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XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: Today's V/A focus is Julie Brown. She's a funny comedian, actress, and singer. You might remember her crazy music video show on MTV, Just Say Julie. Julie has also done quite a few cartoon voices, including Minerva Mink from Animaniacs. And Tiny Toons did a...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: Today's V/A focus is that live action, cartoon series from the 80's, Hulk Hogan's Rock 'N' Wrestling. A series that focuses on the popular wrestlers during that time. The famous wrestlers like Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper would do funny live action quick scenes...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: Today's V/A focus is the very talented Dick Gautier. You might have seen him on the classic Get Smart as Hymie the Robot. I always liked that friendly android who's trying to understand everything about life. Dick is also a great comedian, singer, composer...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: Today, I'm focusing on Animaniacs. Which I think is the greatest cartoon series WB and Steven Spielberg ever came out with. This show has a funny cast of regular characters including the Warners themselves, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot. The writing was great, the songs...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: Today's V/A focus is the late Linda Gary. Linda was very popular at Filmation studios where she voiced lots of characters, including Teela from He-Man. Linda also voiced Spider Man's Aunt May in both the 80's and 90's cartoons. Sadly, Linda died of brain cancer in...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: Since Halloween's coming up and I received the DVDs in the mail, today's V/A focus is the 80's cartoon, Ghostbusters. Not the Ghostbusters based on the movie, but the original live action Saturday morning TV series from the 70's, where two guys and a smart gorilla...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: Today's V/A focuses are those two popular Filmation cartoons from the 80's. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and She-Ra, Princess of Power. Both He-Man and She-Ra were brother and sister hero warriors who fought evil on two different fantasy planets. He-Man...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: Today's V/A focus is the classic series, Fat Albert. Based off Bill Cosby's childhood days. Bill voiced a lot of characters in this series, including Fat Albert and Bill also plays himself in live action scenes. Also Filmation's producer, Lou Scheimer and his...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: Today's V/A focus is Pat Musick. A voice actress who has voiced quite a lot of cartoon characters, especially Snappy Smurfling from the Smurfs and the cute but abused teddy bears, Fluffy and Uranus, from Duckman. AN AMERICAN TAIL: Tony Toponi DUCKMAN...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: Ever since I saw the post about Taz-Mania, I had that neat cartoon on my mind all week, so I decided to make it my next V/A focus. Since the great Mel Blanc had passed away, the role of Taz was given to Jim Cummings. Jim really knew how to bring Taz to life whether...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: Today's V/A focus is Kenneth Mars or Ken Mars. You might've recently seem him on Malcolm in the Middle as the German ranch owner Otto. Ken did play quite a lot of German speaking characters in mostly Mel Brooks films like the classic Producers and Young...

It seems like cartoon studios rely on one particular voice artist for almost all of their shows. In the old days, WB had Mel Blanc doing almost all their characters. Today they mostly rely on Rob Paulsen and also Jeff Bennett. Hanna-Barbera relied on Daws Butler and Don Messick in the old...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: Today, I'm focusing on Talespin. The Disney series from the early 90's where Baloo the bear suddenly ends up as a pilot, Louie as a night club owner, and Shere Khan as a ruthless business C.E.O. Originally, they planned on getting Phil Harris who voiced Baloo in...

Does anyone remember this Twiddlebug skit from the late 80's? A green Twiddlebug, who was their landlord, was installing a smoke detector on the wall and then left the house. The Twiddlebugs were wondering what that round thing on the wall was. Tina Twiddlebug remembered that they taught what...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIS FOCUS: Today's V/A focus is the late Robert Ridgely. He had been seen in quite a few TV shows and movies, especially Mel Brooks films like Blazing Saddles and Robin Hood, Men in Tights. But Robert was really famous for voicing cartoon characters, especially superheroes...

I've noticed that these cartoons have been going on for many years and won't seem to get cancelled anytime soon. The Simpsons are starting their 19th year this season. King of the Hill will be starting its 11th year. South Park has been renewed until 2011. Pokemon has been airing in...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: This week, I'm focusing on the original Transformers series. This popular cartoon series from the mid 80's featured quite a lot of famous voice artists. Optimus Prime was known as one of Peter Cullen's most famous voices and Peter even revised his famous role in...

A friend of mine just sent me this really neat math trick and I wanted to share it with all of you. 1. Grab a calculator (you won't be able to do this one in your head) 2. Key in the first 3 digits of your phone / cell phone number (NOT the area code) 3. Multiply by 80 4. Add 1 5...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: This week’s V/A focus is Lara Jill Miller. You might’ve seen her as Samantha on Gimme a Break. These days, she’s voicing cartoon characters as well as English dub voices for a lot of anime. I really like her cute squeaky sounding voice. ASTRO BOY(2003): Alejo...

What do you think the best year for cartoons was? I kind of liked the year, 1991. Back then, the new FOX Kids came up with such neat and creative stuff as well with The Disney Afternoon and Nickelodeon's new Nicktoons block. And some good stuff came from ABC, NBC, CBS, and syndication as...