History YMMV / BabylonFiveS05E08DayOfTheDead

* HarsherInHindsight: Lochley's childhood friend Zoe dying by overdose at a fairly young age, ending what was clearly a rough life, is what inspired her to get her life back on track and enroll in Earthforce. While the choice of name was most likely just a coincidence on scriptwriter Creator/NeilGaiman's part, cult actress and writer Creator/ZoeLund would die in this exact manner the following year at the relatively young age of 37 after having lived a thoroughly miserable life. Adding to the eerie coincidence, Lund had previously made a brief appearance alongside [[Creator/PennAndTeller Penn Jilitte]] in the ''Series/MiamiVice'' episode "The Prodigal Son".

* HarsherInHindsight: Lochley's childhood friend Zoe dying by overdose at a fairly young age, ending what was clearly a rough life, is what inspired her to get her life back on track and enroll in Earthforce. While the choice of name was most likely just a coincidence on scriptwriter Creator/NeilGaiman's part, cult actress and writer Creator/ZoeLund would die in this exact manner the following year at the relatively young age of 37 after having lived a thoroughly miserable life.

* HarsherInHindsight: Lochley's childhood friend Zoe dying by overdose at a fairly young age after enduring what was clearly a rough life is what inspired her to get her life back on track and enroll in Earthforce. While the choice of name was most likely just a coincidence on scriptwriter Creator/NeilGaiman's part, cult actress and writer Creator/ZoeLund would die in this exact manner the following year at the relatively young age of 37 after having lived a thoroughly miserable life.

* HumorDissonance: Apparently, broad humor is back in style in the 23rd century. It's not universal, though; several aliens don't find their antics funny (though their style eventually grows on Londo), and even some humans (such as Lochley) find it irritating. WordOfGod is that this was completely deliberate, and a TakeThat to CatchPhrase-oriented comedians who JMS has always hated. Before Gaiman included them in this script, the original idea for Rebo and Zooty was that we would never hear any of their material other than the catchphrases, out of context.

* HumorDissonance: Apparently, broad humor is back in style in the 23rd century. It's not universal, though; several aliens don't find their antics funny (though their style eventually grows on Londo), and even some humans (such as Lochley) find it irritating.
** WordOfGod is that this was completely deliberate, and a TakeThat to CatchPhrase-oriented comedians who JMS has always hated. Before Gaiman included them in this script, the original idea for Rebo and Zooty was that we would never hear any of their material other than the catchphrases, out of context.
** Website/SFDebris pointed out in his review of the episode that a lot of their material is stuff that sounds like an in-joke where you don't get the reference.
** One of their jokes is a multi-layer Minbari pun that involves several dialects, greeting rituals, a small fish, and failing to achieve enlightenment. Apparently it doesn't remotely translate, so we just hear some alien language and then Delenn laughing like hell.

** SFDebris pointed out in his review of the episode that a lot of their material is stuff that sounds like an in-joke where you don't get the reference.

** One of their jokes is a multi-layer Minbari pun that apparently involves several dialects, greeting rituals, a small fish, and failing to achieve enlightenment. Apparently it doesn't remotely translate, so we just hear some alien language and then Delenn laughing like hell.

** One of their jokes is a multi-layer Minbari pun that apparently involves several dialects, greeting rituals, and failing to achieve enlightenment. Apparently it doesn't remotely translate, so we just hear some alien language and then Delenn laughing like hell.

** SFDebris pointed out in his review of the episode that a lot of their material is stuff that sounds like an in-joke where you don't get the reference.

** WordOfGod is that this was completely deliberate, and a TakeThat to CatchPhrase-oriented comedians who JMS has always hated. Before Gaiman included them in this script, the original idea for Rebo and Zooty was that we would never hear any of their material other than the catchphrases, out of context.

** WordOfGod is that this was completely deliberate, and a TakeThat to CatchPhrase-oriented comedians who JMS has always hated.