The Simpsons is set to air a Lego episode this Sunday and a trailer has just been released!
According to EW, last week’s episode of The Simpsons was the the lowest rated episode in the entire show’s history, a real feat considering that there have been over 500 episodes to date. On the flip side, The Lego Movie was one of the biggest hits so far this year, bringing in close to $500 million at the worldwide box office.
What better time for The Simpsons to air a Lego episode? They can only hope that some of The Lego Movie audience will tune in for this special episode.
The trailer was just released on Fox’s Animation Domination YouTube Channel. Check it out:
This Lego episode of The Simpsons titled “Brick Like Me” has actually been planned since before The Lego Movie, so this isn’t an instance of them just latching onto something, trying to regain lost popularity.
“We didn’t know about the movie at that point,” The Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman recently told EW. “For the record, we still don’t know about the movie. [Laughs] Brian [Kelly, co-executive producer] and I had been dreaming of doing a Simpsons Lego episode for as long as we could remember, and in early 2012 we started seriously talking about making it happen. Then we found out that Lego was into doing a Simpsons couch gag. So it was a magical coming-together of pretend yellow people.”
It’s interesting to look at how the different form of animation effects the characters so much, and some of the characters just look weird. It’s also cool to see the little details in both animation styles that reflect across to the other.
Official synopsis:
Homer wakes up in a world where his family and everyone in Springfield are made of Legos and must “put together” how he got there to get home in the milestone 550th “Brick Like Me.”