This Is 40 director Judd Apatow has confirmed that a script he wrote for The Simpsons 22 years ago will finally be made into an episode. This is the first time the show will be using an outside script in it’s 24 seasons and +500 episodes history.
Apatow’s script will follow the story of Homer Simpson being hypnotized to believe he is the same age as Bart. As a result, the two become best friends.
This is not the first time Homer has been hypnotized on the show. In the 2001 episode “The Blunder Years,” Homer is hypnotized by the hypnotist Mesmerino to be reminded of a repressed traumatic experience from his childhood.
Former The Simpsons showrunner Mike Reiss acknowledged that when he first received the script he like it.
“I was already a fan of Judd’s, he’s a good writer, and he was a pro at the time. It wasn’t like he was a kid,” Reiss told Vulture. “We never got around to it, and decades went by.”
Now Apatow’s script is on the fast-track to be produced. Currently his script is being “retooled and rewritten, as all our scripts are, it’ll be 30 percent his script, 70 percent everyone else’s. That’s how The Simpsons works. Everybody gets a rewrite. It’s not their fault. That’s just the machine,” Reiss added.
Expect Atapow’s episode to air sometime during the 2013-14 season.
