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" Did you know that The Simpsons is still chugging along, 27 seasons deep? It&amp;#039;s well established that the show should have packed it in a decade ago. That the snowballing drop in quality threatens to tarnish the legacy of TV&amp;#039;s greatest comedy. But then, when was the last time anybody actually watched a new episode of The Simpsons? Maybe they&amp;#039;re hilarious\u00A0and better than ever before, but\u00A0we&amp;#039;re all just too stubborn to give them a chance? Or maybe not, considering the news that season 28 will open with an hour-long hip-hop spoof of F. Scott Fitzgerald&amp;#039;s The Great Gatsby, entitled *sigh* &amp;#039;The Great Phatsby&amp;#039;. In all fairness, it will feature some brilliant talent, including Key &amp;amp;amp; Peele&amp;#039;s Keegan-Michael Key and Empire star Taraji P. Henson. The episode centres on the &amp;quot;destruction of a friendship between [Mr.] Burns and an enigmatic hip-hop mogul named Jay G. (aka Jay Gatsby). &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;\u00A0Simpsons\u00A0executive producer Matt Selman said. &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; Catch the episode in January. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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