# If Dan Castellaneta died today would you want to see Homer dissapear? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054 "2006-11-28T12:17:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/21 "2006-11-28T19:13:45Z")
AIUI, the voice recording is done first, with the animation being done to fit the voices. If the voice of Homer died after recording 2/3 of the season, it would be before any animation was done. They may well abandon the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/22 "2006-11-28T19:40:27Z")
They could always get **Robin Williams** to do it! (It would be payback for what Castelleneta did to Aladin’s Genie) ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/23 "2006-11-28T20:21:47Z")
[QUOTE=KRM] Assuming that I’m not being whooshed, they turned Chef into a brainwashed child molester. Youtube has [The Return of Chef](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKkrMndMMM8). [/QUOTE] No, not a whoosh. I honestly hadn’t seen the episode or heard what they did. Thanks for the link. That was pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/24 "2006-11-28T20:30:56Z")
If (God forbid) Castellaneta was to die, I would rather see _The Simpsons_ go off the air than have it continue. A _Simpsons_ without Homer would not be the same, and no one can capture Homer as well as Dan does. ---
**Author:** ![JacksonRoykirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@JacksonRoykirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacksonRoykirk)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/25 "2006-11-28T20:45:50Z")
I agree that the show should end with the death of any of the main cast members (Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, et. al.). Not only has the show been on so long, the other cast members share such a camaraderie going back to the Tracy Ullman days, that I couldn’t imagine any of the others going on after the loss of one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Pseudopod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecd19e/32.png) [@Pseudopod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pseudopod)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/26 "2006-11-28T23:12:08Z")
I had this dream one time where Dan Castellaneta died but before his death, he recorded bits of his voice a la Microsoft Sam so they could just type in Homer’s lines. I think it’s a pretty great idea. What? ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/27 "2006-11-29T00:49:03Z")
No, no, no. If Homer died, then Ned should marry Marge and nim-Rod and nim-Todd would be step-brothers to Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. It would be the Brady Bunch from Hell! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/28 "2006-11-29T00:57:25Z")
[QUOTE=YellowTail] No, no, no. If Homer died, then Ned should marry Marge and nim-Rod and nim-Todd would be step-brothers to Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. It would be the Brady Bunch from Hell! [/QUOTE] I like this idea, but I get a picture of there being an episode where the running gag is that Homer’s life is threatened (using random bits of Homer-dialogue from previous episodes whenever Homer is called on to speak) and the kicker is at the end of the episode, Kang and Kodos finally destroy Earth for good… …except Homer. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/29 "2006-11-29T01:05:14Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] If (God forbid) Castellaneta was to die, I would rather see _The Simpsons_ go off the air than have it continue. A _Simpsons_ without Homer would not be the same, and no one can capture Homer as well as Dan does. [/QUOTE] Agreed. Many people underestimate how important the voice actors have been to the success of the show. The Simpsons wouldn’t be The Simpsons without any of the main characters, but especially Homer, and Homer wouldn’t have been Homer without Dan Castellaneta. All six of the show’s stars can take lines that you wouldn’t necessarily think would work and make them absolutely hilarious (and/or touching) by their delivery. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/30 "2006-11-29T01:14:55Z")
[QUOTE=Pseudopod] I had this dream one time where Dan Castellaneta died but before his death, he recorded bits of his voice a la Microsoft Sam so they could just type in Homer’s lines. I think it’s a pretty great idea. [/QUOTE] Strangely enough, there are cases where dead celebrities have voice libraries which can be pieced together and used in advertising and other projects for a fee. There’s a library of Ernie “Ghoulardi” Anderson the old ABC announcer, as well as Mel Blanc doing various Looney Tunes voices. Of course, it sounds like they are robots (as with the Chef thing in the _South Park_ episode already mentioned), but it’s been done. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/31 "2006-11-29T01:56:00Z")
There just _have_ to be 10 guys in LA who can do eerily accurate Homer impressions. Julie Kavner, OTOH… ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/32 "2006-11-29T02:12:35Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Strangely enough, there are cases where dead celebrities have voice libraries which can be pieced together and used in advertising and other projects for a fee. There’s a library of Ernie “Ghoulardi” Anderson the old ABC announcer, as well as Mel Blanc doing various Looney Tunes voices. Of course, it sounds like they are robots (as with the Chef thing in the _South Park_ episode already mentioned), but it’s been done. [/QUOTE] On a related note, Laurence Olivier played Dr. Totemkopf, the villian in Sky Captain and the World From Tommorow, something like 15 years after his death. IIRC, they digitally edited footage of him in his younger years together and dubbed new dialogue for him. It helped that his appearance in the film was limited to a holographic floating head. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/33 "2006-11-29T02:19:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Then kill the whole family/town in the Final Episode. Impossible. That town is indestructable. Comet-proof, melt-down-resistant, impervious to floods. Can’t be done. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/34 "2006-11-29T02:55:36Z")
[QUOTE=Patty O’Furniture] Impossible. That town is indestructable. Comet-proof, melt-down-resistant, impervious to floods. Can’t be done. [/QUOTE] They could use a Plotonium Warhead. Nothing can stand up against Plotonium (except, of course, for more Plotonium) ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dan-castellaneta-died-today-would-you-want-to-see-homer-dissapear/382054/35 "2006-11-29T10:53:47Z")
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