I don't know that I would read too much into Cheryl's growing exasperation as foreshadowing that they'd get divorced. It was only worked into the show because David got divorced in real life during the three-year hiatus between Seasons 5 and 6; there was speculation as to whether he'd work it into the show.

WHAS has a very specific tone that took me a few viewings to get. But once I got it I could see how gloriously they executed it. The first season, First Day At Camp, takes that exact tone and multiplies it by one hundred. IMO it's much, much funnier than the movie.

Not quite a bug, not quite a man.
How do I break out from this Spiderman clan?

The citizens of Pawnee made it, as they all still use Alta Vista.

Sam Simon is far from a sacred cow, and specifically a punching bag a lot of people use, not only with The Simpsons. He's also dead now after a long illness. So he's more of an easy target than you'd think and has no recourse; if she were going after someone more tenured, and alive, this might mean more.

She does have the right to tell her side. But we can also question it. And it sounds at least partially false.

Matt Groening and Sam Simon wrote the pilot, which was "Some Enchanted Evening."

"Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire" was the first episode to air, but it was not the pilot.

Over the writers room, yes.

I hope your brother Jaime's okay.

Weird, I've read stor(ies?) about Season 1 writers racing to submit scripts, with IIRC Swartzwelder submitting first drafts before Vitti's final drafts so he could get royalties on characters like Skinner, et al. I don't remember whether it's in Ortved's book, but I thought that was a true story.

How to raise fifteen thousand dollars in thirty days, explained

That's ridiculous. How will the Red Cross get a cut of it?

Todd VanDerWerff races to see his money manager

That's the wayyyyyy the news goes.

Fell in love with a meme,
I fell in love once, and almost re-tweeted

The Dennis Miller Ratio strikes again!

Suicide Squad 1?

MORBO WEPT

Batfleck Meets Robo-Joker?