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The TV academy has honored voice-only performances since 1992, when six cast members from “The Simpsons” collectively became the first actors to receive Emmys for such work. The Best Voice-Over Performance category became an official non-juried one in 2009 and was then split into two categories in 2014: Best Character Voice-Over and Best Narrator. Harry Shearer (“The Simpsons”) made history as the former category’s first champion, having been nominated once before for the same series.

The 2022 Best Character Voice-Over ballot list below consists of a whopping 222 performances. Seeking a third consecutive victory is Maya Rudolph, who plays Connie the Hormone Monstress on “Big Mouth.” Also in the mix are former winners Shearer, Hank Azaria (“The Simpsons”), Alex Borstein (“Family Guy”), and Seth MacFarlane (“Family Guy”).

Unlike the live action and fictional program nominees, which are chosen by all 22,000 plus academy members, the Best Character Voice-Over contenders are picked only by voters...

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers.

The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 17

Lisa almost learns a lesson on The Simpsons’ “The Sound of Bleeding Gums.” When the Springfield lottery uses a song from local saxophone legend Bleeding Gums Murphy in their commercials, Lisa decides to help her musical idol’s son Monk, played by John Autry II, by any means possible.

Once again, the writers are talking about the show, and how The Simpsons are cited for social justice warrior product placements at the expense of laughs. Homer nails the criticism on the head, advising Lisa not to try to save anyone or anything, and making her promise not to waste her time on lost causes. Like the lottery, there are no winners.

The self-referential setup climaxes with a gag showing 3-second versions of old cartoons which are now politically incorrect. This, and a bit about airing shows even Peacock rejected, pre-cancels cancel culture,...

For the first time in its more than three-decade run, “The Simpsons” will premiere an episode featuring American Sign Language (Als) and a deaf actor.

“It’s very hard to do a ‘first’ after 722 episodes, but I couldn’t be more excited about this one,” executive producer Al Jean told CNN.

While the episode will premiere April 10 and comes exactly two weeks after “Coda’s” historic Best Picture win at the Oscars, the idea came up long before the movie was released and is loosely based on writer-producer Loni Steele Sosthand’s life. Titled “The Sound of Bleeding Gums,” it follows Lisa Simpson as she helps the son of her favorite musician, the late saxophonist Bleeding Gums Murphy (who died in Season 6), who is deaf and needs a cochlear implant.

The show’s producers consulted two Asl specialists regarding the signs that the characters — who only have four fingers — make in the episode,...

Deaf members of the film community had a historic night at the Oscars, when “Coda” took home Best Picture and deaf actor Troy Kotsur won Best Supporting Actor. But that may have just been the beginning, with more opportunities for deaf performers and creators continuing to materialize. The latest Hollywood property to work with deaf actors: “The Simpsons.”

The next episode of the long-running cartoon, “The Sound of Bleeding Gums,” follows Lisa Simpson as she tracks down the deaf son of her favorite saxophone player and helps him get a cochlear implant. The episode is notable for including sequences of American Sign Language (despite characters only having four fingers), as well as casting deaf actor John Autry II to voice the character. When the episode airs this Sunday, Autry will be the first deaf performer to voice a character on the show.

“It’s so incredible,” Autry told Variety. “It’s life-changing equality and participation.

Smarthouse Creative's new distribution arm has acquired "Chatty Catties," the debut feature from Pablo Valencia that won the Fipresci Prize at the 2015 Seattle International Film Festival. The dark comedy, produced by Cecilia Curran and co-written by Valencia and Dicky Bahto, features the voice talents of a cast of deaf and hearing-impaired actors led by John Autry II, a graduate of No Limits, the country’s only theater group for deaf and hard-of-hearing youth. Autry voices the sassy tabby Leonard, who is at odds with his human roommate Shelby (Megan Hensley), whose own emotional problems limit her abilities to provide for the most basic of Leonard’s needs. But when she begins a relationship with kind-hearted musician (Matthew Grathwol), Leonard sees a brighter future for both him and his owner, but it won’t come without a few emotional fireworks along the way. "I am positively through the roof to have found a distributor like Smarthouse.

Open on Will Schuester in the faculty lounge reviewing some papers with a couple cookies and some milk. Unfortunately nothing ruins snacktime more than a run in with the school bully (Sue Sylvester) boasting about being named cheerleading coach of the decade in Splits magazine. Her real motive for visiting Will is to gather information about Glee's plans for sectionals. Throwing her title of Fine Arts Administrator in his face, she will not take no for an answer. He suspects something, and with Sue you can never be too sure.

Will confides to Emma that Sue might be leaking the Glee Club's setlist for sectionals to the other competing schools; Jane Adams Academy and Havenbrook School for the Deaf. Emma suggests a direct approach, visit each school personally and confront the directors point blank. Annnnnnd....

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In his visit to Jane Adams, Will Schuester encounters more security checkpoints than...