"COMMENTARY:" "We got a huge crowd here." "This is Matt Groening." " Are we going around the room?" " Oh, yeah." " Stewart Burns." "Writer." " John DiMaggio, voice of Bender." "This is Billy West, the voice of a few characters." " Scott Vanzo, computer graphics." " David Cohen, executive producer." "Bret Haaland, director." "And Rich Moore, supervising director." "Billy West, executive producer." "[MAN LAUGHS]" "This was the first Twilight Zone rip-off ever." "Maurice LaMarche is doing the voice right there." " He's got a good Serling." " He does have a good Serling." "He can only do it really soft and then we crank it up so you hear it on TV." "As a matter of fact, this is all Maurice within this." "ANNOUNCER:" "Per your request, please find enclosed the last man on earth." "Finally, solitude." "I can read books for all eternity." "It's not fair." "It's not fair!" "Wait, my eyes aren't that bad." "I can read the large-print books." "It's not...!" "Well, lucky I can read Braille." "COMMENTARY:" "If Twilight Zone was that long, it would've been great." "LEELA:" "A debate's on!" "Change the channel!" "That's what Fry said when we turned on the debate." "[GROUP CHUCKLING]" "COMMENTARY:" "America hasn't changed." "LEELA:" "There are no car chases but one of these men will become president of the world." "So?" "We live in the United States." "That's part of the world." " That's you, John DiMaggio." " Oh, boy." "Who plays the identical twin?" " Oh, snap." " DiMaggio, John." "Now, that's satire." "LEELA:" "Even with identical DNA, they differ on key issues." "Your three-cent titanium tax goes too far!" "Your three-cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!" "If I were registered, I'd send a message..." "COMMENTARY:" "This was written before the 2000 presidential election." "We called presidential election fever way in advance." "Wasn't there a great deal...?" "Actually, we're omniscient here at Futurama." "Sorry." "I remember the network hating this and refusing to believe it would be good." "No, you're thinking of every episode." "[GROUP CHUCKLING]" "No, they really didn't want Nixon in the show." "They said the kids wouldn't know who he was." "It doesn't matter." "He's funny." "Luckily for us, he's a character in real life so it translated easily." "We took him in a different direction, making him kind of a slimy jerk." "They get all the breaks!" "ZOIDBERG:" "You could join a third party, maybe." "Only weirdos and mutants join third parties." "I'd better keep an eye out at the next meeting." " What's your party, Bender?" " I can't vote." " Because you're a robot?" " No, a felon." "We favor huge subsidies to the Brain Slug planet." "Okay, but what are the Brain Slugs gonna do for the working man?" " Attach Brain Slugs to them." " Sure, you say that now." "COMMENTARY:" "Is that Dave Herman?" " Yeah, that's Dave." " He never ceases to amaze me." " Oh, God." "This guy's come back once or twice now." "I love that poster in the background." "For duck hunting." " That your Penn Jillette impression?" " Pretty much." "[MAN LAUGHS]" "I go out of the house doing Zoidberg all the time." "I want to be Billy West." "By the way, Hermes seems especially susceptible to that brain slug." "He's hanging out with the hemp party guy." "He has it again in episode 208." "At some point he was going to have a slug on for the rest of the show." "Who came up with the idea to have this guy's tongue hanging out?" "The original idea with the slugs was, they were gonna be on the ceiling throughout the show and would drop down and make you smarter." "And then they'd come and cover your whole head." "Maybe we'll do that." "The guy who's in the background on that poster is the same guy who was in some other episode, the pilot." " He was in a poster saying..." " "You gotta do what you gotta do. "" "What sort of punctuation was over his head in that one?" "None." "I didn't know Bender was titanium until we needed him to be." "You know, over the course of this and future episodes we learned he's 40-percent titanium 30-percent dolomite, and 40-percent iron." "There's zinc." "Zinc was definitely in there." "That's right. 40-percent zinc." "We're at least up to 1 50 percent." " A missing water sound there." " We debated that." " The censor cut that debate short." " Good taste won in the end." "That was a good kick." "I love the fact that Bender can have such a cocky attitude in this incredibly demeaning shape here." "It was an effort to find a character to say that without looking horrible." "Bachelor Chow." "Looks yummy." "There are so many more butlers on cartoons than in real life." "[GROUP LAUGHING]" "Well, you've never been to my house." " There's a 3-D roulette wheel." " Yeah." "Nice job, Scott." "Can we use that model to predict actual roulette outcomes in Las Vegas?" "That's why the studio goes to Las Vegas every year." " Here comes the eyeball." " That's an eye." "That joke's obscure." "[BOWLING BALLS BANGING]" "BENDER:" "Strike!" "In your face, Leela!" "[GROUP LAUGHING]" "COMMENTARY:" "Violence is funny." " Three, two, one." " 3-D car." " This is great." "This is the first time we had to model the conference room and other areas." " This is the best." " So everything is 3-D?" "The characters are 2-D, which makes them kind of difficult to integrate." "That's a shot I couldn't believe we could get on TV." "It's way too fancy." "This should be a video game, "Bender-head racing. "" "That is great." "Versus the presidential heads." "Now that we have that in 3-D, we could use that in any old show." "Yeah, we see the interior a lot, like through the open cargo bay." "Do you guys use this 3-D background in practice?" " Jeez." " Just for 3-D shots." "We had to wreck a car to get that right." "[GROUP LAUGHING]" "We still don't have the laboratory and some other areas modeled yet." "Ah, cameo." " Ron Jeremy." " Yeah." "COMMENTARY:" "That is Claudia Schiffer." " That's her." "It really pays to have a supermodel in a cartoon." "[GROUP LAUGHING]" "Especially when you're just seeing their head." " She was a good sport." " It took all day for only five lines." " Really?" " No." "Dave wanted to keep her around." " The presidents." " And she was good." "BENDER:" "Sturdy shelves, good security." "This place has class." "Hi, sugar." "Legally, nothing I can do..." "COMMENTARY:" "We found a new angle on the Bill Clinton joke." "FORD:" "He gets this way around meaty-Iooking women." "I remember you." "I was gonna vote for you." "But voting isn't cool so I got trashed on Listerine." "I've never felt voting is essential to the process." "NIXON'S VOICE:" "Rubber baby buggy bumpers." "[GROUP LAUGHING]" "Maurice does most of the presidents that Billy doesn't." " Why does Washington say "thou"?" " I think Maurice is Canadian." " In olden times, people said "thou. "" " Yeah, some vague olden times." "[MAN GIGGLES]" "This is kind of a section that the 8-year-old viewers aren't following." " It's what allows them to air this..." " History lesson?" " Yeah, Learning Channel." " Educational." "By running this show, they avoid taxes for two years." "I spent my teen years loving my body." "Of course, it was tough love..." "He opened relations with China..." " Well, a positive comment about Nixon." " Yeah." "We're open-minded." "[MAN MIMICS NIXON]" "[MAN GIGGLES]" "Let's go." "All these heads are so cute." "This was actually done in 3-D because of the complexity of the shot." "[GROUP LAUGHING]" " There's a heroic pose." " In his underwear." "There really was a two in there, right?" " Yes." " Was there?" "Let's go back." "BENDER:" "My body loved me and I turned its back on it." "Well, old friend, tie a yellow ribbon round your neck." "I'm coming home!" "You sold my body!" "To who?" "I can't reveal that." "But I'll give you $50 for the kid." "COMMENTARY:" "That you, John?" " Yeah." "Good voice, I like it." " Thank you, New Jersey." " What exit?" "Yeah, exactly." " Good pose on Fry." " I like this guy right here." " You do?" " I sit at home like that all the time." " He's only got three hairs." " Most of our viewers watch like this." "[GROUP LAUGHING]" " We're doing the commentary like that." " It's how we're drawn." "But we're not crossing our legs." "Speaking of cartoons, when someone turns the TV on important information is revealed within.03 seconds." "REPORTER:" "Nobody can be elected president more than twice." "That's right, no "body. "" "But as you can plainly see, I've got a shiny new body." "[SINGS]" "COMMENTARY:" "I believe that was Billy just going bananas there." "Billy West, that is." "We should just have Fry nude for no reason." "He is for a disproportionate amount of time." "I always felt empty after that first episode where he was probed." "I love this." "NIXON SINGS:" "Feed your head" "I'm meeting you halfway..." "COMMENTARY:" "Is this the place we thought about doing "Ohio," the Crosby, Stills and Nash song with Nixon singing?" "I don't know." "Tin soldiers and Nixon 's coming" " Oh." "Probably." " But we couldn't get permission." " I believe that's right." "NIXON'S VOICE:" "I'm glad you couldn't." " For the best." "That's not a bad song." "That was a penis joke in case you didn't... ." "[MAN LAUGHS]" " It was hard to get." " "Your Mama So Fat" contest." "[AUDIENCE MUMBLING]" "MORBO:" "Morbo will introduce the candidates." "Puny human number one." "Puny human number two." "And my good friend, Richard Nixon." "Hello, Morbo." "COMMENTARY:" "The most honest newsman on TV." "Is that a Rugrat or something?" "BENDER:" "First he steals my body, now he's touching my stuff." "We've got to find a way to talk to him." "Morbo demands an answer to the following question:" "COMMENTARY:" "I always thought that meant seize and consume the child." "I love the look of Morbo." "It's like one of those '50s sci-fi heads." " The truth-o-scope's a full 3-D model." " I love that thing." "I think it turned out really great, the iris and everything." "The graph is actually a particle they also use for creating hair in 3-D." "Pre-life." "We had to debate a bit about how Nixon could sweat outside of his jar." "I guess you figured the force of the sweat inside expanded the volume of the liquid over the top..." "NIXON'S VOICE:" "Condensation." "BENDER:" "Give my body back, you thief!" "Look here, you drugged-out communist." "I paid for this body and I'd no sooner return it than I would my dog." "Shut up!" "COMMENTARY:" "That's my favorite line in the show." "I really like that dog's head." "We're a long way from talking about him opening up China now." "We went through everything about Nixon that we all remembered from about eighth grade." "I learned a lot, actually." "Didn't really go into the deeper Nixon subjects." "I love the 60th president." "Nice lighting on that scene." "I like the shadows there and stuff." "FRY:" "Why would Nixon stay here?" "COMMENTARY:" "Which doesn't make any sense at all because well, he didn't break in himself." " That was hand-drawn." " Wow." " That was great." "I love that." " It's so cute." "FRY:" "Keep going." "We're right behind you." "Whoa, mama." "Get a room, you two!" "HOTEL GUEST:" "We're in a room!" " Then lose some weight!" "[GROUP CHUCKLING]" "COMMENTARY:" "Where'd that come from, Billy?" "I always imagined he was ready to turn into some kind of werewolf." "When he was president, I'd be like:" "[MAN ROARS]" "[SNORES]" "NIXON:" "Hey, Betty Friedan, send a little of that lotion my way." "Okay." "Almost got it." "Steady." "Steady." "Don't panic." "Ooh." "Uh-oh." "COMMENTARY:" "God, this is weird." "NIXON:" "You shaggy peaceniks got nerve." " I want what's mine!" " Don't make me kick your neck." " Bring it on, soup can." "COMMENTARY:" "I love when he's angry, it's a static thing on his mouth." "NIXON:" "You're all going to jail." "And I don't grant pardons like that sissy, Ford." "You won't pardon anyone, because you won't get elected." "The voters aren't..." "COMMENTARY:" "That's an insult to all." " What the...?" "COMMENTARY:" "Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1 973 but voters are as drunk and stupid as ever!" "The only one who's changed is me." "I've become bitter and crazy." "Once I'm in office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat!" "COMMENTARY:" "So far from China." "[GROUP CHUCKLES]" "FRY:" "He lost my vote." "One vote won't make a difference." "COMMENTARY:" "Another amazing, fresh commentary on the 2000 election." "Amazing, I say." "[MAN CHUCKLES]" "We made good use of the fact that Bender's pupils are square which is the stop sign on a tape player." "NIXON:" "I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!" "I really sound like that?" "I thought I had a Clark Gable quality." "We'll trade you the tape for the body." "Oh, expletive deleted!" "COMMENTARY:" "Yep." "[GROUP LAUGHING]" " The perfect outs on these scenes." " That's called the button." "[GROUP CHUCKLING]" "After the first time it happened, you know you'd see that at the end." "LINDA:" "The drama has driven turnout to its highest level in centuries...  ... six percent!" "Exit polls show evil underdog Richard Nixon...  ... trailing with zero votes." "Yes, the system works!" "The time is 7:59 and the robot polls are opening." "The robot vote is in." "Nixon has won!" "Why'd they vote for him, now that he's just a head?" "COMMENTARY:" "I love her." " Well, you better love her quickly." " Not for long." "I love this scale." "It's such a great sense of scale and everything." "FARNSWORTH:" "I can't believe it." "He won by a single vote." "It ain't my fault." "COMMENTARY:" "He's a 3-D robot, right?" " Yeah." "It's actually one of the most articulated ones we had at that point." " Wow!" "You mean there's more to come?" " Oh, yes." "[MAN SINGS "HAIL TO THE CHIEF"]" "NIXON:" "Who's kicking who around now?" "[GROUP CHUCKLING]" "COMMENTARY:" "Whoa!" " Wow." "[CLAPPING]" "Bret Haaland directing." "That was beautiful and Stewart Burns, script." " Also beautiful." " Billy West." " Awesome, Billy West." " As Richard Nixon." "J.D. as Bender!" "[MAN WHISTLES]"