Posted on 11/20/2024 5:19:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
"One thing that I love about Milhouse is he’s always getting knocked down, but he keeps getting up. I love the little guy"
The Simpsons voice actor Pamela Hayden, who has voiced Milhouse and several other characters on the show for over 35 years, has announced that she is retiring.
Hayden has voiced Milhouse Van Houten – the blue-haired best friend of Bart Simpson – for almost 700 episodes since the show first began in 1989.
Her final episode will be Treehouse Of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes, which airs on November 24.
As well as Milhouse, Hayden also voiced characters including school bully Jimbo Jones, Ned Flanders’ son Rod, Chief Wiggum’s wife Sarah and Lisa’s friend Janey Powell.
“People come up to me and they quote Milhouse lines,” Hayden said in a video announcing her retirement. “People are always saying what a nerd he is. But one thing that I love about Milhouse is he’s always getting knocked down, but he keeps getting up. I love the little guy.”
The video included clips of Milhouse as well as footage of Hayden early in her career in which she described working on The Simpsons as “the greatest job in the world.” You can watch the video here.
As per Variety, Hayden’s other acting credits include 2007’s The Simpsons Movie, Lloyd in Space and Pound Puppies.
I’ll bet a computer can duplicate her voice and do any lines required, in future episodes.
I wouldn’t rule that possibility out.
Where is the love?
I think it would be funny if they got Siri or the like to do the voice of Milhouse for a few episodes. Maybe even change them up but always obviously artificial. But say they are “exploring AI and other technologies for duplicating the voice.”
Then get another voice actor who is really good to take the role, but then Milhouse’s appearance is slightly altered thereafter. (Like a Dick York/Dick Sergeant appearance change, only it would be subtle.)
I think I read they got the real voice for this.
Now who’s the voice of Nelson Muntz?
Ha-ha!
I remember first hearing about and then watching The Simpsons in 1990. It was at the time a novelty, and somewhat of a Big Deal. Life was a bit simpler then..
It’s been all downhill since The Simpsons Movie (Which was great!)
The same woman who does Bart, does Nelson Muntz.
Fox News wouldn’t even be there if it weren’t for The Simpsons.
Nancy Cartwright. She also played Ethel in the Twilight Zone Movie.
Ha-ha!
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