Lionel Hutz/Troy McClure

ephphoneapps wrote:
Lionel Hutz, Troy McClure, and any other character voiced by Phil Hartman will never ever ever never ever appear in this game. The characters have been retired out of respect for Phil Hartman. That is the way it is, will be, and should be.

Using the excuse "but they would be a great tribute to him!" is BS and selfish.

We will have to agree to (vehemently) disagree. I cannot, in my wildest imagination, believe that ANY human being would want the hallmark of his legacy to be a grisly death.

Phil Hartman brought so much more to the world than that. I don't know your age, but the 1970s, when Hartman came to the world of comedy, was an abominable, miserable gruesome time in our nation's history. Hartman did not work to make us think of all that. Rather, he devoted his talents to making us laugh.

He did that -- above all else -- for almost a quarter century. Made us LAUGH. It was his gift, and it was his purpose in LIFE. Why are we not focusing on that in his death? In my opinion, his wife has -- for too many people -- allowed HER action obliterate what HE had worked for. If that was her goal, it would seem that to a significant degree, she won. And he lost.

My refusal to allow that sick, sick woman, in a singular moment, to erase the decades of laughter he broufht to me, is far, far from an "excuse". I prefer to focus on what HE did. Not what SHE did.