It was already said about Troy Mclure. I’m still annoyed that a 3rd rate Indian comedian said “Apu is making us all look bad” Ahh yes Apu who is literally the hardest working person (besides Smithers) Apu a man who had 5 women dating him at one time. A man who got the hottest girl ever (The Squishish girl)… They decided that was offensive and against their race.
All I’ve got is “OI MISTER PRIME MINISTER” and “900 DOLLARYDOOS???”
I guess I’m entitled because 900 dollarydoos is fucking hilarious and I love being insulted.
I have some long lost Scottish heritage (ask the English and the Catholic Church why I can’t look up my history) and I Absolutely love everything about Groundskeeper Willie even his creepy phase of filming couples in their cars… "EVERY SCOTTISH PERSON DOS EET’
I’m pretty sure ‘dollarydoos’ is honourary Aussie now. It was in Bluey.
Ahh yes Apu who is literally the hardest working person (besides Smithers)
It’s reinforcing a stereotype. Apu was an interesting character when they expanded him, but he dealt with a lot of stereotypes and had a white guy voicing a fairly stereotypical guy.
Hank Azaria (or whoever it is voicing him) is cool with it, maybe check out his perspective
Hank Azaria voices many characters and is a very talented guy. I don’t blame him for being uncomfortable voicing Apu
Apu had so many silly and offensive things towards Indians… But Apu is (As I said in my original comment) a great and wonderful character and is one of the better off characters in the show.
The only time Apu is a bad guy is when he’s selling expired meat or when he’s cheating on his wife.
The rest of the time he’s busting his arse and being so damned hard working.
Groundskeeper Willie is a drunk, hate filled, Scottish borderline serial killer… All okay it’s because he’s Scottish.
I don’t care either way, I like Apu and I like Willie but I don’t like that a 3rd rate comedian attacked Apu just to get famous and No one cares about the harmful stereotypes of Ellie… I don’t even care… Actually I’m tired of this, I don’t care.
What “third rate comedian” are you even talking about.
Exactly, none of us even know who he is. But he felt he was important enough to create an entire documentary about Apu, crying that Apu was making Indians seem bad when Apu was crushing it.
Then if you payed attention I talked about how unhappy I was that the Simpsons let us Australians off easy.
I want to be attacked on all fronts because I’m a ridiculous human being.
“dickhead” is something you call someone you like in Australia.
I haven’t watched the Simpsons in SOOOOO long. They really benched Apu?
The voice actor maybe felt bad about being a white guy reinforcing indian stereotypes, or maybe felt pressured, but either way decided that he wasn’t going to voice him anymore, and they decided not to replace him and instead just never give Apu a line again.
Thanks. Not replacing him was an odd choice, though.
not so much; the topic had kind of become a whole thing within the comedy/entertainment circuit on account of Hari Kondabolu making a documentary about it.
It was a detailed and nuanced discussion about the wider nature of invisible racism, and therefore attracted a ton of kneejerk reactions from people who hadn’t watched it but sure as hell had opinions (edit: oh look, after I wrote that, one of them showed up in the comments lol). In the end it was just easier to let it lie than get tied up in an intractable discussion on whether an Indian person playing up an Indian stereotype for the entertainment of a mainstream audience is still harmful or not
