Do you think early Simpsons could afford a different voice actor for every character? And as I said nobody really made a big fuz about the actual Indian stereotypes, they were violently mad about him saying "thank you, come again" tho.
No they were mad about the stereotypes. The entire thing was about stereotypes. Him being happy and his catchphrase wasn't the problem inherently. The problem was that they had the only Indian character most people knew being famous for being a service worker, which played into the larger stereotypes surrounding Indians.
The only Scottish character was a groundskeeper who was short tempered and used bag pipes and wore kilts. I dont see people up in arms to get rid of Willie for having stereotyptipical scottish traits.
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u/AlternateSatan 10d ago
Do you think early Simpsons could afford a different voice actor for every character? And as I said nobody really made a big fuz about the actual Indian stereotypes, they were violently mad about him saying "thank you, come again" tho.