They probably had orders from high up somewhere. The writers clearly hated the character, and made him... well, I'm sure if I say Pinky and the Brain and Larry, you get the point. He had, like, one good episode, but otherwise they didn't bother to do the research on the character. He had the potential to be downright Nermal-esque as a Baby (not that he wasn't already, satirically so), but was wasted on being a chronically depressed...whatever that was. Meanwhile, it's true the network head's kid hated Bunsen and Beaker, and in the realm of Muppets, that's downright blasphemous.