Morrissey Surprises No One And Is Pissed About His ‘Simpsons’ Depiction

In a result you can only imagine the writers’ room was hoping for, Morrissey and his team have unleashed on The Simpsons following the former Smiths frontman’s depiction on the long-running series.

The unflattering parody took place during the episode Panic On The Streets Of Springfield in which Lisa Simpson becomes infatuated with fictional band The Snuffs and their frontman Quilloughby, who is based on Morrissey and voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch.

Originally, Quilloughby is portrayed as a young vegan with similar ideals to Lisa, but it’s eventually revealed that version of the character is actually a figment of Lisa’s imagination, and the ‘real’ Quilloughby is, as The Guardian describes, “a grey, meat-eating, overweight man with anti-immigrant views.”

As to be expected, that has caused outrage over at Morrissey’s camp, with his manager, Peter Katsis, posting a seething takedown of The Simpsons on the singer's Facebook after the episode aired in the US on Sunday night.

“When a show stoops so low to use harshly hateful tactics like showing the Morrissey character with his belly hanging out of his shirt (when he has never looked like that at any point in his career) makes you wonder who the real hurtful, racist group is here,” Katsis said.

“Even worse - calling the Morrissey character out for being a racist, without pointing out any specific instances, offers nothing. It only serves to insult the artist. They should take that mirror and hold it up to themselves.

“Truly they are the only ones who have stopped creating, and have instead turned unapologetically hurtful and racist.”

It didn’t end there though, with multiple outlets reporting Katsis’ statement as if it were from Morrissey, which led to the singer himself issuing a lengthy post on his website about the situation.

"This is my first comment (and hopefully my last) on The Simpsons' episode - which I know has enraged many people,” he said. 

“The hatred shown towards me from the creators of The Simpsons is obviously a taunting lawsuit, but one that requires more funding than I could possibly muster in order to make a challenge. Neither do I have a determined business squad of legal practitioners ready to pounce.”

He added: “I've had enough horror thrown at me that would kill off a herd of bison. Accusations usually come from someone with a crazed desire for importance; they don't operate at a very high level. 

“Writing for The Simpsons, for example, evidently requires only complete ignorance. But all of these things are too easy for me to say.”