As we’ve beforehand mentioned, this previous Sunday’s fourth-wall shattering season premiere of The Simpsons discovered Conan O’Brien internet hosting a black-tie premiere of the present’s A.I.-generated “sequence finale.” The viewers of the Dolby-Mucinex Theater consisted of previous superstar visitor stars, corresponding to “Bizarre Al” Yankovic, Katy Perry and the complete beginning lineup of Mr. Burns’ doomed softball crew.
Some stars truly recorded traces for the episode, together with Tom Hanks, Joel McHale and Seth Rogen (though Rogen solely contributed his trademark chuckle) whereas just about everybody else remained completely silent. This meant numerous celebrities have been possible completely unaware that their four-fingered doppelgangers have been showing on the present.
One such public determine was filmmaker/hockey jersey fanatic Kevin Smith, who might be noticed within the crowd seated subsequent to Britney Spears, who we assume is a detailed good friend in actual life as properly. Not lengthy after the present aired, Smith posted on Instagram that he was “shocked and delighted” to see himself on the season premiere.
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Whereas Smith could have been upset that he didn’t have any traces, to be truthful, that’s how he started his profession. Smith identified you can nonetheless see him within the episode “Silent Bobbing it!”
The explanation why Smith was included amongst the glitterati of Springfield is as a result of he beforehand appeared in Season 31’s “Freeway to Effectively,” which, fittingly, was the episode by which Marge will get a job at Drederick Tatum’s dispensary.
On the time, Smith referred to as the cameo a “profession milestone” and recalled that his Simpsons fandom could possibly be traced all the best way again to The Tracey Ullman Present. And even earlier than that, he was a fan of Matt Groening’s Life in Hell comics. “I’ve been watching The Simpsons ceaselessly,” Smith advised Leisure Weekly earlier this yr. “Fuck all the films I’ve ever made — two issues that I’m proudest of engaging in on this life: one is I had my arms and ft within the cement at Grauman’s Chinese language Theater. The second most spectacular factor, I really feel, that Kevin Smith has ever completed is be on The Simpsons.”
When he confirmed as much as document his traces, he requested the producers, “Who canceled on the final minute?” They assured Smith that he was their first alternative, however when he pressed the matter additional, they admitted it was Seth Rogen.
Even earlier than he was invited to take part within the present, Smith recalled that he was fully blown away that his Clerks character was briefly referenced within the episode “Three Gays of the Apartment” when Homer calls Maggie “Silent Bob.”
Now he appears equally thrilled to have made the reduce for the season premiere. “Honored to be included as an additional on a present I’ve beloved since day one among its existence,” Smith concluded. “Holy shit! All the pieces’s developing Milhouse!”
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