WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.592 --> 00:00:04.092 (bright electronic music) 2 00:00:06.641 --> 00:00:08.150 ♪ John Quincy Adams was number six ♪ 3 00:00:08.150 --> 00:00:09.876 ♪ And it's Andrew Jackson's butt he kicked ♪ 4 00:00:09.876 --> 00:00:11.449 ♪ So Jackson learns to play politics ♪ 5 00:00:11.449 --> 00:00:13.610 ♪ Next time he's the one that the country picks ♪ 6 00:00:13.610 --> 00:00:16.278 - You've got Animaniacs coming back. 7 00:00:16.278 --> 00:00:17.500 - Hello nurse! 8 00:00:17.500 --> 00:00:18.333 How about that? 9 00:00:18.333 --> 00:00:21.780 - I was going to say, like, were, are you surprised at all? 10 00:00:21.780 --> 00:00:24.020 I mean, it's been an on, people have loved it 11 00:00:24.020 --> 00:00:25.200 this whole time. 12 00:00:25.200 --> 00:00:26.300 - Thank you for asking. 13 00:00:26.300 --> 00:00:28.532 And by the way, folks, watch what happens. 14 00:00:28.532 --> 00:00:29.365 Narf! 15 00:00:29.365 --> 00:00:30.800 (laughing) Isn't that the greatest? 16 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:32.300 You can't help it, I love that. 17 00:00:32.300 --> 00:00:33.133 Okay. 18 00:00:33.133 --> 00:00:34.670 Yes, pleasantly surprised. 19 00:00:34.670 --> 00:00:35.537 As you can imagine, 20 00:00:35.537 --> 00:00:39.034 any time you get to work with Steven Spielberg 21 00:00:39.034 --> 00:00:41.239 and then, dot dot dot, it's just, 22 00:00:41.239 --> 00:00:44.280 he's the King of Hollywood, you know? 23 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:45.920 My words, but I think, 24 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:47.400 I don't think too many people would argue. 25 00:00:47.400 --> 00:00:49.250 People really connect with Animaniacs. 26 00:00:49.250 --> 00:00:50.770 People your age and older 27 00:00:50.770 --> 00:00:54.034 and even older than I, love, you know, 28 00:00:54.034 --> 00:00:57.719 the updated version of what's your background, 29 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:01.040 the sort of legacy of Looney Tunes. 30 00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:02.900 And Tom Ruegger and Steven Spielberg 31 00:01:02.900 --> 00:01:04.500 and Jean MacCurdy and all their staff 32 00:01:04.500 --> 00:01:05.874 knew exactly what they were doing 33 00:01:05.874 --> 00:01:08.322 back in the mid-90s, all through the '90s, 34 00:01:08.322 --> 00:01:10.853 from '93 through '99, I think. 35 00:01:12.650 --> 00:01:15.310 And Mr. Spielberg a couple of years ago says, hey, 36 00:01:15.310 --> 00:01:16.826 you guys think we should do this again? 37 00:01:16.826 --> 00:01:21.100 And it turns out that we've got a pretty big fan base. 38 00:01:21.100 --> 00:01:22.821 God, to get another shot at that? 39 00:01:22.821 --> 00:01:26.430 With my, with the same actors as on Pinky and the Brain 40 00:01:26.430 --> 00:01:28.100 and Yakko, Wakko and Dot? 41 00:01:28.100 --> 00:01:29.157 Are you kidding me? 42 00:01:29.157 --> 00:01:30.960 Man, I'll tell you what, 43 00:01:30.960 --> 00:01:34.430 the view from the water tower's pretty damn cool, yeah. 44 00:01:34.430 --> 00:01:35.263 - Ooh! 45 00:01:35.263 --> 00:01:37.970 They give me that saucy librarian look! 46 00:01:37.970 --> 00:01:39.380 You know, all bookish, 47 00:01:39.380 --> 00:01:43.560 then take off the glasses, let down the hair and. (growls) 48 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:44.880 (hysterical laughing) 49 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:45.850 - Does it feel the same? 50 00:01:45.850 --> 00:01:48.540 Like does the, I don't know if you've seen scripts. 51 00:01:48.540 --> 00:01:50.060 Does everything feel? 52 00:01:50.060 --> 00:01:50.893 - Yeah. 53 00:01:50.893 --> 00:01:51.726 - Linear. 54 00:01:51.726 --> 00:01:52.571 - Yes. 55 00:01:52.571 --> 00:01:53.960 And yeah, we've actually recorded a number of them 56 00:01:53.960 --> 00:01:55.510 and they're in post-production now getting ready 57 00:01:55.510 --> 00:01:57.630 for this fall on Hulu. 58 00:01:57.630 --> 00:01:58.880 You know what really is great 59 00:01:58.880 --> 00:02:01.910 and what does feel the same as being with the other actors, 60 00:02:01.910 --> 00:02:04.853 it's, we don't have the entire staff 61 00:02:04.853 --> 00:02:06.949 who was there 25 years ago. 62 00:02:06.949 --> 00:02:10.340 Some of them are, have moved on to other gigs. 63 00:02:10.340 --> 00:02:13.171 Some of them moved on to the next mortal coil 64 00:02:13.171 --> 00:02:14.743 or the next plane, 65 00:02:15.860 --> 00:02:18.840 but being able to be in the same room 66 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:21.100 with my friend, the Brain, Maurice LaMarche, 67 00:02:21.100 --> 00:02:23.397 and my sister Dot, Tress MacNeille, 68 00:02:23.397 --> 00:02:25.700 and my brother Wakko, Jess Harnell, 69 00:02:25.700 --> 00:02:28.400 it's pretty hard not to love this group of people 70 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:30.200 and this, this cast of characters. 71 00:02:30.200 --> 00:02:31.160 And the music, too. 72 00:02:31.160 --> 00:02:34.830 There's another 35, 40 piece orchestra for every half hour. 73 00:02:34.830 --> 00:02:36.880 Thank you, Mr. Spielberg. 74 00:02:36.880 --> 00:02:41.250 The show that you're highlighting with that background, 75 00:02:41.250 --> 00:02:43.770 you know, with Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, 76 00:02:43.770 --> 00:02:46.033 Looney Tunes' music was spectacular, 77 00:02:46.033 --> 00:02:49.379 and that is not dissimilar to Animaniacs. 78 00:02:49.379 --> 00:02:50.800 That music, whether it's. 79 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.078 ♪ Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola ♪ 80 00:02:53.078 --> 00:02:54.970 ♪ Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana ♪ 81 00:02:54.970 --> 00:02:58.530 Or all these other songs, they hold up really well. 82 00:02:58.530 --> 00:03:00.435 ♪ Facial and faction and fractal and fraction ♪ 83 00:03:00.435 --> 00:03:01.987 ♪ And fraudulent, fragrant, frappé ♪ 84 00:03:01.987 --> 00:03:04.139 ♪ Frankincense, frankish and frakisish ♪ 85 00:03:04.139 --> 00:03:06.140 ♪ Shoot, yadda yadda flambé ♪ 86 00:03:06.140 --> 00:03:08.955 - When that show launched, it was on, you know, 87 00:03:08.955 --> 00:03:12.020 after school for kids to watch and stuff like that. 88 00:03:12.020 --> 00:03:14.640 Do you think that the audience for the show, like, 89 00:03:14.640 --> 00:03:15.643 are they trying to reach 90 00:03:15.643 --> 00:03:18.010 parents of those kids and those kids, 91 00:03:18.010 --> 00:03:18.880 are they trying to reach, 92 00:03:18.880 --> 00:03:21.683 because I mean also like, growing up, I'm 39, 93 00:03:21.683 --> 00:03:23.642 we watched a lot of Looney Tunes. 94 00:03:23.642 --> 00:03:24.475 - Sure. 95 00:03:24.475 --> 00:03:25.890 - And we were sort of familiar with the tropes 96 00:03:25.890 --> 00:03:26.755 and I don't know, 97 00:03:26.755 --> 00:03:28.165 you might know better than I do, 98 00:03:28.165 --> 00:03:29.946 if kids these days are familiar 99 00:03:29.946 --> 00:03:34.370 with the Looney Tunes canon as much as they might've been. 100 00:03:34.370 --> 00:03:36.500 - The ethos of the show hasn't changed. 101 00:03:36.500 --> 00:03:38.979 It's not being written to condescend. 102 00:03:38.979 --> 00:03:42.070 It's being written to appeal to all ages, 103 00:03:42.070 --> 00:03:43.240 just like Looney Tunes. 104 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:44.656 You can watch Looney Tunes now. 105 00:03:44.656 --> 00:03:45.731 ♪ Kill the wabbit ♪ 106 00:03:45.731 --> 00:03:46.870 ♪ Kill the wabbit ♪ 107 00:03:46.870 --> 00:03:50.530 Or you know, duck season, rabbit season, fire, boom! 108 00:03:50.530 --> 00:03:52.980 And, and you'll watch those cartoons 109 00:03:52.980 --> 00:03:56.470 that are 40, 50 years old, 110 00:03:56.470 --> 00:03:58.220 and they're just really good stuff. 111 00:03:59.220 --> 00:04:03.450 The attitudes change, but people still love to laugh. 112 00:04:03.450 --> 00:04:05.520 There have been, there have been, I think, 113 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:07.910 appropriate tweaks done because we live in a time 114 00:04:07.910 --> 00:04:09.483 that's a quarter century later. 115 00:04:10.440 --> 00:04:12.560 So there's a lot of stuff that we can lampoon 116 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:13.800 that we didn't have before. 117 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:16.304 - Horatio's about to get a dadgum flat tire. 118 00:04:16.304 --> 00:04:17.137 (tire popping) 119 00:04:17.137 --> 00:04:17.970 (shushing) 120 00:04:17.970 --> 00:04:20.201 (shushing) Yourself! 121 00:04:20.201 --> 00:04:21.290 (blows raspberry) 122 00:04:21.290 --> 00:04:23.240 - We're also coming up on the 30 year anniversary 123 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:25.380 of Tiny Toon Adventures. 124 00:04:25.380 --> 00:04:26.480 - Oh my God, yeah. 125 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:29.610 - Does it seem like it's been that long? 126 00:04:29.610 --> 00:04:31.940 - For me, it was this glorious opportunity, 127 00:04:31.940 --> 00:04:33.630 because that was Steven Spielberg, again, 128 00:04:33.630 --> 00:04:35.120 Andrea Romano, the director, 129 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:36.269 Tom Ruegger, the creator, 130 00:04:36.269 --> 00:04:38.830 Jean MacCurdy, head of Warner Brothers animation. 131 00:04:38.830 --> 00:04:43.410 But that for me was an opportunity to really hone my skills, 132 00:04:43.410 --> 00:04:47.040 not knowing that Animaniacs was coming. 133 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:49.017 But I sang quite a bit of song, 134 00:04:49.017 --> 00:04:51.813 quite a bit of music on Tiny Toons, 135 00:04:53.690 --> 00:04:58.040 and I got to play a bunch of different secondary characters. 136 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:01.120 I probably did, I don't know, 25 or 30 episodes, 137 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:03.380 plus the How I Spent My Summer Vacation video, 138 00:05:03.380 --> 00:05:05.070 which was excellent. 139 00:05:05.070 --> 00:05:08.120 I got to be a hitchhiking chainsaw guy 140 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:09.743 that wanted to eat carnitas, 141 00:05:10.788 --> 00:05:12.730 and a couple other things. 142 00:05:12.730 --> 00:05:15.890 But it put me in really great shape 143 00:05:15.890 --> 00:05:18.230 to audition for Animaniacs, 144 00:05:18.230 --> 00:05:20.660 and having been able to sing for those people 145 00:05:20.660 --> 00:05:24.520 and perform, they knew that I could sing in character, 146 00:05:24.520 --> 00:05:27.073 I could read music, I can, you know, 147 00:05:28.170 --> 00:05:31.500 sing in Yakko's voice or Pinky's voice or whatever. 148 00:05:31.500 --> 00:05:34.520 So Animaniacs for me was the, 149 00:05:34.520 --> 00:05:38.070 the circumstance in which opportunity met preparation, 150 00:05:38.070 --> 00:05:39.910 which ends up being lucky. 151 00:05:39.910 --> 00:05:41.120 That's how luck happens. 152 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:43.350 - Ooh, don't you turn this around on me. 153 00:05:43.350 --> 00:05:44.820 The woman said she hated me. 154 00:05:44.820 --> 00:05:45.740 Hated! 155 00:05:45.740 --> 00:05:47.251 - Those are just words! 156 00:05:47.251 --> 00:05:49.214 - Words are weapons, Mac. 157 00:05:49.214 --> 00:05:50.450 Cut the cord! 158 00:05:50.450 --> 00:05:55.260 - You have taken on a couple of existing characters. 159 00:05:55.260 --> 00:05:57.780 One is Mac Gopher. 160 00:05:57.780 --> 00:05:58.613 - Oh my God. 161 00:05:58.613 --> 00:05:59.488 - Which existed. 162 00:05:59.488 --> 00:06:00.321 - Yeah! 163 00:06:00.321 --> 00:06:02.412 - And then has a whole new sort of storyline. 164 00:06:02.412 --> 00:06:03.245 - He has. 165 00:06:03.245 --> 00:06:05.080 - Like has a whole new what's going on. 166 00:06:05.080 --> 00:06:07.636 Can you talk about your awareness of that character going in 167 00:06:07.636 --> 00:06:10.890 and, and where you've taken him since. 168 00:06:10.890 --> 00:06:13.210 - When I was a kid, Mac and Tosh, 169 00:06:13.210 --> 00:06:15.800 as you suggested, were secondary, 170 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:18.130 almost tertiary characters at Warner Brothers. 171 00:06:18.130 --> 00:06:19.806 Then when the Looney Tunes came back, 172 00:06:19.806 --> 00:06:22.530 they brought Jess Harnell and yours truly in 173 00:06:22.530 --> 00:06:23.968 to be Mac and Tosh. 174 00:06:23.968 --> 00:06:26.800 I think I was Mac, if I'm not mistaken. 175 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:28.350 And of course he was very prissy. 176 00:06:28.350 --> 00:06:30.230 He was very much like, oh dear. 177 00:06:30.230 --> 00:06:32.640 He reminded me an awful lot like my dear friend 178 00:06:32.640 --> 00:06:36.420 who's gone on to that large planet in the sky, 179 00:06:36.420 --> 00:06:38.880 Jonathan Harris, if you guys ever used to watch 180 00:06:38.880 --> 00:06:40.460 a show called Lost In Space. 181 00:06:40.460 --> 00:06:42.950 And so I stole that from Jonathan. 182 00:06:42.950 --> 00:06:43.990 And put it up here. 183 00:06:43.990 --> 00:06:44.967 Ooh, no! 184 00:06:44.967 --> 00:06:47.040 Come along Mac, come along Tosh. 185 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:49.950 We going to go to sing and we're going to go outside. 186 00:06:49.950 --> 00:06:50.837 We're going to go on a picnic 187 00:06:50.837 --> 00:06:52.990 and we're going to share each other's joy. 188 00:06:52.990 --> 00:06:53.823 Oh, it was great stuff. 189 00:06:53.823 --> 00:06:55.622 - Great sea snork's ghost! 190 00:06:55.622 --> 00:06:58.013 I can't believe my eyes. 191 00:06:59.781 --> 00:07:01.247 I can't believe it! 192 00:07:01.247 --> 00:07:04.350 All my friends are criminals! 193 00:07:04.350 --> 00:07:08.819 - You were in a couple very popular series in the '80s. 194 00:07:08.819 --> 00:07:12.341 You were in Gummy Bears and you were in The Snorks. 195 00:07:12.341 --> 00:07:13.418 - Oh my God, yes! 196 00:07:13.418 --> 00:07:16.023 Snorks, which was basically Smurfs under water. 197 00:07:16.023 --> 00:07:16.856 - Yeah. 198 00:07:16.856 --> 00:07:19.530 I didn't realize growing up that it was also Belgian, 199 00:07:19.530 --> 00:07:20.720 which is, you know, Smurfs. 200 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:21.553 - I know! 201 00:07:21.553 --> 00:07:23.660 - So what do you remember about doing those? 202 00:07:23.660 --> 00:07:25.050 And I guess kind of one quick, 203 00:07:25.050 --> 00:07:26.860 when you said like not much has changed in animation, 204 00:07:26.860 --> 00:07:29.172 like I know a lot of people are recording from their homes, 205 00:07:29.172 --> 00:07:32.000 like how has the experience changed? 206 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:32.930 I guess overall. 207 00:07:32.930 --> 00:07:37.100 - Until the, the circumstances we have now came around, 208 00:07:37.100 --> 00:07:38.190 I was going to work every day 209 00:07:38.190 --> 00:07:42.690 just like I did in the '80s and '90s and 2000s and teens. 210 00:07:42.690 --> 00:07:44.250 I really do miss everybody. 211 00:07:44.250 --> 00:07:48.340 I, I like the convenience of this, but I'm an old dog. 212 00:07:48.340 --> 00:07:50.560 I like being around the other actors. 213 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:53.361 It's, as you can imagine, a blast 214 00:07:53.361 --> 00:07:57.963 to be around people who are so freaking talented. 215 00:07:59.100 --> 00:08:00.360 And they're all my best friends. 216 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:02.100 I mean, I've known these people for, 217 00:08:02.100 --> 00:08:03.800 in some cases 40 years. 218 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:06.550 My process, I'm saying, hasn't changed at all. 219 00:08:06.550 --> 00:08:10.224 The ability to animate things pretty quickly, 220 00:08:10.224 --> 00:08:12.170 get them out there. 221 00:08:12.170 --> 00:08:14.410 People who animate at home with programs 222 00:08:14.410 --> 00:08:16.104 and create stuff like this 223 00:08:16.104 --> 00:08:19.340 with people all around the globe and put it on YouTube, 224 00:08:19.340 --> 00:08:21.110 that's all changed a lot. 225 00:08:21.110 --> 00:08:22.480 And obviously, as I said earlier, 226 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:24.550 the way in which we consume entertainment 227 00:08:24.550 --> 00:08:26.251 with all these platforms. 228 00:08:26.251 --> 00:08:28.250 But my process is no different. 229 00:08:28.250 --> 00:08:30.480 I've spent, I'm an actor, this time 230 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:32.420 it just happens to be voice acting, 231 00:08:32.420 --> 00:08:33.920 which is small V large A. 232 00:08:33.920 --> 00:08:35.130 And it's all about acting. 233 00:08:35.130 --> 00:08:36.781 And I and virtually everybody I know 234 00:08:36.781 --> 00:08:40.593 grew up doing stage and music and TV and movies. 235 00:08:40.593 --> 00:08:42.970 And the process for me is no different. 236 00:08:42.970 --> 00:08:45.470 I just don't have to worry about makeup. 237 00:08:45.470 --> 00:08:46.303 - Yeah. 238 00:08:46.303 --> 00:08:47.700 I recently talked to Bill Farmer, you know, who does. 239 00:08:47.700 --> 00:08:48.550 - Oh, Goofy. 240 00:08:48.550 --> 00:08:49.430 - Yeah. 241 00:08:49.430 --> 00:08:50.940 And he was saying, 242 00:08:50.940 --> 00:08:54.049 when he took a class with Daws Butler, 243 00:08:54.049 --> 00:08:56.110 that Daws Butler was like, 244 00:08:56.110 --> 00:08:59.840 no, you're an actor first, like capital A actor. 245 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:00.673 - He's right. 246 00:09:00.673 --> 00:09:01.506 - Not just voices, 247 00:09:01.506 --> 00:09:02.600 and that's always the advice 248 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:05.000 he gives aspiring voice artists. 249 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:05.833 - Yes. 250 00:09:05.833 --> 00:09:09.205 And you picked a stellar example. 251 00:09:09.205 --> 00:09:12.561 ♪ Stand out above the crowd ♪ 252 00:09:12.561 --> 00:09:15.286 ♪ Even if you've got to shout out loud ♪ 253 00:09:15.286 --> 00:09:17.889 ♪ No matter what you look it's Max ♪ 254 00:09:17.889 --> 00:09:18.722 - Max! 255 00:09:18.722 --> 00:09:21.128 - That is an excellent movie. 256 00:09:21.128 --> 00:09:23.110 I know that sounds silly. 257 00:09:23.110 --> 00:09:24.570 But all this time went by 258 00:09:24.570 --> 00:09:28.180 and we did this reunion for A Goofy Movie. 259 00:09:28.180 --> 00:09:31.300 Oh my God, people love that movie. 260 00:09:31.300 --> 00:09:34.572 And that dynamic between Max and Goofy, 261 00:09:34.572 --> 00:09:39.280 Jason Marsden and Billy Farmer respectively, is fantastic. 262 00:09:39.280 --> 00:09:42.230 Bill is a terrific actor. 263 00:09:42.230 --> 00:09:45.180 There are moments in that movie that are really touching, 264 00:09:45.180 --> 00:09:47.070 especially if you're a parent, 265 00:09:47.070 --> 00:09:51.860 and Billy is an excellent actor. 266 00:09:51.860 --> 00:09:55.030 And as you mentioned, he got to study at the feet, 267 00:09:55.030 --> 00:09:56.560 or the vocal chords of the master 268 00:09:56.560 --> 00:09:59.330 with Nancy Cartwright and Corey Burton. 269 00:09:59.330 --> 00:10:04.330 They were all in Mr. Butler's class for 10 bucks. 270 00:10:04.375 --> 00:10:05.772 (laughing) 271 00:10:05.772 --> 00:10:08.940 And he would drive you home too, if you didn't have a car. 272 00:10:08.940 --> 00:10:11.130 I mean, it's, nice bunch of people. 273 00:10:11.130 --> 00:10:14.780 - Speaking of, I guess studying at like the heels of giants 274 00:10:14.780 --> 00:10:17.330 is that you were in Rockin' With Judy Jetson. 275 00:10:17.330 --> 00:10:18.969 - Oh my God. - The TV movie, 1988. 276 00:10:18.969 --> 00:10:21.714 ♪ Bleep blorp fleeble flabble, zip zop zam ♪ 277 00:10:21.714 --> 00:10:23.148 ♪ Gleep glorp fleeble flabble ♪ 278 00:10:23.148 --> 00:10:26.240 - That, that that that's not my song! 279 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:28.523 - I wonder what language he's singing it in. 280 00:10:30.963 --> 00:10:33.870 ♪ Hidey hodey heebie jeebie yeah yeah ♪ 281 00:10:33.870 --> 00:10:36.964 - All star cast, all the original Jetsons. 282 00:10:36.964 --> 00:10:37.797 - Yeah. 283 00:10:37.797 --> 00:10:39.783 - You had Mel Blanc. 284 00:10:39.783 --> 00:10:42.450 What do you remember about making that project 285 00:10:42.450 --> 00:10:45.470 and about playing Sky Rocker? 286 00:10:45.470 --> 00:10:47.430 - Sky Rocker, Judy Jetson's boyfriend. 287 00:10:47.430 --> 00:10:48.263 You know what? 288 00:10:48.263 --> 00:10:50.370 Here's what I remember sadly the most, 289 00:10:50.370 --> 00:10:52.460 is that you're almost correct. 290 00:10:52.460 --> 00:10:54.010 All the original characters are in it, 291 00:10:54.010 --> 00:10:58.383 including George O'Hanlon who played George Jetson, who was, 292 00:10:59.645 --> 00:11:01.909 who passed away not long after that. 293 00:11:01.909 --> 00:11:04.310 He was in his 80s I believe, as was Mr. Blanc, 294 00:11:04.310 --> 00:11:06.010 or very close to it. 295 00:11:06.010 --> 00:11:08.970 But the one character they replaced 296 00:11:08.970 --> 00:11:11.720 with a celebrity of the moment was Judy Jetson. 297 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:16.123 And Janet Waldo was replaced by the production company 298 00:11:16.123 --> 00:11:18.183 or by the producers with, 299 00:11:18.183 --> 00:11:22.394 the sort of Christina Aguilera of the time was Tiffany. 300 00:11:22.394 --> 00:11:25.950 And she was a pop singer who was very popular. 301 00:11:25.950 --> 00:11:28.790 If I had been she, I'd have taken the gig too. 302 00:11:28.790 --> 00:11:31.170 It was a huge mistake, I believe, 303 00:11:31.170 --> 00:11:32.780 for the producers to do that. 304 00:11:32.780 --> 00:11:34.490 We all knew it at the time 305 00:11:34.490 --> 00:11:38.200 and it broke Janet Waldo's heart. 306 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.930 You know, she was totally capable of doing the gig. 307 00:11:41.930 --> 00:11:44.170 She was maybe in her 50s or 60s, 308 00:11:44.170 --> 00:11:47.887 you can do this gig till you die, pretty much. 309 00:11:47.887 --> 00:11:49.520 You know, as long as I can do this, 310 00:11:49.520 --> 00:11:51.410 nobody cares what I look like. 311 00:11:51.410 --> 00:11:54.369 And Janet could, it was really heartbreaking. 312 00:11:54.369 --> 00:11:57.280 The experience was great until that happened. 313 00:11:57.280 --> 00:11:59.720 Oh and by the way, I did get to work with Mel Blanc once. 314 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:01.147 I mean, next to him. 315 00:12:01.147 --> 00:12:02.700 And that was remarkable. 316 00:12:02.700 --> 00:12:05.257 I, like everybody who has a pulse, 317 00:12:05.257 --> 00:12:07.050 grew up loving Mr. Blanc. 318 00:12:07.050 --> 00:12:10.120 And I said, Mr. Blanc, if it's not too much trouble, 319 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:10.953 would you? 320 00:12:10.953 --> 00:12:11.930 And he knew exactly what I wanted. 321 00:12:11.930 --> 00:12:12.763 So he looks and he says, 322 00:12:12.763 --> 00:12:14.170 "Eh, what's up Doc?" 323 00:12:14.170 --> 00:12:15.933 And oh my God, it just, 324 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:20.405 it was exactly what you would imagine. 325 00:12:20.405 --> 00:12:21.610 Mind-blowing. 326 00:12:21.610 --> 00:12:23.030 And he was just a delight. 327 00:12:23.030 --> 00:12:23.863 - Now you'd be like, 328 00:12:23.863 --> 00:12:26.242 can you please record a voice message on my telephone? 329 00:12:26.242 --> 00:12:27.075 - Totally. 330 00:12:27.075 --> 00:12:28.195 You know what? 331 00:12:28.195 --> 00:12:32.080 If cell phones were around at that time, I'm pretty old, 332 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:32.913 I would have. 333 00:12:32.913 --> 00:12:35.100 Because it happens to me all the time. 334 00:12:35.100 --> 00:12:35.933 You know, I'll say like, 335 00:12:35.933 --> 00:12:38.520 "Hello, you've reached Rob's answering phone, this is Pinky. 336 00:12:38.520 --> 00:12:39.837 Leave a message, he'll call you right back. 337 00:12:39.837 --> 00:12:41.320 Unless of course he owes you money, 338 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:43.070 in which case you'll never hear from him again. 339 00:12:43.070 --> 00:12:44.070 Goodbye! Narf." 340 00:12:44.070 --> 00:12:45.700 That happens all the time. 341 00:12:45.700 --> 00:12:46.533 And I love it. 342 00:12:46.533 --> 00:12:48.940 - You've done a thousand something commercials. 343 00:12:48.940 --> 00:12:49.773 - Yeah. 344 00:12:49.773 --> 00:12:52.061 - I guess most notably is you were in the Aaron Burr. 345 00:12:52.061 --> 00:12:53.880 - Oh my God, got milk, yeah. 346 00:12:53.880 --> 00:12:55.829 - [Announcer] Today's $10,000 question. 347 00:12:55.829 --> 00:12:56.931 It's a tough one. 348 00:12:56.931 --> 00:13:00.880 Who shot Alexander Hamilton in that famous duel? 349 00:13:00.880 --> 00:13:02.329 (gun blasting) 350 00:13:02.329 --> 00:13:04.470 (muffled speaking) 351 00:13:04.470 --> 00:13:05.333 Excuse me? 352 00:13:05.333 --> 00:13:06.540 - What was cool about that 353 00:13:06.540 --> 00:13:08.810 is not only was it the first commercial that, 354 00:13:08.810 --> 00:13:10.843 that was a remarkably successful campaign, 355 00:13:10.843 --> 00:13:13.013 Michael Bay directed that commercial. 356 00:13:14.582 --> 00:13:17.530 And so a bunch of us went on to do other things. 357 00:13:17.530 --> 00:13:19.780 Sean did a lot of TV and movies, 358 00:13:19.780 --> 00:13:20.920 I do wacky voices 359 00:13:20.920 --> 00:13:23.478 and Michael Bay is a multi zillionaire director. 360 00:13:23.478 --> 00:13:25.240 (laughing) So we've all moved on, 361 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:26.670 some of us a little higher than others, 362 00:13:26.670 --> 00:13:29.870 but yeah, that was a pretty remarkable thing to be part of. 363 00:13:29.870 --> 00:13:32.690 Oh, and then another one that people may not know, 364 00:13:32.690 --> 00:13:36.090 there was a series of commercials throughout the 2000s, 365 00:13:36.090 --> 00:13:40.060 a little animated guy named Mr. Opportunity for Honda. 366 00:13:40.060 --> 00:13:41.660 - You got any room for mine? 367 00:13:41.660 --> 00:13:42.493 - Sure do. 368 00:13:42.493 --> 00:13:43.326 - Nice. 369 00:13:43.326 --> 00:13:45.280 That hidden in-bed trunk is really cool. 370 00:13:45.280 --> 00:13:46.410 - A lot of different commercials 371 00:13:46.410 --> 00:13:50.277 for everything from snack foods to Hondas. 372 00:13:50.277 --> 00:13:52.180 - And the, Cheers. 373 00:13:52.180 --> 00:13:53.060 - Cheers, right. 374 00:13:53.060 --> 00:13:55.230 God bless you, you really are good. 375 00:13:55.230 --> 00:13:57.060 I did all the Cheers promos, yeah. 376 00:13:57.060 --> 00:13:58.920 And when they went into syndication, there was what, 377 00:13:58.920 --> 00:14:01.490 eight or nine years of Cheers promos. 378 00:14:01.490 --> 00:14:03.780 So it'd be, coming up next time on Cheers. 379 00:14:03.780 --> 00:14:08.500 Sam really goes the distance with Diane, Thursday on Cheers. 380 00:14:08.500 --> 00:14:10.810 Yeah, that was, gosh, a lot of that stuff. 381 00:14:10.810 --> 00:14:12.470 Boy, you really are good, kiddo. 382 00:14:12.470 --> 00:14:15.240 My friend, you are talking to somebody who won the lottery. 383 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:17.264 I get paid American dollars 384 00:14:17.264 --> 00:14:20.450 to do what used to get me in trouble in seventh grade. 385 00:14:20.450 --> 00:14:22.800 And the best part of it is that I know, 386 00:14:22.800 --> 00:14:25.069 I know how fortunate I am. 387 00:14:25.069 --> 00:14:27.229 Thank you very much for taking the time to 388 00:14:27.229 --> 00:14:30.333 talk with all of us who's banging around in my cabeza.