Sunday’s SIMPSONS Episode Breaks Historic New Ground

The Simpson’s will do something new this weekend.

Sunday’s The Sound of Bleeding Gums episode “centers on Lisa Simpson, who discovers that her favorite musician and mentor, the late saxophonist Bleeding Gums Murphy, had a son who was born deaf. She meets the young man, named Monk, who wants to get a cochlear implant . Lisa then goes a little overboard trying to help.

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Sosthand and her brother, Eli Steele, had previously developed a pilot based on their lives, featuring deaf actor John Autry II. So when it came time to find someone to play Monk, Sosthand pitched Autry, whose credits include “Glee,” to exec producers James L. Brooks and Al Jean.

Loni Steele Sosthand, who joined The Simpsons in 2020, wrote the episode. It is inspired by her family and her brother, who is deaf.

Sunday’s episode managed to pull off American Sign Language despite The Simpsons characters only having four fingers

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