Ken Keeler
[The Principal and the Pauper] is about a community of people who like things just the way they are. Skinner's not really close to these people - he's a minor character - but they get upset when someone comes in and says 'this is not really the way things are' and they run the messenger out of town on the rail. And when the episode aired, lo and behold, a community of people who like things just the way they are got mad. It never seems to have occurred to anyone that this episode is about the people who hate it.

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  • Keeler, Ken (2006). The Simpsons The Complete Ninth Season DVD commentary for the episode "The Principal and the Pauper" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.