Awesome episode. I watched the entire series today. I really liked the begining episodes best, probably because I could relate to Rob, randomly checking for traps (which I've noticed he should do more often, in just 2 episodes he's fallen down a trap door and activated an acid river) and killing anything that moves towards you. Then looting the corpse for all its worth. Anyway, I thought this is one of the funniest episodes in a while, loved the expression on his face and the whole "You didn't have to murder anyone! Those were my sons!" was awesome. I was kinda off predicting what would happen this episode though. at first I thought schmoopy would just kill the wizard. Then I thought he would reveal his genius again by throwing in the wolf, gaary, and nailo into the acid, then, using the stone to become a cleric, resurect nailo. But as soon as he points out that the quest only requires them to save one villager, I knew what would happen.
You know, in the end, it was the wizards fault. Tie your loved ones to a stake, surround them with acid, then send adventurers to save at least one of them, odds are you're not getting all your loved ones back.
I have to say something I've noticed. Nailo is reluctacnt to kill, but he takes barely any peer pressure before killing a begger, two people he thought were princesses, essentially killing an entire party of adventurers, and most recently killing to inocent villagers, and he's probably complained about it a whole 10 seconds worth during the course of the entire series. He is really evil, isn't he? more so than Timmy the Evil.