Most will know Judd Apatow as a writer on such movies as Pineapple Express and This is 40, but now he’s hitting the big time with a script he wrote years ago finally getting made into an episode of The Simpsons…
The Simpsons is notoriously difficult to get writing on and the idea of a spec-script is almost unheard of, but Apatow has made the grade.
Written before his name was almost a household one, the script will be aired on January 11th in the US on Fox and is called Bart’s New Friend.
Talking to TV Guide, Apatow said: “I have always been fascinated with how difficult it is to grow up. It’s a pretty rough script and when I reread it I wasn’t exactly glowing with pride… [but] putting [the creative team’s] brilliant spin on something I wrote back when I was a dreamer, was one of the greatest days of my life. These are legends!”
Just goes to show if you really believe in something…
“Bart’s New Friend” airs January 11th on Fox.
Marc
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