Talk:Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife article.
Please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Ask questions, get answers. This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject.	Be polite Assume good faith No personal attacks Be welcoming	Article policies No original research Neutral point of view Verifiability

	The Simpsons Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject The Simpsons, an attempt to improve and standardize articles related to The Simpsons. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. See also our guide to sources.
Start	This article has been rated as start-Class on the assessment scale.
Mid	This article is on a subject of mid-importance within The Simpsons.
Tasks you can do: Here are some tasks you can do: edit Collaboration: Featured topic Drive Copyedit: Merge: D'oh! → Homer Simpson (Discuss first) Cleanup: Bouvier family, Politics in The Simpsons, Springfield's state, The Simpsons Road Rage, Otto Mann, Martin Prince, Ralph Wiggum, Milhouse Van Houten Shorten plot synopsis: Future-Drama, A Star Is Torn, All About Lisa, Mona Leaves-a, Smoke on the Daughter, Large Marge Reference: Bart Simpson, Bongo Comics, Cheese-eating surrender monkeys, Comic Book Guy, Homer's Odyssey, Itchy & Scratchy in Miniature Golf Madness, Joshua Sternin, Lona Williams, Montgomery Burns, Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror, Rainier Wolfcastle, List of Springfield Elementary School students, Steve O'Donnell, Springfield's state, The Heartbroke Kid, The Itchy and Scratchy Game, Weekend at Burnsie's, World of Springfield Expand: The Simpsons Theme, Josh Weinstein, Bill Oakley, Bongo Comics, Mark Kirkland, Jim Reardon Stubs: Neil Affleck, Bob Anderson (director), Wes Archer, Bart's House of Weirdness, Big Bad Book of Bart Simpson, J. Stewart Burns, Itchy & Scratchy in Miniature Golf Madness, Simpsons Classics, The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World, The Simpsons Bowling, Virtual Bart More...

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.