- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The voice message from a disgruntled listener (who is a friend of the cast in real life) at the start of S1 E7 is this until it is explained at the very end of the episode.
Alban: I hate you all. Hate. Hate.
- Nightmare Fuel:
- Science Corner of Episode 1 is full of this.
- The method of which jewel wasps reproduce: zombifying a cockroach and injecting its young into it before they burst out of its stomach, killing the host.
- The fungus that zombifies flies and causes them to buzz around and spread its spores everywhere.
- Gordian worms, which inhabit crickets. The worms mature within the intestine and cause the host to commit suicide by leaping into ponds before burrowing out of its anus.
- Brandon's joke about grilling babies.
- Episode 6 explores the depths of Emperor Nero's depravity. Poor Sporus...
- Science Corner of Episode 1 is full of this.