The Voices Behind Your Favorite Cartoons

[Music] this song might be familiar to you United States Canada Mexico Panama Haiti Jamaica Peru okay well listen to this the United States Canada Mexico Panama Haiti Jamaica Peru Recovery's Dominican Cuba Carribean Greenland El Salvador - where - Rico Columbia Venezuela Honduras Guyana and still Rob Paulsen has a voice that helped define 90's cartoons okay well let's see I'm Yakko Warner hello nurse I'm also pinky from pinky in the brain for those of you who are fans of Jimmy Neutron I'm Carl I'm the little fat guy and you did Raphael from the original Ninja Turtles right yeah Raphael sounds a lot like me yeah say things like shredder you tin face deep get back here and taste cold turtle steel and all the voices they have a background story let's go where did the inspiration from pinky come from well for me it was a large part of my deep abiding love for British humour is a future for you pinky knock Peter Sellers was a huge inspiration but for some reason mr. Spielberg and his infinite wisdom decided it was a good fit with maurice lamarche who was the brain so here we are wait Steven Spielberg oh my god there he is he produced pinky in the brain and Animaniacs we will wait and he did Saving Private Ryan twister men and black and Schindler's List while he was making these cartoons okay [Music] IMDB side check over sorry back to rob okay great okay so Yakko from Animaniacs where did his voice come from only our hairdresser knows for sure they decided on this little sort of helium based voice that kind of a smartass vibe a la Groucho Marx hey Batman does Dracula know you're wearing his cape so badly and as for the song where he sings every country in the world the interesting thing is it only took me one take to record it the song is a beautifully crafted piece that's the difficult part not singing you can hear him we're in goof troop Darkwing Duck gummy bears Tiny Toon Adventures the list goes on this guy's kind of legend I don't write them and I don't draw them I'm just a singer but it is cool thing to be associated with those shows it's pretty cool nobody cares what I look like so I can do it as long as I can breathe [Music] the Mortal Kombat games are some of the most iconic of all time round one flight and when you're winning nothing is sweeter than hearing these words sucia but what man could be so even suited to channel such a demonic voice feel the power of my name is Steve Ritchie and I'm a pinball and video game designer in the early 90s Steve was making pinball machines in the very same building a couple of guys were developing the second Mortal Kombat game upstairs was pinball down stair video development Steve did the voices for a bunch of pinball machines he designed most of the time I do I do bad guys and this is the voice that I have and it can be I am the black difficult ac/dc a devil I'm on the highway to hell so when the Mortal Kombat creator needed a new voice for the announcer he knew what right where to go and pulled Steve into the recording booth and he started telling me say it like this fatality you would say no more breathy lower ecology Paul this BP that little R had to be wrong lately okay round one white oh that was it oh you have to add the effects you know lower pitch fiducia well cool okay Johnny Cage wins mortal kombat has spawned a dozen video games comic books TV shows and a film franchise featuring this awesome techno song but Steve's contribution to Mortal Kombat isn't what he's known for its pinball because Steve he's made a lot of pinball machines I've created more pinball machines than anyone else in the pinball history well whether he's a voice in a video game or designing a pinball machine the thing Steve loves most well we'll let him tell you I like to put the player in a spot of an adversarial relationship a battle you're beating your ball snatching it into things to experience Mortal Kombat you know it's a video game but when he says something it's like round one fight it's just like he's scary and and you are battling this guy hey Steve hey Jim just kidding you should do it Steve finishing this one quiet [Music] villains from 80s cartoons had a similar sound and there was a reason for that most were voiced by this guy what Alan Oppenheimer my name is Alan Oppenheimer and I'm an actor most famously he's the voice of Falkor from neverending story and Skeletor from he-man why are you asking me these stupid questions got a life regarding he-man Masters of the Universe I was Skeletor I figured the voice would reverberate inside that bony head so that's why he went up in here nice aw you boob you idiot why are you bothering living you've got a better life somewhere else get out of my face he did some other villainous voices there does seem to be some relation there I stole for myself I mean hey if I plagiarize myself you know don't pursue me you know come in yo Rio bub but then there was falcore falcore was the luckdragon he's kind and he's big and fuzzy my name is Falco and he's flying so you have that feel whoa let's go a trail see and he actually did a few other characters from neverending story very tasty mmm get the picture Alan's had an amazing career for me though I like Falkor Alan will you do the voice again betrayal get on my back and we'll fly oh there are those bullies let's get them okay yes [Music] tell me if this voice sounds familiar sweetly um of soil what about this one in brightest day in blackest night okay you definitely know this 150 years have passed we could easily keep going through his 300 other characters but let's just cut to the chase and meet the man behind the voice this is Phil Lamarr and he's a voice actor I'd say the ones that I'm probably best known for hoodies Code Red certified bureaucrat from the show Futurama Berta Virgil Hawkins aka static shot from the static shot John Smith reruns of Justice thing where the man from Family Guy Holly Williams has the story Molly I'm at the wrong Airport oops well thanks Eileen wilt can Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends one of my favorites is Dracula from grim adventures of Billy and Mandy and of course the Senate I know as Jack from the cities of the same name he who wears a mask cannot see what lies within himself when I was working on pulp fiction wait you were in pulp fiction of course yeah here let me jog your memory Marvin Bobby I've not dead off oh you're Marvin and I was one of the original cast members on Fox's MADtv no way I loved MADtv and you must have been a fourteen-year-old boy in the nineties very funny Phil anyway you were saying with Samurai Jack I felt there should be some tie to his roots so it was a very light Japanese accent on English we again to be referred to as a young Asian Clint Eastwood voice and Hermes from Futurama where did that voice come from when I first started out doing did you make an accent for Hermes he was pretty much a heavy pot well and it it muddied up the comedy so eventually your homies accent got pulled back which is a lot easier to understand we're not Jon Stewart from Justice League to me if you've got a chest this big you gotta have a deep voice my name is Jon Stewart Green Lantern of sector to eight one four and how about static shock that voice was basically just myself at 14 it was just that idea of you know a young kid you know who's a responsible guy but you know he just happens to have electrical powers and to me that is the character I relate to the most you know static is just you know me the differences between stage film voice acting a really technical fat plain leaves are no not on a drug and I regretted one of the benefits we have animation is I can play this guy and I can also play this guy you'll see what I'm talking about just right there in the same day same room same microphone you know cuz that's why we got into this play characters you will bow before the column [Music] all right Tara in this one rocky said a mountaintop he gets swatted by the monster tail he falls tumbles and rolls and pulls up another ledge falls another bunch of budgeted feet and then crashes alright watch my hands i watch you here comes the perfect my name is tara strong and I'm mostly known for my animation career I'm the voice of Timmy Turner from The Fairly OddParents Raven from Teen Titans Azarath metrion zinthos originally I was Batgirl alongside Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy I've had a really fun career and that was one tough montage so I knew to me had to be happy mischievous silly kinda nerdy oh it's very very adventurous bubbles had this weird way of pronouncing things like Oh like I don't know why it goes Elly like that but yeah the timeline booked Rugrats I just got off a plane of the screaming baby and I'm like that's the cry that I'm doing and most of Dill's lines were in the stage directions so I'd be like okay and I was like my lines I remember at the session we had to stop tape and I'm thinking something's wrong and they said Terra there's a new mom in the studio and you're making her lactate and you guys say I'm not funny but seriously this will be extremely painful in the case of Raven while I was doing the audition it was similar to my own voice and I thought just this idea dava's weird got a little role every time she says anything as soon as I started doing this I saw all the people in the booth kind of look at each other and went that's Raven Robin stop Batgirl was me like it's the only voice I do that's my own voice that was Batgirl Bullwinkle it's like that classic story the line and the mouse that we're ripping off when you're voice acting you have to tap into the ability to make something believable without it being there it's a completely different art form than on-camera you have to let the audience feel what it's like to fall off a cliff without there actually being a cliff there you gotta have to be willing to play around and not afraid to look silly and then once you create a character in my experience they like live up in my brain and they're just ready to come down when it's our turn so I don't confuse them they all are their own entity basically I'm a crazy person so I just need a long scream as you just keep going [Music] we need we need the store garbage bags oh yeah [Music]

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Length: 16min 8sec (968 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 06 2018