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It was superb from start to finish!!

‘SIMPSONS’ GOES LIVE WITH ‘OFFICE’ PARTY
Funnyman Ricky Gervais helped “The Simpsons” lampoon reality TV and skewer its own network in the process.
The putty-faced comic – best-known as the creator of the British comedy series “The Office” – wrote and starred in last night’s episode of “The Simpsons” on Fox. The show also featured a novel, “live-action” sequence that replaced the show’s animated characters with real-life actors for the show’s famous opening.
In the episode, Gervais, 44, supplied the voice (and likeness) of Charlie Heathbar, the husband of a stern professor from Yale, who agreed to participate in a reality-TV show with the Simpsons.
The show, called “Mother Flippers,” was a send-up of TV’s tacky spouse-swapping reality shows, “Wife Swap” on ABC and “Trading Spouses” on Fox.
The Simpsons signed up to appear on “Mother Flippers” while on a tour of Fox Studios in Hollywood, where they were exposed to fictional Fox reality shows such as “Dwarf or Midget?” and “Million Dollar Fart-off.”
In addition to writing and starring in the show, Gervais contributed two original songs.
Throughout the episode, Homer was on a quest to obtain a new high-definition, flat-screen TV.
It was a stellar episode.