Best and Worst Voice Recasts in Animation History

I can't really think of a worst voice re-casting, except I really don't like the change of Six's voice in "Tripping The Rift" season 2 (I'm a little more than halfway through that season). Who played the new voice and why was it replaced?

I love Eric Bauza's Stimpy in "Ren & Stimpy APC". That was a good recasting in my opinion. I wonder if Billy's Stimpy would've sounded much different at that point in time?
 
With the new Scooby-Doo DVD out, I realized one major poor recast. Scott Innes was a terrible choice to voice Scooby and Shaggy. With Casey Kasem retired, Matthew Lillard was a good choice to replace him.

And in previous SD incarnations, Maria Frumkin and Mindy Cohn were bad voices for Velma.
 
UGGH Yes for Scott Innes, I remember being 9/10 watching Zombie Island and hating the sound of Shaggy. Made me what to chew nails.
 
I have to disagree with you about Mindy Cohn- I like her as Velma, she sounds nearly similar to when Nicole Jaffe portrayed her, back in 1969. Casey Kasem, as we know, will be best known, not only for Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, but also as Robin from The Superfriends. Getting back to Scooby, even though he's not quite perfect as Shaggy, in my opinion, Scott Menville makes as a good successor in that role, with all due respect to the others who have played him, even after Casey's retirement. Casey Kasem will always be known as Shaggy, and with all due respect to Matthew Lillard, I still have to go with Scott Menville. Now for Scooby-Doo, give Scott Innes credit for creating his own Scooby, but primarily, as far as Don Messick's successor in that role, for regular TV series, it's clearly Frank Welker, who's also created his own Scooby.
 
I've never played the Wacky Races video game so I can't comment on Jim's Dick Dastardly, but interestingly enough I don't mind Jim's Tigger as much. I don't know why Jim as Zummi jars me so much, except to say that Zummi is my favorite character, and Jim's Zummi seems almost like a different character to me.

And ditto, ditto, ditto about Paul Williams being replaced as the voice of the Penguin.

-Kim
 
I read on IMDb (in the FAQ section of The Cleveland Show) that Nia Long was fired after 14 episodes because the producers realized that they wanted a "less mature" sounding voice for Roberta.:sad:
 
It is if you're trying to do a seamless replacement, no one is questioning his acting ability, just that he's not the best person to cast if you're trying to hide a voice recast.
 
In their defense, in some cases, a recast is unavoidable, like when a voice actor dies or retires. In those instances, the people in charge of the show can't or shouldn't be blamed for that.
 
How about Timon being recast in the weekend series Timon and Pumba? Nobody can replace Nathan Lane.

Also, didn't Monetary Jack's voice change halfway through the series? As a kid i never recognized the change but i thought i read that hear on rabroad.

Same with Zummi Gummi, Tigger & Buster Bunney, I never noticed it was two different actors as a kid. Of course i haven't seen any of these shows in quite some time so i'd be very interested to see if i notice the change now.

But the replacement for Nathan Lane? I thought he took all the funny out of Timon. Or maybe it was just the poor writing of the series.
 
If I remember correctly; I believe that around the time that Tenchi in Tokyo was being dubbed. Sherry Lynn asked the producers if she could to step down as Kiyone because of problems she was having switching back and forth between the two characters and decided that Sasami was the better role of the two(also I think they were thinking about bringing over "Magical Project S" do to both Tenchi and Sailor Moon on Cartoon Network).
 
Not really off-base.

Essentially, Real Adventures of Jonny Quest was two separate shows sharing a title sequence and virtual reality gimmick. The first one that aired, the one with Robert Patrick as Race and George Segal as Dr. Quest, essentially tried to take the Jonny Quest concept into the "real world". This set took four years to develop, saw the original production team fired, and a new staff hired to take the work and turn it into something usable.

The second season - devised at the same time, mind you - was essentially a continuation of the original Jonny Quest from episode 27 on. The producers wanted the stories, the designs, and the voices to be much closer to the original series than the first season. And one of the first things they did was swiftly revert Race back to the more familiar design and voice.

One note of trivia: yes, they originally brought in Don Messick to do Dr. Quest. (How could they not?) Unfortunately, by that time he was already ill and it was not at all possible to use him. So they brought in DeLancie. (Of course, they could have brought in John Stephenson, the original original Dr. Quest, but nobody thought to!)

The tortured saga of Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is really interesting reading. I might do a blog post on it at a later date, but here's some links:

Interview with Lance Falk (writer, Season 2)
Interview with Peter Lawrence (fired producer, Season 1)
 
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