 The episode received mixed reactions from critics . Writing for Entertainment Weekly , critics Mary Kaye Schilling and Mike Flaherty stated " Even Seinfeld 's bit players must have some grounding in reality — you need to love to hate them . Ultimately , there 's no redeeming comic payoff to Rava 's and Ray 's weirdness " . Flaherty and Schilling graded the episode with a C- . Colin Jacobson of the DVD Movie Guide called the episode 's storyline " fairly pedestrian " , but felt the performances of Conway and Koppel saved the episode . 
