- The Simpsons entered its fourth decade.
- The true origin of the Simpsons continued to be overlooked.
- A former Simpsons writer told the network to shove it when they tried to interfere with a long-running television franchise.
- The Simpsons apparently gives in to network interference, and rents out its couch gag to Ke$ha in a Poochiesque stab at relevancy.
- This site got completely refurbished, taking the blogosphere by storm!
- A Corey died.
- Usher ripped off Homer.
- The Simpsons is replaced by a 30-minute commercial for American Idol.
- A comic book about Comic Book Guy was released, to the delight of comic book guys everywhere.
- A pre-production shot from The Simpsons Movie 2 was inadvertently leaked!
- Bongo Comics joined the 20th century and got a website.
- The ratings continued to fall, but the show got a 23rd season anyway.
- Lisa’s wedding came and went.
- It was revealed that Simpsons merchandise could be funding terrorism!
- Some Glee episode happened.
- Time‘s Person of the Millennium, [thefacebook] creator Mark Zuckerburg, was given an unnecessary, self-promoting cameo, rounding out The Year of Zuck.
- The Simpsons was momentarily subversive, thanks to millionaire “art terrorist” Banksy.
- The world’s two remaining listservs, JournoList and Simpsons-L, got shut down.
- Joanna Newsom almost replaced Yeardley Smith as the voice of Lisa Simpson!
- Former showrunner Bill Oakley leaked a bunch of scripts and stuff.
- A historical midterm election featuring a bevy of real-life Simpsons characters occurred.
- Katy Perry cavorted with Simpsons puppets.
- A joke somehow made its way into The Simpsons, and a lot of people liked it, so they repeated it again and again. The fake non-controversy garnered the show a weird Taiwanese CGI news report.
- Fat Tony died.
