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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.
Isn't it just a reference to the twilight zone ?
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
I did not know that , everything's a copy of a copy.