"COMMENTARY:" "I'm Lew Morton." "I wrote this." "I have a story about this scene." "This is, of course, a parody of the chess scene in Star Wars." "The Star Wars people saw it, and I was invited to Skywalker Ranch to drink their wine and hang out and help think of stupid marketing ideas because of this scene." "You're the guy who thought of Jar Jar, right?" " Yeah." "Do you like it?" " Thanks a lot!" "My name is Rich Moore, I'm the supervising director." "Brian Sheesley, guest directing for Jeffrey Lynch, who directed this." " David X. Cohen, executive producer." " Lew Morton again." "Christopher Tyng, composer." "Me llamo Billy West." "I'm learning Spanish." "And this is Matt Groening." "PROFESSOR:" "Good news." "We have a mission to further intergalactic peace." " Nope." "Watching cartoons." " Sorry." "COMMENTARY:" "She's strong." " She is." "She can..." "How much does Bender weigh?" "525 pounds." " She can knock him off a couch." " We learn it in episode 208." "He said the unspoken words." "Is this the first time we mention the DOOP by name?" " Yes, it is." "It is." " Is it the last time we mention it?" " Democratic Order Of Planets?" " Yeah." " We say it all the time." " We do?" "Cool." "I do." "The bootleggers are duping off these episodes." "DOOP spelled upside down is DOOP." " There it is." " Isn't it POOD?" "What are those, ambigrams?" "When a word looks the same different ways?" "I know what I call it: awesome." "[GROUP LAUGHING]" "Totally!" "This lady had an episode devoted to her and her kind." " You mean the one right before this?" " No, from season three." " Oh, season three, 301." " With the Amazonians." " I am rightfully shamed." " All seasons are the same to David." "I remember the concept of the Neutral people, who spoke very boringly." "That it would be funny was..." "There were many doubters." "[GROUP LAUGHING]" " You're right, it's funny." " David Cohen, as I recall you were slapping your knees every time they said they were Neutral." "That's true." "The original script had about 50 more scenes of them saying Neutral things." "We could have chickened out and cut them but you get to see them because of David Cohen." " We left the right number in." " It's the best part of the show." " What's the right number?" " Four." "The number is alpha naught, a concept to be introduced in another episode." "Like you said." "As always, Billy West as Zapp Brannigan." "Maurice LaMarche as Kif." "I like where Zapp is talking about Neutral people in a hateful way." "LEADER: ... who just returned from a carpet-bombing of Eden Seven Zapp Brannigan." "COMMENTARY:" "Sociopath." " 3-D graphics." " That's the Nimbus,  Zapp's ship." "Nimbus is either a type of cloud or the halo around a Greek god, if I remember my definition correctly." "ZAPP:" "No matter." "I'll simply cut it from here with the ship's laser." "That may not be wise." "COMMENTARY:" "Complicated 2-D animation moves really fast." "In the hands of a pinhead like him." "Great sound effects by Travis Powers." "That could be one of my most favorite animated explosions ever." " It's pretty." " "Oops, I did it again. "" "JUDGE:" "You are accused of blowing up DOOP headquarters." "How do you plead?" "Absolutely 99 percent not guilty." "COMMENTARY:" "That the only O.J. joke?" " Yes." "That is a great character." "Is this Chicken Lawyer's first appearance?" " Yes." " Hyper-chicken." " Maurice LaMarche." " Sort of doing a Gerry Spence." "Billy, just to prove that you did that voice of Peepeye there do it now." "This is no processing on Billy's voice." "Listen." "FUNNY VOICE:" "I'm not doing a dog-and-pony show for you." "There you go." "BUZZES:" "I'm your annoying alarm clock that used to be before digital ones." "Get up!" "Shut up!" " Man, you did that great." " Oh, my God." " The noises that come out of Billy." " Now Chris Tyng, you do a voice." "[GROUP LAUGHING]" "Not hired for that job." "That's all I'm good for." "I'm basically an empty vessel." "LEELA:" "Zapp's the worst captain ever." "I saw him blow up DOOP headquarters with my own eye." " I'd like to cross-examine." " I'll allow it." "COMMENTARY:" "Luckily we have a lawyer, Patric Verrone, to instruct us in the intricacies of law, so we're always accurate." "[MAN LAUGHS]" "This is future space law." "ZAPP:" "...you had sex with." "Whoa!" " And his name is?" " Zapp Brannigan." "The same man who didn't blow up DOOP headquarters." "I rest my case." "[SHOES SQUEAKING]" "COMMENTARY:" "Squeaky shoe." " Nice." "Matt Groening insists on a squeaky shoe when the opportunity arises." "Well, that's true." "I thought you were gonna try to deny it." "This could be the only character I'd be happy... ." " I enjoy that voice." " Spin-off." "That character..." "FUNNY VOICE:" "The Me Show." "He appeared in another Lew Morton-penned episode." "He appeared whenever I could put him in." "He's half of Glurmo from the Slurm Factory episode." " The name is Small Glurmo Number One." " They're all little buzz saw voices." "ZAPP:" "Kif, come and hold up the flag." "Wave it a little, for God's sake." "[GROUP LAUGHING]" "COMMENTARY:" "Great performance." "ZAPP:" "But you can't take away his integrity and honor." " Plus, it was Kif's fault." "KIF:" "What?" "You too are stripped of your rank and dishonorably discharged." "[GAVEL BANGS]" "[SIGHS]" "For a while, it seemed like every act of every show ended with Kif sighing." "That was the golden age of the show." "KIF:" "No, it doesn't." " Come, Kif." "It's time to begin our life as civilians." "That's an order, soldier!" "COMMENTARY:" "Original, or extra crispy?" "[MAN CHUCKLES]" "Great." "Perfect." "So good." "You don't see rack focuses too often in cartoons." " You gonna tell what this references?" " You are." "No." "Please don't, I can't..." "I can't tell." "Midnight Cowboy." " With Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight?" "That's it." "And John McGiver, English actor, the bald guy who played the religious nut." " That's Hattie in a limo." " She's rich." " She's having a night on the town." " Playing the slots." "LEELA:" "This is the third hose fight I've broken up." "And the second one with real hoses." "[GROUP HOLLERING]" "COMMENTARY:" "Lew Morton, writer!" " What's happening here?" "That would be a really good DVD commentary, just a hooting audience." "Let's do it." " Whoo!" " Yeah!" "LEELA:" "I never loved you." " Physically." " What is it?" "Let me work for food." "I'll paint, or service you sexually, or mop up." "[GROUP HOLLERING]" "COMMENTARY:" "All right." " He wants to service her sexually." "Look at the "Slam" button right here." "PROFESSOR:" "You're that disgraced captain." "He'll distract people from our awful safety record." "Come in!" "I want everyone to meet our new employees." "Which ones are new?" " The green dude and the fat man." " I haven't seen that robot before." "I'm Bender." "You know, the lovable rascal." "COMMENTARY:" "We've totally run out of energy." "[GROUP LAUGHING]" "This is the fourth commentary we've recorded tonight." " The first one was gangbusters." " Oh, my God." " When you..." " Define "gangbusters. "" "We were on fire." "We were watching Gangbusters." "Or was that only a radio show?" "We should do a commentary on the commentary." "Oh, boy." "Note in this scene that the Planet Express ship is at a right angle." " To what?" " To itself." " It's an L-shaped Planet Express ship." " Yeah, this is all screwed up." "This is just a mess." "This very long room goes east-west and the bridge goes north-south." "Who started those angles in the movies, filming stuff sideways?" "Not those kind of angles." "Not the Dutch kind." "Dutch angles." "I like them working on the ship." "We should bring them back." "He's so humble and appreciative." " I have a cold." " Who does?" " Need a tissue?" " No." "One thing bothers me." "When we were trying to make the show make sense we thought, "They'll deliver stuff around the universe. "" "But they deliver pillows." "But you know what?" "I bought weights to exercise with, lead weights." "I noticed they said "Made in China. "" "Apparently, it was worth shipping lead weights across the ocean." "Therefore, it might be worth shipping pillows across the universe." "In overseas shipping, it's how many you can fit in a container." "It's not the weight." "On Star Trek,  they rarely visited planets with different gravity." " And oxygen." " We're hitting new sci-fi ground here." "They always wound up on a planet with oxygen." "All science fiction takes place on planets with oxygen." "And red skies." "LEELA:" "So now you have to hand-deliver all 40 pillows." "I have a serious question." "Does the company that made your bra do girdles?" " I ask because a friend..." " Just get to work!" "BENDER:" "I'm Leela." "Get to work." "COMMENTARY:" "Wasn't there a scene that we cut?" "Yes." "They get to the Stumbos hotel and deliver the pillows and get a tip of one Stumbonian coin, which weighs about 50 tons." "They were really big." "My favorite thing when I was a kid was the world's largest coin which was the Nambukin stone coin, or some island tribe stone..." "It was Glambukin." "It was 1 0 feet in diameter, made of stone." "It..." "No, you're right." "Nambukin." "It could be exchanged for a canoe or a wife." "Bring it into Starbucks and see what happens." "Get a wife and a canoe?" " Yeah, if you're a two-coin-naire." " Uh-huh." "ZAPP:" "A good captain needs many skills like boldness, daring, and a velour uniform." "I'm not convinced she has any of those." "COMMENTARY:" "Velour... ." "FRY:" "She just makes us work so much." "When I was captain, I only wanted my men's loyalty." "COMMENTARY:" "His pot belly hangs out a little more in high gravity." "His belly was supposed to develop from show to show." "But after we did it in the first season when he and Leela made love, it was hanging out." "It got bigger and bigger." "When we showed it, you were grossed out." "So you said, "Let's keep it one size. "" " What the hell went on there?" " I don't know." "I like he has the Love-Nasium on his ship." "ZAPP:" "Throw her in the brig." " What brig?" " Then the laundry room which will hereafter be called the "brig. "" "COMMENTARY:" "A brig would be a waste of space on a spaceship." " Exactly." " They have a laundry room." "They have a big laundry room." "With multiple machines." "It's in use." " Who's doing their laundry right now?" " And don't forget fabric softener." "It's not Bender, since he's naked." "Fry never wears anything but what he's got on." "Good old Leela." "The others are in uniforms." "ZAPP:" "Back in uniform." "It nearly still fits." "COMMENTARY:" "There he's fatter." "KIF:" "What do I do with these clothes?" " Put them in the laundry brig." "COMMENTARY:" "And bring back my other truss." "FRY:" "Ten hundred percent." " That's not enough." "You're to sit and drink until you're as loyal as Kif." " Yes, sir, sir!" " May I have a beer, sir?" "No." "You're loyal enough." "Meanwhile, I have a plan." "COMMENTARY:" "Don't worry." "More Neutral comedy coming up." "Yes." "We didn't forget." "It happened while you were talking, I think." " Oh." " Some of it." " Oh, there's much more." " I like being in Neutral." "It's all different." "We're not promoting... ." " Killing Neutral people?" " Alcoholism?" "Anti-Neutralism?" "Which of society's ills are you most concerned about?" "This is really nicely animated." "They animated Billy's crazy performance perfectly." " Dwayne Caray-Hill animated that." " He's a director now." " He got promoted." " For that scene." "Good work, Dwayne." "See?" " Actually, that was surrendering." " I love it." ""Live free or don't. " That's Neutral humor." " Gray, you know." " That's Neutral." "NEUTRAL MAN:" "All I know is my gut says "maybe. "" "COMMENTARY:" "See, there were naysayers." " We didn't put enough Neutral humor in." " I absolutely agree." "FRY:" "And then?" " Then your mission is complete." "I'll already have ejected wearing the only space suit." " Wait." "Is this gonna kill us?" " Yes." "That's what I meant by loyalty." "Now help me into the only suit." "It's sweaty." "You may need baby powder." "COMMENTARY:" "And they're gonna help him." "I love it." " No, they're not." " They're not?" "Oh, switcheroo." "LEELA:" "He ran out of beer?" "So he's about to kill us?" " We want Leela to be captain." " Mutiny?" "Never thought I'd see the day." "Come, Kif." "There's a child's suit for you." "COMMENTARY:" "That was handy." "It was here, off-screen." "[GROUP LAUGHING]" "Does that suit have a handle on the back?" "[GROUP LAUGHING]" "It's a comedy handle." "LEELA:" "He's disabled the steering!" "We're gonna crash!" "Leela, save me!" "And yourself, I guess." "And my banjo!" "And Fry." "COMMENTARY:" "That was a saxophone..." " A French horn." "French horn." "But we remembered Bender liked the banjo from episode 1 02." "Bender plays the banjo a lot in coming episodes." "And he does it with 1 05-pound hands." "FRY:" "And warm." " Just do it!" "Your Neutralness, beige alert." "COMMENTARY:" "The very Neutral alarm." " Yeah." "That was it, baby." "Neutral comedy is in the house." " It's in my house." " It's in his house." "I like that we kept the dark matter from episode 1 04." "It powers the ship." "Neutral comedy tonight on FOX." " Tonight on a new Neutral Planet." " It all starts with Futurama." "I think there's one more." "Prepare yourselves." "ZAPP:" "My quick mind saved the day." "Captain Leela, is this rambling..." "COMMENTARY:" "Wait for it." " Is that it?" " There's no more." " There isn't." " No more Neutral jokes." "This joke doesn't take a strong stand." "Maybe you were thinking of it." "That was it." "[MAN LAUGHS]" "You knew there was a callback to some joke from earlier in the episode." "In one version of the script, they asked the Neutral planet president if it was okay to reinstate Zapp." "I don't remember what he said." "But he might not have had a strong opinion." "Did Zapp just get bigger at the end of the last scene?" "You animators, did he?" " I wasn't paying attention." " Good work." "Yes." "Yes, he was." "He's out of control." "LEELA:" "Let's mutiny." "COMMENTARY:" "The password is "mutiny. "" "Thank you for buying our DVD." " Take them while you can get them." " Big credits." "Don't get that on TV."