Kelsey Grammer provided the voice of Stinky Pete in the movie. It’s clearly Grammer’s voice when he’s talking to Woody and the other toys up in Al’s apartment, at the airport, etc.
But is it Grammer’s voice when Pete is “in character” in the 1950s videos of Woody’s kiddy TV show (“Has anybody seen my pickaxe?” “My biscuits are burnin’!”)? Doesn’t sound like Grammer at all. IMDB.com doesn’t show anyone else providing Stinky Pete’s voice.
It’s always sounded to me like Grammer doing a “silly” voice. A (slightly cliche) nuance that this articulate, cultured character is played as the buffoon on-screen. His Sideshow Bob is the same way.
I also have this hypothesis that Larry the Cable Guy (“Git 'R Done!”) actually has a doctorate from Oxford, and when not on stage, is a afficianado of Puccini operas, sushi, and fine cigars.
If I recall correctly, Sideshow Bob is actually very articulate and cultured. That is when he isn’t trying to kill Bart.
That’s what I meant. When you see Krusty with Bob (or Sideshow Mel, or Sideshow Luke Perry) on the Krusty show, the Sideshow character is played as a buffoonish second fiddle fit only for Krusty’s abuse. Whereas Sideshow Bob gets shot out of a cannon and belted with pies, Bob Terwilliger can sing the entire libretto for HMS Pinafore and understands the comics in The New Yorker. The character’s “real” identity is hoity toity, and his “stage” persona hoi polloi.
It may have been based on Gabby Hayes. In real life, George Hayes was an educated and articulate man who was nothing like the character he portrayed.
I’d say he’s especially articulate and cultured when trying to kill Bart. There’s a subtext somewhere in there.
Getting back to the OP… it really doesn’t sound like Grammer to me at all. Anybody have any hard info on this?
Kinda like how Paris Hilton is, at this moment, wearing a smoking jacket and no makeup, sipping brandy in an overstuffed chair in front of a blazing fireplace, and mirthfully quoting The Bard of Avon as she listens to the entertainment news’ accounts of her “wild exploits” on an antique radio?
“Shall we their fond Pageant see?/Lord, what fools these mortals be!”