i totally agree, i just don't see it as the pinnacle. i feel like it has broader appeal than some better episodes -- paradigms of human memory is a fave, cooperative calligraphy, DnD. and some season one stuff (i find the debate episode the strongest single episode of season one, and the strongest "nothing super weird is going on here" episode until "calligraphy".) as well as chaos theory, and the recent documentary redux -- which can be discounted from this list if you want, as the recent news about haitus gave it a bit of meta gravitas it wouldn't have had on its own (but it was still super awesome).
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