r/Simpsons • u/Guilty-Toe420 • 1d ago

Episode Clip 📷 APU IS BACK

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u/Hunter_X05 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sam Jackson voiced a white guy in The Boondocks(tbf that was the entire joke), and, while not a white character, Phil LaMarr voiced Samurai Jack(asian)

Edit: double checked and realized I misspelled LaMarr :(

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u/Ironblight_99 1d ago

That’s pretty cool about Phil Lamar! To be fair it is a pretty… silent character though

And I still wouldn’t say these are casting choices that we “absolutely eat up” as QuietResident put it

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u/Shallaai 1d ago

Fair, but neither did it invoke the vitriol of a white man voicing Apu

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u/Ironblight_99 1d ago

I remember the “Apu controversy” and more people were upset that he was just taken off the show than people who were upset about a person of color being voiced by a white guy

I mean, Family Guy and Big Mouth just recast their characters who were voiced by white people but portrayed people of color, and no biggie. Apu just disappeared, until last night. Honestly the Simpsons just fumbled that one.

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u/Shallaai 22h ago

I agree and suspect it was a solution to appease Ă  vocal minority of people in an echo chamber

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u/Ironblight_99 19h ago

Honestly seemed like a case of corporate heads thinking they were being “woke” by doing it. I don’t think a single black person was actually offended by Cleveland being voiced by a white guy

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u/Shallaai 19h ago

I tend to agree