This was probably one of the older models, the newer models can solve these kinds of problems:

FWIW most modern LLMs can parse and answer questions about sentences such as your example:

I always wear my AirPods in the movie theater these days. 😊

All credit goes to Bing! 😁👍

Bing has your back (if this is indeed the episode you were thinking of) 😊

Personally I don’t think it’s any dumber than “a small number of gov employees and politicians watched a lot of X-files growing up and are now excited to do a bunch of X-Files LARPing”. 😄