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Watch Hugh Jackman's debut on The Simpsons singing about middle-class decline

The Music Man star comes to the animated sitcom's season 33 finale to explain why Homer's lifestyle is no longer affordable for many Americans.


Christian Holub
By Christian Holub
May 18, 2022 at 01:34 PM EDT


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Animated Comedy

The Simpsons has been running so long (the season 33 finale airs this Sunday) that some elements of its basic premise no longer track in the modern economic context. Modern viewers might very well wonder how an oaf like Homer (Dan Castellanata) can afford a house and car on a single income. Well, don't worry: Hugh Jackman shows up in the upcoming season finale to explain the history of the American middle class — in song, of course! Watch the EW exclusive preview above.

This is Jackman's debut on The Simpsons, after previously turning them down due to a scheduling conflict. As you can see in the clip, the star of Broadway's current The Music Man revival gets to show off his singing chops

"My understanding is that we offered him a part a few years ago, and he wanted to do it, but was swamped for time," episode writer Tim Long tells EW. "This time he was available and gave us an enthusiastic yes! He also loved the part and the song we wrote for him, which I think really play to his enormous talents."

In the episode, Jackman voices a janitor at the nuclear power plant where Homer works. Bart (Nancy Cartwright) has accompanied his father to the job site, where the janitor explains how the post-World War II era brought prosperity to the American middle class that allowed people like Homer to succeed despite their failings. But then "gradually, it all went to hell," as Jackman sings.

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Hugh Jackman makes his debut on 'The Simpsons' as a singing janitor in the season 33 finale | CREDIT: FOX
"We were intrigued and amused by an article in The Atlantic titled, 'The Life in the Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable,'" Long says. "At first we thought it was pretty funny. The Simpsons is a cartoon, after all, and the show's relationship with money is very fungible. Homer once got his hands on a trillion-dollar bill, and immediately tried to use it in a soda machine."


Long continues, "but the more we thought about it, the more we thought The Atlantic had a point. Homer really does belong to the last generation of people who can hold a good, middle-class job with benefits for life, without some sort of higher degree. There's no way Bart will have that. And then after ruminating about that for a few days, we came to the inevitable conclusion: It's got to be a musical! And we gotta get both Hugh Jackman and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich! From there, it all kinda came together."

Long's not lying. Although he doesn't appear in the clip above, Reich (who served as U.S. Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton) does show up in the episode as himself to help explain the history of American middle-class decline.

Watch the clip above, and catch the full season finale episode this Sunday on Fox.

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Tune in or set your DVR to The Graham Norton Show tonight at 11pm on BBC America - Hugh is a guest!

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My favorite story was Oscar’s comment to Hugh: “Dad, you are in so much trouble!” 😂

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it was great to have Hugh Jackman from Wolverine & The X-Man guest stars in the season premiere

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Awkward! Pre-Divorce Hugh Jackman Pokes Fun at His Marriage in ‘Rick and Morty’ Season 7 Premiere

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Hope this does not derail any hopes of a reconciliation!

Awkward! Pre-Divorce Hugh Jackman Pokes Fun at His Marriage in ‘Rick and Morty’ Season 7 Premiere
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Hugh Jackman commands all the attention in the Season 7 premiere of Rick and Morty, in which, he pokes fun at his marriage of 27 years. But, the starry guest spot is mega awkward for one particular reason… Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness announced their separation in September.

The episode sees Rick confronting Mr. Poopybutthole, who has been staying with the Smiths ever since his wife and son left him, about his unacceptable behavior — which comes to a head when he has a drug dealer deliver his purchases to the house during family dinner.

Rick enlists Gearhead, Squanch, Birdperson, and a random sober guy to have a friend-to-friend talk — not an intervention — with the depleted man.

After a failed trip to a bar, Mr. Poopybutthole reveals that it’s his birthday, and the squad decide to take him out for a night on the town.

They journey to a crowded nightclub, where they meet Hugh Jackman, an eccentric version of the famed actor, voiced by himself. Now, Jackman’s cameo shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise as he plays a role in Hulu’s 2023 animated series Koala Man. Clearly, the X-Men actor is here to stay in the world of animation.

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Throughout the episode, there are plenty of Jackman-related puns and references. Turns out, this Hugh is married to random sober guy’s cousin, making the actor his “wolver-in-law.” In the same sequence, Hugh says he has to take a “Hugh shit” and calls his house his “Jack-shack.” Honestly, we’re obsessed with this Hugh.


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However, things get a bit awkward when the squad arrive to Hugh’s house, which is loaded with drugs and alcohol. There, Hugh finds Mr. Poopybutthole gazing at a framed photo of him and his wife. “The best bloody day of my life,” Hugh says.

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Mr. Poopybutthole responds,”My wedding day was pretty great too.” But, Hugh wasn’t referring to his wedding day — he tells him that he was actually talking about the Tony Award sitting on the mantle below the romantic picture. Umm, awkward, much? Thankfully, the episode quickly moves along when the crew decide to help Mr. Poopybutthole win back his wife, Amy, who has already moved on.

The sly comment may have not aged well, but the awkwardness fits right in place with the rest of the episode as the show always tends to toe the line. At least in this case, we can rightfully assume that they didn’t foresee the recent events happening. Hopefully Jackman can laugh this off, along with the rest of us!

Rick and Morty Season 7 premieres Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 11pm ET on Adult Swim.

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Hugh Jackman haciendo un Ned Flanders en el inicio de la séptima temporada de #RickAndMorty:

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Rick and Morty's Season 7 brought in Hugh Jackman to party with Rick!

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need a real version of this naked picture of Hugh Jackman on a beach

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I hope the sense of humor of Deb will laugh this off! She seems like someone who will not be offended by the joke about Hugh calling his winning a Tony as the best day of his life ( and adding that his wedding day is a favorite, too).

Hope Hugh will share the family reaction to this fun takeoffs on his public persona


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Unleashing the Silly Side: Hugh Jackman's Hilarious Voice Acting Debut on 'Rick and Morty' Leaves Fans in Stitches! 😂🎤 #JackmanInAnimation

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Hugh Jackman's voice animation work!

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Rick and Morty: Hugh Jackman Remains in His Silly Voice Acting Bag
The latest celebrity guest voice actor on Rick and Morty has truly enjoyed making fun of himself.


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October 15, 2023

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Still from “How Poopy Got His Poop Back.” Season Seven of Adult Swim’s “Rick and Morty” premieresglobally beginning Sunday, October 15 at 11:00pm ET/PT.
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This week’s highly anticipated Rick and Morty season 7 premiere, “How Poopy Got His Poop Back,” saw the return of fan-favorite characters Mr. Poopybutthole, Birdperson, Gearhead, and Squanchy, as they try to stage an intervention and inadvertently get riggity-riggity-wrecked with Hugh Jackman. Not a person impersonating Hugh Jackman like they did Ice T in the early seasons, but THE Hugh Jackman as a fictionalized version of himself, depicted as a frat boy party animal. In every circumstance, this would be a hysterical cameo if not for the fact that the Wolverine actor has been getting his claws into adult animation for the past several years. Jackman has wholly gotten into his silly voice-acting bag, and I’m here for it.

Dating all the way back to 2006, amidst playing Wolverine in countless X-Men films and hosting the Tonys, Jackman began exploring roles that explored his vocal range, literally. So he starred in Dreamworks Aardman’s Flushed Away and fellow Aussie filmmaker George Miller’s Happy Feet, which coincidentally opened in November 2006. That Thanksgiving season, everyone was giving thanks for Jackman’s contributions to animation cinema.


As lead Roddy St. James in Flushed Away, Jackman upped his silliness and comical chops. In this very Bri’ish–– no T––role, where he must don an English accent, he’s unrecognizable as Jackman speaks in a high-pitched, sheepish British brogue that matches the domesticated pampered pet character he voiced. The closest clue that does him in is a gag where he’s doing a Tom Jones impersonation as he’s singing “She’s a Lady,” where his deep octave Aussie voice comes out.


Then, in Happy Feet, Jackman voiced Mumble’s emotionally distant penguin dad, Memphis. Take a wild guess what accent he takes in that. The man does a full-on Tennessee voice, mimicking Elvis so hard. The movie opens with him singing “Heartbreak Hotel” (and Prince’s “Kiss”) along with Nicole Kidman in a spirited duet. That Elvis-type voice stays ever so consistent all the way through. No land down under voice detected at all from him or Kidman. Over time, he lent his voice work to other family animated flicks: Dreamworks’ underrated Rise of the Guardians as a boomerang-wielding Easter Bunny, and Laika’s Missing Link, where he does his Brit thang again as explorer Sir Lionel.


Around the 2010s, Jackman leaned into his sillier side of himself, most notably appearing as a standout performer in the otherwise dreadful Movie 43. There, he starred in a sketch opposite Flushed Away co-star Kate Winslet, where he wore a lifelike prosthetic scrotum that dangled under his chin, with the entire joke being that Jackman casually pays no mind to it while a pubic hair falls into soup, he holds a baby, and other gross-out mishaps. While Movie 43 may be a cinematic sin against comedy, Jackman is astounding in his playful commitment to the bit, exploring his versatility.

Nothing can be sillier than going meta on your own filmography. Heck, Jackman went meta long before the Deadpool film franchise was born. Firstly, he appears as a cameo in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, where he tries to fight a come-to-life Sir Lancelot (played by Solar Opposites‘ Dan Stevens, HA the foreshadowing) who disrupts a stage play he’s performing in. Jackman screams, “Come On,” and enters Wolverine’s battle position. Still, there were no claws, and somehow, before the “Hey, Marvel actor is doing this comedy feature, so let’s joke about that superhero role they also do,” trend became a thing.

He also furthers this in an unexpected cameo in the indie dramedy Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl, in which he calls out Thomas Mann for being a dirtbag towards his ailing friend via a voiceover as a poster of Jackman in his Wolverine getup and commenting “I’ve been doing my broody Wolverine thing for the past five and a quarter years on this girl’s wall…” and his line delivery is pretty funny.


Which brings us to 2019, all leading up to the start of Jackman’s adult animation era: voicing himself in a hairy hormone monster penis form on Big Mouth. Somehow, it had his rock-hard (no pun intended) abs, hairstyle, and other defining features. It was outrageous, bizarre, and unexpectedly hilarious––even garnering another laugh when his name popped up in the guest starring credits of that episode.

That wasn’t the end of his tenure within the Big Mouth universe since he went on to lend his voice to a non-fictionalized character in the spinoff Human Resources. There, he starred in a recurring role, a sexually active bad boy humanoid angel named Dante the Addiction Angel. He didn’t try to take on another accent, for his Aussie identity and comic skillfulness remained intact. Earlier this year, he also had a recurring role as another Michael Cusack’s Koala Man, where Jackman voices an ego-driven boss named Big Greg. Since the series takes place in the land down under Jackman, Cusack, Succession‘s Sarah Snook, and more, they must be free in their comedy without tackling another regional identity.


If there’s anything to dissect from Hugh Jackman up until now, he has a spirited sense of humor and a love for the animation medium when it’s at its most unhinged. He’s fearless in going meta in his iconography and his roles. He’s up for the challenge to play off his career without taking anything to heart. He’s a man of charisma across every medium he tackles—film, TV, animation, and stage. Hugh Jackman’s appearance in Rick and Morty as himself may not be the freshest, but it continues his long-going streak of portraying the craziest portrayal of himself with endless glee.

Hugh Jackman is a graduate of dramatic theatre.

His training includes many instances of improvisations and vocal training.

It is not surprising that he is open to doing work beyond his normal film work with their serious or typical comedy themes. Voice animations allows him to adopt many types of characters, even silly ones, to draw on his comedic skills.

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If there’s anything to dissect from Hugh Jackman up until now, he has a spirited sense of humor and a love for the animation medium when it’s at its most unhinged. He’s fearless in going meta in his iconography and his roles. He’s up for the challenge to play off his career without taking anything to heart. He’s a man of charisma across every medium he tackles—film, TV, animation, and stage. Hugh Jackman’s appearance in Rick and Morty as himself may not be the freshest, but it continues his long-going streak of portraying the craziest portrayal of himself with endless glee.

This is a great accolade -- recognizing the many expressions of his varied talent -- no other actor is as gifted or at least has shown it in many forms.

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This is the original Den of Geek article on Hugh Jackman's voice animation work, showing an example for each of the pieces of work he has done over the years.

www.denofgeek.com/tv/rick-and-morty-hugh-jackman-remains-in-his-silly-voice-acting-bag/

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It's great that your voice animation work is now being recognized as a different & separate body of work in your acting repertoire! You are indeed an excellent actor & WAAPA will be proud!

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#RickAndMorty is a show that has become a farm team for Marvel Studios as they pluck various writers. Of course, the Season 7 premiere episode went from a BLADE rave scene nod to having Rick and his pals partying with X-MEN/DEADPOOL 3 actor Hugh Jackman.

Link with Marvel Studios?


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