This is a wonderful episode, with Hoss and Joe being, ...well..., Hoss and Joe!
I love how Hoss keeps trying to sneak into the kitchen for some food with Joe, knowing his big brother, being always one step ahead of him. After Hoss stumbles on the stairs and falls straight into Joe´s "security measurements", the look on their faces is priceless! Poor Hoss starving, and his little brother sending him back to bed without food, but with a slightly mad look in his eyes.
Also, the little subplot with Joe loosing one window pane after the other is great; when I first watched this one, I did not know how many ways there were to break a window pane...
There is just one scene that I don´t know what to make of, that is where Joe asks Hoss to imagine what Ben will do to him if he learns the truth. To me it sounds like he is going to be beaten, but I just won´t believe Ben EVER did this to his boys.
I think Lorne said that he based Ben on his own father, and all it would take to bring him down to earth was one look by his father. Besides, they have done worse things in the past, and I think he would know better than to punish Joe for telling the truth!