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[omorka]

Ah, Frank Welker. Are there any cartoons you didn't have a hand in? Unfortunately, this results in odd crossovers for an auditory-primary like me. In particular, it means - well, that a number of the baddies in The Real Ghostbusters sound like Decepticons. In particular, like Megatron and Rumble. The Boogieman, in fact, sounds just like Megatron pitch-shifted upwards slightly.

Given that that epsiode is also Egon-heavy, and cartoon!Egon was voiced by Maurice LaMarche, if one is not paying attention to the visuals one can end up with Megatron facing off against the Brain. Which might make funny crossover crack!fic, now that I think about it.

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[the-kiggy.livejournal.com]

Well, if this is any consolement: Welker also voice Uni in Dungeons & Dragons.

Had the Ghostbusters episode pitted the Boogieman with Venkman (Lorenzo Music RIP) it would have sounded as Megatron VS Garfield.....

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Welker also voice[d] Uni in Dungeons & Dragons.

Yup. Which is why you can't tell whether it's Slimer or Uni unless you're looking at the screen. (And cartoon!Tiamat sounds a little like Megatron, too, now that I'm thinking about it.)

[quantumduck.livejournal.com]

Also, most recently, he was the voice of Nibbler on Futurama, and Perry the Platypus on Phineas and Ferb. Producers for both shows go on about how big a deal it is for them to be working with the single greatest voice in cartoon history.

There are actually few animal sounds used in Hollywood which are not credited to Frank Welker. He's done the sound of all sorts of animals in serious films, and tape of his animal sounds is available as stock audio.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, his IMDB credits page is massive, and a lot of it is "Other vocal effects" or "Special vocal effects."

Not that Hugo Weaving didn't do a good job - he did, or at least as good as was possible under the circumstances (there's only so much one could do with some of those clunker lines) - but I'm still a bit miffed that they didn't get Welker back for Megatron's voice for the Transformer movies.

[bibulb.livejournal.com]

I remember hearing about a credits roll for the Transformers '86 movie (that HAD to be a joke) with the last cast listing being

Frank Welker ................. Everyone else

It's funny, 'cause it's true.

[ghostdogmeta.livejournal.com]

A quip I've seen is that if it made noise, there's a good chance it's Frank Welker.