Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson are headed to New Orleans on Sunday night.
As Homer would say, "Woo-hoo!"
But will the patriarch of this animated cartoon family forgo his beloved donuts for the sinful lure of beignets?
Will Marge's signature towering blue bouffant survive the humidity?
And, most importantly, will Lisa get her groove back in the Big Easy?
Those are just some of the questions to ponder before the "Lisa Gets the Blues" episode of veteran Fox series "The Simpsons" airs at 7 p.m.
"So the basic premise is that Lisa gets the yips, she can't play (the baritone saxophone). She's got this psychological block, and what better or worse place to not be able to play jazz than New Orleans? So she figures it out there," said Al Jean, "The Simpsons" executive producer, from Los Angeles.
The Simpson family ends up in the Crescent City when their flight to Gainesville, Florida, gets rerouted.
"They don't actually go to the Jazz Fest. They do just about everything else in New Orleans," Jean said. "It's a real love letter to the city."
So rest easy. This won't be a repeat of the Oct. 1, 1992, episode which, although not set in New Orleans, angered some residents anyway.
In "A Streetcar Named Marge," her character lands the role of Blanche in a local theater troupe's production of Tennessee Williams' New Orleans-set classic "A Streetcar Named Desire." The episode included an original, very unflattering song about the city.
"The episode was sent out early (for critics), before the season started, and there was a song that was meant to be sarcastic, which offended people. So Bart wrote on the chalkboard (an oft-used show gag), 'I will not defame New Orleans' the next week," Jean explained. "So this episode is a love letter, believe me."
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In the new episode, the Simpsons visit Louis Armstrong Park, St. Louis Cemetery and Bourbon Street, among other sights, Jean said.
"My favorite part is co-written by David Silverman, who is one of our longtime directors, and he put together this thing where Homer is eating sort of every delicious food you can find in New Orleans in this really great montage of restaurants, and I guarantee, it will make you hungry," Jean said.
Work on "Lisa Gets the Blues" began in July 2017, with animation director Bob Anderson relying on photographs and other research material on New Orleans to make it as authentic as possible.
"It really feels like a trip there, which is wonderful," Jean said.
Silverman's reminiscences of New Orleans also include playing his flaming tuba (a propane-assisted instrument) at Jazz Fest, and with Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews outside multi-instrumentalist Andrews' music studio.
Andrews will guest-star on Sunday night's show.
"He has a line as well and also plays trombone," Jean said.
The episode's music also will feature other New Orleans-based bands and some original music from "The Simpsons" team.
Although Silverman and writer Brian Kelley penned the "Lisa Gets the Blues" script, writing for the series, now in its 29th season, has always been and is still very much a group effort, Jean said. Twenty writers and 150 animators work on "The Simpsons."
"David and Brian wrote the first draft, and the staff rewrites like every episode that we do," he said. "It's a great process. One of our writers went to Tulane. There's a lot of New Orleans love in our room."
Jean, who's visited the city many times, said there are many things to love about the city, but the history tours, and, of course, the food, top his list.
And one more hint about the episode?
Keep an eye out for the ghost of Louis Armstrong. It is New Orleans, after all.
'Lisa Sings the Blues' episode of 'The Simpsons'
WHEN: 7 p.m. Sunday
CHANNEL: WVUE, Channel 8 (cable Channel 9)
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