The voice of Mr Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders, Otto and Seymour Skinner leaves the show after a contract dispute:
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Maybe. I suspect this is something that will be resolved and the current publicity about it is just manipulating public opinion to get a better contract. Remember many years ago when the Simpsons was rumored to be cancelled because the entire cast wanted more money? Yeah, it’s like that.
Wow. Okally-Dokally then.
End of an era. Other than Phil Hartman’s tragic death, has there been any other major voice actors to leave the show?
Marcia Wallace died - did she do any voices other than Mrs. K?
Maggie Roswell, who voiced Maude Flanders, Mrs Lovejoy, and a few other characters, left after season 10, due to a pay dispute. She eventually returned (though with fewer characters as they’d killed Maude off), presumably because she and the producers came to an agreement on her pay.
I understand that people should get paid what they can, and that what someone is willing to pay you for something dictates what it’s worth.
But per the interwebs, Harry makes $300,000 U.S. - per episode, and is worth $65 million with an ‘M.’
Forgive me for not crying in my coffee over this.
I suspect he isn’t crying either.
Lunchlady Doris died too so they changed her name to Dora.
Mr. Burns: “Bah, piffle ! Such a picayune amount was my allowance at Yale. Do not concern me with this chickenfeed….”
Did anyone actually read the article?
It says that he’s not leaving because of money, but because he’s (apparently) not allowed to do other voice work and he wants to do more than just Simpsons
I can’t (really) fault him for that
And that nicely illustrates the problem with OPs that have links and insufficiently informative info in them.
Surely [del]Great Debates[/del] Café Society deserves better. 
If you’re referring to me, sure I read the link.
Perhaps I’m just jaundiced by actors and athletes and their dreaded working conditions. Whenever I read “it’s not about the money” I usually think “it’s all about the money.” (And when’s the last time one of these guys has said, “you know, the work is fine, but it’s about the money!”)
Five 'll get you ten, that in three weeks you’ll hear that they offer him an extra $75k per episode and he’ll get over the extra work concern.
But if not, good for him that he has enough cash to do what he wants to do and can forgo $8M per year on principle.
I agree with you, they’ll find a way to keep him. If any of them were going to leave on principle, they’d have done it at least 15 years ago.
No I wasn’t referring just to you since the thread in general had a knee-jerk reaction to “it’s about the money!”.
Although to address your post, I still don’t think it’s about the money but that he’s probably just bored. He’s one of the best at what he does at what he does, but you can only do the same thing over and over and over again before you go crazy. It’s why Jordan played baseball, The Rock started acting, every rockstar tries to play sports and every athlete tries to be a rockstar.
He’s been “excellent”-ing and only “excellent”-ing for damn near 30 years, he wants to say another catchphrase for once in his life
Which just serves to illustrate my point. This is just everybody panicking over something that’s probably just not going to happen.
He just wants to spend more time practicing his bass and getting out of the damn pod-thing.
Maybe now they can just cancel the silly thing and be done with it. The show ceased to matter decades ago.
(sob) Shut up, (sob) Flanders.
Is the guy not in his 70’s? If he is worth $65m I can easily see him walking away for no other reason than he is in his 70’s and couldn’t be bothered anymore.
Here’s CNN Money on the story: 'Simpsons' Mr. Burns walking away from $14 million deal
Of course anyone would want to make more money, but maybe he just likes the creative freedom of doing work in addition to what he does on The Simpsons. Shearer’s a multi-talented guy. Having that door closed to him would be frustrating.