- Evil Is Cool: Discussed in the entry on "Absentminded Professors"; it claims at the end, thanks to our anti-intellectual culture, that the Mad Scientist will always be more popular than the Absentminded Professor, since "nothing is nerdier than an all-consuming love of knowledge for its own sake."
- Unintentional Period Piece: The book discusses the lost topical context of a lot of these gags.
- Values Dissonance: The "Black People" chapter discusses the unfortunate topic of racial humor in the past.
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