Carcharoth, David, Fred:
Thanks for the feedback!
I had heard about the Heavy Metal umlaut article, but did not realize there was such a sophisticated screencast.
I agree that telling the story of controversial articles is important as well; I would like nothing better than to have a variety of stories, perhaps in different media, about a variety of different kinds of articles. (Controversial/tame/highly-trafficked/demoted former FA's/etc. etc. etc. Also, different articles illustrating the different processes of various language Wikipedias.)
If we can produce a number of different stories, that will relieve any pressure of needing to tell "the entire" story in relation to any one article; and having a menu of options for any given outreach/educational opportunity will be a great benefit.
I'd like nothing more than to have you all make accounts on outreach.wikimedia.org and start a page on an article you've worked on, or whose development you've tracked.
Please let me know if I can help in that process!
-Pete
p.s. David, thanks especially for sharing the Greasemonkey script.