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Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Objects and Animals Given VoicesAlert reader Troy suggests:
I loved the various fish voices in “Revenge of the Creature.” What’s your pick? 72 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Objects and Animals Given Voices”Commenting at Satellite News
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The giant Gila monster was a hoot, and let’s not forget Joey the lemur, both in the movie King Dinosaur itself, as well as the hilarious skit.
In “Bride of the Monster” when Joel and the bots are doing the voice of the bird on Captain Robbin’s shoulder. Also, I like Tom and Crow whistling for Joel during that bit because Joel can’t whistle.
I really like the poor mooing cows from Teenage Crime Wave. “Mooo…please…we’re makin’ soft serve….mooo…oh no, stay…!” Later, when the farmer is rescued, Mike riffs, “Must…milk…cows!” with more mooing in the background. Finally, in a scene in police headquarters, an officer walks in and Crow riffs, “Jeez, didn’t milk the cows in four days, there’s milk everywhere!” I’m glad to know what happened to some minor but important characters, even if the ending was tragic.
On the subject of cows, the line “Ahh, milk me!” from “Touch of Satan” always cracks me up.
The voices they all give Lassie in The Painted Hills always make me chuckle.
“How am I going to explain this in just barks?”
The Deadly Mantis was a fun one as well. “First I mate, THEN I kill!”
During the closing credits of Boggy Creek 2, when the juvenile bigfoot is telling his advertures to dad. Whoever wrote that monologue obviously has young kids or is around them alot.
Raul Julia obviously provides the doppeling voiceovers in Overdrawn at the Memory Bank himself, but it’s Crow who gives us “I’m Daisy, l like poetry, rotten fruit, and flinging my filth!”
Just thinking about the “Elephant Man” voice they give Trumpy in Pod People makes me laugh. Ah, Trumpy. Wait…. “I am not an animal !!”
Little winged potatoes… This potato has long ears.
Although it ended in tragedy (due to 2 irresponsible robots who shall remain nameless) the beloved Maltese children’s favorite Goosio. If anyone thinks they can come up without someone or something better…
Go ahead on!
I would have to say “The Creeping Terror” voices from Servo, Mike and Crow.
“I’ve got to get in there (the dance)! It sounds so hot!”
“You know what I need right now? A mint! Blaah!”
“Should I eat him? Oh well, Thanksgiving only comes once a year!”
“We’re the Special Unit. Hellooooo!”
“We move more logs by 9:00 a.m. than most people!”
From Soultaker; “Hi, I’m a tree. Just want to put in a good word or two for nature since the camera is on me. Thanks for your time.”
I love the “monster doing a Vegas night club act” bits in Giant Gila Monster and in at least one of the Kaiju films (Godzilla vs. Megalon, I think).
The dog looking for his cue card in Manos is good, too. “What’s that say? Oh, yeah. Arf!”
From Boggy Creek, when Doc is ponderously contemplating the wonders of the river-bottom, the camera focuses on a spider who responds with, “I’m just a spider. How would I know!”
2 all-time favorites:
In Painted Hills, Joel voices Shep’s apparent annoyance at the poisoned food she’s given. “I believe I ordered a Greek salad…!”
In Jack Frost, I think during the sped-up footage of the witch’s cat running through the snow, the cat pauses briefly and then keeps running. Tom perfectly times the riff “wait a sec…oh ok” and it cracks me up every time.
Another from Teenage Crime Wave, the girls kidnap the couple in the park and I think Mike starts to provide dialogue for the guy who is ordered to undress; “Please don’t undress me and softly stroke my nipples…”. Not a direct quote but I know nipples were in the mix. Hilarious!
Mike as the skull in Screaming Skull: “We need to talk about a certain me-tossing incident.”
It’s a great topic!
Another vote for Lassie in 510. The voice Joel gives her is comic gold.
“Snausages?”
Hi, I’m Billy the Building!
My mistake @17. However, I would like to make the case that even though he was human he was being treated like an object, or would soon be.
The scene in ‘Eegah!’ where we see two lizards in the middle of ‘doing something’.
First lizard: “Oh damn! Someone’s watching!’
Second lizard: “What? Can I help you?”
There were a lot of great voice-overs in the Chicken of Tomorrow:
“Rodents?! Where?!”
“Oh hi, Cindy. I’m so glad you’re in my group. This is gonna be fun group!”
It actually makes it a little ironic when the short itself does the same thing at one point, and Crow responds with “That was weird.”
Amazed it hasn’t been posted yet:
Mike: “ROSSSSDOWEERRRRRRRRRR!” When the truck on Final Sacrifice is stuck.
It’s Petey Plane!!!!!
I will never be able to look at a plane again without hearing Petey’s voice.
Also, from Final Sacrifice, the cutting between the cave carvings of gods(or something?):
“Blegh!”
“Bleeeagh!”
“Tsssssssss!”
Anytime there is a lab mouse or lab monkey about to be experimented upon, someone makes a comment like “let me get the glove”, or “I’m still sore from last time”, etc.
I always crack up when somebody in the movie shuts off a car and one of the bots (I think Crow) does a dead-on dying jalopy sound effect: “Puh-puh-puuuuhhh…”
As for animals, in “Final Sacrifice”, I love the horse’s thoughts while carting Rowsdower around: “I could go faster if you got rid of that gunny-sack full of pork… Oh.” “Oh why couldn’t I have been bought by a 7th grade girl!”
@16 Jack Frost is chock full of voices being provided to animals and objects. The one I remembered was Mike providing the voice of the sun, after our main character asks it to wait a bit longer before rising so she can finish her knitting: “*beep* This is the sun. Your call is very important to us, but due to unusually high call volume…”
And that, in turn, reminded me of all the times in other movies when there’d be a shot of the sky, giving Mike/Joel and the bots an opportunity interject some commentary from above.
For instance, in the slow-moving Roger Corman-directed The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent, a long shot of the sky prompts Crow to interject: “Roger – this is God – pick up the pace!”
Or Track of the Moon Beast, after the guy convinces the girl to come to his place, and she replies “Fine, your place then.” They then show a brief shot of lightning flashing in the sky, and Crow booms out “Not his place! Fornicators!”
From The Beginning of the End, as one of the giant locusts cuts across the screen and Crow says, “Hi, I’m just gonna pop in here and say hope you’re enjoying the movie!”
Joel always was the best at this – I love Joel’s Satan voices whenever a snake shows up in a film.
“Hi, I’m Satan – I’m not responsible for this film!”
“Hi, I’m Satan – Enjoy the film!”
Then there are Joel’s voices for the dinosaurs in Lost Continent.
“Hi, I’ve been waiting for the last 50 minutes, but I gotta go – they tell me I cost over a million dollars a second! And now a word from Jay’s Potato Chips.”
“Turns out I’m a herbivore! These guys have nothing to worry about!”
“Mmmm, scientist on a stick! I like it when there’s a salad bar with a little bit of meat!”
Even Trace recognized it: I remember in one of the Cinematic Titanic films after he attempted to give voice to some animal, he remarked, “Joel’s the king at doing animal voices!” 8-)
@27 That’s Kevin Murphy, voicing Tom Servo doing an impression of Mel Blanc’s characterization of a car engine sputtering to a halt: http://youtu.be/YHi5EnTB0sk?t=19s (love how Mel somehow throws a “hiccup” into the middle of it!)
In “The Touch of Satan,” after Melissa explains to Jody “This is where the fish lives,” they share a tender moment where they walk away from the lake. Servo gurgles, “Good night, kids” as if he were a fish.
Almost forgot about the voice of the pig when Baba Yaga (the Hunchback Fairy, yick!) feeds it pork as a reward.
“I can’t believe you’re making me eat this! Hey, pass the jam…” Don’t remember whether this was Mike or Servo on this one, but it’s another one where the movie just riffs itself.
I’m really fond of the voices Joel would give to animals or monsters or whatnot. He’s particularly funny as Godzilla or as Barugon (ep. 304) when he first comes out and starts wrecking stuff. There might be more, but I’m blanking.
Uh, and then there’s the monotonous stock footage sequence at the end of Neptune Men where there’s a shot of a fleet of planes. And then a jumbo jet passes by and Mike some something to the effect of “Wait for Grandpa Plane!” in a low voice. There’s a similar joke in Deadly Mantis as well.
Just watched Shorts Vol 2 last night, and in Catching Trouble when the twin bear cubs fight over food at the table in camp, joel riffs, “Wait a minute Greg, hold it, they want us to do this!” And only viewing last night did I notice that servo says right after it jokingly and simply, “Greg.” Hilarious that joel would actually give the bear a name.
My favorite is in “The UnEarthly.” When the hero and John Carradine are arguing and between them is this model of the human body without skin on, and Joel says in a high pitched voice, “Stop arguing and give me skin!”
I love that one every time!
really loved all the dialogue made up for Gamera in all his movies. my favorite is from ‘Zigra’ when Crow yells out ‘…i’m supposed to be laying my eggs this time of year!’ as he flies away.
@29, thanks, you reminded me of another one of my faves, from “Beginning of the End,” when the giant grasshoppers are falling off the skyscraper. Of course they are regular grasshoppers painfully obviously filmed on a picture of a skyscraper, which is hilarious by itself, but their “falling to their death” voices are great. “Carry on our woooorrrrrk!,” “Say goodbye to my 10,000 kiiiiiids!,” and “Oh, the third time, how stupid am Iiiiiiiiiiiii…..”
Chirpy the Mutant Hellbeast!
Another from Beginning of the End; “It’s gotta be a trick! There can’t be that many lady grasshoppers in Lake Michigan!”
@26 – And the mouse being experimented on for a flash-second in The Home Economics Story: “Save us!”
As for inanimate objects, how about the house at the end of the street going “Ooohhh, nooooo!” in the background of Gunslinger?
in Robot Rumpus there’s a perfectly timed moment when Pokey droops his ears and I Tom says “I pooped again”. cracks me up.
Some of the best have already been mentioned; the Giant Gila Monster, Trumpy, Lassie, Petey Plane, etc., but I love some of the voices they do for the farm animals in one of my favorite shorts Uncle Jim’s Dairy Farm from episode #607 Bloodlust!
Milking Cow: “Uh, excuse me, back here…I need some help back here, I got something caught in my. . .” :cow:
young cow drinking from mother: “Hey! This is skim!” :cow2:
discontent cow: “You’ll pay one day, hayseed.” :cow:
discontent cow#2: “You’ll get what’s coming, farrrrmer.” :cow2:
and my favorite:
pigs getting sprayed with water,
Pigs: “EQUAL RIGHTS FOR PIGS!!!” :pig: :pig2: :pig: :pig2:
Of course, Father and Mother Nature butting in on the movie’s narrator in the
Film Crew The Wild Women of Wongo. Or do they count as Nature Spirits,
demigods, etc. Makes you think, don’t it?
Joel is the undisputed king of animal voices, though he’s especially the king of drugged out/jonesing animals. Any time a syringe gets near a lab rat is instant MST3K comedy gold.
The Cinematic Titanic release of The Wasp Woman in particular made me realize how much I missed Joel’s “tripping balls rodents” and Trace’s perfect “dottering old man” voice.
My favorite Trumpy-ism: “Food. Eating. The theater.”
Oh, and I forgot the skeleton from “Earth Vs. the Spider” — (Joel): Somebody got a sandwich or somethin’? I’m famished!
There’s several to pick from.
Screaming Skull
Mickey: “Good night”
Skull: “Glub”
All of the spiders in Giant Spider Invasion. “Securing butt, over.”
Boggy Creek. “Snap into a slimjim!”
One I didn’t see mentioned, the skeleton in Squirm “Uh, wha–you creepy little weiner, what the hell?”
Another great topic!
In “Ring of Terror”, Joel as the snake.
Slip her the tongue, that’s what I always say.
The Horse in “Final Sacrifice”.
Now It’s my turn to ride you.
And too many more to name.
Like when we see squirrels and bear cubs being bottle-fed in Alphabet Antics, and Joel adds a Johnny Carson Bert-Fern “E-heww, that’s good stuff!”
And I’ve mentioned the dying Slime People enough times, but it still merits a YouTube:
http://youtu.be/feIygqcw50A?t=1h30m50s