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The Phantom of the Opera playing on Lenny's plasma screen when he
reveals it?
Charles thinks Patty is a guy?
Refs.
This is Your Life
-Title
Trading Spouses, Wife Swap
-Simpsons appearing on a show similar to the shows mentioned above
-Lisa cracks about Fox stealing the show's concept from another
network
Girls Gone Wild
-Homer Gone Wild
The Office
-Charles has "office manager" as his job (just like the character
that Charles' voice actor plays on that show)
Air Force One
-Air Force Yum
The Apprentice
-"You're Fired"
Comments:
As part of a publicity campaign to promote new episodes of the
Simpsons, Sky One, the channel that airs the Simpsons in the United
Kingdom, commishioned a piece that was a shot-for-shot live action
recreation of the Simpsons opening. As part of a "word-of-mouth
building exercise", Sky One eventually put the piece in the Internet,
where it quickly became a viral campaign, which means that people who
saw this video eventually told others about it via e-mails and message
boards. To give you an example of how big this video is: on Youtube, a
web site in which people can upload various videos, this clip has been
viewed at least 1.8 million times.
Along with the opening sequence and the guest star/writer, another
thing borrowed from the British in this episode is the "wife
swapping" reality series concept. The "trading wifes" concept
began with Wife Swap, a UK show in which two families have the mother
figures trade places for a set amount of time, with most of the pairing
usually involving families that are completely different. The success
of this show led to ABC bringing an American version of the show to
America. However, done to be outdone, Fox decided to bring their own
version of the "trading wives" series in the form of Trading
Spouses (hence Lisa's crack when she comments about Fox copying the
premise of another network's TV show). BTW, along with Wife Swap, Fox
also did their own version of another "UK show turned ABC series",
Supernanny, in the form of Nanny 911.
Joe Klemm
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