User blog comment:Gran2/Al Jean's evidence/@comment-2057792-20100905132751

I was watching "The Principal and the Pauper" last night and I decided to listen to the interesting commentary which came with the episode. And the writers were saying that they saw the show as a "sandbox" or a "testing-ground" for comedy writing and that after 8 years of doing nothing BIG with the show, they decided to change characters, kill some off, and ruin the show, on purpose. On the audio track the writers even say that they asked Matt Groening if they could ruin the show now and he was on board with it.

Im not sure if this is some kind of joke or if I missed something or I have no sense of humour, but it seems like it was purpose to make the show bad...