'Simpsons' Voice Changes

[Morrigan]

I'm sitting here watching first season ep, "Homer's Night Out," and I've come to realise the voices sucked!

Carl had a distinctively HONKEY (I'm a honkey, it's okay) voice, Lenny had later-season Moe's voice, and Moe... he had a watered down version of his own voice.

Martin Prince was more effeminate. Mr. Burns wasn't as evil. Almost every single pass-by character had Homer's voice, and Homer himself had a less-confident voice.

I know it doesn't mean much, other than in the first season the voices weren't perfected, but, eh... I much prefer the voice acting from the later seasons

 

[nic]

Me and my sister were watching the one with the Babysitter Banditt early on.
She say's she doesn't really like Homer's voice from early episodes either.

 

[Tabitha]

Have you ever seen the shorts of The Simpsons from the Tracey Ullman show? Homer's voice in particular has gone through quite an evolution to the way it sounds now. I think they all spoke a lot slower, and there wasn't the comfortable dynamic between the characters/voices that has slowly become cemented into place.

 

[nic]

Originally posted by Tabitha
Have you ever seen the shorts of The Simpsons from the Tracey Ullman show? Homer's voice in particular has gone through quite an evolution to the way it sounds now. I think they all spoke a lot slower, and there wasn't the comfortable dynamic between the characters/voices that has slowly become cemented into place.

Yeh I know what you mean about the voices.

I've only seen one of the shorts in which Homer puts the children to bed, but they all end up sharing the same bed, fearful of the dark.
It wasn't really on the same scale of the Simpsons we've all come to love today.