stackyFACTSThe defining sound of American animated incompetence started as a blatant celebrity impersonation. Over thirty seasons, the voice gradually mutated from a slow, grouchy Walter Matthau drawl into the high-pitched, manic shrieking we all know and tolerate today.
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