Best in Show 2: Release the Hounds
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With real actors. Surely the Simpsons is successful enough that it doesnât have to make do with only using voice-actors.
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Speaking of which, the chart DOES need Phil HartmanâŚ
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Simpsons just got cancelled.
They should use secret celebrity guests to voice all his characters. A different one each week.
There is only one quote to properly respond to this news:
âI felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.â
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They already did that once before: Anyone remember Maude Flanders?
Maggie Roswell left due to contract and payment issues, and Maude died in a way that only John Oliver can fully appreciate, although he might have found something betterâŚ
And then Ned Flanders will jump over Springfield gorge while there is a shark in the water below?
Heâs only been at it how long??? yeah, better just can him. I mean if if it meant the other voice actors get a piece of the action, whoa no!!! Fthat sliver of .0005% of FOX profits, no way an âemployeeâ gets that. Uhhh, iâm sick just saying the word employee. Now someone get me Mr âFamily Guyâ on the phoneâŚ
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There is so much audio on file that I wonder if his characters could be sampled and modelled.
Probably some extremely talented voice actor weâve never heard of will do it. The voices might sound a little bit off, but theyâll be close enough.
No iconic voice is completely irreplaceable. Mel Blanc, Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Jack Mercer (Popeye)âŚtheir characters live on without them.
Funny thing: Shearer wasnât even the original voice actor for Montgomery Burns. That was Chris Latta, who left after the first season.
Yeah, the show may decide to retire a character if the voice actor dies, for sentimental/publicity reasons, but theyâre not going to pull the plugâon characters or the show in generalâas long as itâs turning a profit. I could imagine that theyâve auditioned replacement voice actors for all of the recurring partsâyes, even the principalsâand play them when the actors do things such as try to play hardball during negotiations.
sort of like Louis CKâs role on the Late Show?
I think now is a good time to stop watching The Simpsons.
It was a good run.
With Shearer moving on, Iâm going to move on also.
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