Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Difference between revisions

 

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* Supposedly, the character of Yuuichi Tate in ''[[My-HiME]]'' was not recycled into ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' because his voice actor, [[Tomokazu Seki]], spoiled the ending of the first series.

* According to rumors, demands of a higher salary from Yuki Judai's voice actor halfway through the production of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' season 4 forced him to be axed and the entire season being cut in half. It's less surprising when you figure that Judai was becoming [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|way too over focused in the anime]], enough so that a raise demand wasn't out of the question.

* Satomi Toyohara (better known by her stage name, Li-Mei Chiang) is a Japanese actress and VA whose anime credits include ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds]]'' (as Carly Nagisa), ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn!]]'' (as I-Pin) ''[[Sora no Manimani]]'' (as Haruko Hitori). When rumors started to spread that she was involved in the Roma Sophie Association (a cult that came under criminal investigation in 2010 with two leaders arrested) she decided to refrain from VA work as a result. While Chiang herself was never charged with any crime and the investigation was eventually terminated, she seems to have moved on to other things.

 

* Possibly inverted with [[Robert Downey, Jr.]]. Reviewers often mentioned how his experience with alcoholism and drug abuse made him perfect for the role as ''[[Iron Man]]'', the archetypal battling-with-his-own-demons superhero. Still, it was nearly impossible to get insurance for him on the role.

** But played straight with him getting fired from his role on ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' at the end of the fourth season. The season finale had been written with his character contemplating leaving, and stating that if he were ever to leave Ally, it'd probably be with just a note. Most of the episode had been filmed when Downey was busted for substance abuse... and the writers added on a final scene with just that happening.

* Inverted for Robert Mitchum, who was arrested for marijuana possession in 1948, during a time when an arrest record would practically kill any celebrity's career. Instead, it helped boost his [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|bad boy image.]]

 

* Gary Dourdan, who had been hinting that he might leave ''[[CSI]]'', was finally written out of the show due to his personal problems; rumors that his drug charges were a direct cause are untrue.

* After four great seasons writing and producing ''[[The West Wing]]'', [[Aaron Sorkin]] was asked to leave his position as Executive Producer after his drug scandal leaked out.

* Oh boy oh boy oh boy, where do we ''begin'' on [[Charlie Sheen]]? Allegations of domestic abuse didn't cut it. Getting arrested and put in jail in Aspen for violating a restraining order didn't cut it. No, for him to get kicked off of ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'', it took: Sheen getting sent to the hospital for suffering a hernia while engaging in what was, by all accounts, a coke-fueled orgy; taking a leave of absence to go into rehab, putting the show on hiatus in the process; calling up [[Alex Jones]] and bitching about the show's executive producer, his co-stars, and the higher-ups at [[CBS]]; and demanding ''$3 million per episode'' once he returned (compared to his previous salary of $1.8 million per episode, already a rather staggering amount) for [[Warner Bros]] to finally say, "Fuck it" and toss him out into the cold, [[McLeaned|killing his character]] ([[Kill It with Fire|and making sure Sheen himself can never, EVER come back to the show]]), and replacing him with Ashton Kutcher.

** [[Memetic Mutation|Duh! Winning!]]

* Adrienne Bailon staged a [[What an Idiot!|fake nude photo controversy]] involving a stolen laptop with her agent and then-boyfriend Rob Kardashian in order to boost her fading career. Said controversy caused a cancellation of [[The Cheetah Girls]] performance at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and eventually led to the Cheetah Girls just disbanding completely. Bailon's recurring character was also dropped from ''[[That's So Raven]]'' because of backstage catfights with Raven-Symoné. Raven eventually left the Cheetah Girls as well.

* Artie Lange (from the original cast of ''[[Mad TV]]'') was fired from the cast after season two due to his cocaine habit. A few years later, he more or less lost his job on [[Howard Stern]]'s radio show for the same reason, but in that case he did get it back eventually.

* A ''series'' ending one: HBO had agreed to give ''Luck'' a second season very early in its run, but then quickly cancelled it after the public relations nightmare of [[Rule of Three|three horses being killed on set]]. However, all three were purely accidental, and something HBO was trying much harder to prevent than other producers of horse-riding TV shows.

* Played straight and then averted with William Talman, who portrayed D. A. Hamilton Burger on ''[[Perry Mason]]''. He was arrested under circumstances which CBS decided violated the morals clause in his contract and subsequently fired. He was found innocent at trial, however, and thanks to vigorous campaigning by his co-stars was eventually rehired.

* Mackenzie Phillips was fired ''twice'' from ''[[One Day At a Time]]'', both times for her drug problem; she was brought back when she appeared to have overcome her addiction, but upon backsliding was permanently booted from the show.

 

* Tripp Eisen of Static-X was fired after two counts of statutory rape, the first of which he was arrested and released on bail after a few hours in custody. The second occurred a few weeks later, after he was arrested for having sex with a 13 year old after grooming her on the Internet for three months while posing as a Static-X fan. He was fired as soon as the band heard about it. More like a Role Ending Felony.

* Being arrested for possession of cocaine is a big part of why Steven Page left Barenaked Ladies in 2009. Having it happen right before the band was about to play music from their kid's album at several Disney Music Block Party concerts certainly did not help things. (The band canceled the appearances because of this incident).

* [[The Smashing Pumpkins]] knew about drummer Jimmy Chamberlin's drug problem for some time. They tolerated it until touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin died of an overdose while taking drugs with Chamberlin in July 1996. He was fired shortly afterward, but later got clean and rejoined the band in late 1998.

* Gidget Gein, bassist for [[Marilyn Manson]], was fired via telegram on Christmas Eve 1993 while in rehab for his latest overdose. Rather like the Dave Mustaine/Metallica situation, this was ironic as the members of [[Marilyn Manson]] were almost all notorious drug addicts. Gein died of a fatal overdose in 2008.

 

** Of special note here is [[Jeff Hardy]], who originally lost his job in WWE due to his drug abuse...and was immediately snapped up by [[TNA]]. He then lost his job with TNA due to his drug abuse...and was immediately snapped up by WWE. He is now on his final Wellness Policy "strike" with them. Some people never learn.

*** Jeff Hardy was not fired by TNA because of drugs, it was because he "no showed" several events. And several months passed before he was rehired by WWE.

* In August 2010, Taryn Tarell (WWE Diva Tiffany) was fired after getting arrested for assaulting her husband Drew McIntyre.

 

* After [[Russell Brand]] and Jonathan Ross left offensive messages on the answer phone of [[Fawlty Towers|Andrew "Manuel" Sachs]] as part of a show on BBC Radio 2, the BBC faced so much pressure to sack them that Brand resigned from the show on his own. Ross later terminated his contract with the BBC amid speculation that he was about to have it ended for him, due to the Sachs incident and other controversies including complaints about a homophobic joke on his radio show.

** Brand's guest-host episode of ''[[Never Mind the Buzzcocks]]'' was also pushed back because of the scandal.

* Australian Radio host Kyle Sandilands lost his job as a judge on Australian Idol after a lie detector stunt on his radio show revealed that a teenage girl got raped, and he responded by asking her if she had any other sexual experience. This revelation was not dumped, and hence was broadcast to Sydney listeners. [http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2644599.htm Media Watch (ABC) Transcript]

* talkSPORT sacked its talk show host, Jon Gaunt, after an interview with a councillor. Gaunt [[Berserk Button|wasn't keen]] on plans to exclude smokers from being foster parents and described the councillor as a 'Nazi' and an 'ignorant pig'. The interview was live.

 

== Sports ==

 

 

* Possibly the reason that Billy Zane was replaced as Ansem{{spoiler|nort}} ([[Flashback with the Other Darrin|including in the flashback scenes from the previous games]]) by [[Richard Epcar]] in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series—Disney didn't want him on the project anymore due to the fact that, between the games, he'd taken on a major role in the Turkish action film ''[http://www.cracked.com/article_15017_5-kick-ass-action-movies-that-are-pure-propaganda_p5.html Valley of the Wolves: Iraq]''. Said film drew heaps of criticism for portraying American soldiers in Iraq as [[Complete Monster]]s, and was called "anti-American propaganda" by many critics. Zane and the other American actors involved faced heavy backlash for appearing in that movie. A shame, because Epcar just can't match his [[Large Ham/Video Games|legendarily hammy]] performance.

 

* According to [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Chris_Latta The Transformers Wiki], Chris Latta (the voice of [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_%28G1%29 Starscream] in [[The Transformers (animation)|the G1 cartoon]], as well as Wheeljack and Sparkplug) had to be bailed out of jail so often that his characters were written out of the show in [[Transformers: The Movie|the movie]]. He still worked on the show in minor guest spots (such as a [[G.I. Joe|Cobra Commander]] crossover and Starscream's ghost), but not as a regular.

** Inverted in the case of [[Casey Kasem]], who left the show in protest over the stereotypical portrayal of an evil dictator of an Arab state called "[[Unfortunate Names|Carbombya]]." Kasem was born in Lebanon.

* Likewise, ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had Bart [[Is This Thing Still On?|turn the cameras on]] Gabbo (the puppet whose show dethroned Krusty the Klown) in time to broadcast him calling the kids of Springfield S.O.B.s across the city. Subverted when the incident makes the news and Kent Brockman tries to play it straight, but it turns out that the people of Springfield ''still'' adore Gabbo.

** An other episode deals with Kent Brockman himself being fired after Homer accidentally pours hot coffee onto his crotch and says a word "so horrible, it could only be said by Satan himself while on the toilet." Though what gets Kent Brockman fired ''wasn't'' the swearing on live TV (that got him demoted to weatherman while Arnie Pie took over as the anchor), but allegedly having cocaine in his cup of coffee (it was actually Splenda, but his boss thought that Splenda was drug slang for cocaine).

 

== Other ==

* Maine's Fox station used to have a pair of spokespeople for their kids' lineup: a human and a [[Furry Fandom|guy in a fox costume.]] The first human was fired on charges of pedophilia... then, eventually, so was his replacement.

* During part of the 1970s, the main movie reviewer for a newspaper in Nebraska was running a "teen reviewer" program. Kids/young teens would sign up with the paper to be taken to a movie by the reviewer, and would then write a review of it for publication. Then that reviewer was arrested for pedophilia, and the whole "teen reviewer" operation vanished at light speed.

* Supermodel Kate Moss was dropped from several advertising campaigns that she was the face of after a video surfaced of her using cocaine. However, other cosmetics companies and fashion houses took up the slack and offered her deals.

* Comedian [[Gilbert Gottfried]] lost his job as the voice of the Aflac Duck mascot after he posted very insensitive jokes about the massive earthquake in Japan on Twitter. Aflac does a lot of business in Japan and was not amused by his jokes about dead Japanese floating by.

** In a similar vein, voice actor [[D. C. Douglas]] was canned by Geico after he left an insulting voicemail message for a Tea Party group suggesting that its members were mentally retarded. In retrospect, [[Idiot Ball|leaving his real contact info on the message]] probably wasn't the best idea, to put it mildly.

 

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