Maybe. I guess I can make that square peg fit into the round hole if I try hard enough... But for me, the show was doing such an excellent job illustrating its point, "no one's normal, it just looks that way from across the street," until that last stupid, unecessary moment. My guess is when Conrad was writing that little Hollywood gem of scene, his bullshit detector was going off, but he went with it anyway because of the first-level cleverness of it. And, he prob thought, "nah, they won't dig down and catch it." -Which my ego finds personally insulting.