fyi

http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1011712_10_0_,00.html

and he'll appear on the episode as well
The live action opening sequence will be unveiled to audiences nationwide tonight, as part of the long awaited airing of the Ricky Gervais-written episode Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife. Homer enters a contest to win a plasma TV but ends up winning a trip to Fox Studios, where he joins a new Fox reality TV series (which is suspiciously like Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy) and ends up trading wives with another man (voiced by Gervais).

http://www.simpsonschannel.com/

[Edited on March 26, 2006 at 6:45 PM. Reason : m]

[Edited on March 26, 2006 at 6:46 PM. Reason : m]

3/26/2006 6:43:31 PM

belongs in simpsons' thread

but, wtf.

3/26/2006 7:11:41 PM

i hope to god they never do that again

3/26/2006 8:02:05 PM

well

this isnt funny

3/26/2006 8:23:21 PM

yeah

its a rough week when the war at home holds more promise than the simpsons showed

3/26/2006 8:32:06 PM

The War at Home is the antithesis of comedy.

The jokes are bad and the delivery is worse.

3/26/2006 8:40:16 PM

you didn't think this was funnY???

as for the war at home,I had a friend say that he was going to turn me into a war at home fan

then he laughed and said "haha, just kidding, you have opposable thumbs"

3/26/2006 8:49:10 PM

i thought it was pretty good too.

3/26/2006 8:53:54 PM

not funny at all.

3/26/2006 9:03:28 PM

I like how they advertised it as the first five minutes being live action, when it was actually the intro and 4 minutes of commercials

3/27/2006 12:31:00 AM

Pay attention. That's not what they advertised. They said the live action would take place within the first five minutes of the show.

3/27/2006 12:36:37 AM

The War at Home is proof of a Jewish conspiracy.

3/27/2006 1:00:19 AM

People still watch new episodes of the Simpsons?

3/27/2006 7:29:17 AM

that live action intro was horrible the first time I saw it a week ago

definitely not worth seeing again

3/27/2006 9:18:34 AM

i still love the simpsons
and I guess if you didn't like the office, you wouldn't have liked this episode, but i thought it was great

3/27/2006 11:17:16 AM

if the quality of that episode is indicative of the quality of the UK Office

i'll stick to the steve carrel version kkthx

3/27/2006 11:18:24 AM

Quote :

"if the quality of that episode is indicative of the quality of the UK Office i'll stick to the steve carrel version kkthx"

3/27/2006 11:22:57 AM

I definitely want to go back and check out the BBC Office

now that I have seen all the US episodes

but I'm not sure I could get a good feel for the humor just by the simpsons episode last night

translating that kind of awkward humor is tougher than it seems, apparently

3/27/2006 11:31:50 AM

i thought last week's simpsons and the week before that were awesome (especially the one that had moe's story within burn's story within lisa's story within the family's story + ram's story)

i didn't think this week's was as good as those other two...i did like all the stuff about homer getting addicted to hdtv, though

[Edited on March 27, 2006 at 11:42 AM. Reason : +]

3/27/2006 11:41:53 AM

Even though I like Steve, UK Office > US Office by a long shot.

A lot of it has to do with what you've seen first though. I fell in love with UK Office before they put on US Office so I had a different comparison in mind and found US Office a letdown.

3/27/2006 11:43:39 AM

ahaha

oh shit what did cletus call the elevator?

3/27/2006 11:48:13 AM

the uppity box, or something like that

3/27/2006 1:19:37 PM

cletus and the pimply kid that is always going through puberty are scene stealers

3/27/2006 1:30:47 PM

uppity box

3/27/2006 1:37:02 PM

well i was gonna save this for the official The Office thread (and i think i will save most of it), but I have to weigh in on the whole Ricky Gervais vs. Steve Carrell, Office UK vs. Office US business.

I agree with bgmims in that for the most parts, it's probably which show you started with that you like the best. I started with the US one, and watched all of the first season and most of the 2nd before I downloaded all 13 episodes of The Office UK. And unfortunately, I have to say, I've only made it through the first 6 - one of these days i'm going to force myself to watch the remaining 7 to see if i can rally any support from me..... I'm sorry, but if you want to do a direct comparison on all the parts - Michael vs. Brent, Jim/Pam vs. Tim/Dawn, Dwight vs. whatshisface, all other supporting characters vs each other, joke to joke, the US one comes out on top almost all the time.
The fact is that David Brent is just not funny. I've seen Ricky Gervais do other things - interviews, fake talk shows - and he's funny, but as David Brent, he just sucks. The great thing about Michael Scott is that even though he is a sexist, racist, inconsiderate pig of a boss, you still can't help but like him, and you know that he actually cares about his employees and really wants to fit in. David Brent is just an asshole - plain and simple. There's hardly anything else to him - he's jsut a dick, and an only slightly funny one at that (not to say he hasn't surprised me a time or two).

ok - i'll save the rest until I've seen the rest of the series.... Back to The Simpsons..... i guess - at this point I have about as much desire to see them as I do The Office UK.

3/27/2006 3:11:40 PM

^if you're complaining that Gervais wasn't funny on the UK office you've missed the point entirely. he wasn't supposed to be funny.

3/27/2006 3:34:40 PM

Aha, you think David Brent is not funny? Wow this thread teaches me a LOT about the level of comedic sophistication in the US. David Brent made that whole show! He is an ass on the show, but that is forgivable because everone writes him off as an idiot anyway. He is the butt of all the office jokes. He tries to fit in but fails miserably at it.

lb for lb, the UK office is by far the superior show. Anything the US version has it owes to the UK version. Gervais even helped out on a few of the US episodes. Steve Carrell is a funny guy but he is still reimagining a character that IS in real life Ricky Gervais.

At it's best the US version is = to the UK version but it will always be a 2nd rate wanna be.

3/27/2006 3:41:01 PM

I disagree wholeheartedly. I love the British version, and it's what I saw first, but the American version is so much better to me. After the first few episodes, it really took off.

3/27/2006 3:50:55 PM

on an unrelated note, the simpsons got picked up for another 2 years a week or 2 ago

3/27/2006 3:53:10 PM

simpsons movie will conclude the series

3/27/2006 3:58:18 PM

comedic sophistication?

the Brits are like 5-year olds when it comes to comedy. Farts and men in dresses and that sort of thing

3/27/2006 4:35:04 PM

Quote :

"At it's best the US version is = to the UK version but it will always be a 2nd rate wanna be. "

i disagree.

and . . . biased much?

3/27/2006 11:28:44 PM

yeah, big surprise - someone doesn't like a british comedy show and the rest of you have to come to our rescue to extoll the virtues of the ever so sophisticated British humo(u)r that us American simpletons just can't comprehend....

3/28/2006 1:18:02 AM

Can we all just agree that both American and English humor is vastly more sophisticated than the shit on Univision?

3/28/2006 1:27:49 AM

are you gay? univision has some quality shit (.)(.)

3/28/2006 1:43:50 AM

The tits are good, yes, but the humor is a bit...something else.

3/28/2006 1:56:51 AM

well, I really couldn't say which office i like better, because I don't think you can directly compare them. Sure they're based on the same ideas and use some of the same jokes but no matter what you think of the american office, you'd just have to appreciate that dry, british wit that gervais is a master of. david brent makes you SO unfomfortable, and it's funny because of that. the us office can sometimes make you uncomfortable, but michael is more of a buffoon and less of a complete jerk than brent

3/28/2006 7:28:15 AM

yeah i feel sympathy for michael in the american one sometimes. that doesn't really happen much with brent.

3/28/2006 2:37:04 PM