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Solar Dragon: /* Production */ This all seems copy/pasted from those articles. It should be completely rewritten, and cut down a lot as there's way too much info there.

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‎Production: This all seems copy/pasted from those articles. It should be completely rewritten, and cut down a lot as there's way too much info there.

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TappedLover: /* International airdates */ Checked my off-air recording from when the episode first broadcast.

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‎International airdates: Checked my off-air recording from when the episode first broadcast.

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 == Synopsis ==
-{{Desc|After butchering a speech in front of all of his friends at work, [[Homer]] turns to improv comedy to gain back his confidence in his public speaking skills. Meanwhile, [[Marge]] decides to rebuild [[Bart]]'s lackluster treehouse, but tensions rise when Bart questions her building skills.}}
+{{Synopsis|After butchering a speech in front of all of his friends at work, [[Homer]] turns to improv comedy to gain back his confidence in his public speaking skills. Meanwhile, [[Marge]] decides to rebuild [[Bart]]'s lackluster treehouse, but tensions rise when Bart questions her building skills.}}
 == Plot ==

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-"'''Simprovised'''" is twenty-first episode of [[season 27]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the five-hundred and ninety-fifth episode overall. It originally aired on May 15, [[2016]]. The episode was written by [[John Frink]] and directed by [[Matthew Nastuk]].
+"'''Simprovised'''" is twenty-first episode of [[Season 27|broadcast season 27]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the five-hundred and ninety-fifth episode overall. It originally aired on May 15, [[2016]]. The episode was written by [[John Frink]] and directed by [[Matthew Nastuk]].
 == Synopsis ==
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 Something new and interesting is asked by EW next: how will the viewers interact, especially how will the phone system work, a new tidbit of information revealed just now, and how will Homer interact with [[Facebook]] and [[Twitter]]. "The phone number will be released to the public in plenty of time. My guess is because you're going to get on an episode of The Simpsons, we'll fill up quickly and then we'll just have people waiting... We're going to have one tweet that he'll answer and also a couple of writers will be tweeting and answer questions as Homer, one on Facebook and one on Twitter simultaneously. We're trying to answer as many questions as we can."
-EW concludes asking Jean what he would ask Homer. "Hmm, that's a good question... "What does [[Marge]] possibly see in him?"" and advises for the viewers that are calling, to make their questions go through. "Just ask an interesting question about Homer, and his life and if it's funny, we'll try to get it in. We're not looking for people to ask trivia questions about [[season 23]]."
+EW concludes asking Jean what he would ask Homer. "Hmm, that's a good question... "What does [[Marge]] possibly see in him?"" and advises for the viewers that are calling, to make their questions go through. "Just ask an interesting question about Homer, and his life and if it's funny, we'll try to get it in. We're not looking for people to ask trivia questions about [[Season 23|broadcast season 23]]."
 === The Wall Street Journal Interview ===

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 |airdate= May 15, [[2016]]
 |titlescreen=Has the text "Homer Live! Call 1-888-726-6660 now. For additional information go to [http://www.thesimpsons.com/homerlive www.thesimpsons.com/homerlive]" superimposed.
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 == Synopsis ==
-{{Desc|After butchering a speech in front of all of his friends at work, [[Homer]] turns to improv comedy to gain back his confidence in his public speaking skills. Meanwhile, [[Marge]] decides to rebuild [[Bart]]'s lackluster treehouse, but tensions rise when Bart questions her building skills. Also, in the episode's last three minutes, Homer appears LIVE for the first time on television (both for East and West Coast broadcasts) to answer fan questions.}}
+{{Desc|After butchering a speech in front of all of his friends at work, [[Homer]] turns to improv comedy to gain back his confidence in his public speaking skills. Meanwhile, [[Marge]] decides to rebuild [[Bart]]'s lackluster treehouse, but tensions rise when Bart questions her building skills.}}
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 == Production ==
 === Entertainment Weekly Interview ===
 In an interview with Entertainment Weekly,<ref>[http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/04/simpsons-live-episode-homer-first-look EW.com]</ref> [[Al Jean]], executive producer of the show, talks about the realization of the live segment and how hard it's going to be. "Well, it's certainly us making it a lot harder on ourselves than we have to, but the interest in it has been so enormous, it's definitely worth it. When you have a show like this that has so many things going for it, you gotta use that capital and do interesting things because you can."
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 In an interview with ET Canada,<ref>[http://www.etcanada.com/blogs/etc_195044/homer-live-simpsons-showrunner-explains-this-weeks-never-before-attempted-live-episode/tv ET Canada]</ref> Al Jean reports "Dan Castellaneta [who voices Homer] will be in a booth where he speaks into a mic, and obviously what he says goes out live. And he's not hooked up by electrodes or anything, his motions are captured and translated into Homer's moves, which will then appear in the animation. For viewers watching, it will look like the normal show. We have background animation that has been pre-animated with several jokes, but everything Homer does, the centre of it, is live." As for why Homer was selected for this, Al Jean concludes "[Castellaneta] does improv all the time. He's terrific at improv and it was just a natural fit."
 === Other production information ===

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 |airdate= May 15, [[2016]]
 |titlescreen=Has the text "Homer Live! Call 1-888-726-6660 now. For additional information go to [http://www.thesimpsons.com/homerlive www.thesimpsons.com/homerlive]" superimposed.
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 |writer= [[John Frink]]
 |director=[[Matthew Nastuk]]

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 |AUdate= May 18, 2016
 |AUchannel= Eleven
-|AUnote= Aired at 8:30pm with [[Simprovised/Homer Live#East Coast / Central airing|East Coast]] feed of Homer Live (FOX watermark and #HomerLive watermark displayed throughout). No text is superimposed on the title screen.
+|AUnote= Aired at 8:30pm with [[Simprovised/Homer Live#East Coast / Central airing|East Coast]] feed of Homer Live (FOX watermark and #HomerLive hashtag displayed throughout). No text is superimposed on the title screen.
 |ukrdate= January 1, 2017<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20161225163219/http://www.vsetv.com/schedule_package_uabase_day_2017-01-01.html Vsetv.com]</ref>
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 Next is [[Dan Castellaneta]]'s reaction to the idea: "He's game for everything. He's a very brave man and very funny and didn't blink. He's up for the challenge." And how will the writers will help Dan out to answer the questions. "We'll be there to screen questions and maybe think about [jokes] if there's a big event that day. But the truth is, you want to have somebody funny who doesn't feel like he's got eight things to try to decide between, where he's just going with his gut. So it really will be him. God only knows, if [[Donald Trump]] says something stupid, we might make a joke to lead off. But in general, it's just going to be Dan. That's what makes it live. That's what makes it exciting." Of course, a question would be how to make it feel live, and not recorded. "We'll do the equivalent of holding up today's newspaper, where we talk about something that's going on right then. It will be live, I guarantee it, and the way we set it up, it's to make it very clear that this is really happening. It's not a trick." What appealed to Al and if it's the unknown of what's going to happen is next. "Yeah — and I wanted to do it before any other animated shows did it. (Laughs)"
-Regarding the difficulty of having to animate it in motion capture and how it will appear to the viewers is posed, and Jean answers "It shouldn't look any different. The difference is, there is less of a variety of motion, and after awhile, it might start to look a little repetitive. That's why we're not doing any more than three minutes. You have a limited number of lip assignments and motions that Homer can make, and you see him run through those in the course of the three minutes. The reason I don't think they're going to be doing half-hour motion capture shows in the near future is because although it is much cheaper and you can just film it live, you can't do the complicated set pieces that people want from animation. We do everything we can in the three minutes that's possible. But there would be no way we would be doing a full show like this anytime in the near future." Problems may arise with trying something new. "There could be a snafu where we don't get the question to Homer, that there's a little bit of a glitch. But as I say, that proves it's live. We'll have a seven-second delay, so it's not going to be any Janet Jackson sort of thing. Homer's not going to take off his clothes." EW wonders if this would be more difficult than {{w|Grease: Live|Grease Live}} and Al Jean promptly answers "A lot less danger to the performers."
+Regarding the difficulty of having to animate it in motion capture and how it will appear to the viewers is posed, and Jean answers "It shouldn't look any different. The difference is, there is less of a variety of motion, and after awhile, it might start to look a little repetitive. That's why we're not doing any more than three minutes. You have a limited number of lip assignments and motions that Homer can make, and you see him run through those in the course of the three minutes. The reason I don't think they're going to be doing half-hour motion capture shows in the near future is because although it is much cheaper and you can just film it live, you can't do the complicated set pieces that people want from animation. We do everything we can in the three minutes that's possible. But there would be no way we would be doing a full show like this anytime in the near future." Problems may arise with trying something new. "There could be a snafu where we don't get the question to Homer, that there's a little bit of a glitch. But as I say, that proves it's live. We'll have a seven-second delay, so it's not going to be any Janet Jackson sort of thing. Homer's not going to take off his clothes." EW wonders if this would be more difficult than {{W|Grease: Live|Grease Live}} and Al Jean promptly answers "A lot less danger to the performers."
 Something new and interesting is asked by EW next: how will the viewers interact, especially how will the phone system work, a new tidbit of information revealed just now, and how will Homer interact with [[Facebook]] and [[Twitter]]. "The phone number will be released to the public in plenty of time. My guess is because you're going to get on an episode of The Simpsons, we'll fill up quickly and then we'll just have people waiting... We're going to have one tweet that he'll answer and also a couple of writers will be tweeting and answer questions as Homer, one on Facebook and one on Twitter simultaneously. We're trying to answer as many questions as we can."
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 In an interview with The Wall Street Journal,<ref>[http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2016/05/13/how-the-simpsons-will-pull-off-a-live-episode/ The Wall Street Journal]</ref> showrunner Al Jean says "In terms of the anxiousness, I think this one's very high. Admittedly, we always have a million safety nets. Now, we have far fewer."
-Al Jean and his team revealed that they'll be using a software by Adobe called {{w|Adobe Character Animator}} that will capture the voice of Dan Castellaneta and create Homer's mouth movement syncing it. Using the software, the team of animators will be able to control Homer's movements.
+Al Jean and his team revealed that they'll be using a software by Adobe called {{W|Adobe Character Animator}} that will capture the voice of Dan Castellaneta and create Homer's mouth movement syncing it. Using the software, the team of animators will be able to control Homer's movements.
 [[David Silverman]], producer and animator, adds "It's not a computer drawing; it's animation we've put in there that will be activated by these buttons, these triggers."
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 ==== Proof we're live alternate jokes ====
 Some alternates for the "Proof we're live" speech were written but never used.<ref>[https://twitter.com/AlJean/status/732090112008298497 Al Jean's Twitter]</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/AlJean/status/732077873083736064 Al Jean's Twitter]</ref>
-*{{w|The Washington Post}} announced [[Donald Trump]] has pretended to be his own P.R. man. Trump spokesman Ronald Rump furiously denies this '''huge''' allegation.
+*{{W|The Washington Post}} announced [[Donald Trump]] has pretended to be his own P.R. man. Trump spokesman Ronald Rump furiously denies this '''huge''' allegation.
-*In sports, [[Canada]] crushed [[Slovakia]] five to nothing in Group B of the {{w|Ice Hockey World Championships|World Hockey Championships}}. Look it up!
+*In sports, [[Canada]] crushed [[Slovakia]] five to nothing in Group B of the {{W|Ice Hockey World Championships|World Hockey Championships}}. Look it up!
-*To prove we're live, the {{w|Toronto Raptors}} just beat the {{w|Miami Heat|Heat}}. So did I, by pouring beer down my pants.
+*To prove we're live, the {{W|Toronto Raptors}} just beat the {{W|Miami Heat|Heat}}. So did I, by pouring beer down my pants.
 *To prove we're live, on Friday, [[Fox]] canceled all the shows. From now on, everything on the network will be live, so it can be instantly canceled.
-*Today's {{w|New York Times}} front page investigates [[Donald Trump]]'s unwelcome contacts with over 50 woman. Those are just his ex-wives.
+*Today's {{W|New York Times}} front page investigates [[Donald Trump]]'s unwelcome contacts with over 50 woman. Those are just his ex-wives.
 *[[Serena Williams]] won the {{W2|Italian Open|tennis}}. That's one of the most important warm-up tournaments for "'''who cares'''?"
-The joke on Fox cancelling shows on Friday refers to the {{w|Friday night death slot}}, especially {{w|Friday night death slot#Fox|Fox's}}, well known for its shows cancelled after being moved to Friday slot.
+The joke on Fox cancelling shows on Friday refers to the {{W|Friday night death slot}}, especially {{W|Friday night death slot#Fox|Fox's}}, well known for its shows cancelled after being moved to Friday slot.
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 == Promo videos ==
-*{{youtube|ITQXGPcqtbc|Homer Live!}}
+*{{Youtube|ITQXGPcqtbc|Homer Live!}}
 *{{Youtube|h6WpLyKP4tU|Homer Is Live For The First Time Ever!}}
 *{{Youtube|sM1g53KOAwY|Therapy Hounds}}