Ricky Gervais writes an episode of the Simpsons
Posted: 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.
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.