Cypress Hill to finally make ‘The Simpsons’ orchestra joke “a reality”

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Cypress Hill have announced that they’ll finally be making their orchestra mash-up joke from The Simpsons “a reality” after their popular cameo.

In the 1996 Simpsons episode Homerpalooza, Homer took his family on a road trip to an alternative rock festival Hullabalooza in a bid to prove to his children, Bart and Lisa, that he was still the cool and in touch with popular culture.

However, he soon embarrassed them when he became a sideshow who had cannonballs aimed at his stomach – before proving a hit with bands and festival-goers.Among the likes of Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth, Cypress Hill made a cameo in the show, during which they joked about performing with a classical orchestra.At one point, Homer and his family headed backstage when a roadie was looking to find out which of the acts on the bill had booked the London Symphony Orchestra.

When no one replied, the man accused the rap group of ordering the orchestra while high, “Cypress Hill, I’m looking in your direction.”“I think we did,” Cypress Hill replied. “Do you know ‘Insane in the Brain’?”The rappers and the orchestra then collaborated for a mash-up of the song, to which Marge replied, “Now this, I like.”After the episode aired 27 years ago, it became an ongoing joke outside the show that the group and orchestra could eventually team up to perform the classical version.