Simpsons voices take cut, show likely ending in 2013

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1. Darryl Heine

   UPDATE: I just read the Simpsons won’t end this season and has been renewed for 2 more seasons to end with the 25th. anniversary season in 2015.;

2. Chris Cantrell

   God, could you imagine voicing a character for 25 years on such a regular basis? I can’t imagine any animated show toppling The Simpsons run anytime soon.

3. Topher Davia

   That depends on how you imagine doing the same voice for a while. Mel Blanc did the warner brother (sans a few) for longer and they only replaced him after he died. I don’t know how Hanna Barbara handled their voice talent but if they used the same voices there’s a decent chance they had the same voices for as long as the simpsons. Also I think (keyword think) that some of the Scooby Do voices are still that stuff. (Frank Welker & Kasey Kasem?)

   Either way it’s been a long long time.

4. Tom Falco

   For $8 mil a year and working a few weeks a year I could manage doing the same voices for 25 years.

5. Darryl Heine

   TOPHER: You mean Casey Kasem.

6. Mike Peterson

   No, I’m pretty sure he meant Kasey Kasem, Casey’s brother, whose work was pretty much limited to making that wet flapping noise when a hound dog would shake his head and his jowls would flap.

   It did used to cause some chaos down at the studio when they’d have a jowl-flapping voice to dub in and somebody would call the wrong Kasem. Casey couldn’t make that noise at all, though he was pretty good at the hobbitahobbit noise that little goat used to make. Kasey couldn’t touch that one!

   Sometimes, after a long day, everybody’d go down to this little bar, and, after they’d had a few drinks, Kasey’s start making the jowl-flapping sound and then Casey would start going hobbitahobbita, and how everyone would laugh!

   Those Kasem brothers were quite a combination.

   Then again, maybe it was just a spelling error and not worth mentioning in the first place.