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Harry Shearer will no longer voice black 'Simpsons' character Dr. Hibbert (nypost.com)
posted 5 years ago by YesMovement 5 years ago by YesMovement +47 / -0
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– cartoonericroberts 33 points 5 years ago +33 / -0

Oh my lord- they are still making Simpsons episodes!?

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– Smith1980 11 points 5 years ago +11 / -0

Yep. I’ve been watching all this time. They bent the knee with the Apu thing now they are bending the knee to this nonsense

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– lgbtqwtfbbq 25 points 5 years ago +25 / -0

I’ve been watching all this time.

Why? Show stopped being funny like 20 years ago.

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– cartoonericroberts 13 points 5 years ago +13 / -0

That's honestly being generous.

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– cartoonericroberts 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

I checked and The Simpsons stopped being funny on September 28, 1997.

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– lgbtqwtfbbq 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

When Futurama came out I remember thinking that it was clear where everyone was spending their time and energy, but it wasn't until they went to Brazil that I stopped watching.

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– lothrop_evola 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

The Armin Tanzarian episode? That did annoy a lot of people.

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– LinkR 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

Sunken cost fallacy. That tire fire has to burn out someday.

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– Smith1980 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

Sentimental value I guess. Not as funny but still has some gems

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– YesMovement [S] 20 points 5 years ago +20 / -0

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1364223005895835649

how does this work though Do they just remove all those characters from the show? Maybe they do an episode where Dr. Hibbert gets hit in the throat with a frisbee and his voice changes?

$20 says they pretty much just do that.

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– MrJ4242 9 points 5 years ago +9 / -0

Or they just change it with zero acknowledgement that isn’t related to jerking themselves off.

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– Constipatriot 12 points 5 years ago +12 / -0

He's been doing the voice for 30 years and thinks stopping now will mitigate any damage that may have been done?

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– LinkR 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

To be fair, the dude is getting up there in age. Retirement wouldn't be all that out of the question. Hard to think about how he was in his 40s when he took on the role. God damn. Come to think of it, a lot of the voice actors must be getting up there.

Looking at the people who have died, they have a fair number of voices that passed in their 70s. And considering his deep voice, I'm willing to bet he indulges in some less than healthy activities.

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– Constipatriot 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

If he were retiring outright I'd think he had a good run and wish him well. He's just declining to continue that one character for the sake of his own skin color. He still does dozens of other characters and those will remain, so this is just another cowtow to diversity, which seems petty to me after so long and nobody complaining.

Matt Groening is a lifelong hardcore libtard so this may not be entirely on Shearer, but that doesn't change anything.

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– JustHereForTheSalmon 12 points 5 years ago +12 / -0

In an effort to fix racism, they're making sure the only people that have the job are the ones with the right color.

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– alucard13mmfmj 10 points 5 years ago +10 / -0

I guess 90% of anime must be dubbed by japanese people only regardless of language.

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– Socalwackjob 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

And all for it, at this point let these woke VA's suffer the consequence. It's amazing how I've gone 180 in terms of voice dubbing.

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– alucard13mmfmj 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

We need to run down these woke people. Make them broke by using their logic against them. We should look up voice actors and see if they are woke sjw's on twitter. Call them out on voicing characters that are not the same color as them.

But... they probably wont see the error in their ways. Most likely theyll bitch to japan to add their race or whatever label they identify with into anime/games.

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– MetalGearMk4 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

What's the point this show can't possibly last much longer

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– Soup_Navy_Admiral 13 points 5 years ago +13 / -0

I said that a decade ago.

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– CanuckElhead 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

Yeah but this is starting to affect the bottom line for the mouse. Are they really going to pay to double the cast list for a show whose best years are two decades ago?

The other option is to get rid of these characters and oh boy, would that be a funny backfire but unlikely over just ditching it. It's not like its the companies golden boy anymore or anything, they're a small fish in a big pond.

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– KirbyMorph 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

When will they stop letting a girl voice Bart? Thats I dont know, cisphobic? gender non conformitivity insensitity disorder? theres some stupid made up phobic for it Im sure.

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