>We haven't really seen that much of Earth or galactic society
>immediately post-contact, have we? There's this, there's the mini
>about Zefram Cochrane testing the hyperdrive he's independently
>reinvented, there's the first story featuring Redneck (which IIRC
>introduces Zardon), and there's been a lot of hints at things that
>happened but not actually onstage, but I feel like FI-era is much more
>fully realized.

Not really, no. There is, at least, a hell of a lot more stuff set in the FI era. The thing about the WDF's early Golden Age is that they mostly spent it nowhere near Earth, so to show Earth in that period, we for the most part don't show the main cast, which is in itself something that doesn't happen terribly often.

>The variety is nice.

I enjoy it too, when it comes together.

>I
>then tried to find examples of the music, found the really old stuff
>that sounds like it's been AutoTuned to death, and gave up. :-/

... Um, on a point of order, that's sort of what Vocaloid is, so... :)

>And finally, when y'all first used the line "My friend, don't be a
>dick," it seemed such a perfectly Venkman thing to say, so I was
>pleasantly surprised to see it fit neatly into two other characters'
>mouths in the course of the same story.

In the interest of full disclosure, I'm pretty sure it originally was a Venkman thing to say (as in, he says it in the movie, not just in The Other Side). And, to be fair, Kurusu was quoting Rodimus Prime. (No, he wasn't there for that conversation, but he heard about it later.)

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