Pamela Hayden, who’s voiced Bart’s greatest pal Milhouse Van Houten and quite a few different characters on The Simpsons for the previous 35 years, is retiring from the sequence.
Fox introduced the information in a press launch on Wednesday, together with a video tribute to Hayden from The Simpsons crew. In addition to Milhouse, Hayden additionally voiced Jimbo Jones and Rod Flanders, amongst different characters.
Hayden’s final episode as Milhouse and Jimbo Jones will come this Sunday with “Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes.” The episode will comply with Lisa after she’s transported “into three unusual tales from the harmless Nineteen Fifties, the chilling retro-present, and a brutalist future the place status TV guidelines the world.”
As for a way the present will deal with Hayden’s absence, Fox says casting for her characters will start “within the close to future.”
“The time has come for me to hold up my microphone, however how do I say goodbye to The Simpsons?……not simply,” Hayden stated in a press release. “It’s been an honor and a pleasure to have labored on such a humorous, witty, and groundbreaking present, and to present voice to Milhouse (and Jimbo Jones, Rod Flanders, Janey, Malibu Stacy, and lots of others).”
Milhouse has been with the present from the very starting, making his first look in a Butterfinger industrial again when The Simpsons was merely a sequence of animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. Hayden is credited in practically 700 episodes of The Simpsons, which is presently in its thirty sixth season.
“Pamela gave us tons of snickers with Milhouse, the hapless child with the most important nostril in Springfield,” The Simpsons creator Matt Groening stated in a press release. “She made Milhouse hilarious and actual, and we’ll miss her.”
Hayden’s different credit exterior of The Simpsons embrace Lloyd in Space, Party Wagon, and voicing Bianca Spyro: Year of the Dragon. Her voice additionally appeared in 2007’s The Simpsons Movie.
For extra on The Simpsons, take a look at our record of its 36 greatest episodes in honor of its thirty sixth season, or our rating of each Treehouse of Horror episode.
Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she’s not writing or enhancing, you could find her studying fantasy novels or enjoying Dungeons & Dragons.
