In the original Tracey Ullman shorts and for the first several eposides, Homer's voice is a dead-on Walter Matthau impression. It's a little jarring to see them now...

@Steve angstrom: Hank Azaria has specifically credited Pacino as the inspiration for Moe. He was playing a lowlife character in a play in Hollywood, in which he was doing a Pacino impression, when he auditioned. They had him tweak it only slightly, raising the pitch a little. However, the visual design very well might have some Rich Hall. I can see a resemblance...

Incidentally, this article references Doug McClure in the present tense, though he passed away in 1995.

Isn't the point of incarceration to rehabilitate people, or to make them pay their debt to society? Unless you're locking people up because they're a danger to the public, when someone is released he or she should be allowed to work. To let people to deny someone a job because they were formerly a felon essentially makes that person a felon for the rest of his or her live. If you can't support yourself legitimately, you may be left with few options but to resort to crime to survive.