>”The Simpsons” has cast Sunil Malhotra (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Legend of Korra”) as the new voice of Apu, taking over for Hank Azaria:>Malhotra made his debut in Sunday night’s episode, “The Revengening,” marking the first time Apu has spoken in nearly a decade>Apu and the Nahasapeemapetilon family will once again be seen (and heard) on “The Simpsons” moving forward
>>155958692What's even the point? The damage has already been done.
>>155958708>What's even the point?That could be said about the last decade of Simpsons in its entirety.
>>155958692I needed to look up how long Apu has been voiceless by now. Turns out it's nine years. They didn't waste any time replacing Carl, Hibbert, Lou and Bumblebee Man's voices but Apu was not allowed to speak for nine years.
>>155958708>What's even the point?Uh... evil. It's evil, anon. Changing a character's actor based on the color of his skin is evil. These people believe in evil. Not complicated.
>APU WHY DO YOU TALK LIKE THIS>meanwhile indians do indeed talk like that and worse
>>155958692is he still a racist caricature of a low quality convenience store clerk?
>>155958692Oh neat, glad he's back
>>155958903accurate caricature*
Apu is back in poggers form
>>155958911nonetheless, "The Problem with Apu" complained about more than just the voiceand if that's all they changed won't it just incite more controversy?Or at this point since we're past peak woke and the simpsons is 10 years older nobody cares
They probably want the indian audience back now that there are like 30million indians living in canada
woah, apu actually is coming back, it's not just OP making stuff up.wtf
I thought they would have saved this for the movie to use it as a marketing stunt
The Hit & Run remake may be real after all, maybe that triggered this
I mean that's cool and all but that isn't gonna make everyone care about nu-simpsons.
>>155958911Were Indians really offended by Apu or was it just the one jeet who made that documentary? Funny how they thought Apu was a negative stereotype then, if only they were prepared for the reputation they’d get years later.
>>155958816Apu was the start of this whole thing.
So what's the new voice like anyways? Does he still have an accent or what?>>155958890I've actually met Indians with WAY worse accents than Apu, like straight up unintelligible.
>>155958816Funny how that image was actually canon for an episode
>>155958708Engagement. Gets people talking about the zombie show. Clicks on articles. Views on the show itself.
>>155959527>So what's the new voice like anyways? Does he still have an accent or what?He still does the heavy accent, but the actor definitely needs more time to work on the impression, it's not as stark of a difference as like Carl's voice is, but it's not as good as Cleveland's, his voice cracks a decent amount when trying to do higher exaggerated parts but I can see the attempthttps://x.com/OOCCouchGags/status/2111988285887164842
>>155959453>watch the documentary>all the indians with actual indian accents love Apu while the anchor babies and second-generation jeets fucking despise him
>>155958903That's actually the thing, people go "Apu was a good role model, so honest and hardworking" and that's really only a characterization that came later on in the '90s. For like half the golden age he's little more than a lazy, filthy con man selling questionable products and ripping off his customers since that's what the stereotype of Indian convenience stores has always been... and rightly.Fuck "Homer and Apu," the episode that's the start of turning around Apu's characterization, happens entirely because Apu is selling expired meat.
>>155958999it was for the OTHER treehouse of horror episode, the one that's more like a single segment special. The gimmick being "WHO IS THIS GUY WHO IS LOOKING FOR REVENGE" and the joke is that it's Apu because the town spent years acting like he didn't exist(joking about how long he's been gone) with the ending implying that he's going to be a regular on the show again.
>>155958692Ok, and...
>>155959584Okay that's actually worse than I expected, and I'm usually fine with VAs being replaced.It's not horrible I guess, it's still an Indian accent, but it's quite different from how he used to sound.I wonder who voices his wife, that's a much better impression.Well, at least he's back, I say as if I watch the new Simpsons episodes.
>>155959424>game comes out>someone mods it with the original voice lines>releases it on Nexus>Nexus removes it for being racist or some gay shit
>>155959628>For like half the golden age he's little more than a lazy, filthy con man selling questionable products and ripping off his customersName 1 honest person in Springfield in the 90s era.
>>155959909Flanders.
>>155959628See also him hiring his cousin out of India instead of anyone local, and lording it over him with zero apparent affection.
>>155959843without a doubt.
>>155959642>my shitty thread from some years ago about how they can bring back both apu and maude at the end of a treehouse of horror special and including them in normal episodes after the special then pretend nothing happened if the fans ask is now midly canon.Weird, lmao.
But when is the superior Nahasapeemapetilon coming back?
Why did anyone give a shit about this in the first place? It's not like the seasons that are worth watching were affected. People really went to bat over zombie Simpsons.
>>155959921Designated Exception as pointed out by his crashout in Hurricane Neddy.
>>155958692https://youtu.be/dzB31lpjBHk>They recasted Dr. Nick too>Sounds much worseThis is where I draw the line. Who the fuck ever had a problem with Dr. Nick?All of this recasting, Simpsons, Family Guy, King of the Hill, AvatarTLA, it’s being pushed by the VA guilds, right? “This POC character HAS to be played by one of our POC actors… or else”, right?
>>155960097He's still an honest person in 90s Simpsons, as demanded.
>>155960183wut, I thought Dr. Nick was white? Why would they recast him?
>>155960096I would had only given a shit if Hank Azaria was voicing him again. But still it wouldn't get me to watch it again.>>155960183I could imagine at some point they would redub old episodes with the new actors
>>155960096Thats the worst thing, no one gave a shit about that third rate comedian bitching and yapping, no one but some trendchaser bloggers who pretended it was way too big of a deal and so the fox execs listened and cut out Apu against its Og voice actor protests.
>>155960209He was a chicano but spics never complained becauseA: they didn't give a shitAnd B: he was funny, easily a top 10 iconic characters in Latam
>>155960209Guild found out that his name is Nick RIVIERA, therefore he needs to be played by a real Latinx
Better late then never.
>>155960183>The Island of Forgotten Garbage>TomaccoS-S-Sneed bros?
>>155960183>it’s being pushed by the VA guilds, right?No, gutless executives afraid of bad PR. Most of the VAs are against this kind of thing.Although its fine if a black guy voices a white man for some reason.
>>155960404It would had been funny if it was a half buried sign that said "Chuck's F-" Only because Sneed's never went out of business.
>>155958692All thanks to this stupid asshole>REEEEEEEEEEE EVERYONE MAKES FUN OF MY RACE BECAUSE OF APU REEEEEEE>Instantly forces the industry to be politically correct, defeating the purpose of voice acting.
>>155960527>bullied off of twitter and bluesky(lol)>"comedy" show attendance is at an all-time low>only people who give a shit about him are rich liberals who quite literally don't know what an Indian isIf only we could be so lucky with Adi Shankar too
>>155960527He also kickstand the chain of events of society viewing Indians as awful people
>>155960312I always thought he was Eastern European or from the balkins or something
>>155960527the credit falls on all of us.
>>155960646if anything he could be spaniard, Riviera is a spanish name, but he is totally a chicano, he is sometimes drawn with a tan.
>>155960527Actually it was just Apu. But because of Saint Floyd, that's when everyone got recasted, and then some.
>>155958692What the fuck is this really modern simpsons? It looks like fucking bob's burgers shit-tier.
>>155960854im pretty sure that OP pic is from the awful last years fox run, its been so long the disney era its pretty much its own thing now.
>>155958708>>155958692The ending of the episode was still pretty good of Homer inviting Apu to his Halloween party. Homer was a very good friend of Apu in Simpsons history, it's a good lesson that it's never too late to rekindle an old friendship.
>>155958692Who still gives a shit about this walking corpse of a show anyway? It's been dead for years and everyone knows it.
>>155960327I always thought that "Nick Riviera" was supposed to be a fake name considering he's a shady back alley doctor
>>155958903What? Do you want him to be a call center scammer instead?
>>155958903Indians are the wealthiest demographic in America but in the 80s most of them were working on convenience stores but they were workaholic, just like Apu, and sent their children to fancy colleges.See for example the Problem with Apu guy showing some clips of Apu to his parents. He was expecint them to be offended but they didn't found any problem with Apu. Reminder that jeets come from a hierarchical society so the young jeets are rich but they don't like to remember they come from poor origins
>>155960854>>155960873it was an animation that adi shankar did, it was never in the actual showhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpqp95lItho
>>155960527Honestly the funniest thing The Simpsons has done in 20 years is making Apu silent for nearly a decade rather than do what this fucker actually wanted them to do - give HIM the role
>>155960404>"The Island of Forgotten Garbage">all the objects are from memorable moments and are instantly recognizableI call bull.
If The Simpsons wiki is accurate at all, the amount of physical appearances the Kwik-E-Mart has received in the near decade long Apu absence is a bigger indictment on the writing staff than anything that Apu documentary said.Apparently there's been only 2 physical appearances in-between Apu's original removal from the series and tonight's episode.They can't write anything with the Kwik-E-Mart unless it involves the sole Indian man of the show. Hmmm SUSPICIOUS!
>>155959453the ones that hated him were the ones that grew up in the states and were called Apu by other kids in school
>>155960932How many times has Apu sold Homer rotting meat?
>>155960988>Indians are the wealthiest demographic in Americaper household**average household is 20 men
>>155961029It's awkward to write a scene in a shop where you can't even show the shopkeeper, let alone give him lines.
>>155961065It's not like they haven't put in different characters to fill a role when they've been forced into a cornerLike black Edna Krabappel over here
>>155961056Dude, jeets have been winning Nobel prizes before you even born and I'm not talking about Nobel for peace but for scientific achievements. At the end, anons just hate anyone who isn't white
>>155959843Did Nexus remove the OG supposed sexpest Phoenix voice mod for the original Ace Attorney trilogy?
>>155958692Will the guy keep the accent or it's too offensive? This is the only part I'm curious because The Simpsons have been unwatchable for 20 years
>>155960190The fact that you can't name a different adult example proves my larger point.
>>155961096They should've done more with Bart's crush on her rather than just "you only like me because you see the best parts of you in me" therapyspeak shit.
>>155961096Thats just cheating, edna wasn't recasted due some feminist tumor demand or something, everyone lamented her passing and it pretty much ruined all the plans they had for flanders, but it was obvious they couldn't keep him forever as the new 4th grade teacher so they had to finally introduce someone to attempt to fill the giant hole edna left.
>>155961098Don't be disingenuous. Everyone knows there are Indians at the very top of the bell curve, but the vast majority of Indians any Westerner has to deal with are dumb, stinky, belligerent and probably trying to scam them
>>155961096>black Edna KrabappelIs she bitter and cynical like Edna or a lecturing DEI hire?
>>155961111Best choice would be that they cast an actual first-generation Indian who actually has an accept like Apu's. What they'll probably do is have some second or third generation Indian do the voice because it's okay when they do it
When did 4chan start really hating on indians. Jeet wasn't a thing 10 years ago
>>155961101I wouldn't know. I just based it on a mod they recently removed that replaced the voice of some girl boss dyke in the new Gears of War with beeps and boops. Also a mod that replaced a bunch of retarded pride flags.
>>155961171Before jeet it was bob & vagene and poo in the loo posting.
>>155961147It's like India just went through a Middle Age for western colonialism and they still keep their stupid caste system. Jeets can be highly intelligent when they get education but the majority live and die like animals. India without a caste system would be basically China 2.0 so it's better for you that they're mostly scammers and rapists
>>155961171We've always hated them, but they were a lot further back in the queue.I feel like the general internet hate for them started around covid, but we've been making fun of them for at least as long as they've had access to phones to film themselves doing stupid shit, and make retarded Facebook posts.
>>155961171When everyone found out about the H1B situation and realized a large amount of it went to India. A lot of the Indian hate is just Pakis being mad that they couldn't get H1Bs.
>>155961096I think it's because Apu is so connected to the Kwik-E-Mart that seeing a different clerk there would feel wrong. It would be like watching a Spongebob episode set at the Krusty Krab but there's a different cashier besides Squidward and everyone acted as if it was normal.
>>155961235>A lot of the Indian hate is just PakisSame shit.
>>155958692Why won't the Simpsons end? Who is watching?
>>155958692Saaaaar
>>155961098Maybe it's because, with only slight exaggeration, for every one jeet that's capable of knowing what the Nobel is, there's a million that can't even use the toilet, and thousands making money by scamming the elderly.You fags can't play this "but muh (cherrypicked) geniuses" card when India is one of the few countries with consistent internet access and a caste system. By way of caste system, those people out there winning awards are, decisively, NOT reflective of the general population.Cut this "woe is me! You just hate my skin!" disingenuous crap. India has given the world plenty of reasons to hate it.
>>155961235>A lot of the Indian hate is just PakisThis post reeks of curry. Indians are ALWAYS trying to damage control and blame their bad PR on "MUH PAKISTAN".
>>155960183I think Apu sounds pretty good. Kinda like Carl, where it's close enough, but different enough that the new guy can put their own spin on it.The new Dr. Nick... not so much.
>>155961259>Why won't the Simpsons end?Money.>Who is watching?Latin America.
>>155961280So your point is jeets are racially inferior except when they're not
>>155961284It's Indian Arrogance at its finest.
>>155961312Not wanting to speak for that anon but their point is obviously that compared to other nationalities the exceptional ones are far rare and the proportion of uncivilized ones is much higher
>>155961171IT seems like only in the past several years faggots here started spamming saar and jeet.
>>155958708They realized people hated indians so now he's back.
>>155961359Because in the past several years Indians have gotten really obnoxious on the Internet.
>>155961312If you want to strawman, but accidentally agree on "At most, 1 in 1,000,000 Indians meet the bare minimum, an abysmal status quo that India is intent on capping," then who am I to stop you?
>>155961359Fuck no, if anything it was way more of a meme a decade ago with designated shitting streets etc
>>155961171Jeets got mass access to the internet and started immigrating en mass in that time
>>155961171Gee, I wonder what could have happened.
>>155961356>>155961374I'm happy if we can agree it has nothing to do with race but their stupid culture that came to its current form by historical reasons like the brahma caste making an alliance with foreign powers
>>155961419That just brings us way back to the "content of their character" argument that racists apply to all races.
>>155961302>Who is watching?>Latin America.Latin America here, we just watch reruns of seasons 1-13. Every time the local channels go past that to mix things up they backtrack after a month because the ratings drop like anvils
>>155961419Sounds like cope that's quickly gonna turn into weehhh everything is the British's fault even though we've had decades and decades to fix it.But sure, I can agree that there's potential for Indians to eventually become a nation of mostly pleasant, educated individuals after massive shifts in culture and education and it's not just that they're born with a genetic impulse to shit in the street. We've all met Indian doctors
>>155961419>we can agree it has nothing to do with raceNobody said that, shitskin, and that wasn't even the strawman you tried in >>155961312, so you're trying to "gotcha" with a point that wasn't even on the table. Surprise, the jeet's trying to scam even debate points.It's not even a good point. You're arguing "magic soil" somehow makes someone completely alien from genetic buffoonery afflicting the jeet neurological system. If that weren't the case most of you dipshits wouldn't constantly be so arrogant...And, if it was just "muh culture," how the fuck would that excuse you? How would that make your backwards society any better? All you're doing is completely invalidating your earlier "but muh peace prizes" by drawing attention to how they were obtained in spite of India's caste system... That or you're attributing their success TO the caste system.
new voice honestly doesn't sound that far off from how Hank Azaria would probably sound in current year trying to do the voice if we're being honest
>>155959584Old Simpsons would have worked in a crack about other characters who are and will remain missing
>>155959584it sounds a bit too deep for Apu, just need to make it a little bit higher
>>155959584>https://x.com/OOCCouchGags/status/2111988285887164842Eh, not great. Fuck the progressives who get their panties in a bunch because a character's voice isn't from someone who is the same race as the character. Nobody gives a shit about Groundskeeper Willie not being voiced by a real Scott.
>>155961171I remember something about India becoming a superpower in 2020.
>>155958692I wonder, with the return of Apu to the Simpsons will mark the end of the woke era that has infected the industry for so long?his removal from the show was a breaking point in the woke culture being imposed in media, do his return to the show means that producers no longer care about cancel culture and all that woke bullshit?probably not but one can dream.
>>155962081The fact that he's voiced by a jeet now shows that it's still there in some regard
>>155959561This
>>155962034I remember seeing the "India In 2030" video spammed on /v/ constantly and everyone having a good laugh at it more than a decade ago."saaar" and "jeet' have become an as spammed buzzword as "tranny", but indians have been mocked for a pretty long time on 4chan.Even slightly more regular boards like Travel used to have threads about motorcycle adventures in India and how fucking insane the place was.>>155960183That's pretty rough.
>>155959628If it wasn't for Apu and Ghandi there would be no positive Indian representation. Seriously. It's hilarious how much Apu carried them and managed to make us think the 7-11 clerk was a good person and not an unethical businessman. They even have him doing that shit in the show and people still glazed over that.
>>155960183I thought Nick was dead
>>155961118>OK, so my stated point was wrong, but consider my LARGER point
>>155958692I genuinely want to know who the fuck keeps watching the Simpsons.I'm fully convinced it's continued existence is just one big money laundering scheme, cause I know literally zero real life people who have watched a single episode of this zombie shit in the last 8 years
>>155962304>8 yearshmm, when did they first start recasting based on race? because that's when I stopped.I know, I know, but the show genuinely got better between 2010 and '15. not good, but.. better. and it was interesting to watch.
>>155960183Wait til you hear that characters in wheelchairs are no longer allowed to be voiced by anyone other than voice actors in wheelchairs
>>155962353>AI generated advertGrim
>>155958692Great to know Apu will be back since he never should have been banned from the show in the first place. It's just a shame the people currently creating the Simpsons are still such raging racists that they're openly and proudly deciding VOICE actors based on the color of your skin.
>>155960183The only thing that makes me mad about this is the olmec head isn't in their basement any more
>>155962304I imagine for most people they just wandered away, rather than a specific episode making them quit.
>>155958692The Simpsons is highly satanic because they mock GOD and has HOMERSEXUALS
>>155962461They've actually been doing less Christian bashing since Al Jean stepped down.
>>155960527you can smell that image
>>155961171Jeet has been always a thing. And it has always been ok to hate on indians. But they have inbred and multiplied so much that they are literally fucking everywhere and our lives are worse because of them. If only their 2 braincells weren't at odds with each other all the time everyone could benefit of more human beings doing shit. But no, they shit more than they achieve.
>>155961509Right? They sound more like the characters should than Julie Kavner sounds like Marge these days
>>155960183>>155958692okso when are we going to get a samurai jack remake where he's voiced by a jap instead of a filthy nigger?
