Of course I'd recommend watching the whole thing (or even the Alisa cartoon), for good examples of non-western juvenile SF, but in this case I was deliberately trying to show an example of non-western classroom behaviour management.
It may not have been entirely realistic, but judging from the nostalgic comments I've seen, it was not so unrealistic that students at the time it was aired found it ludicrous.
(counterargument: Friends — has many fans, but just how did NY baristas afford apartments like those?)
(I got most of my political jokes from VK. To be fair, most of them, especially the Brezhnev-era, can be used in the current US with only a few name changes.)
[1] Humour usually involves quickly switching between possible interpretations. Action movies tend to be much less ambiguous.