Milhouse, that is.
Okay, so Milhouse isn’t retiring but Pamela Hayden, his voice actor, is. At age 70, she’s decided to drop the mike.
Show says that they will re-cast the role.
So this isn’t the untimely end of Milhouse.
Yes, we’ll still have Milhouse to kick around.
Everything’s coming up Millhouse!
Where will they ever find an artist to draw Millhouse the same way?
Just as long as they don’t try to do it live - it’s a terrible strain on the animators’ wrists.
But will his mom still think he’s cool?
With the show in its 36th season and the main cast now in their sixties or seventies (Harry Shearer’s 81), I do wonder which if any voice actor’s retirement would force the end of the show.
Bart gave the answer 32 years ago, in season 3:
“Quality, shmality. If I had a TV show, I’d run that baby into the ground!”
They’re doing marvellous things these days with AI, I hear.
Grand Moff Tarkin would probably approve.
In Germany the SImpsons are dubbed (as are 99% of foreign movies and TV shows), and the original voice actors for both Marge (Elisabeth Volkmann) and Homer (Norbert Gastell) have long died. I have given up watching new episodes more than 20 years ago, long before those deaths, but every time I catch a snippet of a new episode, their new voices sound totally off to me.
My guess (and it’s just a guess) is that if and when any one of the main cast retires (or dies, or becomes no longer able to voice their characters) the other cast members will retire in solidarity. And that would probably mark the end of the show.
Renewed for four more seasons:
Has the show changed much over the years? [I haven’t seen any episodes since last century.]
The Simpsons is like Sideshow Bob stepping on a succession of rakes. it’s funny, then it wasn’t, then it became cringeworthy, then it kept going on so long it became funny again.
But when you pull back and look at it from a distance, it wasn’t funny after all.
Does that clear it up?
::Thwack:: (mumble mumble mumble)