# Live-Action Simpsons **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2000, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745 "2000-03-14T13:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WIGGUM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/1 "2000-03-14T13:36:00Z")
I realize this would be a near impossiblity, and somewhat sacreligious, but hypothetically, if there were a live-action Simpson’s movie, who should the cast be? I have yet to get my creative juices flowing on this as of yet, but I just thought I’d put it out there to the Teeming Millions. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/2 "2000-03-14T13:47:00Z")
Sorry, but if I found out someone was making a live-action Simpsons, I’d go mental, fly out to Hollywood, and kill the producers involved. * * * It’s my duty; my duty as a complete and utter bastard.–Arnold J. Rimmer. ---
**Author:** ![WIGGUM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/3 "2000-03-14T14:04:00Z")
I know, I know. I agree completely, but if the moronic powers that be in Hollywood deemed it necessary to defile the sanctity of our beloved Simpson’s, who, if anyone, would do the least amount of damage? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/4 "2000-03-14T15:06:00Z")
I’ve always thought that for one of the opening credits couch gags they should film a group of live actors (maybe the voice actors) doing the parts. Other than that however, I feel the Simpsons should remain animated. ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/5 "2000-03-15T06:39:00Z")
This has been done, only using regulars of the local bar scene. Maybe you should confine your cast to SDMB users? ## Sweet Basil (volunteering for Cletus the slackjawed Yokel “Uh-Huk!!”) Didn’t get voted for a damn thing! (thanks guys…) ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/6 "2000-03-14T19:42:00Z")
Here are my suggestions. Homer Simpson - Jean-Claude Van Damme. Marge Simpson - Madonna. Lisa Simpson - The young Christina Ricci. Bart Simpson - The actor that played Urkel. Maggie Simpson - Don Rickles. Montgomery Burns - Harrison Ford. Smithers - Rupert Everett. Ned Flanders - Leonardo DiCaprio. Apu - Matt Damon. Principal Skinner - Sylvester Stallone. Barney - Nick Nolte. Patty Bouvier - Angelina Jolie. Selma Bouvier - Winona Ryder. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/7 "2000-03-14T19:57:00Z")
I can’t wait to see Arnold’s movie! ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/8 "2000-03-14T19:58:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Maybe you should confine your cast to SDMB users? I’ve got dibs on Lenny! ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/9 "2000-03-14T20:03:00Z")
Oooo, I got dibs on Karl…“No Moe, not the dank, you can’t get rid of the dank.” Second choices are Disco Stu and Gil. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/10 "2000-03-14T21:21:00Z")
I want to be Dr. Nick! “Now there’s no need to involve the law.” * * * I understand all the words, they just don’t make sense together like that. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/11 "2000-03-15T01:59:00Z")
I’m just waiting for Andrew Lloyd Weber to work his ‘Magic’ on the Simpsons and give us a new broadway play. SIMPSONIA! ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/12 "2000-03-15T02:13:00Z")
Well, when you consider there’s another live-action _Flintstones_ movie about to open, and a combination live-action/animated _Rocky and Bullwinkle_ this summer (starring Robert De Niro (!) as Fearless Leader)(I am NOT making that up!), the probability of it happening to _The Simpsons_ gets greater every day. OTOH, I think it will happen only over Matt Groening’s dead body, and maybe not even then. He may have an Orson Welles-type\* contract that specifies what cannot be done even after his death. \*_Citizen Kane_ can never be colorized because Welles specified that it can never be altered even with technology yet to be invented, in perpetuity. But I guess there’s the standard TV clause that allows TV stations to edit it to fit a time slot and allow for commercials. That said, I wanna be Professor Frink “wu-heyee”. * * * When all else fails, ask Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/13 "2000-03-15T02:14:00Z")
What scares me is that Tom Arnold would get cast as Homer and the little “Sixth Sense” boywould be Bart. ---
**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/14 "2000-03-15T04:19:00Z")
I vote for a shaved John Goodman as Homer, or maybe Chief Wiggums. * * * I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/15 "2000-03-15T05:21:00Z")
No ideas for the film, but you reminded me of a “Homer-esque” fellow who used to frequent a theater where I worked. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought so because one day he showed up wearing the “Homer Simpson – World’s Greatest Dad!” t-shirt. LOL – embracing his “Homerness”! I want to be Ralph Wiggum, but it’s going to be quite a special effect to make it possible, ha! * * * “I don’t know…I don’t know.” – St. DooDah ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/16 "2000-03-15T13:46:00Z")
- - - There’s already _been_ a live-action Simpson’s show, silly. It was the one where Homer tried to hide behind the bureau and slipped into the 3-dimensional world. He walked down a street as real peole stared, and went into an Adult Cake shop. They did him in 3-D digital animation. Homer: “Maaarge, help me, , I’m stuck in the space-time continuum.” Marge: “I’ll get Ned Flanders. He has a ladder.” 😃 - MC ---
**Author:** ![hightechburrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f6c823/32.png) [@hightechburrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hightechburrito)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-simpsons/14745/17 "2000-03-16T02:36:00Z")
I get to be Duffman! **Oh no! Duffman can’t breath!!** What dya’ll think?