• Janx@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    Good points. But I would argue that voice actors have far less control over how good an episode is going to be than the rest.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      Yeah. It’s just that the salaries of the voice actors are well known, and probably represent a large fraction of the cost per episode.

      I really wonder what the writers’ salaries are. That was what made the Simpsons so good, with so many quotable lines in the first 8 or 9 seasons. My guess is that the writers make a tiny fraction of what the voice actors make. If they paid writers $400k per episode, could they attract superstar writers who could re-capture the magic of those early seasons?