The characters may only have four fingers, but that won’t stop them from using American Sign Language for the first time in the show's 31-year history this Sunday.
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.
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.
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