Apu’s time on The Simpsons is apparently finished.
That’s the word from Adi Shankar, at least. The executive producer on Netflix’s Castlevania series doesn’t work on the Fox hit, but he’s been connected with the show since launching a contest to crow…
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‘The Simpsons’ completely missed the mark in addressing Apu criticism
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By now, dear reader, you may have surmised that some of us are Mad Online™ about how The Simpsons addressed its largest and longest-running controversy: The character of Apu. Sunday’s episode had Lisa and Marge vaguely alluding to the Apu controversy only to shrug it off and say they might never address it – and that’s just sad.
#TheSimpsons completely toothless response to @harikondabolu #TheProblemWithApu about the racist character Apu:
“Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect… What can you do?” pic.twitter.com/Bj7qE2FXWN
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The Simpsons has responded to the Apu stereotyping controversy, and not everyone is down with how it was handled.
In the fifteenth episode of Season 29, “No Good Read Goes Unpunished,” Marge reads Lisa “her favourite book ever,” The Princess in the Garden, which has troubling stereotypes of Irishmen and South Americans.
Aghast at the depictions she didn’t recognise as a youngster, Marge edits the book to make it ostensibly less offensive for this day and age. The book’s lead character Clara is now a “cisgender girl,” who releases wild horses and fights net neutrality. Read more…
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Actor Hank Azaria, the voice of Apu from The Simpsons, spoke at a TCA panel about Apu’s controversy over the years. Even as the series continues, Apu might not pass the bar for cultural sensitivity in 2018 and beyond.
“As far as what’s going to happen with the character going forward, it’s really not just up to me,” Azaria said at TCA. “I know that The Simpsons guys are doing that too, they’re giving it a lot of thought and we’ve discussed a little bit. They will definitely address, maybe publicly, certainly creatively within the context of the show what they want to do, if anything, with the character.” Read more…
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