It's amazing that The Simpsons defeated a heavyweight like Cosby showing nothing but Season One reruns at first. The characters had no choice but to plead for viewers to wait:
The next week was Bart's turn:
The second new Simpsons episodes debuted, Fox wanted you to KNOW. They took out THREE pages on October 11, despite one of them being completely wasted:
Ha ha, Bart's got an Acme Detonator, and he's gonna blow up the Road Runner....er, I mean Homer....
...y'know, I doubt Groening approved this concept here, despite what the little signature implies. He wanted to keep them down to earth and free of traditional cartoon wackiness, at least at first.