“The Simpsons” returns on Sunday, Sept. 27, on Fox with a Season 38 opener (“The Children’s Book Job”) that parodies children’s books, featuring guest voice Emma Thompson as a beloved children’s book author who comes to town for a benefit to save Springfield Elementary from closing.
\n\nBut when her character — saucy British writer Constance Clavinger — turns out to be a handful (getting drunk at the airport bar, for starters), Homer struggles to get her to the school on time. They go on an adventure across town as he tries to get her, “Get Him to the Greek” style, to a school book fair organized by new PTA president Marge.
\n\nColin Jost also appears as himself, reading his own children’s book to the Springfield Elementary audience, much to their indifference.
\n\nIn one sequence, Homer daydreams that Springfield and its citizens have turned into settings and characters from kids’ books like “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” Richard Scarry’s universe, “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus,” “Captain Underpants,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and more.
\n\n“The genesis of this was, when you’re lucky enough to work on ‘The Simpsons,’ you can ask yourself, ‘What kind of cool thing can we portray…
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