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  • From the "Bionic Bunny" episode, as we go behind the scenes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, we see Michael Dorn getting into makeup as Worf. As he leaves the makeup trailer by shoving the door hard enough to bang against the trailer, he says "Stand aside, I take large steps!".
    • The episode also features the only officially released TNG outtakes (until the Blu-ray releases), the highlight of which is Patrick Stewart's "Kill me now" expression after one too many flubs.
  • A few of the show's own outtakes can be seen at the start of "Ludlow Laughs". Cows sure are hard to work with.
  • The opening of the Kickstarter video, with kids and adults alike struck utterly speechless by Levar walking in and asking where a certain classroom is. And at the end, Brent Spiner arrives to meet him and no one recognizes him.
  • Kermit the Frog's cameo, including a marvelous Parental Bonus joke regarding Hamlet.
  • The end of Episode 5 of the new UTech segment of Reading Rainbow. Not only did LeVar do a Call-Back to both Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (where a clueless Scotty tried talking to a computer mouse) and Star Trek: The Next Generation by verbally asking a 18th century stove for hot Earl Grey tea (Captain Picard's preferred drink), the stove actually obliged (through the magic of video editing, complete with the teleportation VFX from TNG).
  • From the "Little Nino's Pizzeria" episode, when the kids are asked how much pizza they could eat in a single meal, most of their answers are laughably unrealistic amounts, especially the one boy who claims he could eat "45,925,777 pizza pies".
    • Also in this episode, the kids are asked about their favorite pizza toppings. Some of them answer with rather unusual things like candy and oysters. A boy has "another pizza" as his favorite topping.
  • While the "Conan the Librarian" segment qualifies on its concept alone (Conan the Barbarian working in a public library as the person responsible for giving a young boy his first library card, or, as he calls it, "the Card of Library"), Michael Dorn's performance as the titular character really sells it.

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