"With Time Off for Bad Behavior," Chapters Five and Six

We can skip over Chapter Five, which is more about Barry, his wife, and her guru, and move on to the chapter "Casting the Monkey."  They've been wanting to have an episode with a monkey for awhile, and now finally they can, thanks to Donna Morris, who's written "a terrific script":

Everyone loves the script, even Willy and Billy, who usually improvise and throw off everyone else's timing in the read-through.  Well, everyone loves it except for Ben, who resists kissing the monkey but gives in as long as he doesn't have to call the monkey his best friend, because Uncle Sal's best friend has already been established as "Frank from the bowling alley."  Barry resolves the conflict and then it's on to casting monkeys, with the help of the very stereotypically gay casting director.  

Also of note (yes, I've gotten tired of transcribing longer passages):

And the chapter of course ends with Barry feeling conflicted about possibly having an affair with his not-yet-in-this-extended-flashback mistress.

Getting back to the fictionalized version of LAS, I don't know how literally we're meant to take this version of how the "Short on Time" episode, which was written by Jack Lukes, came to be.  By the way, I looked, and Sotkin actually isn't credited with having a consistent writing partner for LAS, and he in fact wrote many episodes by himself.  I suppose there was some collaboration going on, but maybe "Tommy" is a composite character.

And, yep, there's a reference to "A Visit to the Cemetery" and sort of to the "Festival" two-parter.

Note that Sotkin thinks the home audience as well as the studio audience was composed of morons.