And when I awoke, I wasn’t sure whether I was a hockey quarterback/paranormal researcher who had dreamt he was a French emperor…or whether I was Napoleon who is dreaming he was Biff Boffenheimer.

This episode is humbly dedicated to the memory of Earl William “Madman” Muntz, who wasn’t mad.

And it serves, mostly, to assess the damage which the last two episodes have dealt to the sanity of our heroes – which does seem to be quite extensive. In that regard, the Queen’s plan seems to have worked… although she referred to “some” sanity loss, which she might actually have exceeded. And she probably hadn’t planned for the collateral damage to Snuka, but likely doesn’t care…collateral damage to Snuka is probably universally considered acceptable by now.

The reason why the damage exceeded the Queen’s forecast was likely the added effect of the “chocolate curtain”. While it hopefully succeeded in protecting the sanity of the audience from the view of the twins’ activities, it was bound to lead the people on the stage to doubt the integrity and true nature of their own universe even more. Neither the hailstorm of oddly labeled chocolate bars nor the twins’ aberrations are things that could happen in a sane and logical universe – both things happening in such short order clearly implies that their universe is terribly out of whack in even more than one way.

So, today’s take-away? Never scratch the surface. You can’t know what’s below it, and you likely don’t want to know.

More on Thursday.