This episode is on the stupid side of Walton's Mountain. John Boy's first day of college is full of hi-jinks and misadventures but the most obvious failing of it is the total transformation of the boy who wants to be a writer into a complete country rube more naive than Andy Griffith's Will Stockdale. Only one episode ago John Boy was wounded by gunshot and there is no sign of it in this, not even a lingering cringe. This episode introduces a bunch of new characters. some supposedly new College friends of John-Boy, never to be seen in any other episodes. John Boy turns into a total fool and wimp when tricked and hazed by bullying upperclassmen. One wishes he had more John Garfield in him when he is confronted by these boorish dolts and knocked them on their arses instead of becoming the subservient chuckle head of colossal stupidity he is portrayed as to the point of wearing a stupid freshman beanie cap that makes him look like a King's fool. Even the ending shows John Boy as more passive than he ought to have been growing up in the country when he finally stands up to the bullying. I guess that gunshot wound took more out of John Boy, like his cojones, than this episode will allow.