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The show, like all Danwarp Productions (Victorious, iCarly, Gameshakers, Henry Danger, Danger Force) is primarily made for folks who are the same age as the tight knit team of writers and producers that made all of them. (They started all this in their 40's back around 2000 and now are in their 60's) The plots, storylines are irrelevant. Its more about the sarcasm, the randomness, the subtleties, and things of that nature in the dialog, these concepts could be inserted into any episode, scene or line. The popularity of this type of humor took hold around 1977 and the movie Airplane!. But this show and the others have taken it to the highest levels using a boat load of money thanks to Nickelodeon.

The producers/writers are using the following in all of these shows:

• Paying homage to sitcom principles from the 60s and 70s and the people that made them. Using a lot of folks that worked on those shows and even some actors.

• Criticizing a myriad of topics from media, social media, human behavior, television show creation, stage moms, and pretty much any other topic.

• Using elaborate sets with the most detail ever given to set design I think the world will ever see. You will have to freeze a scene to really notice some of these sets, even if its just a one-off set, they add in so much detail, you can tell they are trying to push the envelope just because they can and no one else really has done it like that before.

• Great stories - While the stories are not the focus, they have come up with some interesting ones, rarely relying on boyfriend/girlfriend or parent/child angles.

Because its on Nickelodeon, most people will have never even heard of it. 90% of the rest who have heard of it or watched an episode think its made for kids and therefore just meant to be time-filler. If you truly appreciate television production and writing, and have a sarcastic sense of humor, this is a world of rewatches awaiting you. You'll find something new each time.

Like all of the post 2000 Nickelodeon and Disney Situation Comedies, it has a few different layers to it. The layer I enjoy is the dry-sarcastic language humor which has nothing to do with the storyline. All of these shows could (and are) about anything, but its the dry-sarcastic responses between characters that conveys the humor. The storylines are just generic vehicles for the language humor. People don't realize these shows are all written by people generally in their mid to late 40's and they write stuff that makes them laugh. I know I would have never found the humor in these shows as a kid, you have to be over 40 to catch the humor. It's humorous to me when people think just because a show is on one of these networks, it must be a stupid kids show. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I know its hard to get over that hump at first to accept that these shows are every bit as adult as the shows on other networks. The plots are not the draw here, all sitcoms have been using the same 30 storylines since the 1960's. Its all in the sarcasm that has absolutely nothing to do with plots.

The number of humorous lines in this episode is high. A large percentage of them are regarding the questionable functionality of the foreign space craft the characters travel in.