Entrevista entre Flux y Matt Groening (creador de los Simpsons).
Flux: Have you discovered any famous person who is a fan of The Simpsons that surprised you?
Groening: Well, just about every famous person who does a voice is a fan of the show. Michael Jackson, for instance, is a fan of the show.
Flux: So that was really him?
Groening: Yes. He didn't want to be credited. [laughs] Dustin Hoffman is another one who didn't want to fess up. It's funny because we've had those bigshots who were willing to do the show but were ashamed to admit it. So we have a new demand: if you're willing to do the show, you have to come clean and admit it. I just completed something which I really, really wanted to do, and that is to get all the former Beatles on. Ringo was first, then we got George Harrison, but Paul McCartney was a real hold-out. We finally came up with a script which he agreed to do. It's called "Lisa The Vegetarian" and it will be on next season.
Flux: Is it difficult for you to come up with scripts which are both funny and acceptable to the guest stars?
Groening: Sometimes more so than others. Michael Jackson presented a particular creative problem because he's such an icon: how do you put Michael Jackson in a Simpsons universe? And the solution, which I must take credit for--the idea, at least, because I didn't write the script--was to have Michael Jackson play a 300-pound white guy who thinks he's Michael Jackson. Everybody was keeping their fingers crossed that he would sort of laugh when he read the script--and he did.
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Season Three (1991-92)
7F24 John Jay Smith (aka Michael Jackson) (Leon Kompowsky)
Thinks he's Michael Jackson. Wonderful self-ref to this and Mr. Bergstrom in "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie": "Everyone had a cameo. Even Michael Jackson and Dustin Hoffman. Of course, they weren't credited, but you knew it was them."
Si fue Michael!!!