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The Simpsons took aim at Fox News and Facebook during a musical number in Sunday’s (May 22) season 33 finale.In the episode titled ‘Poorhouse Rock’, Hugh Jackman and former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich led a song about the death of the US middle class.During the number, a character resembling Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson is shown (via Deadline), saying: “Putin for president, next on Fox News.”Facebook is similarly called out for spreading misinformation in the song’s lyrics: “Facebook feeds our fright / They convince us things were great when gas was cheap and men were white.” A Mark Zuckerberg-like character is also seen pressing a red button which reads “death of democracy”.Is that a new carbon blob in Sector 7-G, @RealHughJackman? pic.twitter.com/8xjZ7HqxV7— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) May 23, 2022Jackman, voicing a singing janitor, begins the eight-minute musical number as a challenge to Bart Simpson – who is inspired by his father Homer’s job at the nuclear power plant.

Bill Walton feels things more intensely than just about any human being on the planet. The former basketball star – a legend in college and the pros – communes with nature at almost a cellular level, taking in the beauty of his beloved Oregon, for instance, with rapt pleasure. He can tell you perhaps every body of water in the state, and its metaphorical significance (a river he compares to a fast-break in basketball).

Just days after Fox made a portfolio pitch to advertisers at its upfront showcasing Fox shows, including The Simpsons, and Fox News in the same breath, Matt Groenig & Co. shot back.

Sasha Urban editor“The Simpsons” took aim at the Fox Corporation on Sunday in a musical number about the death of the U.S. middle class, during the finale of its 33rd season.

“The Simpsons” just gave viewers a lesson in American economic history, with a little help from Hugh Jackman.

Hugh Jackman will make his debut in The Simpsons during the season 33 finale on Sunday (May 22).In the episode titled ‘Poorhouse Rock’, Jackman will play a janitor working at the nuclear power plant alongside Homer. When Bart visits his father at work, the janitor leads a musical number about how the American middle-class prospered after World War II, allowing people like Homer to succeed.In a clip shared on Entertainment Weekly, Jackman sings: “Your dad and his buddies had it swell but gradually it all went to hell.”The song’s subject matter was in response to a 2021 article in The Atlantic titled ‘The Life In The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable’, which argued that Homer’s job supporting a family on a working-class salary is “an almost dreamily secure existence that now seems out of reach for all too many Americans”.A post shared by Entertainment Weekly (@entertainmentweekly)Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about the article, episode writer Tim Long explained that he first “thought it was funny”, adding: “But the more we thought about it, the more we thought The Atlantic had a point.