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" The Simpsons has been around for so long that, statistically speaking, everything that could possibly happen in a cartoon has happened on this one. That&amp;#039;s why it has done things like predict President Trump, the Hangover plot, and inspired a South Park episode called &amp;quot;Simpsons Already Did It.&amp;quot; With nearly 600 episodes in 27 years, it&amp;#039;s hard to believe this show has any firsts left. It&amp;#039;s already had its first live episode, its first two-part episode, its first movie, etc., etc, but it&amp;#039;s still, somehow, never had its first hour-long episode. That&amp;#039;s going to change this fall when The Simpsons moves beyond 30 minutes. Titled &amp;quot;The Great Phatsby,&amp;quot; The Simpsons&amp;#039; first hourlong episode is based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic and follows Mr. Burns and the destruction of his friendship with a hip-hop mogul named Jay G. The episode will include guest voices from Keegan-Michael Key and Taraji P. Henson. &amp;quot;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,&amp;quot; Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman told Entertainment Weekly. &amp;quot;And we haven&amp;#039;t done a huge amount of stories in the world of hip-hop and rap culture, so we just went for it.&amp;quot; According to Entertainment Weekly: Much of the episode is set at Burns&amp;#039; summer mansion in the Springfield Hamptons, with Homer serving as narrator who becomes entangled in the story, similar to Nick Carroway in the book. &amp;quot;Burns is an old-school Gatsby and Jay G is a new-school Gatsby,&amp;quot; notes Selman, &amp;quot;and their mutual Gatsbyism brings them together.&amp;quot; After becoming fast friends, Jay G slyly &amp;quot;seduces Burns into the excesses of the hip-hop lifestyle,&amp;quot; according to Selman, and when Burns winds up bankrupt, Jay G takes over the nuclear plant. &amp;quot;Part 1 of the show I would subtitle as &amp;#039;The Betrayal,&amp;#039; and part 2 I would subtitle as &amp;#039;The Revenge,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s kind of like a two-part rap album.&amp;quot; The episode will also include original hip-hop songs created by Jim Beanz, who creates music for Empire. A Hamilton-esque Simpsons episode inspired by FSF&amp;#039;s masterpiece? Television truly is the answer to all of life&amp;#039;s problems.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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