The "You know what?" thread

[D'Snowth]

THE LOUD HOUSE has been pretty consistent in recasting Lincoln's voice actor up until the current season, where, for whatever reason, despite the character aging up a year, his new voice actor sounds way too young, making Lincoln sound more like a first or second grader than a preteen in middle school. Again, this was the major problem ARTHUR had in recasting some of their kid voice actors for the longest time, especially for Arthur and D.W.

On another note, given that PEANUTS specials and movies were produced over a span of five decades, Charlie Brown and the gang almost always had completely different voices any and every time we heard them, but somehow, it was a lot more tolerable . . . I guess because, when you get right down to it, no one kid actor voiced a role long enough to really define a certain sound for whichever character they played, unlike these more episodic series, where you get used to characters' voices over span of several episodes or even a number of seasons, which makes the recasts seem all the more abrupt and noticable.

I mean, I guess if the producers and showrunners wanted a little more authenticity, it makes sense, but there are a number of adult voice actresses out there who can do rather convincing little boy voices like Nancy Cartwright, Debi Derryberry, Kath Soucie, Nika Futterman, Jessica DiCicco, Candi Milo, Kathleen Barr (freakin' Kevin from ED, EDD N EDDY), among others, if authenticity wasn't an issue, and they wanted to avoid having to recast kid voice actors due to puberty and such, they could cast any of them to at least ensure a little boy character has a consistent sound to his voice over the course of prolonged period of time.

 

[minor muppetz]

I've recently learned of a handful of short-lived sitcoms - Jennifer Slept Here, Nearly Departed - where the concept is that somebody died and their spirit continues to live in their old home while a new family lives there, with only one person able to see and hear them.

The shows didn't last long, but it might have been awkward if they did continue, if the actors playing the dead aged significantly or if they happened to die while the shows were on the air (and in the case of Nearly Departed, where the leads are a dead married couple, that especially would have been awkward).

 

[LittleJerry92]

THE LOUD HOUSE has been pretty consistent in recasting Lincoln's voice actor up until the current season, where, for whatever reason, despite the character aging up a year, his new voice actor sounds way too young, making Lincoln sound more like a first or second grader than a preteen in middle school.

I saw a picture of the current voice actor and then I’m just thinking “okay, yeah...... it definitely makes a lot of sense now.”

 

[D'Snowth]

Again, I can understand if producers make these decisions in an attempt to prolong the inevitable of the kid voice actors going through puberty . . . for a show like ARTHUR, where the characters are arrested at the same age they are, and apparently will forever be . . . but if a character like Lincoln is aging up, why recast him at all? Why not let his voice deepen a little with his age?

Then again, like I'm one to talk . . . my voice didn't finally change until I was in high school. But I was just thinking about that again the other day, of how if there's one thing I miss about my voice before it changed was my ability to do really great falsetto voices, like almost Russi Taylor-esque voices . . . then my voice finally changed, and I can't even do an Elmo-esque voice like I used to.

 

[LittleJerry92]

I don’t mind doing high voices but I can only do a certain range myself.

For instance, that extremely high note in this small notation of “Take on Me”

 

[D'Snowth]

On another note, hearing Cookie Monster attempting that same high note actually kind of gives us an idea of what David Rudman may have sounded like as Grover.

 

[D'Snowth]

Okay, here's a video I didn't know we needed.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Welp! This could make a good drinking game.

 

[LittleJerry92]

So I know that’s Phil Lamarr as the announcer, but I have no idea if that’s also him doing the black voice over guy:

 

[LittleJerry92]

Huh, well this explains everything

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