Ricky Gervais writes an episode of the Simpsons

etch · Post by **etch** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:48 pm

This looks good! Shame i aint got sky.

The Simpsons
6:30pm - 7:00pm

Homer Simpson This is Your Wife

Here it is, at long last, the eagerly awaited Ricky Gervais-scripted episode. Happily, considering the level of expectation, it doesn't disappoint. Gervais stars as Charlie, a David Brentish figure who's unhappily married to a cruel, high-achieving woman. Having agreed to take part in the reality TV show Mother Flippers (a dig at Wife Swap) with the Simpsons, Charlie gets Marge and promptly falls in love. Gervais happily follows in true Simpsons' tradition, by biting the hand that feeds him, with stinging swipes aimed directly at the show's home channel, the Fox network, and more generally at barrel-scraping, so-called reality shows - Dwarf or Midget: America Decides is a particularly inspired example. But it's out-and-out funny, too. The sequence where Charlie serenades Marge with a terrible self-penned song (à la David Brent), while doing little to cover his modesty, is inspired.

vibezin · Post by **vibezin** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:11 pm

have been looking forward to this

adruu · Post by **adruu** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:20 pm

ill check it if other people vouch for it, otherwise the simpsons are very very much over now.

unrelated, but i swear a sample from that Alien Girl tune is the sound of the school bus hitting the breaks in one of those halloween episodes...

etch · Post by **etch** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:22 pm

ADRUU wrote:ill check it if other people vouch for it, otherwise the simpsons are very very much over now.

yeah but gervais is the daddy!

dj krave · Post by **dj krave** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:07 pm

i enjoyed this, ricky gervais just how he was in The Office

kozee · Post by **kozee** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:32 pm

was a good one!

phuboy · Post by **phuboy** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:38 pm

DJ Krave wrote:i enjoyed this, ricky gervais just how he was in The Office

Wasn't that funny at all... it was just Gervais doing the same character, again. I'll bet Fox only allowed him to do it if it was basically David Brent in the Simpsons. Might as well just watch The Office again.

His character even manages an office.

He just doesn't seem to be able to do any other kind of character, which is dissapointing considering all the publicity he gets. I excepted a bit more.

fubar · Post by **fubar** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:10 pm

yea I was a bit dissapointed to be honest, it seemd like a bit of a poorer version of david brent, ricky gervais's standup is brilliant so I was hoping it might have at least a couple of good jokes in, I wouldnt be suprised if he had alot of restrictions on what he could do and didnt really have as much to do with the writing as it was made out.

kozee · Post by **kozee** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:21 pm

awhhh you just expected too much then!

amen-ra · Post by **amen-ra** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:04 pm

They should've jus called it David Brent meets the Simpsons

Then I wouldnt have expected anything original

Ricky Gervais writes an episode of the Simpsons

Ricky Gervais writes an episode of the Simpsons

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