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Post by Milkman Norm on Apr 28, 2019 12:34:13 GMT -5
Not including characters like the Honeymooners mice. I'm talking about things like The Brain obviously being Maurice LaMarche's impression of Orson Welles.
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Post by nonrev on Apr 28, 2019 15:58:49 GMT -5
In Tazmania, Taz's dad being Bing Crosby and his uncle being Bob Hope, and then in Hysteria, Socrates being Bing Crosby and George Washington being Bob Hope.
This will probably turn into a Maurice LaMarche thread.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Apr 28, 2019 19:19:03 GMT -5
It's very weird to be a kid who watches the Flintstones and then to see an old episode of the Honeymooners.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 28, 2019 19:20:58 GMT -5
Seeing anything with Groucho Marx or Peter Lorre as a kid is jarring, because then you realize a shitload of characters are shameless copies of them.  |
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Apr 28, 2019 19:21:24 GMT -5
Probably the Brain being based off Orson Welles, honestly.
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Post by ERON on Apr 28, 2019 20:17:27 GMT -5
My grandparents made sure I was familiar with many old time actors like W.C. Fields, Groucho Marx, Humphrey Bogart, and the like. I'm not sure what the first cartoon voice I caught on to was, but it was probably either the monkey that talked like Bogart on Shirt Tales, or the cats that talked like Abbott & Costello on Looney Tunes.
On a somewhat related note, I remember watching a wrestling-themed Bugs Bunny cartoon with a wrestler called "The De-Natured Boy," and - knowing that Looney Tunes was from the '40s and '50s, but being unaware of Buddy Rogers's existence - thinking "Damn, I didn't know Ric Flair was that old!"
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Post by Lupin the Third on Apr 28, 2019 22:04:35 GMT -5
So I watched a couple episodes of Robotech episodes on Netflix recently, deciding to watch it after so many years. And right as I heard Rick Hunter/Hikaru Ichijyo, I was like, "Wait a second. I know that voice. That's Lupin the Third!!"
So I went back and looked, and of course, Lupin and Rick from Robotech share the same voice actor.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 28, 2019 22:10:04 GMT -5
Krang from 'Ninja Turtles' being Katherine Hepburn.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Apr 28, 2019 23:30:08 GMT -5
Probably Mayor Quimby from the Simpsons being pretty clearly based on Jack Kennedy.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Apr 28, 2019 23:37:27 GMT -5
Probably Mayor Quimby from the Simpsons being pretty clearly based on Jack Kennedy. For me it was Raphael, the sarcastic man of many professions, being a clear vocal parody of Charles Branson. |
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Post by The Legendary Ring Troll {BLM} on Apr 29, 2019 2:45:25 GMT -5
Animaniacs was FILLED with this. I wanna day the Goodfeathers was my first realization.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 7:49:36 GMT -5
Shipwreck from GI Joe. Even as a kid, who took an awful long while to connect the Flintstones and the Honeymooners, I knew that was Jack Nicholson.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Apr 29, 2019 10:12:48 GMT -5
Probably Mayor Quimby from the Simpsons being pretty clearly based on Jack Kennedy. Tecbnically it is based on comedian Vaughn Meader whose album "The First Family" was a massive hit and who had a great run until November of 1963. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 10:14:18 GMT -5
Probably Mayor Quimby from the Simpsons being pretty clearly based on Jack Kennedy. Tecbnically it is based on comedian Vaughn Meader whose album "The First Family" was a massive hit and who had a great run until November of 1963. November 22, 1963, to be hideously precise. (Like, the moment he heard the news that day, from a cabbie IIRC, he knew his career was 100% over.) |
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Post by Milkman Norm on Apr 29, 2019 10:21:50 GMT -5
Tecbnically it is based on comedian Vaughn Meader whose album "The First Family" was a massive hit and who had a great run until November of 1963. November 22, 1963, to be hideously precise. (Like, the moment he heard the news that day, from a cabbie IIRC, he knew his career was 100% over.) The story goes Lenny Bruce opened his first set after JFK was assassinated by saying "Vaughn Meader is f***ed.". |
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Post by Heinz Doofenschmirtz on Apr 29, 2019 12:00:01 GMT -5
In Tazmania, Taz's dad being Bing Crosby and his uncle being Bob Hope, and then in Hysteria, Socrates being Bing Crosby and George Washington being Bob Hope. This will probably turn into a Maurice LaMarche thread. Slightly off topic: I met Maurice this weekend. He even quoted Frozen Peas to me after I told him I play it for my students. On topic: Zoidberg is based on a combination of George Jessel and Lou Jacobi and Prof Farnsworth is Frank Morgan with a bit of Burgess Meredith. Wakko Warner is Jess Harnell doing an intentionally exaggerated Ringo Starr. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 14:16:24 GMT -5
Billy West as Stimpy doing a Larry Fine impression.
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