Josh & The Simpsons...

OMJ - Josh must be in absolute heaven at the moment after he was featured in the latest episode of "The Simpsons" (and I bet he thought singing for President Obama was the biggest thing to happen to him in the past 10 days) (LOL).

This brand new episode "Lisa the Drama Queen" (Season 20 - Episode 9) was screened in the US on January 25th, and sadly, although talk of Josh, Grobanites and his music dominate, he didn't get a guest voice [insert sad smilie here :-( ~ this is the best I can do], instead Emily Blunt (Michael Buble's ex) got the gig and voiced the character of Juliet in this episode.

Juliet is an intelligent and academic girl who befriends Lisa after they discover a mutual love for all things Groban.

Juliet - "... if you look carefully, you can see that the knight is Josh Groban, our young century's greatest vocalist."
Lisa - "Oh, another Grobanite!!!"

The girls start playing and then Lisa says "Let's do some Groban" and they start belting out "You are loved".

This is what Groundskeeper Willie and Police Chief Wiggum did while the girls were singing...

After a meeting between Homer & Marg and Juliet's parents goes astray after Juliet announces that "Lisa and I would like to perform a medley of Josh Groban's 12 most popular downloads." Juliet's father announces "Juliet, I'm worried this Josh Groban is becoming a bit of an obsession for you." The girls then run off into the garden and go into a bit of a dreamland called "Equalia". It's here they "hit shuffle on the royal my-pod"and "So She Dances" plays.

Towards the end of the episode, the girls find themselves back in "Equalia"when a boy turns into a dragon to protect the girls and save their manuscript "The Chronicles of Equalia". This is all set to the tune of "In Her Eyes".

"I AM NOT A HERO."

"I AM NOT AN ANGEL"

From Wikipeida this is a summary of the episode plot:

When Homer forces the kids to take classes at the rec. center, Lisa befriends an intelligent and imaginative girl named Juliet, who is, like her, a fan of Josh Groban. The two create a fantasy world named "Equalia", and grow ever more subsumed in it, becoming distracted from reality. Juliet in particular seems to be using "Equalia" to escape from her troubled relationship with her father, who neglects her interests in favour of his academic specialty of John Grisham. After meeting Juliet's family, and learning of Lisa's increasingly distracted performance in school, Marge becomes concerned about Lisa's friendship with Juliet, and forbids Lisa from seeing her. In response, Lisa and Juliet run away to a derelict restaurant (designed like a castle) to live out their world of "Equalia". Unfortunately, Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney are also using the restaurant as a hideout, and imprison the girls. Juliet and Lisa manage to escape by entrancing Kearney with their tales of "Equalia" (causing him to turn on Jimbo and Dolph when they try to burn the "Equalia" manuscript), but when Lisa tells Juliet that she has to live in the real world, Juliet abandons the friendship (causing Lisa to conclude that Juliet is crazy).

Two months later, Lisa receives a publisher's rejection letter after attempting to get her "Equalia" book published, but she inspires Homer to create his own fantasy world (which goes no further than him re-imagining the family in forms more pleasing to him--Bart is a hot dog, Lisa is a starfish, Marge is a bottle of Duff Beer, and Maggie is a monster truck).

I was able to watch the episode here (and I guess with all things on-line, you should make sure your virus protection is up-to-date).

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Josh has since posted this on his blog with the caption
"I Heart Lisa Simpson!"...