Posted on 10/27/2018 6:18:54 AM PDT by C19fan
It’s Friday afternoon and I’m tired so let’s end on a lighter note. Long-running character Apu is going to be written out of the Simpsons forever. There has been controversy about the character, who speaks in a stereotypical Indian accent, for several years. Earlier this year producer Adi Shankar launched a spec script competition looking to somehow subvert or possibly put an end to the character. Shankar doesn’t work on the Simpsons but was hoping that if the idea caught on and the spec script was good enough, maybe the show would embrace the idea and produce it. But today Shankar told Indie Wire that he has heard the Simpsons plans to simply drop the character without much fanfare:
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And reincarnated as....?
Loved the Civil War re-enactment episode... “The South will come again. “
Will they cut him out of all of his episodes too?
So, does this mean that Big Bang Theory will have to drop Ramayyan Koothrappali? And his newly-arranged fiancée?
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