r/americandad • u/smcg_az Scotch Bingington • Oct 25 '21
Happy birthday to Kevin Michael Richardson! His voice work has helped make Lewis such a great character. News
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One of the funniest lines of his is when he smacks down Steve for hitting Reshma
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u/smcg_az Scotch Bingington Oct 25 '21
Dear Math Bitchā¦
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u/okjk0123 Oct 25 '21
These kids aināt showin up
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u/StaaaaaanDarsh The Tender Vigilante Oct 25 '21
P.S. 1+1= the 2 of us... Plus 1 more would be nice though... Maybe Jill from the cafeteria. Or your sister Lisa! You know, when she's legal...
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u/NaRa0 Mirk Dirkledunk Oct 25 '21
You forget, Brian, a lot, that youāre our principle?
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u/CaptainQPicard Avery Bullock Oct 25 '21
Steve: I think itās weird that you work in a pet store.
Brian: People around here think itās weird that Iām a principleā¦
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u/zbeezle Oct 25 '21
Snot, you handle the money, because you're Jewish. Steve, you watch Snot, because I don't trust Jews.
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u/Bringbackhairybush Oct 25 '21
I don't remember this line ..what episode please???
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u/zbeezle Oct 25 '21
Its from the blackjack one, along with "Dear Math Bitch."
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u/Bringbackhairybush Oct 25 '21
Interesting...I've never heard that line in the 300 times I've seen that episode
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u/Independent_Bake_257 Calypso Banana Puffy-Sleeves Oct 25 '21
Call me...chocolate dinosaur.
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u/smcg_az Scotch Bingington Oct 25 '21
El Lobo Negron
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u/SloopKid Jeremy Neiderhoff Oct 25 '21
Grown in the andes... north slope... id say its about 80% baby laxatives. That can only mean one thing. Esteban Mortilla is back
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u/slimstarman Oct 25 '21
End of days, bitches!
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u/Lupus108 Oct 25 '21
One of my favorite AD quotes. And I got around to use it quite alot given the events of the last years.
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u/Bringbackhairybush Oct 25 '21
Are you wearing a speedo and shooting double machine guns as you say it?
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u/proletarianpanzer Al Tuttle Oct 25 '21
officer please, i am an educator...
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u/tevon723 Oct 25 '21
I am a molder of young minds- SHOULDER JAB
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u/smcg_az Scotch Bingington Oct 25 '21
His eyes are red from smoking WEED.
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Oct 25 '21
Miss Jackson If You're Nasty.
Yup, that was the music of the time. And the drug of time?
Cyew-Caine!
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u/nzcapybara Oct 25 '21
I love the episode where Stan is bullying Steve and they are reviewing though security footage of the playground and after the parents leave Louis is still watching the footage and sees the janitor turn into the werewolf and grab a kid.
his delivery of āoh shit!ā is my favorite
Also āblack bagels yāall!ā
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u/CaptainQPicard Avery Bullock Oct 25 '21
I just like the part where he chugs down a whole case of beer in the footage on the playground.
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Y'all ain't long enough anyway
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u/smcg_az Scotch Bingington Oct 25 '21
Letās give her a warm welcome, and Iām not referring to the sexual position called the warm welcome
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u/DonnyMummy Oct 25 '21
Of which Iām the inventor
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u/XHIBAD Avery Bullock Oct 25 '21
You see, the basic nature of the move is..
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u/Master-Tanis Oct 25 '21
Oh never mind. Yāall aināt long enough.
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Oct 25 '21
I just rewatched this episode to double check but I've always heard this line as "Ya won't live long enough". Idk why. Now knowing its "aint long enough", fuck, that's even funnier.
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Oct 25 '21
You say share my life and I hear share my tequila so no.
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u/tmistry Bing Cooper Oct 25 '21
What's that, drugs? I'll take it, I don't care what it does.
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u/eibv Uncle Roger Oct 25 '21
I'm still curious if the micky mouse nazi were ever real.
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u/TallNerdLawyer Roy Rogers McFreely Oct 25 '21
You thought those were ding dong prices? Nah nah nah.
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Oct 25 '21
I love his voice for jr
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u/smcg_az Scotch Bingington Oct 25 '21
One of my favorite Jr lines was the Die Hard spoof in the Cleveland Show.
āI shot a kidā
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u/SloopKid Jeremy Neiderhoff Oct 25 '21
As a cop working on christmas, that was all i needed to hear
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u/smcg_az Scotch Bingington Oct 25 '21
Excuse me, guy who looks like Huey Lewis, but are there terrorists shooting guns here?
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u/SloopKid Jeremy Neiderhoff Oct 25 '21
That episode is great.
If i put a slice of bread between 2 other slices of bread is it still a sandwhich?
You talkin bout a bread sandwhich?? Hell yeah man, little mayo...
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Oct 25 '21
I worked out heavily at the gym after leaving the office today but the tension has returned, so I do ninety abdominal crunches, a hundred and fifty push-ups, and then I run in place for twenty minutes while listening to the new Huey Lewis CD.
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Oct 25 '21
One of the most enjoyable voice actors ever. Still waiting on a Lewis episode where he's into Sumo Wrestling.
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u/Cyno01 Oct 25 '21
Totally, hes fantastic, hes no Hamill but i liked his Joker even. So not to interrupt this love fest, i just dont know where else i would ever bring this up, and sorry to talk about The Simpsons much on r/AmericanDad, but...
Is anybody else kinda miffed about Hibbert?
Im totally fine with white actors stepping down from voicing characters of color to promote more diversity in the voice acting business, who am i to argue, they certainly know the industry better than anyone else. Although its kinda funny that the role Kristen Bell stepped down from is now held by the wife of a black male cast member who voices a white woman on the show. But S02 was still great, but i like musicals.
But anyway... if the point of people stepping down is to open up roles for more people of color, then why give Hibbert to Kevin Michael Richardson at all?
Hes one of the most prolific voice actors working today, of ANY color. He doesnt need a The Simpsons credit, he probably already has The Simpsons credits. Really no offense to him, i love him, if they wanted him on the show i wouldve loved it if Hibbert retired and Doctor Brian Lewis came to town even. But what they wound up doing just kinda rubs me the wrong way.
Like Family Guy did it right, Mike Henry stepped down from voicing Cleveland (after his show...), and instead of just giving it to Phil Lamar or somebody and lampshading a voice change, they gave some youtube impressionist (of color) who does a spot on Cleveland the job. So more diversity in the industry. Some kid gets a big break. And the voice doesnt change at all. Who can complain about any of that?
And also if changing Hibberts voice is intentional to distance the character from his Cosby parody origins, fine thats one thing. But if not it seems like KMR is kinda phoning it in, the few lines hes had hes definitely not even trying to do Hibbert at all. I wont begrudge anyone not even wanting to get paid for doing a Cosby impression these days, but at that point just retire the character. Bring on the residency of "Dr." shh Brian Lewis at Springfield General!
"Dear Nurse bitch, these Simpson kids aint getting vaccinated, look how yellow they already are! \inappropriate chuckle**"
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Oct 25 '21
I totally agree with this perspective. If you're gonna open up a spot for a person of color, the sentiment kinda dies on the cutting room floor when that person of color is the most famous person of color in the industry.
What should happen in these sorts of things is that it's given to someone new, so that way you're actively adding more diversity into the field instead of just being like "Yeah, Token's my black friend too!" South Park reference in a discussion about Simpson's casting on r/AmericanDad.
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u/Cyno01 Oct 25 '21 edited Oct 25 '21
South Park reference in a discussion about Simpson's casting on r/AmericanDad.
But for real, how great is Daveed Diggs as Helen in Central Park?
https://www.playbill.com/video/keep-it-low-key-central-park
Or in Snowpiercer. Or Hamilton. Or anything i guess...
Oh man, hes gonna be Sebastian in The Little Mermaid too! Hell kill it for sure, but a realistic CGI singing and dancing lobster is gonna be fuckin weird.
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Oct 25 '21
a realistic CGI singing and dancing lobster
I'm sorry, what crime against god did the viewing audience commit to deserve something like that
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u/ImurderREALITY Oct 25 '21
tap tap tap tap
āLou Louā¦. I aināt mad at you! I just wanna talk to you!ā
tap tap tap tap
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u/IcemaanN Oct 25 '21
Machado was a cold bastard, but he was good to his men. And once you drew blood for him, you were set. Hooch, blow, girlsā¦ not women, girls. Little bitty things.
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u/Professional_Ebb_936 Oct 25 '21
Yeah it did
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u/smcg_az Scotch Bingington Oct 25 '21
Also like him as Cleveland Jr.
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u/Professional_Ebb_936 Oct 25 '21
I know right
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u/Dwaynedibley24601 Oct 25 '21
THE BEST character on the show... maybe ever... END OF DAYS BITCHES!!
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u/NukeProof87 Oct 25 '21
MOTHERFUCKING WILMINGTON!
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u/SloopKid Jeremy Neiderhoff Oct 25 '21
YEAH!! WE NEED INDOOR SPORTS FOR THE TIMES WHEN ITS RAINING OUT!
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u/jgjbl216 Oct 25 '21
My kids love teen Titans and every time Trigone is on the show I have to laugh to myself about him also being Lewis.
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u/Cyno01 Oct 25 '21
Hes the Joker in The Batman (2004) too. Hes no Hamill sure but i liked KMRs take on it.
There were other changes to other characters in that version i did not care for...
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u/smcg_az Scotch Bingington Oct 25 '21
My favorite line of his actually came from The Cleveland Show as he was explaining Comic Con (as Junior)
Imagine a bunch of unwashed comic book fans packed into a musty old convention center that smells like corn chips and ass, waiting in long lines to see 30 seconds of something the rest of the world will have to wait 2 weeks to see!
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Oct 25 '21
Brian "The Home Invader" Lewis, AKA The Basement Creep, AKA midnight lace!
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u/zuko94 Oct 25 '21
āThe working title is āOedipus Rocksā because the school board wouldnāt let me call it āMOTHERFUCKER!āā
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u/runnerofshadows Oct 25 '21
Also a very underrated version of The Joker.
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u/Cyno01 Oct 25 '21
Yes! He was no Hamill, but i liked his take on it.
There were other changes to other characters in that version i did not care for tho...
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u/Robo_Riot Oct 25 '21
AD needs more Lewis!
"Sweets, you killed my master! Now you die! Cake! Cake! Pie Brownie! Cookie, cookie, cookie, cookie!"
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u/danofthed3ad Oct 25 '21
Just started watching Gravity Falls with the kids, he's all over that too. Hilarious voice actor
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u/Reaper7327 Oct 25 '21
"Cause I'm the straw that stirs the drink b*tch"
"Harvard, has a habit we cant have a drunk teacher but a perfectly buzzed principal is good for evarybody!"
Are hands down my favorite quotes from Brian lol
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u/_Precht_ Oct 25 '21
Ā«Ā You forget sometimes, right? That youāre our principal?Ā Ā»
I absolutely love Lewis as a character š
cocks gun Ā«Ā it just GOT real, bitch. Clean my house!Ā Ā»
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u/demonman905 Bayou Billy with the Heavy Balls Oct 25 '21
Every night finding another woman sleeping with the donkey you love...
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u/GoreyHaim420 Oct 25 '21
"his eyes are red 'cause he's been smoking weeeed" "Bryan, I have a hard time believing you're an educator" "my job is mostly administrative"
I think about this exchange every day.
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u/EitherAfternoon548 Al Tuttle Oct 25 '21 edited Oct 25 '21
Damn Kids! Ahhh, sometimes I wish I just stayed in Peru, moving Coke. Machada was a cold bastard but he was good to his men! And once you drew blood for him you were set; hooch, BLOW, girls, ha, not women, GIRLS. Itty bitty things-
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u/duckmantaco Oct 25 '21
When you say share my life with someone I hear share my tequila and I think no
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u/JumpCiiity Oct 25 '21
No one mentioned Jolee Bindo from Knight of the Old Republic yet! Kevin is one of the best voice actors around. I wish I could get my hands on a good copy of Homeboys from Outer Space too!
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u/Zackattack503 Klaus Heisler Oct 25 '21
When you say āshare my life,ā I hear āshare my tequilaā and I thinkā¦no
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u/1Under1Stood1 Dan Ansom Handsome Oct 25 '21
Also his appearance in How I meet Your Mother, shows you the guy has got mad range in acting.
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u/AgentAzzjuice Oct 26 '21
Happy Birthday Principal Lewis! Although I'm not on American Dad. It is also my birthday. I inspire to be Ricky Spanish in case anyone was wondering.
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u/eatshirtanddye Oct 25 '21
He picked up a car from somewhere I worked. He's a very very nice person. I had no idea who he was at the time, but he gave me a signed postcard and was just fun to be around.
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u/SayceGards Oct 26 '21
Holy shit and he is EVERYWHERE!! Mty husband and I are always like "THATS LEWIS!!! ....that's principal lewis" when we hear him.
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Oct 26 '21
Here, Ill even loan you my lucky machete, use it like a knife. Leave the blade in the sheath so it doesn't get dull. (Whispers): leave the cap on so it doesn't dry out.
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u/HAIRYMAN-13 Oct 26 '21
Doesnāt he also own an aquarium or something hahahhaha , such a great character
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u/LordFesquire Oct 26 '21
El otra Lobo Negron sends his regards!
His voice work overall is awesome. Still amazed that he was the Joker in The Batman.
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u/TruStory2426 Oct 25 '21
As much as I like Lewis...I feel like he's one of, if not the worst character on the show.He's a drug dealer/ user, gambler, convicted felon (not sure of the charges), murderer, kidnapper, and pedophile..."girls not women! Little bitty things" šØ
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u/GetaShady Oct 26 '21
Kevin Michael Richardson is such a prolific voice actor! He's like on practically every animated show :D
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u/hungry4pie Oct 26 '21
He's a modern day James Avery. If they were to reboot the original Ninja Turtles cartoon from the 80's, he'd be Shredder. Or Uncle Phil in Fresh Prince.
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u/danidixx Oct 26 '21
Steve- hold that thought I need to poop Lewis- hold that poop I have a thought
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u/TaylorNarnia488 Oct 26 '21
Happy belated Birthday Kevin Michael Richardson!! Thank you so much for voicing Principal Lewis and Billy!! I really enjoyed lastās night Halloween episode.
I TOLD YOU TO BURN THAT!!!!!
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u/FancyFeests Oct 25 '21
What? You thought those were ding-dong prices?!