First off, as the title of my post suggests, I'm changing my attidude towards last week's episode, siince I now know what is going on. However, see later on in the post of a complaint about this gimmick. Now on with my opinions.
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The main question I had with this episode were "Is this going to be a Stan only episode, and if so, how can they make it funny with the lamest of the main boys in the story." The answer to Part I was yes, and that this one, along with last week's and next week's are part of a mini-series centered around a meteor show. As for Part II, they successfully pull it off by casting a funny minor character (Pip) and two new ones (one of them looks a little like Matt) as major characters in today's story.
Obviously, it pays off. The three other kids, via doing a spoof of Charlie's Angels, made this a good episode, along with the Heaven's Gate spoof sub-plot. However, I don't have any opinion on the Mr. Marsh/ Kyle's Dad plotline. Also, I wonder what other people's opinion to Kyle at the end of today's episode, which hints us to his solo story next week.
Three more things come to mind after seeing this episode.
1. Personally, instead of making them just single character episodes, I would wrap them together and make a three or four-part episode which will contain different moments from each of the boys' solo story.
2. How will Rhino release these episodes on video, since there usually is only two episodes per tape?
3. The big question now is "Will there be a Kenny solo episode, or will he just make a cameo in next week's episode, so that way Kyle can do his catchphrase?"
Joe Klemm