It's a joke. If I recall, the story behind this is that The writers and actors wanted to thank the crew for their hard work in general and putting in some serious work hours to get the show wrapped in particular.
This is pretty old to be a hot document. Basically Slate is re-warming old Wire-related content to prime for whatever fresh content they have coming.
eh, I left out some details of the story:
so Simon and the actors played it straight, acting like it was a real shoot and read the pages, then laughter and good times and post-project sentiment ensued, the end.
Don't tell me you read it fully and still thought it was a real scene!
Don't tell me you didn't read it fully and still complained!
