How you doing out there? It's me Tiger, I am Duck Wing Duck.
It's me Bunkers Deep Bobcat. All right, y'all, didn't bree your
favorite firefly you desire? Hold? Oh no, God, my name is
Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned in. Hello, No, everybody you welcome
to this very special Cummings commentary here on the tuned in with Jim Cummings Patreon
channel. I am Dando, joined right now by producer Chris. Are you
doing so grey? How's everybody doing? Going fantastic? And of course he
is none of them bonkers himself as well as Lucky macl he is mister Jim
Cummings. Jim, how are you mate? Oh it's another Dan in paradise.
Hooray everybody, Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Come on down, Copper
Squat. We're gonna have some fun. Copper squat. That's the time I've
never heard before. Yeah, well it means pull up a bean bag or
something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to come to your place
because you always say it's it's always paradise. You must just have a great
life. Jim, Oh well I do. Actually, thank you, thank
you, thanks for a notice of me true true true. Well, today
we are here to do a commentary track. I'm very excited on the Bonkers
episode New Partners on the Block. Now we're gonna be watching this on Disney
Plus. So if you listened to this, get it up on your Disney
Plus app or however you're watching it, and get ready to push play.
As we push play, we'll give you the three two one count. Then
we'll do three to one go not on one when I say go, And
we're going to be talking about Yes, this very very famous episode of Bonkers,
because the one that bridges the gap gym between the Lucky era and the
Miranda era. Because it's very confusing. I won't get into it again.
We touched on on our Bonkers podcast, but basically there were episodes Miranda.
They didn't like them, so they did Lucky percal episodes, but they only
add some of the Miranda episodes first, and then they add some of them
after and it was just a big Misspash, So, what are your memories
initially of this episode do you have, like, what are they that when
you've recorded it? Did you record this knowing this would be the last time
Lucky appeared on the show was that the mentality going into it, you know,
it was a bit of a mishmash. That's actually a pretty good word
or two words. And because you know, he Bonker's got started off on
a pretty even keel. But we got a little bit into it and they
said, yah, something's missing, something's you know, and so they started
they decided, you know, we have to get him a partner. See,
because you know, Miranda is such a sweetheart. You can't you know,
he couldn't have friction with her, you know, because you know she's
a sweetheart, and Bonkers is also a sweetheart. So you know, I
couldn't have friction with Miranda because she was set a pumpkin. And so anyway,
now Lucky Pequel, oh, come on, Bonkers. You know,
he was a curmudgeon, so he was someone that Bonkers could play off.
So they came up with this character and auditioned ten thousand people. I'm just
getting probably about eight thousand and yeah. You know, I ended up getting
that part too, and I had to and I had like callback after call
back for that, and I just I figured, you know, while they
already have me there, they might as well use me or I think that's
what they were thinking. And uh so I got that part too, and
then we kind of re floated the franchise and uh, you know, Bonkers
and Lucky were after the races. Thank goodness they did, because I feel
like you, being in control of both of the characters, you were really
able to establish a real unique chemistry between them both. You went relying on
somebody else to have that chemistry with you. It's just, you know,
I know what's going to work with these two characters. I'm doing them both.
I'm in complete control. How was the feeling having that complete control over
the two of the two main characters of a series, because you never really
experienced that before, had you before? Bonkers? Well more expansive cast where
this is? You know, yeah, Buk Bunk is in Lucky. We're
the main stars of this show. You know. Yeah, no, I
agree. You know, I liked it. It was great because I always
knew where I was going with the next line because I had the line before,
you know, and I don't know if we touched on this, but
they would often argue but Bucky but you know, and they'd have a really
strong ping pong of dialogue back and forth and I kind of invented this little
thing. And I told our director Jenny McSwain, why don't I play Lucky
Piquel in my head? And I will respond, I will, I will
do Bulgers first, and you know, and they have separate tracks, and
I'll say, yeah, but Lucky, I just yeah, I know,
but we can't. Yeah, I know, I know, but we have
to get to that, you know. And then I would come in,
you know, and I would have balk Lucky's response in my head, and
I would say, well, Bonkers, we can't no, because I said,
because you're driving me nuts, you know. And it would be back
and forth, and then they would put the two tracks together and it sounded
like two people having an argument, and it came out really well because two
people were me and me, so, you know, it was kind of
cool. What's your what's your line? You like to save it the split
personality? Uh? Yes, and so do we? Yes? That was
yeah, all right, well so it's only true. What do you before
we get into it, Chris, what are your memories of Bunkers? Did
you ever watch it as a kid. I loved it as a kid.
It was a very big show here in Australia, and you mentioned Jim on
a on a recent podcast A lot of Australians when you'll heat we're talking about
bunkers, you know, I can't believe it. I already know this answer,
Chris. Yeah, No, Bonkers. Bonkers was a show that I'm
growing up, I didn't really watch. It was like, you know something
maybe if it came on, you know, I'd check it out, but
it definitely wasn't a show that I like followed or anything like that. And
I really like just doing the research you know, for this episode was when
really like the memory starts to pour back, like I remember Lucky Pequel's voice,
Like I remember that voice, and like even when I was watching it,
I had to really like listen to hear for Jim's voice in Bonkers.
To me, it's like one of the most unique voices that you do because
it's it's so far away from your speaking voice. To me, it's like
so so unique from your speaking voice that it's hard for me to pick up
that it's even you. But yeah, growing up, I didn't watch a
lot of a lot of Bonkers, but it's I've found it found it fascinating
to rewatch you know, with Disney Plus and everything like that. It's really
cool to like rediscover, you know, with your voice. For Lucky,
I get sort of Laurence Teeny vibes from it, though it's turned out.
Oh okay, just like yeah yeah, he's always just like yeah, yeah,
yeah, everything. Well, yeah, he's He's one of those guys
that if you tagged on for Christ's sake on the end of every line,
it would probably fit. Yes, all right, Bochers, wait a minute,
I'll be right there. For Chris's sake. You know that that was
That was kind of like in my house as a kid. All right,
Cads, I'll take you over to the playhouse forra you know. And it
was one of those and that that that was there's you know, I have
to say, there's a little Lucky Pequella's got a little of my dad,
Bob Cummings in him. Okay, so you know, from a personal from
a voice perspective or a personality perspective. Personality personality. Okay, Well you
bunk as always your brother, Uh No, I was definitely bunking. I
bonked heavily as a child. All right, Well, let's get into it,
shall we. Let's get into chatting about new Partners on the Block.
So listeners right now, get it up on your on your apps or your
TVs whatever. So it's episode twenty one here on Disney Plus. It's New
Partners on the Block. Get ready to push play. When I say three
to one, I'll say go. That's when you push play. All right,
are we ready, gentlemen? Three two one go? Okay, So
here we are watching Bonkers for the first time here on the Companies commentary is
now this was this theme song was incredibly incredibly high, you know, high
energy, very wacky, one of the more wacky ones of Disney Afternoon of
You know, he's done done some perusing on social media recently on your post
of Bonkers, and it seems like fans either really really loved Bonkers or they
really just found him very annoying. What are your what are your thoughts when
you when they first pitched Bonkers to you, Did they say to you,
we want want him to be as high energy as possible. Was that something
that you brought to the character yourself. Well, it kind of came on
the heels of Roger Rabbit, yeah, at that time, so they kind
of wanted to capture that style of energy. But he couldn't sound anything like
him, which was no problem, you know, so that that was not
a that was not a problem. But you know, it was it was
painstaking the audition process for this show for me, Uh, it was.
It was crazy. I've never had well, it was the most auditioned for
role ever because it was very well known at the time that it was inspired
by Roger Rabbit, and so everybody wanted a piece of that pie. Okay,
you know, because it was ridiculously you know, popular and successful,
and they said, okay, let's tap into this. What do we have
to do? You know, well, I don't know, how about a
bobcat perfect? You know, So here we are. And so they sent
out an auditioned I mean the audition process it went on for I don't know,
maybe over a month. You know. Usually you go in once or
twice, Okay, we got it. Nope, not this one. It
everybody and their dog auditioned for Bonkers. And then of course Lucky came along
in a little while later, and you know, it was just crazy.
Oh my screen keeps going dark, so I don't know, here we go.
Well, you mentioned in the in the Bonkers podcast that we did that,
Jim Carry auditioned for the role and a few other famous people. Was
that usually the case with Disney Afternoon shows? Was it usually the case of
having a celebrity audition, not celebrity, but you know he was a known
person or was this the first time you sort of experienced for a Disney Afternoon
show. Hey, this isn't just the usual voice actors, this is actual
people on Celebrity Carry. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, you know,
I mean Rita Moreno, And you know, there were so many people
on the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I mean
Carla Devido was on there, and Ron Perlman, yet Frank WelCom, Nancy
Cartwright appear there as well. Yeah. The Bonkers is actually incredible when you
think about it. Oh yeah, yeah it was. It was really quite
something, And so it was it was a lot of fun. Yeah.
Well, this was the episode, as we mentioned earlier, the one that
bridged the gap between the Miranda and the Lucky episodes. When you were doing
the show, could you tell there was a real difference between the chemistry with
Miranda and Lucky. Look, it was almost like a sense of relief when
the Lucky character came around, because when you were doing the Miranda one,
could you sort of feel it's not really working here for what this character needs
to be Miranda writes, isn't really the character that he needs to bounce off
of. Were you feeling that when you were doing those initial episodes. I
don't feel that I did, no, because she, you know, I
mean, Carla was such a sweetheart. Yeah, you know, she was
great, and she was doing everything great, She was doing everything perfectly,
and she was very sympathetic to Bonkers. And I think the problem was that
there really was no friction, you know, and because you kind of have
to have friction, you know, in order to get anything. I mean,
Romeo and Juliet they had there were there were friction between those two families.
You need an odd couple. Yeah, yeah, the whole bit,
and uh yeah, any know, there's nothing but examples of that, excuse
me. And and so as a result, you know, they kind of
retooled, and Bob Taylor came in and and kind of took over the reins
and took it in a whole new direction. And he provided he provided Lucky,
He wrote the character Lucky Piquel. So that was all him was,
Oh yeah, and uh. And it was always kind of a thing where
you know, he was the long suffering. It was a bit if you
think about it, it was a bit like Laurel and Hardy if you're familiar
with that, that that comic duel from the twenties, I guess. And
there was one big guy who always looked at the camera and went like,
do you believe what I have to put up with? I mean, he
didn't say that, but you felt it, yes, And and sure enough,
that's you know, Bonker's was what Lucky had to put up with?
Is that how Robert pitched the character of Lucky to you? Is that kind
of character? Is that? Is that what he always had in mind for
him? No, well they didn't use that example, no, but they
just you know, said that. You know, here he is. He's
a human and he's trying to get ahead in the police department, and he's
making progress. He thinks he's doing well. Next thing, you know,
he gets stuck with a tune. He wait a minute, wait, no,
oh no, come on, you gotta be kidding me. I gotta
have this guy. He's going to be in my squad car. You got
oh, come on, why don't you shoot me, you know, And
so that's that's kind of the situation that we're looking at here, and you
could see he's never really all that pleased with he just reaches different levels of
tolerance. Yeah. The thing is with this show, I mean touched it
with Dark Wing Duck as well. There's lines throughout this where what was that
was the tossest salad was the one in Dark Wing Duck. With this one
here, there was a couple of lines we just passed one before where it
says something on the lines of I six fingers away from being pavement pudding.
That's a pretty full online for a kids show. You know, I'm going
to be splinting on the ground. I watched it. I went, I
just don't think that's going to be in the kid show anymore, you know.
But as a kid, yeah, you've never been paying attention to that.
But that's what I think the beauty of these shows was was that there's
jokes for the adults, for the parents to sit there. That's why the
Simpsons worked so well. The kids love the animation, they love the wackiness
of Bonkers, but there was jokes there for the parents who were forced to
sit there and watch the show with their kids as well, you know,
oh gosha, Yeah, there's no question about it, you know. I
I've used the example before. I think there was an episode in Raw Tunage
h and there were two coyotes. I think I played both of them,
and uh, and it's just it's just one of those silly things. But
uh, the one guy says to the other, well, I don't think
that was mine. It must be urine, and uh, and it snuck
past, you know, you know, and I did it unto the guise
of a hillbilly. You know, we id tea. You would dead dad
right there, you know, you know. And I snuck it past and
it made it. And then after it had already aired, I had to
go back in and say it must be Ye Wars because somebody called up and
said, did he say urine? Excuse me? Do you know what urine?
Oh? My goodness, you know, of course he didn't sound like
Bunkers, but but yeah, that was just what are you gonna do?
I always wanted to bring up so that the bad guy in this episode as
well, he's essentially a terrorist. Fire is it Fireball Frank It's name?
Yeah, that's a villain and a kids show a terrorist. I don't think
that would happen anymore either, But he was played by Brad Garrett, and
I thought it was incredibly interesting that, like Brad Garrett, he's most known
as being Ray's brother Robert Barone and everybody does around. Everyone's going to remember
him for that, but he's actually more of a notable voice actor than that
show, Like that was one role. Yeah, He's been in so many
films and I don't think many people actually quite understand, but his role here
as Fireball Frank was great. He's sort of you can get him Robert bron
in Fireball Frank's frustration in this episode. But what are your memories of working
with Brad because he actually got to work with him again with Christopher Robin.
I'm su whether you're in the same room or anything like that many times.
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, So what are your memories of
working with Brad? Well, you know, he's a good buddy of mine.
He in fact, there was oh god, it's funny, yes that
we you know, there were any number of Disney cartoons coming out of the
eighties for Boom Boom, Boom, Boom boom, building up the Disney Disney
Afternoon, and Brad would do a pilot and during pilot season he wasn't all
that available, and he went and did this pilot, did like two or
three episodes. Boom, big failure, didn't didn't go anywhere. Brad's back,
you know then you know from on camera, and then next year he'd
do another one, go through another pilot, season one or two, booked
this one book that one, Eh, boom didn't work. Here's here's Brad
again. He's back, and like two or three years, four years,
and finally Everybody Loves Raymond came out and it clicked. Brad was God,
good night, everybody. I'll see a letter a out of here. You
know. So I ended up actually kind of replacing him. I was like
Brad liked in one or two shows because he was busy being famous, facially
famous. At that point, I'm visualizing, like you know, that Twins
with Al Schwarzenegger and like Dane DevD like, yeah, he's easily done,
yeah, no question about it. Yeah. But it just seems like a
great guy and it's so so talent. Oh he's a great game. Oh
yeah, yeah, he's a buddy of mine. Yeah, Okay, well,
they getting on the show at some point as well. Then, But
this this episode here both commercial breaks. Thought it quite interesting, both commercial
breaks. The first one they're sort of saying that, you know, you're
thinking that maybe Lucky exploded, right, So potential Lucky death in the first
commercial break. The second commercial break coming up soon we have Fireball Franks shooting
the car of Bonkers and you meant it as a view to go, oh
my god, did Bonkers just die as well? I wonder whether this one
was marketed at the time. Obviously I was too young to remember. I'm
not sure whether you even knew either, as one of your favorites is going
to be leaving the show, and that's why they had Lucky and Bonkers both
potentially die at the commercial breaks in the episode. I wonder whether that was
the case. It just seems like it would make sense for that to be
the reason, right, Yeah, I guess so, except that would have
ended the series. But Lucky did leave the series though, so basically they
could because Lucky. They went line if they said that one of your favorites
is leaving Bunkers, Lucky did leave the Bunkers. Yeah, And I'll tell
you what was weird about that is we started the recording process with Miranda,
yeah, you know, with Carla DeVito, and she was great, she
was wonderful. It is to this day, of course, and they reconfigured
it after as the show went on to they kind of swapped it, yeah,
which was I thought was interesting. And you know, they got everybody
in and well, Lucky was very well received. You know, I was
very pleased about that, you know, because I played him, and and
and and they just you know, they work their Disney magic to kind of
weave one in and out of the other so that they, you know,
people, and I do think with cartoons that there doesn't necessarily have to be
continuity. I mean, the Simpsons don't really have any I mean, it's
Homer's doing something, you know, Bart's doing something. You know, it's
not like it's a serial show in which this happened, so therefore this has
to now next week, This will next week this way, you know,
it's not like that take the mickey out of that on the Simpsons where they're
at sort of like a comic contentel And speaking of Simpsons, that's Nancy Kurt
right, right, Nancy cart right, of course, yes, she plays
our phone, dear. Yeah, and also that was touch on Full Apart
Rabbit, Full Apot Bunny. So that's Frank. Well, Frank Welker,
we've touched on the podcast before, absolutely legend. But my memories of working
with Frank on this show in particular, do you have any memories of working
on Bunkers with Frank? Oh? Yes, yeah, we uh we you
know, he and I we worked together so many times that you know,
neither one of us knows how many. But she I remember Genny McSwain,
the Great Jenny. She she gave us an assignment that Bonkers and fall Apart
had to be running a game on somebody. There had to be little con
men or something. And and so Bonker said one thing, and and and
fall Apart came in and bump it up, it up, and and it
just we I can't recreate it, but but it's just kind of yeah,
it was kind of hysterical. He's timing and my timing matched like a glove.
And it was ridiculous. And you know what, Markley's uncle, Hey,
let's leave your family out of this, you know, And and and
we went, you know, and Frank and next thing, you know,
and Genny goes, I don't know what you just said, print it and
so so and you know, so it drove the animator's nuts because you know,
you're not supposed to overlap, but we did. I think that's sort
of just epitomizes Bonkers though, right. It was that kind of vibe and
that sort of chemistry that made the show. Yes, oh, I agree,
Yeah, his name was Bonker's not you know, steady as you goes.
Because of that, you were able to sort of test out new theories
and new sort of ways of voice acting as a result, just try new
methods. I mean, I know it's dark when you could improvise and things
like that, but Bonker's being so wacky, like, for example, you
mentioned your method before of the overlapping of the voices. Do you think Bonkers
was one of those shows that really allowed you to expand on your work as
a result of just the wackiness of the show. I think so. Yeah.
Well, it just gave a lot of freedom, a lot of freedom.
You know, it was a license to steal. I might have mentioned
this before, but readom Mareno the great reader. Marina, she's like one
of the I think she may be the only person who's wanted Grammy and ask
her and Emmy and you know, the whole spectrum. And and she she
would bring her daughter to the show a few times. And she was sitting
there and she was and she was very sweet and doing this character. And
she goes, oh my god, this is like a license to steal.
You can't I can't say anything wrong. I can't do anything wrong here.
If it's too if, I mean, if it's over the top, it's
not enough, you know. And and we all laughed, you know,
and here's rita moreno bah bah blah b b b b up uh you know,
west Side Story and on and on and on, and she's going,
this is great, and her daughter's sitting in there going, you know,
it was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. What
else are your favorite memories of being in the studio for Bunkers? Did you
have did you how often did you have the whole cast sort of in there?
Was it just usually you and Frank together or was it did you usually
have a group of people recording Bunkers? Can you remember, yeah, we
we had a group of people that absolutely, Yeah, you know, Sherry
was there, Frank Walker, Ron Pernel, Oh yeah, Ron was there
and he just loved it. We we that's why that's when we first met,
and and Jeff Bennett. You know, I just you know, it's
just crazy, and but we would have a lot of fun because one person
will say something and then we'd feed off that and then we'd explore that,
you know, just push it to the limit, and then they had to
edit, you know, so you know, I just think it was just
wonderful. You know. It was like like reading Marino said, it was
like a license to steal. You could just go over the top. There
was no such thing as too much. Yeah, I was got to touch
them before you actually brought it up. I was going to say, the
idea of doing a show where anything you do can't be perceived is wrong must
have just been so fun. Oh god, yeah, yeah, absolutely,
you know, you know, more is more. So This episode ed October
fourth, ninety three, written by Marion Wells, directed by of course Bob
Taylor. So this one wasn't actually the last episode featuring Lucky to air.
This actually was. So what they did was they ad they had nineteen Miranda
episodes. They aired nine in early ninety three, and then they returned with
began with the official premiere with the Lucky episodes, and then that first batch
of Lucky episodes, there was still twenty left, but they brought the remaining
Miranda ones and that's what this episode. That's where this episode fitted in.
So when you recorded this, you're saying that you didn't record this knowing it
was gonna be the last one. Can you remember the last Balks episode that
you did record? Like, can you remember when the show was wrapping up?
Gosh, gosh, not really, you know, because I don't even
think, you know, while we were doing it. You know, we
were just doing them, start piling them, yeah, putting them in the
can and not really counting, you know. It was it was kind of
like, because we had been derailed then put back on the boards, you
know that we recorded some shows that did not make the cut, you know,
so as a result, there were you know, we just kept on
going, kept on going, and apparently and somewhere along the line we hit
our magical number of sixty five and we made it. Yes, So you
know, it was interesting because all those shows were recorded in a batch,
weren't they, Yes, So there was there never ever a case of all
right, guys, this is it, this is the last one, make
it, make it a good one. It was never that kind of mentality.
It was always just recording in a batch. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
yeah, just kept on going. Now before earlier in the show we
had we had Bonkers or do you want to say something, Chris, Yeah,
I was gonna say I just you know, we're just talking. Do
you remember there being a sixty five episode limit on Disney shows back then?
I think Bonkers was one of the shows that fell under that, and they
had like a pretty controversial rule where they wouldn't let any series go past two
or three seasons or cumulatively, except sorry, sixty five episodes. Do you
remember it? An you think about that, Jim, do you remember that?
But you know, talked about yeah, you know what the idea then
was to cater to Disney Afternoon and and the whole thing was the sixty five
episodes would air, you know, five days a week, and that filled
up thirteen weeks, and so thirteen weeks you know times, you know.
In other words, they wanted to get a whole year's worth and they would
just hit the sixty fifth show and boom, next week they'd start over so
they'd start airing the same right from the get go. They'd still air boom
boom, boom, boom boom. And that's where that came from. That's
you know, they were trying to fill up a year sixty five weeks at
or not sixty five weeks, sixty five episodes. So if the show did
well, though, was there ever a chance I would bring it back four
more episodes? It was always just case of sixty five and then were done.
What was the reason they didn't expand on SEB shows? Well, well,
you know, we couldn't figure that out. You know, I could
not figure that out. The only show that I know they did that with
was Dark Wing. You know, they because we did sixty five Dark Wings
and they go, wow, these are really pretty good, and they Disney
and ABC TV were not the same company at that time, and ABC said,
listen, can we get more of these? You know, because they
were on Saturday morning on ABC and five days a week on you know,
Disney Channel or or in syndication like in Los Angeles it was Channel nine,
and so they just kept going. They said, oh wow, okay,
yeah, NBC or ABC wants more. Well okay, And I think We
ended up doing a like close to one hundred, maybe over one hundred dark
Wing docks. So there were exceptions, yes, there were before we before
we expand here I just want to touch on, so this is sort of
the end. Here I'm looking at and we've got your Lucky's wife and daughter
here. The memories of those characters as well, Oh they're very sweet.
There's there's Sherry, and you know, it was just it was kind of
bittersweet. It was very sweet, you know, you know, you got
to see him as a family man, and it kind of and it enhanced
Yeah, I was going to say it outlined the fact that he was the
human and Barker's was the tune. Yes, and you know, ne'er the
Twain shall meet except in cartoons. So it was interesting that some of the
characters had to hit a ride to Washington with Luckiness episode because they weren't in
the Miranda episodes, because the Miranda episodes were made before these ones. So
they're like, hey, fall apart, Rabbit, and hey, everybody else,
mind going to Washington because you ain't gonna be around anymore in these Miranda
episodes. So everyone's sort of like, yeah, yeah, it was a
little disjointed for me when I when I saw the way it was put together,
But it all came out in the wash, it did. Yeah,
all to ask you did so when you had these episodes and when these shows
were airing, had you finished recording the sixty five before it had started airing
or were you still recording them as it went as it was airing. I
think we still had a few to go, so few to go? Ok,
yeah, yeah, I believe so. Yeah. I think they always
were like that, and it was always a thrill because I was literally in
every series of Disney Afternoon and you know, because we do like forty or
fifty or whatever, and then boom it would premiere, and you know,
the remaining episodes were just a blast. Yeah, oh here we go.
Here, here's our crowder Kracker. Yeah, Carlo Cabdo. Look at that
beautiful voice actors there and the cast. You just freeze fame on that cast
and you just think, wow, we all one show. It is incredible.
But yeah, that was the end of our Lucky on On Bonkers.
So there you go, all right this as well before we we wrap up
today. Of course, we did promise the people that Lucky and bonkers would
be paying us a visit. We want to get their thoughts on this final
episode of Lucky. So do you know if they're around it all? Jim
Oh, for crying out loud? What do you want now? I'm trying
to relax in my retirement and you guys keep pulling me back. What do
you want? Come on? Make it quick? Wait? What time is
it? You know what? I got a golf I got a tea time?
And I'm sorry, what did you want? I don't know, Lucky.
You have to excuse me or you won't, because either way, you
know what, I gotta go to the bathroom. I'll be right back,
Lucky. Uh so yeah, okay, keep themselves busy then, yeah,
yeah, yeah, they're still very busy obviously, are they? Are they
fun characters to revisit? Oh goshya, yeah. I mean you know,
I had a ball doing them. I had a ball. And you know,
Chris and I just watched the episode. Uh, I don't know,
an hour ago or whatever it was. It was so nostalk for me.
It was very nostalgic. It was, you know, it was kind of
like revisiting old friends, like going over to an old buddy's house that you
haven't seen since high school, and you know, you're sitting on the porch
and having a lemonade, and it was great. You know, I'm very,
very fond of all the characters that I've kind of voiced and given life
to, and it's it's just a blessing. It really is. The beauty
of these two. It's kind of like the dynamic of Pooh and Tiger when
you do two characters on the show. If someone says, do the Pooh
voice, you can sort of break into Tigers one, have a bit of
a conversation with yourself as opposed to just oh yeah yeah, as opposed to
just having to do the one voice. If someone says, du bonkers,
you're just naturally bust out lucky as well, and have that little conversation.
I think must be such a delight, you know. Oh yeah, well,
there's no question about it. After all. Don't forget I'm very cute.
I'm just kidding. No, Bulkers for crying out. Listen, I
gotta go, uh, y'all leave you to bonkers t l K. Here
we go anyway. Yeah, yes, well, Chris, there's anything else
you want to touch on with Bunkers before we have before you bat now,
we did an episode recently, but look, anything else you want to ask
Jim, Yeah, no, just about this episode. I just thought i'd
add a little fun fact. And it has not aired on television since nineteen
ninety five. It was pulled from syndication in nineteen ninety five because of the
Oklahoma hom acidic bombings, and it has not been seen by anybody, by
any public until it came back on Disney Plus and they re released it.
So this is one of like the rarest episodes of Bonkers that we just watched.
And I think that's fascinating that that's what from nineteen ninety five until when
did Disney Plus come out just a couple of years ago? Yeah, just
three or four years ago now, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so it's been over twenty years. In this episode, along with a couple
others, there was a couple just be cause like how you mentioned Brendan earlier
in the episode, just because of the theme of you know, like a
terrorist plot essentially, you know, it was a little too sensitive for the
times and just whatever in ninety three at kids show terrorist too close to Home?
Yeah yeah, so really, I mean, how many times in two
years. Did this episode really air? You know, probably not that many,
and you're raised, that's that's a good observation. Yeah. I felt
like bunk Is just in general just had disappeared for a good while, didn't
it. It sure did. Yeah. It was one of those shows that
we always say. It was like, did I imagine that show? Because
as a kid of the nineties, I always remembered the theme song. I
was like, that show had to exist. But I'm like, am I
just confusing it for like a scene in Roger Rabbit? Like did it actually?
Was it real? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, well it was?
And then again not quaite. It's interesting. I've been doing some research on
bunk isn't He had his own mascot at Disneyland for a while, and you
had a whole range of merchandis, and you had like the action figures and
the cars at Burger King and all that kind of stuff, So it was
heavily market Yes, exactly, Ray, Yeah, Burger King is one of
my proudest accomplishments. Thank you, Thank you for bringing that up. What
would be Donald's, I don't know what would be Bunker's burger of choice from
Burger King? Do you reckon the one closest. I like this one,
the one with the cheese and the burger and the King thank you, or
the mac oh you know or the mac King. No, anyway, you
know, I'm like Kik taking fried chicken too. What did he say in
this episode? He said this was his favorite meal food? Yes, yeah,
yeah, there was actually a good gag I liked as well. It
was I think it was fall Apart that said. It was something like he
was reading through the cans and the last ones like refrigerate after opening or something
that was the last clue, and I was like, that was really good
stuff. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the great Frank
Welker, the one of a kind. Yeah, and you know, we
don't hear much for Frank anymore, but man, we need to get this
man on because he is he is Mount Rushmore. Oh, he's amazing.
Could not be a nicer guy. He's a mile and a half away as
we speak. Or just open your window, yelly out, tell them to
come over. Give me. Yeah, yeah, okay, let's do that.
You know, you know I will try. I told you that before.
Yes, I think there should be a big public cray. Yes,
Frank, we need to get you. We need to celebrate you, mate,
because you are an absolute jam. But guys, thank you for listening
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So you guys are absolute legends and were bringing you more episodes of comings
commentaries in the next few months, going back and revisiting the old Disney animated
cartoons. Oh, here we go, Jim's holding up a Bonker's plush.
Now that's gonna be worth something right now? Is that that's the Yes?
There he is. Hello, everybody, come I down. You're the nuts
contestant. Oh no, wait, never mind, No you're not. Anyway,
It's really nice to see you. Okay, it's actually I can envision
Bonkers hosting his own game show. I feel like that would work. I
can't. I do too, I mean I do too. There we go.
That would definitely work. It would definitely work. We need to make
that happen. Yeah, we need bo would come on that way. We
need to come back. But yeah, you guys, you do want to
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