This episode was done as an announcement of Thomas Sanders' upcoming appearance in an episode of Bizaardvark (2016) that was going to be premiered on Disney Channel in less than a week.
Joan S. has said a couple of times that, even though they enjoy it, they wouldn't mind if this episode was kicked out of canon continuity of the series, as there are several things that contradict their vision of the series, as well as the canon established later on when they joined the series as main co-writer. Their biggest problem is how Thomas in this episode is too much real-life Thomas Sanders, talking about an upcoming big project with Disney themselves, which doesn't fit in with character Thomas' later struggle to get an opportunity and make it big in the show business. There are also other big inconsistencies like Virgil rising up instead of appearing like all Dark Sides do and like Virgil has always done in the series except for this one episode.