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Troy McClure is a fictional character in the television cartoon series The Simpsons, voiced by Phil Hartman. After Hartman's murder in 1998, the character was retired (along with Hartman's other character, Lionel Hutz). His character last appeared in season 10's third episode, "Bart the Mother."

Troy McClure is the stereotypical Hollywood has-been; ubiquitous presenter of educational videos, voiceovers, and infomercials. At one stage he had a modestly successful acting career. When introducing the latest product he is paid to add his clean-cut good looks and smooth voice to, he always reminds us of his previous career with his standard introduction "Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such {films, educational videos, voiceovers} as," and then going on to list the kind of (often amusingly-titled) B-grade stuff that pays the bills but is hardly Oscar-winning material. He has narrated propaganda for everyone from the beef industry, to health farms, to the Springfield Nuclear Powerplant.

McClure's career reportedly went downhill due to his unusual paraphilia, which apparently involved fish (see beastiality). To cover this up, a marriage was arranged between himself and Marge's sister Selma, which revived his career to star in Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!, a musical version of the film Planet of the Apes (the episode was made well before the 2001 remake of the movie). Although Selma accepted the sham marriage, she drew the line when McClure's producers suggested that they have a child. He is now presumably spending time with his aquatic friends again.

His name is an amalgam of B-movie actors Troy Donahue and Doug McClure. In the earlier seasons of The Simpsons he is called Kevin McClure. ( e.g. The commercial in the beginning of the episode "Marge in Chains")

In all ways, McClure is the exact opposite of Rainier Wolfcastle, another movie star from The Simpsons universe. While McClure's films merely pay the bills, Wolfcastle's films are blockbusters.

In physical appearance, McClure bears a strong resemblance to Futurama's Zapp Brannigan. In fact, Brannigan was originally to have been voiced by Phil Hartman but, after his death, Billy West (Philip J Fry in Futurama) performed a respectful imitation of how Hartman would have portrayed the character.

Movies

You might remember Troy McClure from such films as:

The Boatjacking of Supership '79 (ref. The Concorde: Airport '79
)
Calling All Quakers (with Dolores Montenegro)
The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel
Cry Yuma
David versus Super Goliath
Dial M for Murderousness (ref. Dial M for Murder
)
The Electric Gigolo (ref. The Electric Horseman
and American Gigolo
)
The Erotic Adventures of Hercules
Give My Remains to Broadway (ref. Give My Regards to Broadway)
Gladys the Groovy Mule (ref. Francis the Talking Mule)
Good-Time Slim, Uncle Doobie, and the Great 'Frisco Freak-Out
The Greatest Story Ever Hulaed (ref. The Greatest Story Ever Told
)
Here Comes the Coast Guard (ref. Here Comes the Navy
)
Hitler Doesn't Live Here Anymore (ref. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
)
Hydro, the Man With the Hydraulic Arms
Leper in the Backfield
Make-Out King of Montana
Meet Joe Blow (ref. Meet Joe Black
, Meet John Doe
)
The Muppets Go Medieval
"P" is for Psycho (ref. Psycho
and novels by Sue Grafton)
Preacher With a Shovel (with Dolores Montenegro)
The President's Neck is Missing (ref. 1973 TV-film The President's Plane is Missing)
The Revenge of Abe Lincoln
Sorry, Wrong Closet (ref. Sorry, Wrong Number
)
Suddenly Last Supper (ref. Suddenly Last Summer)
They Came to Burgle Carnegie Hall
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die
The Verdict Was Mail Fraud
The Wackiest Covered Wagon in the West (ref. )

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