This was a nifty and nutty episode that was perhaps just a bit on the long side. This episode was from the second season,and it was episode 20 out of 32 for that season. In my opinion,the previous year's episodes,the first year of the show,were almost all better than episodes like this from the second year,because the first season was 30 minutes long and it was very tight,no padding or time wasting. The second season shows like this episode here were an hour long,and there was a lot of padding and dead time in the whole first season of the one-hour shows,they must have simply padded the half-hour shows for the whole second season and made them fit the longer format,you almost get the idea that the switch from a 30 minute show to an hourlong show was a big surprise to everyone maybe? Unfortunately this makes for some slow and boring episodes during the whole second season. Eventually the hourlong episodes improved but it did take quite awhile.
This episode is still indeed pretty good and entertaining,the cast saved it from being a disaster. This is an earlier hour-long episode with a whole lot of padding and time-killing tactics. The 30 minute episodes were better than most of the hour-long episodes such as this one.