{"id":255,"date":"2005-08-03T11:58:47","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T18:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2019-01-10T19:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:13:19","slug":"the-only-2-special-guest-voices-on-the-simpsons-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/03\/the-only-2-special-guest-voices-on-the-simpsons-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only 2 Special Guest Voices on the Simpsons, Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember how I ended up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nohomers.net\/index.shtml\">Ancient Mystic Society of No Homers<\/a> site today and I really don&#8217;t care. Of course I <em>loved<\/em> it and poked around for a while. I even gained some more knowledge about my favorite yellow family that I felt like sharing. In the FAQ section, there is a question &#8220;Who are Sam Etic and John Jay Smith, and why were they credited as special guest voices?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer is that &#8220;Sam Etic&#8221; (a play on &#8216;semitic&#8217;) is really Dustin Hoffman. He played Mr. Bergstrom in Lisa&#8217;s Subsitute in season 2. &#8220;John Jay Smith&#8221; is really Michael Jackson. He did the &#8220;Michael Jackson&#8221; voice for mental patient Leon Kompowski in Stark Raving Dad in season 3, although his singing was done by session vocalist Kipp Lennon, since Jackson&#8217;s record company forbade him from singing himself. Both performers could not use their names because of contractual obligations.<\/p>\n<p>This was pointed out in a meta-reference in the season 4 episode Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie, when Lisa mentions that Hoffman and Jackson had guest roles in the movie: &#8220;Of course they didn&#8217;t use their real names, but you could tell it was them!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After Stark Raving Dad, Matt Groening, fearing a trend, would only let guest stars on if they used their real names.<\/p>\n<p>I always thought that it <em>was<\/em> MJ in that episode but never had 100% confirmation. Now I do. Yay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember how I ended up at the Ancient Mystic Society of No Homers site today and I really don&#8217;t care. Of course I loved it and poked around for a while. I even gained some more knowledge about my favorite yellow family that I felt like sharing. In the FAQ section, there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[255,575],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-funny","tag-simpsons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4076,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}