The Simpsons Voice Actor Pamela Hayden Leaving After 35 Years

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Pamela Hayden is done repeating the 4th grade.

After 35 years connected The Simpsons, the voice actress, who lent her dependable to characters similar Milhouse, Jimbo Jones and Rod Flanders, has officially announced her retirement.

"The clip has travel for maine to bent up my microphone, but however bash I accidental goodbye to The Simpsons?” Pamela wrote successful a property release, per NBC News. “Not easily.”

Indeed, the 70-year-old has been a portion of the bid since its 1989 debut and expressed bittersweet sentiments successful parting ways with her lovably awkward 10-year-old character.

“It's been an grant and a joyousness to person worked connected specified a funny, witty, and groundbreaking show,” she continued. “And to springiness dependable to Milhouse (and Jimbo Jones, Rod Flanders, Janey, Malibu Stacy, and galore others).”

The actress’ past episode, airing Nov. 24, “Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes,” volition nonstop her disconnected with a bang. After all, the series’ archetypal “Treehouse of Horror” installment aired successful 1990, and it has continued to garner immoderate of its astir iconic episodes.

“Here’s to everyone who made this terrific thrust I've been connected possible,” Pamela added successful her statement. “Thanks for 35 years!! Be good and happy. My champion to you all. P.S. I'll ever person a peculiar spot successful my bosom for that blue-haired 10-year-old lad with glasses.”

Milhouse, Bart Simpson’s champion friend, is known for his insecure and gullible attitude. The quality has been a staple among the series’ ensemble since the precise beginning. And Pamela has expressed her emotion for her quality successful much ways than one.

“One happening I emotion astir Milhouse is he’s ever getting knocked down,” Pamela said successful a societal media station shared by the authoritative Facebook relationship for The Simpsons. “But helium keeps getting backmost up.”

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And The Simpsons’ crew loves the dependable down the quality conscionable arsenic much.

“Pamela gave america tons of laughs with Milhouse, the hapless kid with the biggest chemoreceptor successful Springfield,” Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons said successful a statement, per The New York Times. “She made Milhouse hilarious and real, and we volition miss her.”

Keep speechmaking for penetration into much of your favourite animated characters.

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Hello Kitty Isn't a Cat

Many fans were near purrrrrfectly confused aft this revelation.

“Hello Kitty is not a cat,” Jill Cook—an enforcement astatine Sanrio, the institution down the character—explained to Today July 18. “She’s really a small miss calved and raised successful the suburbs of London. She has a ma and dada and a duplicate sister Mimmy who’s besides her champion friend. She enjoys baking cookies and making caller friends.”

While the quality whitethorn person amazed some, Cook wasn’t the archetypal to stock this insight. As a substance of fact, Christine R. Yano—a prof of anthropology who penned the publication Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific—had besides antecedently confirmed that Hello Kitty isn’t a feline.

“Hello Kitty is not a cat,” she told the Los Angeles Times successful 2014. “She’s a cartoon character. She is simply a small girl. She is simply a friend. But she is not a cat. She’s ne'er depicted connected each fours. She walks and sits similar a two-legged creature. She does person a favored feline of her own, however, and it’s called Charmmy Kitty.”

Other amusive facts astir Hello Kitty? According to Sanrio, she is 5 apples tall, weighs 3 apples, was calved connected November 1 (making her a Scorpio) and dreams of being a pianist oregon poet.

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Goofy Isn't a Dog

Gawrsh! Did you cognize this fact?

Bill Farmer, who's provided the dependable of Goofy for decades, explained wherefore the Disney quality tin speech portion Mickey Mouse's favored Pluto can't.

Goofy is "not a dog, but he's a canine," the dependable histrion said connected an August 2024 occurrence of Popcorn Podcast with Leigh Livingstone and Tim Iffland. "So it's benignant of similar a wolf is not a canine but it's a canine—same thing. Goofus canis, that's what helium is. Or, he's a MOG—he's a man-dog."

However, Pluto, helium added, is simply a "regular dog"—a humor hound arsenic it turns out.

Squidward Isn't a Squid

You'll privation to get to the (bikini) bottommost of this discovery.

SpongeBob SquarePants' creator Stephen Hillenburg erstwhile revealed that Squidward Tentacles is really an octopus—not a squid.

"This is Squidward the Octopus, SpongeBob's grumpy next-door neighboor," helium shared successful the 2005 Case Of The Sponge 'Bob' video resurfaced by BuzzFeed. "I similar the octopus for this quality due to the fact that they person specified a large, bulbous head, and Squidward thinks he's an intelligence so, of course, he's going to person a large, bulbous head."

But if you're wondering however Squidward tin beryllium an octopus erstwhile helium has lone six legs alternatively of eight, Hillenburg had an reply for that, too—noting "it was truly conscionable easier for animation to gully him" with less tentacles.

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Blue From Blue's Clues Was Originally an Orange Cat

Break retired your useful dandy notebook and jot this 1 down.

"One of the things that cipher knows is that Blue was primitively a cat," the show's co-creator Angela Santomero said successful the 2006 peculiar Behind the Clues: 10 Years With Blue resurfaced by Mental Floss. "First his sanction was Mr. Orange and past we're like, 'Uh, possibly Mr. Blue.'"

But according to the special, Nickelodeon was already moving connected a bid astir a cat—leading animators to flip retired the archetypal thought and redesign Blue arsenic a dog.

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Doug Was Almost Named Brian

Now this truly isn’t funnie, er, funny.

But arsenic it turns out, Doug Funnie from the cartoon bid Doug was astir named Brian. As for what led to the change?

"I conscionable thought Brian was excessively fancy of a name," Doug creator Jim Jinkins told HuffPost TV successful 2014, "So, I geared it down, and started calling him Doug. If you deliberation astir what that sounds like, it sounds incredibly average, and that’s what I was trying to do: explicit from that constituent of view.”

Boo From Monsters, Inc. Isn’t Her Full Name

This information is truthful bully it’s scary.

In Monsters, Inc.: An Augmented Reality Book, the sanction of Boo—the small miss who accidentally ends up successful Monstropolis and befriends monsters Mike and Sulley—is revealed to beryllium Mary Gibbs, according to BuzzFeed. And if the sanction sounds familiar, it’s due to the fact that it’s the real-life moniker of the histrion who provided the dependable of Boo.

Need much proof? In the movie, there’s really a country wherever Boo is sorting done immoderate of her drawings and fans tin spot the sanction “Mary” scribbled astatine the apical of 1 of the pieces of paper.

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Minnie Mouse Has a Longer Moniker

Speaking of names, portion Mickey Mouse’s woman is often called Minnie Mouse, according to the BBC, it was revealed successful 1942 that her afloat sanction is really Minerva.

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