This comes to show how varied reactions to humor can be. To me, the Leopard joke fell completely flat. I also found it to be in very poor taste, looking at how deadly serious that term is, in the current IRL context.
In contrast, and contrary to the vast majority on this thread, I find the Cubetown shenanigans mostly amusing, in a goofy-to-bonkers fashion (very much on brand for Jeph, that).
To each their own, I guess. Not the most original takeaway.