Way to bend over for one fucking crybaby you pussy. From Colbert last night .


i’ve given this a lot of thought, really a lot of thought and as I say my eyes have been opened. And I think the most important thing is that we have to listen to South Asian people, to Indian people When they talk about what they feel and how they think about this character and what their American experience of it has been . And as you know, in television terms listening to voices means inclusion in the writers room . I really want to see Indian , south Asian writers in the room, not in a token way but genuinely informing whatever new direction this character may take including how it is voiced or not voiced . I’m perfectly willing and happy to step aside or help transition it into something new . I really hope that’s what the Simpsons does and that it just not only makes sense, but that it’s the right thing to do

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

That's a whole lot of not saying anything. The right thing to do would be to share profits with the south Asian animators being paid nothing to draw the show. That ever happen Hank?

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I promise not to protest if they replace Apu with a polish cleaning lady.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Isn't this show done after next year anyway? They can have one magical year of Apu written and voiced by a rich Harvard kid from Edison, New Jersey, and then everything will be okay.

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I thought that show was done about seven years ago.

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Well now the country is in fine shape ... Apu won't speak like every tech call center rep I've ever spoken to.

Ye gods.

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As someone who watched, re-watched, re-watched again, and fully internalized the first nine or ten years of The Simpsons, watching the new episodes with the computer animation, fatigued voices, and characters looking at facebook on their iPhones is so weird. I wish it had ended seven years ago. Or seventeen.

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False, it's been done since 1998 or 1999. It's just that no one ever told them.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I never would've guessed

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Last good episode might have been the one with Johnny Cash

or thereabouts

Seasons 2-8 I think I know verbatim

Principal and the Pauper was the beginning of the end. I'd say they were OK (not great) in seasons 9-10, but then afterwards... bleh

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

"That's it, Frank, keep up the chatter!"

An illustration of what Corey Crawford would've looked like had he played after Christmas break.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

The corporate-voice chick was a harbinger of bad times......soon as she came on, the show sucked

This is also right around the time that Phil Hartman died.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Season 8 was the last great one, Season 12 was the last good one. I don't think there are any good episodes after the Run Lola Run one.

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what? there were plenty of good episodes following season 12. "the fat and the furriest" was season 15, "the seemingly never-ending story" was season 17, and "homer the moe" was season 13, just to name a few. although, i concede that dana gould was horrible for the show. great comedian, not a great writer. and when the show started to get so deep into generations that they were hiring fans, and people raised on the show, it hasn't been good for it.

i never had a huge problem with "principal and the pauper". i agreed with the episode writer's take on it, ken keeler: "a community of people who like things just the way they are got mad. It never seems to have occurred to anyone that this episode is about the people who hate it."

It's occurred to me plenty of times that the writers hate the viewers. It's just that they used to get it across in much funnier episodes.

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Season 9's premier with Homer in NYC kind of sent messages that the show was over....I laughed like once or twice and then never again in memory. Last best episode for me was the Stephen Hawking one....Season ten or eleven....

I dunno....that kind of killed it for me....I can see the writer's point, though.

I've always found him a little attractive. I don't know why.

the problem with that is it would take 5 of them just to open the register.

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Will this lead to Apu getting a spin off? The story lines are endless! I'm already typing this with an Indian accent in my head.

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Your his agent. What would you advise him to do?


Terrible nomination.

End the show 10 years ago.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

And lose 10 years worth of paychecks for a super cushy voice over job?

You're fired.

he also probably wants to keep his job on "brockmire".

Voice Acting, actually. Little bit different and more intensive than VO. I think SAG even started treating it differently after video game actors went on strike, lead of all people by, ugh, wHil wHeaton.