Lizzo reveals first look of her appearance on The Simpsons finale
Lizzo will play both herself and Homer's "spirit guide" in the season finale of The Simpsons, airing May 21 on FOX
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If you follow Lizzo closely enough to remember her Halloween costumes, you know that she and The Simpsons are a match made in heaven. The pop star will make an appearance in the finale of the 34th season of the animated sitcom, airing May 21, playing two characters—both a “happy little elf doll” serving as Homer’s “spirit guide” and herself. Ahead of the episode, Lizzo herself shared a clip of her appearance on social media.
The excerpt features a meta-moment of Lizzo and Homer recording their own voiceovers for the episode, directed by Lisa and Bart. When Bart steps in to slap his dad to a “fire” beat, Lizzo encourages Lisa to grab her “saxamaphone” and hop on a duet with the Grammy winner on her flute.
“Every Icon has been on @thesimpsons—now I can add my name to the list! Thank you to the whole team for making this a dream come true,” Lizzo wrote in her Instagram caption, highlighting a bit of product placement for her shapewear brand: “yes I’m wearing @yitty and playing @sashabefluting !!!!” (Her flute, Sasha, which has its own Instagram account, also posted the clip with the caption: “IM OFFICIALLY THE MOST FAMOUS FLUTE IN D WORLD”)
Lizzo’s guest role(s) was first announced back in February, with executive producer Tim Long explaining to Entertainment Weekly that the entire episode would take place within a few seconds as Homer is impacted by a car accident. In the moment, Homer apparently experiences a hallucinatory episode and communicates with Lizzo’s elf doll character.
“Lizzo says ‘bitch’ a lot and she does not suffer Homer very well,” Long told EW, sharing that the artist sings a song called “It Was Marge, Bitch” that was penned by Flight Of The Conchords’ Bret McKenzie. “She ends up slapping and kicking him a lot to try to knock some sense into him. Which is very funny. And they end up developing a weird rapport that’s very, very sweet.”
“And what’s funny is that Lizzo is such a big Simpsons fan, she ad-libbed the line, ‘I’m gonna get my Sasha Flute and you grab your saxamaphone and let’s jam,” Long shared. “Saxamaphone is such a deep-cut reference to The Simpsons that we were all like, ‘Wow.’ She knew all the Simpsons references. She recorded with Dan Castellaneta [who voices Homer] and I think everyone was starstruck—us by Lizzo and her by Dan. That was really special.” Fans will get to see the magic for themselves May 21.
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Homer already has a spirit guide.
You can have more than one.
Presumably this will be his first spirit guide who doesn’t turn out to be a chili-based hallucination.
“Space coyote?”
Is it just an internet thing with how the video is hosted or are the mouths normally this poorly animated and out of sync with the audio?
Its bad, the slap sound is also way off
The show is usually great on a purely technical level so this is probably a Twitter issue. Either that or the episode’s final audio mix still isn’t finished.
It’s really kind of jarring how flat every scene of modern Simpsons looks compared to when it was hand-drawn.
It’s still hand-drawn, but now it’s digitally inked and colored, which does change the look quite a bit (this isn’t unique to The Simpsons; no cartoon produced in North America has been colored by hand for over a decade.)
i dont know what it is but she just doesnt look like a simpsons character and its throwing me for a loop
Lizzo can be my spirit guide – she don’t give a fuuuuuuck.
The best Simpson episodes are the ones where they kiss the celebrity’s ass. Everyone says their favorite episodes are Lisa Goes Gaga and The Musk Who Fell to Earth
I personally would love to see even more celebrities in Simpsons episodes. I simply cannot watch those early seasons because they don’t have enough people in them who also appear in other things I might have seen and/or heard.
Dafuk? I don’t know anyone who likes Lisa Goes Gaga. That episode was terrible.
Sarcasm? Hard to tell in text form.
It’s true we are all gaga for Lisa Goes Gaga
Clearly sarcasm given they named the two most hated episodes.
Fair enough. Although it looks like Lizzo might actually be a fan, so I’ll give this a chance.
Yeah, everyone hates the Micheal Jackson episode.
The credits say John Jay Smith. I hear he was friends Sam Etic.
MJ didn’t play himself on that episode. he literally played a crazy person.
The actual episodes feel like Butterfinger commercials now
After watching Lizzo act in the Mandalorian last month I can say that she is a very good singer.
Hopefully she’ll reference Lisa Needs Braces and Don’t Have a Cow Man! for other deep cut Simpsons jokes to impress the staff.