Stupid Guest Tricks

Mel Blanc voices.



Porky Pig (1937–1989, assumed from Joe Dougherty)
The Maxwell (Jack Benny's car in "The Mouse that Jack Built")
Daffy Duck (1937–1989)
Dopey from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (vocal effects; shared with Eddie Collins)
Bugs Bunny-like rabbit/Happy Rabbit (1938–1940)
Papa Panda from the Andy Panda series
Bugs Bunny (1940–1989)
Woody Woodpecker (1940–1941)
Slapsie Maxie Rosenbull (1940)
Hiawatha (1941)
Cecil Turtle (1941–1947)
Tweety Bird (1942–1989)
Private Snafu, numerous World War II related cartoons (1943-1946)
Yosemite Sam (1945–1987)
Pepé Le Pew (1945–1989)
Penelope Pussycat Though typically a non-speaker, her "meows" and "purrs" were most often provided by Mel Blanc using a feminine voice.
Sylvester (1945–1989) aka Thomas (1947) in some films.
Foghorn Leghorn (1946–1987)
The Barnyard Dawg (1946–1989)
Henery Hawk (1946–1989)
Charlie Dog (1947)
Grover Groundhog (1947, singing voice only in "One Meat Brawl")
Mac (of Mac & Tosh) (1947)
K-9 (1948) (sidekick to Marvin the Martian)
Marvin the Martian (1948–1989)
Sylvester J. Pussycat, Jr. Mel also plays Sylvester's son Sylvester Junior when the young cat was introduced (1949)
Beaky Buzzard (1950)
Curt Martin (1950-1 episode Hillbilly Hare)
The Fox and Crow (voiced both characters only for the 1941 debut short "Fox and Grapes" until Frank Grahmn took the roles of the fox and crow then Paul Frees became the crow while Grahmn was still the fox till the last short in 1950)
Dinah from Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Elmer Fudd (substitute)
Wile E. Coyote (silent until 1952, first spoke in the short "Operation: Rabbit")
Speedy Gonzales (1953–1989)
Rocky and Mugsy (Bugs and Thugs 1954)
The Tasmanian Devil (1954–1989) aka Taz
Ed (Jack Benny's underground valet guard in "The Mouse that Jack Built", since Joseph Kearns was unavailable to reprise his role as Ed the Vault Guard in that cartoon)
Blacque Jacque Shellacque (1959–1962)
Barney Rubble (1960–1989)
Dino (1960–1989) (Fred Flintstone's pet.)
Cosmo G. Spacely (The Jetsons, 1962–1989)
Hardy Har Har (1962–1964)
Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse (1963–1967)
Sneezly Seal (1964–1967)
Secret Squirrel (1965–1966)
Frito Bandito (1967–1971)
Bubba McCoy from "Where's Huddles?"
Chugga-Boom/Yak Yak/The Bully Brothers also from "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop"
Speed Buggy (1973)
Tucker the Mouse from "The Cricket in Times Square" (1973) and two sequels
Captain Caveman (1977)
Twiki from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Heathcliff (1980, appeared in syndication from 1984–1988)
Scientist from SuperTed and the stolen rocket (1982)
Gideon from Pinocchio (hiccups)
Figaro from Pinocchio(meows)
Bertie Mouse (of Hubie and Bertie)
Marc Antony
Moo the Cow in Berkeley Farms Radio Ads. "Farms in Berkeley....Moooo"
Officer Short Shrift, several Lethargians, three out of five of the royal palace guards, The Word Speller, The Dodecahedron, and The Demon of Insincerity from The Phantom Tollbooth (1969)
Go Go Gomez, Flat Top, B.B. Eyes, additional voices from The Dick Tracy Show
Tycoon Magoo
Worcestershire (Tycoon Magoo's butler)

hobie16 wrote:Mel Blanc voices.



Porky Pig (1937–1989, assumed from Joe Dougherty)
The Maxwell (Jack Benny's car in "The Mouse that Jack Built")
Daffy Duck (1937–1989)
Dopey from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (vocal effects; shared with Eddie Collins)
Bugs Bunny-like rabbit/Happy Rabbit (1938–1940)
Papa Panda from the Andy Panda series
Bugs Bunny (1940–1989)
Woody Woodpecker (1940–1941)
Slapsie Maxie Rosenbull (1940)
Hiawatha (1941)
Cecil Turtle (1941–1947)
Tweety Bird (1942–1989)
Private Snafu, numerous World War II related cartoons (1943-1946)
Yosemite Sam (1945–1987)
Pepé Le Pew (1945–1989)
Penelope Pussycat Though typically a non-speaker, her "meows" and "purrs" were most often provided by Mel Blanc using a feminine voice.
Sylvester (1945–1989) aka Thomas (1947) in some films.
Foghorn Leghorn (1946–1987)
The Barnyard Dawg (1946–1989)
Henery Hawk (1946–1989)
Charlie Dog (1947)
Grover Groundhog (1947, singing voice only in "One Meat Brawl")
Mac (of Mac & Tosh) (1947)
K-9 (1948) (sidekick to Marvin the Martian)
Marvin the Martian (1948–1989)
Sylvester J. Pussycat, Jr. Mel also plays Sylvester's son Sylvester Junior when the young cat was introduced (1949)
Beaky Buzzard (1950)
Curt Martin (1950-1 episode Hillbilly Hare)
The Fox and Crow (voiced both characters only for the 1941 debut short "Fox and Grapes" until Frank Grahmn took the roles of the fox and crow then Paul Frees became the crow while Grahmn was still the fox till the last short in 1950)
Dinah from Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Elmer Fudd (substitute)
Wile E. Coyote (silent until 1952, first spoke in the short "Operation: Rabbit")
Speedy Gonzales (1953–1989)
Rocky and Mugsy (Bugs and Thugs 1954)
The Tasmanian Devil (1954–1989) aka Taz
Ed (Jack Benny's underground valet guard in "The Mouse that Jack Built", since Joseph Kearns was unavailable to reprise his role as Ed the Vault Guard in that cartoon)
Blacque Jacque Shellacque (1959–1962)
Barney Rubble (1960–1989)
Dino (1960–1989) (Fred Flintstone's pet.)
Cosmo G. Spacely (The Jetsons, 1962–1989)
Hardy Har Har (1962–1964)
Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse (1963–1967)
Sneezly Seal (1964–1967)
Secret Squirrel (1965–1966)
Frito Bandito (1967–1971)
Bubba McCoy from "Where's Huddles?"
Chugga-Boom/Yak Yak/The Bully Brothers also from "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop"
Speed Buggy (1973)
Tucker the Mouse from "The Cricket in Times Square" (1973) and two sequels
Captain Caveman (1977)
Twiki from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Heathcliff (1980, appeared in syndication from 1984–1988)
Scientist from SuperTed and the stolen rocket (1982)
Gideon from Pinocchio (hiccups)
Figaro from Pinocchio(meows)
Bertie Mouse (of Hubie and Bertie)
Marc Antony
Moo the Cow in Berkeley Farms Radio Ads. "Farms in Berkeley....Moooo"
Officer Short Shrift, several Lethargians, three out of five of the royal palace guards, The Word Speller, The Dodecahedron, and The Demon of Insincerity from The Phantom Tollbooth (1969)
Go Go Gomez, Flat Top, B.B. Eyes, additional voices from The Dick Tracy Show
Tycoon Magoo
Worcestershire (Tycoon Magoo's butler)

Too bad he wasn't busy. Some people would figure he couldn't hold down a job.
The weird pat abt doing Bugs,,is that hat he 'hated' carrots and would spit them out after doing the chewing part

Buggy wrote:Spacely Sprockets was owned by Cosmo Spacely.
Cosmo Spacely was voiced by Mel Blanc.
Mel Blanc also voiced Bugs Bunny.
Bugs Bunny (as voiced by Mel) appeared on screen with Mickey Mouse in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" is owned by the Walt Disney Company.

(Mel also voiced Dinah in Alice in Wonderland; Also Gideon and Figaro in Pinocchio. Thanks Wikipedia!)

Goofyernmost wrote:Don't forget Cousin Orville in CoP! That was Mel Blanc as well, but I have no idea if that is what he is looking for.

Good calls both, a point for each of you!

Frankly though, I was thinking of another link, also through a voice actor. Any more ideas?

:jeb:

darph nader wrote:Too bad he wasn't busy. Some people would figure he couldn't hold down a job.
The weird pat abt doing Bugs,,is that hat he 'hated' carrots and would spit them out after doing the chewing part

Mel Blanc didn't just hate carrots, he was allergic to them. While most of his munching was done by Foley artists, in the early years he used celery. Gives a better crunch anyway.

Zazu wrote:Mel Blanc didn't just hate carrots, he was allergic to them. While most of his munching was done by Foley artists, in the early years he used celery. Gives a better crunch anyway.

Though his best-known character was a carrot-chomping rabbit, munching on the carrots interrupted the dialogue. Various substitutes, such as celery, were tried, but none of them sounded like a carrot. So for the sake of expedience, he would munch and then spit the carrot bits into a spittoon rather than swallowing them, and continue with the dialogue. One oft-repeated story is that he was allergic to carrots and had to spit them out to minimize any allergic reaction; but his autobiography makes no such claim; in fact, in a 1984 interview with Tim Lawson, co-author of The Magic Behind The Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors (University Press of Mississippi, 2004), Blanc emphatically denied being allergic to carrots. In a Straight Dope column, a Blanc confidante confirmed that Blanc only spit out the carrots because of time constraints, and not because of allergies or general dislike.

hobie16 wrote:Though his best-known character was a carrot-chomping rabbit, munching on the carrots interrupted the dialogue. Various substitutes, such as celery, were tried, but none of them sounded like a carrot. So for the sake of expedience, he would munch and then spit the carrot bits into a spittoon rather than swallowing them, and continue with the dialogue. One oft-repeated story is that he was allergic to carrots and had to spit them out to minimize any allergic reaction; but his autobiography makes no such claim; in fact, in a 1984 interview with Tim Lawson, co-author of The Magic Behind The Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors (University Press of Mississippi, 2004), Blanc emphatically denied being allergic to carrots. In a Straight Dope column, a Blanc confidante confirmed that Blanc only spit out the carrots because of time constraints, and not because of allergies or general dislike.

And... another great story dies from exposure to truth. Pity, it was a good story.

Thanks for the education.

Now, any last guesses about the link to Spacely Sprockets?

Here's a hint: Robert A. Heinlein.

:jeb:

Zazu wrote:Here's a hint: Robert A. Heinlein.

My dad met Heinlein once. He got home from work that day and asked if Heinlein was one of the authors of all the si-fi books I read. He was and I really liked his stuff.

My dad worked for the IRS and apparently ol' Robert hadn't been paying his taxes on time. He met with my dad who insisted he either pay up or the IRS would go after his book royalties. Heinlein was pretty nasty but he coughed up the dough.

Okay, I'll take it from the deafening silence that no one has a clue about another link between Spacely Sprockets and Disney.

And I can hear the head-scratching from here about the hint of Robert Heinlein, so let me address that first. Heinline wrote a short story titled "Waldo" which is why remote manipulators are now called that informally. So what's that got to do with sprockets?

As many have caught, Spacely Sprockets was the firm that George Jetson worked for. His daughter, Judy Jetson, was voiced by Janet Waldo ... who also gave voice to Daughter on the Carousel of Progress.

Ha! One for me.

Now for today's question:

Disney monorails were originally intended as a "proof of concept" model, with the hope that they would be put into wide use for public transportation. While there are today many monorail systems in use in the world, none connect a Disney destination to a non-Disney destination.

What was the first non-Disney destination seriously proposed by a public official for a Disney monorail system?

:jeb:

Zazu wrote:Okay, I'll take it from the deafening silence that no one has a clue about another link between Spacely Sprockets and Disney.

And I can hear the head-scratching from here about the hint of Robert Heinlein, so let me address that first. Heinline wrote a short story titled "Waldo" which is why remote manipulators are now called that informally. So what's that got to do with sprockets?

As many have caught, Spacely Sprockets was the firm that George Jetson worked for. His daughter, Judy Jetson, was voiced by Janet Waldo ... who also gave voice to Daughter on the Carousel of Progress.

Ha! One for me.

Now for today's question:

Disney monorails were originally intended as a "proof of concept" model, with the hope that they would be put into wide use for public transportation. While there are today many monorail systems in use in the world, none connect a Disney destination to a non-Disney destination.

What was the first non-Disney destination seriously proposed by a public official for a Disney monorail system?

:jeb:

Orlando International Airport & WDW is my best guess.

Were you asking what possible link was considered that didn't involve Disney at all or that did involve Disney and not just the idea? If it involved Disney as a stop, I'd have to agree with MCO, but that is a long haul, so I doubt that is it. How's that for covering all bases except confidently just naming a place. I do think that the Monorail in Vegas was pretty much a Disney Monorail setup. :)