I would summarize this episode as having a great premise but sadly, the writing staff quickly ran out of ideas and resorted to their worst instincts--Long and drawn out jokes with weak punchlines, repeating the same joke over and over when it wasn't funny the first time, and lazy pop culture references, because they needed to fill up 21 minutes and 30 seconds of air time and couldn't do it by coming up with decent material.
I'd file it away at the low end of the mediocre episodes.
This episode had so much potential but they failed to deliver. The novelty of this episode was played out after about the third cutaway. The writers seemed like they were unable to decide if all the cutaways should be new or if this should just be a flashback episode where they comment on past gags in the style of the back to the pilot episode. The subplot about the kids throwing a party was asinine.
Unfortunately, their writers still think it's funny to have long drawn out jokes, like lois taking out garbage at the beach. They had a great idea... it's too bad it was wasted by bad writing.
I'd file it away at the low end of the mediocre episodes.
This episode had so much potential but they failed to deliver. The novelty of this episode was played out after about the third cutaway. The writers seemed like they were unable to decide if all the cutaways should be new or if this should just be a flashback episode where they comment on past gags in the style of the back to the pilot episode. The subplot about the kids throwing a party was asinine.
Unfortunately, their writers still think it's funny to have long drawn out jokes, like lois taking out garbage at the beach. They had a great idea... it's too bad it was wasted by bad writing.