The "You know what?" thread

[minor muppetz]

It was that one from a couple of weeks ago where Geoff gets tickets to the local daytime talk show and takes Erica over Barry (thus starting the current romantic thing he's got going with Geoff's sister).

Okay, I misunderstood what you meant.

This last episode was about Adam being in the school play, and it looked like there were a lot of empty seats (I was confused at first on whether that was a performance night or a rehearsal), it didn't hit me that they could have been doing their best to space out the audience.

 

[LittleJerry92]

This certainly did not age well

 

[D'Snowth]

I know I've said before that new round and blue bus stop sign in recent seasons of SS looks rather odd (and I'd even say it looks more vaguely European than it does American), but I've noticed today that certain areas of my city are actually putting up similar new round bus stop signs as well, only ours are more tennis ball colored.

 

[D'Snowth]

If SS did anymore of those Special Letters Unit parodies way back when, it would've been a legit crime if Ice-T's Muppet caricature didn't look like this:

 

[LittleJerry92]

So I understand it all comes down to casting decisions, but one thing that’s always bothered me with having little boy actors voice little boys for the sake of having a natural little boy voice is when it gets to the point where if the show goes on for too long, there are numerous recasts due to the child actor getting older and his voice changing.

And that was an issue I have always had with Arthur. It got to the point where it’s just become painfully obvious that he’s had different little boy voice actors voicing him due to the show not coming to an end and each actor getting older.

Heck I even had this problem when watching Rocket Power. Twister’s old voice actor went through puberty and his voice got deeper. And Rocket Power even had an episode in reference to it! Then the following season, Twister has a new voice actor which completely throws off the continuity with his deepened voice and it just reverts back to how it previously sounded.

 

[D'Snowth]

Dude yes! And getting back to the subject of ARTHUR, they went through a looong period of time where they kept recasting him with boys who made Arthur sound even younger than he really was, which I presume was their attempt to sort of prolong the inevitable of having to recast his voice again down the road; same with D.W., it's like for several seasons, Arthur sounded more like what you would expect D.W. to sound like, and D.W. sounded almost like a chipmunk!

I do remember HEY ARNOLD! took a similar approach as ROCKET POWER as well, with Gerald with that whole episode dedicated to his changing voice by having his tonsils removed - but luckily, they at least kept his same voice actor after the voice change instead of recasting him (same with certain other characters like Sid and Stinky, with the exception being Arnold himself).

 

[LittleJerry92]

Yeah, as a kid it bugged me a little how twice his voice became randomly different. I was never really a fan of his third voice in seasons 4/5. I know his first voice actor became Wolfgang after puberty and his second voice actor did Ludwig in one of the most frustrating episodes since childhood (New Bully on the Block), but his first voice actor was easily my favorite. His second was decent, but his third was just like “meh.”

I’m not too familiar with the names by the way, so yeah.

 

[D'Snowth]

In addition to Wolfgang, his first voice actor also did King Bob on RECESS, which actually shared a number of the same voice actors, like Anndi McAfee.

 

[D'Snowth]

For the longest time, I thought Johnny T. performed the leopard DJ on ANIMAL JAM because I remember the character having a kind of Steve Whitmire-esque voice (similar to Weldon) and that was around the time John was filling in for Steve as Ernie on PWMS, but as it turns out, John actually performed the hyper-active red koala DJ and that the leopard DJ was performed by Andy Stone. Live and learn.

 

[minor muppetz]

Hey Arnold recast many of the characters, and I never noticed without it being pointed out (currently I can hear differences better).

I knew about Arnold’s first recast before I heard it (the others I think I first knew after the episodes aired), one Hey Arnold website reported it with “why does Arnold sound different?” (And this was before the second season premiered).

And I kept listening trying to hear the difference and had trouble doing so. While one of my cousins (who doesn’t really look up television stuff online, I can’t remember if I told her about that back then) told me that she heard the difference.