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Simpson's Cast On Bravo This Sunday
droopus writes "So, what does Dan Castelleneta look like? (He's a kinda weasly looking bald guy.) See Dan, Hank, Harry, Yeardley, Julie, Nancy and the rest of the Simpsons cast this Sunday at 8PM (EST) on Inside the Actors Studio on Bravo.
According to the website:
"In anticipation of the landmark 300th episode of The Simpsons, James Lipton sat down with the series' accomplished ensemble to meet the actors behind the voices in order to discover how they have managed to create such a wealth of believable and beloved characters."
I saw a quick preview, and seeing that thin, weasly bald guy go "Aggggggh, donut" was alsolutely hilarious. Watching Nancy Cartwright morph effortlessly from Bart, to Nelson, to Ralph is waaaaay cool. My TiVo is set for this one.
One hitch: it's on at the same time as the usual new Sunday Simpsons episode, so Bravo has thoughtfully repeated the show at midnight so fans can record both."
And L. A. Law fans will remember him as the guy who worked at an amusement park, wearing a Homer Simpson costume. He was fired from his job when he got sick and took off the costume head. Of course he was suing, this was L. A. Law after all.
The best parts were when he would put on the costume and talk in his Homer voice, and the jury of Homer Simpsons was a nice touch, too.
imdb says it was an episode in 1992.
Anyone ever see her as a little kid on the Square One TV math show on PBS? I'm revealing my relative youth here (maybe not, Slashdot seems full of teenagers who might not know what Square One is), but on the detective story segment on the show (called "Mathnet" as a parody of Dragnet, I think), she played the caretaker of a gorilla that had gone missing. And the detectives she hired used math to find it, as expected. Getting back on-topic, Ms. Smith sounds EXACTLY the same now as she did then, in the eighties and when she was a little kid. Not like that's some big revelation, but when I first started watching the Tracy Ullman show and later on Herman's Head (which starred both her and Hank Azaria as major characters), I couldn't shake the association of that voice with that of the "Mathnet gorilla girl." ....Well, after some quick googling, apparently it looks like Square One is being shown on the Noggin educational cable channel. Found that bit of info on a site dedicated to the show.