• @P34C0CKOP
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    211 month ago

    Haven’t watched regularly in years, so I’m unsure how prevalent Milhouse has been in recent seasons.

    Still seemed sad.

    • shoulderoforion
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      181 month ago

      Milhouse isn’t retiring, lol, the actress that voices his is, they’re gonna recast for the Milhouse voice. Lady made 25 million dollars voicing Simpsons characters in the last 35 years, she’s done fine she’s old now, and want to do other things

      • SSTF
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        271 month ago

        It is sad to me. The Simpsons is never going to get a definitive, dignified ending where it goes out on a high. It is just going to keep going on and on, slowly losing original bits and pieces. Swapping out a long time voice actor because the show has been going on so long that they aged out and retired is pretty depressing.

        • @MimicJarM
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          91 month ago

          I actually wonder if this will be the beginning of the end.

          We lost Edna a few years back and they retired her character. The voice change for Carl/Hibbert is noticable (Carl has gotten better, but Hibbert is still wrong). It’s obvious Marge is getting older. Apu has been largely absent the past few seasons. Now Milhouse/Jimbo will need to be replaced.

          The current season has been one of the strangest seasons by far, not necessarily in a bad way, but it’s been a shift.

          • @Cenzorrll
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            21 month ago

            Apu has been largely absent the past few seasons. Now Milhouse/Jimbo will need to be replaced.

            Last I heard, Apu was being removed because he’s become a stereotype that’s reaching into the racism spectrum.

            • @MimicJarM
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              11 month ago

              Yeah I’ve watched the documentary and I understand where some folks are coming from, but I’ve also read the opposite. At this point the decision has been made and Hank Azaria isn’t going to voice him anymore, so it’s not a debate worth having. At this point Apu is gone and I doubt he’ll be brought back.

        • DarkGamer
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          61 month ago

          Eh, I still enjoy it, although I do find it amusing how the family becomes more and more anachronistic and how they have to keep changing the decades flashbacks occur in as the show ages.

          • @Lost_My_Mind
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            61 month ago

            In the 90s, they did a flashback, and Homer/Marge were in high school inthe 1970s.

            Now didn’t they do one where they were in high school in like 2005?

            • @[email protected]
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              61 month ago

              Funnily enough, there’s an old episode that shows a class reunion in 2024 where Marge and Homer are really old.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          The movie was supposed to be that ending. Funny thing too is the South Park movie was supposed to be the ending of that show.

          Let us hope Family Guy doesn’t get a movie.

          • Bizzle
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            21 month ago

            Family Guy has always been a piece of shit

          • @Lost_My_Mind
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            11 month ago

            Eh…family guy could have ended after likd 6-7 seasons and it would have been fine. Aren’t they on like season 25 now?

            • @[email protected]
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              21 month ago

              They were cancelled early. The comeback season was good at the time. I agree, If they ended it around 5 or 6 it would be fondly remembered.

      • ArtieShaw
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        41 month ago

        It’s an interesting question. Some characters are quietly retired (Phil Hartman’s), while others are killed off in-series (Krabapple). Eventually all of the original cast will age out or pass away. Will they continue Ship of Theseus style by replacing people?

        Retiring the entire show seems to be impossible, although I’d argue that it should have been done 15 years ago.

        • @WarlockLawyer
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          41 month ago

          Or with enough audio references they will just replace them all with AI.

          • ArtieShaw
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            11 month ago

            That’s a great point. They have a vast pool of references after all these years.

          • @GraniteM
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            11 month ago

            That’d be even more depressing and gross than recasting everyone with new actors.

            • @WarlockLawyer
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              11 month ago

              Yes and cheaper for Fox so they’ll love it. The zombie corpse of the Simpsons continues to shamble onwards

        • @Lost_My_Mind
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          -31 month ago

          I wouldn’t exactly say Phil Hartman “quietly retired”.

          He was straight up murdered.

          • ArtieShaw
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            111 month ago

            No - I meant the show retired the character without much comment on the murder.

    • @MimicJarM
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      151 month ago

      Milhouse is the main one but also Jimbo and occasionally Rod/Todd. All those characters still pop up from time to time.

  • @mercano
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    61 month ago

    The show’s in its 35th year, I think we’re going to start seeing more of this. Anyone that was 30 when the show started is coming up on eligibility for Social Security and Medicare. I’m curious how long the core cast will stay active, and if the show attempts to recast or finally calls it quits when one or more of them step down.

    I don’t think any of the original Sesame Street muppetiers are still working, for instance, but Big Bird and Elmo are still going strong.

    • @hactar42
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      51 month ago

      I was Bart’s age when the show started. I’m now older than Homer.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      Harry Shearer feels like he should be the next to retire given that he’s 80 and has been a stick in the mud for years now, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he is still voicing characters until he no longer is able to or Disney decides it’s cheaper to replace the actors.