# Favorite Cartoon Voices
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 19, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751 "2014-05-19T17:45:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/1 "2014-05-19T17:45:19Z")
I really like the voices on _Bob’s Burgers_, but I expecially like Tina (who is a teenage girl voiced by a [guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dan_Mintz_January_2011.jpg)) and Gene (voiced by [Eugene Mirman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Mirman)). I assume the voice direction on the show has a lot to do with it. Giving Tina that voice, and putting Mirman in a cartoon were both brilliant moves.
I like [Billy West](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0921942/) as Fry on _Futurama_.
Other than\* Bob’s Burgers\*, my faves right now are Finn on _Adventure Time_ (Jeremy Shada) and also The Ice King (Tom Kenny). I am just totally in to the way they had Finn be voiced by a teenaged boy and the affectations in his voice. Now that the kid is older, the character’s voice has changed a bit but the actor seems to have learned to mock his younger voice. As for the Ice King, I just love the accent he uses or whatever. I think I like how he’s supposed to be scary and powerful but his voice (among other things) make him silly.
I think when I was younger I woulda been all over loving Wakko Warner and Pinky, but other than The Ice King I think now I am not as appreciative of “silly for sillyness’s sake.” I like more subtly funny voices.
How about you? Doesn’t have to be current cartoons, of course!
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/2 "2014-05-19T17:51:28Z")
Boomhauer (Mike Judge)
Garfield (Lorenzo Music, who’s voice I’d loved since _Rhoda_).
Peter Venkman (also Lorenzo Music\*)
Super Friends narrator (Ted Knight)
- Trivia: Venkman was Bill Murray in the live action movie, Lorenzo Music when animated. Garfield’s voice was Music in the animated, Murray in the live action movie, although of course Garfield himself was computer-animated.
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### Author:  [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/3 "2014-05-19T17:51:33Z")
Mentioning Bob’s Burgers without mentioning Jon Benjamin? Blasphemy
he is great on Home Movies too
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/4 "2014-05-19T17:52:31Z")
Kevin Conroy _is_ Batman, as far as I’m concerned.
The worst, at least among the DC adaptations, is Michelle Monaghan’s turn as Wonder Woman in _Justice League: War_. Just awful, awful business. Andrea Romano must have been on an extended coffee break.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/5 "2014-05-19T18:01:50Z")
Mel Blanc was and ever shall be the king of cartoon voice overs. Foghorn may have been my favorite.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/6 "2014-05-19T18:02:29Z")
Some of the greatest cartoon voices for me, in no particular order:
Leghorn Foghorn
Elmer Fudd
Edna - The Incredibles
Gru - Despicable Me
Shrek
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/7 "2014-05-19T18:35:35Z")
> [@PSXer](#):
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> Mentioning Bob’s Burgers without mentioning Jon Benjamin? Blasphemy
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> he is great on Home Movies too
He is also the voice of Archer. The Animators of Archer used that connection to make a gruesome and hilarious short parody/crossover with Bob’s Burgers.
[Spoiler]
In it, the idea is “what if Bob is really Archer in the future trying to live a normal life after retiring from being an spy/assassin?”
https://www.youtube.com/embed/q0_fRZi2lbU?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque
NSFW for violence and language [/spoiler]
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/8 "2014-05-19T18:40:08Z")
Did someone mention Zoidberg?
No?
Oh.
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### Author:  [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/9 "2014-05-19T18:44:20Z")
Mel Blanc: [Daffy Duck](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daffy_Duck).
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/10 "2014-05-19T19:14:57Z")
> [@PSXer](#):
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> Mentioning Bob’s Burgers without mentioning Jon Benjamin? Blasphemy
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> he is great on Home Movies too
I could say I love ALL of the voices on _Bob’s Burgers_! Even the guest voices! But I didn’t want to be sloppy so I picked my two faves.
I do agree, Benjamin is absolutely sublime in _Home Movies_.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/11 "2014-05-19T19:23:24Z")
Maurice LaMarche: The Brain, Kif Kroker.
Frank Welker: Fred Jones from Scooby-Doo, Nibbler, and also does a killer Lorenzo Music imitation as the current voice of Garfield.
Mark Hamill, as the Joker in most incarnations of the animated Batman series. He stated voice acting in 1970 and probably has more voice credits than live action credits.
As for voice actors recreating classic characters, Jeff Bergman was the first and best actor to take over Mel Blanc’s Looney Tunes characters, with Joe Alaskey as a close second.
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/12 "2014-05-19T19:47:45Z")
I never knew how amazing Kevin Michael Richardson was until I saw that in addition to doing those deep-pitched Barry White style voices for all the Seth McFarlane cartoons, he also did Cleveland Jrs’ falsetto and Lester Krinklesack’s redneck voice in _The Cleveland Show_.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/13 "2014-05-19T19:56:28Z")
I always liked the many cartoon voices of Paul Frees – the Undertaker in _Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Catol_, Ludwig von Drake on Disney’s TV show, Boris Badenov on _Rocky and Bullwinkle_. The zillion little one-off voices he did. There was always a nifty sense of deep character that I didn’t get elsewhere.
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/14 "2014-05-19T20:05:06Z")
[Tara Strong](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152839/?ref_=nv_sr_3):
The current Harley Quinn, Barbara Gordon, Raven on _Teen Titans_, various supporting voices on _Family Guy_, Timmy on _Fairly Oddparents_, Bubbles in _Powerpuff Girls_, Mary Jane Watson in _Ultimate Spider-Man_, Risha and Holiday in _Star Wars: The Old Republic_, Scarlet Witch and HERBIE in _Super Hero Squad Show_, and many, many others.
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/15 "2014-05-19T20:11:23Z")
Tress MacNeille – Dot Warner and Babs Bunny. Brilliant.
June Foray – Rocket J. Squirrel. Beyond brilliant!
And, yes, definitely, Mel Blanc. Although I hate Foghorn Leghorn with the fiery heat of a thousand suns – a fat, ugly, cruel, stupid blowhard! – Bugs Bunny was magnificent.
Obscure, but fun when you find him: Larry Storch. I found this fun tidbit on Wikipedia: “Cary Grant—who never actually said the line ‘Judy, Judy, Judy’ in any movie or performance—attributed the phrase’s origin to a Storch performance in which he impersonated Grant. Storch was imitating Grant when he was told Judy Garland had just walked into the club.”
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### Author:  [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/16 "2014-05-19T20:20:12Z")
Mel Blanc
Dan Castelleneta
Seth Macfarlane
Patrick Warburton
Special consideration[Don LaFontaine](http://http://youtu.be/7QPMvj_xejg)
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/17 "2014-05-19T20:20:54Z")
> [@PSXer](#):
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> Mentioning Bob’s Burgers without mentioning Jon Benjamin? Blasphemy
Eh, Kristen Schaal carries that show. I can do a pretty good impression of Linda.
"Hoo-_RAY!"_
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### Author:  [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/18 "2014-05-19T20:30:00Z")
> [@Superdude](#):
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> [Tara Strong](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152839/?ref_=nv_sr_3)
I’ve worked with her! (She’s also the princess in the game _Fat Princess_.)
My favorite obscure pick is **John Rafter Lee** , the voice of Trevor Goodchild in Aeon Flux. So deliciously twisted.
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### Author:  [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/19 "2014-05-19T20:30:37Z")
> [@Trinopus](#):
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> Although I hate Foghorn Leghorn with the fiery heat of a thousand suns – a fat, ugly, cruel, stupid blowhard!
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
For very favorite I have to put the incredible Mr. Blanc in a four-way tie dead tie with:
Popeye, Olive, and Bluto (the 1930’s Fleischer series).
Honorable Mention:
Don Adams as Tennessee Tuxedo
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cartoon-voices/688751/20 "2014-05-19T20:43:26Z")
> [@Trinopus](#):
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> And, yes, definitely, Mel Blanc. Although I hate Foghorn Leghorn with the fiery heat of a thousand suns – a fat, ugly, cruel, stupid blowhard! – Bugs Bunny was magnificent.
that character was based on a character in adult old time radio comedy, so it was an adult appealing element in the cartoon.
Mel started in radio and his radio and cartoon voice work overlapped for a bit over a decade.
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