Themes
This episode is based loosely on the original series episode "To Serve Man," starring Lloyd Bochner about a seemingly benevolent race that helps man turn earth into a paradise and whose climatic line is "The book... To Serve Man. It ... it's a cookbook!"
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Famous quotes containing the word themes:
“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shiite fundamentalists.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)