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Princess Frances

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Even in his old age in the 1980s, Mel Blanc could reproduce most of his voices well. His throat was just better on some days he was recording than others. The ones that gave him trouble by then were the "yelling" ones like Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn. Something similar is happening for The Simpsons with harsher, gruffer characters like Nelson and Marge. It helps if a voice actress that is voicing a young boy can at least try to sound masculine - Astroboy in the cartoon series repeated on the ABC when i was a kid in the eighties always sounded incredibly girlish.
 
Does anyone remember Heckle and Jeckle, the Talking Magpies? They were early animated characters on television, produced by the same animation studio that created Mighty Mouse. (They might have been in the cinema before television, I don't know.) Mischievous birds; imagine if there were two Daffy Ducks, or two Woody Woodpeckers. Heckle and Jeckle were identical in appearance, but Heckle talked like a New Yorker, while Jeckle talked like an Englishman.
 
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I always thought that there will be one exception to Scooby-Doo's cowardice - if Scooby saw someone hurting a child, he would intervene to save the child - he's a Great Dane and can just maul the person attacking the child.
 
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