User blog comment:Tortor/Who ISN'T the mole?/@comment-47881-20120123125812/@comment-65.24.114.104-20120125002608

Greg pretty much shot down the "bugged" idea -- at least with regards to the eye. He confirmed it isn't the eye (as he put it the League aren't idiots, they checked the eye). Remember that when they wrote this, they had no idea that there would be gaps of months between episodes -- they likely expected they would show in reasonably close order.