Which episodes are aired are entirely decided by the local affiliates now, there is no longer a national syndication schedule. You should complain to your local station. The station here went from two episodes a day to one. My feeling on why they are showing newer episodes is that they obviously haven't shown these episodes many times yet because they are fairly new to syndication. The stations are only allowed to show each episode a limited number of times, so if they are reaching their limit on older episodes they are going to save those and not air them as often.
The advantage to all of this is that the local stations have more flexibilitly in what episodes they show...so if you're lucky that might take viewer suggestions. Like here, they recently showed all of the first season in order...something you would never have seen in national syndication.
Kevin
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