Well... as part of our short story unit i played this episode for my class. they LOVED it!!! it was a perfect episode for them - Rodney is 12 years old... my students are 12-13 years old. We had already talked about methods of characterization so they picked up right away that there was no actor playing Rodney. Was fun to teach characterization with a story where there is no character.

Next on the list to play for them is The Black Room where we\'ll examine setting using this story with such a spartan setting.