>>102194200I guess it's part of the Venture subversion.
In some adventure serial in the 1950s/60s you might have had some heroic genius say: 'Looks like a job...for Science!' and build some wacky, nonthreatening beep-boop robot.
Contrast this to today's jaded sci-fi, which basically concludes that the output of a genius scientist would be less 'wacky robots' and more creepy, intimidating AI.
Like the 'learning beds' Hank and Dean slept in. Learning in your sleep sounds like every kid's dream, but the show makes a point of how messed-up it would make you.
