Her highest profile work was for The Simpsons, writing the first full-length broadcast episode, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" in 1989. She is the author of several humor books.
Pond has also written for Designing Women on CBS Mimi Pond - TV.com and Pee-Wee's Playhouse Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Rebarella - TV.com, as well as being a cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times Cartoons by Mimi Pond - Los Angeles Times and other publications 89.3 KPCC | Perspectives | Mimi Pond. She also wrote a long-running full page comic for Seventeen Magazine from the 1980s - 1990s.
Following her book Shoes Never Lie, the Boston Globe described her as "perhaps the leading authority on the spiritual, emotional and visceral connection between women and shoes" (for a story on the shoe collection of Imelda Marcos).