What did YOU learn from the DVD?

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The DVD audio commentairies are great but also give away many great things to learn and cherish. So what things did you learn about Futurama and stories that you think were important or funny ect.

I learn't that the Nibbler bit in Ep. 1 was extremely important. The talking of secrets and the animatic clearly point to him being important as he was there very early on and not cut.

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Curtis was originally fry's first name.  Leela was originally supposed to be 30.  Many of the voices were matched with the characters.  Tons of little errors were pointed out (mainly from people on the internet pointing them out and david cohen just restating them).  John DiMaggio is the only main actor who watches the show (not all from dvd; some from other sites, and how billy west stated some of the stuff).  Also his laugh is creepy, or at least exactly like benders.

A fish full of dollars originally used pop tarts.

Commentaries were probably done while they were making season 4.

Billy west has never watched the news; matt groening has never seen star trek; david cohen watches star trek probably a little too much.

Rough draft studios uses a coffee stain as a logo.

The nimbus is modeled off of a can of ham.

Hmm that is a few of the things learned.

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>>>>>>>> General

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Sorry, it was going to be about Nibbler on the DVD but then i changed it to general DVD stuff

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Yeah the audio commentairies were great. I learned that all robot eyes are square and all human eyes are round so they use Lucy liu bot eyes square and Lucy Lui head in the jar eyes are round.

Yeah John DiMaggio's laugh is Bender. that's his real laugh.

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Oh and John can do Farnsworth just like Billy 

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The #9 guy was originally supposed to be part of a caste system.

David Cohen never saw "Titanic".

Hermes was originally named Dexter.

The animators had some weird early ideas about the characters. In the end Matt Groenings original thoughts more or less prevailed.

The hyper chicken lawyer was originally a suggestion for Kif.

John DiMaggio is a very funny guy.

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I learned that hidden DVD things counted as spoilers. But now it's too late.

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i learned that without DVD you can`t learn nothing   

o my god, i`m doing stupid commentaries

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Yes you are

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i learned that david came up with the dark matter, even before einstein. 

SpacemanSpiff - living and learning

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I learned how to pronounce Matt's last name corretly. Until now my friends and I, always thought it was pronounced [Groonin'].

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I haven't learnt anything yet! 

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That's the spirit!  Go White Fish!

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Originally posted by Teral:
I learned how to pronounce Matt's last name corretly. Until now my friends and I, always thought it was pronounced [Groonin'].

I also thought that with the Simpsons but then C4 showed a documentary (very similar to the DVD one...) and they said it like 'Graining'

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How to burp like Bender   

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Ewww hahaha 

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Cough. Wasn't it BBC2's Simpsons Night?

Yes I know I'm going off topic.

:-)

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I've learnt that I knew very little well no change there then.
Well I did learn John DiMaggio is really funny.

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That the creators of Futurama visit my website 

Which is probably very naughty of them - I know that writers on Star Trek have a clause in their contract that prohibits them from looking at fan-created stuff for legal reasons (ie, some nerd could sue over alleged theft of ideas). But hey, stick it to The Man!

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The funniest thing on the DVDs is watching it in French. The voices they use on the dub are hilarious - Hermes is more camp than Jamaican, but Zoidberg is pretty good. They also seem to leave out the more "American" terms, e.g. no Fox or McDonalds.

I also learnt that John Di Maggio has the wickedest laugh since Sid James.

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Welcome to PEEL, BarneyBurnham. Enjoy it here.    Nice to see another Leelafan (judging by your profile).

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John DiMaggio is the man! 

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I learned...nothing from the DVD I learned about region free DVD players though 

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I learned that when John DiMaggio does the voice for Bender, when Benders getting high on electricity John rubs his throat up and down on his adams apple really fast for the sound effect.

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And i learned that that made everyone freak out when he did it.

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I learned...that's pretty cool

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I also learned that the Curiosity Company logo thing (after episode one, at least) is a surfboard. Is that right? Is that what he said? I can't remember.

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Yep, thats right and the dripping noise was a tribute to his dad.

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That's cool. The dripping sounds like it's from a faucet though.

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oi Rach or anyone for that matter do you kno when the dvd's are coming out in australia ?

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According to this website it'll be realeased april 3rd 2002 (I'm not sure how reliable it is). Read more here:

Upcoming Region 4 DVDs

BTW, they list the season 2 DVD set too. It should be released on June 5th 2002.  Again, I'm not sure about the reliability, but it is being confirmed by this site:

FBO Entertainment FUTURAMA Season 2 (AUS)

Maybe it's already common knowledge, but I haven't seen anything about it yet. 

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I'm a bit confused?? Is June 5th the date the second Box set is coming out or the date the 1st boxset comes out in Austria? Sorry if I'm bein a bit dense but I didn't think that the website explained it very well. I hope its the date that the second boxset comes out coz i dont wanna wait till xmas..lol 

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AWESOME now just to get dvd player

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Hell i'll jest get it anway

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Originally posted by BarneyBurnham:
The funniest thing on the DVDs is watching it in French. The voices they use on the dub are hilarious - Hermes is more camp than Jamaican, but Zoidberg is pretty good.

I thought Fry's french voice was fairly close in accent and I liked that they actually sang "Hell Is Other Robots" in French, which was cool - Leela's french actress isn't quite as good as Katey Sagal when it comes to singing though  She's not off-key but she sounds like she's strugling.

The funniest thing was watching the Millennium (2000) countdown in Italian. They didn't dubb the other languages at all, they replaced the actual Italian people bit of the countdown (8 or VIII) with just one Italian saying it instead  and the final "Uno" was the image of the whole world and the sound of one guy saying it really pathetically.
You'll just have to watch it     

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I learned that Dave Cooper does or did concept art for the show. Check out his comics. They are disturbing and hilarious.

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Originally posted by Zed 85:
 I thought Fry's french voice was fairly close in accent and I liked that they actually sang "Hell Is Other Robots" in French, which was cool - Leela's french actress isn't quite as good as Katey Sagal when it comes to singing though    She's not off-key but she sounds like she's strugling.

The funniest thing was watching the Millennium (2000) countdown in Italian. They didn't dubb the other languages at all, they replaced the actual Italian people bit of the countdown (8 or VIII) with just one Italian saying it instead    and the final "Uno" was the image of the whole world and the sound of one guy saying it really pathetically.
You'll just have to watch it      

The Bender's French voice was awful and the Spaish was worst

 

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Yeah I agree, Bender was too flat in the French version and Hermes was terrible.

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I learned that I love Amazon.co.uk AND I love DVD ROM drives!!!!!!!! I so happy!!!         

So, when's season two coming out?   

I also learned that John DiMaggio seems to be able to do every voice that Billy West does.