# In the simpsons, which characters are based on actors outside the simpsons

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**Created:** [December 2, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-simpsons-which-characters-are-based-on-actors-outside-the-simpsons/706102 "2014-12-02T04:41:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-simpsons-which-characters-are-based-on-actors-outside-the-simpsons/706102/61 "2014-12-10T23:34:03Z")

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[quote=“akrako1, post:59, topic:706102”]

From “T\*\*\*\*\*\*he Day the Violence Died” (1996)

Roger Meyers Jr.: Okay, maybe my dad did steal Itchy. So what? Animation is built on plagiarism. If it weren’t for someone plagiarizing the Honeymooners we wouldn’t have the Flintstones. If someone hadn’t ripped off Sergeant Bilko, there’d be no Top Cat. Huckleberry Hound, Chief Wiggum, Yogi Bear? Hah! Andy Griffith, Edward G. Robinson, Art Carney[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSNTjX\_g9a4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSNTjX_g9a4). Your honor, you take away our right to steal ideas, where are they gonna come from?  
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNl0sBz1ol4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNl0sBz1ol4)  
I think Mel Blanc does both Edward G. Robinson’s and Peter Lorre voices. He was amazing.

Mel does all the voices in this one. I can post it because my Mom is Irish and my Uncle was a cop in Dublin.

[You might rabbit, you might!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSNTjX_g9a4) (Bugs Bunny)

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**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-simpsons-which-characters-are-based-on-actors-outside-the-simpsons/706102/62 "2014-12-10T23:45:21Z")

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\*kicks - okay _blames_ his laptop for weird looking postings. My internet has been weird all day. I guess, so have I. Time for bed.

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**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-simpsons-which-characters-are-based-on-actors-outside-the-simpsons/706102/63 "2014-12-11T01:42:08Z")

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McBain was a parody of Schwarzenegger.

McBain’s inability to articulate “Up and atom” in the radioactive man movie was a spoof on Arnold’s notorious troubles with the “I’ll be back” line from the Terminator movies.

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