Pinky And The Brain Theme - Postmodern Jukebox
February 15, 2019 8:56 PM Subscribe
Postmodern Jukebox covers the Pinky And The Brain Theme, featuring Emily Goglia, Rob Paulsen, and Maurice LaMarche.
Yeeeesss! As Brain might say.
I can't begin to imagine how they got the real VAs to do this with them. Very cool.
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue at 9:12 PM on February 15, 2019 [4 favorites]
I can't begin to imagine how they got the real VAs to do this with them. Very cool.
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue at 9:12 PM on February 15, 2019 [4 favorites]
(probably a contrived workplace accident involving a microwave oven and non-dairy powered creamer)
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue at 9:15 PM on February 15, 2019 [7 favorites]
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue at 9:15 PM on February 15, 2019 [7 favorites]
It was probably one day or a half-day's work for decent money and in the area where they already live. People don't realize, most of Hollywood is scraping by from gig to gig, literally a gig economy. Doing fun stuff like this which has a paycheck plus refers back to something you did that was popular and attached your human face to it is a pretty great gig, really.
posted by hippybear at 9:16 PM on February 15, 2019 [11 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 9:16 PM on February 15, 2019 [11 favorites]
Rob Paulsen's twitter feed had him saying that another friend introduced him to Scott from PMJ and saw a show and it rolled down from there. I started giggling the second I saw him and Maurice in the background.
posted by drewbage1847 at 9:19 PM on February 15, 2019 [7 favorites]
posted by drewbage1847 at 9:19 PM on February 15, 2019 [7 favorites]
brain, brain, brain, brain, brain.
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:23 PM on February 15, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:23 PM on February 15, 2019 [6 favorites]
Narf! Poit!
posted by merriment at 9:40 PM on February 15, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by merriment at 9:40 PM on February 15, 2019 [1 favorite]
If you love watching voice actors do real life things - Rob Paulsen hosts "Talkin' Toons" via Nerdist. Here's one of my favorites - Kevin Conroy (aka the only person who should be the voice of Batman - full stop) as Darth "Batman" from the end of Empire.
posted by drewbage1847 at 9:44 PM on February 15, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by drewbage1847 at 9:44 PM on February 15, 2019 [4 favorites]
Nice. Are these folks connected to Creative Credenza aka cdza?
I'm a bit concerned - LaMarche is actually starting to look like Welles. Here he is in 1984, imitating Klingon Jim Ignatowski and in 2009 calling for International Talk Like Shatner Day. Sab-o-Taaaage!
posted by zaixfeep at 9:52 PM on February 15, 2019 [3 favorites]
I'm a bit concerned - LaMarche is actually starting to look like Welles. Here he is in 1984, imitating Klingon Jim Ignatowski and in 2009 calling for International Talk Like Shatner Day. Sab-o-Taaaage!
posted by zaixfeep at 9:52 PM on February 15, 2019 [3 favorites]
It took me years before I realized that the Brain was using an Orson Welles voice.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 6:13 AM on February 16, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 6:13 AM on February 16, 2019 [2 favorites]
I can't begin to imagine how they got the real VAs to do this with them. Very cool.
If you called him up on the phone and asked nicely Rob Paulson would probably sing the Nations of the World song for you.
posted by Space Coyote at 9:26 AM on February 16, 2019 [5 favorites]
If you called him up on the phone and asked nicely Rob Paulson would probably sing the Nations of the World song for you.
posted by Space Coyote at 9:26 AM on February 16, 2019 [5 favorites]
Kevin Conroy (aka the only person who should be the voice of Batman - full stop)
What? The best Bruce Wayne voice actor couldn't possibly do Batman.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 9:53 AM on February 16, 2019 [5 favorites]
What? The best Bruce Wayne voice actor couldn't possibly do Batman.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 9:53 AM on February 16, 2019 [5 favorites]
That was fun. It's definitely a relief to realize I didn't remember all the lyrics to that song I listened to every day. One less piece of old crap I was carrying around.
posted by bleep at 10:53 AM on February 16, 2019
posted by bleep at 10:53 AM on February 16, 2019
It took me years before I realized that the Brain was using an Orson Welles voice.
And that's become so iconic that it's the latest iteration of the Dana Carvey/George H.W. Bush phenomenon--now people don't do an Orson Welles impression, they do a Maurice LaMarche impression.
posted by MrBadExample at 11:17 AM on February 16, 2019 [5 favorites]
And that's become so iconic that it's the latest iteration of the Dana Carvey/George H.W. Bush phenomenon--now people don't do an Orson Welles impression, they do a Maurice LaMarche impression.
posted by MrBadExample at 11:17 AM on February 16, 2019 [5 favorites]
I am a total sucker for cheap bar mitzvah jokes, so that was my favorite part. Such a delight!
posted by Ruki at 2:03 PM on February 16, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Ruki at 2:03 PM on February 16, 2019 [2 favorites]
Troz!
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 8:14 PM on February 16, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 8:14 PM on February 16, 2019 [2 favorites]
Maurice LaMarche is the greatest Orson Welles impersonator I've ever heard. The second best is Andrew Kaempfer, in the episode "The Boy Who Cried Martian" (s01e06) of the radio drama anthology podcast Uncanny County.
The third best, of course, is Orson Welles.
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:22 PM on February 17, 2019 [1 favorite]
The third best, of course, is Orson Welles.
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:22 PM on February 17, 2019 [1 favorite]
Orson Welles never was the Orson Welles everyone thinks he was.
posted by hippybear at 1:42 PM on February 17, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 1:42 PM on February 17, 2019 [3 favorites]
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