The Simpsons is well known for It's a wide range of surprising celebrity stars on guests. These actors stop for the show for many reasons, starting with "it's a light gig" to "I'm a friend with the producers". With Daniel Radcliffe, who celebrated Harry Potter for eight films in a row, he seems to join the show simply because he liked the series - this and because he was known enough that the series liked it.

"I feel like a lot of people growing up in England, there are things I know about America and American culture," Radcliffe explained to Kelly Clarkson's show " In 2022. "Like, until I was eight years old, I was like," Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota. " And I know that because of the "Simpsons". "He added:

"There is a ton of movie things and referrals of things I didn't understand when I watched the show. And then I saw those films 10 years later and I was like, "O", "Orange Clocks" or "Indiana Onesons". Like, "Oh, that was what it was." "

Putting a nice point for it, Radcliffe said: "If you came to the ground tomorrow and you had to educate someone for the last 30 years of American culture, you could make it worse than make the Simpsons.

Radcliffe's respect for the series is reflected in his multiple stars on him. After appearing in the 2010 episode of the "Simpsons" (almost a year before the last Harry Potter movie released in the cinema), he stopped two more times after, each time he played different characters. It is a feat that few of his co-stars of Harry Potter can try. But on his three performances at the Simpsons before 2025, which of them was the best?

Season 22 of "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (which aired in October 2010) appeared a segment called "Tweenlight", in which Lisa (Yenili Smith) is in the mysterious vampire that shares a striking resemblance to Edward Cullen. This culle's homage is named Edmund Dracula, as Daniel Radcliffe plays. There is also a fun target of this casting, as the guy actually played by Edward, Robert Pattinson, briefly He starred with Radcliffe in Harry Potter and fire. "

As for the segment itself? It's pretty midst of the road, as long as the "Treehouse of Horror" segments go. There are many fun references to the Twilight, including Milhaus (Pamela Hayden) that plays a very sad version of Obeykob Black. However, probably the most interesting part is the way the segment used the age of his characters. Here, Edward and Bella are not teenagers playing the actors in the early 20s; They are only eight years old, which means that Edmund at Radcliffe still needs to have his father, Count Dracula (Dan Castellaneta), to bathe him around.

Their age also throws a key in Lisa's wishes to become a vampire. Since Bella actually becomes one at the end of the "twilight" saga (and it seems to have a great time with it), Lisa has changed his mind after realizing that she will be stuck like 8 years of age forever. "I can't spend eternity using children's scissors," she says. "They barely cut something."

Since Radcliffe's first appearance on the Simpsons paired him with Lisa, his second gives him a story with Bart (Nancy Carttrate). In Diggs in Season 25 (which aired in 2014), Radcliffe expressed a pale, older boy named Digby Diggs, who is great in Falcon. Part of what sets this look apart from Radcliffe's first is that he now uses American accent, and he's pretty good at it; If you did not know ahead of time that Radcliffe expressed Digby, you probably would probably never notice that he was.

As for the episode itself? It's not that unforgettable. It is difficult to be the worst episode of the "Simpsons" on the last day, but has attracted some criticism from fans and critics which is a kind of boring. The basic structure of the episode is sound, it's just that the jokes just don't follow. They will make you occasionally drop your nose air, but they will not make you laugh.

Radcliffe's final performance (at least since February 2025) was in the 29th episode "Not Good Reading Unpunished", which aired in 2018. There, he plays himself while attending the video game Convention "Incognito" to avoid being recognized and crowded by fans. Homer (Castellaneta), of course, doubts what would happen and pull his mask, just for Radcliffe to get (to death?) From a group of excited Harry Potter fans.

Only in the episode of Radcliffe is in the episode, which is probably the best, because "nothing good reading is unpunished" was not well accepted by fans or critics. I am a great defender of the post-classical era "Simpsons" and (Like many of us here on /movie) Believe that there has been no lack of good episodes in recent years; However, tragically, Radcliffe is not included in any of them. On the bright side, he can potentially return to the show at any moment. Maybe the fourth time will be the charm.