The Atomic Super men mentioned by the Professor appear in Time Keeps on Slippin'

Highlights / Quotes

• Matt Groening: So Gregg do you want to talk about this Opening Sequence? (Pauses for answer) I guess not.
• Patric M. Verrone: He said adverts on bananas which ABC threatened to do!
• Gregg Vanzo: Fry was meant to buy another robot friend called Deluxor.
• David X. Cohen: We have the largest number a gasps than any show in TV history.

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