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  • John Iselin deriving his list of Communists from the ketchup bottle. Made funnier (and more frightening) when you know that Joe McCarthy did things just like this in real life.
  • When Shaw is accidentally triggered he overhears someone telling someone else to go jump in a lake. He does.
  • Raymond's boss lounging in bed wearing a frou-frou bathrobe that belonged to his late wife. It's not because he's a crossdresser but because the robe is the most comfortable thing to lounge around in.
  • During one of the follow-up brainwashing sessions to keep Raymond on a leash, the head programmer gets into an argument with an underling, with Raymond calmly sitting between the two and glancing back and forth like a little child watching parents bicker.

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