I've seen this idea that covid and/or the vaccine contains behavior altering parasites disscussed recently, and it made me remember an old episode of Futurama called Parasites Lost.
https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Parasites_Lost
I wonder if this was supposed to be early elite comms/disclosure, since we know they love to dangle the truth in front of us. Maybe some predictive programming, something Groening has always been at the forefront of.
The TV show 'House' also did an episode on the effect of a huge tapeworm on a girl's behavior. IIRC, she didn't feel much pain and she was prone to risk taking.