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.

Troy is the prototypical Hollywood has-been; ubiquitous presenter of educational videos, voiceovers, and advertorials. At one stage Troy McClure had a minorly-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.

Troy's career reportedly went downhill due to his unusual paraphilia, which apparently involved fish. 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 Troy's producers suggested that they have a child. Troy is now presumably spending time with his aquatic friends again. His name is an amalgam of B-movie actors Troy Donohue and Doug McClure .

Movies

You might remember Troy McClure from such appearances in:

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

Educational films and self help videos

• Adjusting Your Self-O-Stat (with Brad Goodman)
• Alice Doesn't Live Any More
• Alice's Adventures through the Windshield Glass
• Birds: Our Fine Feathered Colleagues
• The Decapitation of Larry Leadfoot
• Designated Drivers: The Lifesaving Nerds
• Dig Your Own Grave and Save
• Earwigs, Ew!
• Firecrackers: The Silent Killer
• Fuzzy Bunny's Guide to You-Know-What
• Get Confident, Stupid
• The Half-Assed Approach to Foundation Repair
• Here Comes the Metric System
• Lead Paint: Delicious But Deadly
• Locker Room Towel Fights: The Blinding of Larry Driscoll
• Man Versus Nature: The Road To Victory
• Meat and You -- Partners in Freedom (a Meat Council film, part of the "Resistance is Useless" series)
• Mommy, What's Wrong With That Man's Face?
• Mothballing Your Battleship
• Phony Tornado Alerts Reduce Readiness
• Shoplifters BEWARE
• 60 Minutes of Car Crash Victims
• Smoke Yourself Thin
• Someone's in the Kitchen with DNA!
• Two Minus Three Equals Negative Fun
• (The) World Without Zinc
• Young Jebediah Springfield (A Watch-and-Learn Production)

Television

TV specials

• Alien Nose Job
• Carnival of the Stars
• Five Fabulous Weeks of The Chevy Chase Show
• The Miss American Girl Pageant
• "The Simpsons" 138th Episode Spectacular
• "The Simpsons" Spin-Off Showcase

TV Series

• AfterMannix
• Buck Henderson, Union Buster
• Handel with Kare
• I Can't Believe They Invented It! (infomercial)
• Son of Sanford and Son
• Troy and Company's Summertime Smile Factory

Cartoons

• Christmas Ape
• Christmas Ape Goes to Summer Camp

Other

Celebrity funerals

• Herschel Shlomo Krustofsky, aka Krusty the Clown
• Andre the Giant, We Hardly Knew Ye
• Shemp Howard: Today We Mourn A Stooge

Plays

• Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!

Quotes

• "Hi! I'm Troy McClure, you may remember me from such ___ as ___ and ___"
• "Gay? I wish! If I were gay there'd be no problem!"

External links

• The Ultimate Troy McClure Site
• Simpsons Archive
• Smellin of Troy
• The Troy McClure Pretty-Much-Everything Site

See also : The Simpsons