[daanlo]

You should read the onion pdf. It explains why the safe word would break the linguistic tool of parody. It is the initial/doubt in the readers the kind of „wait what???“-effect that is the essence of the parody.

[ZeroGravitas]

I read it and didn't agree with it. When I'm on the Onion site or reading one of their books, I know it's the Onion. That doesn't make it less funny.