Yeah, Cocktail is much better and makes more sense like this.
Mr. Show writer Mike Upchurch has been deftly parodying various movies and TV shows by putting actors and dialogue that aren’t in either, but somehow make sense and make the overall finished product better.
Now, as a proof-of-concept for what he’s calling Electric Television, he has a parody of the movie Cocktail with the great Chris Fairbanks in it a la all those newsreel clips that Forrest Gump was somehow in.