‘The Simpsons’ producer confirms Apu is being written out of the show - Sensationalist Headlines

Congratulations. Kids are little shits.

@Wowza! Yeah people like Oaf are being a reductive.

This is a problem with EVERYONE ELSE in the entertainment industry, not The Simpsons and not Apu.

Sure but I'm not gonna act like the Simpsons isn't a part of that industry

What are you doing?

I was trying to make a point?

Well I’m sorry to say dude, but you’re failing massively at doing that.

Do you think it's fine that he's voiced by a white dude purposely doing a stereotypical accent?

Good job, you fucked it

Would rather try and fail than never say anything ever, I suppose.

I was going to respond to your other posts, but I forgot that you have the reputation of being our left-wing Tudd.

There are cowboys voiced by black people? Really, what are you going on about?

that's because children are generally terrible actors

Then how is your argument not built on hypocrisy?

Do you think Samurai Jack is problematic too

There's also pretty strict laws on when and how long child actors can work, particularly in california, where the animation studio that makes The Simpsons is based, IIRC. Also, what the hell do you do when kids grow up. It's not really hypocritical for me to be fine with bart being voiced by a woman when there are a buttload of legal and practicality reason why bart is voiced by a woman.

Lotta people here mentioning how his stereotypes are positive which does not address how they came to define indians to people. In other words mentioning how the italians are all mafia doesn't make a convincing point because the simpsons didn't make that stereotype stick in people's brains it was something else that did it. Hail satan's comparison to GG goes along similar lines where we saw narratives about it emerge and eventually one of the narratives won and now stands for the movement in public consciousness. There are other points to Hari Kondabolu's exploration too. Also the response from the simpsons really really sucked and was incredibly bad at reading the room.

I'm still amazed that the Simpsons keeps getting renewed for more seasons. I stopped watching past season 10 so I can't speak for the quality of anything past that, but jesus there's 30 seasons. The show just looks like an emotionless mess with flat, ugly colors now.

Ok, but what does that have to do with them being terrible actors? And what does that have to do with Apu being voiced by a white guy?

That's because James Earl Jones has an amazing presence and the english actor they hired to play the physical vader came off sounding pretty silly.

Should we make exceptions to people who are good voice actors then? Can a good white voice actor voice Apu then? I really don't understand your logic dude.

As long as it’s done well, I don’t mind who’s doing it at all. Remember, accents like Apu’s exist because there are people who legitimately do have the kind of accent. I should know, as I had a teacher who came from India that legitimately talked liked that. He even had the same thickness to his accent as Apu, so I never had a problem believing it existed. For me, it doesn’t matter who/what is behind any voice, stereotypical or not. If you are able to do a certain voice and do it well, you should be able to use it, not matter what age, gender, sex or even ethnicity you are.

I don't recall giving a shit when I was watching it as a kid. Samurai Jack and Star Wars are also set in fantastical settings that have little to do our world. The Simpsons is a bit more grounded.

But it is still a fictional setting, which is why it works.

But it's grounded in the real world. Indians and british people don't exist in star wars, they do in the simpsons.

If only the show was written out of itself

so now these same people are gonna complain the show is too white right?

*plus voiced by a white guy, I think that's what really upset them.

Shit, Apu's accent is tame compared to some of the Indians I've been blessed with talking to.

What does this even mean