History YMMV / Benson

* HilariousInHindsight: In the three-part episode where Governor Gatling is running for reelection, the members of his party offer Benson the position of Lieutenant Governor if he betrays him. He refuses and Gatling wins. Years later, Benson becomes Lieutenant Governor through more honest means.
** Pete's scene in some seasons' opening credits where he's eating a sandwich and spills some of it on Benson's newspaper. No wonder Neelix (see below) so bad in the kitchen...
** In the pilot, Katie jokes about Benson working with sad people; Missy Gold (Katie) as an adult became a psychologist.

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: Season 6 episode 20, "Scenario", is about practicing for nuclear war - [[SocietyMarchesOn itself now a largely outdated theme]]. However, it features an early version of the Internet - albeit one still limited to military uses[[note]]at the time, ARPANET was only starting to get expanded to universities and research institutes via [=NSFNet=][[/note]] and [[TechnologyMarchesOn so dial-up one actually had to dial the number and hang up in order to access the net]] - as a key point plot: they use it to simulate various scenarios.

** Stu Silver wrote an episode. Silver is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Webster}}''.

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: Season 6 episode 20, "Scenario", is about training for a nuclear war - [[SocietyMarchesOn itself now a largely outdated theme]]. However, it features an early version of the Internet - albeit one still limited to military uses[[note]]at the time, ARPANET was only starting to get expanded to universities and research institutes via [=NSFNet=][[/note]] and [[TechnologyMarchesOn so dial-up one actually had to dial the number and hang up in order to access the net]] - as a key point plot (it's how they end up contacting outsiders in order to get out of the shelf they were stuck in).

*** And Pete later played Neelix on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''

** Minor Season 2 character, Frankie the courier - played by a young [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Jerry Seinfeld]].

** Benson himself is Rafiki in ''Disney/TheLionKing''.

** Also, Clayton Endicott III is played by the same actor who portrayed Odo in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Lewiston in ''Series/BostonLegal'', and Chef Louis in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.

** Didi Conn (Denise Stevens) previously played Frenchie in ''Film/{{Grease}}'' and ''Film/{{Grease 2}}'', and would later star in PBS' ''Series/ShiningTimeStation''. Amusingly, her ''Grease'' co-star, Dinah Manoff (Marty), had a recurring role on ''Soap'' as Danny Dallas's girlfriend, Elaine Lefkowitz, and would later play Carol Weston on ''Series/EmptyNest'', which, like ''Soap'' and ''Benson'', was created by Susan Harris, and starred former ''Soap'' regular Richard Mulligan.
** Bob Fraser and Rob Dames wrote 34 episodes, and Dames directed 11 episodes, while Fraser directed three episodes. Both are best known as creators and executive producers of ''Series/{{Wipeout1988}}''.
** Barry Fanaro and Mort Nathan wrote 11 episodes. Both are best known as creators and executive producers of ''Series/TheSecretDiaryOfDesmondPfeiffer''.

** David Langston Smyrl wrote two episodes. Smyrl is best known for playing Mr. Handford on ''Series/SesameStreet'' from 1990 to 1998. Amusingly, in 1974, Robert Guillaume was being considered to play Gordon on ''Sesame Street'', but was ultimately passed over in favor of Roscoe Orman.
** Stu Silver wrote an episode. Silver is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Webster}}'', which, coincidentally, co-starred former ''Soap'' regulars Cathryn Damon and Eugene Roche.

* ValuesResonance: Years before [=#MeToo=], one episode depicts a woman being encouraged to name and shame her sexual harasser, which she eventually does.

* ValuesResonance: Years before #MeToo, one episode depicts a woman being encouraged to name and shame her sexual harasser, which she eventually does.

** Michael J. Weithorn also wrote an episode. Weithorn is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/NedAndStacey'' and co-creator and executive producer of ''Series/TheKingOfQueens''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Jerry Seinfeld had a three episode run before being unceremoniously fired.
** Rene Auberjonois is now better known to Star Trek fans as [[Series/DeepSpaceNine Odo]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: Jerry Seinfeld had a three episode run before being unceremoniously fired.

* RetroactiveRecongnition: Jerry Seinfeld had a three-episode run before being unceremoniously fired.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Gene telling the story of how his wife died - she was eaten by horses while wearing a Sugar Plum Fairy costume made of real sugar.