Once the news about the Signal is made public, there is an unsurprising uproar, and a huge crowd gathers around Halloway's observatory. There was a scene when she passes through a crowd of all manner of loonies, from tinfoil-hat neohippies, to "Jesus was an alien" cults, to a Chevrolet Vega fanclub.
Everyone's "Oh, Crap!" look when the deciphered signal turns out to be a Nazi broadcast.
Which leads to Neo-Nazis protesting that "Hitler lives on Vega"
When Ken arrives at the second "Machine", he passes by the National Security Advisor and remarks "Nice to smell you again, Mr. Kitz." Kitz replies "You too."
As Palmer leads him to a chair, he identifies that Kitz is wearing Polo cologne.