# The Might Stephen Hawking?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-might-stephen-hawking/49961>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 14, 2001, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-might-stephen-hawking/49961 "2001-01-14T04:34:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-might-stephen-hawking/49961/21 "2001-01-15T15:58:12Z")

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> \*Originally posted by JoeyBlades \*  
> **Hawking also played himself in an episode of StarTrek TNG.**

To be nitpicky, he played a hologram of himself. Maybe the only time that a real person has portrayed a fake version of themselves.

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-might-stephen-hawking/49961/22 "2001-01-15T16:22:39Z")

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> \*Originally posted by jb\_farley \*  
> \*\*slight hijack-
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> Yes, Hawking was a guest star on the Simpsons. **Erroneous** , your name befits you, but have no fear. It’s a popularly held misconception that Jackson did the voice for that Simpsons episode. The listing was one John Paul Jay (I’m pretty sure), who also was given a credit in the Flaming Moe episode, as the singer of the fake Cheers theme “Flaming Moe’s”.
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> And yes, Dustin Hoffman was indeed the infamous “Sam Etic”. With jokes like that, how could the simpsons have gone wrong? \*\*

Speaking voice-Michael Jackson  
Singing voice-NOT Michael Jackson

In one episode, Lisa references this with her thoughts on the Itchy and Scratchy Movie, saying it had all sorts of famous celebrities: “Michael Jackson, Dustin Hoffman…they didn’t use their real names, but you could tell it was them.”

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**Author:** ![JoeyBlades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a87d85/32.png) [@JoeyBlades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyBlades)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-might-stephen-hawking/49961/23 "2001-01-15T18:53:11Z")

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AWB:

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> To be nitpicky, he played a hologram of himself.

I stand corrected…

You know… it is possible to be too nitpicky… [wink]

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