 In a simultaneous review with "Family Guy", Genevieve Koski of "The A.V.Club" gave it a mixed review, going on to write, "I wasn't wild about tonight's "Tearjerker", though I did appreciate that it tweaked the "Bond" conventions into an original story rather than doing a straight-up recreation.It seems so easy to do a "Bond" parody, especially when your main character is a CIA agent."