I've read a lot of opinions on this ep..personally, I liked it. I laughed throughout, it was silly, but in a funny way. I know one big complaint was that the ep. was all over the place, but I saw it as having a story line, although granted in a rather roundabout way. Basically I saw the ep as being about a test of the family's endurance. The beginning of the ep set up a conflict which forced the family into togetherness, then went things turned violent, they worked with the Counselor and the family became united again during the middle of the ep, and the end of the ep set up a test of their new unity - in the form of the Vegas wives returning. Now that the family has banded together, can they remain a unit with this new obstacle? Of course they do, and the family bond is strong again. Anyway, yeah it was kind of rambling, but I thought in a good way. I thought the ep had a lot of laughs and I love how old characters are brought back and old plots are re-visited.
Nate