2nd September 2010, 10:55 PM
You're right, it was a joke, and you're right, the whole premise is a huge parody of that whole thing (not just in movies or TV, but in a lot of 90's video games of the time, like Contra or Double Dragon, which is kind of a parody in it's own right). It's all fine when it's all a huge parody.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)