//After arranging for their camper van to be robbed, the group invite Del and Rodney to stay at the family mansion. Over the following days, several attempts to assassinate Del, including shooting him in a beach-side restaurant and sending him off on a jet ski with a broken throttle, prove unsuccessful.//
are these progz meant to be analysed to this extent?
at uni the Dr Who crayzies [who dey den?] used to discuss the physics behind the plots ( yeah time travel etc)
and me english master who got an obit in the Times, used to ask - did shakespeare when he was writing think to himself - well schoolboys will be analysing this ( we werent - he was) in 500 y ?
I do believe Peter that the OP was remembering or recently had a discussion about the episode clip.
As I don't know where you're going with your statement, I would like to add that a lot of todays science was once science 'fiction', so discussions about future science will still be there in the future whatever the new tech will be.