13.
Until
the
17th
episode
of
the
second
season,
Fox
and
the
production
crew
kept
which
characters
the
voice
actors
performed
a
secret,
going
so
far
as
to
close
recording
sessions
while
refusing
to
publish
photo
of
the
recording
artists.
With “Old
Money,”
however,
the
network
revealed
which
roles
each
actor
played
because
the
producers
decided
their
cast
should
receive
credit
for
their
work.
14.
Until
1998,
the
six
main
actors
were
only
paid
$30,000
per
episode.
After
a
pay
dispute,
in
which
the
network
threatened
to
replace
them
with
new
actors
until
Groening
stepped
in
to
support
his
cast,
they
were
bumped
to
$125,000
an
episode.
After
a
month-long
strike
in
April
2004,
in
which
the
cast
stopped
showing
up
to
cast
readings
in
the
hopes
of
getting
a
bigger
piece
of
the
show’s
rising
revenue,
their
salaries
were
increased
to
somewhere
between
$250,000
and
$360,000.
15.
In
2011,
the
show
was
almost
canceled
by
Fox
unless
production
costs
were
cut,
forcing
the
cast
to
accept
a
30
percent
pay
cut
from
their
then-$400,000
per
episode,
reached
through
contract
negotiations
in
2008,
resulting
in
their
current
pay
of
just
over
$300,000
per
episode.
