Yes I Am Still Here
Hi! It's been a while since I posted anything here, but I didn't have anything weird that I needed to share with the group...until now:
Urged on by a child who picked out Scooby-Doo valentine cards, and later asked "who is Scooby-Doo?" I stumbled upon a clip from "A Scooby-Doo! Christmas" to use as a teaching aide, since it contained both Scooby-Doo and a snowman. Unfortunately the snowman was haunted and headless, causing me to scramble to find the Reveal Ending where, surely, the snowman wasn't haunted after all and was friendly.
Sure enough, the scary snowman was actually a frozen robot controlled by the very nice Professor William Fagen Higginson, voiced by...can it be???...Peter Scolari?
According to the Wikia category of Christmas Specials, the entire cast list for this episode is as ridiculous as the plot, in which Peter Scolari operates a robot snowman to search for stolen gold, is forgiven for all his crimes because it's Christmas, and then distributes bricks of solid gold to everybody standing around.
(Based on the airdate of December 13, 2002, a week when the price of gold was $326.40 per troy ounce, the value of a standard "Good Delivery" gold bar weighing 400 troy ounces was $130,560. Merry Christmas indeed!)
Anyway, the WB voice talent for this seemingly insignificant episode included:
- Casey Kasem (as always, the voice of Shaggy)
- Peter Scolari (he probably stuck pins in his Tom Hanks voodoo doll immediately after recording)
- Mindy Cohn (yes, from Facts of Life)
- James Belushi
- Mark Hamill
- ...and M. Emmet Walsh, who was a regular Coen Brothers actor.
Together, they seem like a group made more for a season of The Surreal Life than a forgotten cartoon. This thing is already in the public domain, free to download at the Internet Archive.
Urged on by a child who picked out Scooby-Doo valentine cards, and later asked "who is Scooby-Doo?" I stumbled upon a clip from "A Scooby-Doo! Christmas" to use as a teaching aide, since it contained both Scooby-Doo and a snowman. Unfortunately the snowman was haunted and headless, causing me to scramble to find the Reveal Ending where, surely, the snowman wasn't haunted after all and was friendly.
Sure enough, the scary snowman was actually a frozen robot controlled by the very nice Professor William Fagen Higginson, voiced by...can it be???...Peter Scolari?
According to the Wikia category of Christmas Specials, the entire cast list for this episode is as ridiculous as the plot, in which Peter Scolari operates a robot snowman to search for stolen gold, is forgiven for all his crimes because it's Christmas, and then distributes bricks of solid gold to everybody standing around.
(Based on the airdate of December 13, 2002, a week when the price of gold was $326.40 per troy ounce, the value of a standard "Good Delivery" gold bar weighing 400 troy ounces was $130,560. Merry Christmas indeed!)
Anyway, the WB voice talent for this seemingly insignificant episode included:
- Casey Kasem (as always, the voice of Shaggy)
- Peter Scolari (he probably stuck pins in his Tom Hanks voodoo doll immediately after recording)
- Mindy Cohn (yes, from Facts of Life)
- James Belushi
- Mark Hamill
- ...and M. Emmet Walsh, who was a regular Coen Brothers actor.
Together, they seem like a group made more for a season of The Surreal Life than a forgotten cartoon. This thing is already in the public domain, free to download at the Internet Archive.