Worst Recasting changes

I wouldn't call it a bad case of recasting, but Ms. Bergman also orginated the role of Timmy Turner on the Fairly Oddparents shorts that were aired on Oh Yeah! Cartoons before her untimely death.

I always preferred Katie Leigh's performance as Alex from Totally Spies! during the first two seasons to Katie Griffin's in the last three seasons.
 
Totally agree with you.

My favorite Darien voice was Toby Proctor, Vince Corazza (who took over for him for the "Lost Episodes" of Season 2, the movies, and the rest of the dub) was okay...but I just felt Toby was the better actor. He had more emotion...

I didn't like Rino Romano (the first dub VA in the role...) at all...
 
Yes, Castalaneta was doing a deliberate homage to Matthau during the Tracey Ullman days and in the first season or so of the series proper. He later fine-tuned the character's voice to his own strengths as a performer.
 
Actually, Pidge was originally voiced by Neil Ross.

And nothing against Tim Curry, but I think Mark Hamill would have been better as Lotor (his voice is somewhat similar to Weinrib's).
 
*Steps out into the middle of the room, clears his throat...*

I respectfully, but firmly, disagree. Diraison was a good choice for Zoro and, under better direction, would have been fantastic... but I think Zoro brings a certain amount of dryness, depth, and a similar tone ot the Japanese which makes the character for me entirely.

As for recasts I disagree with...

Candi Milo as Dexter...

The entirety of the new Pokemon cast...

Linda Ballantyne taking over for Usagi in Sailor Moon...

Sean Schemmel, Chris Sabat, Sonny Strait, and Stephanie Nadolny as their characters in DragonBall Z respectively. They ALL got a lot better, to the point where they were either good or tolerable and they're all exceptional voice actors, but they were, initially, a train wreck and Chris Sabat has yet to ever fulfill any of his characters like Ocean's original cast did, or the original Japanese for that matter.
 
Bobby Block replacing Junior as Robot is the most prominent example I can think of. It single-handedly destroyed what little appeal the show had.
 
For that series, the change from Ed O'Ross to Gregg Berger as Agent Kay after the first season was awful. The latter's voice was too robotic and lacked any emotional range.




I actually liked B.J. Ward as Velma, as well as Betty Rubble, in the various SD and Flintstones TV movies. It was Frumkin and Mindy Cohn's Velma that were the worst. The former's deep voice and the latter's nasal voice were downright irritating. Mindy sort of ruined WNSD for me considering she had the most dialogue in the majority of episodes.
 
I feel completely opposite.

I thought Tracey did an amazing job as Sailor Moon. She was cute, sily, ditzy, young-sounding, and very funny.

Terri on the other hand, was just flat out annoying to me (didn't care for the yodel scream, or the "lets randomly lower my voice midsentence" thing). And she was terrible with serious scenes.

Linda, while she had a rough start, I always managed to like. She was fun, and silly too. She also really good in serious scenes.
 
Just because I haven't said anything about this in a while...

My thing with the new Pokemon cast is that I'm a fan of the Japanese version. So both the 4Kids version and the PUSA version sound "off" to me.

And as far as I'm concerned, the 4Kids dub and the PUSA dub are of equal quality. The strengths and weaknesses of each dub may be slightly different, but I think that, in the end, it all evens out.


The next season will be PUSA's fourth season with the show; that's half of 4Kids' tenure with the series. Assuming the dubbing doesn't switch again, it'll be interesting to see what the fans think once PUSA actually surpasses 4Kids in terms of the number of episodes they've dubbed. It'll also be interesting to see what the kids who are growing up on the PUSA dub these days have to say about the old 4Kids voice work.
 
Yeah, Castalaneta "grew into" the voice over the first few seasons, eventually achieving what Homer's voice sounds like today. Interestingly, his Homer voice from the first couple seasons was different enough that some of my friends and family think that a different person voice acted as Homer in those early seasons. :rolleyes:
 
In the DTV Mystery of the Batwoman, IMO David Ogden Stiers just seemed not nearly as suited to VAing the Penguin as Paul Williams was. To me Paul Williams is the voice of the Penguin as much as Mark Hamill is the voice of the Joker and Kevin Conroy is the voice of Batman. I must say that IMO Batman: The Animated Series had some of the best voice casting of any animated show or film ever! Thank you, Andrea Romano.
 
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