Well, you can't win 'em all. The third season of "The Incredible Hulk" is the best when it comes to stand-alone episodes but this turkey is the worst offender of the bunch. Season four's "Half Nelson" and season five's "The Phenom" did manage to outdo "Babalao" in terms of being bad, but still, this is pretty horrendous. Overall "The Incredible Hulk" was a good show despite the relatively absurd subject matter.
Thankfully the show's creator Kenneth Johnson found an angle that really worked and he achieved some very good moments with his stellar cast (Bixby, Ferrigno and Colvin) and a solid writing crew. However, as with most series, the show did offer a few offenders and "Babalao" is the first really bad Hulk episode.
Credit to Bixby, he doesn't falter as David Banner here, as he's spewing one ridiculous line after another. The story is meant to be somewhat mystical, with an evil sorcerer known as Babalao terrorizing the folks in New Orleans. Well, the less said about the story here the better.
There is one good Hulk-out here, though. The New Orleans setting is always lovely to look at but there ends the positive concerning this episode. It doesn't reach the "it's so bad it's actually kinda' good" heights like Season Five's "The Phenom" but it's pretty bad.