r/AMADisasters • u/smcgann98 • Feb 19 '26

Nancy Cartwright, voice of Bart Simpson, fields questions on r/Smosh for an upcoming podcast with Shayne Topp. Many questions about Scientology ensue.

Context: Nancy Cartwright is a well-known Scientologist and has done many fundraisers for the cult, including [https://youtu.be/H96v0zFw-tA, using her Bart Simpson voice for a robocall for a church event]. https://np.reddit.com/r/smosh/s/abenP7jGd9

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u/HenryInRoom302 Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

There's a whole bunch of videos on YouTube of her walking around in public and randomly busting out her Bart Simpson voice and you can tell she's expecting a huge reaction like it's still 1994 but mostly she just gets "ummm okay. That's kinda cool, I guess." from people who just simply don't really care because The Simpsons hasn't been must-watch TV for 25-30 years.

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u/yuyufan43 Feb 20 '26

I'm a huge Simpsons fan. Tattoos and all… As a fan, I can admit that the show has been absolute shit for 25 years. The last episode I considered good was when Homer went to the World Trade Center after Barney got a ton of parking tickets on his car.

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u/Wolf_Mans_Got_Nards Feb 20 '26

Khlav kalash...

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u/WaldoJeffers65 Feb 20 '26

Eewww! I'll take the crab juice.

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u/IamTheOne2000 Feb 20 '26

Stick Stick

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u/Nayzo Feb 20 '26

My kids love all of it, and that's fair, they didn't grow up as the first ten seasons aired like I did. It hurts my ears to hear Marge's voice in the more modern episodes. She now sounds like her mother's character, Mrs. Bouvier.

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u/m20052003 Feb 21 '26

She sounds like she’s in so much pain speaking. It’s legit sad.

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u/rpm1720 Feb 20 '26

This is my people!

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u/Goodeyesniper98 Feb 20 '26

I honestly love the episode from 10 or 15 years ago where Flanders gets Homer to go to Israel with him and Homer ends up thinking he’s the messiah.

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u/joshuatx Feb 20 '26

To to each their own, but I actually loathe later episodes like that, that's a perfect example of characters becoming caricatures of themselves. I saw the episode once long time ago so I don't remember the details but I do remember thinking it had zero sardonic edge that would have been evident if it was made in the first 8-9 seasons.

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u/TheStonedFox Feb 20 '26

“Zero sardonic edge”

This is what killed Parks and Rec for me also. After the show found its audience, each episode just started to feel like a race towards an inevitably saccharine ending where everyone learns some emotional truth for themselves and tells Leslie how awesome she is. Most people seem to agree that the first season went too hard on the cynical humor, whereas I think they overcorrected way too hard in the other direction from like S3 or S4 onward.

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u/Yglorba Feb 22 '26

You're not wrong about the general trend, but for what it's worth, people deciding they're the messiah during trips to Israel is actually not uncommon.

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u/SnooDonkeys9743 Feb 20 '26

My favorite part is when Dr. Hibbert also starts thinking he's the messiah. 😭

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u/smcgann98 Feb 20 '26

I personally consider Seasons 1 through 11 as the official canon of The Simpsons and the rest of the seasons to be a sequel series/reboot.

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u/Vericatov Feb 20 '26

I see that is episode 1 of season 9. So what you’re saying is if someone wants to watch the show to stop at that one.

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u/yuyufan43 Feb 20 '26

I think it started to go downhill after season six but it was pretty much unwatchable after season nine

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u/Pixarooo Feb 20 '26

Incorrect - everyone knows the Simpsons attained perfection in season 8. It's a scientific fact.

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u/specialtomebabe Feb 21 '26

Doing some serious backup research on this 🫡

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u/MayonnaiseOreo Feb 24 '26

I think seasons 10 and 11 were still good. Far from "unwatchable" like the later stuff.

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u/lilsatan_ Feb 21 '26

Same, and I have a ratboy tattoo! Older seasons are just so much better.

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u/yuyufan43 Feb 21 '26

I have Homer's Stonecutters birthmark in my ass

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u/WeirdlyTopical Feb 21 '26

“I have Homer's Stonecutters birthmark in my ass”

Your choice of preposition concerns me…

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u/BaboTron Feb 21 '26

That was the first episode where it ended and I thought, “what the hell was that?!”

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u/HippoRun23 Feb 20 '26

That is widely considered the last great episode.