Voice actors

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Are there any voice actors from the Simpons in Futurama? I sometimes think I hear a familiar voice, but I'm too lazy to do some research for it... 
Sometimes, like with one of the helpers of Mom in Fishful of doctors, I think I recognize the voice of Brain, from Pinky and th Brain     Does anyone happen to know something about this?

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Theres no way the Mom's #1 helper isn't brain..

Leela is that person for that old show.. Married with childeren i think

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Yeah offcourse...thats for sure. I liked how they finally referred to that fact in A Bicylops Build for two, where leela has to call Alkazar Al, and wear her hair up...

But because she's quiet known, I wonder if she will stay with futurama for long if the series continues, she may get better offers or something.

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Originally posted by DespT:
Are there any voice actors from the Simpons in Futurama? I sometimes think I hear a familiar voice, but I'm too lazy to do some research for it...   
Sometimes, like with one of the helpers of Mom in Fishful of doctors, I think I recognize the voice of Brain, from Pinky and th Brain      Does anyone happen to know something about this?

The only Simspons regular who's also a Futurama regular is Tress Macneile, who plays Mom and Linda.

Dan Castalaneta (Homer, Willy, Barney, Grampa and a ton of others) and Hank Azaria (Chief Wiggum, Apu, Moe etc.) have done one-shot characters. Dan was Beelzebot, and Hank was Harold Zoid.

Billy West has done a ton of voice work, playing everyone from Bugs Bunny to Ren & Stimpy.

Phil Lamarr is a former regular on Mad TV (he played the hyper UPS guy, among other characters), and does lotsa voice work, including the lead character in "Static Shock".

Lauren Tom is in "King of the Hill", and also does a lot of Kids WB cartoons. She can be seen onscreen in "Friends" and "DAG".

I think everyone else has been covered.

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Originally posted by Kifley Jr:
Theres no way the Mom's #1 helper isn't brain..

Leela is that person for that old show.. Married with childeren i think

That's Maurice LaMarche, the sexy man who voices/voiced Brain, Kif, Jay's australian friend in The Critic, and Egon on the old Ghostbusters cartoon. He's also done various voices in just about evey other cartoon ever made. And he's done a few other really weird things...he was the announcer on the old short-lived Howie Mandel show, and he played a live-action Inspector Gadget on the Super Mario Super Show(I'm NOT making this up).

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Originally posted by DespT:
But because she's quiet known, I wonder if she will stay with futurama for long if the series continues, she may get better offers or something.

I wouldn't worry about that...she's probably as well-known now as when she started Futurama. And voice-work isn't too time-consuming, so she could work on other things and still do Leela. It's an easy, steady paycheck.

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It's funny, I really didn't like that woman...with her role in Married with Children and all, but thanks to futurama I really started liking her. Every character really comes to life in this show...good casting

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Originally posted by DespT:
It's funny, I really didn't like that woman...with her role in Married with Children and all, but thanks to futurama I really started liking her. Every character really comes to life in this show...good casting

I agree a lot. I felt the same way about Billy West...I used to hate him and his lame interpretations of classic WB characters. But on Futurama, his voices are all distinct from each other, and different from any of his other cartoon voices I've heard(hell, I didn't even believe he was Zoidberg at first...I could have sworn it was Maurice LaMarche).

Plus his delivery is amazing. Lines like "Tell them I hate them!" just wouldn't be as funny if they were given to someone else.

Billy West--class act.

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Maurice is a great guy... very nice to his fans. 


I think Katey Sagal does a great job on futurama (leela).  And she already does a ton of stuff while she does futurama, so she isnt going anywhere. 

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You can't tell me that Maurice wasn't the voice of the one water guy, and I'm pretty sure he was the doctor in "Insane in the Mainframe."  Goodness I miss Pinky and the Brain.

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Originally posted by Nixon+Morbo=???:
Goodness I miss Pinky and the Brain.

Do they still have Pinky, Elmira, and the Brain?

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I'd love to talk on this topic, but here in germany with all the dubbed stuff ...
Well, we have the Lisa guy speaking the renegade mothersday card and Lrrr and we have the Krusty voice doing Bender and .... they don't even try to change their voice. It's just plain Krusty which talks there. I always anxiously wait for Krusties "haha-hahaha" to emerge Bender's Speech Modulator ... That was till i stopped watching the show in it's dubbed version. BUT: our Peggy voice (who doesnt speak Leela) is much more suitable than Sagal's herself....
Anyone who hasn't seen the short Billy West Interview should seek for it. Really a great voicster 

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Man that sucks.. but life goes on...

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Originally posted by Marc:
Anyone who hasn't seen the short Billy West Interview should seek for it. Really a great voicster

Where can I get it?

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well, i only know a german site which has them, but its not too hard to click on those links 
 http://www.nnyconline.de/videoclips.shtml

better get them soon as nnyconline.de might shut down this month

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I'm also glad to see that they never used "Peg's" most annoying laugh, that sarcastic noise she always made  I hated that.

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Originally posted by [-mArc-]:
well, i only know a german site which has them, but its not too hard to click on those links   
 http://www.nnyconline.de/videoclips.shtml

better get them soon as nnyconline.de might shut down this month

Thanks marc for the futurama video downloads link      

Heheh J/K... that was a really cool site.  Looks like they stole most of TFA's stuff   

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Originally posted by DespT:
I'm also glad to see that they never used "Peg's" most annoying laugh, that sarcastic noise she always made    I hated that.

anyone see that wanking ep. where bud went on trial for doing taht in a library? that was hilarious haha...ok back to futurama... 

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Originally posted by DespT:
I'm also glad to see that they never used "Peg's" most annoying laugh, that sarcastic noise she always made    I hated that.

that "ha!" noise? sort of the uncartoon equivalent to mrs krabapple's sarcastic "hah!"

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I know everything about Bender but don't know anything about John Dimaggio

Can you guys give me some info on him please
Thanks 

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Fox, which is apparantly the American channel which runs/owns Futurama has a nice section on their website, with a short, and surprisingly small video of the three main voice actors. Which, co-incidentally cannot be reached from their main site. Nice one. (If two URLs appear, it's the second one)

http:// [url=http://www.fox.com/futurama/citizens/actors.dimaggio.html]http://www.fox.com/futurama/citizens/actors.dimaggio.html  [/URL]


For more shattering of your comfortable illusions, visit http://www.voicechasers.org

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Juli:
 http://us.imdb.com/Name?Di+Maggio,+John
 http://www.liquidradioplayers.com/dimaggio.html
and http://www.nnyconline.de/videoclips.shtml for a video interview.

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Originally posted by rach_the_tall:
 

Originally posted by DespT:
I'm also glad to see that they never used "Peg's" most annoying laugh, that sarcastic noise she always made    I hated that.

that "ha!" noise? sort of the uncartoon equivalent to mrs krabapple's sarcastic "hah!"

skinner: i am a virgin.

homer: does that mean mrs. krabapple's a virgin too?

mrs. krabapple: hah!

 

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haha funny FF I like that ep and thank you guys for giving me the thing I like to know 

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I don't know where else to post this, but I was watching 61*, the HBO movie, and there's a newsreel about the homerun chase, and it was clearly Frank Welker narrating it. Cracked me up.

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Well, not sure if Frank Welker is considered a 'regular' on Simpsons or not, but he plays the 'voice' of Santas Little Helper as well as Nibbler. Both the animal voice and the speaking voice.

That kinda leads me to another thought.  If a character isn't a regular on a series, does that make them an irregular?