And this is why I don’t tell Real People1 I like RIck & Morty.
1 - You all realize that you are actually very sophisticated Turing Simulators.
He’s been fired. That’s all we know and the show producers aren’t saying. Rumors I’ve heard include: AI voiced, rotating guess stars, spliced together old Roiland tracks, complete voice changes like Solar Opposites and Aqua Teen Hunger Force did.
ETA: I’m betting on a soundalike. So, soooo many voice actors (and non-voice actors) do credible imitations.
Wait, who got replaced on ATHF?
Didn’t happen. Who said that? Everyone knows it was Squidbillies!
I am expecting a joke in the first episode where Rick’s voice won’t activate some sort of tech that uses voice recognition, maybe the spaceship.
NBC has a new article profiling several women who say Roiland took advantage of them.
Here is a trailer with the new voices. I would not have noticed much if I did not know in advance.
Was that Klimpaloon at the 43 second mark?
The voices are pretty spot on. Rick’s belching yells are a bit off but not enough to be distracting, I don’t think. Morty is pretty good.
I can tell a bit with Rick, though I would have not blinked an eye had I not known he was replaced. Morty seemed spot on.
It’s confirmed they are not A.I., but sound-alike voice people. No idea who, yet, as they have been keeping it quite quiet.
Nice song choice for the trailer…
I thought the opposite - Rick seemed damn near perfect, but Morty sounds a tiny bit off.
I noticed Mr. Poopybutthole makes an appearance, I wonder if they had to get yet a third voice actor for him. And what about Mr. Meseeks?
I assume its not one person doing both voices any more?
It has been confirmed that it is not one person.
That is my perception as well (but not enough to be distracting).
Heresy, but…I might just prefer this version of Rick. I found the belching-growliness a little much at times. This slightly mellower version might actually be easier on my ears.
Morty veered between indistinguishable and a little shrill/young-sounding. Both are good enough for government work as far as I’m concerned.
Scott Aukerman as Rick is the rumor I am hearing.
I think it is kind of fun they are hiding the names, but I presume the closing credits of the first episode will reveal who is voicing the characters.
They say they’re withholding the names so that the voice actors get a chance before the more toxic fans make their lives miserable and poison the well before the shows even air.
The sad thing is that they are very much making the right call.
Just to bring this back around from Doylist to Watsonian: on a binge watch before the season starts, something got me wondering: why doesn’t Rick — who literally keeps a box of time-travel stuff on his shelf — engage in time-travel wackiness when hunting the guy he thinks ruined his life?
He clearly knows his way around the subject; when Morty figured he’d just made things worse — in the episode where he gave a book on time travel to those snakes — he confidently and correctly relayed a quick “Trust me, Morty: we helped them press on the gas pedal; we just got to wait for them to blow by a cop.” And things then played out like he figured, right?