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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seems more like it's playing on that.

The guy is excited to be served, as we would assume it's a Simpson reference and the alien is going to cook for them, instead they got served in sport, a meta subversion of our expectation of the joke.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it just a reference to the twilight zone ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Indeed it is.

Also TIL that it's originally a short story from 1950 that was later adapted for the Twilight Zone episode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I did not know that , everything's a copy of a copy.