Some fans’ reaction to the tail-themed punishment didn’t really land, to the point that they consider it a blemish on the otherwise perfectly good episode. “Usually I’m a fan of Q’s unusual sense of humor but I don’t think it landed this time, which is especially disappointing with how much he hyped it up on twitter,” u/Evening_Tomatillo331 wrote. User u/metalandmets went even further, being so disgusted by the punishment that they ended up disavowing the entire episode. “That punishment was awful. I’ve loved the season to this point, but that punishment ruined an otherwise good episode,” they opined.
As for the creator of “Tails” himself, Impractical Joker Q seems quite happy with the end product. He indeed did hype it on Twitter before the episode aired, and returned afterwards to tweet about it, going as far as naming “Tails” a high point of his career. As such, it’s entirely possible that we haven’t seen the last of this game just yet.