The 28th season of The Simpsons is on the way and it will feature two major milestones in the long-running animation series' history.
One is the show's 600th episode and the other is its first-ever hour-long episode. The latter will be a hip-hop tribute to The Great Gatsby, the celebrated novel by F Scott Fitzgerald.
It will feature Taraji P Henson, who plays Loretha 'Cookie' Lyon in Empire, and Keegan-Michael Key, who was in Fargo and Parks and Recreation, as guest voices.
The news was announced on Monday at the Television Critics Association (TCA) summer press tour.
The hour-long episode is called The Great Phatsby will air in January in the US (and shortly after on Sky 1 on this side of the Atlantic) and will focus mainly on Mr Burns.
The plot will mimic Fitzgerald's novel and follow the crumbling relationship between Burns and a hip-hop mogul named Jay G Homer.
"Burns is an old-school Gatsby and Jay G is a new-school Gatsby," says Simpsons' executive producer Matt Selman, "and their mutual Gatsbyism brings them together."
