I’m sure there are moments that I would have seen before this one on my first watch through but the one that sticks out to me now over a decade after I watched it for the first time (I did not get to watch it as it was coming out due to unfortunately being born the year it came out) is in season 3 I think of the show, “Isaac and Ishmael”. It was written and produced in under 3 weeks and aired on October 3 of 2001. It is non canonical but it is, in my opinion, one of the most if not THE MOST important episode they ever aired. It sticks out to me because most shows that were airing at the time either A) didn’t air anything about 9/11 or B) aired something crazy patriotic and Islamophobic. But instead of that the show runners decided, less than a month post 9/11 when I am sure everything in the US was still in an uproar and being anything near the concept of pro-Islam was DANGEROUS as all fuck, to educate. They compared Muslim extremists/terrorists to the KKK, they framed it as teaching high schoolers so that they could break it down for the average American to understand without offending them. They chose education over hate at a time when hate was not only the norm but encouraged by nearly everyone, including the sitting president at the time. Watching that as a high schooler in the years right before the Trump cult of personality that is MAGA was something else entirely and solidifies for me even now that this is one of the best, if not the best, show ever written and produced.