History Fridge / InsideJob2021

* When doing their yearly revisal of the Constitution, Brett wonders what the Founding Fathers would think of this, and Myc callously replies that they'd feel the same way his father feels about him. That is, since the Founding Fathers are dead,[[IHaveNoSon and Brett's dead to his father.]]

* Brett’s father mentions that the Hand Family used to have another sibling named Chad who Brett never knew, and when pressed further, Mr. Hand opts to not answer. What happened to Chad? Was he a BlackSheep like Brett and similarly mistreated? A good guy whose death or disappearance made the Hands as competitive and controlling as they are now? And what caused him to disappear?

* Rand's NEEDY Act, where divorced couples are forced to go on a date. Hopefully there were provisions for abusive couples, but considering Rand's personality, not so likely.

** Ron seems to be kind of a lonely person; unlike Reagan, who has a VitriolicBestBuds relationship with her coworkers, Ron shows no kinship with the Illuminati heads and [[IWorkAlone seems to work alone for the most part,]] and never seems to hang out with anyone besides Reagan outside of work. He later even claims that Reagan is the only thing he cares about, and it could very well be true, considering that Ron seems to struggle jiving with everyone at the Halloween party and even [[NiceGuy Brett]] had difficulty getting along with him. Ron's desire to run away with Reagan may not just be to be with her forever, but to alleviate his own loneliness by rejecting his old self.

** Ron seems to be subtly suicidal. He never says he explicitly wants to die, but he recalls that the incident that landed him in AA was when he tried to drink an entire vat of memory erasing fluid, and the way he describes it makes it sound like a mental-breakdown-turned-suicide-attempt. Considering Ron mentions intense feelings of guilt due to his Catholic upbringing and his hatred of his job, and that [[spoiler: Reagan essentially erases his entire personality when she erases his memory and replaces it with Martin Higgins, it wouldn't be wrong to assume that this is a DeathOfPersonality, and the Ron we got to know all season is affectively ''dead.'' With that in mind, Reagan's decision almost feels like some spiritual MercyKill.]]

*** Also, considering that when Brett in "The Brettfast Club" got doused in an entire vat of Nostalgia Max (Which is made from the same chemical as Cogito's memory erasing fluid), it turned him into a Nostalgia Monster that wreaked havoc on everybody. If Ron had actually gone through with the attempt and it didn't straight up ''kill'' him, something similar could have happened.

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* "The Brettfast Club" has a lot of this:
** Brett accidentally gets coated in a combo of Nostalgia Max and chemicals from recalled 80s paraphernalia. While Reagan manages to stop his rampage, we never see his powers get actually ''removed'' onscreen; he just calms down and stops using them all of a sudden. And, also, Brett was covered in a dosage of Nostalgia Max meant to be used on an ''entire town of people''. Is it possible that those powers aren't completely gone and, at some point, there could be nasty consequences in the future?
** This episode also puts all of Brett's previous behavior into horrific perspective. All those times when he's disregarded his wellbeing for the sake of being liked, and the other characters (and the audience) saw it as him just being sensitive and agreeable to a stupid degree? [[HarsherInHindsight Yeah, turns out there's a reason for it.]]
** Also, Brett originally planned to use only a little bit of the stuff on his friends to get them to want to stay in the 80s a little longer. But an overdosed Brett decides that, instead of a just a small amount, he intends to to pour a whole ''tub'' of the stuff onto his coworkers, as he nearly does this to Reagan before she can [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight bring him back to his senses.]] Brett probably didn't intend for this, but how do we know that the Nostalgia Max would ''only'' make the team nostalgic, and not just turn them into more Nostalgia Monsters like Brett? If Brett hadn't been talked down, the town probably would have had multiple, nostalgia-empowered lunatics terrorizing it!
** On a different note, it is stated that the only reason Cognito still drugs Still Valley with Nostalgia Max is so they can sell the town unsold 80's crap that is too dangerous to sell to the rest of the world. As pointed out elsewhere, cognito isn't actually producing this stuff, so there is a finite amount they can sell. Once they run out of products to sell to Still Valley, which they should be close to doing, since they've been selling stuff for decades, they have two options. Either they stop drugging the town, causing everyone to realize they aren't in the 80's and try to get them to adapt to the 2020's without the rest of the world finding out, or massacring the entire town once they are no longer useful.
*** Alternatively, they'll let Still Valley "develop" into the 1990s to start selling them unsold 90's crap. As long as Cognito has outdated nostalgic products to sell, they can let Still Valley exist a few decades behind the rest of the world.

** Also, there are plenty of race-related theories that contradict each other, so its unlikely that ''every'' theory that's racist is also correct. For example, in white supremacy circles, there are theories that black people evolved from apes and that white people therefore have the authority to rule over them, while a common theory in black supremacist groups is that black people are actually the ''progenitors'' of white people. If racial issues are ever brought up, it's likely that the show will throw in a wrench giving the "true" explanation (and it'll probably be something quite ridiculous to elevate the tension).

* In "Blue Bloods" both Tamiko and Andre at different points claim that they think Reagan has Asberger's. Tamiko mostly makes this point to make her book more interesting and show her clear dismissal of Reagan. However, as we later learn, Andre canonically has anxiety, OCD and Tourettes, and, considering that Andre's self medication implies that he is not officially prescribed any treatment by a doctor, and is possibly self-diagnosed (which, as anyone whose done it can tell you, takes a bit of research). His analysis of Reagan and guessing why she acts the way she does is maybe because he recognizes symptoms of neurological conditions and mental disorders after looking for them in himself.

** If Rand was the one who programmed Bear-O, it's possible those "misfires" were ''entirely intentional'' to tank Reagan's social life further.

** This episode also puts all of Brett's previous behavior into horrific perspective. All those times when he's disregarded his wellbeing for the sake of being liked, and the other characters (and the audience) saw it as him just being sensitive and agreeable to a stupid degree? [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Yeah, turns out there's a reason for it.]]

** This would also explain that gong sound effect Andre was hearing all episode every time he spoke. While it could just be a running gag, it could also be a hallucination caused by the cocktail of dangerous intoxicants he takes on the regular not sitting well with him. None of his coworkers or the town's residents bring it up, and it also doesn't play ''every'' time he speaks, as he speaks a few times and the effect isn't heard. The only time we see it openly addressed is the first time, when a kid at the mall bumped into one at a shop. It could have just been playing in repeat in Andre's head while he was high and no one cared because [[StonersAreFunny he's like that all of the time, anyways.]]

* Rand openly states in "Inside Reagan" that [[spoiler: people who aren't as smart as he and Reagan only serve the purpose of "delivering (their) pizzas and fighting (their) wars." This makes it doubly ironic that Brett manages to get the password from Reagan's mind ''not'' by outsmarting anyone, but just by his own kindness, something ''neither'' Reagan or Rand were able to do.]]