[Redway]

Getting paid $2-300k per episode she voices is surely a big-enough incentive not to retire and that’s fine, and ultimately her choice, but she sounds ill at this point, which Patty and Selma even at 2 packs a day in cigarettes don’t. Time for her to get throat-surgery or something even if she doesn’t want to retire.

The Simpsons, My Wife and Kids and EastEnders are among my all-time favourite shows and I adore Marge and Lisa (they’re probably my all-time favourite characters) but the state of Marge’s voice now is really giving me concern about the future of her character if Kavner doesn’t do something about it. I know what it’s like to have a voice that sounds a bit unnaturally deep, low or husky over the course of many, many years and being generally very self-conscious about it, telling people you have throat nodules/polyps (the benign equivalent to throat-cancer) just so you have a reason for sounding so husky and they don’t question how you might be ill in some other way (like a terribly sore throat), so unlike perhaps the average viewer I can relate to Kavner. She absolutely does need to do something about it. She’s obviously minted but health is wealth, too.