Somehow, the most popular animated comedy of the 1990s has never once satirized the star of the biggest live-action sitcom from the decade, but, hey, better late than never – a Simpsons parody isn’t a library book.
While we know for a fact that the town of Springfield had Seinfeld playing on its TV stations during the 1990s – for instance, Springfield nearly changed its name to “Seinfeld” back in “A Star is Burns” – Jerry Seinfeld himself remains one of the few world-famous celebrities whose peak coincided with the Golden Age of The Simpsons, yet who never earned an on-screen likeness in the show. However, that may be about to change this Sunday, as the soon-to-be-stepping-down Simpsons showrunner Al Jean revealed a frame from the next episode of Season 37 that suggests Seinfeld and his comedy-and-car-focused talk show, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, are due for a light roast.
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As Jean revealed, Krusty the Clown will be the next guest on Comedians in Cars Kvetching:
While Seinfeld himself has neither voiced a role on The Simpsons nor been the subject of a celebrity parody character, such as Mike Tyson’s animated lookalike Drederick Tatum, Seinfeld’s work has shown up in chalkboard gags and throwaway lines throughout The Simpsons‘ 37-season run. For instance, back in the Season 12 episode “Day of the Jackanapes,” which was, of course, written by Jean, the network executives in charge of The Krusty the Clown Show suggest that, in order to boost his struggling ratings, Krusty should renovate his famous stage and make it look like the set from Seinfeld.
Interestingly enough, while Seinfeld himself has never offered his voice talents for a Simpsons character, Seinfeld actors Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus have both guest starred on the show, with the latter playing a recurring role over the course of eight seasons. Starting in the Season 13 episode, “A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love,” Louis-Dreyfus played Gloria, ex-girlfriend to Snake Jailbird and brief lover of Montgomery Burns, making two more appearances as the character over the following few years.
The closest Seinfeld has ever come to making his debut in the Simpsons universe, either as a voice actor or as a satire subject, was when his image was used in a CAPTCHA gag in the 2021 episode “The Wayz We Were.” Whether Seinfeld himself was disinterested in appearing on the show or the writers were similarly unmotivated to add him to the canon, the reason behind Seinfeld’s omission from the Simpsons‘ list of targets will become irrelevant on Sunday when OG Simpsons fans enjoy the most powerful comedy crossover of 1996.
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