When a voice actor passes on...

Don't forget Tweety. The thing about Billy's Bugs is that whenever I hear it, I instantly get Stimpy in my head.

Joe Alaskey does a decent Daffy, though, IMO.
 
I think killing off or writing off characters in the show due to the VAs not voicing them anymore is a great idea. It makes the show look more natural that way. Not to mention it won't alienate the fans who prefer the original voices in the first place. I don't advocate recasting in the slightest bit and would rather prefer that companies find ways to keep consistency rather than say "screw it" and hold auditions the next day. I see enough of this crap in anime. I would rather not see something like this extend to prime time shows.

Now I know that there are going to be times when the VA can't voice a particular character due to health problems, personal matters or even death, and that's understandable. But in any other case, I would rather see the VA work out a compromise and find a way to keep going not only for the good of the show but for the fans as well.
 
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I think Roger C. Jackson--I think he did the voice of Mojo Jojo from PPG--could probably do Aku.

The folks at Central Voice Casting have their work cut out for them. Mako is going to be a ver-ry tough act to replace...
 
So if you had your way, Fred Flintstone would have died after Alan Reed passed away, and Yogi Bear and Huck Hound would have died with Daws Butler, and Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig all would have passed away after Mel Blanc died, and Garfield would have passed away with Lorenzo Music huh? Interesting...

We're day and night on that one. I fully support recasting. The show must go on. It is called show BUSINESS, after all.
 
Yes, that's exactly what happened. The VA had a LONG commute to LA to do the character and she didn't want to do it anymore...so they came up with the storyline to kill off the character and actually create a bunch of new story ideas for widower Flanders.
 
No, but, and I mean no disrespect to the Henson family, but they could have found someone other than his son to replace him. It's pretty strange how Jim's own son can't do as good of an impression of Kermit as a lot of other guys out there--Kermit seems to be in a lot of male VA's stock impression list, and a lot of them are scarily spot-on.
 
Oh well. All I knew was what I had read. But I admire, getting back on track, today's people picking up where the originals left off..:sweat:
 
OK, I can see it if the shows' writers wanted to try something different, but suggesting that a VOs wanting out alone is a valid enough excuse to kill or write off the character that they voice? Sorry, but I just think that's stupid. I could see it if it were a major character like Dan Castellenetta (Homer) or Julie Kavner (Marge), but why should the writers create all this death drama for a mere supporting character like Ned Flanders when it would have been so much easier to just hire a new Maude? When Janet Hubert Whitten quit The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, the writers didn't kill off Aunt Viv, they simply hired Daphne Maxwell Reed to take her place. Same deal when Dick York left Bewitched. Would you have preferred it if the producers had killed of Darren and made Samantha Stevens a widow instead of simply hiring Dick Seargent to to be the new Darren? I realize that I've drifted into live action here, but it's the same principle.

If anything, cartoon characters are even easier to replace because the audience is only hearing the voices. They have no idea what the actors playing them look like. All the producers would need to do is find another actor/actress with a similar sounding voice and move on. Should Jim Henson studios have simply shut down after Jim passed away?

As a cartoonist myself, I would only advocate killing off a character if it artistically validates me to do so. There's no bloomin' onion way I'm going to kill or write off one of my own creations just because the voice actor decides that he/she doesn't want to speak for him/her anymore. If I don't want my character to die or to be written off of the show, it's not going to happen. Period.
 
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