Beastie Boys

Like other most 20th century celebrities, the Beastie Boys are heads in jars. In 1999, they had five albums, and a thousand years later they had only made two more.

Production
Ken Keeler and David X. Cohen went to New York for 3 days to wait for the Beastie Boys to call, so they could record their lines for the episode. Unfortunately, they never called, and so they returned to Los Angeles and later made the recordings with the band's members separately. However, Adam "MCA" Yauch had scheduling conflicts with the recording session, so Adam "King Adrock" Horovitz voiced Yauch instead.

In the scene, where the band sings "" in a cappella, it was originally intended to be "", but apparently they didn't want to do it.

Trivia

 * The Beastie Boys are also employed as a method of torture for Bender in Robot Hell (they scratch his hard drive like a record).