The shooting dates for Xena: Warrior Princess: Punch Lines (2000) was June 19th to 23rd (5 day shoot).
During the pie throwing scene, the music is appropriate for slapstick comedy except at 37:03 when a Viking woman appears to the sound of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"
This episode was shot in record time because so much of it is flashbacks from earlier episodes and earlier seasons.
GOOF: At 19 minutes Aphrodite refers to Argo "...so first you shrunk her horse and then you lost him...". It has long been established that Argo is a mare, not a stallion.
Lachrymose, the god of despair. Lacrimosus is Latin for tearful, or sorrowful. The Greek goddess of anxiety, grief, and depression was Oizys.