Harry Shearer leaves the Simpsons

Too many big characters going there not that I've watched it for years. Revoicing them would be a bad idea.
 
I wonder how he felt he was being "screwed" at £300K an episode working from home.

Either he's a bit of a Prima Donna or the job is more onerous that it's made to appear?

Perhaps he thought he was too important to let go and they called his bluff.
 
I thought it was to do with a conflict in his contract that didn't allow him to work on another project outside of the Simpsons. Don't think it was about money at all.
 
EddScott said:
I wonder how he felt he was being "screwed" at £300K an episode working from home.

Either he's a bit of a Prima Donna or the job is more onerous that it's made to appear?

Perhaps he thought he was too important to let go and they called his bluff.
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While 300 grand is nothing to sniff at I'd probably feel a bit miffed if say I was making that per episode and some producer at the top was making say (stupid number for illustration purposes) 20 million an episode.
 
Thanks Harry - now just go and enjoy your money and your retirement before you die. You only get one life and with that kind of money at 71, I'd be living the high life not working.
 
Participant said:
Thanks Harry - now just go and enjoy your money and your retirement before you die. You only get one life and with that kind of money at 71, I'd be living the high life not working.
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Absolutely this.

I'm not a fan of the Simpsons either way and in his shoes I'd want to enjoy my life, not spend it working on the same thing I've been doing for a bajillion years.
 
He always did seem to be the most vocal about the declining quality. I like that he actually spoke up about that absolutely dreadful episode where Principal Skinner is an imposter. I actually refuse to watch anything from season 9 onwards because of that one episode. It just blows my mind that they thought it would be a good idea to take this well liked character who you've built up an interesting back story with for over a decade, and then just throw it all out of the window.

I do think completely seriously that seasons 3-6 are the pinnacle of sitcom TV by far, with 7 and 8 being strong seasons too. I just can't believe people still watch it now though. It's a rotting corpse as far as I'm concerned, and it's kind of sad because the brilliant seasons are kind of overshadowed by the overwhelming amount of bad ones and tarnishes its legacy.
 
His best work -

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(I've never actually watched The Simpsons)
 
Apparently he's still negotiating. He wants to be able to do other things as well as The Simpsons. If he does leave though, it's the beginning of the end of The Simpsons really.

They could recast, but it wouldn't be the same.

No Principal Skinner, Stupid Flanders, Monty Burns, Mr. Smithers, Dr. Hibbert, Lenny, Kent Brockman, Rev. Lovejoy, Otto, Kang, Renier Wolfcastle, Scratchy... and those are just the common ones.
 
arknor said:
didn't they recast some of them before anyway?

homers voice changed after the first few seasons if not before then?
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Not really. The only real change was way back in season 1 when Mr Burns and Moe Syszlak were voiced by Christopher Collins, but those roles were changed to Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria.

The six big cast members (Dan Castellaneta, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Nancy Cartwright, Yardley Smith, Julie Kavner) are *well, were* still doing the same characters.

Dan Castellaneta changed how he did Homers voice as it was based on Walter Matthau and very difficult to get any emotion into it, and was tiring do for any length of time.
 
Not watched The Simpsons for years to be honest, I read about the bloke who done the Troy Mclure voice the other day, the actor Phil Hartman as I saw him in a movie the other day, and I thought his voice sounded familiar... anyway done some researching and his jealous wife killed him in a cocaine rage shot him in the head then killed herself!.. nice!
 
Participant said:
Thanks Harry - now just go and enjoy your money and your retirement before you die. You only get one life and with that kind of money at 71, I'd be living the high life not working.
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I'd imagine he already does, and has done for a while. Hardly a 8:30-5:30 hard slog he's got.
 
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