The Bender’s Big Score Deleted Scene Futurama’s Writers Regretted Cutting
By WITNEY SEIBOLD
In the "Futurama" movie "Bender's Big Score," Fry's butt tattoo reveals the key to time travel. Bender decides to use this trick to enrich himself despite the consequences.
According to the "Big Score" DVD commentary track, one of the film's writers, Ken Keeler, and director Dwayne Carey-Hill revealed that there was a deleted ten-minute sequence.
Director Dwayne Carrey-Hill added context, saying about Bender, "He found a jaded Italian aristocrat playing roulette in Monte Carlo, and his name was Fillippe Frey."
Carrey-Hill goes on to explain that Fillippe Frey didn’t care about the money he was winning. Bender threatens to kill him, and Frey replies, "Go ahead and kill me, I don't care!"
The scene was likely cut due to concerns about the film's length and its deviation from the main plot. It would have added a significant duration to the movie with no reason.
Keeler regrets the decision to remove it and notes, "That scene almost made it into the fourth movie also." It ultimately didn't, even though the fourth film takes place in Vegas.