At this point, anything they write will always look familiar to you because it's the same core group of people. Their personalities are in the writing and acting, but I think they remain pretty creative.
The premise has always been about the gang digging bigger, cluster-fuck situations no matter how often they resolve…

Dennis, May I remind you, nay, state for the record, that this is their 11th season, so where do you get off calling them derivative. Do you mean the episode was a follow up to the halloween episode or do you mean derivative in the negative sense? If you mean it as disparaging to the writing, then I hope you know…