I don't know, it was kinda funny back when I was younger, when every kid in school didn't know what 1337 5p34k was. Used to be that the ultra nerds were the only ones who understood this stuff. Now you hear people imitating it everywhere, and it just sounds fucking retarded, which it really was all along, but it was actually humorous because of how lame it was. Now it's just ruined somehow.
And of course, they won't do anything too innovative, too inside-jokey, because they're a TV show, and that might exclude the mainstream audience, even though the whole point of the series was to exclude the mainstream audiences as much as possible. I'm sure it's this director's dream though, to finally get a spot on TV and make his breakthrough, and who can blame him? The series is probably going downhill by this point anyway, so it's probably a worthy sacrifice for enhancing this guy's career. How long can you feasibly produce a show featuring a loser who does nothing except play games all day?
Don't take that the wrong way though. It's not called selling out, it's just the natural progression of things. You can't live on Ramen in a dinky little apartment and hand out free internet shows forever.