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XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: This week's V/A focus is Maurice LaMarche. He started out voicing for Canadian cartoons and then moved over to U.S. cartoons. He's voiced all sorts of funny and popular characters. Probably his most famous voice was The Brain from Pinky and the Brain. What I like...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS This week's voice artist focus is the talented Tara Strong. She started out as Tara Charendoff and did voices for Canadian cartoons. Soon, she moved over to the U.S. voice artists staff, then got married and changed her name to Tara Strong. My favorite characters of...

When you were a kid, have you ever taken your books and drew funny stuff in them? Back when me, my sister, and my friends were kids, we usually take our Disney, Berenstain Bears, Sesame Street, Charlie Brown, or any kids' books we had and draw either mustaches, beards, or animal parts on the...

I've heard about this Muppet game for Playstation. I think it was like some evil force was turning all the Muppets into monsters like vampires and werewolves and it was up to Robin to help fight the evil and change each character back. Does anyone know about this game and do you know the title...

Does anyone remember this skit from the early 80's? We see a blue screen and this gray Volkswagon drives in. A narrator said that this car looks like it's full of people. Then the door opened and out came a bunch of kids and the familiar adults. The narrator says, "Now the car is empty."...

One short lived character I thought was cool was Digit the Android. He was a big part of Muppetelevision on the Jim Henson Hour. Digit was a gray android with wires for hair, a hearing aid in his ear, and he wore a coat covered with numbers. And was voiced by Dave Goelz. Mainly Digit kept...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS This week's V/A focus is Alan Young. You might remember he played Wilbur on Mr. Ed. Alan also voiced a few cartoon characters like 7-Zark-7 and Keyop from the classic Battle of the Planets series. And his famous role as Scrooge McDuck from Ducktales and other Disney...

I remember one film where it showed two live action white cardboard boxes with arms and legs. They had eyes and a nose on the front and some kids said they looked the same. Then one of the boxes drew a smile on the other box and the kids said that they're now different. And the other box drew...

Last Sunday, Family Guy did yet another Sesame Street reference. Lois's mother had left her husband Carter and went for Ted Turner. It showed her giving Ted a bath in a bathtub. She asked Ted. "Do you want your Elmo toy?" Ted replied in a kid's voice, "Yeah!" Then she asked, "Do you want...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: This week's voice artist focus is the amazingly talented Tress MacNeille. You might've seen her as Lucy in the Weird Al video, "HEY RICKY!" Tress has been a popular voice actress for a long time and her most famous characters are Babs Bunny from Tiny Toons and Dot...

Does anyone remember this skit from the early 70's? A blue kid with black hair, voiced by Jim Henson, was out in a field with a selling stand. He was going to sell some lemons. However, all the kids passed him by saying, "YUCK! Lemons are too sour!" Then a green girl with an orange...

Remember this cartoon from the early 80's? A woman was narrating this story. It showed a cartoon king, who looked exactly like the King of Hearts from that famous deck of cards. He ended up ripping his pants exposing heart shaped underwear. A blue spool of thread said he would help him...

This week's voice artist focus is Jim Cummings. A really talented voiceman who got his start at Disney in 1985 voicing Lionel the Lion in Dumbo's Circus. And he became famous for voicing Darkwing Duck. And did replacement voices for Pete, The Big Bad Wolf, Kaa, King Louie, Colonel Hathi, Winnie...

Last Saturday on SNL. TV Funhouse had Jim Henson in a cartoon. Some kids were watching TV and they were feeling down hearing that those famous DVD movies were going back into the Disney vault for a few years. Until Mickey Mouse magically appeared and invited the kids to go into his vault...

A year later after Bugs Bunny Follies, Bugs came back with another live stage show. Bugs Bunny in Outer Space. And I found it better than the first show. It started off with a bunch of dancing girls in spacesuits singing an galactic starting song. Then it showed Bugs in his home about to...

Has anyone ever seen this live stage show called Bugs Bunny Follies? I remember going when I was a kid in the 70's. It had a human host along with the famous Looney Tunes as live costumed performers and Mel Blanc did the voices. They were celebrating Porky Pig's birthday. Bugs was organizing the...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS This week's voice tribute goes to the late Hal Smith. (1916-1994) You might remember him in his role as Otis the Town Drunk from the old Andy Griffith show. Hal also did a lot of voicework in his career. Probably his most famous voices were Goliath from Davey and...

Does anyone remember this classic SS skit from the 80's? Gordon played a football player named Big Murray. He walks out the stadium feeling depressed and a little boy asks if he could help him. Murray says, "NO!" The boy takes out a red 7 sticker and asks, "You want my number 7?" Murray...

Here's a thought that always makes me laugh so much. :D Instead of snow falling down in flakes, what if all the snow came down in one gigantic snowball? Imagine walking outside on a cold day and suddenly you see a small dot in the sky. Then it gets bigger and bigger and bigger and SPLAT...

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS: This week's voice artist focus is Kath Soucie. A talented actress who has voiced many cartoon characters like cute little kids with squeaky voices (Sneezer, Phil and Lil) and girls with pretty foreign accents (Linka, Fifi La Fume.) But I think my favorite character...