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Contents 1 Can't create the episode's article 2 Office Dance 3 Couch Gag 4 Simpsons writing clarification

[edit] 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).

[edit] Office Dance

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.