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[bestofanimaniacs]

WE'RE ANIMANEY, "POLL"TALLY INSANEY, THESE BRACKETS ARE A REAL SHAMEY...ANIMANIACS!

Calling all Yakko stans, Wakko kinnies, and Dot loyalists...

We're officially in Round Two of the Animaniacs Best Character Poll (abc poll)! Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and Brain have all been added to the roster and I have the feeling things are going to heat up and all my predictions will go further out the window.

Polls open today (Thursday, 3/16) at 9am CST. Happy voting!

Reblogging, tagging, commenting, liking, and friendly competition are encouraged! The ask box and submissions page are open if you need a space to lament the loss of your favs from Round 1 (yes I'm still reeling over Mr. Skullhead, I didn't put him in the poll just to lose) or to hype up your fav in Round 2 (I wanna know exactly why Squit is the best and should take it all!).

Links to the polls under cut

Round 2:

Bracket 1 -

Yakko vs. Runt

Hello Nurse vs. Minerva Mink

Bracket 2 -

Wakko vs. Rita

Slappy vs. Skippy

Bracket 3 -

Brain vs. Colin

Pinky vs. Buttons

Bracket 4 -

Dot vs. Squit Dr. Scratchansniff vs. Pesto

Round 1: Winners have been bolded.

Bracket 1 -

Runt vs Mr. Skullhead

Hello Nurse vs Mr. Director

Minerva Mink vs Chicken Boo

Bracket 2 -

Wheel of Morality vs Rita

Slappy Squirrel vs Mime

Skippy Squirrel vs Bobby

Bracket 3 -

Thaddeus Plotz vs. Colin (Randy Beaman Kid)

Pinky vs Marita Hippo

Buttons Vs Katie Ka-boom

Bracket 4 -

Ralph the Guard vs Squit

Dr. Scratchansniff vs Flavio Hippo

Mindy vs Pesto

[assistant-honcho]

one time ok so one time Randy Beaman's cousin was doing a slap bracelet and the plastic part broke and the metal part sliced open his artery and when he saw the blood he was so freaked out that he fainted.

ok bye

You know that feature on Animaniacs where the little boy comes out of his house and tells a story?

So anyway, one time, okay see, so one time I found a container of prunes in the kitchen and I tried one and I liked them so I ate the rest of the container of prunes and then I spent the rest of the day on the toilet and my mom was mad because she bought the prunes because she wanted to be on the toilet, that was the point of buying them

Okay bye

[mryaksalot]

Animaniacs' obscure ensemble cast

Recently, I conducted a poll asking fellow fans if they believed Animaniacs underutilized their ensemble characters. It turns out a majority of you believe that each ensamble character recieved an appropriate amount of screen time, with only 21.1% of people saying that these characters were underutilized.

It is definetly a noteable question, seeing how their are so many characters within the Animaniacs universe, with so many obscure one offs that have seemed to be forgotten throughout the years.

Who are these characters? And why were they forgotten?

Most casual fans know The Warners and Pinky and The Brain. If you've seen the original 1993 run of the show, you will know about Slappy the squirell, Mr Skullhead, The Goodfeathers. If you've done a little more digging, you might have seen or heard of Rita and Runt, Mindy and Buttons, or The Mime.

Then there are those one offs that only the hardcore fans will know about. Characters such as Minerva Mink, Katie Kaboom, Chicken Boo, and those godforsaken Hip Hippos.

And then, there is the most obscure character that appears in Animaniacs by far. The Flame.

I garentee if you mention this character to a casual fan (especially one who hasn't seen the original), they will have no idea what you are talking about.

Now how has the show gone about featuring all of these characters?

Despite having a vast amount of characters at their disposal, Animaniacs(1993) tends to push three segments: Warner segments, Pinky and The Brain segments, and Slappy segments. The rest of the cast and their segments are only featured part of the time, with Rita And Runt, Mr Skullhead, and Buttons and Mindy making the most frequent apperences of these characters.

Sadly, as the show went on, many of these one off characters I mentioned were pushed to the side, in favor of The Warners and Slappy appearing more often. Pinky and The Brain got their own show, so obviously they were popular. These one offs characters were being used less and less. It's no wonder why much of Animaniacs' ensamble cast has been forgotten as time went on.

I think much of the reason why these obscure one offs seemed to disapear from the show has to due to their story potential. Yakko, Wakko, and Dot can be put into several diffrent scenerios; their dynamic and comedic style makes for a memorable and entertaining episode. There is only so many stories you can make with The Mime, for example, whose segments consist of him getting hurt over and over again.

The same goes for Minerva Mink, who only starred in two segments of her own. Her segments are solely based on her getting ganged up by a bunch of men attracted to her. There is only so many times you can use that same plot before it gets stale.

Now you may be asking to yourself: If I were a writer for Animaniacs, what would I do to fix this issue? How would I write for these one off characters?

A very simple solution, in my opinion, would be to do more crossover episodes. You could have Slappy be in a Warner segment, Buttons and Mindy could co-star in a Rita and Runt segment, The Goodfeathers could fly into a Mime segment and poop on his face or something. There is a ton of scenerios you could make by mixing these characters together.

There are some instances of crossovers occuring in the show. There was an episode where Chicken Boo got married to Ralph The Gaurd, and Minerva's infamous cameo in the episode 'Hurclue Yakko', which also starred The Hip Hippos I should add.

But I think the best example of characters crossing over in Animaniacs(1993) was in the season 3 finale, during the song 'Big Wrap Party'. The song features all of the ensemble characters throughout the show, and what food their eating at The Warners big wrap party. Everyone gets a shout out in this: Slappy, Chicken Boo, Hip Hippos, even that weird Randy Beaman kid sitting with Skippy at a table.

Despite these one off's being mostly forgotten nowadays, I can only appreciate the effort the writer's went through in creating such a large range of characters. And while some were pushed to the side in favor of The Warners, it's such a joy when these characters do show up. Who dosen't love a good ensemble cast?

[joslincox]

Children Voicing Children in Cartoons

101 Dalmatian Street: A large majority of the Puppies are voiced by actual children.

Abby Hatcher: Many of the Fuzzlies and human child characters are voiced by kids.

Adventure Time:

Twelve-year-old Finn is voiced by Jeremy Shada, who was 12 when recording first began. Time passes over the show's history, so Finn's voice deepened with his voice actor's... until a certain point, since Finn definitely does not sound anything like Lance at this point.

In Alma's Way, some of the child characters are voiced by children.

In Alice's Wonderland Bakery, Alice, Fergie, Hattie, and Rosa are all voiced by child actors.

The Amazing World of Gumball has all three Watterson children voiced by actual kids in some point or another:

Gumball and Darwin are 12 and 10, respectively, and were initially cast by actors about the same age. After three years of production, during which both had their voices noticeably deepen, they were recast by actors who were four years younger at the beginning of the third season. About three years later, both characters had their voices changed again partway into the fifth season. Finally, Darwin's voice actor changed again early in the sixth season, less than a year later. Their voice changes always happen in the middle of an episode, much to the characters' confusion.

Anais was also cast with a child voice actor, albeit one who started five years older than the character, because finding an actual 4-year-old who can talk like a Child Prodigy would be extremely difficult. Since her voice hasn't changed as much, the same voice actress has played Anais well into her teens.

In Amphibia, Sprig is voiced by Justin Felbinger, who was 17 at the time of the show's premiere.

Animaniacs: Skippy Squirrel was voiced by Nathan Ruegger, the then-preteen son of show writer Tom Ruegger. As he started going through puberty near the end of the show, his voice was noticeably electronically altered to attempt to maintain his prepubescent tone.

The Flame was voiced by Nate's younger brother, Luke, who would also voice Loud Kiddington in Histeria!.

The semi-recurring character of Little Blue Bird was voiced by Nate and Luke's younger brother, Cody, who would go on to voice Big Fat Baby in Histeria!.

Also, the Randy Beaman Kid was voiced by Colin Wells, the then-preteen son of writer/producer Deanna Oliver.

Arthur: Numerous young male characters have been voiced by actual boys, including the title character. Oddly enough, D.W. has always been voiced by pre-pubescent young boys as well. Arthur, D.W., The Brain, George, the Tibble Twins and several other younger boy characters have been recast numerous times throughout the show's 24-year run. An exception goes to Buster, whose voice actor Daniel Brochu was 26 years old when the show began.

Avatar: The Last Airbender:

Aang is voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen, who was twelve at the time of the show's start. Another main character, Toph Bei Fong, is voiced by Jessie Flower, who turned twelve the same year her character was introduced. Any other kids their age or younger are voiced by children of the same gender and approximate age, and most teenagers are played by same gender voice actors that are usually at least a bit older (for instance, Katara is 14 and is voiced by Mae Whitman, who was 15 years old at the time, and Sokka is 15 and is voiced by Jack DeSena, who was 18 when the show started). The exceptions are Suki and Zuko, whose voice actors Jennie Kwan and Dante Basco were in their 30s.

An interview reveals that the series creators "really wanted" a real kid to play Aang, rather than Cross-Dressing Voices, and that as Eisen's voice has been deepening, the show's sound people have been artificially pitching it up, without the creators even noticing.

Atomic Betty: The titular character was voiced by an actual girl around her age, Tajja Isen. Averted with other child characters however, who are all voiced by adults.

In virtually all Animated Adaptations of Babar, the title character's four children, Pom, Flora, Alexander, and Isabelle, are all voiced by actual kids. Likewise, stories set during Babar's childhood have him voiced by an actual kid too, along with Celeste (who was voiced by a young Tara Strong in the first 2 seasons of the Nelvana series) and Arthur. Same goes with the kids in the Sequel Series Babar and the Adventures of Badou.

Beetlejuice: Then 14-year-old Alyson Court voiced Lydia, who was not much younger. Court had also voiced other child characters during this time, such as Veronica Lodge on The New Archies. Fellow Canadian voice artist Tara Charendoff (today Tara Strong) was 15 when she voiced Beetlejuice characters Claire Brewster and Bertha, but she can still knock a child character voice out of the park today.

Court also voiced Emily Elizabeth in the 80's Clifford the Big Red Dog Direct to Video specials in one of her first voice-acting roles.

The Berenstain Bears (2003): Brother and Sister are voiced by kids. While Sister kept her voice throughout that show's run, Brother went through two voice actors, one of them being Michael Cera.

The child characters of Bluey are voiced by children of the program's production crew and are not credited as voice performers.

The Boondocks: Jazmine DuBois was voiced by Gabriela Soleil, who was about 10 years old (same age as her character) when the show began.

The child characters in Bubble Guppies, as well as some of the animals, are voiced by actual kids.

In the German dub of the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny" actual children voiced the child versions of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, who in the original version were voiced by the then 72-year-old Mel Blanc.

The eponymous character of Caillou, as well as his little sister Rosie, have both been voiced by children, with Caillou's voice always being provided by girls.

Captain Flamingo: Some of the child characters including Lizbeth, Max, Rutger, Owen-Only, Tabitha and Thor were all voiced by actual children. Averted with the rest, including the title character himself, who are voiced by adults.

Charlie, Lola and all the characters on Charlie and Lola are voiced by actual children. Although the children refer to adults, even asking them questions, no adult voices are ever heard.

The Chicken Squad: Coop, Sweetie and Little Boo are voiced by kids.

Chowder: The title character, Panini, Gorgonzola, and Ceviche are all voiced by children. By the final season Chowder's voice was several times deeper than it originally had been due to his voice actor hitting puberty.

The Christmas Tree is a good example of how this can backfire. The child characters seem to be voiced by actual five- and six-year-old kids with little to no voice direction. The result is a lot of mumbling, slurring and bad acting. Bizarrely averted with one child who is clearly voiced by someone much older and sounds entirely out of place from the rest of the kids. Another one has an oddly distorted voice, possibly indicating that child was also voiced by someone older, and the voice sped up to try and hide this.

The US and UK Dubs of Chuggington both feature actual children and teenagers as the voices of the trainees as well as many other young characters.

younger than college age was voiced by a boy. Save a small bit, Tim Drake's laugh-to-crying as Joker Junior in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, which was provided by the show's voice director.

DC Super Hero Girls: Lilly Aspell voices a young Diana. Aspell was cast because she played the same role physically in the DC Extended Universe Wonder Woman films.

The kids in City of Ghosts are voiced by child actors.

Out of the mostly adult cast of Clarence, only few of the child characters were voiced by minors. The most notable example of this is Jeff, who was voiced by the then-teenaged Sean Giambrone and as such experienced a change in voice when the actor hit puberty.

Classical Baby uses appropriately aged children to voice any child characters.

On Clue Club (a 1976 Scooby-Doo expy from Hanna-Barbera), 13-year-old Dotty was voiced by then 11-year-old Tara Talboy.

Dennis the Menace: Brennan Thicke voiced the title character. He was 10 when the first season was in production and 12 during the second.

All-New Dennis the Menace stars Adam Wylie, then 9 years old, as Dennis.

Cruise Control features Walter Cronkite's grandson Peter (also 9 at the time) as Dennis.

Dink, the Little Dinosaur: Dink, Amber and Shyler were all voiced by children.

Dinosaur Train: Buddy, Don, Tiny and Shiny were all voiced by actual children. While Tiny and Shiny kept their voices throughout the show, Buddy had four voice actors and Don had two voice actors.

Chris Nee's two series, Doc McStuffins and Vampirina, have child actors also. The former's title character had two voice actresses, both of whom were 12-13 when starting out. The latter's title character is voiced by a 12-year-old girl.

Dorg Van Dango: Thirteen-year-old Dorg Van Dango is voiced by thirteen-year-old Chance Hurstfield.

Dot.: Pretty much all the child characters are voiced by actual kids, including the eponymous character.

Dragon Hunters: 10-year-old Zaza was voiced by 14-year-old Annie Bovaird.

Dragon Tales: Max, Emmy and Cassie were all children or teenagers when they were voicing their characters (although Emmy's voice actress, Andrea Libman, was an adult by the time season 3 premiered).

The Dumb Bunnies: Baby Bunny and Prissy Uppity are respectively voiced by Dustin Lauzon and Rebecca Brenner, who were still young children at the time of the show's run.

Ed, Edd n Eddy: Jimmy was voiced by Keenan Christensen, who was fourteen when the show first started. Christensen then evolved his voice into a falsetto after he hit puberty.

Elinor Wonders Why: Elinor, Olive and Ari are all three voiced by kids, along with the other younger recurring characters.

Fireman Sam: While most of the kids are voiced by adults, Peter is voiced by the preteen Arthur Smith Galiano.

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Mac is voiced by Sean Marquette, who, surprisingly, was not replaced after he had gone through puberty, but instead had his voice digitally pitched up. Though it is still obvious if one compares episodes from Season 1 to episodes afterward. Marquette had also previously been on the Nicktoon Rocket Power. This example is particularly interesting when one realizes that Mac's 13-year-old brother, Terrance, is voiced by a woman (Tara Strong) even though the character has a fairly deep voice.

Franklin: Noah Reid (9-10 years old at the time the program first starting airing) was the voice of the original Franklin Turtle for the first five seasons, as well as the films Franklin and the Green Knight: The Movie and Franklin's Magic Christmas. Cole Caplan (around 12-13) replaced him for the film Back to School with Franklin and the sixth season. Cameron Ansell (14-15) voiced the character for the film Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure, and finally Graeme Jokic (13-14) was brought in for the All-CGI Cartoon spinoff Franklin and Friends. Some of the other child characters on the series were voiced by children as well.

Garbage Pail Kids Cartoon: Terri Cloth, Patty Putty, Split Kit and Elliot Mess's voice actors Alyson Court, Tara Strong, Noam Zylberman and Michael Fantini were actual children when the show was produced.

Harley Quinn (2019): Robin (Damian Wayne) is voiced by Jacob Tremblay who was 12 in the first season. Robin's voice is noticeably deeper in the fourth, as Tremblay was 16 by then even though not nearly as much time has passed on the show.

CH Greenblatt's Harvey Beaks reuses this with its main trio of Harvey, Fee and Foo, as well as all the supporting kids except Dade (who is voiced by Greenblatt himself) and Princess (voiced by Andres Salaff, one of the show's writers).

On Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater, the eponymous character was voiced by the 13-year-old Tara Charendoff, who would later go on from that first role to become more widely recognized as Tara Strong.

Hey Arnold!: Most child characters were voiced by actual children (Brainy is the exception, being voiced by show creator Craig Bartlett) and most of the boys' voice actors were replaced many times over the series run:

Arnold himself had fournote . The first actor to play Arnold (Toran Caudell) was given a new recurring role after his voice dropped, as the fifth-grade bully Wolfgang. The second Arnold (Phillip Van Dyke) made two guest appearances as One Shot Characters Sandy and Ludwig.

Gerald's voice actor (Jamil Walker Smith) is an exception. There's even an episode that explains why his voice changed, "Gerald's Tonsils". Though Smith was finally replaced when Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie was made, since he was in his thirties at that point and far too old to do a child's voice.

Hilda: Bella Ramsey voices the titular eleven-year old blue-haired adventuress.

Histeria!: Loud Kiddington and Big Fat Baby were voiced by actual children.

Jackie Chan Adventures: Jade and Paco were voiced by age appropriate actors, though their voices changed significantly as the show went on.

Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Jake, Izzy and Cubby are all three voiced by kids. Throughout the series, Jake had four voice actors and Izzy and Cubby had two voice actors and actresses.

Johnny Bravo: Little Suzy was voiced by then 8-year old Mae Whitman.

Nickelodeon's KaBlam!:

The main kids in The Off-Beats segments were voiced by young children, most notably Mischa Barton as Betty-Anne Bongo. The later episodes had several of the kids' voices sounding a bit lower, including the females (who were voiced by girls). The only adult voice actors were series creator Mo Willems (who voiced September the dog and Grubby Groo) and Kevin Seal (who provided Tommy's yelling voice.)

Both Henry and June were voiced by real kids, with Noah Segan (Henry) being twelve and Julia McIlvaine (June) being nine when they began playing the two ten-year-olds in early 1996. By the second season, Henry's voice had broken, while June's voice gradually got lower as the show went on.

Like Henry and June, Loopy and Larry from Life with Loopy were also played by real kids. And like Henry, Larry's voice broke in the second season. Danielle Judovits, who voiced Loopy, was nine when she began playing the seven-year-old protagonist in the pilot ("Goldfish Heaven") when produced in 1994 and fourteen by the time production ended in 1999, causing Loopy to have a much lower voice in later episodes.

Kid Cosmic has the title character and Rosa, who are voiced by actual children, Jack Fisher and Lily Rose Silver respectively.

The Possible Twins, Jim and Tim, from Kim Possible, are both played by Shaun Fleming. He was 12 while recording season one, when the "tweebs" were 10. According to producers, Tim and Jim got a redesign and height boost in season four, either to justify Shaun's voice change or to justify a new actor. In the end, Disney went with a new actor, also a young boy: 13-year-old Spencer Fox, better known as Dash from The Incredibles. Of course, by season three, Fleming's voice had obviously broken, and no attempt was made to hide it. This had the bizarre result of the "tweebs" looking older but sounding younger than they had in the previous season.

Kim herself was voiced by Christy Carlson Romano, who was 16 at the time of casting.

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Wolf is implied to be not much older than eleven, although her voice actress, Sydney Mikayla, was sixteen when the show premiered.

Life with Louie: Tommy is voiced by an actual child, Miko Hughes, who also played Jeremy Creek in The Town Santa Forgot.

A Little Curious: Bob the Ball was voiced by Cameron Bowen, who was 10 years old at the time of the show's premiere.

Little Einsteins had all of its main characters voiced by then-child actors. Natalia Wojcik, for instance, was eight years old during her time voicing Annie there.

In the 1980s The Little Rascals series, Scott Menville and Shavar Ross, then both 11, were Spanky's and Buckwheat's respective voice actors. The dwarf actress Patty Maloney, then 46, who had played furry male roles in the 1970s, was aptly cast as Darla Hood.

On the Llama Llama animated series, according to producer Reed Duncan,note several of the child characters are voiced by actual children. The youngest is six years old.

The Loud House: Lincoln is always voiced by a boy about his age. Suffice to say that with seven seasons and counting, the role's a casting revolving door; he's been voiced by six actors total (not counting Jackson Petty as the singing voice in "Really Loud Music") throughout the show's run. His best friend Clyde is also always voiced by boys his age, though since his voice is slightly deeper than Lincoln's, he's had four voice actors throughout the show's run instead.

Madeline: Madeline's first voice actress, Marsha Moreau, was eleven years old when she started and fourteen by the end of her tenure. Andrea Libman was also eleven when she took over the role, although she continued to voice the character until age eighteen, after which fifteen-year-old Chantal Strand replaced her. Likewise, Pepito's voice actors have all been real boys. Some of Madeline's eleven schoolmates have occasionally been voiced by adult actresses, but not always.

The Magic School Bus: All four of the boys are voiced by real boys, and all of their voices break over the course of the series.

The second Nelvana cartoon based on Rosemary Wells' books is Max and Ruby, which had an actual young child to provide the voice of Max at least twice during the show's run.

Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends: With the exception of Bounce (who is voiced by Julie Lemieux), all the young bugs are voiced by actual kids.

Mixels: Nurp (the infant half of Nurp-Naut) was voiced by very young child actor Justin Grollman, who, in supplemental work for a live-action short he was in, was revealed to only just be going into kindergarten.

Molly of Denali: All the kid characters are voiced by kid actors, though they are often somewhat older than their characters (For example, Sovereign Bill, who voices Molly, was 14 when the show premiered while Molly herself is only 10).

Moral Orel: Shapey Puppington was voiced by the creator's daughter, Tigger Stamatopoulos.

My Life as a Teenage Robot: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Jenny was voiced by an actual 16-year-old teen.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: When the series started, the Cutie Mark Crusaders were voiced by young girls. Their voice actresses hit puberty during Season 4, but the foals didn't, thus creating some Vocal Dissonance in the characters. Sweetie Belle's voice used to squeak heavily, but by Season 5 it no longer did. Season 7 finally decided to show that the CMC are aging, thus explaining their maturing voices.

In her two Season 3 appearances, Babs Seed was voiced by Brian Drummond's then teenaged daughter Brynna.

Patton Oswalt's then-nine-year-old daughter Alice voiced Wind Sprint in the Season 9 episode "Common Ground".

Pipsqueak was voiced by a child actor. He went through two voice actors: William Lawrenson in one episode and Graham Verchere in three episodes after Lawrenson's voice changed.

My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Darby, Roo and Lumpy were voiced by actual children.

A lot of Nick Jr. animated titles seem to go along with ensuring that actual children portray child characters now. The Backyardigans and Go, Diego, Go! are two of the more notable examples. The weird part is, Uniqua in the former is voiced by a girl, but has a fairly deep voice for her gender and age.

Blue's Clues: Sidetable Drawer was voiced by then five-year-old Aleshia Allen, and the voices that help Steve were also provided by children.

Blue's Clues & You!! also uses this practice, starring child actors from other current works aired on Nick Jr.. Also, Polka Dots was voiced by Gagen Graham-Arbuthnot who was still a child the time of that show's run.

Dora the Explorer has been voiced by three different girls throughout the show's 15-year run.

During the time when Piper O'Possum was the mascot of Nick Jr., she was voiced by then ten-year-old Ali Brustofski in the US.

Noddy's Toyland Adventures:

While Noddy has traditionally been voiced by women (such as Denise Bryer and Susan Sheridan) in older media and various incarnations. In the British and American dub of Make Way For Noddy, Noddy is voiced by an actual boy which extends to the UK and U.S. dubs of Toyland Detective.

In the American dub of the show that was made for The Noddy Shop, Tessie is voiced by an actual girl despite her age never being stated. This was also carried to the US/Canada dub of Make Way For Noddy where she was voiced by Jesse Vinet best known for voicing Sheegwa and Rosie.

In the 2012 Ozzy and Drix reboot, the younger version of the title characters were both voiced by Shameik Moore and Ross Lynch, who were the same age as their characters at the time of the series premiere. The main character, Hector, was also voiced by an actual teenage boy, then 17-year-old Miles Heizer. However, this is averted with Maria and Phlegmming, whose voice actors Selena Gomez and Freddie Highmore were already adults, Cilia and Drixteen, who were voiced by then 20-year-old Imani Hakim (of Everybody Hates Chris fame) and then 21-year-old Emily Osment, as well as Ozzy's four-armed twin brother, Mitosis Jones, who's voice actor, R&B singer Omarion, who was 30 when he first appeared at the end of Season 2.

In The Owl House, the 12-year old Gus Porter is voiced by the 15-year old Issac Ryan Brown, and his voice notably deepens by the time season 2 rolls around; his growth spurt in the show reflects this.

In The Oz Kids, the children's voice actors were in their mid-teens at the oldest and nine years old at the youngest during the videos' production.

In the German dub of Pablo the Little Red Fox, all three fox children are all voiced by 3 actual kids (Karim el Kammouchi, Johannes Wolko and Laura Loessl).

In addition of the German dub of Pablo, most of child actors are also working on other shows dubbed in German by Bavaria Film Synchron (now as FFS Synchron Munich), such as Fun with Claude, Lulu Zipadoo, etc.

The dogs and Ryder on PAW Patrol are all voiced by kids, changing from time to time. For example, Ryder, Chase and Marshall have all had three voice actors and counting.

Skye and Rubble kept their original voices throughout the first five seasons. In the sixth season, they got new voices.

Tracker was originally voiced by David Lopez, but by Season 8, he is now voiced by Mateo Carnovale.

The titular trio of PB&J Otter plus Pinch and Scootch were all voiced by kids. Butter's voice actress was young enough when the show started that she didn't know how to read yet and had to be reminded about her few lines before she had to speak them during recording.

Most PBS animated series use this for their child characters, such as Let's Go Luna!, Peg + Cat and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, the latter of which uses several of the same cast members from PAW Patrol.

All of the characters in the Peanuts animated specials (save Snoopy and Woodstock and a handful of mostly offscreen adult characters) are voiced by children, which is retained in the Hebrew dubs. The first special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, may even be the Trope Maker, seeing as how it was the first time a cartoon used actual children to voice child characters. While there were some professional child actors involved—Charlie Brown has always been voiced by a working child actor, and Peanuts alums include a young Stacy Ferguson (Sally), Jeremy Miller of Growing Pains (Linus), Taylor Lautner (Joe Agate in He's a Bully) and the likes of Noah Schnapp, Madisyn Shipman and Francesca Capaldi in The Peanuts Movie—many of the actors were non-professionals who were very young, and had to have their lines cued to them since most of them either couldn't read the scripts properly or couldn't read them at all. The stilted dialog that the characters provide later became a staple of the Peanuts specials.

Peep and the Big Wide World: Peep and Chirp were voiced by real kids, although Quack's voice was provided by the adult Jamie Watson.

Peppa Pig has had four child voice actors portray the titular character, with the third, Harley Bird, starting out the role as a child and holding onto the role long after she was a child before she retired.

Phantom Investigators: All of the kids were voiced by actual children or teenagers.

In Phineas and Ferb, Phineas was voiced by 14-year-old Vincent Martella, and Ferb being voiced by 17-year-old Thomas Brodie-Sangster. As the series progresses, Phineas' voice deepened after the first few episodes.

In Pikwik Pack, Suki, Axel, Hazel and Tibor are all four voiced by kids.

The Powerpuff Girls (2016):

In the Latin American Spanish version, Bubbles has a child voice actress.

In the English version, Bubbles is voiced by a then-13-year-old.

The Proud Family: Penny Proud, Nubia Gross, and Sticky Webb were voiced by then teenagers Kyla Pratt Creator/Raquel Lee Bolleau, and Orlando Brown. Penny’s voice notably got deeper as Pratt went through puberty.

In the shows reboot, BeBe Proud’s voice was recasted by Aiden Dodson, a 7-year-old boy with autism.

The 9-year-old cast of the primetime edition of Punky Brewster voiced their cartoon counterparts in the Saturday morning iteration.

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: Fred, Velma and Daphne are voiced by children, while Don Messick and Casey Kasem reprise their respective roles as Scooby and Shaggy. Fred's voice actor apparently went through puberty as his voice is slightly deeper in later episodes.

Puppy Dog Pals: Bingo and Rolly are voiced by child actors. Other young characters such as Chloe, Keia, Lollie, Auggie, Mo, Darius, Grace, Buster, Leo, Roxy and Nougat, are also voiced by child actors.

In the fourth season, Bingo and Rolly got new voices by new voice actors which were named Elisha Williams & Gracen Newton after their original voice actors Issac Ryan Brown and Sam Lavagnino couldn't voice the two characters anymore due to hitting puberty.

Pupstruction: The members of the Pupstruction and Phiny's little sister Bailey are voiced by kids.

The Raccoons: Stuart Stone, who was around 10 years old when Season 5 was released, voiced two child characters from the season, Danny from the episode "Stress Test!" and Bentley after his original actor, Noam Zylberman, went through puberty.

Rainbow Fish: Rainbow, Blue and Sea Filly are voiced by pre-teen kids along with some other child fish characters.

Ready Jet Go!: Sean, Sydney, Mindy and Mitchell are all voiced by pre-teens. Sydney and Mitchell's VAs got replaced in the TV movie with younger voice actors, which is part of season 2.

Recess: All of the main kids were also voiced by like-gender children (apart from Spinelli, voiced by the adult Pamela Adlon Segal). Apart from TJ, who went through four actors during the show's course, the voices stayed the same throughout the show.

All of the kids on Rolie Polie Olie are voiced by real kids; Olie himself was Cole Caplan (also known for replacing Noah Reid as the title role in the final season of Franklin), while his sister Zowie was voiced by Kristen Bone (who also voiced Snail in Franklin and Maggie of Maggie and the Ferocious Beast)

Rosie's Rules: All of the young characters are voiced by children. The one exception is Crystal, who is 12 but is played by a teenager.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964): The fellow fawn Clarice was voiced by the then fifteen year-old Janis Orenstein.

The titular child character of Salty's Lighthouse was voiced by then eleven-year-old Rhys Huber.

Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat: Sheegwa the kitten was voiced by Jesse Vinet who was still a young girl at the time of the show's run.

In the 30+ year history of The Simpsons, only one kid character wasn't played by Dawson Casting or Crossdressing Voices, and that was Charlie, the orphan boy Bart befriends in the Season 21 episode "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?", who was voiced by Jordan Nagai (Russell in Up), the series' youngest guest star to date.

Both of Craig Gerber's shows, Sofia the First and Elena of Avalor, all have child characters voiced by children within the same age range, whether through replacements or whenever they first started voicing the character. For example, in the former, Ariel Winter (Sofia) and Darcy Rose Byrnes (Amber) were both 14 when the show came out, meaning they were 12-13 when recording. James has gone through three voice actors due to puberty (Zach Callison, Tyler Merna and Nicolas Cantu). The latter has Isabel voiced by Jenna Ortega, who turned 14 the year the show came out, meaning she was 12-13 when recording. The "Adventures in Vallestrella" shorts have their baby Jaquins voiced by Gia Lopez, and the sons of Craig Gerber and Sam Riegel.

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog/Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Similar to the early video games, Tails was voiced by child voice actors Christopher Welch and Bradley Pierce respectively. In Christmas Blast, Chris Turner voiced Tails due to Welch's voice having changed already.

South Park: Kindergartners are voiced by young kids, with most of the "swearing" in these scenes actually being innocent words that are bleeped to sound like cursing. A notable example is Ike whose voice is provided by various toddler children or relatives of the production staff. This accounts for his dialogue being Baby Talk prior to Season 10. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have said finding the right voices for these roles is tough due to the "small window when children sound adorable before they sound like little assholes". Averted for the older kids, who are voiced by adults with their recordings pitched up.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Some child characters were voiced by children. In fact, some of these roles were played by the kids who sang in the show's opening theme!

The younger versions of the characters in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run were voiced by actual children.

Steven Universe: When initially cast, the voice actors for Steven (who also voices Onion), Connie and Peedee were fourteen or fifteen (only a few years older than the characters, save for Onion). However, all three characters only age about two years over the course of the series, by which point the actors reached their twenties.

Stickin' Around: The child characters were voiced by real kids, one of whom was a young Noah Reid in his first acting role. That said, Reid wasn't actually any of the main characters, with most of the others only having this series and one or two other cartoons as their only major roles (one of the more notable exceptions however is Amos Crawley as Russell).

Most of the voice actors in the 2003 incarnation of Strawberry Shortcake were children or teenagers.

SuperKitties: The titular superhero kittens are all voiced by children.

Most of the animated adaptations of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit have actual children voicing Peter Rabbit and his sisters Mopsy, Flopsy, and Cottontail. The most notable would have to be Mopsy, Flopsy, and Cottontail who were voiced by girls in Peter Rabbit and The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends. Past adaptations would usually have Peter's sisters voiced by grown women, such as one episode of the HBO Family series HBO Storybook Musicals, while Peter was voiced by a young boy, and the Merrie Melodies short "The Country Boy", where all of the bunnies were voiced by women. An interesting case of this happens in the 2013 CGI series, Peter Rabbit, where Cottontail is voiced by a girl who is around the age of 5 or 6 because that series' version of Cottontail is a toddler.

TaleSpin used children to voice Kit, Molly and their friends. When the voice of Kit's original actor started to change, he was replaced by another child with a similar voice.

Many of the young train engine characters in Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go are voiced by actual children and young teenagers, with the young Thomas the Tank Engine having three voice actors throughout the show's run (one of them being a young Meesha Contreras). The same occurs with the UK dub as well.

3-2-1 Penguins!: Both Jason and Michelle Conrad had two child voice actors. Jason's first voice actor, Mark Marten, was around 7-9 years old. His second voice actor, Quinn Lord, was 7 years old. Michelle's first voice actress, Melissa Peterson, was around 7-9 years old. Her second voice actress, Claire Corlett, was around 7.

The Nelvana Animated Adaptation of Rosemary Wells' Timothy Goes to School book and Yoko & Friends series. It uses actual children to voice at least four characters (Timothy, Yoko, Charles, and Juanita). Lisa Yamanaka, who voices Yoko, is the most notable since she started hitting puberty at the time of the show's original run in 2000 and may have been a preteen. Lisa previously voiced Wanda Li on The Magic School Bus back in 1994 and later voiced Sherry in Resident Evil 2.

Total DramaRama: Cody and Gwen are respectively voiced by Wyatt White and Lily Bartlam, who are actual children. In the Latin American Spanish dub, strangely enough, Cody is done by a pre-teen girl Angie Mallo.

T.O.T.S.: Pip and Freddy are both voiced by child actors, as are many of the babies. Although Freddy kept the same voice actor for the entire series, Pip was recast in Season 3 due to his original voice actor going through puberty.

The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald:

Tika and Franklin are voiced by child actors (the former by Jazmine A. Corona and the latter by Alex D. Linz, who was around nine when the first video "Scared Silly" was produced).

Nearly averted with Warren Sroka's role as King Murray in Have Time, Will Travel. King Murray is blatantly a kid, but Warren Sroka was 17 when the video was originally released.

Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets: All Palace Pets are voiced by children, most under 8 years old. Berry went through two voice actresses.

Some of the characters in the Nickelodeon dub of Winx Club (which was released the same year as Osmosis Jones) were voiced by teenagers, similar to Osmosis Jones, in which the title character, again, has his voice provided by a teenage boy. Particularly, Aisha is voiced by Keke Palmer, who also voiced Leah Estrogen, the latter's love interest. This practice was averted in the 4Kids and Cinelume dubs.

The Wonder Pets! are animals, but young ones and Ming-Ming in particular is specifically described as a duckling. The iconic Elmuh Fudd Syndwome exhibited by her character ("This is sewious!") is a Throw It In from the child voice actress (Danica Lee) hired to voice her not having grown out of this at the time she was cast out of hundreds of girls for this role.

Work It Out Wombats! has its' young characters all voiced by child voice actors (except for the crab triplets, who are voiced by Julie Lemieux), even if some of them are slightly older than their characters. Zeke's young voice actor, Rain Janjua discusses this in this podcast episode; Zeke is four, but Janjua was nine when the show premiered, and states that children as young as four or five could not voice Zeke because they would have trouble reading their lines.

[animated-character-of-the-day]

Today’s character of the day is: Colin aka the Randy Beaman Kid from Animaniacs

[honeydewmuses-a]

Tag Dump!

Aesthetics.

[duckulamoved]

So say I do write these little ficlets. If I just dropped my ocs in for like three sentences every so often for a little silly throwaway line like once a fic we’d all be cool with that. We can vibe with that yeah. 

[galactic-glamour-girl-posts]

Let's Rank the Animaniacs segments!

The order won't surprise you too much if you've followed me for a while or have seen a few of my Animaniacs-related posts (although my opinions on some segments have changed), but I figured it would be fun to rank them anyway (plus it relates to something I wanted to say regarding the characters, but I'll save that for the end). Sub series like Wheel of Morality and Dot's Poetry Corner don't count.

Segments I actively dislike

Worst - Katie Ka-Boom

"lol teenage girls amiright?" No. Shut up. This isn't funny. Her catchphrase is dumb (“I’m not overreacting, I’m a teenager!”) and honestly her parents suck too (“Teenagers should be locked away until they’re 30.”) This is easily the most mean-spirited segment on the show, it reeks of bitterness.

The Hip Hippos

The fat jokes suck and both hippos are boring characters with no real goal or motivation; but they are a genuinely wholesome couple and the idea of out of touch high class people being the stars of a segment is at the very least a good idea, they just botched the execution.

Chicken Boo

The Chicken Boo segments are an okay joke told too many times in the exact same way.

Buttons and Mindy

This segment is too mean spirited and is basically the same segment every time but I'm ranking them higher than Boo because Buttons and Mindy, as characters, are adorable and actually have personalities, unlike Boo (I'm aware Boo being like that is the point, but still).

Segments that are...OK

Mime Time

I think The Mime being such a bland character actually improves these bumpers. I don't feel too bad when he gets hurt because we barely know him and his bumpers are brief, so we don't see him suffer for too long. Although I do think the slapstick is kinda just...fine.

The Flame

These are little boring. I feel like the Warners do a better job with educational segments. These segments pretty much just exist to teach US history, but in a more tame yet in your face about how great they want kids to think America is way than when Warner segments would.

Randy Beaman Kid/Colin

It sure is...a bumper.

The Incredible Gnome in People's Mouths

This might be the weirdest premise of any Animaniacs segment, and that's saying a lot. It's alright.

Good Idea Bad Idea

Easily the best non-sub series bumper for sure...but it's still just a bumper.

Starbox and Cindy

This segment is kind of like Buttons and Mindy but since the protagonist is a bad person, his pain can actually be funny. It's also kind of like Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain if they didn't turn an iconic double act into an unremarkable trio. Hearing Cindy ramble about random stuff in the background is both cute and funny (I'll admit the Gnome probably should be higher because it's more of an original idea...but Cindy's adorable so I'm putting this higher lol).

Goodfeathers

I didn't like their first segment, but a lot of their later ones are OK, even though many over-rely on the whole "and then the Goodfeathers get hurt" bit. They're not much more than a (now dated) reference, and I think the writers realised this eventually because they clearly gave up on them at one point. They get no segments in season 3, only one in season 4, in season 5 they just get cameos and bumpers, and they show up really late compared to everyone else in Wakko's Wish. Pesto's the only standout character here to me, I don't really care for Squit or Bobby.

Minerva Mink

I like how she loves to wallow in self pity about how hard her life is yet is incredibly vain, manipulative and loves to be ruder than she needs to be. She's not a saint, but that's funny! I would've put her segments in the next tier if not for 1-the fact that she only has two segments so she never got to reach her full potential as a character and 2-the sheer amount of perv-pandering...which happens to be the reason why she only has two segments.

Segments I like!

Rita and Runt

Their segments can be hit or miss, but I think the bad ones aren't bad enough and the good ones are good enough to warrant them being this high. Rita and Runt are both likeable characters, their segments aren't the funniest but they have a lot of heart. Not gonna lie Rita's probably the best singer on the show.

Slappy Squirrel

She's basically what would happen if a Looney Tunes character ever actually grew to be old. She solves modern day problems with old school cartoon solutions, she's great!

Pinky and the Brain

In truth, if it weren't for their spin off series and the Animaniacs reboot these guys would probably be under Slappy. I've dedicated at least four long posts to these two I'm not going into further detail lol.

Best - Yakko, Wakko, and Dot

Chaotic good puppy children live out every kid's fantasy of fighting back against adults who mistreat them or others, what's not to like? I like that out of all the characters (aside from Slappy) they're the best homage to classic cartoons, between their designs and the fact that they often have entire segments that are homages to classic cartoons, like "The Girl with the Googily Goop", "The Warner's Vault" or "Yakko Amakko". Plus the Warners have one of the least formulaic segments on the show so that helps-great songs, cute sibling/family shenanigans, fun parodies, and just a whole bunch of zany chaos!

In all seriousness, the main reason I made this post is because a couple times I've seen people post/tweet something along the lines of "real Animaniacs fans like all/most segments" or "a true Animaniacs fan should like *blah blah blah* segments" and I just wanted to say...no.

If you only watch the show for the Warners, or just Slappy, or both Pinky and the Brain and Starbox and Cindy, or just Rita and Runt, Hip Hippos and Mime Time, or even literally only for Katie Kaboom, that's valid.

There's no quota for which segments you have to like. If you're a fan, you're a fan, no one else gets to decide that.

[madmachaca]

@thisisnotacreativeusername I had completely forgot about Randy Beaman's iconic stories!

Short Sections we need back in Animaniacs 2020:

Good Idea/ Bad Idea

The wheel of Morality

Dot's poetry corner

Educational songs that actually slap

...

Add more if I forgot anything

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

Animaniacs Sims 4 Builds!

I’ve been messing around with Sims 4 for a while and figured I might as well post some of what I’ve got done! Water Tower built in collab with @birdsareblooming​!

*I know it’s incorrect because it happens to anything I save that’s above-ground; only a basement I’ve made has not been flagged. I tested it with an empty lot and sure enough, flagged. Sims is nuts.

Gallery ID: blackwoodsis all builds tagged under #animaniacs

Names, extra pics, and more info under the cut!

Warner Siblings - “Warner Bros. Water Tower”

The Warner Bros. Studio Lot includes Scratchansniff’s office, a house beside for Hello Nurse, and the Water Bros. Water Tower!

Scratchansniff’s interior is based all on the first episode-- specifically “The Monkey Song” segment.

The kitchen from “The Monkey Song” was moved to Nurse’s house, and her bedroom is designed after the one we got in her song.

Interior of the Water Tower is based entirely on the reboot. The flags on the wall are CC so they will not appear in the gallery download.

Warner Siblings - “Ralph T Guard’s Trailer”

The interior of Ralph’s trailer was based on “A Christmas Plotz,” with a bed added for Ralph Jr and a little kitchen put into the corner.

The top floor is based on “Ralph’s Wedding.”

Warner Siblings - “Flora Dora Norita”

The Norita Family House is based entirely on “23 and WB” in the reboot; a few extra rooms were added to fill it out. Also includes the swimming pool and shed.

Pinky and the Brain - “Acme Labs”

This lab is based specifically on the reboot intro!

I don’t have a lot of pics of it, mainly because I don’t have anything to base the top floors on. On the bottom floor, there’s a front receptionist room based on the reboot intro, with the room from “Roadent Trip” behind it; right in front of the bathrooms is Pinky and the Brain’s lab.

Slappy Squirrel - “Slappy Squirrel’s Tree”

Slappy’s segments are among the more consistent, so her first floor is her simple TV/Kitchen area.

Her bedroom is based on “The Christmas Tree.”

Skippy’s room is from “Twas the Day Before Christmas” and the bathroom from “Smell Ya Later.”

Randy Beaman - “Randy Beaman Kid’s House”

Interior is empty and free to mess around with!

Katie Ka-Boom / Buttons and Mindy - “Katie KaBoom”

Two-for-one deal with this one: Katie Ka-Boom’s house with Buttons and Mindy’s backyard! The kitchen and living room are based on “Call Waiting.”

Katie’s Bedroom is based on the intro.

And here’s the Buttons and Mindy backyard!

Minerva Mink - “Minerva Mink’s Log”

Minerva’s log from her two shorts; also includes her bathroom and bedroom.

Starbox and Cindy - “Starbox and Cindy”

Based on the current Starbox and Cindy shorts; we’ve only seen the front room, Cindy’s bedroom, and the bathroom, so I made sure to include those, and improvised the rest.

[nastya-sokolova-2002]

Baby Colin: ok, one time a kid named Randy Beaman was riding his tricycle to the park. he sat on a bench and took a nap. when he woke up, his tricycle was gone!  ‘K, bye

[Colin goes back to his house and before he goes inside he looks back at the camera]

Baby Colin: [to the viewers] and that's the origin of that

[Colin goes inside his house]

049-j: I didn't know that this happened to Randy as a child.

[bestofanimaniacs]

Round 2 - Bracket 3:

[retrogifsforall]

Animaniacs - Colin (a.k.a. the “Randy Beaman” kid)

[butterscotch-brigade]

shit that they better include in the animaniacs reboot:

slappy squirrel

good idea bad idea

chicken boo

buttons and mindy

the randy beaman kid

[outofcontext101dalmatians]

Is that a doll of the Randy Beaman kid?

[fictionadventurer]

My Ranking of the Recurring Animaniacs Shorts

Animaniacs: The show’s named for them, they’d better be at the top. You can’t beat this level of inspired zaniness.

Slappy Squirrel:  A cranky, trouble-making old lady cartoon character. How do you beat that concept? Especially when she can name-drop and hint at her history with all the Old Hollywood cartoon characters.

Pinky and the Brain: There’s a reason they got a spin-off. The characters, the catchphrases, the crazy concept and the solid formula: It’s cartoon magic.

Mindy and Buttons: Most formulaic, but it’s a good formula. I should be angrier over the lack of justice for Buttons, but Mindy’s so cute I can see why he puts up with it. (And when Mindy’s mom and dad have such hilariously bad parenting skills, I’m just glad Mindy has someone looking out for her).

Good Idea, Bad Idea: Very short, usually clever.

Chicken Boo: I know the joke’s always the same, but I adore the joke.

Mime Time: Sometimes all you need is a bit of silly and predictable slapstick.

Katie Kaboom: These were among my favorites as a kid. Looking back at it, I’m not sure why. Maybe just because it was rare. Now it’s only a slightly funny (and kinda sexist) concept. I like the theme song, though.

Randy Beaman Kid: Always slightly baffling, sometimes funny because of it.

Goodfeathers: Not all that funny, except for the occasional Pesto moment. Points for the joke about the Regis Philbin statue, though.

Rita and Runt: Very long, very boring, full of very long and boring songs. Usually best to just fast-forward.

The Hip Hippos: Possibly the only characters in any of the shorts that I find actively repulsive.