Much like that dialogue about treating zombies like dangerous schizophrenics in the Walking Dead, Episode 4 of Space Dandy, “Sometimes You Can’t Live With Dying, Baby” is a progressive take on zombies in a world of space exploration. 

Aliens fighting zombies is fun, yet very visually depicted as a part of life in Space Dandy’s universe.  It is later mentioned that zombies are not being discriminated against in this space setting. 

Space Dandy like most of us current progressives, future conservatives think that QT can’t be a zombie because QT’s a robot.  For whatever reason, (it is an intellectual space comedy,) we are wrong! 

However, it also deals with the darker side of space as well: zombies and life insurance.  According to the futurist documentary, Transcendent Man, humans may live up to a time, where life insurance may not be possible to be cashed.  In Space Dandy, life insurance fraud is an example of what may happen if somebody becomes a zombie. 

Or is it? ( Something to think about at least.) 

Bounty hunting and the dangers of encountering new species for money.  Diseases are quite a theme of the episode- not just from encountering dangerous aliens but also lactic acid bacteria from the yogurt the zombies eat, raw meat, the indication that no one is alive based on a lack of vitals, venereal diseases Space Dandy could have picked up from a hospital of non-humans, raw meat. 

Boobies is not the only hangout place this episode as Space Dandy attempts to “pick up chicks” at the hospital before going to the mall.  Finally, Space Dandy again impressively makes the world one at peace, when everybody seemingly had fears of it because of a intergalactic zombie apocalypse, a theme mentioned previously in other episode analysis.