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'The Simpsons' to get its first hour-long episode

Updated on: 10 August,2016 08:09 AM IST  | 
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The animated comedy TV show 'The Simpsons' is to get a double-length episode titled 'The Great Phatsby', and will be rap homage to the F Scott Fitzgerald novel 'The Great Gatsby'

'The Simpsons' to get its first hour-long episode

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The Simpsons is set to get its first hour-long episode — a hip-hop special.


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The animated comedy TV show is to get a double-length episode titled 'The Great Phatsby', and will be rap homage to the F Scott Fitzgerald novel 'The Great Gatsby'.


Speaking to a website, the show’s executive producer Matt Selman said: “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 super-size it. We haven’t done a huge amount of stories in the world of hip hop and rap culture, so we just went for it.”

The episode will feature Empire actress Taraji P. Henson — who will play a similar role to her Empire character Cookie Lyon — as a guest star, and follows the story of Mr. Burns’ friendship with a charismatic rapper named Jay G.

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