The "You deserve to be a member of the Collins family" struck me oddly as well. Very oddly.
Once again I'm having trouble with the Party. Such a fuss is being made over it! Now Carolyn's getting into the act. Somehow the Millicent Collins who is disturbing her when she wears Millicent's dress doesn't sound like the Millicent whom we'll see later on.
And I don't notice anybody asking Barnabas, "Do you want me to bring my tuna-mac casserole?" That would be one way to bring the whole thing down to earth, if people are getting strange feelings.
Meanwhile, Vicky lies to Barnabas to get Burke invited to the Party. That sort of shocked me - especially since Burke didn't exactly want to go to it. Never mind. At least she's enthusiastic - although when she said Burke would be great at the Party (or whatever it was that she said) I suddenly imagined Burke as the sort of guy who does stupid tricks at parties that are only funny if you're drunk - and I don't drink.
[spoiler]I guess my real problem with this is that as far as I can remember, nothing really happened at the Party. If I knew that the Party was what threw Vicky into the past, I'd say, "Yup, Liz is right, and Carolyn's right, and the whole thing should be called off." And if Barnabas managed destroy Burke/Jeremiah at the Party as he threatened to do, I'd be holding my breath as Vicky persuaded Barnabas to invite Burke. But it was just a Party, with insufficient food.[/spoiler]
I wish Carolyn could have said something nice about Buzz when she was talking with Burke. Buzz was pretty good to her, all things considered.