I can’t say it better than this post. Only thing I’ll add is it’s often just nice to have a shell on a machine outside of one’s usual machines for debugging.

The solution to pollution is dilution. Every sane user and instance weakens the grasp of the insane.

My 10 year old daughter has been rewatching it for years. She found a role model in Leela and a name for her cat in Fry.

As for the references and jokes, yea many go over her head. But as time progresses, fewer and fewer. And she often asks about stuff she doesn’t understand.

Even without a complete understanding of the jokes and references, she absolutely adores the show. And is asking on a daily basis if the new episodes are out yet.

Hats are the billboards of cultural status. A shiny metal hat bedazzled with stolen rocks of other cultures? Well that just advertises, “I’ve got a nice big army to make up for my small perspective”.

Schindler’s List. Saw plenty of scary movies before this, but that scene where the officer murders the engineering prisoner who’s just trying to tell him about a problem with the building. It just sticks in my mind to this day as maybe the first time my young, sheltered self had been confronted with a realistic example of what dehumanizing could do.

… aaannnnddd… It’s canceled.

There’s certainly a history of big tobacco getting actors to smoke on screen, so that’s certainly part of it. But another reason an actor might want to smoke is it gives them a way to utilize body language in a way that’s plausible within the scene. Cigarettes, cigars, pipes, pens, eye glasses… these sorts of props are often almost invisible (as the audience just sort of takes them for granted), but can be used by an actor with intent to convey some unsaid context.

Lemmydoers

Alternative Headline: Prison Guard Finds Out They’re Actually A Prisoner.

I’ve not known any. But it also seems like those things have a correlative and not causative relationship.