Just read it with a bad Italian accent.

Can't have that. Wouldn't do at all.

The rationale, at least in part, is that people with high IQs get bored and quit and the department loses out on the money they invested in training.

And they're different lengths to make up the small differences in episode length.

At least they don't run constantly?

I teach this in my high school classes when they vote on the rare movie days. It really hits them how much more fair it is.