Ronaldeaux

What cool things have fans done for you over the years? Any nice gifts you've received?

What are your thoughts on the episode "The Principal and the Pauper" and the revelation that Principal Skinner is actually a fraud who's real name is Armin Tamzarian? Both Matt Groening and Harry Shearer have gone on record over the years expressing their anger and disgust over that episode. Groening called it "a mistake" and Shearer said "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," as well as "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 paying attention."

Do the Simpsons staff really not talk about the episode? Do you consider it canon?