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The UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} (and UsefulNotes/BluRay, by extension) Bonus Content with the highest ratio of "disappointment when it isn't included" to "likelihood you'll actually sit down and watch the whole thing." If you've bought a DVD, it's assumed that you like the movie or TV show or whatever. Fair enough. It seems logical that a good chunk of the viewing audience would want to know more information about the film they're watching, and also to have a compelling reason to rewatch a film you've seen in the theatre. The creators or other experts get together to record an audio (and rarely, video) track to be played during the movie. This track comments on the production process.

* Creator/FourKidsEntertainment actually did DVD commentaries for some of the ''Film/{{Pokémon}}'' movies. Specifically, ''[[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'', ''[[Anime/{{Pokemon 3}} Spell of the Unown]]'' and ''[[Anime/Pokemon4Ever Voice of the Forest]]''. The first two of these feature the show's head writers, Norman Grossfeld and Michael Haigney. The one for the fourth movie features Grossfeld and Haigney [[Creator/VeronicaTaylor with most]] [[Creator/RachaelLillis of the]] [[Creator/MaddieBlaustein main cast]].

* Creator/FourKidsEntertainment actually did DVD commentaries for some of the Anime/{{Pokemon}} movies. Specifically, ''[[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'', ''[[Anime/{{Pokemon 3}} Spell of the Unown]]'' and ''[[Anime/Pokemon4Ever Voice of the Forest]]''. The first two of these feature the show's head writers, Norman Grossfeld and Michael Haigney. The one for the fourth movie features Grossfeld and Haigney [[Creator/VeronicaTaylor with most]] [[Creator/RachaelLillis of the]] [[Creator/MaddieBlaustein main cast]].

* ''Series/SesameStreet'' Old School: Volume 3 features a commentary on episode 1316 by Sonia Manzano.

* A number of recent Creator/FUNimation distributed works have these done by the English voice actors and script adapters. They range anywhere from just a little bit snarky to pretty damn snarky (Creator/ChrisPatton, for example, is ''never'' going to let [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} Jacuzzi Splot]] [[UnfortunateNames live that name down]]).

* Nick Kandis and Scott Fredericks have provided commentary over their work on ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', looking back on their work and the troubles it felt along the way, like when the first time their channel was terminated. It can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowPV6LoP6fpF418zj3L8hjnSXth2DdZr here]].

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' [=DVD=]s feature commentary which are, like the series, hilarious. Initially it featured some of the main crew commenting on unusual shots, remarks about specific jokes including a few that might of been hard to catch and a great deal of back and forth banter between those recording. Later on answering questions posted online was included during slow periods and comments on scenes or jokes that were cut. More commentators were added each season as well.

*** Rereleases occasionally come with a new second commentary. For example, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]" was first released in 2000 with a commentary featuring producer Creator/PhilipHinchcliffe and writer Creator/ChrisBoucher. Its rerelease in 2012 tossed in a second commentary featuring Creator/TomBaker (The Fourth Doctor), Creator/LouiseJameson (Leela), Pamela Salem (Toos) and serial director Michael E. Briant.

*** Rereleases occasionally come with a new second commentary. For example, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]" was first released in 2000 with a commentary featuring producer Creator/PhilipHinchcliffe and writer Chris Boucher. Its rerelease in 2012 tossed in a second commentary featuring Creator/TomBaker (The Fourth Doctor), Creator/LouiseJameson (Leela), Pamela Salem (Toos) and serial director Michael E. Briant.

*** The Blu-ray season box sets port over every commentary from previous DVD releases but largely eschew recording new traditional commentaries (with only "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive The Leisure Hive]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay State of Decay]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks Destiny of the Daleks]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]" receiving new ones by the end of 2021) in favor of a "Behind the Sofa" commentary featurette series with an episode each for every serial - basically ''Series/{{Gogglebox}}'' with ''Doctor Who'' serials, watched by surviving cast and crew from the box set's season on one set of couches and by cast and crew of other ''Doctor Who'' eras on another set of couches.

* Scott Wozniak has made commentaries for episodes of WebVideo/ScottTheWoz on his second channel [[https://www.youtube.com/c/ScottsStash Scott's Stash]]. The commentary for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcl7ssUnXoU "The Internet and You"]] was also made for the five-year anniversary of that video's release.

* ''VideoGame/TombRaider Anniversary'' has commentary crystals in every level, but you have to beat all the levels in each region and find the secret items in order to unlock them. Even when you are listening to the commentaries, Lara will still be attacked.

* ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'' has a pretty amusing commentary featuring featuring director Phil Alden Robinson and Tom Clancy himself (who introduces himself as "the author of the book [Phil] ignored") where the latter spends nearly the entire running time picking apart every inaccuracy and change to the book ''right in front of Robinson.''

* ''Series/MadMen'' features scads of commentary, with two tracks for almost every episode. The quality varies widely, though. Creator/JonHamm and Creator/JohnSlattery together are ridiculously funny, as are Creator/ChristinaHendricks and Robert Morse, and Creator/AlisonBrie and Vincent Kartheiser. Elizabeth Moss is a boat anchor, though, especially in the first-season commentaries, where she spends three whole episodes going on at excruciating length about how challenging and rewarding her fat suit acting was.

* ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' features a commentary track, which involve several of the voice actors--in some cases, even for [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters the secondary characters]]! Unfortunately, only five episodes had a commentary track.

* [[DVDCommentary/AnimatedFilms Films - Animation]]

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* Commentary for the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'' had Roy Disney joined by WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse. WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck also appears during the commentary for his segment, "Pomp and Circumstance", but his input is less than helpful.
* The director's commentary for ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' is occasionally interrupted by Bowler Hat Guy ([[TalkingToHimself also voiced by the director]]) trying to tell the "real" story behind the movie.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' had re-enactments of the story meetings between Disney and his story men. For ''Bambi'' and ''Cinderella'', the movie itself played in a window on the corner, while the rest of the screen showed preliminary artwork; ''Lady and the Tramp'' viewers needed Second Screen to see the extra pictures.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'''s commentary is easily one of the best for an animated film with the content being a fascinating discussion about the story development as well as expanding on the themes and symbology of the film.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' has Creator/TimBurton, Henry Selick, and Music/DannyElfman doing the commentary. It's at the mid-point; interesting, but a lot of info was already mentioned elsewhere.
** Henry Selick's commentaries for [[{{Film/Monkeybone}} most of]] [[{{WesternAnimation/Coraline}} his films]] are evenly divided between fascinating, insightful information about the creative process and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment just describing what's happening on the screen]].
* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' has one of these featuring Creator/BillHader and the two directors. And it is [[HilarityEnsues hilarious.]]
* Creator/{{Pixar}}, in fact, is famous for doing exceptionally good, well-written, and well-planned commentaries that never sound like the commentators are just talking randomly!
** ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' stops at certain points during the commentary and shows some behind-the-scenes clips to illustrate how a particular scene was made. Unfortunately most of the transitions are not very smooth.
** Creator/BradBird and John Walker's track for ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' was recorded before the film was released, so they awkwardly note at one point that they like the film, but have no idea how it will be received. It was also the day after legendary Disney animator Frank Thomas passed away, and Bird gives a brief and touching eulogy for him at his and Ollie Johnston's cameo.
*** It also features this SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}:
-->[[ItMakesSenseInContext "Can we PLEASE get back to the issue of the gravy?"]]
** The ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' commentary on the 2005 special edition is also very funny, but the interesting part is when they discuss about making a movie about lawn gnomes coming to life, but is soon interrupted by someone (don't know who) saying something like, "Shhh! Don't give them any ideas!" [[WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet Cut to almost 6 years later to another sub-division of Disney...]]
** ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''[='=]s commentary, which is done by the director Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen, is pretty informative on a lot of the aspects of the film that you wouldn't necessarily catch the first time around, but one of the most interesting things that happens is at one point Docter calls up Creator/BillHader and puts him on speakerphone where you are treated to a story where he once visited Pixar as well as his own account on the making of the film.
** The ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' short ''WesternAnimation/MikesNewCar'', directed by Pete Docter and Roger Gould, is featured on the DVD release with "commentary by Docter and Gould" -- but it's actually their kids who give the commentary, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_SxdjJNncY which makes the short even funnier.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' DVD features a faux-1960s "Mr. Incredible" cartoon ''WesternAnimation/MrIncredibleAndPals'', commented upon by Mr. Incredible and Frozone.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' has producer Don Hahn and co-directors Rob Minkoff and Roger Allers taking on the commentary. They talk over each other at some points, but still manage to be informative and funny.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' features both a standard directors-and-producers commentary with John Musker, Ron Clements and Amy Pell, and a commentary by some of the supervising animators -- Creator/GlenKeane (Aladdin), Creator/AndreasDeja (Jafar), Creator/EricGoldberg (Genie), and Will Finn (Iago).
* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' intercut commentary from animation historian John Canemaker with old audio interviews with Walt Disney regarding the respective films.
* ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''. The commentary is performed by the two moose, Rutt and Tuke (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, fully in character) as they watch the (entire) movie themselves, presumably in the comfort of their own "home": their silhouettes occasionally appear over the screen [[note]]Unless you happen to own a Region 2 DVD version where the commentary is available only as an alternate audio track to the proper movie.[[/note]], [=MST3K=]-style, one of them makes popcorn, and they order pizza. [[spoiler:This becomes one of the best jokes of the commentary, when half an hour later, the pizza guy shows up and the two of them completely panic at someone at the door; once they calm down, the pizza guy begins watching the movie with them for a few seconds before they tell him to leave.]] It is entirely worth watching the entire movie a second time just to listen to these two.
* ''Jonah: A WesternAnimation/VeggieTales Movie'' has two normal commentary tracks, and one track done in-character by Larry the Cucumber and Mr. Lunt, who spend several minutes talking about Mr. Lunt's disturbing theory to origin of hush puppies.
** Don't forget the discussions about their producer roles, Wisconsin Dells, Krispy-Kreme Donuts, and the Jack in the Box drive-thru.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie]]'' parodies the unappreciated status of commentary tracks by [[spoiler:having the characters turn on the commentary in order to learn what they need to do to solve the problem they faced at that point. Several of them comment such things as "who cares about this crap?" and look very angry and impatient while they wait for the information they wanted.]]
* The DVD of ''WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers'' has a bonus feature in which Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Pete do commentary over the scene of Pete blasting the trio for screwing up on the job.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' 60th Anniversary Edition Blu-Ray has a picture-in-picture commentary titled, "Through the Keyhole: A Companion's Guide to Wonderland", in which historians of animation and/or children's literature give a vast amount of information on interpretations of the ''Alice'' books, the relationship between Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell, and Walt Disney's decades-long journey to bring those books to animated life. Their comments get accompanied by such visual aid as concept art, pictures of people involved with either the books or the movies, and live-action reference footage.
* Some Creator/{{Disney}} or Creator/{{Pixar}} Blu-Ray Discs have a feature called "Cine-Explore", which accompanies an audio commentary with behind-the-scenes pictures and videos playing over the movie.
* Directors David Molina and Terry Shakespeare recorded one for the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Bionicle}}'' film. As befitting of a DirectToVideo title, it's nothing special either, but they reveal some nifty details, point out references and inform us that executive producer/story writer Bob Thompson kept making strange monster sounds with his mouth during production.
* The commentary for ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' notably has one part where the cast and directors decide to call Creator/ElizabethBanks, who couldn't join in on the commentary, and put her on speakerphone and basically describe what's happening in the movie at that moment to her, while she's eating lunch at Subway.
* The first ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' didn't have a commentary track, but ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks RainbowRocks]]'' did, featuring VP of Development Michael Vogel, Executive Director Brian Lenard, Writer Meagan [=McCarthy=], and supervising directors Jayson Thiessen and Ishi Rudell.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'' has Bruce Reitherman, who voiced Mowgli and is the son of the film's late director, Andreas Deja, a Disney animator who is an AscendedFanboy of the movie, and composer Richard Sherman, who somehow has a piano with him to play how the early versions of the songs went. Archival footage also allows deceased people from production to talk a bit.
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*** The Blu-ray season box sets port over every commentary from previous DVD releases but largely eschew recording new traditional commentaries (with only "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive The Leisure Hive]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay State of Decay]]" receiving new ones by the end of 2020) in favor of a "Behind the Sofa" commentary featurette series with an episode each for every serial - basically ''Series/{{Gogglebox}}'' with ''Doctor Who'' serials, watched by surviving cast and crew from the box set's season on one set of couches and by cast and crew of other ''Doctor Who'' eras on another set of couches.

** The classic series home video team aim to get commentaries recorded by surviving cast and crew for DVD releases of ''every'' surviving serial; as of 2020, the only released serials that have no commentary are "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeOfDestruction The Edge of Destruction]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear The Web of Fear]]". "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild An Unearthly Child]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E6TheMoonbase The Moonbase]]" only have commentaries for select episodes. Otherwise, the entire serial is commentated.

* In his book ''The Complete Book of Scriptwriting'', Series/BabylonFive creator {{Creator/JMichaelStraczynski}} singles out laserdisks and latter DVD's that have the director's or screenwriter's commentary. Some movies even have the shooting script, which JMS feels is an invaluable resource for aspiring writers to get a handle on writing for TV and movies.

*** "Hey Rei, give me a ''[[IncrediblyLamePun hand]]''!"

* ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'' has unlockable versions of cutscenes with commentary by the game's designers and animators, giving insightful little tidbits about the game's cutscenes and machinimia in general. One of the most amusing commentaries is for a cutscene that lasts a whole five seconds: "There's a really funny story behind this scene, but I really don't have the time to tell it!"
** Likewise, creator commentary for cutscenes can be bought in the secrets shop in ''Jak X: Combat Racing''. It offers insight in how the scenes were animated, ideas that didn't make it into the game, and a crew member doing [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments an imitation of a colleague]] who couldn't be there during recording.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' features commentaries for some episodes by the co-creators or other members of the production crew. They often give extra information on the story or the creative process. Or just make farting noises for half the episode.
** Sometimes their commentary is hilariously inane. For example, from the commentary on ''The Western Air Temple'':
-->'''Mike:''' Hello once again, this is Mike [=DiMartino=], co-creator and executive producer of Avatar.
-->'''Bryan:''' And this is Bryan Konietzko, the other...guy.
-->'''Mike:''' Who does a lot of stuff...Like co-creation.
-->'''Bryan:''' I usually co-create between like, 9:30 AM and 9:41.
-->'''Mike:''' And then you're executive producer in the afternoon?
-->'''Bryan:''' I make executive products between like, 10:01 and 10:14.
-->'''Mike:''' Wow.
-->'''Bryan:''' What about you Mike?
-->'''Mike:''' I take the 2:00 to 3:30 shift on the executive production.
** There's also Avatar Extras, which gives small blurbs of random trivia about the various things in the show, including inspirations for scenes and scenery, background information for characters that didn't get much in the series, and the occasional snarking.
-->'''Bumi''': Welcome to Old People Camp.\\
'''Avatar Extras''': Dinner at 4 o' candle and bedtime at 6:30 o' candle.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' continues the tradition of hilarious commentary. For example, they start off ''Skeletons in the Closet'' with voice manipulators: Mike, Bryan, and Jeremy Zuckerman (music composer for the show) have squeaky voices like they just sucked in helium, and Ben Wynn (sound designer) has a ridiculously deep voice. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments It's as hysterical as it sounds]].
*** The commentary for ''The Voice in the Night'' reveals that Mike and Bryan met Seychelle Gabriel (Asami) at a "[[Film/TheLastAirbender windsurfing event]]" that didn't go so well[[note]]Gabriel also portrayed Princess Yue in the live-action adaptation[[/note]].
* The commentary for episodes of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' are odd in that series creator and multiple character voice actor Creator/SethMacFarlane uses his normal speaking voice for Brian, a talking dog, so he appears to be doing the commentary in-character. He also flat out ''refuses'' to do the voices of any of the characters he voices (Peter, Stewie, Quagmire etc) during said commentary. Usually with (hopefully tongue-in-cheek) threats of violence against whoever suggested it.
** Only if someone asks; if the fancy strikes him, he'll throw in a line or two in the voice of Peter and Stewie. Although he usually tells them to fuck off in character. Also Creator/SethGreen sounds nothing like Chris Griffin or Neil Goldman (his two main voices) so he has to be asked to drop into character. Mike Henry (Cleveland Brown, Herbert) does his voices without being asked.
** The commentaries featuring Danny Smith meanwhile tend to give an idea of just how insane the people who write the show are. The one for 'Indecent Proposal' in particular has the cast repeatedly accusing him of being extremely drunk while he claims to be 'high on life.'
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' also has loads of commentaries, and often help highlight how this show grew into a different show than ''Family Guy''.
** The early episode "Bullocks for Stan" spoofs the concept. Klaus narrates a conversation between Stan and Francine, and when asked he says he's pretending he's recording DVD commentary for his life. Near the end of the episode, Klaus' narration pops in at a couple of points where he's not involved, playing with the AnimatedActors aspect by mentioning the tragic death of one of their extras and complaining about how ExecutiveMeddling forced them to give Stan a {{Glurge}}-filled OutOfCharacterMoment to close out the episode.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' commentaries are well known for being raucous, free-ranging affairs with the various voice actors cracking jokes and telling funny stories about the show's production. They also often feature the voice actors doing imitations, and when a voice actor does imitations they're ''really'' good. The Season 5 DVD set features Creator/JohnDiMaggio and Creator/BillyWest doing a recurring sketch as Tracy Morgan being interviewed by Creator/JayLeno ([=Jon DiMaggio's=] Tracy Morgan impression is disturbingly good).
** Ones involving [=John DiMaggio=] (the voice of Bender) are particularly good, thanks to the actor's obvious huge enjoyment of the show shining through.
** The show's future was still in question for years, and in the commentary for "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E18AnthologyOfInterestII Anthology of Interest II]]", Creator/MauriceLaMarche asks "WhatIf [[HeartwarmingInHindsight we had a fifth season]]?"
** Some of the episodes have bonus commentary tracks focusing on a particular subject; "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E7JurassicBark Jurassic Bark]]" has one with eight of the show's writers describing the writing process, and "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E2AFarwellToArms A Farewell to Arms]]" and "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E23GameOfTones Game of Tones]]" both have animator commentaries with a group of directors and animators discussing the production process.
** David X. Cohen, the show's co-creator along with Creator/MattGroening, is also great to listen to because of how utterly JustForFun/OneOfUs he is.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' animator, producer, and creator Creator/MattGroening has probably recorded more audio commentaries than anyone else alive. He has made sure that '''EVERY SINGLE''' episode (up to the end of season 17 anyway, when the DVD boxsets were discontinued) and movie that he has been involved in has a commentary track on the DVD, and he is personally on most of them.
** TalkShow host and former staff writer Creator/ConanOBrien is on the commentary track of a few of the episodes he wrote like "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail Marge vs. the Monorail]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E12BartGetsFamous Bart Gets Famous]]", in which he guest-starred right after getting the gig hosting ''Series/LateNight''.
*** At least one such appearance is in the form of an alternate EasterEgg commentary to an episode he wrote. This was in lieu of an appearance on the 'main' commentary.
** And of course, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' also has two commentaries. It also does something rare -- the movie actually stops at points so that the commentators don't talk over too much of the action.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E1TheCityOfNewYorkVsHomerSimpson The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson]]" has two tracks, because the writer of the episode, Ian Maxtone-Graham, missed the first recording. As a treat, Dan Castellaneta joins in on track two. A number of season 3 & 4 episodes also have similar EasterEgg commentaries with showrunners Al Jean or Mike Reiss when one of them missed the main recording.
** Of particular note is "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E5TheCartridgeFamily The Cartridge Family]]", where Mike Scully (then the show's head writer) calls up a man named "John" who we are led to believe is John Swartzwelder (who has credit on this and 58 other episodes), a man who refuses to appear in the commentaries despite his massive contributions to the show. Matt Groening is at first stunned that they were actually able to trap him like this, but at the end of the call "John" denies that he's the real Swartzwelder. To this day it's unknown if this really is the real guy or was just a gag.
** Most cast members have also joined in commentaries, with Yeardley Smith probably doing the most. Guest stars have also appeared, including Creator/KelseyGrammer, Joe Mantegna, Creator/JonLovitz, Garry Marshall and Creator/StanLee.
** Also notable is "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E3AnotherSimpsonsClipShow Another Simpsons Clip Show]]", where they're stuck with almost nothing to talk about, so they instead take viewers through the process of how an episode is created, from beginning to end. This ends with a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} when after the full elaboration of all the work done by a ton of people, David Mirkin notes that the very final step is when the fans declare it the worst episode ever.
** Truly nerdy fans of the show may have picked up on several running themes and gags over the course of the commentaries. For example, John Swartzwelder's refusal to make an appearance is talked about on a number of occasions, as well as the Tube Bar tapes being the inspiration for Bart's prank calls to Moe, and the various censorship fights that the show has had.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' [=DVD=]s has had notorious luck with this: the season one set infamously had its full-length commentary tracks pulled prior days before the physical production of the sets were to begin, all because then-distributor Warner Bros. got pissed off at Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone for explaining their hatred for the film ''Film/{{Contact}}'' and Creator/RobertZemeckis. Season two lacked commentaries and by the time they returned for season three, Parker and Stone had gotten jaded on the concept of doing commentaries and opted to just do "mini-commentaries" that last for only a few minutes at start of each episode, that only briefly scratches the surface of each episode.
** This is not to say that the mini commentaries are uninformative or boring, however. Trey and Matt later defended the commentaries' short length, claiming that, while they enjoy doing them, the ever-shortening production time for each episode and lack of second-guessing during which leaves very little to actually talk about.
** Parker and Stone pissing off their corporate masters was lampshaded, in the special edition DVD of "Imaginationland", as far as them exploiting the fact that everything they say that Comedy Central might consider to cause liability will in effect be bleeped out, to great comedic effect.
*** The two have also repeatedly claimed that they quite enjoy doing commentaries and often look forward to completing a season just so they can record them. The most extreme example of this being "[[Recap/SouthParkS13E14Pee Pee]]", which ''wasn't even finished'' when the commentary was being recorded.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' commentaries are notably surreal: the two creators are recorded at drastically different volumes and often talk about things that have nothing to do with the episode. This is remedied (the volume thing, at least) in the second season DVD, though. In both cases, though, many, ''many'' hints about the next season are dropped.
** They repeatedly spoiled the ending of Season 3, claiming that nobody listens to the DVD commentary before watching the entire season. They got a signed photo from a fan who did just that at a convention.
** On the season 4 DVD they claim there commentary for Hansom Ransom is the worst commentary ever because the episode stops working and they cant get it to play again.
* For the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Fairly Odd Parents]]'' MadeForTVMovie ''Abra-Catastrophe'', the commentary is done by Cosmo and Wanda.
* The DVD commentary for ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' features several members of the cast and production team, including Creator/JhonenVasquez himself, and even including musician Kevin Manthei on a few bonus commentaries that feature him and Jhonen exclusively. Their commentaries are riotously funny and as crazy as you'd expect from some of the people they feature.
** Some episodes have multiple commentary tracks (where one is with the music/storyboarding crew and the other is with the actors), but one episode has an alternate commentary track that is nothing but squealing pigs.
** The commentary is also severely censored in a large number of the episodes. People (usually Jhonen) will be talking, then the commentary track will spontaneously cut in the middle of a sentence for some stretch of time, then resume in the middle of a completely different sentence or at the end of a joke. The most obvious example of this is during ''Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain'' wherein somebody asks Jhonen what he thinks of the merchandising for the show and you start to hear an answer before the audio is cut for at least a minute before resuming. In one interview, Rikki Simons postulated that the reason for the censorship was just good old-fashioned hatred on Nickelodeon's part.
* One ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' DVD has a commentary track for an episode which isn't too odd. What ''is'' odd is the inclusion of the "[[LampshadeHanging potentially annoying]]" commentary track ''[[RefugeInAudacity about the original commentary track.]]''
** There's also the commentary they did for an episode where they brought in a total stranger from off the street and asked him about the episode as he watched it.
** In the ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' movie, when the characters are trapped in a flooding room with no idea how to escape, Foxxy [[MediumAwareness turns on the DVD commentary]] and listens until the creators talk about how they wrote themselves out of this one.
* Toys R Us included a free bonus disc with their copies of the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbChristmasVacation'' DVD. The bonus DVD features the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "The Chronicles of Meap" with two audio commentaries, one by the creators, and the other by the characters they voice, in which we learn that Major Monogram considers Meap to be terrifying) and Dr. Doofenshmirtz [[OverprotectiveDad does not approve]] of [[PrecociousCrush Ferb's crush on Vanessa]].
** The DVD release of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'' includes the series episode "Attack of the 50-Foot Sister" with this same treatment.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'''s DVD commentaries are particularly insane (much like the show). Of note is that the commentary over several episodes has no bearing on the episode itself. The highlight of this is the commentary over two episodes merely being one of the writers reading a comic book he did for a 4th grade project. The one major commentary of the episode itself was the "Commentary of Hatred" in which a blogger named Karl Olson rips apart the episode "Tornado Shanks" (widely viewed as the beginning of the show's SeasonalRot).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' commentaries are interesting, considering Creator/JohnKricfalusi appears on commentaries for episodes that were done after he was fired.
-->'''[[LaughTrack Eddie Fitzgerald]]:''' I was just wondering how this cartoon would've been done if you were handling it...
-->'''John K:''' I would have put some jokes in it.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' has several great ones from the producers, detailing their intentions to make it more than what was considered possible for Saturday morning cartoons to be at the time. They're also perfectly willing to poke fun at their work the few times it deserves it, like the difficulties in animating the Batmobile driving on hills, or the MagicalSecurityCam in "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE14HeartOfIce Heart of Ice]]". While the commentaries are usually reserved for what are considered the best or most significant episodes in the series, there's a commentary for the much-derided episode "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE14Critters Critters]]".
* Creator/ShoutFactory's Amazon exclusive ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic: [[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0096W47NO Season One]]'' 4-DVD set [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/11/season-1-complete-dvd-review.html has]] audio commentaries on the episodes [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon "Friendship is Magic, part 1"]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony "Friendship is Magic, part 2"]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp "Winter Wrap Up"]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess "Suited For Success"]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers "The Show Stoppers"]], and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver "The Best Night Ever"]], including people like Hasbro executives Brian Lenard and Robert Fewkes, supervising directors Jayson Thiessen and James "Wootie" Wootton, art director Ridd Sorensen, composer Daniel Ingram, and voice cast members such as Creator/TabithaStGermain, Creator/AndreaLibman, Creator/CathyWeseluck, and Creator/NicoleOliver.
* DVD commentary for ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' would usually feature the how's creators, and at least one or two of the voice actors (save for Creator/JonLovitz himself who was working on a film at the time), and very often during the commentary, they would get caught up in the show and end up laughing at quite a few of their own gags.
* ''VideoGame/OedipusInMyInventory'' contains a parody advertisement for a Collector's Edition, which promises this among other perks.
* Commentary tracks for ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' are of course extremely short, and tend to break down into one of two types: A fairly serious track with the writer/writers and director talking about the plot; or a track featuring creator Pen Ward with actors Jeremy Shada, Creator/JohnDiMaggio and Creator/TomKenny, which while nominally informative, is usually filled with the four joking with each other and riffing on [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs some of the show's insanity]].
* Perhaps the strangest ever recorded was for the 2003 ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' shorts by Creator/GenndyTartakovsky, a rambling and timid affair clearly ad-libbed in the most disastrous manner possible. The results were so bad that a separate "Hyperspace Commentary" (which seems to translate to simply "Commentary that doesn't suck") was included on the DVD and there Genndy holds his own okay, but why the first track was included as well continues to mystify.
* ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' features commentary on a few episodes of their [=DVD=]s. One of the more bizarre ones being for the season 3 episode, "It's Time To Pay The Price", which begins with Brendon Small and H. Jon Benjamin doing a improvised jam session, and it doesn't stop until around halfway through the episode!
* On the WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends Season 1 dvd exists a one episode commentary where Frankie Mac the rest of the gang and [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Bloo]] riff on the episode Store Wars, [[SelfDeprecation bash the practices of dvd commentaries]] and try to discover the actual truth that happened that day ending in Bloo successfully convincing everyone else to [[GainaxEnding pulverize Madame Foster]] so [[ManipulativeBastard he doesn't get in trouble.]]
* The complete season boxsets for ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' feature commentaries from various cast and crew members. They give trivia about the show’s production, crack jokes ([[SelfDeprecation usually at their own expense]]), and discuss the thought-processes behind the show’s writing. There’s a great bit where Garry Chalk’s phone goes off during the commentary; the second he leaves the room to answer it, Alec Willows and Creator/ScottMcNeil immediately start making fun of him and insinuating that his mom is calling to check on him.
* The DVD commentary for the six episodes ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'' was recorded in one long session, with conversations continuing from episode to episode, and sounds like one long audio documentary on how to be ScrewedByTheNetwork.
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** [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 The]] [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando first]] [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal three]] ''Ratchet & Clank'' games have commentaries by Creator/InsomniacGames alumni Tony Stout and Mike Garcia [[https://www.youtube.com/user/uselesspodcasts/featured on YouTube channel "uselesspodcasts", done over Let's Plays of the games themselves.]]

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* Director Tamra Davis did ''Film/BillyMadison'' by herself, adding [[TearJerker "We love you, Chris!"]] in tribute to the now-deceased Creator/ChrisFarley.
* Director Tom Shadyac recorded a solo commentary track for ''Film/LiarLiar''. He's pretty serious, but he also tells a really nice story about taking Justin Cooper, who played Max, to meet Creator/JimCarrey at Carrey's house. Apparently, Jim and Justin got along really well.
* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' [=DVDs=] often come with commentary from directors, actors, writers, and producers. These are hilarious, and YMMV about when they start become more entertaining than the actual films.
* Director Creator/JamesCameron and many of the main characters on the ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' Collector's Edition (part of the ''Alien Quadrilogy''). Cameron is busy discussing behind-the-scenes work, while the actors are goofing off and having a great time with each other. It continues all the way over the end credits.
** The commentary for ''Film/AVPAlienVsPredator'' with Creator/PaulWSAnderson, Sanaa Lathan, and Creator/LanceHenriksen is more entertaining than the film itself.
* ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'' features a surreal but hilarious fake commentary, where Creator/WillFerrell talks about hookers and gets drunk with the director. Then, two actors who didn't get cast in the movie show up, and attack Ferrell. Then, after that, Lou Rawls, of all people, shows up!
* Ventriloquist Creator/JeffDunham's DVD of ''Arguing With Myself'' has a commentary track. As one of his character's puts it when you launch it, 'if you're watching this, you have too much time on your hands!' At the beginning of the commentary he admits he really doesn't know why a commentary track to a comedy ventriloquism act is even necessary, but the directors wanted to include one.
* ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen'' has several commentaries, by the older actors and creators, and then another with several of the child actors. This second commentary is absolutely hilarious, the kids going wildly off subject and clearly having a lot of fun.
* Creator/RidleyScott is well noted for his commentaries.
* ''Film/BowlingForColumbine'' features commentary recorded by Creator/MichaelMoore's interns and secretary.
* ''Film/Bound1996'' features Creator/TheWachowskis along with the woman they consulted for the portrayal of lesbianism. Creator/JenniferTilly also shows up in the last 20 minutes. The track is notable for being the last time the Wachowskis did anything related to promotion for one of their films.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'':
** The audio commentary takes the rather surreal tactic of claiming that what we're viewing is an adaptation of actual events. The commentators include the "real person" on which one of the secondary characters was supposedly based, and they go so far as to constantly explain how the events depicted differ from "what really happened" and make comparisons between Peter Weller's portrayal and the "real" Buckaroo. (At least this is equally odd as the movie.)
** The DVD also contains a subtitle track that provides ''additional'' commentary with the same conceit. The subtitle comments are consistent with the audio commentary, but its author seems to be privy to additional details not known to the audio commentators.
* ''Film/TromeoAndJuliet'' had four different audio commentaries.
* ''Film/CannibalTheMusical'' features one of the earliest "drunken commentaries". Director Trey Parker repeatedly comments on how his character's wayward horse is a thinly disguised allegory for his break-up with a former girlfriend, which he is apparently still bitter about at the time of the commentary. At the end, the commentators decide to go to a titty bar, and the last comment heard is one challenging the other to a fight.
** Specifically, they ''begin'' the commentary sober, but openly declare at that point that they will be drinking during it and you can even hear the alcohol being opened and served. In case you thought they were faking it though, there's an entire segment where the commentary cuts out...and then picks up as if nothing happened.
* ''Film/{{Orgazmo}}'', also by Trey Parker and featuring Matt Stone, continues the tradition of drunken commentary.
* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' and ''Film/TheGoonies'' each reunited their now-adult child actors for commentaries.
** A point of interest about ''Film/TheGoonies'' commentary track: Occasionally during the film, the viewer is treated to the sight of all the now-adult stars sitting at a long table watching it, while the movie shrinks away into the corner of the frame. Creator/SeanAstin unfortunately had to leave the session early to honor a prior commitment (leaving a [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilm Samwise Gamgee]] action figure in his place), never getting to finish a personal message to Creator/CyndiLauper.
* The director's commentary for ''Film/DancerInTheDark'' reportedly consists mostly of Creator/LarsVonTrier bitching about how much Music/{{Bjork}} sucks. Not in a teasing way or as a way to make the commentary interesting -- he actually means it.
** Considering the director, it's almost certainly not "reportedly".
* Creator/RogerEbert used to host a program called "Cinema Interruptus" during the University of Colorado's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference_on_World_Affairs Conference on World Affairs]]. He and the audience would watch a movie on DVD in an auditorium and pause the film whenever someone has something to discuss. His notes from the event are incorporated into DVD commentaries for the films.
** His commentary for ''Film/DarkCity'' shows you just ''how'' brilliant the film is, pointing out visual motifs, cinematography tricks being used, and just how perfectly the movie's playing with Noir archetypes. The DVD's worth it for the commentary track alone.
** Ebert also contributes an excellent, in-depth commentary for ''Film/CitizenKane''. Again, notable for the breakdown of cinematography, shot design, and other interesting tidbits.
* ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory'' features two commentaries, the first of which featuring Marshall Thurber, Creator/VinceVaughn and Creator/BenStiller arguing for 40 minutes whereupon all three exit and the commentary is replaced with that from the ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary'' DVD. The second (serious) one is an Easter Egg.
* The commentary track for ''Film/ElMariachi'' is Creator/RobertRodriguez pointing out all the goofy tricks he was forced to use to fit into his $7,000 budget.
* The commentary for ''Film/{{Eurotrip}}'' features the crew playing a drinking game during the movie.
* The commentary for ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious2001'', by Creator/RobCohen goes to show the depth of insight a director can have about hidden aspects of the movie. Oh yeah, and he likes to [[StuffBlowingUp blow stuff up]] too.
* Amy Heckerling and Creator/CameronCrowe have such a good time talking about ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'' that the commentary goes on 20 minutes longer than the movie.
** For ''Film/AlmostFamous,'' Crowe brings his Mom along (as she was the inspiration for Creator/FrancesMcDormand's character).
* Creator/DannyDeVito's commentary for ''Film/TheWarOfTheRoses'' is pretty standard (and quite good) except for several parts where he starts complaining about an unnamed movie composer, living near the mansion where the exterior shots were filmed, who kept calling the police and complaining about noise from the production. Each time, [=DeVito=] stops ranting after a few seconds and apologizes to the audience.
* Each movie of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' saga has a commentary track by Creator/GeorgeLucas and heads of the principal production departments. They mostly discussed common knowledge facts. To the contrary, the commentary for ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' movie was much more informative, as the whole thing was rather fresh and new at the time. Movies released after Lucasfilm's purchase by Creator/{{Disney}} also have commentaries, recorded without Lucas.
* ''Film/FightClub'' has four commentaries, the most interesting of which is by Creator/ChuckPalahniuk and screenwriter Jim Uhls. It's a masterclass in how to adapt a novel.
** The track featuring Creator/BradPitt, Creator/EdwardNorton, and Creator/DavidFincher together in a room is highly amusing, as the actors frequently gang up on the director for laughs but also respect his craft and the info he wants to share. Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter is dropped in via solo clips, some of which have priceless anecdotal information. Most notably, the very English HBC had '''no idea''' how old American children are in grade school, so the "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school" line meant nothing to her when she delivered it.
* On the ''Film/{{Frequency}}'' DVD, there's an alternate commentary track by writer Toby Emmerich and his brother Noah, who appeared in a small role. Toby openly questions who's listening to the commentary and gives his email address (which became more useful once he became the head of New Line) and Noah has to leave midway through the commentary to get to another appointment.
* The Region 1 DVD of ''Film/Godzilla2000'' features a commentary by the three guys who did most of the work Americanizing the film. It's full of information on what goes on in dubbing and adapting a film and is hilarious to boot.
* ''Film/HotFuzz'' has several commentaries, including one of two actual police officers from Wells, Somerset (where it was filmed).
* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' features numerous commentaries, including one with zombies.
** In fact, Creator/EdgarWright himself states on the Director's Commentary that his aim is to have "More commentary tracks than ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''". If you include ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' and ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', he's pretty much done this.
* Creator/KevinSmith is known for the excellent commentaries he sets up for his [[Film/TheViewAskewniverse View Askewniverse]] films:
** The commentaries for ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries,'' essentially three hours of ranting against ABC and bad Korean animators, may be just as funny as the cartoon.
** His first commentary he ever did was for the ''Film/{{Clerks}}'' laserdisc (which is also featured on the later DVD). It's notable for -- aside from insights on how Smith put together a film for the price of a new car -- featuring Jason "Jay" Mewes on the floor, drunk, occasionally loudly shouting an expletive before falling asleep.
** He has also done commentaries for ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/ChasingAmy'' (in which he says "Fuck DVD, Laserdisc is the future"), two for ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' (once with the cast, then again when it was deemed that nothing was learnt from the first), ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'', two for ''Film/JerseyGirl'' (including one with Jason Mewes), three for ''Film/ClerksII'' (including a podcast commentary that was intended for people to take to the cinema and listen to while the film was on release). Interestingly, he didn't do one for ''Film/ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno'', apparently because of [[CreatorBreakdown Smith's response to the low box office reciept]].
* Famously, the Extended Editions of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' came with four commentary tracks per movie: directors/writers, actors, production team, and design team. That's 48 hours of commentary across the whole series. To add to the greatness, the actors' commentary for ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' includes comments from both Sméagol and Gollum. And Andy Serkis too!
** In the commentaries featuring Creator/IanMcKellen (Gandalf) and Creator/ChristopherLee (Saruman) it is painfully obvious that the actors are not actually watching the film and the commentary from them is simply spliced bits from interviews.
** The commentaries from Creator/PeterJackson, Fran Walsh, and Phillipa Boyens are fascinating, and will keep you highly entertained and informed over all 11+ hours of the extended trilogy.
** In the commentary featuring Creator/ElijahWood (Frodo), Creator/AndySerkis (Gollum) and Creator/SeanAstin (Sam), Sean Astin completely takes over the conversation several times to rattle on about how great the story and production values are to the point that you can hear Wood and Serkis shifting uncomfortably in the background. This is easily the weakest of the assorted commentaries. While the others are a mix of good humour and fascinating information, Wood, Serkis and Astin spend most of their time praising each others performances.
** The commentaries featuring Creator/DominicMonaghan (Merry) and Billy Boyd (Pippin) are utterly hilarious. Especially when Billy keeps waxing lyrical about his feelings for Minas Tirith.
** Creator/BernardHill has a few solo sections, where he lets loose a few {{Precision F Strike}}s.
*** Also Fran Walsh jokingly threatens to give viewers of ROTK a test afterwards!
* ''Film/TheHobbit'' was scaled back to one commentary track per movie, by Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens. They are as informative as they were on ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', explaining the reasoning behind many of the changes made while adapting the book.
* ''Film/LoveActually'''s commentary gets off to a rough start -- Creator/HughGrant arrives late (about 10 minutes into the film) and almost immediately has to excuse himself to answer his cellphone. Later, Creator/BillNighy and director Richard Curtis realize that young star Thomas Sangster (who was 13 years old at the time) is legally unable to watch the movie, which is rated 15, which results in them desperately talking about something else during the scenes he's not supposed to watch. In the end it's quite a nice mix of funny/informative and mutual-admiration gushing (which is to be expected considering the writer/director and cast). It's also worth it just for Hugh Grant's snark about absent co-star Creator/ColinFirth, his fake nemesis. (After Richard Curtis had commented on what a nice close-up Firth had in a love scene: "I'd just assumed you'd cut it in from one of his other movies.")
* For ''Film/{{Made}}'', Creator/JonFavreau and Creator/VinceVaughn use pens to draw on the screen (hidden in a sub-title track).
* Creator/BarrySonnenfeld's commentary on ''Film/MenInBlackII'' falls under the awkward self-congratulation category, in addition to Sonnenfeld seemingly having no charisma whatsoever. The commentary for the [[Film/MenInBlack first movie]] is unique in that Barry and actor Creator/TommyLeeJones are sitting in front of the movie ''[=MST3K=]''-style, and at various points even draw on the movie to point things out. These ''[=MST3K=]''-style visuals are also used in the commentary for ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' and ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' (as seen below); this was because Creator/SonyPictures owned the rights to all three movies.
* Conversely, Barry Sonnenfeld's commentary on ''Film/GetShorty'' along with the Making Of features reveals just how much of this [[RealitySubtext movie was made exactly how]] [[ShowWithinAShow the movie in the movie]] was made, especially how ''Creator/DannyDeVito'' was basically playing himself.
** He bought the rights to the movie before actually reading it, just like Chili Palmer in the book/film.
** He was originally going to play the role of Chili Palmer, but he and other producers thought he'd be too short for the role, which is the ending punch line of the movie!
** He was asked a question in the Making Of interviews and starts rambling in an arrogant way and then admits that he forgot what the original question was, totally as his character Martin Weir would do.
** He and other actors admit to ordering totally off menu and not knowing their own address just like Martin Weir.
* ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' had the director joined by Gonzo and Rizzo, which resulted in an amusing joke commentary that's largely ParentalBonus stuff -- clean, but most of their references would be missed by kids.
* The screenwriters' commentary track for ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' is just hilarious. "[[RunningGag It]]'[[LampshadeHanging s]] [[AWizardDidIt magic]]".
** Their commentary for the second one is just as good.
* The actor's commentary track on ''Film/OceansEleven''. If watching the movie didn't make it obvious that the cast had an absolute ball making the film, hearing them riff on the movie and each other does.
* The colorized DVD release of ''Film/ReeferMadness'' has two commentaries. One is by the colorization team, which combines fascinating insights into the colorization process with lame pot jokes. The other is by none other than [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson]].
** Nelson has recorded commentary tracks for other classic movie DVD titles, including ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959'', ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'', and ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''. These commentaries combine both classic "trivia spouting" and Nelson's own milieu -- movie-bashing a la ''[=MST3K=]''.
* ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'':
** On the ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'' Deluxe Edition, Creator/PaulWSAnderson and actresses Creator/MillaJovovich and Creator/MichelleRodriguez crack jokes and argue about meaningless crap.
-->'''Anderson''': And in this scene we...\\
'''Milla''': Who cares about that, you can see my boobs! Look!
** It continues in a similar fashion in ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'' with Creator/MillaJovovich, Oded Fehr, and Sienna Guillory. The problem is that Milla and Oded clearly recorded their commentary separate from Sienna and the two were spliced together to alternate between them, causing major MoodWhiplash from hearing happy joking Milla and Oded to hearing down to earth and serious-about-her-job Sienna.
* "Comedian" Creator/CarrotTop has a commentary track on ''Film/TheRulesOfAttraction'' in which he watches the film for the first time. He keeps making inappropriate jokes throughout the film... and then a woman gets drugged and raped by frat boys. The sheer bizarreness of listening to him try to backpedal on his statements is gold. Also notable is the fact that the DVD packaging tries to keep this a surprise: The list of special features includes "Bonus commentary by a MYSTERY GUEST!", with the text being accompanied by a small carrot icon as the only hint.
* ''Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' has an in-character commentary with Lemony Snicket berating the director for making him sit through such a miserable movie. (After watching it, [[CrapsackWorld you may agree with him]].)
** Lemony Snicket goes through the entire thing acting as if the things had actually happened, and that Count Olaf, the main villain, is playing himself, having kidnapped Creator/JimCarrey and locked him away somewhere.
** On the other hand, it's worth watching for this commentary alone, said commentary containing not a few instances of SugarWiki/FunnyMoments.
* ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' has had several commentaries. For the Creator/CriterionCollection edition, it's played straight, with the cast and director talking about how the filmed the movie. For another special edition, the cast performs a commentary in character. It's hilarious. They protest at how stupid they were made to look by the director.
** And point out the "key turning point" of the film. [[RunningGag Twenty-five times]].
** Apparently every single person in the film besides the band themselves has died by the time the commentary is made. A few times the person making this claim is challenged on how they know that, and the gag is even extended to when they visit Music/ElvisPresley's grave.
* The director's commentaries of Creator/StephenSommers's films, featuring writer/director Sommers and producer/editor Bob Duscay, are just as entertaining as the movies themselves, with both either elaborating on the movie or [[LampshadeHanging admitting]] that things don't quite work that way in real life.
** The special edition of ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}'' has two additional commentaries: one with Creator/BrendanFraser (Rick O'Connell) by himself, and another with Creator/OdedFehr (Ardeth Bay), Creator/KevinJOConnor (Beni), and Creator/ArnoldVosloo (Imhotep). Given that Vosloo speaks no English during the film itself, hearing his natural voice and accent is interesting in its own right.
* Creator/MichaelBay's commentary for ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' gives many reasons as to why [[AdaptationDistillation some things were different]] in the movie as well as elaborating on the backstory. He's also fairly knowledgeable about the mythos of ''Film/{{Transformers}},'' save for his mistakenly calling Scorponok "Scorponox".
** Bay's commentary for ''Film/BadBoys'' is also especially fascinating. He doesn't pull any punches when talking about the hardships faced during the production.
* ''Film/TropicThunder'': In-universe, the extreme method actor Kirk Lazarus is known for getting deliberately LostInCharacter with every role he plays, and says at one point that he ''never'' breaks character until after he's finished recording the DVD commentary. True to his word, in the real-life DVD commentary for ''Tropic Thunder'' itself, Creator/RobertDowneyJr does his commentary in-character as Kirk Lazarus ''[[UpToEleven in-character as Lincoln Osiris]]''. When the aforementioned line in the movie comes up, he breaks character. No, not Downey, ''Lazarus'' breaks character and continues the commentary as himself. When Movie!Lazarus has an identity crisis and breaks character near the end of the movie is when Downey finally breaks character in the commentary.
* ''Film/{{UHF}}'' has a rather bizarre (and hilarious) one, with minor cast members wandering in and out at various times. Most notably when Emo Phillips' scenes are on Weird Al wonders whatever happened to the guy only to hear "I'm right behind you". Al also calls Victoria Jackson on the phone during the recording (which she clearly wasn't expecting), and appears on screen a couple of times, once to simply leave and get a snack for the director.
** That said, it's also full of genuine production info; Al's memory is so sharp ''he recalls the addresses of the filming locations'', much to his director's amazement.
* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsWrathOfTheDragonGod'' had three members of the production crew pose as three famous heroes of D&D lore, giving in-character comments about the plot and pointing out references to common D&D concepts. Better than it sounds, partly because it's genuinely unique and interesting, and partly because it includes a sizable about of jokey heckling, somewhat reminiscent of a Podcast/RiffTrax audio stream.
* ''Film/TheGamers'' contains two notable commentaries: one is by RPG designer [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Monte Cook]], the other is a psychoanalysis of its events, including [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill backstabbing someone with a ballista]].
* The commentary for ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'' is played straight until the final scenes, when Creator/BryanSinger and Creator/ChristopherMcQuarrie suddenly engage in a heated argument. Portions of the argument fade in and out of the commentary track much like the dialogue of the film's climax. The filmmakers each land a parting insult before the track ends.
* The commentary for ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' is done by Creator/PatriciaQuinn (Magenta) and Creator/RichardOBrien (Riff-Raff) and is both informative and rather humorous.
-->'''Richard O'Brien''' (As Riff-Raff): (Regarding a mysterious third-string on Patricia Quinn's Space-Magenta costume.) My dearest sister. What is that extra bit between your knickers and your stockings?\\
'''Patricia Quinn''' (As Magenta): (Laughs) I have no idea. Oh, I don't know....
** It also includes a track recorded at a live screening of the film, featuring audience participation callbacks. However, it was made for/taken from the 1995 laserdisc, and thus has some UnintentionalPeriodPiece callbacks referencing then-current events like the UsefulNotes/OJSimpson trial.
* In the "More Entertaining Than The Film" category: ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar''. It features the director, Creator/AshtonKutcher, and Creator/SeannWilliamScott. After about twenty minutes, Seann says "Do you guys want some beers?" Hilarity Ensues.
* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' features an all-time classic commentary track with Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger and Creator/JohnMilius. Schwarzenegger and Milius start the track by introducing themselves with each other's names, then the future governer of California adds, "And if you believe that, then you probably also believe there are little Richard Simmonses running around! Neeyaahaahey!" He goes on to utter such pearls as, "I get laid a lot in this movie!", "Is that kid wearing lipstick?", and--when a [[{{Fanservice}} belly dancer comes on screen]]--Arnie going, "Oh, I remember ''her''."
** "THIS IS THE BIT WHERE I PUNCH A CAMEL! WATCH ME PUNCH THE CAMEL!" "No Arnold, it's not that bit yet."
** Arnold's thoughts on the orgy scene: "LOOK! EVERYONE'S ''BANGING!''"
** And going back and forth about what's in the stew in one scene, before concluding that it's [[ImAHumanitarian "Split pea and hand"]]. Later, when a mook loses an arm, Milius quips, "Right into the soup."
* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' featured Creator/JoelSchumacher '''[[OldShame apologizing]]''' for the movie.
* If you watched ''Film/SpaceJam'' and still think that it has any vestiges of seriousness then turn on the commentary that includes WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck commenting on the movie in-character in addition to the director. Bugs and Daffy came back for ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction''.
* Creator/EddieIzzard's standup [=DVD=]s all contain commentaries, but since he tends to forget his material after he's stopped using it, and doesn't watch the discs before recording them, they consist mostly of him laughing at his own jokes.
* The commentary for ''Film/MommieDearest'' is done by Creator/JohnWaters, as he's a fan of the film and doesn't consider it all that campy. He actually makes some very interesting points while managing to be totally hilarious.
* Creator/TheCoenBrothers typically avoid commentary tracks, but the original DVD of ''Film/BloodSimple'' has one by fictional artistic director Kenneth Loring, written by Creator/TheCoenBrothers themselves, that essentially spoofs commentary tracks themselves. Loring generally alternates between waxing rhapsodic about the framing of certain shots ("the human face... we all... have one"), telling rambling off-topic stories, and offering up spurious details on how certain effects were accomplished (he claims a scene where two characters are driving in the rain at night had to be filmed in reverse with the actors hanging upside down -- the fact that their hair doesn't appear to be standing up is attributed to copious amounts of hair spray). Creator/TheCriterionCollection release of the film eschews the gag commentary for a proper academic select-scene commentary with the brothers and cinematographer Creator/BarrySonnenfeld.
* Stand-up Tim Vine's first DVD had a commentary that not only provided some really interesting insights into the creative process, but that he used as an opportunity to tell some jokes that he forgot to include in the performance itself.
* ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' has a surprisingly delightful one where Creator/BenAffleck spends a good portion of the time riffing on and poking holes in the [[FridgeLogic logic]] [[SelfDeprecation of his own movie]].
-->'''Affleck:''' I asked [[Creator/MichaelBay Michael]] why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers and he told me to shut to the fuck up. [[DeadpanSnarker So, that was the end of that talk.]]
* The best part of ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' on DVD is listening to Creator/RobertPattinson's thinly disguised hatred for Edward Cullen. ''Eclipse'' furthers this when he and Creator/KristenStewart repeatedly mock everything about it. It's implied that they're both high in order to cope with watching the movie.
* For the commentary for ''Film/{{Superbad}}'', Creator/JuddApatow brought his 10 year old daughter to the recording of the commentary, with Creator/JonahHill in the same room. Creator/SethRogen, in another studio via audio uplink, taunts Jonah by running his mouth off for as long as possible. Jonah loses it and goes on a rant about why Judd brought a 10 year old girl to the commentary of such a dirty movie. Judd then storms out and isn't heard from again. It's unclear how much of this was staged.
** Later on, Jonah says Judd's daughter is still in the studio. Whether this is true or not is unclear.
** Also, they'd tell stories about what happened on the set. One particularly amusing tale is about when they were shooting a scene and an old lady wandered on set and began telling dirty Creator/{{Disney}} jokes.
*** "What's red and has 7 bumps in it?"
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'':
*** There are a couple of commentaries for the first movie, but the one with Creator/KeiraKnightley and Creator/JackDavenport (more of the former than the latter) is hilarious. Sadly it's only on selected scenes and not the entire movie.
*** The one with Keira and Davenport is rather priceless for the moment where he realizes he didn't understand a significant plot point: He's stunned to find out that when the water ripples when Elizabeth faints and falls into the ocean, that the medallion is "calling" to the Black Pearl and it's what makes it appear later.
----> '''Keira''': What exactly did you think it was?\\
'''Jack''': I thought the film skipped!
*** "Oh, mini-me! Mini-me! Mini-Orlando! Look at that cleavage!" A particularly amusing exchange happens when Elizabeth is running from the pirates in the governer's mansion; Keira Knightley explains that a shot showing her running up stairs practically killed her because she wasn't prepared, having expected her stunt double to do it. After Jack Davenport incredulously asks "You need a ''stunt girl'' to run up some stairs," she responds, in an extremely posh voice, "Yes, ''excuse me, yes,'' I am ''extremely'' lazy!"
*** Given how Davenport laments his ([[PerverseSexualLust sexy, sexy]]) very ornate Naval costumes and how much more fun all the scruffy pirates were having, one wonders, given his character's rather extreme make-under in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'', if the writers were listening.
*** During the scene where character Norrington is made a Commodore of the British Navy, Davenport comments "how can one man be wearing that much brocade and ''not'' be classified as a Mardi Gras float?"
*** He then laments losing so much screen time to better-looking actors. One particular scene required some complicated ceremonial swordwork. "I practiced for weeks with that, and I'm in the background of ''your shot!"''
** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'': The commentary by the writers included their noting the bone-cage chase on the cannibal island and the three-way sword fight on a giant wheel caused them to ask the director "Did you get your kids a hamster for Christmas?" They also go into a fair amount of self-deprecation, explaining the symbolism behind certain scenes only to say, "Oh, c'mon, you know no one uses literary devices in these summer blockbusters..."
* Listening to Creator/UweBoll's commentary on any of his movies is a truly fascinating experience, it gives you an inside look as to how utterly ridiculous he truly is. Some highlights:
** Unironically claiming to be trying to invoke GermanExpressionism in ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'' ("Az you can see zis shot is very reminiscent of ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari''")
** Going on a rant about Creator/TaraReid's refusal to show her breasts in ''Film/AloneInTheDark2005'', all but ''blaming the movie's failure on this''.
** Boll getting more worked up about a ''cheeseburger'' arriving than anything about the movie in the ''Film/FarCry'' commentary.
** And finally his commentary for ''Film/BloodrayneIIDeliverance'' where he inexplicably ''stops'' halfway through the movie, with the remaining half of the track being the sounds of ''an empty room''.
* The commentary for ''Film/CastAway'' is dominated by the sound mixer's commentary on sound effects during the most pivotal scenes of the movie -- most notably as he gets off the island. While some of the commentary is interesting, you would think by listening that the sound effects were the absolute centerpoint of the film.
* ''Film/StepBrothers'' features a musical commentary, with the actors and writers all spontaneously breaking into improvisational songs at random periods throughout the movie, accompanied by the movie's composer on keyboard. This is notable because the movie itself is '''not''' a musical, although it is largely improvisational.
* ''Film/{{Daredevil|2003}}'' includes a commentary track in the most literal sense. While most blind people are familiar with a commentary track [[UsefulNotes/AudioDescription describing the action onscreen allowing them to "watch" a movie]], back then, those tracks were not typically included on wide-release videos and DVD. ''Daredevil'' includes the commentary track for the blind -- fitting, as Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} is a blind superhero -- which explains the actions onscreen as they happen.
** It's an interesting experience to "watch" the movie with your eyes closed and that commentary on to get a feel for how the blind see movies.
** There's also a funny moment when director Mark Steven Johnson openly admits that [[SpecialEffectsFailure an effect looks terrible]]--towards the end when Daredevil awkwardly leaps upwards between two buildings onto a roof--and tells the audience to look away for thirty seconds and then come back.
* The ''Film/MarsAttacks'' DVD is a strange case whether you want to hear the commentary in English or in Martian! ("AK AK AK AK!")
** The same joke is done for ''Film/GalaxyQuest''.
** Unfortunately, Creator/TimBurton doesn't give good commentary.
** Indeed. Creator/TimBurton's comments for ''Film/BatmanReturns'' are punctuated with a lot of rambling thoughts and giggles -- but some insight.
** In his commentary for the first ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' film he says "you know" [[VerbalTic probably a hundred times]].
* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' commentary is pretty impressive, considering it was recorded ten years after the movie was made and director Frank Darabont is able to name off many trivial facts and details, down to names of crew members, about the film.
* ''Film/RockyBalboa'' has a quite interesting track by Creator/SylvesterStallone, covering tidbits about the shoot and philosophical pondering on the characters in pretty much equal measure.
* The [=DVD=] commentary for ''Film/RedEye'' has Creator/WesCraven giving out more background information, such as Rippner's complex mindset and the strange, underlying chemistry between Rippner and Lisa. Another good mention is the many extra cameos were people who worked on the film. And yes, Craven confirms that when Lisa got the scar, [[spoiler:she was raped.]]
* ''Film/{{Predator}}'' has a terrible commentary from director Creator/JohnMcTiernan that is nothing short of a chore to sit through. [=McTiernan=] sounds utterly disinterested, muttering his way through the film, audibly sighing and lapsing into long periods of silence. It's a shame, as some of the things he manages to bring himself to say are actually fairly interesting.
** [=McTiernan=] delivers an equally boring commentary for ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober''.
* ''Film/TotalRecall1990'': The one for this film is particularly hilarious. For one, Creator/PaulVerhoeven's Dutch accent, coupled with Schwarzenegger's Austrian accent, serve to make it almost unintelligible. Schwarzenegger's commentary consists almost entirely of making jokes about the [[{{Multiboobage}} three-breasted hooker]], a grating tendency for [[CaptainObvious stating the patently obvious]] ("This is me as a construction worker", "I used this guy as a HumanShield and then threw him down the escalator"), and expressing how he likes certain parts of the movie because they serve to reinforce the possibility that it's AllJustADream. Verhoeven for his part has a VerbalTic that leads him to end most of his sentences with "Izznit?", though it's possible he's just trying to get Arnold to contribute more, who seems to respond with "Exactly", the occasional "That's right", or complete silence to pretty much everything Verhoeven says.
** Verhoeven says "Izznit?" when he's alone in interviews so often it's a {{verbal tic}}. Just like Creator/TonyScott saying "Yeah" on commentaries of his movies.
* As a rule, any commentary track Creator/PaulVerhoeven does is worth listening to if you can understand him through his accent. He's an extremely smart man and generally has a lot of interesting things to talk about.
* The Criterion Edition of ''Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'' has several commentary tracks, including one ''by Creator/HunterSThompson himself'' that makes the CE a must-have for Thompson fans. Throughout the film Hunter insults Creator/TerryGilliam, screams randomly, audibly smokes weed, and tries to call cast members when he's bored. Yet for all his randomness, he remembers that Creator/JohnnyDepp is using audio from the anti-drug law enforcement movie-in-a-movie on his answering machine and calls Depp's answering machine to prove it -- and Hunter times it almost perfectly to sync up the film and the machine.
* The Criterion laserdisc editions of the first three ''Film/JamesBond'' movies reportedly feature commentary so controversial they have since been banned from ever getting the rights to release any ''Bond'' movie ever released. Forever.
** Most of the commentaries that do appear, especially the older Bond movies, are audio clips from past interviews introduced by someone from the Creator/IanFleming Foundation. The "Ultimate Edition" release in 2006 allowed Creator/RogerMoore to do a solo track in all his movies - and while he at times digresses to talk about ''Series/TheSaint'' or his UNICEF work, it's somehow fairly detailed for a man reaching his eighties!
** ''Film/GoldenEye'' featured not only a commentary with director Creator/MartinCampbell and producer Michael G. Wilson, but in the extras disk, Campbell offers comments in parts of a documentary - namely, the director of photography questioning why the producers hired a New Zealander "given how all they know is sheep! ''Baaaaa''ction! (saying [[VitriolicBestBuds the DP's a long time collaborator of his]]) and scenes from a Monaco shoot where Campbell drops a ClusterFBomb (the day had been so busy he couldn't help it).
* The commentary for Creator/RolandEmmerich's ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' features Roland himself and (mostly) producer Mark Gordon, who spends 88% of the commentary complaining about the difficulties of production, [[SelfDeprecation pointing out plot holes, and making fun of the acting]].
* ''Film/HotelRwanda'' has a fascinating one with Paul Rusesabagina, [[BasedOnATrueStory the real life subject of the film]], who gives further {{backstory}} on the events and points out historical liberties. The film's director Terry George is also there, but he's clearly comfortable just letting Rusesabagina tell his story and acts like more of an interviewer for the most part.
* ''Film/DeathAtAFuneral'' has two commentaries, one with actors Creator/AlanTudyk and Andy Nyman with writer Dean Craig, and one with director Creator/FrankOz. If you've ever wanted to hear a film commentated on by Fozzie the Bear, the second commentary is surprisingly close.
* The director's commentary for ''Film/{{Freaked}}'' manages to combine hilarious and informative by telling stories of being on the set (such has having to get a "scab T" after Creator/MrT left shooting for a day as he felt the shoot was going too slow) to the constant interference that the directors suffered from Fox. Even after all of the difficulties, they were still proud of their baby.
* The ''Film/LostInSpace'' movie is worth a rental just for Akiva Goldsman's comments over the end credits, where he gleefully discusses [[StillbornFranchise his plans for the sequel]]. It sounds like he was saving all his best ideas for it, making this a textbook example of why that's a bad idea.
* The DVD of ''Film/WhiteOleander'' has an interesting commentary with the director of the film and the author of the novel it's based on, leading to interesting tidbits for fans of the book as well as those who had only seen the film.
* The audio commentary for ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' is done by the film's two lead actors, David Naughton and Griffin Dunne. It has some funny moments, but other than that mostly has one asking the other "Do you remember filming this scene?", interspersed by long silences.
* In the commentary for ''Film/TheMuppets'' they have an ongoing joke about "Future Movies Magazine" talking about how great movies they are working on but haven't been released yet will be. When "Man or a Muppet?" starts, they joke about it getting an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward -- one even says "Yeah, in ''Future Movies Magazine''". "Man or a Muppet" did indeed eventually win the Academy Award for Best Song.
* ''Film/MissPettigrewLivesForADay'' has a rather lovely commentary, discussing why they made a few changes in plot and setting (shifting the time-frame to introduce elements of the up-coming war, for one); notes on camera angles, cutting, and pace; utterly fangirling over the actors; and mentioning the ridiculously expensive hand-painted wallpaper that appeared in precisely one scene. (But it was ''very'' nice wallpaper.)
* One of the two commentaries of ''Film/Apollo13'' is by Jim and Marylin Lovell -- Jim Lovell is the author of ''Lost Moon'', the book the film was based on and, oh yeah -- was the ''commander'' of Apollo 13. His wife doesn't say a lot, but Jim talks about the differences between the movie and the events, and the similarities. If you are a space nerd, the commentary really makes you feel like a witness to history.
* On the commentary for ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'', Creator/DavidFincher basically gives a film school masterclass, and at one point tells viewers to take it up with writer Creator/AaronSorkin if they have complaints about a certain scene, and provides the latter's email address (which is bleeped out).
* The ''Film/Super8'' commentary featuring director Creator/JJAbrams, director of photography Larry Fong and producer Bryan Burk has them mulling over what question to ask Creator/StevenSpielberg via email, since he never does commentaries. There's also talk of Fong's magic skills (which are demonstrated in a featurette elsewhere on the disc), and he promises to bend the silverware in the house of anyone listening to the commentary.
* ''Film/BubbaHoTep'' has an amusing one featuring Creator/BruceCampbell as Elvis, commenting about his thoughts on the film, completely in character.
* ''Music/PinkFloyd Music/TheWall'' has a very funny commentary track with Music/RogerWaters (music/lyrics/story) and Gerald Scarfe (artwork/production designer).
* The 2006 DVD editions of ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'' and ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' each have commentary tracks featuring production designer Brian Froud who was with both productions from the get-go and key to their WorldBuilding.
* At one point during the ''Film/Scream4'' commentary track with Creator/EmmaRoberts, Creator/HaydenPanettiere (who has to leave two-thirds of the way through [[spoiler:mirroring her role in the film itself]]), Creator/NeveCampbell (via phone from London, and another one who doesn't stay to the end -- she only takes part for half an hour from around the 15-minute mark) and director Creator/WesCraven, Hayden realises her shirt's on the wrong way around and [[MsFanservice promptly takes it off to put it on properly]], much to Miss Roberts' amusement and Mr. Craven's bemusement bordering on blushing. As with the film, Panettiere is therefore the best part of the track.
* ''Film/{{Insomnia}}'' is a rather odd case. While it does have a usual commentary track by Creator/ChristopherNolan, scene-specific commentaries are made by Creator/HilarySwank, screenwriter Hillary Seitz, director of photography Wally Pfister, production designer Nathan Crowley, and editor Dody Dorn. Of course, the option can be made to listen to the tracks combined for a more traditional listening experience.
* The commentary for ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'' is particularly interesting in that Creator/JohnBoorman not only admits large parts of the film are unnecessary, but openly admits the movie was made on drugs.
* The commentary for ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarniaTheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' featuring director AndrewAdamson and the four child actors who played the Pevensie siblings is almost as entertaining as the film itself largely due to the four child actors spending most of the commentary playfully bickering and joking at each other's expense to the point where you could almost believe that they were actual siblings while Adamson hopelessly tries to keep them on-topic to talk about the actual film.
* In addition to a creator commentary for ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'', there is a "Crook and Cop" commentary, which feature Henry Hill (the ex-gangster whom the film is based on) and the prosecutor who used Henry as a witness in mob cases and put him into witness protection. The pair provide an insight into what the gangsters were like in real life.
* In the Blu-ray of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', the film stops to have the actors discuss certain scenes on screen.
* ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' has a commentary by Creator/RobertWise, in which he stops talking during musical numbers to play what the song sounds like sans vocals.
* The commentary for the incredibly forgettable 2005 monster movie ''Film/TheCave'' is a study in listening to screenwriters come ''this'' close to bitching about the shitty movie someone made out of their script but then backing off just in time to save their livelihoods.
* The ''Film/WestSideStory1961'' 50th anniversary Blu-Ray has lyricist Music/StephenSondheim provide commentary for the musical numbers, discussing abandoned concepts, differences between the play and the movie, and which songs he does and doesn't feel proud of in retrospect.
* Creator/TimBurton's sparse commentary for ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'' is of the "there's so little talking I don't even know if the commentary is on" variety, with little more than a few [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} amusing interjections]].
--->"Does anyone really understand bowling?"
* ''Film/WorldTradeCenter'' features commentary by several of the actual police and rescue workers depicted in the film, including one of the trapped men.
* As the commentary track for ''Film/Thirteen2003'' features then-teenaged actors Creator/EvanRachelWood, Nikki Reed,[[note]]who also co-wrote the film and whom Wood's character was based on[[/note]] and Brady Corbet, as well as Creator/CatherineHardwicke in her directorial debut, its tone drifts between serious discussion and an almost slumber party-esque atmosphere. Among the highlights:
** When Evan describes - matter-of-factly and at some length - how for one scene her makeup artist had purposely done her lipstick in a way that made it look like she had just performed the sex act that had been implied between scenes, the others are noticeably uncomfortable. Brady giggles nervously, Catherine seems unsure of whether to change the subject, and Nikki reacts with an, "Umm... thanks for sharing!"
** The botched navel piercing scene is revealed to be a case of ThrowItIn - Nikki accidentally cut Evan with the piercing, who notes that her subsequent F-bomb was ''not'' in the script but because "[[EnforcedMethodActing I was experiencing intense pain!]]"
** Nikki Reed had objected to a scene requiring her to shimmy a tube top down into a makeshift (and rather short) skirt. When it was pointed out that she had in fact written that scene, she replied, "Well, I thought I was writing it for someone else!"[[note]]Initially, it had been thought that Nikki would play Tracy; she was recast as Evie when Evan Rachel Wood joined the film.[[/note]]
** One of the actresses mentions how their advocate[[note]]someone on set to ensure the film adhered to rules for the protection of child actors[[/note]] had misheard the lyrics "I feel like humpin' something" as the much more uplifting "I feel like hope is something"... and the perverse pleasure they took in correcting her.
* The commentary track of ''Film/{{Krull}}'' consists mostly of the crew making excuses about the special effects and the cast name dropping famous people they've worked with in other films.
* The audio commentary for ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' has the drawbacks of a solo commentary, as it's done by Creator/MelBrooks alone, but is otherwise quite good. One thing that makes it notable is that Ronny Graham is there with Brooks - though you mostly have to take Brooks' word for it, as Graham is completely silent save for a giggle when Brooks introduces him and a brief remark near the film's end.
* The ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' [=DVDs=] and Blu-Ray Discs each have two commentaries: A Q&A with director/co-writer Creator/RobertZemeckis and co-producer/co-writer Bob Gale answering questions from fans, and a screen-specific commentary with producers Bob Gale and Neil Canton.
* Almost all of the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' movies from ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' onward each have a director's commentary on their [=DVDs=] and/or Blu-Ray Discs, which sometimes also features comments from other crew members and/or an actor.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' began including commentary tracks with its films beginning with the 2001-05 [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition Special Edition]] releases.
** Most of the Special Edition releases featured commentary from the directors of each film, usually with additional members of that film's production. The two exceptions are ''[[Film/StarTrekGenerations Generations]]'', whose commentary was done by the film's writers, and ''[[Film/StarTrekInsurrection Insurrection]]'', which received no audio commentary whatsoever.
** The UsefulNotes/BluRay releases and their corresponding DVD reissues feature commentary tracks newly recorded for those releases. The Blu-rays also include the Special Edition commentaries, except for ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' (whose [[ReCut Director's Edition]] commentary was specific to that version of the film) and the aforementioned ''Insurrection''; both films only had the new commentary recorded for the Blu-ray edition.
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' has "enhanced" commentary, which was originally an iTunes exclusive, later included on the "Compendium" box set of the first two Creator/JJAbrams ''Star Trek'' films.
* The director's commentary for ''{{Film/Equilibrium}}'' was primarily just a very long apology from writer and director Creator/KurtWimmer, apologizing for the various things that they had to cut corners on for bugetary reasons, and generally discribing the superior film that could have been made had they been given enough time and money.
* Creator/JohnCarpenter has made commentary tracks for most of his films, which tend to be very entertaining. The ones with Creator/KurtRussell in particular are clearly two good friends reminiscing and catching up.
* The commentary with Andrew Davis and Creator/TommyLeeJones for ''Film/TheFugitive'' is probably one of the most disappointing ever. Davis spends most of the time simply talking about shooting locations and praising ever actor on screen while Jones' is quiet most of the time and when he does speak his comments amount to things like "I liked this part" and "it was cold that day".
* ''Film/SolomonKane'' has a fun one with the director Michael J. Bassett and Creator/JamesPurefoy, where they discuss things like the low-budget, how they storyboarded and were prepped for a rowing scene but the lake froze so they used it for an establishing shot, the directors love of the plague doctor masks and how they deliberately didn’t want Solomon and Meredith to be love interests hence the casting of Rachel Hurd Wood.
* ''Film/TheFly1986'' found an interesting way to split the difference when it came to bonus features -- director/co-writer Creator/DavidCronenberg provides a lively solo commentary track. Then the feature-length (as in ''longer than the movie'') retrospective documentary ''Fear of the Flesh'' features just about all of the film's '''other''' major participants -- the three lead actors, the other writer, the producer, the production designer, the effects crew, the cinematographer, the director ''originally'' attached to the project, etc. -- to give their sides of the story of its production, with optional extended segments featuring tangential anecdotes.
* ''Beyond Suspicion'' (aka ''Auggie Rose'') is a minor Creator/JeffGoldblum drama from 2000 that went direct-to-cable in the United States, but it is also one of the only films he's ever participated in a DVD commentary for[[note]]the other, almost 20 years later, is the Criterion Collection version of ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel''[[/note]] with director-writer Matthew Tabak (who also provides a second track with the film's producer). As one might expect from the [[CloudCuckoolander famously quirky]] Goldblum, there's not a quiet moment as he makes many whimsical digressions (such as briefly discussing ''Film/TheIncredibleMrLimpet'', which was one of his favorite films as a kid) and jokes, but guided by Tabak he also discusses his typical preparations for a role, how he gets into the right frame of mind for individual scenes when they're being shot out of sequence, how his acting has evolved over the years from fairly straight MethodActing to a more improvisational style, and his experiences teaching the craft to others in Los Angeles, along with anecdotes about this film's production and themes. They also joke that anyone who stays through to the end of the commentary is eligible to have dinner at Jeff's house.
* ''Film/{{Cats}}'', [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs already one of the most bizarre movies ever to be put out in wide release by a major studio,]] [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/cats-is-a-medieval-morality-play-20-highlights-from-to-1842387249 has a director's commentary by Tom Hooper that only adds to the weirdness.]]
* ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby'' has not one but two bizarre commentaries. On the unrated edition, Creator/AdamMcKay and Ian Roberts talk about such bizarre tidbits as Ricky Bobby's sons being played by robots and Creator/SeanPenn being paid $3 million to play an extra. And then there's the standard edition's "25 Years Later" commentary, set in 2031 - or at least one where, among other things, [=McKay=] was eaten by a shark years ago (causing his son Darnell to fill his role in the commentary) and Creator/JohnCReilly is a military captain who defeated Music/TedNugent's militia on the "island state" of Michigan. On a somewhat poignant note, the latter commentary features Creator/MichaelClarkeDuncan, who died in 2012.
* The otherwise very serious and in-depth director's commentary of "Film/PansLabyrinth" features Creator/GuillermodelToro going on a humorous tangent where he professes his hatred of horses during a scene involving them and, despite not being in the scene, cows. And he HATES them.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KvcxKSkf0g&ab_channel=d34dn4ncy Behold - ]]

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* ''[[WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie]]'' parodies the unappreciated status of commentary tracks by [[spoiler:having the characters turn on the commentary in order to learn what they need to do to solve the problem they faced at that point. Several of them comment such things as "who cares about this crap?" and look very angry and impatient while they wait for the information they wanted.]]

* ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' includes a commentary track in the most literal sense. While most blind people are familiar with a commentary track [[UsefulNotes/AudioDescription describing the action onscreen allowing them to "watch" a movie]], back then, those tracks were not typically included on wide-release videos and DVD. ''Daredevil'' includes the commentary track for the blind -- fitting, as Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} is a blind superhero -- which explains the actions onscreen as they happen.