Whenever this ep comes up, I can never help but recall Lara Parker's remark that Alexandra Moltke made it quite evident that she was becoming more and more dissatisfied with playing Vicki because of how things were being written - and that she often acted out, including by not allowing the show's hairdressers to style her hair. And if there was ever a day when Vicki's hair was, well, certainly less than flattering, it has to be in this ep. I mean:
I've honestly always thought that AM's unrest came a bit later in the storyline. But then there is the fact that she did often complain that one of the things she liked least was (and I'm paraphrasing) how the show nearly cut of her boyfriend's head to put it on the man-made monster, which in turn caused Jeff and Barnabas to act very oddly, yet Vicki still never had a clue that there was something more than a bit odd about Barnabas himself, the things he was doing, and the things happening around him. So, I suppose her dissatisfaction could have actually begun as early as this...