The upcoming 28th season of The Simpsons will not only see the long-running animated sitcom reaching its landmark 600th episode, but it will also deliver the first hour-long episode in the series’ history, Entertainment Weekly has revealed.
Entitled ‘The Great Phatsby’, the episode will deliver a riff on F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby and sees Homer in the Nick Carroway narrator role, “chronicling the destruction of a friendship between Burns and an enigmatic hip-hop mogul named Jay G.”
“This was just going to be a regular episode, but the table read went so well, in a fit of passion and excitement and ambition and excess, we decided to supersize it,” said executive producer Matt Selman. “And we haven’t done a huge amount of stories in the world of hip-hop and rap culture, so we just went for it. Burns is an old-school Gatsby and Jay G is a new-school Gatsby and their mutual Gatsbyism brings them together. Part 1 of the show I would subtitle as ‘The Betrayal,’ and part 2 I would subtitle as ‘The Revenge.’ It’s kind of like a two-part rap album. It’s a tale of greed, excess, betrayal, revenge, and ruthlessness, and there’s a hilarious goose in it. The goose is really funny.”
The episode will air in January, and features guest stars Tajari P. Henson and Keegan-Michael Key.
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Originally published August 9, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
