10x06 200

Oof, man. Like the original "Wormhole X-Treme!" episode this built on, a lot of the in-jokes and self-roasting worked really well.

Unlike that first installment, though, this one felt entirely too much like a bottle episode. The use of pre-existing sets was quite evident, and spending a majority of the runtime with the core cast sitting around the conference room table did nothing to counteract the "bottle" feeling. They were in fact bottled up in the conference room waiting for the gate to be fixed.

When the gate finally did work again, and everyone (even Walter) trooped through to what we were led to believe would be a surprise party for Mitchell's 200th gate trip, that turned out to be a bait and switch—the other end of the gate was the show-within-a-show cast finishing the final shot of their 200th episode, 10 years into the in-universe future. We, the audience, are denied the payoff. Instead, we get several minutes of not-very-funny fictional interviews (which I thought were the weakest part of "Wormhole X-Treme!").

That's all without even mentioning how different the chemistry of the cast is compared to 100 episode before, and ignoring those fantasy sequences of ideas for Marty's film-within-the-show that drag on much longer than is funny (especially the puppets).

Personally, I don't think the SG-1 crew should have tried to replicate the previous gag show, but plenty of fans seem to love this one just as much or more. For me, though, it did not work the second time.