I was coming in the mention him. Hated his voice and the weird reverb effect they always had on him. For instance, his narrator and Elders in Shazam. He also did Bat-mite in Batman and Orko in Masters of the Universe.
Also hated Dal Mckennon, Gumby / Pokey / Prickle, Archie Andrews, Mr Weatherbee, Buzz Buzzard.
What I love about that photo is she looks to be having the time of her life.
It was appropriate for that scene. She’d been drugged.
Here’s an interesting story for you.
One day I got a call from a very nice lady who wanted to inquire about me doing some work for her son. She introduced herself as Jean Vander Pyl. Being a pop culture geek, I immediately asked, “Are you the voice of Wilma Flintstone?” She laughed and said yes.
Once we were done talking business, she asked if I wanted to hear “Wilma”. Of course I did. She talked to me as Wilma for a minute or two before switching to Rosy the Robot from The Jetsons, which she also was responsible for.
Then I asked her, “Why did Barney’s voice change?”, a question that had been in my mind for years. She explained that during the series, Mel Blanc was in a very bad car accident on Sunset Boulevard. When he got out of the hospital, he was still in a body cast. They moved recording equipment to his home and did the shows from there. Apparently the body cast and the different location were the reasons he sounded different.
I don’t have any evidence beyond that, although Mel Blanc’s accident is well documented, and I doubt she had any reason to lie about it. She was a very sweet lady, who passed away a year or two later.
Exactly. The “Jack the Ripper” entity subsisted on people’s fear. So Kirk’s solution was to shoot up everyone with amphetamines so they couldn’t feel fear.
See above: Daws Butler stood in for Blanc for five episodes, as well, before Blanc was well enough to start recording dialogue from his hospital room.
Interesting. She didn’t mention that part. But that actually makes more sense, because the voice was so different. Daws was obviously very prolific in his own right, so she may have just left that part out.
I also looked on YouTube. It initially was not the Southern accent that bothered me, just the high pitch. But then later on the pitch sounds better when she’s driving her car. It’s just, well, not a Southern Belle voice. It’s a country bumpkin comedy relief character. I get Ellie Mae Clampett vibes, not often angry rich girl who thinks she’s better than everyone else.
That is awesome, thanks for sharing!
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Yeah, the high pitch makes it worse. It may be what someone who’s never met a wealthy southern teenager thinks they sound, but again it doesn’t fit the character. I sure don’t remember Mr. Lodge having a southern accent.
Showed just those two bits to a friend, and he admitted he’d never heard of Veronica before, so I asked her what he thought her personality would be like. He totally got that she is petty and jealous and specifically that she comes from money. So it her voice worked for him.
Though he did hear the country bumpkin when I mentioned it. He said he just that was the style of the cartoon.
Ah, yes, lawyer Daggett. “She draws him like a gun.”