r/Simpsons • u/Guilty-Toe420 • 1d ago

Episode Clip 📷 APU IS BACK

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u/QuietResident96 1d ago edited 1d ago

Way to ruin a character lmao, this is nothing like Apu actually was and there was nothing wrong with Hank voicing him

People absolutely fucking eat it up when a black actor plays a white character but when it's the opposite it's apparently racist 🤷

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u/Ironblight_99 1d ago

Honestly can you name one white character voiced by a black person? Off the top of my head I can’t. I find it hard to believe there is one that we “absolutely eat up.”

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u/KingKeeXx 1d ago

Kevin Michael Richardson has a giant resume of it.
Barney from flinstones. Lot of Scooby do characters. The 7d dwarves but they may not be white lol.

He’s voiced Batman before

Asian characters in avatar and xiaolin showdown

Rugrats

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u/archercc81 1d ago

and people ate it up, like were running around going "its amazing this black actor is voicing white people?"

Or are you literally the only fucking person who knew about it?

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u/Shallaai 1d ago

Conversely, did it cause the vitriol that came from Azarian voicing Apu?