Dan Iverson of IGN said that the episode has a funny start and a nice ending. He thought that the jokes were very funny and thought that the 5th season would make "Family Guy" as great as how the show started. Brett Love from TV Squad thought that the episode was better than the 5th season's first two episodes ("Stewie Loves Lois" and "Mother Tucker"). However, Love thought that the episode was too similar to the "South Park" episode "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes". Love did not like how Peter was shown to be "retarded" after getting the job at the superstore, saying "Sometimes it plays really funny, and sometimes it just gets annoying."