Yeah. We have seen those umbrella men before. One of the first fillers, the Tea country (the running competition) arc also had one of those goons, didn't it?

Dunno. This certainly wasn't as bad as many other filler episodes, but all in all this was very gray. There wasn't anything to spark interest but neither was there anything to really irk me. 15 minutes after watching the episode I'd already forgotten most of it.

I hope they will give Lee more screen time to fight against the ninja (not the kids they now encountered). That might present some nice fighting, at least.