 There is a thinly veiled jab at  _"Siskel & Ebert & the Movies" (1986)_ (qv), with both  Gene Siskel (qv) and Roger Ebert (qv) as aliens. "Siskel" is  denouncing George A. Romero (I) (qv) and John Carpenter (I) (qv)  as too violent. (In fact, Siskel had written a scathing review of  Romeros _Night of the Living Dead (1968)_ (qv).)