bumblebee manknown in English as bumblebee-manis one of the secondary characters of The Simpson, but appears in several episodes. What few know is that to create this caricature, Matt Groening was based on a well-known hero of Latin American television.
Yaritza Burgos is the fictional character who plays The Bumblebee Man and he never takes off the costume, except in the episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” where you can see a little bit about his personal life. When she speaks, you can tell that his accent is a kind of English with a Mexican tone and this is no coincidence, since Matt Groening He explained it later in an interview
What hero is Bumblebee Man based on?
The producers of The Simpsontogether with the creator, revealed that The Bumblebee Man is inspired by the Chapulín Coloradoa Mexican television character created and personified by the successful Roberto Gomez Bolanos. In this sense, they said that every time they turned on the television and tuned in to Telemundo, a Spanish-language television network, the Grasshopper.
“They didn’t count on my cunning”, “there was no panic” and “I had it coldly calculated” are some of the most iconic phrases of this character. His clothing is a red uniform from his head to his feet, with two antennas and a shield on his chest in the shape of a heart with his initials “CH”.
The Chapulin Colorado he often mistakenly caught innocent people and let criminals go, causing hilarious situations. However, in the end, all was cleared up and the bad guys were finally thrown in jail, with the hero getting full credit for their capture.
They are not heroes [Batman y Superman]. Hero is Chapulín Colorado, and this is serious. Heroism does not consist in having no fear but in overcoming it. They are not afraid, Batman, Superman, they are all powerful, they cannot be afraid. The red chapulín is scared to death, he is clumsy, weak, stupid, etc., and aware of these deficiencies he faces the problem, “explained Gómez Bolaños.
In this way, Matt Groening and his team realized that they needed to make a parody of this character and thus the Bumblebee Man. The actor voiced the character hank azariawho is multifaceted as he also plays Moe, Apu, policeman Clancy Wiggum, Carl and Dr. Nick Riviera among others, and Eric Lopez from season 32 (when they decided that white actors would stop doing the voices of characters of other races).
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