Everyone pretending to be Vivi was pretty funny, especially Sanji who, in spite of trying to sound like a girl, still sounded almost exactly the same.
I've noticed less jokes overall, I mean there've been past episodes where you couldn't go a second without a misplaced bad joke or pun thrown in somewhere but in 80-81 I heard very few.
And the majority of the misplaced bad jokes came from Baroque Works.
And without a direct comparison in front of me I can't tell if scenes have been rearranged or not but most of the stuff seems like its in the same order as it was before. (Unlike the Mr. Prince episode, reearanged like crazy)
Also, when did 4Kids get over the gun thing? They used the word gun at least 4 times in episodes 80-81, and ever since Drum Island people getting shot is still actually getting shot and not changed to something else. (Except Kohza, but I'm assuming his was changed because of how close he was to the gun at the time)
They even kept in discussion of zoan fruits, and how Lasoo is a gun who ate a certain model of the dog dog fruit. Not only surprised they kept the gun stuff, but they specified the type of dog dog fruit. (I figured they just say dog dog and be done with it)
Usopp even said Luffy must be alive in clips of his fight, that obviously insinuates death, and in past episodes Vivi said "rest in peace" in regards to her fallen friends.
I mean they still won't directly say die, or death, but they've gone alot farther than they would have during earlier episodes.
Hopefully this slow progress will lead to a good future for Skypeia.