“The Simpsons” Talk Hockey In New Featurette
Mike Scully gets to show off his hockey knowledge.
FOX Sports West recently produced a featurette where Mike Scully (The Simpsons) got to talk all about his hardcore fandom of the Los Angeles Kings, his family, and how FOX’s longest running animated franchise paid its respects to the sport over the years. Other producers from The Simpsons also make appearances in the featurette such as Matt Selman and a very svelte Michael Price, the latter of who showed off his NY Mets baseball hat (hey, Mike…April 3rd, opening day!).
If the NHL season ended today, the Kings wouldn’t be in the playoffs but are still in the hunt with a little less than a month left in the regular season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGk-vpJWZbg
Short of getting Roiland back, which I'm sure isn't going to happen, I don't even think they could get much better than the new voices from the previous season. And the ratings for season 7 weren't much lower on average than for season 6; it was pretty much just a normal season-to-season drop that most likely would have happened regardless.
I mean, look at the actual averages:
Season 1 - 1.57 million viewers Season 2 - 1.97 million viewers Season 3 - 2.33 million viewers Season 4 - 1.52 million viewers Season 5 - 0.96 million viewers Season 6 - 0.56 million viewers Season 7 - 0.42 million viewers
Ever since season 3, it had been having steep drops even with Roiland still involved; the season 6 to 7 drop is actually the smallest-percentage drop it's had since it started dropping, and if anything it's possible that changing the voice actors actually *boosted* interest a bit and prevented it from dropping even more.