Have any former US Presidents lent their voices to the Simpsons? I thought they were all faked, but then I read this article.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031123/en_afp/us_britain_simpsons_031123181807
I bet Clinton did that “I’ve done it with pigs, real live pigs” line.
Hmm, the only thing I can think of was there was a brief live action clip from a Bush speach early on when they were complaining about “The Simpsons.” As I understand it that was only played when it first aired.
I thought they faked those too and the Guest Stars list at snpp.com don’t show any Bush, Carter of Clinton. And the cast list shows who voiced some of them.
They should get Carter. I’d bet he’d work with them.
None of Jimmy Carter’s, Bill Clinton’s or George H.W. Bush’s IMDB.com entries (yes, they have them) show guest appearances on The Simpsons, though Carter’s shows a guest appearance on Home Improvement and Clinton is cited for appearances on J.A.G. (while he was still in office, which I find vaguely disturbing for some reason).
For fake presidential appearances on Simpsons, my favourite remains:
Clinton: I know you don’t think you’re good enough for me. But believe me, you are. Hell, I done it with pigs. [laughs] Real, no-foolin’ pigs!
Marge: Are you sure it’s a federal law that I have to dance with you?
Clinton: You know, I’d change that law if I could, Marge. But, I can’t.
Aide: [whispers in Clintons’ ear]
Clinton: Aw, shoot. Quebec’s got the bomb! Well, I gotta go, but … look, if you’re ever near the White House, there’s a toolshed out back. I’m in there most of the day.
But I may be biased (about the Quebec part, not about the pigs or the toolshed).
Jerry Ford’s appearance has always been my favorite:
“Homer, do you like beer?”
Heh.
And Dick Nixon showed up on a Treehouse of Horror.
Flanders: I give you the Jury of the Damned! Benedict Arnold, Lizzie Borden, Richard Nixon –
Nixon: But I’m not dead yet! In fact, I just wrote an article for Redbook.
Flanders: Hey, listen: I did a favor for you!
Nixon: [humbly] Yes, master.
Hell, here’s a whole page of presidential appearance and references at SNPP.
Have you all forgotten Clinton, Reagan, and Bush I doing a Three Stooges act while helping Carter out on that Habitat for Humanity house?
I think that article is mistaken.
Heh-heh… Taft, you old dog…
You’re next… Chester A. Arthur
Ooh! Oooh! Don’t forget former president James Taylor’s appearance on the episode where Homer becomes an astronaut!
(For you younguns, James Taylor wasn’t a president, though Homer mistakes him for one.)
On one of the Futurama commentaries, Matt Groening talks about how ticked off he was at the whole Nixon/Watergate thing and says he never imagined he’d still be able to make fun of him so many years after the fact.
Don’t forget George Washington wrestling with Jebediah Springfield!
Did they get George Washington to supply the voice?
An early Bill Clinton appearance, circa 1994: we see the Commander-in-Chief leading a children’s jazz band on saxophone.
Moe: Hey, Clinton! Get back to work!
Clinton: Bite me.
The voice here is truly bizarre - it sounds like no other Clinton impersonation I’ve ever heard.
I believe he said “Make me.”
(Bite me, it’s fun!)
I love Billy West’s Nixon…especially those strange “arooo” noises.
Grampa: Big deal! When I was a pup, we got spanked by Presidents till the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two nonconsecutive occasions!