Talk:Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife

Can't create the episode's article
I've been creating anonymously for over two years by now. It was certainly a shock to for me to read about this experimental creation limitation (announced here). As a Ricky Gervais fan I was attempting to add some details about this episode, available from Ricky's site. 66.167.253.134 20:29, 5 December 2005 (UTC).

Office Dance
They should have had him doing *the* dance - you know the one I mean. "MMmm m MM mm MM mmmmm"

Couch Gag
I think the May 22 couch gag (where the floor opens up to reveal fire and the family rotates on a large stick) is a play on "Simpsons Roasting over an Open Fire". If someone else agrees that I'm not just grasping at straws, maybe that trivial link should be mentioned.
 * On this subject. I am only writing as a viewer in the UK, but I have noticed that when the episode is on Sky One, it has the "live action" opening.  It was on channel four last night, and had the drawn opening (inc the above "fire" couch gag".  Any reason for two versions of the opening?  Should both be mentioned?--TimothyJacobson (talk) 21:41, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Simpsons writing clarification
I have attempted to amend the information regarding Gervais's writing credit, using a quote from an interview featured in Dazed and Confused magazine's 2006 edition. Why has this been removed?
 * No source. Plus, every episode is the work of several people as opposed to one person, so it's really not that notable. -- Scorpion 18:28, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

The source is a popular print magazine. And as the episode was sold on the angle "Ricky Gervais wrote the whole thing", the quote from the man himself made it a lot clearer.
 * It's really not that notable because it isn't that big of a deal. TV episodes are always joint efforts, especially The Simpsons. -- Scorpion 18:33, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I would think it was that big of a deal, considering the fanfare that accompanied the episode. It certainly gives lie to the statement "It is the first episode to be written entirely by a guest star".
 * Your insinuating that it was promoted that he wrote the ENTIRE thing, which it wasn't. My point is: it's really not necessary because most people assumed that he just wrote an early draft anyway. But, if you want to add it, go ahead. -- Scorpion 18:39, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you.


 * I was actually under the impression he wrote the entire thing, too. I remember reading newspaper items around the time that talked about it as though he wrote a script and then came to the producers with it. The reality, from the quote (which you can see on Gervais' page), seems even less than co-writing. --Breshkovsky (talk) 11:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)