Television's longest-running animated show will feature American Sign Language and deaf voice actors for the first time in its 31-year run on Sunday
Television's longest-running animated show will feature American Sign Language and deaf voice actors for the first time in its 31-year run on SundayThe characters in"The Simpsons" only have four fingers, but that doesn't stop them from using American Sign Language for the first time in the show's 31-year history in an upcoming episode.
The ground-breaking episode that will air on April 10 was spearheaded by show writer Loni Steele Sosthand, whose brother, Eli Steele, is deaf. Steele voices a part in the episode along with deaf performers John Autry II, Kathy Buckley, Ian Mayorga, Kaylee Arellano and Hazel Lopez, according to Variety.Lisa meets the son of the late musician Bleeding Gums Murphy — and attempts to improve his life in the Simpsons episode,"The Sound of Bleeding Gums.
Sunday's episode involves Lisa Simpson finding out that her saxophone mentor, Bleeding Gums Murphy, a jazz musician who died in season six of the show, has a son named Monk who was born deaf. Lisa meets Monk, voiced by Autry, and helps him with his goal of getting a cochlear implant. "It’s so incredible,” Autry told Variety. “It’s life-changing equality and participation. This can impact change for all of us. It’s about hard of hearing and hearing characters coming together. It’s a part of history.”“That was a little tricky, especially because the one thing we’re translating is Shakespeare,” Sosthand told Variety. “But I think we pulled it off.
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