Apr 06 2009
Moments of The Most Popular Simpson Voices Without Animation
It’s always weird to hear a person’s voice for the first time after you’ve already seen them a bunch of times without hearing their voice. The best example would be athletes. Sometimes you can go years without hearing the voice of a guy on your favorite baseball team, etc etc. Well actually, think Mike Tyson.
Imagine how weird it was to hear him for the first time. Well, the same weirdness applies when you see the face of the voice of an animated character and then hear them talk. It’s such a surprise. You think to yourself “that’s the voice of Homer Simpson?”
Well, it’s even weirder hearing them and seeing them actually do the voices of their characters.
Check out the Simpsons voices in person
Dan Castellaneta - Drunk Awards Speech
Man is it not weird looking at this guy sans animation? It almost taints my entire image of the show and character. I’d like to pretend I never saw that video.
Julie Kavner - Drugs and Guns
she’s not doing Marge here but it’s the closest thing I could find. Again, freaky to see her face and not Marge’s.
Nancy Cartright
What the hell?
Yeardley Smith
She’s way too serious. Just do Lisa will ya?
Harry Shearer Does his Simpson Voices
does way too many of the voices. Amazing to seem them all by one face.
Hank Azaria Doing Apu
Azaria also does a tons of voices on the show. And it’s even weirder that he’s a commercial success as an actor as well. Here’s him doing Milhouse’s dad.
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Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria are pretty recognizable outside their Simpsons voices.
Shearer is a regular in Christopher Guest’s movies; “A Mighty Wind” especially was one where whenever he spoke, all I could think of was Principal Skinner.
And recently I saw “Run Fatboy Run,” and I was rather shocked to not only see Azaria’s naked butt, but also because he is in pretty incredible physical shape for someone many of us know mostly as a voice actor.
And just one more: When I was in 6th grade, in Home-Ec class for some reason one day we watched what I believe was a TV movie or an after-school-special (very crappy), called “Mom’s On Strike.” It was notable for me at the time because I recognized the young girl in it as the voice of Lisa Simpson. This must have been 1995 or so.
Fantastic! Thanks for posting these.
With the possible exceptions of Nancy and Yeardley, each of them are rather accomplished in their own right as comedic actors. Castellenata is great in everything he does and Julie Kavner’s film “This is My Life” was seriously under-appreciated, not to mention her Woody Allen movies. I truly appreciate the abilities of voice-actors, but it takes more than a goofy voice to be effective. The Simpsons is all about the acting (actually, it’s mostly about the writing, but you know what I’m saying…)