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=== Topics of Discussion ===
*[[Maurice LaMarche|Maurice]] commentates even though he does not voice any characters in this episode, he normally would have voiced the [[Narrator]].
*Episode had not aired at time of commentary recording.
*Origin of episode plot. Box was originally found in attic, they were going to not open the box until the end.
**Discussed at length (perhaps over thought) how the boxes connect during development, David notes that there'll be an explanation later and that we should get out pencils and graph paper.
*Smallest cast list in ''[[Futurama]]'' history.
*Difficulty of having two of everyone.
**They have the same personality as the alternate selves.
*There was going to be a character called Deluxor, who was a robot brought to [[Planet Express]] that was better than Bender and made of either solid gold or exotic wood.
*They were worried whether this episode was too confusing.
**[[Katey Sagal]] didn't understand the concept when the writers/directors tried to explain it.
*Audio and visual differences between the establishing shots in the two universes.
*Zoidberg-1 is blue because one in two million lobsters are blue.
*The official name of the Narrator is [[Transition Announcer]].
*The Zoidbergs initially enter universe 25.
*Some of the boxes don't actually lead to each other, the wires keep the connections open though.
*The meaning of the number 420, or more accurately 4:20pm, to cannabis users.
*They didn't notice that Hermes-1 didn't come out of the box with the other characters until late in the process and had to do an emergency retake.
*Pulling the boxes through each other is done outside three dimensional space.
 
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'''Matt Groening''': I think everybody who's... You gotta be crazy to listen to the audio commentary...
'''Unknown''': You gotta be crazy to listen to the audio commentary, period.
'''David X. Cohen''': You can give away what's going to happen in the episode, just don't give away what's going to happen in the audio commentary.</poem>
<poem>'''Matt Groening''': We're cancelled?!
'''Bill Odenkirk''': On hiatus, on hiatus.
'''Matt Groening''': Please, I'm living in denial, and I wanna remain so.</poem>
<poem>'''David''': Ah, [[The Curiosity Company]].
'''Bill Odenkirk''': They make cars don't they?</poem>
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Commentary for
The Farnsworth Parabox
The Farnsworth Parabox.jpg
Production number4ACV15
Recorded dateDecember 2002
On DVDSeason 4
Disc 4
Additional
Transcript
Participants
Matt Groening
Executive Producer
David X. Cohen
Executive Producer
Bill Odenkirk
Writer
Ron Hughart
Director
Billy West
Actor (Fry(s), Professor Farnsworth(s), Zoidberg(s), miscellaneous)
Maurice LaMarche
Actor (Transition Announcer, miscellaneous not in episode)

Topics of Discussion

  • Maurice commentates even though he does not voice any characters in this episode, he normally would have voiced the Narrator.
  • Episode had not aired at time of commentary recording.
  • Origin of episode plot. Box was originally found in attic, they were going to not open the box until the end.
    • Discussed at length (perhaps over thought) how the boxes connect during development, David notes that there'll be an explanation later and that we should get out pencils and graph paper.
  • Smallest cast list in Futurama history.
  • Difficulty of having two of everyone.
    • They have the same personality as the alternate selves.
  • There was going to be a character called Deluxor, who was a robot brought to Planet Express that was better than Bender and made of either solid gold or exotic wood.
  • They were worried whether this episode was too confusing.
    • Katey Sagal didn't understand the concept when the writers/directors tried to explain it.
  • Audio and visual differences between the establishing shots in the two universes.
  • Zoidberg-1 is blue because one in two million lobsters are blue.
  • The official name of the Narrator is Transition Announcer.
  • The Zoidbergs initially enter universe 25.
  • Some of the boxes don't actually lead to each other, the wires keep the connections open though.
  • The meaning of the number 420, or more accurately 4:20pm, to cannabis users.
  • They didn't notice that Hermes-1 didn't come out of the box with the other characters until late in the process and had to do an emergency retake.
  • Pulling the boxes through each other is done outside three dimensional space.

Highlights / Quotes

    Bill Odenkirk: ... I don't want to ruin the surprise if you haven't seen it. But I think the whole show...
    Matt Groening: I think everybody who's... You gotta be crazy to listen to the audio commentary...
    Unknown: You gotta be crazy to listen to the audio commentary, period.
    David X. Cohen: You can give away what's going to happen in the episode, just don't give away what's going to happen in the audio commentary.

    Matt Groening: We're cancelled?!
    Bill Odenkirk: On hiatus, on hiatus.
    Matt Groening: Please, I'm living in denial, and I wanna remain so.

    David: Ah, The Curiosity Company.
    Bill Odenkirk: They make cars don't they?

Goofs

  • David received a phone call from his assistant.
  • At 07:00 a.m., Leela has finished guarding the box for the night. The sun is shown rising... in the west-southwest.
  • Professor A (our universe's Professor Farnsworth) addresses his Universe 1's counterpart (with the stitched-up head) as "Professor B" rather than "Professor 1".
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1ACV
(Season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" (Animatic commentary) • "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
2ACV
(Season 2)		 "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "A Clone of My Own" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "Mother's Day" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Anthology of Interest I" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Honking" • "The Cryonic Woman"
3ACV
(Season 3)		 "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Parasites Lost" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "The Route of All Evil" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Roswell that Ends Well" (Directors commentary) • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "The 30% Iron Chef"
4ACV
(Season 4)		 "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Love and Rocket" • "Less than Hero" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "Jurassic Bark" (Writers commentary) • "Crimes of the Hot" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" • "The Sting" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
5ACV
(Season 5)
Bender's Big Score The Beast with a Billion Backs Bender's Game Into the Wild Green Yonder
6ACV
(Season 6)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Möbius Dick" • "Law and Oracle" • "Benderama" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Neutopia" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
7ACV
(Season 7)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" (Animators commentary) • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama" • "Forty Percent Leadbelly" • "2-D Blacktop" • "T.: The Terrestrial" • "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" • "The Inhuman Torch" • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" (Animators commentary) • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
8ACV
(Season 8)		 "The Impossible Stream" • "Children of a Lesser Bog" • "How the West Was 1010001" • "Parasites Regained" • "Related to Items You've Viewed" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" • "Rage Against the Vaccine" • "Zapp Gets Cancelled" • "The Prince and the Product" • "All the Way Down"
S01E
(Broadcast season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" (Animatic commentary)
S02E
(Broadcast season 2)		 "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory" • "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "A Clone of My Own" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Mother's Day" • "Anthology of Interest I"
S03E
(Broadcast season 3)		 "The Honking" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Cryonic Woman" • "Parasites Lost" • "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot"
S04E
(Broadcast season 4)		 "Roswell that Ends Well" (Directors commentary) • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Love and Rocket" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "The 30% Iron Chef" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
S05E
(Broadcast season 5)		 "Crimes of the Hot" • "Jurassic Bark" (Writers commentary) • "The Route of All Evil" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Less than Hero" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "The Sting" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
S06E
(Broadcast season 6)		 "Bender's Big Score Part 1" • "Bender's Big Score Part 2" • "Bender's Big Score Part 3" • "Bender's Big Score Part 4" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 2" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 3" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 4" • "Bender's Game Part 1" • "Bender's Game Part 2" • "Bender's Game Part 3" • "Bender's Game Part 4" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 1" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 2" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 3" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 4"
S07E
(Broadcast season 7)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular"
S08E
(Broadcast season 8)		 "Neutopia" • "Benderama" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Law and Oracle" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Möbius Dick" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
S09E
(Broadcast season 9)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" (Animators commentary) • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama"
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