ASUKA:“All right, here I am, just the way you wanted,
after being run through the wash cycle
seventeen times.”
UrsusArctos: They seem to have run with this line and made it literal in Evangelion 2.0 where the decontamination procedure actually makes them look like clothes in a washing machine. Thankfully, we're spared such nonsense here.
Zusuchan: How dare you refer to Anno's greatest achievement, NTE's greatest moment, Kino(TM) at its best as "nonsense"? Really, old people are weird. /s