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‘The Simpsons’ Creator Matt Groening Says He’s “Proud” of Apu Following Controversy
NME ^ | 22nd March 2021 | Sam Warner

Posted on 03/22/2021 2:10:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

I love The Simpsons, but nothing beats the Looney Tunes or Hanna Barbara cartoons.


21 posted on 03/22/2021 5:33:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic: The Internet's 1st social media platform. Since 1996.)
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To: Whatever Works

No, not the guy who started his career drawing fez-wearing homosexuals!


22 posted on 03/22/2021 6:25:54 PM PDT by No.6
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To: Vaduz

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

A Pun! Aha! Sapee mape til on!


23 posted on 03/22/2021 6:27:41 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: nickcarraway

And yet, after all these years, no one cares that the voice of the young white boy, Bart Simpson, has been voiced by a woman.


24 posted on 03/22/2021 6:49:23 PM PDT by Horkster (Cho-Bai-Den - President-Inept)
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If they had used an actual boy, he’d be a middle-aged man by now.


25 posted on 03/22/2021 11:47:52 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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But then I started thinking, if that character were the only representation of Jewish people in American culture for 20 years, which was the case with Apu, I might not love that.”

Rajesh Ramayan "Raj" Koothrappali, Ph.D.an Astrophysicist at Caltech, would take issue with that...

26 posted on 03/23/2021 3:59:06 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: nickcarraway

They said it was insulting and not funny, though they never had a problem guffawing at everything Apu said previously.

One of Apu’s greatest commentaries on life was when Homer came into the Quickie Mart and said, “Apu, how you doing?”

Apu said, “Oh, I don’t know; leave a penny, take a penny.”


27 posted on 03/23/2021 4:24:45 AM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: nickcarraway

FTA: The Simpsons also announced last year that non-white characters would no longer be voiced by white actors on the show

Who gets to voice the YELLOW Simpson characters?


28 posted on 03/24/2021 2:35:22 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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