It's a bear mitzvah.

"Taking stuff" is very different from copying. Kurosawa's two Shakespeare adaptations, for example, draw heavily from nō, kyōgen, sumi, and the Shakespeare plays themselves (Macbeth for Throne of Blood and King Lear for Ran.) But it'd be asinine and absurd to go from acknowledging influence and even repeated elements…

Anyone who thinks Star Wars is a copy of The Hidden Fortress hasn't watched The Hidden Fortress.

On "Our Favorite Fugitive," the album comes right out and says "Robot love is queer."

He also has a great turn as one of the rabbis in A Serious Man.