Am I the only one who's noticed this? (my husband can't hear it, but he's generally oblivious…) 😉
]]>I love listening to the classic donald duck shorts, because my grandfather's first cousin was the voice of donald duck from the first "talkie" until the late 70's. His name was Clarence Nash, and he used to come to our family reunions with the donald ventriloquist dummy he used on the old mickey mouse club. Unfortunately, he passed away a couple years before i was born, so I never got to meet him personally. My favorite story about him is that when Walt Disney originally concieved the idea of mickey and donald as buddies, donald was supposed to be cheerful and friendly, and mickey was supposed to be hot headed and a bit of a troublemaker. Clarence was working as a milk delivery man, and entertained his customers with birdsongs and funny voices. Someone suggested that he go try out as a voice actor at the disney studios, and he did. The voice that he showed disney was created as a frustrated goat, but when disney heard it, a bulb lit up in his head and he asked clarence if he could make it sound more like a duck. He made some adjustments, and a-hole donald was born!
]]>How, how, HOW is it that no one has given any love to the late great Tony Jay?? Mother-fucking MEGABYTE, people! The classiest bastard on the planet!
]]>Cree Summers is right up there with Tara Strong, and usually right beside as well, Max, the girl friend from Batman Beyond, Foxxy Love (Drawn Together), Vexus (Teenage Robot), Elmira Duff (Tiny Toon Adventures), and various other TV, movie and VGs.
Matt McKenzie has an amazing voice that I could listen to all evening. He was the second in command of the army in the FF:Sprits Within, he was in Vampire Hunter:D, he's Sir Auron (FFX) for goodness sakes.
And, if it's Batman and Joker, it has to be Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill.
]]>Give me my late pass for comment, but it has to be said: Kevin Conroy is the best ALTERNATIVE for Christian Bale? Sputter of disbelief. Christian Bale's Batman voice is the worst thing about those movies. Christian Bale's Batman voice was the worst thing about "Batman & Robin," and it wasn't even in it. It beat out "Ice to meet you." Diedrich Bader has a better Batman voice.
]]>And Frank Welker is a freaking genius. And Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill as Batman and the Joker, respectively.
]]>Still, it's not as bad as when I worked for a picture frame warehouse, and every piece of framed artwork I saw, I was like "ah, the Larson-Juhl Terrazzo L-347."
]]>As punishment: Christina Ricci in Speed Racer, when she says "cool beans."
*shiver*
]]>Tress fun fact: did you know that she played Lucy in Weird Al Yankovic's song and video, "Hey Ricky?"
]]>I gotta say, Tom Kenny does a FANTASTIC soundalike as Starscream in the new Transformers series. He's also best known as Spngebob, and was on Mr. Show.
]]>And June Foray is a legend, I always remember her as Granny.
]]>Still, cocaine-induced cardiac episode is a bad way to go.
]]>But then again, the famous Scarlett O'Hara was played by Brit actress Vivian Leigh. Maybe it's not such a stretch.
]]>…Yeah, fuck everyone, I loved me some Dragonball. You know you loved it too.
]]>The misuse of tech slang is another pet peeve.
]]>Joel, you've had more lines than him in every single game. So, enjoy those apples.
]]>I can't help it. It's a weakness.
]]>and pat K. is probably my only rival for name-that-tune: movie score edition
]]>Really, thank you.
]]>As for strange little things I notice – fonts. Oh, it's geeky, I know, but since being a newspaper-nerd in high school I can't restrain myself from leaning over and whispering 'I have that font' when I see one I know on commercials, flyers or film credits. Hey, at least it's useful in my line of work!
]]>If you are going down that road, Dan Castalineta(Sp), and Hank Azaria are right up there with the best of the best.
]]>And yeah, don't count me among the Family Guy/Seth MacFarlane haters. He looks like such a fratboy, then he'll drop an extended riff on some classic musical.
Some more voice actors I dig on: Corey Burton (who has become the official soundalike for the late Frees), Chris Latta (Starscream/Cobra Commander), Frank Welker (just about everything, but especially Fred on Scooby Doo) and the great Peter Fernandez, the voice of Speed Racer, as well as half the other characters on that show.
]]>Also, the fourth and sixth panels are very similar.
]]>No really I agree with you 100% about the Simpsons. I pretty much stopped watching it when Futurama started. But Shearer still has a lot of talent to be able to voice all of those characters on a single show and make them distinct enough so that it isn't obvious that it's the same person.
Family Guy has in common with South Park that it seems like everyone on the show who isn't one of the main characters is MacFarlane (or Parker, respectively) doing the exact same voice. His voices on American Dad weren't very distinct either – they all sound like Seth McFarlane doing a weird German accent or Seth McFarlane doing sort of a 1950's propaganda film voice. He does what he does great, but I just don't think he has as much range as some today's better voice actors (and I would include Shearer in that list).
Just my two cents.
]]>Pat Fraley does a lot of good work too, but he'll always be Krang to me. Kevin Conroy will always be Batman to me, which makes me doubly sad that Wheaton will be in a Batman show with Diedrich Bader as the Dark Guy Who Would Totally Hook That Up If He Had a Million Dollars.
]]>I also got to go to a VA panel, and they had Dean Venture, original Misty/Jessie and original Ash from Pokemon. I know you're too old to care about that sort of thing, but you are a VA guy sometimes, right? It's something I've always wanted to get into, but I don't really have range. I can't do funny voices, and I'm no Dave Coulier. I'd be more on the Katey Sagal level, if I wasn't already famous for another show.
I am training at my school radio station, and we have to read PSAs. I think this would help me in the long run, as we have to be clear and concise, and learn to enunciate.
]]>David Tennant's real accent is decidedly Scottish. I saw a Red Nose Day special with him playing a teacher.
]]>Also, I think one of the reasons I like the Hunt for Red October movie so much is that it has both James Earl Jones and Sean Connery.
]]>Speaking of shrill, no old Doctor Who episode involving Daleks is complete without Roy Skelton (though Nick Briggs has done a pretty good job on the new ones).
]]>On the opposite end, I like it when they take the time to teach the actor how to play the song and they play it correctly. Whedon always did this.
]]>It's frickin' spot on.
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