The Voice Of Milhouse Retires From ‘The Simpsons’

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Everything’s not coming up Milhouse, it seems. Pamela Hayden, who has voiced iconic Simpsons characters including Milhouse and Jimbo Jones, is retiring from the show after 35 years.

Hayden will voice her last episode – Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes – on Sunday November 24. In addition to Bart’s best friend Milhouse Van Houten and bully Jimbo Jones, over the years, Hayden has voiced secondary characters including Ned Flanders’ son Rod, Chief Wiggum’s wife and Ralph Wiggum’s mother Sarah and Lisa Simpson’s friend Janey Powell.

The Simpsons, which launched on Fox in December 1989, will now start casting for her characters. Hayden said, “The time has come for me to hang up my microphone, but how do I say goodbye to The Simpsons?……not easily.

It’s been an honor and a joy to have worked on such a funny, witty, and groundbreaking show, and to give voice to Milhouse and Jimbo Jones, Rod Flanders, Janey, Malibu Stacy, and many others.” Milhouse, who first appeared in a Butterfinger commercial in 1989, was named after the former U.S.