But we did, this afternoon, watch the 'Flowers for Algernon' episode in which Rodney loses his intelligence, and it was. Well.

There are some themes it's just really hard to cock up, even for bad writers. When there are so many people in the world who have some direct experience of older family members losing their cognitive abilites, you'd have to get the script witten by actual monkeys banging typewriters not to manage to hit a hot button like that.