Kewl! Of course I was (and still am) a fan of anime so I learned a host of other lessons as well.

I like this part on how GI Joe affected adults:

How it affected us as adults: Actually, we’re pretty certain that our strategy for the Iraq War was conceived after a two day long G.I. Joe
marathon in the Pentagon. They just implicitly trusted that the good
guys were going to win, that firing off our guns would make the bad
guys run for the caves and that giving everyone cute nicknames was
somehow endearing. When things didn’t turn out the way they’d planned,
the administration placed the blame on faulty intelligence, or in other
words: “Knowing is half the battle, and we unfortunately didn’t know
shit.