Posted on 06/26/2020 5:29:37 PM PDT by LouieFisk
“The Simpsons” won’t have any repeats of Hank Azaria voicing Apu.
The producers behind the show issued a statement Friday saying that from now on, its characters of color will be voiced by actors of color only.
“Moving forward, ‘The Simpsons’ will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,” the statement read.
News of the decision comes less than an hour after Mike Henry announced he will no longer voice the character of Cleveland Brown on fellow Fox animated comedy “Family Guy.”
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The episode when Lisa worried about here future based on her father’s failures but then it was shown how all the women in the extended families were successful professionally while the men were Neanderthals did it for me. That was probably 20 years ago. I dunno. I never went back to the show.
Where will they find the yellow people to voice their yellow characters?
Yeah, why hold out for talent?... Oh, wait, there hasn’t been any talent in Hollywood for years. So this won’t make one whit of difference in the quality of anything they produce. YAWN.
From what other planet will they contract beings to play Kang and Kodos be found?
LOL, they should insist. It’s Dan Castinella, same guy that does Homer.
Do they have to get a Scotsman now to do the voice of Groundskeeper Willie?
Actually, I think it will be really funny for Apu to have the upper-class Oxford accent he deserves.
Ah, but any non-voice can voice whatever no doubt. This is more anti-white racism.
There’s a smell of segregation in the air.
Simpsons have been on how long? And this is just now a problem?
No. I just saw a commercial that Hamilton is now streaming on Disney.
You know, I didn’t know that the Seahag was also one of Popeye’s arch-villians. She’s probably a bigger villian than Bluto himself.
That question can be asked about all the books, monuments, statues, movies... that are suddenly controversial today.
Solution ... no non-white characters !!! ha ha
What about a gay actor to do Smithers?
"Good gracious me! I'm standing here beside myself!"
So they are saying that they don't feel the need for a cartoon to be funny anymore.
It makes no difference to me. The Simpsons went from my favorite program to “who cares” maybe 20 years ago.
I just remembered something. In “Smallville”, they had a half Chinese girl play a Caucasian one. It was obvious that Lana Lang looked a little Oriental but no one seemed to notice.
What exactly does this have to do with George Floyd? The current orgy of political correctness was triggered by the Floyd killing but it’s all irrelevant nonsense.
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