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** Creator/MattGroening himself called the episode "a mistake" in an interview with ''Magazine/RollingStone''.
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* OldShame: Most of the Simpsons staff, including Creator/MattGroening, Al Jean, and Creator/HarryShearer have since considered the episode to have been a mistake. Matt Groening even introduces it as "one of my least favorite episodes" on the DVD.
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** Al Jean himself also inserted the [[TakeThat "Principal Tamzarian" joke]] into "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E9IAnnoyedGruntBot I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot]]".
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** Al Jean himself (who was not a member of the writing team at the time this episode was produced) also inserted the [[TakeThat "Principal Tamzarian" joke]] into "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E9IAnnoyedGruntBot I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot]]".
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-->That's''so'' wrong. You're taking something that an audience has built eight years or nine years of investment in and just tossed it in the trash can for no good reason, for a story we've done before with other characters. It's so arbitrary and gratuitous, and it's disrespectful to the audience.
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* CreatorBacklash: ''Big time''. Aside from Matt Groening himself, voice actor Harry Shearer was especially disdainful of the episode, slamming it for taking heavy liberties with one of the main supporting characters and "punishing the audience for paying attention". Al Jean himself also inserted the [[TakeThat "Principal Tamzarian" joke]] into the episode "I, D'oh-bot".
* MagnumOpusDissonance: Ken Keeler has said this has been his best work for television, despite doing more-favorably received episodes on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', with then-showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein also defending the episode. Matt Groening, Al Jean, Harry Shearer, and a lot of ''Simpsons'' fans, however, '''''hate''''' this episode.
* OldShame: Most of the Simpsons staff, including creator Matt Groening, Al Jean, and Harry Shearer have since considered the episode to have been a mistake. Matt Groening even introduces it as "one of my least favorite episodes" on the DVD.
* MagnumOpusDissonance: Ken Keeler has said this has been his best work for television, despite doing more-favorably received episodes on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', with then-showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein also defending the episode. Matt Groening, Al Jean, Harry Shearer, and a lot of ''Simpsons'' fans, however, '''''hate''''' this episode.
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* CreatorBacklash: ''Big time''. Aside from Matt Groening himself, voice actor Harry Shearer time''.
** Creator/MattGroening himself called the episode "a mistake" in an interview with ''Magazine/RollingStone''.
** Creator/HarryShearer was especially disdainful of theepisode, slamming it for episode. In a 2001 interview, he recalled saying to the writers after reading the script:
-->That's''so'' wrong. You're takingheavy liberties with one of the main supporting characters and "punishing the something that an audience has built eight years or nine years of investment in and just tossed it in the trash can for no good reason, for a story we've done before with other characters. It's so arbitrary and gratuitous, and it's disrespectful to the audience.
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-->Now, [the writers] refuse to talk about it. They realize it was a horrible mistake. They never mention it. It's like they're punishing [the audience] for payingattention". attention.
** Al Jean himself also inserted the [[TakeThat "Principal Tamzarian" joke]] intothe episode "I, D'oh-bot".
"[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E9IAnnoyedGruntBot I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot]]".
* MagnumOpusDissonance: Ken Keeler has said this has been his best work for television, despite doing more-favorably received episodes on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', with then-showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein also defending the episode.Matt Groening, Creator/MattGroening, Al Jean, Harry Shearer, Creator/HarryShearer, and a lot of ''Simpsons'' fans, however, '''''hate''''' this episode.
* OldShame: Most of the Simpsons staff, includingcreator Matt Groening, Creator/MattGroening, Al Jean, and Harry Shearer Creator/HarryShearer have since considered the episode to have been a mistake. Matt Groening even introduces it as "one of my least favorite episodes" on the DVD.
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** Creator/HarryShearer was especially disdainful of the
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* MagnumOpusDissonance: Ken Keeler has said this has been his best work for television, despite doing more-favorably received episodes on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', with then-showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein also defending the episode.
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* WorkingTitle: "Skinnersby", in reference to the 1993 film ''Film/{{Sommersby}}'', which was also a story about assumed identity.
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* MagnumOpusDissonance: Ken Keeler has said this has been his best work for television, despite doing more-favorably received episodes on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', with then-showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein also defending the episode. Fans Matt Groening, Al Jean, Harry Shearer, and a lot of ''Simpsons'' fans, however, disagree, as do Creator/MattGroening, Al Jean, and Creator/HarryShearer.'''''hate''''' this episode.
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* CreatorBacklash: ''Bigtime''.''Big time''. Aside from Matt Groening himself, voice actor Harry Shearer was especially disdainful of the episode, slamming it for taking heavy liberties with one of the main supporting characters and "punishing the audience for paying attention". Al Jean himself also inserted the [[TakeThat "Principal Tamzarian" joke]] into the episode "I, D'oh-bot".
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* OldShame: Most of the Simpsons staff, including creator Matt Groening, Al Jean, and Harry Shearer have since considered the episode to have been a mistake.
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* OldShame: Most of the Simpsons staff, including creator Matt Groening, Al Jean, and Harry Shearer have since considered the episode to have been a mistake. Matt Groening even introduces it as "one of my least favorite episodes" on the DVD.
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* MagnumOpusDissonance: Ken Keeler has said this has been his best work for television, despite doing more-favorably received episodes on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', with then-showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein also defending the episode. Fans however, disagree, as do Creator/MattGroening and Creator/HarryShearer.
* OldShame: Most of the Simpsons staff, including creator Matt Groening and Harry Shearer have since considered the episode to have been a mistake.
* MagnumOpusDissonance: Ken Keeler has said this has been his best work for television, despite doing more-favorably received episodes on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', with then-showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein also defending the episode. Fans however, disagree, as do Creator/MattGroening and Creator/HarryShearer.
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* MagnumOpusDissonance: Ken Keeler has said this has been his best work for television, despite doing more-favorably received episodes on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', with then-showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein also defending the episode. Fans however, disagree, as do Matt Groening Creator/MattGroening and Harry Shearer.Creator/HarryShearer.
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* MagnumOpusDissonance: Ken Keeler has said this has been his best work for television, despite doing more-favorably received episodes on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''.''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', with then-showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein also defending the episode. Fans however, disagree, as do Matt Groening and Harry Shearer.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The working title of this episode was "Skinnersby", in reference to the 1993 film ''Film/{{Sommersby}}'', which was also a story about assumed identity.
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