In the yet-to-be released The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History, the cast and crew reminisces over the oddity of Michael Jackson‘s appearance on The Simpsons‘ third season when he voiced a 400-lb mental patient who believed he was MJ.
How credible could “uncensored” and “unauthorized” be???
Anyway, the crew says Jackson requested a rehearsal at his manager’s house, which “was unheard of,” according to Simpsons writer Wallace Wolodarsky.
“…it was a crazy environment where we were all served food by Sikhs in white robes and turbans,” describes Wolodarsky.
Hank Azaria (Moe, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy) also recalls the “freakiness” of their visit:
I remember having to make conversation with Michael Jackson. That had to be one of the freakiest moments of my life . . . he wasn’t quite the figure he’s become today, but still, I remember even then, staring at his nose, and it was all about, ‘Don’t Stare at His Nose.’
Ha!
But the cast and crew were highly disappointed MJ didn’t sing for the ep, as editor Brian Roberts remembers:
I literally didn’t want to look at him. So I get my head buried in the script, and then at one point in the script he sang, Man in the Mirror, and I said, “All right. How many times in your life are you sitting next to Michael Jackson and he’s singing Man in the Mirror? I just gotta look.”
So I look over to Michael Jackson, and he wasn’t singing! He had a sing-along guy next to him who was actually singing for him. I couldn’t believe it. I was like, What kinda weird [expletive] is this?
How lame!
We would have been majorly disappointed too!
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