 "The Vacation Goo" was met with mixed reviews from television critics.In a simultaneous review of the episodes of "The Simpsons", "King of the Hill", and "Family Guy" that preceded the show, Genevieve Koski of "The A.V.Club" gave it a mixed review, writing, "What surprises me more than the show's continued existence, though, is the fact that it's actually pretty funny, which makes the fact that it remains so unremarkable so, well, remarkable.