Why do season 2-present have strange airing orders?

[Original Raw and Uncut]

What I just realized is that no two special episodes are ever next to each other, there always has to be at least two 11-minute segments in between them.

 

[BrickSponge2015]

There is no proof either way whether Gary Takes a Bath aired in 2003. In fact, given the proof Wikipedia cites, it aired in the same year as Shanghaied.

TV Schedule Archive had proof before it was taken down