</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Legendary Nin @ Jan 29 2004, 08:46 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> The 66-67 special.They had them stare down and dragged out the conversation.
Damn drag out no jutsu..Someone find the animators and seal their arms. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I still don&#39;t really think that this was filler. Just because something is dragged out doesn&#39;t make it filler. IMHO filler is when an entire episode has nothing to do with the progressing story. For example, Getbackers has a lot of filler episodes... entire episodes where they go to the hospital, or they go on a picnic and fight some monkeys - these stories have nothing to do with the main plot.

However, the staring and conversation in 66-67, however dragged, was still part of the story, therefore not filler IMO.