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In France, nearly all Hollywood movies and TV shows are dubbed in French, employing actors whose voices can become as well known as the original stars'_ by [Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Jul 22, 2014 3:48 PM UTC  Lee Weir's Homer sleeve Lee Weir's Homer sleeve Guinness World Records by [Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Jul 22, 2014 3:48 PM UTC Some people get drunk before they get a tattoo, but Lee Weir, a 27-year-old from New Zealand, gave up alcohol for a year while getting 41 tattoos of Homer Simpson in a sleeve on his arm—setting a [Guinness World Record](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2014/7/in-pictures-simpsons-fan-sets-cartoon-character-tattoo-record-with-homer-tribute-58777/) for the most tattoos of the same cartoon character on a single body. Woo hoo! [#Simpsons](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Simpsons?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) superfan [@leeweird](https://twitter.com/LeeWeird?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) shows his love for [@HomerJSimpson](https://twitter.com/HomerJSimpson?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) with tattoos record [pic.twitter.com/dIPgR7B4xT](http://t.co/dIPgR7B4xT) — Guinness World Records (@GWR) [July 15, 2014](https://twitter.com/GWR/status/489035489241223168?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) The tattoo might also break a record for how many different versions of the same cartoon character it contains. Weir has Homer as a jack-in-the-box, the Grim Reaper, and a donut. There’s Homer as a baby, as an old man, and in a Hawaiian shirt. Why Homer? Weir wasn’t allowed to watch the cartoon as a kid, but he “got into it at a later age” he told Australia’s [Sunrise morning show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiCkq-fSGOE#t=88). He considered getting tattoos of all the different _Simpsons_ characters, but the process was too difficult. How do you choose who to include and who to leave out? Homer makes for “a great conversation starter,” he said. ## Transcript -[ Foreign Language ] >> The faces of Philippe Peythieu and Veronique Augereau are not well- known in France. But their voices are. They are the French- speaking actors behind one of American TV's most famous couples. -[ Foreign Language ] >> These two have interpreted the voices of dozens of American actors. From Danny DeVito to Ray [ unk ], Jamie Lee Curtis to Rene Russo. So when Simpson's creator Matt Groening sought French voices for Homer and Marge, he cast Philippe and Veronique more than 20 years. He still supervises and watches the French version to this day. -[ Foreign Language ] >> Since silent motion pictures became talkies a cottage industry, a voice town, has dubbed the voices of famous actors. In France, every Hollywood film is dubbed. And that has made famous scenes like this one, Al Pacino's Tony Montana in Scarface, a cult classic. -[ Foreign Language ] >> In France alone, it's estimated that up to $ 165 million a year is invested in dubbing TV shows and films to cater [ unk ] audiences around the world. -[ Foreign Language ] >> On French television, all shows and movies are dubbed. Except for those viewers with a digital cable box, there's really an option to watch the original English version. And that has spawned a bade of French- only voice dubbing. >> It started in 1932, and it did move very, very quickly. -[ unk ], a researcher of cinematic studies specializing in American cinema says viewing only dubbed media puts France behind other countries in learning and speaking foreign languages. >> People who speak [ unk ] don't accept when it's not dubbed. In small countries, say, Finland, Denmark, people are used to subtitles. The fact that people can at the same time read the subtitle and listen to its soundtrack, it improves, no doubt, the knowledge and the practice of English. -[ Foreign Language ] >> Some argue, never hearing the actor's original performance penalizes the audience. Expressions and the vernacular of the language are sometimes lost, like this scene from Dr. Strangelove, does not merely a [ unk ] in French. -[ Foreign Language ] >> But in some cases, what is lost in the translation is gained in cultural association. Take this scene from Scarface. The French actor dubbing Al Pacino's Tony Montana used a slight Arabic accent in his French. -[ Foreign Language ] >> It gave the character an [ unk ] association that would not have been possible in subtitles. In countries like France, Germany, and Spain, the vast majority of imported films continue to be viewed in dubbed versions. 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