Absent Animal Companion: A Running Gag is Dot holding a monster in a box as a pet, but she has a various pet just about every time. This is the initial time Neo killed and the total ordeal also fuels Roman's disdain toward humanity. Shruggie time. The shruggie was the ideal emoticon of the Obama era: a a bit apprehensive-on the lookout, but pleasantly numb smirk, throwing its fingers up at everything’s absence of which means.