{"id":3137,"date":"2016-04-24T06:33:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T22:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/24\/simpsons-boss-unearths-script-pages-from-the-prince-episode-that-never-got-made\/"},"modified":"2016-04-24T06:33:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T22:33:42","slug":"simpsons-boss-unearths-script-pages-from-the-prince-episode-that-never-got-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/24\/simpsons-boss-unearths-script-pages-from-the-prince-episode-that-never-got-made\/","title":{"rendered":"'Simpsons' boss unearths script pages from the Prince episode that never got made"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the course of its nearly 600 episode run, <\/span>The Simpsons <\/i>has had a number of legendary musicians pass through its doors, but the chance to feature Prince is one missed opportunity the writers have seemingly not forgotten in light of the singer’s death.<\/span><\/p>\n

In case you don’t know the story<\/a>: Years ago, Simpsons<\/i> writer\u00a0Mike Reiss<\/span>\u00a0revealed on\u00a0DVD commentary that there had once been a script for an episode meant to showcase Prince \u2014 not unlike the one about Michael Jackson, Season 3’s “Stark Raving Dad.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Smithers (finally) officially came out of the closet on ‘The Simpsons’<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The episode, known merely as “The Prince Episode,” would have featured a return from the mental patient character\u00a0<\/span>Leon Kompowsky,\u00a0<\/span>famously guest voiced by Jackson under a\u00a0<\/span>pseudonym, only this time, Leon would believe he was Prince.\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Over the course of its nearly 600 episode run, The Simpsons has had a number of legendary musicians pass through its doors, but the chance to feature Prince is one missed opportunity the writers have seemingly not forgotten in light … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,1758,883,2414],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-entertainment","tag-fox","tag-television","tag-the-simpsons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}