Producer Adi Shankar Wants To Find The Next South Asian Writer For “The Simpsons”

Let’s see how this turns out.

Adi Shankar has taken a page from Hank Azaria’s idea last week to get more South Asian influences in the writer’s room for The Simpsons by launching a contest. The rules are simple, for someone to write an episode of The Simpsons that would either kill off the character or give him a different future on the show. The winner will have their script sent to The Simpsons’ writer’s room for production approval. If not approved, Adi will finance the production of the episode as a bootleg.

Rules for the contest are here.

Our Take

Days after Matt Groening noted that we are headstrong in the winds of an extreme PC culture that feels it deserves creative license on content it disapproves of, we get a contest for a new writer for The Simpsons. This all from a not very well-produced documentary that spurred a conversation on two sides, one that thinks Apu is a denigrated representation of South Asians in America despite a recent Vice story that seemed to indicate the opposite and another side that feels that individual interpretation shouldn’t warrant the right to make changes.