Former basketball player Shaquille O’Neal is to guest star in an a season 29 episode of The Simpsons.
The episode, which will air sometime in late 2017 or early 2018, will see Homer go to Shaq to ask him for help. O’Neal has also appeared as an unvoiced character in season 22‘s “Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing“.
Season 29 is set to air in Fall 2017 and will also see Rachel Bloom and Norman Lear guest starring.
Information about the plot and a Guest Star for the episode “Moho House“, which will air on May 7th, 2017; has been released by FOX. The episode will be the 21st episode of Season 28.
In the episode …
“Homer and Marge attempt to work on their marriage, not knowing that Mr. Burns and Nigel have a bet on whether Nigel can break them apart. With the successful, albeit unconventional, help of Moe, the couple gets back their mojo.”
Guest stars
This episode will guest star Michael York as Nigel.
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A Special Guest for the upcoming 18th episode of season 28, titled “A Father’s Watch“, has been announced by FOX. The episode airs on March 19th, 2017.
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Matt Selman’s deleted tweet said “Also on this Sunday’s Simpsons: @RobRiggle as Dr. Fenton Pooltoy”
Information about the plot for the episode “The Caper Chase“, which will air on April 2, 2017; has been released by FOX. The episode will be the 19th episode of Season 28.
In the episode …
“Disappointed in Yale, Mr. Burns decides to start his own for-profit university and Homer is hired as a professor.“
Guest stars
This episode will guest star Jason Alexander (“Seinfeld”) as Verlander, Neil deGrasse Tyson (“Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”) as himself, Ken Jennings (“Jeopardy”) as himself, Screenplay Guru Robert McKee as himself and Financial Expert Suze Orman as herself.
Writer
@BLascelle written by Jeff Westbrook
— Al Jean (@AlJean) March 10, 2017
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The Plot, Air Date, Writer and a Special Guest for the upcoming 18th episode of season 28, titled “A Father’s Watch“, have been released by FOX.
The episode airs March 19, 2017.
Worried that Bart is destined for failure, Marge turns to a series of parenting “experts” for advice. Homer decides to cash in on one expert’s advice by opening up a trophy store in Springfield. Meanwhile, Bart finds some needed encouragement from Grampa, who gives him a precious watch coveted by Homer.
Brian Posehn as Dumlee
@BLascelle written by Simon Rich
— Al Jean (@AlJean) February 23, 2017
Source: The Futon Critic
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At the National Baseball Hall of Fame, in may, “The Simpsons” will be honored, 25 years after the airing of the baseball-themed episode from Season 3, “Homer at the Bat”.
.@TheSimpsons VERY excited about this https://t.co/vacAloxIBF
— Al Jean (@AlJean) February 22, 2017
In the episode, where the MLB superstars Wade Boggs, José Canseco, Roger Clemens, Ken Griffey, Jr., Don Mattingly, Steve Sax, Mike Scioscia, Ozzie Smith, and Darryl Strawberry made a guest appearance, Homer won the championship softball game for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant with a walk-off hit-by-pitch.
In the press release, Jeff Idelson, president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, said: “In Cooperstown, we salute baseball’s greatest contributors, preserve its vast history and salute the cultural side of the sport. We are honored to pay tribute to the 25th anniversary of ‘Homer at the Bat’, “‘The Simpsons’ has left an impressive imprint on our culture as the longest-running American sitcom, and ‘Homer at the Bat’ remains as popular today as when the episode aired in 1992. Baseball is recognized as our National Pastime due to its wide intersection with American culture over the last two centuries, evident in literature, theater, language, art, music, film and television. ‘The Simpsons’ is a perfect example of that connection to America.”
A roundtable with Boggs, Smith, and the staff of the show (executive producers Al Jean and Mike Reiss, director Jim Reardon, executive story editor Jeff Martin and casting director Bonnie Pietila) will happen at the show from 9.30am to 11am May 27th outside the Library Entrance to the Hall of Fame in Cooper Park, followed by the inauguration, with a ribbon-cut, for the Simpsons-themed display exhibit in the museum.
Sources: NY Daily News, Baseball Hall
Information about the plot for the episode “The Cad and the Hat“, which will air on February 19, 2017; has been released by FOX. The episode will be the 15th episode of Season 28.
In the episode …
“When Bart betrays Lisa, he has to deal with his guilt – literally. Meanwhile, Springfield is in awe when Homer is revealed to be a chess savant.”
Guest stars
The episode will be guest starring Magnus Carlsen as Himself and Patton Oswalt as Bart’s Guilt.
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Many Sneak Peeks have been added, to the previously released ones, in the last 24 hours for the upcoming 1 hour special episode of season 28, split in two parts, titled “The Great Phatsby: Part One” and “The Great Phatsby: Part Two“. The episodes airs on January 15, 2017. In this post we’re going to collect all the videos.
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Two new Promotional Images for the upcoming 1 hour special episode of season 28, split in two parts, titled “The Great Phatsby: Part One” and “The Great Phatsby: Part Two“, have been released. The episodes airs on January 15, 2017.
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Everything's coming up Milhouse… and @Common! Catch the one-hour episode of #TheSimpsons this Sunday. pic.twitter.com/E7kidIrTC1
— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) January 11, 2017
Prepare to laugh — @keeganmkey is joining us this Sunday for our special one-hour episode! #TheSimpsons pic.twitter.com/wKqIeiMUeH
— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) January 13, 2017
Matt Selman talked to TVLine about the episode: “I wanted to avoid any of the Simpsons rapping, to be honest. I hope real hip-hop fans watch and recognize that we did our best and don’t think it’s lame.”
He also adds that it’s “not a hip-hop musical — more like an episode of Empire. We’re going to play up the crazy melodrama with revenge, betrayal and explosions. There’s an epic quality to it, in addition to it being very literary.”
In an interview with USA Today, Matt Selman says: “The episode feels a little different tonally. There’s more wall-to-wall music. It feels more like Empire.”
Keegan-Michael Key adds about Jazzy James. “He’s given a second chance to be the artist he was when he was younger. I’ve been watching The Simpsons since they were on The Tracey Ullman Show.”
Dan Greaney continues: “The idea was that the hip-hop artist and Mr. Burns would relate to each other around this idea of opulence and old-fashioned style, wealth and power. It turned out the hip-hop/Gatsby connection was a very rich vein.”
And concludes how hip-hop “is a major cultural phenomenon we’ve barely touched. For me, the starting point was wanting to do something that embraced black America more. The Simpsons is a little light on that.”
A Poster and Behind the scenes for the upcoming 1 hour special episode of season 28, split in two parts, titled “The Great Phatsby: Part One” and “The Great Phatsby: Part Two“, has been released. The episodes airs on January 15, 2017.
Here's your first look at @TherealTaraji @SnoopDogg and more on the 1-hour episode of @TheSimpsons https://t.co/1vlYUNgK7M pic.twitter.com/kujjEgLcUB
— IndieWire (@IndieWire) January 11, 2017
Matt Selman, one of the writers of the episode, in an interview with IndieWire said: “We had never done a hip-hop episode to this degree. It’s embracing the spirit of excess so commonly found in hip-hop lyrics. It’s a Mr. Burns episode. He learns the joy of living large and flashing the cash like a rap mogul.”
Speaking of Taraji P. Henson, Selman said, “She was super fearless and funny about making fun of Cookie. She gave us a Cookie-r version of Cookie. Her character bursts in like a fireball of chaos and mixes everything up. She was so fun and had tons of ad-libs. We’re putting in everything we could that she was saying.”
Talking about the other special guests, Snoop Dogg, RZA and Common, Selman said: “We knew we had a little extra time in the show, and we thought, who are the iconic figures that could be the Mount Rushmore of rap? Their parts aren’t huge but they’re along for the ride and they all lead up to the ultimate revenge rap.”
For the music, produced by Jim Beanz, music producer for “Empire,” several original rap songs were produced by him and Selman said: “He helped give the whole episode a more layered score than usual. It’s playful with singers and beats. If you’re doing an hour, you have to keep viewers’ energy up, and music is a great way to do that. He’s been sleeping in his studio to put together the sounds for this show. It’s really cool to watch.”
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