Wikileaks creator Julian Assange is going to be a cartoon.
Assange, in the middle of house arrest, will play himself on "The Simpsons," according to Entertainment Weekly.
He recorded the guest spot over the summer to be a part of the long-running series's 500th episode to air Feb. 19.
Simpsons exec producer Al Jean says that series creator Matt Groening heard a rumor that the polarizing and elusive activist who runs the whistle-blowing website was interested in guest-starring on the series, "so we asked our casting director Bonnie Pietila — who had been able to unearth Thomas Pynchon and got Tony Blair to do the show — to find Mr. Assange. And she did," reports EW.com.
What to expect in the episode?
Homer and Marge discover that the residents of Springfield are holding a secret town meeting to kick them out of Springfield for all of their shenanigans over the years.
As a result, "the Simpsons go off the grid to this very rugged place where they meet [Assange], who's sort of their new Flanders," said Jean, according to EW.
