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ADDED JAN 22, 2004 @11:45am:

No longer rumor. Now tis fact.

Boy Howdy! Dick was also one of the street performers in the Fred Travalena show "Anything for Money".

And how can we forget about Pat Sajak's wacky turn as himself on "Rugrats"? The episode in question, "Chuckie is Rich", had him traveling to the Finster house to give away a $10 million PCH-style grand prize. "Don't you know who I am, Mr. Finster? I'm famous TV game show host Pat Sajak!"

Lynde was also the nosy neighbor Claude Pertwee in a H-B series called "Where's Huddles", which also featured football play-by-play on every show by a guy named Dick Enberg ("Sports Challenge", "3 for the Money" and "Baffle").

That Simpsons episode is Miracle on Evergreen Terrace, a parody of "It's a Wonderful Life".

Regis Philbin also appeared on the Simpsons, as one of the few people seen live (and not drawn). Philbin's cameo is in Treehouse of Horrors IX, in the skit where a radioactive remote control literally puts Bart and Lisa in the TV, and they end up falling into the set of Live with Regis and Katie Lee.

I'm surprised you forgot Bill Cosby, host of the You Bet Your Life revival; he did the voice of Fat Albert.

And Inspector Gadget, as well.

Isn't Jim the voice of Winnie-The-Pooh (or, as someone once called him on FF, Willie-The-Pooh)?

Doug

I am appaled that Gary Owens's name can come up in a thread about cartoon voiceover talent, and his fine work as Powdered Toast Man on Ren & Stimpy isn't mentioned.

Can the same be said for Dick Clark in another episode of "Futurama"?

Yeah, Dick Clark's preserved head was on the first episode of Futurama, hosting New Year's Rockin' Eve.

Here's more...

John O'Hurley provided the voice of a cult leader in an early episode of Family Guy.

Ben Stein played a semi-recurring character on Duckman and the voice of a rabbi in the unaired episode of Family Guy.

I first heard Ben Stein's voice in an episode of Animaniacs, where he played a droning man who Yakko, Wakko, and Dot try (in vain) to get away from. One major nitpick to the writers: the character mentioned he once saw Bob Barker eat a baloney and cheesepuff sandwich. Barker wouldn't touch one of those in real life. (I wouldn't either, but for a different reason.)

Hmm, I didn't think Jim and Brian Cummings were related. On that note, I recall Brian and Jo Anne Worley (not a host per se, but a frequent panelist) were both in the voice cast of the mid-80s Disney cartoon The Wuzzles.

Ob80sCartoons: How could Gary Owens and Garfield and Friends be mentioned in the same post without pointing out that it was none other than Gary who intoned at the start of every show: "Ladies and gentleman, Garfield and Friends!"?

I thought you were leaving this forum and never coming back.

Guess I shoulda looked this up earlier. The voice of Winnie-The-Pooh spells his last name C-U-M-M-I-N-S (no G toward the end). That doesn't necessarily preclude them from being related, but it stands to reason that they're probably not.

Doug

Does your local bookshop have any remedial English books? Last I checked, one doesn't "decide to get a third chance". One can "take a chance", or others can "give you a chance".

None of which is really relevant here - your account is still open, and you decided to go back on your word and post here again. If you can get your "English problems" under control, most probably won't have a problem with that.

I don't know where you're getting the "Cummins" spelling. Google brings up that spelling only on a very small handful of clearly amateur web sites. It's definitely "Cummings". Here's a site with his autograph, and the "g" is clearly visible:

http://www.voicechasers.org/Actors/J_Cummings.html

I got it from this:

One of the smaller residents of the 100 Acre Woods finally gets his moment in the spotlight in this animated feature, based on the characters created by A.A. Milne. As Winnie the Pooh (voice of Jim Cummins) and his pals Tigger (also voiced by Cummins), Rabbit (voice of Ken Sansom), and Eeyore (voice of Peter Cullen) set out to harvest honey from the hives in the forest, Piglet (voice of John Fiedler) is told he's too small to come along. Feeling like he often gets the short end of the stick, Piglet decides to strike out on his own, and when the honey hunters return, they can't find their friend -- only his scrapbooks of their adventures of the past. As they look through the books, Winnie and his pals realize just how much their friend means to them, and how much they've taken him for granted. They set out to find Piglet and ask him to come home, and along the way the little pig makes a big difference when his pals need him. Piglet's Big Movie includes several new songs from singer and songwriter Carly Simon. Mark Deming

That came from Barnes & Noble's site, with the review taken from All-Movie Guide. I'm also pretty sure I've seen a number of references in TV GUIDE without the "G".

However, the site you linked appears to be much more reputable. I'd say it's more likely that I'm wrong (add it up to the 814 other times it's happened ;) ).

Doug

Only 814?! Well, that's one more thing you're wrong about! j/k Seriously, according to The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, Second Edition, it is Cummings with a G. In fact, in the late-80s and early-90s, Cummings was pretty much the go-to VO for Disney the way (ObGS) Johnny Olson was for Goodson-Todman.

I was only counting the last three hours. If you add the rest of my time on this board, it's closer to 951 mistakes. :)

Doug

Not a host per se? Not a host at all.
I don't eat Shredded Wheat per se. I don't eat Shredded Wheat at all.

And he was also King Neptune in an episode of "SpongeBob SquarePants".

I don't think that was necessarily a nitpick -- maybe that character was trying to dig up some dirt on Bob, catching him not praticing what he preaches.

And, I don't believe this has been mentioned yet but, Dick Clark also did his own voice in the 10th Simpsons Halloween Special ("Treehouse of Horror X"). You know, the one where he does his New Year's Rockin' Eve from Springfield instead of Times Square.....when suddenly the Y2K bug causes all the computers to crash (and we discover he's really a robot)!

Going back to "Rugrats", he was also contestant "Edmund Haynes" in "Game Show Didi", the episode where the aforementioned Alex Trebek voiced a game show host.

We need to come up with a Sniglet for the act of referring someone to a crap Geocities website only to have it promptly careen over quota.

I think you've mixed two episoes:

On one, the Jetsons go on a quiz show ("Family Fallout") and wind up playing against George's boss' family, and after two or three tie games, wind up winning a new food gadget thing.

On the other, Elroy concocts some weird plant thing that makes Astro a genius. After proving it's not a fluke, George goes on the quiz show "Brainbusters" with Astro in tow. It's a caricature of "The $64,000 Question", the isolation booth, tough questions, the whole bit. Astro leads George to $500,000 and he decides to risk it all for the million bucks. At that point, Elroy's plant goes back to normal; and Astro loses his intelligence. They miss the $1 million question, and the consolation one for $250,000; and go home, where everything is back to normal. The host on this one was indeed Wink Martiandale; I don't recall for the other one.

I am absolutely shocked that I remember this from the days when I would watch cartoons before the school bus showed up.

Travis Eberle

This might lead to another oddball question: Did anyone ever manage to find a station airing pre-9AM EST game shows in their 1st-12th grade school days(Kindergarten days with afternoon half day sessions don't count), before they went to school.

Yes, Zach, and I'm surprised you didn't think of this one, although maybe it's not one of the answers you are looking for...

I believe WWOR-TV 9 used to air "Family Feud" first-run at 6am weekdays when I was a senior in HS...

KTRK aired Jr. Almost Anything Goes (Soupy Sales) Mondays @ 6:30 CST from 1976-77.