Thanks, I hated it. It is totally out of context, doesn't fit the storyline and rather confusing. It's like screenwriters getting high on something throwing in all kind of loosely associated stuff at random.
Writer 1- Hey! Let's make a.... (-smokes a joint-) .... parody! (-passes the joint-)
Writer 2- Yea, mix in, like, that other tv-serie Ben Browder is in!
Writer 1- Dope! And then ... let's blend in some Star Trek and Wizard of Oz!
Writer 2- Yea, and make the characters from marionette figures!
WTF??