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So you've seen Boyhood? Now get ready for "Barthood."

In Sunday's episode of The Simpsons, the show will present its take on the 2014 Oscar-winning film with an episode that flashes backwards and forwards to trace the life of Bart Simpson.

"It's really sweet, just like the movie, obviously," executive producer Al Jean told Mashable in an interview a good six months before the audiences would get to see the episode. You can watch an exclusive clip from it above.

Boyhood's structure was the perfect way to tell this particular story. But as Jean admitted, they didn't necessarily ask for permission to do the homage.

"It's more, I would say, a little more spoof, a little more theft," Jean said, laughing. "We're just taking this really good structure and adapting it for our own uses."

Of course, he added, the story is "more of a tribute than anything else." Jean likes to think that director Richard Linklater will enjoy the Simpsons' take on his film. He and his team frequently hear from creators after their signature homage episodes. (One of Jean's favorites was hearing that director Michael Apted enjoyed 2007's "Springfield Up," which parodied Apted's Up series.)

After 27 seasons and more than 580 episodes, Jean said his writers still aim to find new emotional notes to hit. It's not always an easy task.

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"That's the biggest thing — getting a new angle," he explained. "We just try to go with something that's a funny idea that seems like it hasn't been done by us before."

While working on this episode, for example, the writers "realized how people really want to see Bart turn out okay. They want to know it's not just all going to be terrible for him in the future." So the staff wrote the episode with this in mind.

"Ideally, every episode would be funny, every episode would have an emotion," he said. "We don't always succeed, but that's always what we're trying."

"Barthood" airs Sunday on Fox. If it's half as touching as this fan-made trailer mashup, prepare your tissues.