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How are you doing? Oh,
dare It's me tigger am dug wing duck.

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It's me buncos keep babcat all right? Yeah? Did a rate your

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favorite biblin you design? Hold or
not Go. My name is Jim Cummings

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and welcome to tune Jim. Welcome
to tuned in with Jim Cummings here on

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the four Finger Discount Network. I
am Brendan Dando, joined right now by

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the professor Oh pop Culture. Here
is Guy Davis. Always a pleasure to

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be here. We have producer Chris
in the studio. How are you doing,

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mister Judge? Hello, Hello,
doing good? And now, of

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course we are joined by the only
man to be thrown out of every nightclub

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in Tunetown. It is mister Jim
Cummings. Jim, how are you sir?

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Oh, it's another day in paradise. Thanks for inviting me out to

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play. So I'm just I know, I just joke there. But have

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you ever been thrown out of out
of a nightclub or thrown out of a

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venue for anything? I know you're
a bit of a rascal when you're younger.

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Have you ever been thrown out of
a place before? Um? Nothing

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worth bragging about Yes, so that's
a yes, but yeah I was much

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younger. Yes, escorted out perhap, Yes, yes, there you go,

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not kicking and screaming. All right, okay, well how are we

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anyway? Gentlemen? How are we
doing this? Fine? Weeks? Well?

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Here? Yeah? Yeah, it
couldn't be happier if I was twins

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ready to go to Tutown. Yes, I'm incredibly excited because, as we

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alluded to Tunetown, we are here
to talk about Bonkers, a show that

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I absolutely loved a daughter as a
kid. It's very near and dear to

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my heart. Although it seemed towards
late nineties, early two thousands there it

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seemed to sort of quickly trail off
into obscurity and you couldn't find it.

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And I always saw it as one
of those shows where I sit around and

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I'd go, did I imagine that
show? Did that show actually happened?

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Because the theme song was always in
my head. I'm like, it definitely

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happened, But did anyone else see? It? Was I imagining this show?

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And then of course Disney Plus came
along and boom, everyone remembered Bonkers

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again. So firstly, yes,
when someone says bonkers to you, what

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are the first memories that fled back
into your mind, Like, what what

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does Bonkers mean to you? Gosh, it was it was a crazy time

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in animation that it was. It
followed on the heels of who framed Roger

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Rabbit? And I think the idea
of a tune, a living, you

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know, cartoon character living in making
his way in the real world to the

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best of his ability, was very
much live and kicking. And so that's

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what happened with Bunkers. He was
tuned and in cartoons, and that studio

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broke down or closed down, and
he was basically fired and had to go

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out into the real world and make
his way, and he literally fell into

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police work and that's where he met
the amazing Lucky Picqual and the rest is

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history. It just seems amazing to
me that a show that was seemed so

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popular at the time we could sort
of disappear because you didn't really There was

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a couple of video games of Bonkers, but he hasn't really been talked about.

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You can't really find any information about
Bonkers online. It's just so weird

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that this big Disney show just seemed
to somewhat disappear. Is it is it

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weird to you that Bonkers isn't talked
about as much as what it should.

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Yeah, you know, I really
like him. I like doing him,

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and I was buck lucky paqual,
you know, so I was you would

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get mad at myself and throw myself
down the stairs and apologize to myself and

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and uh suage myself. And you
know it was I And I enjoyed that

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aspect of it because it, you
know, spoke to my career ativitry.

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But you know, I thought it
was an adorable show right from the jump,

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and uh, it just kept getting
better when Bob Taylor took it over.

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Yes, uh, And I you
know, I just thought it was

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really innovative and it was of its
time, I think too, And that

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might be the key to why it's
not on fire now, so to speak,

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like dark Wing is is still it
was of its time, But that

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kind of action translates, you know, it goes across that we could we

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could have written dark Wing Duck tomorrow
and done it and he would have been

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popular all over again. But I
think Barker's trading off the who framed Roger

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rabbit Groove, I think that made
it a bit of its time. I

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don't know, well, speaking of
you know, digging it right from the

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jump, I mean, do you
wonder if you could sort of take us

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back to when you sort of first
learned that this wacky bobcat. I mean,

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so, how are you how he
was pitched too, and what inspirations

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you drew upon too, I guess
bringing to life. I mean before he

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had his own series, he was
a part of the Bonker segments on Raw

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Tunage, right, that's another episode
in itself, But I mean, can

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you sort of take us back to
the very beginning and how you got to

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know the character and how you i
know, I guess fleshed him out.

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Well, you know, they it
was very obvious that they were still they

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wanted to capitalize on Roger Rabbit.
So there was a certain you know,

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there was a certain aspect there.
He had to be whacky and zany and

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nutty and you know, off the
cuff and just bouncing all over the place,

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which he was, and I think
that worked really well, and especially

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with Lucky Paquell, his human counterpart, because because part of the appeal that

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Roger Rabbit had was how he would
interact, you know, with you know,

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Bob Hoskins character and just driving humans
nuts and so that was one of

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the keys. And that's where I
think Lucky Paquel came in and he was

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driven nuts, you know, by
Bonkers all the time, and that was

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part of the fun. It became
part of the show. You know.

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It was like, all right,
why don't you want to do now,

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Bonkers, Oh, for crying out
loud, let's go. You know,

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he's constantly seeking validation from Lucky,
wasn't he. That's been very similar.

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Drabbit was like, you know,
oh yeah, yeah, he was like

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his little favorite nephew or or grandson
or something. He was trying to always

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please him. He was trying to
always please everyone. You know, he

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fed off that. I watched them
episodes yesterday and it's the chime of it

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where at some point you watching you
think, Lucky, why are you saying

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mean to Bonkers? But by the
end he always had a little sort of

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bondy. He clearly likes the guy. It's just oh yeah, I mean,

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it would be a haven Bulk is
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all the time. It would be
frustrating at times, yes, it would

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it would be it would be yeah, I understand Lucky's position completely. But

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then he's so a door ripple and
he's so cute. Did you just have

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to love him? And so Lucky
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that always the Bunker's voice or did
it evolve from your original idea to be

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whacky Loot? Did you do a
voice and they went more Roger Rabbit,

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more Whacky Ollot or was it always
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It was an interesting process because they
wanted to say this is gonna be sort

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of like Roger Rabbit, but nobody
wanted to say this is gonna be sort

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of like Roger Rabbit, because then
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doing whatever stealing I don't know.
So it was kind of like yeah,

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uh huh wink wink, and so
you kind of knew. And this one

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I can tell you. And it's
a it's a cliche when casting director said,

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well, you know what, I
don't know one hundred percent what I'm

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looking for here, but I'll know
it when I hear it. Yeah,

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and so okay, uh and myself
and probably a couple of hundred people,

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I mean, everybody auditioned for this, you know, even if it was

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going to be a branch off of
Roger Rabbit. Is that because it was

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so big, it's like, oh, I want to I want to get

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it. Yeah, yeah, I
think so. I think they had big

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plans, you know, and they
were they were going to really push it,

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and they did. You know,
he made TV commercials and he sold

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sugar pops and you know all the
kids cereal and you know, probably popcorn.

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I can't remember. But it was
fun and um, and they knew

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they knew it had to be over
the top and it had to be this

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and that and and that. I
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that UM. I think Chris and
I we were talking earlier. Um,

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when you're casting something on camera off
camera, you can, I think you

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can call people back once for a
callback. That's called a callback, and

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then you can do it again if
you still do but if you do it

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more than three times, you have
to actually give him a session fee.

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Well I ended up doing it five
times, and uh, you know,

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there'd be like a dozen people in
the room, like on the fifth time,

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the fourth time and the fifth time
there were only three of us.

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And she told us, she goes, okay, Balkers is in the room.

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It was. I think it was
Andrea. So we're gonna see what

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happens here, and I think no. The first guy to go in he

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went in, and then he came
out and he was very arrogant and he

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had a big hit TV show and
he walked by and he picked it up

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and he goes, you, fellas
can leave what I think I've got this

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sad? And he was off and
h was he smoking? Yeah? And

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yeah he was smoking. And uh
it was Jim Carrey obviously, you know,

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or not obviously. And the other
guy was Max's headroom. He was

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Matt Frewer. So I'm thinking,
Okay, I'm either doomed or I'm going

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to beat the shit out of these
two guys and so and a. And

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then you know, finally, after
probably another week or so, I got

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a phone call, well you're barkers, and I went, yes, so

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I'd be spark Carries totally nuts.
It was crazy and it was a great

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time. And that was Jim Carry
Yeah, yeah, Jim who yeah,

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yeah. I would love to have
seen what his version of bonkers was.

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Did you see it in person?
What his version was? Or wasn't it?

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the description of this show. Was
Bonker's a role that you were genuinely excited

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to try and get, Like,
can you remember the last time you're that

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excited for a role or you are
you always just as excited for any role?

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I'm always yeah, I'm always that
excited for a role. Yeah,

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I mean, Handa was another one
that really really got me going. And

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Dark Wreen yeah, you know,
and some of the classics. I just

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was flabbergast, like Pooh and Tigger, you know, I mean, yeah,

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Ray was another Biggie I gotta stop
talking because I'm just gonna go down,

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and another wait, I'm not done
the cat. Yeah, and then

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Carnage. I don't know if I
mentioned this, but he was on Tailspin

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anyway. But yeah, but that
was for that wasn't for the Bonkers show.

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That was for Raw Tuniche obviously.
So Raw Tuniche gets canceled after only

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twelve episodes. How long after the
cancelation were you approached for the Bonkers series

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or was it something that they that
was discussed you in production of waw tu

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Niche. Yeah, it was.
It was kind of just grandfathered in.

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It was it was just tacked on. You know, they had half an

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hour to fill, so they were
going to fill it. So when the

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show got canceled Raw Tunies, you
already knew Bonkers was getting his own series,

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Bonkers. Yeah, Bonkers was over
in the waiting in the wings,

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and and that's when they phased out
a bit of oh oh gosh, Miranda

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right and phased in you know,
Lucky pikel That's an incredible story. In

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itself. We're gonna be delving into
that in a few moments as well.

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Yeah, I just think that the
production of this show is just that the

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production history of Bonkers is so interesting
that I'm really looking forward to discussing it.

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But yeah, so, so you
knew that Boxer was getting it,

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so you went disappointed when Raw Tunie
got cancer. You're like, well,

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goodbye everybody else? Yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that. Yeah,

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and that was alluded to, I
think in the one episode I did

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it? Okay, did the cancelation
have anything to do with the fact that

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they were just thinking of the spinoffs? What was Raw tun Hige canceler just

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because of writings? Do you know
why Raw tun Niche was canceled? No?

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No, I don't know why,
and I don't and I don't know

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why things that are going through the
roof ratings wise aren't renewed and done more

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of. Yeah, I mean Dark
Wing would be a really good example,

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and Chippendale Rescue Rangers was another one. But dark Wing was the biggest that

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I can think of, you know, in my experience, and it was

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like number and because we did the
sixty five episodes that you do to make

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up like a quarter of the year. And then we did I think two

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episodes two seasons for ABC because back
then ABC and Disney were not under the

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same roof. But so there were
plenty of dark Wings there. You could

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watch one Saturday morning, six days
a week basically. Yeah, and no,

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no cartoon that I can't think of
was on six days a week.

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That was. That was the thing. Besides the Simpsons. It felt like

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Disney just owned the animation world in
the NY at that time. It's just

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you could not escape the Disney animation
and animated shows. Absolutely. Hannah Barbara

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was in there and Marvel was there
too, but it wasn't you know,

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Super Friends was They were kind of
mediocre friends if Yeah, I know this

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is the Bonker's one. But you
mentioned dark Wing Duck there, and there

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are numerous websites claiming that there was
a dark Wing Duck reboot in the works.

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I'd like to know about it.
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that to bed, right because you
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works, surely dark Wing Duck himself
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one would think, And you know, we did have a little I think

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I might have been a two episode
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Rake Mallard came back and blah blah
blah, and it was a really hard,

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hard episode to follow. But there
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version of dark Wing Duck and it
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ended up being Nega Duck and it
was it was interesting, but there

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was somebody else doing I can't remember
the name, but it was kind of

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like a dark Wing TV show that
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like I said, it was little, little convoluted, but interesting,

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and ultimately it came out and everybody
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yeah, definitely, I'll take more. I'll be to put it. If

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they call, I'll answer. How
about that, Jim, And let to

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go back to Roger rev for just
a second, Veno Mine. I mean,

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clearly the influence of that film was
fairly heavy on Bonkers, and that

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even though Greg Wiseman, who worked
on some of the initial episodes, has

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sort of denied that. He said
the Tomb World aspect was really the only

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inspiration for the movie. But I
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and just recalled what a huge influence
and what a big splash. Who framed

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Roger Rabbit made? It was agazine
covers, magazine articles. I agree,

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the world coverage. Did it really
feel like a game changer for those people

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in animation? I mean for pretty
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really broadening the scope of what we
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tell. I remember when the one
scene when the toaster or one gets mad

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in the kitchen and walks off the
set and it goes right into the real

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world, and I was thinking,
oh, wow, okay, I've never

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seen that before. I mean,
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you got the juxtaposition, like you
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of course Bob Hoskins doing all the
things with Roger, and it's kind

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of reminded me of Lucky Picquell and
Bonkers. Yeah, you know, some

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of the interactions there, so I
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some Roger Rabbit lessons. At the
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thing, so um yeah, and
I thought it was done well and that

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movie was just so so groundbreaking for
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you know it was. I mean, one thing that just always stands

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out to me for who framed Roger
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handcuffs with I can't even remember the
detective's name, but I remember hearing a

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story about the animators saying something about
like bumping the lamp they wanted to put

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really push the limit. And in
that scene, you know, they bumped

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the lamp and you can see how
much how difficult that shot would be with

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a live actor and then matching the
lighting onto an animated thing that's not even

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there, and it just shows like
how how much they were really trying to

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push the button with that, and
then you see it transcending, you know,

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years later with bonkers and then even
influencing the mask and just all different

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kinds of mediums. Absolutely, yeah, it's very true. What I remember

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the most is that poor little shoe
getting phone into that acid, getting the

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stuff of Nightmas. Yeah. That
and then you find a foster off a

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cliff. What are you doing to
me? Uh? The one one kick

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I got up that was a shave
and a hair cut and no tune can

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resist it, no tone you're waiting
for it too bit, you know,

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good stuff. You watched Rodger Rabbit, and I feel like the voice of

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Rodge Rabbit and Bunkers there's the similarities
there. Did you look at Rodger Rabbit

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for any inspiration or did you have
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No, you said that they went
to Ye, it's like it's meant to

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be sort of a branch of Rodger
Ubbot. Did you ever look at Rodger

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Ubbit as any form of inspiration for
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that he's well, you know the
description, you know, he's I mean,

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he was every bit as energetic I
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Rodger Rebbitt was never mentioned in the
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no, no, they just they
just indicated that they were going to tap

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into the tune world, you know, so in that I guess, and

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that's way, but it wasn't even
mentioned. Yeah, but they saw I

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think they saw this vein of opportunity
here. Um. Wow. You know,

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if we treat cartoon characters like they've
got their own town or they've got

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their own jobs, they can get
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and that. Um, maybe we
can Let's let's make one a carp yeah,

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you know, because cops get into
oh currents of grief. And then

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let's make him one Yeah, partner
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carp and he's kind of a curmudgeon. And uh and then you get that

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that ying and yang. So it
worked. I thought, yeah, I

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touched, I touched on earlier about
the production of the show. I want

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to double into it now. So
it's an incredible story. Really. We

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have what we call the Miranda episodes
and the Lucky pacal Era, who were

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both played Bonker's partner in their respective
ears, so ye had. Dwayne Capizzi

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and Robert Hathcock were the original team
to produce S Bonkers, although when the

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first twelve Miranda episodes returned from being
animated, Disney apparently weren't happy with how

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it look and how it turned out. Have you any memories of seeing those

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episodes? Did you ever see them? And what was it that Disney should

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like about them? Yeah? I
you know, I I liked them,

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you know, And uh, I
thought Miranda right. First of all,

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she had a pretty cool name.
Because you have to be read your Miranda

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rights when you're thrown in jail,
and it was Carla DeVito played Miranda,

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and she was a dolly. She
was married to Robbie Benson and she was

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an amazing singer for a guy named
meat Loaf and she was in his videos

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and he was just ye yeah,
and she was great. She was a

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great gul So, I mean,
I got along with everybody like that.

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But I think, what Bob,
I'm sorry that uh not not Bob half

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cock, but Bob robbed bob tail. Well he brought by bringing in Lucky.

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It gave it, gave it,
gave Bonker someone to really play off

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like he couldn't he couldn't jump all
around, you know, Miranda and dive

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down her shirt and come up in
her back pocket, because that would have

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been like, oh whoa, whoa, that was quite a crippy just took

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there. Oh boy, where's the
video? You know? Whereas he did

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that with Lucky Paquelle all the time. You know, some big guy that

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looks kind of like uh Curly of
the Three Stooges or Oliver Hardy, you

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know, and and he was he
was a bit of foil, yeah,

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you know, it was too polite
kind yeah yeah, And he could you

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know, Lucky Paquelle could take a
punchy or and be blown up and somehow

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still survive. So yeah, I
think that. I think that's what they

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were looking for. Yeah, if
you're gonna have mismatch patners, then you

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know one's got to be infuriated by
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And I just want to chime in
here too, because it's always fascinated

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me, Like when you were actually
recording, would you in the booth,

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you know, switch from Lucky to
Bonkers and back and forth, or would

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you do one takes one character and
then another take is another? Yeah?

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I did for the most part,
I would bonkers. Please. Well,

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I can't do this. I'm not
even done with my coffee. Come on,

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Lucky, be a spark. We're
just getting a red gun. Did

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it all right? Fine, you
run down to the park and I'll watch.

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Okay, I'm gone, you know. And then when they were and

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I kind of came up with we
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an overlap and you constantly, you
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the thing is, let's even if
I were twins, I wouldn't have been

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able to overlap because the animators have
to have this track for Bunkers, and

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now we're moving his lips. Then
they have to have this track for Lucky

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Piquel or you know whoever, and
now we're going to do their lips and

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make their face. So you can't
have them on the same track because they

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overlap. So I accidentally invented a
little way to give them the same tracks

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but still give them the feeling of
the comedy of the overlapping, you know,

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and one guy. And so I
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and it would be, Oh,
come on, Lucky, let's go.

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Yeah, yeah, I know,
I know, but but don't worry

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about it, because I got discovered. I got Oh no, I'll drive,

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you know. And then they would
play that in my ear and then

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we would record, Yeah, well
that's because you're a tune. No,

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No, I am not gonna do
no, I'm gonna drive. All right,

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you can drive. And I would
go back and forth and it would

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go boom, it would come right
together. Wow, So you didn't live

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in you will listen? Yeah,
well, yeah, what's the degreed dificutly

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on that? Yeah? Uh not
not very I mean it, there's no

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room for error, is it?
Uh no, but we had it down,

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you know, and I knew about
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I mean I just had the luxury
of knowing my own timing. Yeah,

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you know what I mean I had
I wasn't doing it with someone else.

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Yeah, so you know, I
I've fed the lines and then I responded

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to them. So prior to all
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of Lucky was going to be introduced, I mean, were there auditions for

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someone to voice Lucky or was it
just a case of we got Jimmy.

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I'm pretty sure. Yeah, no, No, there were many named,

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many people really auditioned for him.
Yeah. I think ed Asner, we

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even you know, it just feels
like it just feels like being at a

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menu and reading the entire menu was
still just ordering what you always order anyway.

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It's like, what the time of
all the auditions? Just yeah,

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Jimmy the whole time? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, he's already there.

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Something that just popped in my head
too. Do they do they pay

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you separately for each voice? Like
is that another technically if they're auditioning,

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is that another page? Yeah?
Yeah, true. I Well, the

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way it works is in animation,
you can do two voices and it's usually

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your character and the male man or
you know, the pizza delivery guy.

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Hey, I gotta you know,
here's a package. You say him right

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here, thanks for a lot,
Pally, then you're going. But it

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wouldn't ever be the two main characters, which you know, Bonkers was and

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obviously and and like a piquel,
so um, you know I wanted the

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third character. By the way,
you get a ten percent bump. I

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forgot to tell you that, so
you know, like a thousand bucks,

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then you've got eleven hundred. So
I don't know what the price is now,

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but you know it's that type of
thing. You've voiced many characters and

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Bonkers. It wasn't just ease two. Oh oh yeah yeah, so so

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I did. Okay, really I
think everybody should watch it on Disney Plus.

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By the way, I was curious
how it breaks down, so yeah,

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yeah, yeah, that's it.
Yeah. Getting back to when those

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first twelve came back in the Miranda
episodes, they called and they weren't happy

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about it. Was there any fear
at the time of all, is this

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show going to actually get the green
light? Or was it just they're not

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terrible that as they could be better. No, we don't. I don't

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even think we had much downtime.
Okay, you know we might have taken

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two weeks off three, you know, because they had it in the works.

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Well you know, they were getting
them back and they were saying,

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well, this is pretty good.
It's not bad. You know, it

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could be better. I don't know
how to make it back. And then

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Bob Taylor came along. He said, little air, how about this,

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and he revamped the show. If
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He's got different first of all,
in a police uniform instead of a

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green turtleneck. That's one thing.
And um, you know he's in a

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different world, that's for sure.
And uh, you know, I think

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the animation was more fanciful. It
was more I don't know, lighthearted for

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lack of a better word. I
felt the Lucky era was more who framed

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Roger Rabbit esque with the way it
was answering back and forth. Do you

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feel like they were doing those first
twelve episodes trying to steer away from being

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too Rodger Rabbit and then this went
you know what stuff, let's just let's

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just go for steer into it.
Yeah, it just could be yeah,

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I you know, I never had
a conversation like that to verify that,

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but but that certainly is what happened, because the first first X amount were

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good. They were good, but
they weren't like, wow, that was

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good. Well let's this again.
And I'm glad they stuck in there because

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he I think he's a bit of
a gem, you know, like I

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said, he was of his time, but you know, I think it

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works now why wikipeci in half'clock replace? Then? Was it? They couldn't

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come to terms on a new direction. And then you had Robert Taylor saying,

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oh no, well I'm ready to
go in this direction. Here they

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went, well, this guy's willing
to go the way we want, we're

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going to stick with him. Like
how did that come about? Well?

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Why did they do? They leave? They pushed out, do you know

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it? Well, you know,
Disney has a stable you know of I've

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been over there at Disney Animation,
and everybody kind of helps everybody else.

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Yes, you know, there's a
lot of you know you know, you

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know, well, well we're gonna
have a guest writer, We're gonna have

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a guest producer, and they all
they all kind of bounce off each other

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and they're all pals. I can't
imagine anybody getting mad and saying, oh,

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you've stole my show, you know, because it doesn't come those decisions

407
00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:04.240
don't come from your peers, they
come from your bosses. Yes, so

408
00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:08.960
so there's no animosity of any type, like all working on other various shows

409
00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:11.799
like goof Troop and everything anyway,
So it was it wasn't like you're being

410
00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:14.400
fired. I was just like,
well, you got work on that show

411
00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:17.559
instead. I guess yeah, I'm
sure it was yeah, because they were

412
00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:22.119
still there. How did Karla take
the news because she was essentially no longer

413
00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:23.960
gonna be on Bonkers anymore. I
mean, she's her first real big voice

414
00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:26.200
acting geek, and all of a
sudden she's not there anymore. I'm surprised

415
00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:30.519
she didn't get another role on the
show, or does she not want another

416
00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:32.880
role where she goes, well,
I'm not Miranda, I'm out. Do

417
00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:36.920
you remember anything. I don't.
I don't know we'd ever talked talked about

418
00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:41.200
that, um, you know,
but I think there was a bit of

419
00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:45.240
a lark in it for her,
you know, you know, her husband

420
00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:48.359
was Robbie Benson. Then she's an
amazing singer. You know, she had

421
00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:52.200
that big song, big hit song
with meat Loaf for everybody can remember that,

422
00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:56.720
dude. Um, but you know
she had other fish to fry.

423
00:27:57.359 --> 00:28:02.039
Yeah and uh so yeah. But
still though Disney Afternoon's voice, I think,

424
00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:03.759
gig, you're not going to turn
that down? No, no,

425
00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:07.480
no, no, yeah I didn't. When so when the new directions of

426
00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:11.119
Robert Hayley's taking the show in a
new direction, did you have any input

427
00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:14.519
into that that new direction of the
show or did you just be told this

428
00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:17.160
is where we're going now. And
what were your feelings when you were told

429
00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:19.519
this is the direction we're heading now
with the show. I was glad,

430
00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:23.599
yeah, you know, I was
glad that they had something a new concept

431
00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:26.680
waiting in the wings, which is
kind of what the way it felt.

432
00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:30.640
And uh, I was elated.
I was like, Okay, yeah,

433
00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:33.200
we're still doing We're still going.
Let's let's do it. Let's do it,

434
00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.119
you know, take a week or
two off and jump right back in.

435
00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:42.359
And the only thing that we had
to wait for was casting new people

436
00:28:42.519 --> 00:28:48.240
like Earl Bone was as chief Knifki. Yeah, Ron Perlman was in there.

437
00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:52.359
There are a lot of people,
you know, Bonkers had an amazing

438
00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:57.440
guest starable cast, not just cast
in general. Yeah, oh yeah,

439
00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:03.039
oh yeah, and was amazing as
Chief Knifty you know Bunkers. Yeah,

440
00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:07.759
you know that that kind of dithering
kind of guy. And uh and and

441
00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:12.119
you know it was easy for me
to be Piquel and Bonkers because I knew

442
00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:18.759
how to drive myself crazy, you
know. So so it worked. You

443
00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:22.480
know what would you have saying,
but would have been the most notable differences

444
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:25.759
between the Miranda and the Lucky episodes? Besides the fact that you were doing

445
00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:27.279
two characters, the two main ones, what were the more notable differences?

446
00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:32.720
Could you sense it change in the
tone of the comedy or yes? Yeah,

447
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:37.440
because you know Miranda. I mean
again, you know he could he

448
00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:41.720
could bug the hell out of Lucky
Pequel. You know, he could drive

449
00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:42.880
him nuts, and he was going
to be in every show and he'd be

450
00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:45.799
standing in there right no them,
And like I said before, there was

451
00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:49.359
a lot of slapstick humor that you
couldn't do with this nice young lady.

452
00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:52.920
Yeah, you know, you're not
gonna put a pie in her face.

453
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.680
You're not going to throw her into
the mud or dump a bucket of fish

454
00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:59.720
on her head. You know,
if you did, it would not be

455
00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:03.960
on now. Yeah, you know, there were no girls, and there

456
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:08.000
wasn't a fourth stooge named Dorothy.
You know. The three stooges were slapstick

457
00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:11.880
comedy all the way. And you
know Balkris was in that category. So

458
00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:15.119
completely get what you're saying that too. It's completely correct. And what you're

459
00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:18.880
saying, you could not do all
those things to a female character. But

460
00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:21.880
was there any pushback by saying,
well, you were, you got a

461
00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:23.960
female lead and now all of a
sudden you're removing the female lead and you

462
00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:27.519
were placing it with another male.
Was there any pushback on that or not?

463
00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:32.119
Not to my knowledge, that's your
knowledge, Okay, No, I

464
00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:36.720
don't think so. And besides,
he had a little daughter, yes he

465
00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:37.920
did. He had a lovely wife
and daughter. Yeah. Yeah, and

466
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:45.759
of course uh and Sherry and um
and also uh, my good buddy.

467
00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:49.720
You know, April Winchell was was
my wife again, and I've had two

468
00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:56.400
wives in cartoons named Peg and now
I'm married to Peggy. So you never

469
00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:00.240
know, art imitates life or something. Alously, had Nancy cart right there

470
00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:03.039
for a while as Forn Deer as
well. Yes, that's right, Nancy

471
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:07.079
Current. Yeah, yeah, she's
a sweetie. We mentioned earlier. The

472
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:11.519
look of the Bonker's character also went
through some changes as well, a bit

473
00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:15.319
of an overhaul during This Island.
I mean, I was wondering about your

474
00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:18.359
and your thoughts on that, and
you look at and maybe how if it,

475
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.160
if it changed, you approached if
it changed, how you approached the

476
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.839
role at all? No, because
you know, when when we started back

477
00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:30.240
in there were no you know,
the animation is the last Yeah, okay,

478
00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:32.240
you know, it's the last thing
you see, so you're not even

479
00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:33.920
seeing sketches or anything like that or
sort of rough dripping. Yeah, and

480
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.119
he still looked the same, kin't
you know? He just had you know,

481
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.039
when he was when they were pulling
his eyes out or pulling his ears

482
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:45.200
over and tearing them around his head
or what have you. That was in

483
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:51.599
a animation. I didn't have to
There were no actual Bobcat's harm during the

484
00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:55.279
production of this character. I'll just
find it that, you know, you

485
00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:59.519
are bonkers, and if you're going
through a character design change, you just

486
00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:01.960
think that at least say, hey, Jim, your thoughts. Yeah,

487
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:07.440
but then they never asked for your
input. You're just Jim the bar stodes.

488
00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:12.039
They didn't do anything like that.
No, no, but I'm okay

489
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:15.559
with that. It wasn't necessary,
you know, Yeah, we knew at

490
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:17.559
that point, we knew what we
were doing, yes, and it was

491
00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:22.920
an improvement, So it was yeah, I can. I don't even remember

492
00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:25.599
the Lucky Pacal. I don't even
I didn't remember the Miranda episodes when I

493
00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:30.079
was a kid. But the original
broadcast order for this show throws everything out

494
00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:36.079
of whack, since nine of the
original Miranda episodes they aired earlier in ninety

495
00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:39.000
three, constant culminating on June sixth, my mom and My sister's birthday.

496
00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:44.160
Then the show premiered for syndication on
September fourth, my Birthday, with the

497
00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:49.000
new format with Lucky pisal in the
two part Going Bonkers Slash Got Happy Birthday,

498
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:53.319
then after the major then after that
majority of the block of the Lucky

499
00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:58.640
piccal Our episodes aired, the remainder
of the Miranda episodes aired, and then

500
00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:01.720
a further twenty episodes. So it
must have been so confusing for the kids

501
00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:05.640
at home watching his going why was
there a woman? Now it's back to

502
00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:07.880
Macall. Now it's Miranda. Now
it's back to Macaula. Did you have

503
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:12.599
any idea that was happening at the
time and confusing go on this podcast?

504
00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:17.480
Yeah, no, it's a no. You know, I can remember watching

505
00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:24.200
cartoons as a kid in Gotch there
was one named Basco and uh Calvin and

506
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:29.599
the Colonel and Rocky and Bullwinkle,
and it never occurred to me that there

507
00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:32.480
was any linear transformation or yeah,
yeah, I can't know, it just

508
00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:36.400
was. It was Okay, I
like this cartoon. Oh, I like

509
00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:38.400
this one too. Yeah. Oh, here's somebody new I like it.

510
00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:43.799
You know, That's that's what I
hope happened. It looks like it did.

511
00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:45.640
Yeah, so I suppose you're not
really overthinking it when your kids just

512
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:50.599
bright colors and funny wackiness. Oh
yeah, absolutely. And where's my chocolate

513
00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:54.799
milk? What was his kid's question? What was your treat of choice when

514
00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:58.680
you're watching cartoons as a kid?
Was it cereal? Like? What was

515
00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:05.440
all was your afternoon Sarah snack?
Cereal? Cereal? And they I don't

516
00:34:05.480 --> 00:34:10.199
think they have it anymore, but
the company Craft had malted milk and I

517
00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:14.559
would put it in there and you
turn it and stir it around, and

518
00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:17.760
it was just great. So I
like that. That was Yeah, you

519
00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:22.519
two school cartoons? Was it was
cool? I think you call a bisquick

520
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:25.000
in the in the States, we
just call it quick here, but it

521
00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:28.679
was uh oh yeah, put a
spoonful of it in your milk. Here,

522
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:31.519
have a little chocolate mini milkshag,
a couple of a couple of biscuits,

523
00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:35.719
and uh yeah, watching Scooby Doo
and School to Go. Yeah,

524
00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:39.800
take me right back, I'm gonna
come over to your house. What was

525
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:46.559
your cereal choice? Uh, sugar
pops and Coco Crispies. Okay, Alphabet's

526
00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:50.840
pretty good, not bad. What
about you, Chris? What was your

527
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:53.079
Breakfast of Champions when you were a
kid? I was right, literally at

528
00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:58.079
the Breakfast of Champions. I was
big on raisin brand. What I know,

529
00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:00.440
I was. I was weird.
I love the raisin. I love

530
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:01.760
to let it soak in them in
the milk. And that was all about

531
00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:06.199
the raisin brand. Are you Benjamin
Button? Did you start old and getting

532
00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:08.440
younger? What's going on? Yeah? I don't know what it was.

533
00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:13.159
I didn't. I didn't really like
the super sugary cereals. Captain Crunch always

534
00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:15.400
like cut the roof of my mouth
and yeah, I always did you have

535
00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:19.519
did you have cocoa pops in the
States? Oh yeah I did? Yeah,

536
00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:21.360
yeah, yeah, coco pops.
That was my that was my thing.

537
00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:24.800
And as fruit lips, fruit loops
with the two canes, Oh yes,

538
00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:30.559
yes, yes, apple Jack's too. That wasn't bad. Yeah,

539
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:32.239
God, I'm going down memory lane
here. We should do a whole episode

540
00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:38.800
about breakfast cereals. Yeah, why
not? Kay eat double l old double

541
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:43.400
good kill load. Best to you. Nice testing with Cummings. Let's do

542
00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:46.440
it. Yeah. I know I'm
not going to remember remember his name.

543
00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:51.519
But when I first started, I
did a lot of work in San Diego

544
00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:54.239
and I would drive down there.
It took me. I lived in Corona,

545
00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:59.360
which was a lot closer, but
um I ran into a fellow and

546
00:35:59.639 --> 00:36:01.719
he he was a veteran. He
was an older guy, and I was

547
00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:06.840
the young little punk you know,
who was doing this stuff. And and

548
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:08.760
we're talking about this job and that
job, this job. He goes,

549
00:36:09.199 --> 00:36:12.559
well, you know what, you
got to shoot for one of these?

550
00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:15.320
And I said, what's that?
He goes, well, I sing,

551
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:19.239
I do jingles, and I go, well, okay, I sing two.

552
00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:22.360
And I was sick as a dog. Six six sick in my age.

553
00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:24.480
You called me up and said,
you gotta get down to studio.

554
00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:28.280
I got something going for you.
And he said, what, I don't

555
00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:30.480
know if I can do it.
He said, well, gargle, do

556
00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:32.800
something, take some lavorus, do
whatever. Just get down there, saltwater

557
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:37.440
blah blah. So he went down
and I don't know if it was big

558
00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:38.599
there. In fact, you know, it might be so old that you

559
00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:43.840
might not remember Chris, but there
was. Kelloggs is a cereal brand that

560
00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:49.400
they've got all sorts of cereals and
yeah, oh yeah, And the jingle

561
00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:53.559
was kay eat double l oh double
good ket log Kelloggs best to you,

562
00:36:53.920 --> 00:37:00.800
boom boom, and that probably played
for like fifteen twenty years kitching. And

563
00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:07.159
it was the tag on and it
was the tag on all of their all

564
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:10.039
of their commercials. That's the thing. If if if you can create a

565
00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:15.239
good jingle, they are timeless.
They last forever. Yeah oh yeah,

566
00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:21.079
yeah, every time it airs,
you kitching, kitching, kitching, every

567
00:37:21.159 --> 00:37:23.840
time it airs. We like it, we do, indeed, yes,

568
00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:29.960
But with with bonkers, so it
seems a new cannon now for the show

569
00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:34.119
is to begin with the Lucky Bacal
episodes, the two part first one where

570
00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:37.840
he meets Lucky and things like that
go through that entire block, and then

571
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:40.760
you have the episode New Partners on
the Block where Lucky and a few supporting

572
00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:45.440
roles they leave after he gets a
job with the FBI and goes to Washington

573
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:50.880
and Miranda becomes a new partner with
with Bonkers and in her episodes what and

574
00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:53.360
the series, but that episode their
New Partners on the Block, the transition

575
00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:58.039
episode? Was that seen as like
a finale when you're making it? Was

576
00:37:58.079 --> 00:38:00.920
that the last one you made?
Do you remember? No? I don't

577
00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:04.679
think it was. It was a
bit disjointed to be to be honest,

578
00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:08.679
And I think they were kind of
speckling them together and trying to make it

579
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:14.760
less, you know, seamless,
and uh, yeah, you know,

580
00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:20.039
I really do. And we had
so many guest stars, yeah, on

581
00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:23.320
that show. And I think it
was because it it had it had a

582
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:28.960
bit of notoriety because maybe because of
Roger Rabbit, but it was still Disney

583
00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:32.320
and it was going in and the
Disney Afternoon block was building, and uh,

584
00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:37.159
and people liked to dabble, I
think, and um, you know,

585
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:40.239
to get in fact, I had
read it down because we were Chris

586
00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:45.280
and I were looking at it earlier
and I realized there were so many people

587
00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:49.199
like movie stars, TV stars,
and I could give you a few of

588
00:38:49.239 --> 00:38:52.280
them. First of all, Trust
McNeil, Maurice LaMarche, Okay, my

589
00:38:52.360 --> 00:39:00.400
buddy, Jeff Bennett, Corey Burton, Disney star Wart and uh April April

590
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:05.639
Winchell, my wife Peg again,
Pat Fraley and Bob Ridgeley and b J

591
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:10.400
Ward and Ron Perlman, you know, sons of anarchy, Uh, Sherry

592
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:17.960
Lynn, Frank Welker who is the
legendary Frank Welker and Oscar winner, Grammy

593
00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:22.639
winner, Emmy winner, Rita Moreno, if you can believe that, and

594
00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:27.760
Carol Channing. Oh yeah, and
I think I said, Ron Pearlman,

595
00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:34.960
Charlie Adler and Nancy Cartwright, pre
pre Bart Simpson and Earl Bone who played

596
00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:38.719
Chief Knifki and my old pal Brad
Garrett and Taylor was one as well,

597
00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:43.199
I believe, Oh yeah, sure, yeah, that's right. Yeah,

598
00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:45.960
and he was also Uncle Fester.
You mentioned Nancy Cartwright, they said pray

599
00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:49.960
Simpsons. This wasn't pray Simpsons.
She was doing the Simpsons when she did

600
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:53.199
this, the sim well, the
Simpsons started in eighteen nine, and this

601
00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:57.960
was so she must be doing like
I was saying, yeah, she must

602
00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:00.440
be doing The Simpsons at the same
time. So do you come to the

603
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:04.039
studio and do the show or was
it done? Oh yeah, but it

604
00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:07.480
didn't. Yeah, I'm just finding
supplising that someone because The Simpsons was such

605
00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:10.480
and a phenomenon in that time in
the early nineties that she you know,

606
00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:16.239
she was doing twenty wasn't that far
away, you know, Burbank twenty century.

607
00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:21.480
You know, you're from one lot
one studio to another. It's at

608
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:23.719
the time it was common. Yeah, if I'm not mistaken for all the

609
00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:27.760
voice artists to record in the studio. Like just how you mentioned Brendan,

610
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:31.719
you know, was recording remote really
a thing? Or like, explain that

611
00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:36.719
to us how the recording process back
then differs to now. Yeah, and

612
00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:39.119
what you prefer? Yeah, well, I prefer having everybody in the room.

613
00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:44.280
Yeah, yeah, there's no question. You know George Luca the Star

614
00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:49.559
Wars franchises, Uh, you know
that where Hondo came from, they had

615
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:51.800
everybody in the room too, at
the same time, or as many as

616
00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:54.760
they could. And I like that. It's so much better, And you

617
00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:58.159
know, I've said it before.
You know, I tend to ad lib,

618
00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:04.159
and if they keep your ad oftentimes
that means the person's line before or

619
00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:09.039
mostly after kind of doesn't work,
you know, it throws it off.

620
00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:14.280
The line is good, but the
line behind it no longer works, and

621
00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:19.119
they usually want the good line that
has the laugh attached because you know,

622
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:23.119
you know what I mean, the
more creativity. And so therefore now they

623
00:41:23.159 --> 00:41:28.280
have to get somebody back into fix
the line prior to. And I was

624
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:31.199
notorious for that, but what are
you gonna do? I think the afford

625
00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:36.519
it just the energy in the room
just creates a better performance, you know,

626
00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:40.199
and more I'm assuming it would a
laugh for more improv as well.

627
00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:45.440
Oh yeah, oh definitely. You
know that's that's part of the deal.

628
00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:49.119
You can because you're feeding off what
they said. They're feeding off what you

629
00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:52.679
said. Now this one over here, now she's feeding off what everybody said,

630
00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:55.280
and it's a it's an organic thing, you know. I I like

631
00:41:55.519 --> 00:42:00.480
doing it as a play almost,
you know, like it was a stage

632
00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:02.679
production, and you know we did
all the gummy bears were like that,

633
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:07.280
and I mean there'd be like ten
people in the studio at one time.

634
00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:12.239
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
back in the day you've said Duck Quen

635
00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:15.280
Duck was very a lot of improvisation
there. They'd write it in the scripture

636
00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:19.199
stage, which would say, yeah, so was there a lot of improv

637
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:21.159
with bunkers and luck Yeah, man, and you imagine a lot of that

638
00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:22.599
must have been improvised, right,
let's just you talking to yourself. Oh

639
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:28.199
yes, yes, absolutely, yeah, you know, and and he just

640
00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:30.760
spoke like one hundred miles an hour, so you had to be listening quickly.

641
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:35.119
Yeah, just you know, tune
in because uh, you know.

642
00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:38.079
And I would always try and sneak
into double one Tundra every time I could,

643
00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:42.920
and uh, sometimes they'd bust me, and sometimes I snuck them through.

644
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:45.199
Yeah. I think I told you
the one about the Christopher Robin the

645
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:51.679
move Hounds. What's that Robin?
I don't know that one. Yeah,

646
00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:55.239
okay, well I'll be telling this
out of school. But when um,

647
00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:02.199
when Christopher you and McGregor is he
was in the phone booth and there was

648
00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:06.519
some altercation with it. You know, a guy drove into the phone booth

649
00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:12.239
because Pooh was he overheard Tigger and
Pooh talking in the back stating he wait,

650
00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:14.800
oh my God, it's the stuff
he's are talking. And he pulled

651
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:16.800
off, and then a little Maddie
the girl gets out of the car and

652
00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:21.519
runs away, and there's a policeman
there saying and he goes, no,

653
00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:25.199
you don't understand that. That little
tiger there he said something to me.

654
00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:30.320
And that little bear he said,
and I'm telling you they talked to me.

655
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:34.360
They said something. He goes,
well, ain't you on the sauce?

656
00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:37.719
Mate? Is that what your problem
is? Have you had a bit

657
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:39.599
of a nip? Is it?
I'll tell you what. Let's go,

658
00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:44.239
let's room right along. Oh,
don't worry, darling, you can go.

659
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:46.519
And the little girl was okay,
and I go, thank you,

660
00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:52.719
warrufus and and it's in the movie. I was making the choke. Really,

661
00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:57.320
I was making a joke. I
thank you officer. You know,

662
00:43:57.400 --> 00:44:00.760
it's what we should have said.
But yeah, and it's in the movie.

663
00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:06.639
I remember seeing the movie and ego, did you not catch that?

664
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:13.559
Yeah, it was in character and
it was said, I mean, she

665
00:44:13.679 --> 00:44:17.559
said thank you, officer, and
I said thank you orafice And but it's

666
00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:20.679
just the charming innocence of winning the
pooh that it works, you know,

667
00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:23.280
So yeah, yeah, I'm glad
I didn't say what you know, I'm

668
00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:30.840
thinking, I see yeah, But
let's let's touch on the guest stars.

669
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:34.519
I feel like, you know,
you're saying earlier that a lot of actors

670
00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:36.800
like to dabble in it. But
I just think everyone loves to play a

671
00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:39.239
good villain, and there were so
many good villains in this show. I

672
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:42.719
think there's more villains in this than
Duck being Duck. Like, I just

673
00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:45.880
think this is just so focused on
the villain aspect, and they're also unique

674
00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:49.079
in their own way, so much
fun. Oh yeah, yeah, Well,

675
00:44:49.079 --> 00:44:52.920
I like villains just as much as
good guys, you know. Oh

676
00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:58.599
yeah, he's he's not the bad
guy. He's just good at being bad.

677
00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:01.079
With Frank Welker, so he plays
full apart rabbit in the show Your

678
00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:04.800
Buddy. Oh yeah. In the
show he's usually you know, does the

679
00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:07.840
voices of just animal sounds and things
like that. With everything. Now,

680
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:10.519
he's just incredible with animal sounds.
Unbelievable. You know, he's on the

681
00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:15.559
mount Rushmore of voice actors. Frank
Oh absolutely couldn't be a nicer guy.

682
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:20.320
Does someone like him when you're working
with him in the studio, he must

683
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:22.960
just improve your performance, because almost
to the point where you're like, I

684
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:27.440
have to be bad because Frank's here. Oh yeah, well yeah, I

685
00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:30.800
don't. I don't know if we
touched on this, but I remember the

686
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:34.679
first time I met him with Hanna
Barbara and there was a line for a

687
00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:37.679
lion. They needed a lion.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And it's

688
00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:43.039
just I mean, from that day
on, I was just flabbergasted. You

689
00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:45.960
know. The joke is like,
you know, okay, Frank, we

690
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:52.920
need a giant snail from Mars and
he's got electrical antenna shooting over here and

691
00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:57.599
he needs to roar. And Frank
would go, well, what part of

692
00:45:57.719 --> 00:46:02.639
Mars is he from? So that
he could zero in and get get dirt

693
00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:07.599
motions now and uh, and he
would do it. What did you learn

694
00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:13.360
from Frank? Well, not to
be a mime, but you know,

695
00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:17.519
I think there's a certain and I
already kind of had this, but you

696
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:22.639
you have to have the freedom it
might set to possibly fall flat on your

697
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:27.760
face. You know, you have
to just try it and if it works,

698
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:30.599
it works, and if it doesn't, I gotta try something else.

699
00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:34.960
And because he had a bag of
tricks, he does have a bag of

700
00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:38.559
tricks that you know, never ends. So you would like to ask real

701
00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:42.880
quick about about Ron Perlman as well, who you mentioned earlier. I mean,

702
00:46:42.960 --> 00:46:46.639
he's got a very imprective, very
impressive voice acting resumet on this on

703
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:50.480
screen career. I mean, I'm
a bit of a hellboy fanboys though.

704
00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:52.679
Oh sure, I've been lucky enough
to get him on the phone a couple

705
00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:54.920
of times. And honestly, it's
like hearing an earthquake on the other end

706
00:46:54.960 --> 00:46:58.360
of the line. Yeah, and
I'm wondering, Yeah, what it's like

707
00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:01.000
to actually record with the guy.
Oh, he's a great guy. He

708
00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:05.519
is absolutely wonderful, you know,
and I worked with him a lot,

709
00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:10.039
and uh, one of my favorite
things is when you know, he was

710
00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:17.559
playing, um, you know,
in bonkers h and when he would get

711
00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:22.119
real intimate like that, and you
know, I just want to be honest

712
00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:25.760
with you, and you know,
and and he wasn't being bombastic, he

713
00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:30.079
wasn't being over the top or anything, but but just when he would get

714
00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:36.480
really sincere and you could almost hear
him refraining from using four letter words.

715
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:39.559
You know, I want to be
in this, you know, serious with

716
00:47:39.719 --> 00:47:46.079
you and stuff, and you know, and because of all this other stuff,

717
00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:50.719
you know, and you could hear, because you know him so well,

718
00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:53.400
you could hear the words he's not
saying. A cool guy, A

719
00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:58.679
really cool guy. I just imagine
that he guys. I wouldn't mind being

720
00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:00.960
the scene. Yes, mister pim
whatever you say, yes, yes,

721
00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:07.000
yeah, or Ilse will send the
sons of Anarchy after you. Exactly right.

722
00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:09.199
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna ask
you. Do you miss playing Bunkers?

723
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:14.280
Oh? Yeah, I mean I
miss playing all of them. I

724
00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:17.480
mean not in a sad way,
but in a in a beautiful reminiscing sort

725
00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:21.559
of way. It was a great
fun time in my life, fun periods.

726
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:23.400
You know, it went on forever, you know, still is so

727
00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:28.960
you know, they all become kind
of members of my family, and it's

728
00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:32.079
always fun to run into somebody,
and you know, whether it's conventions or

729
00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:38.119
my kids, over the years have
had friends who are just stuck on one

730
00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:42.400
character, stuck on this one,
stuck on that one. And um,

731
00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:45.679
I mean I don't really miss them
because they're still there, but I really

732
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:51.639
like that people, you know,
they glom onto them and they become meaningful

733
00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:54.840
to them. Yeah, and and
that that you know, I heard these

734
00:48:54.840 --> 00:49:00.280
stories and you know, I get
these emails and I'll do I'll do cameos

735
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:06.880
for people, and they're really hard
felt, and they're really really and it's

736
00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:12.039
just it's just nice to know that
this character or that character meant something and

737
00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:15.360
got got someone through something, you
know, and I've got stories put you

738
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:20.079
on your knees. But but yeah, I mean it's nice to know that

739
00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:23.280
you're touching people. Do you get
many fans asking for Bunkers on cameos or

740
00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:27.639
approaching you at conventions talking about Bunkers
or is it mainly just dark Wing and

741
00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:30.239
Whinny and teach Um. Yeah,
I mean maybe one and ten, one

742
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:35.679
in twelve. Yeah, not not
that many, not that many. But

743
00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:39.960
I you know, I can't complain, No, of course no. But

744
00:49:40.119 --> 00:49:44.440
now I've got a question for you. Is there any chance that do you

745
00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:45.880
know Bunkers? Is any chance you
can join us in the studio for a

746
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:49.679
moment. We've got a few questions
for him. Well, I don't know,

747
00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:55.679
that depends only if you're nice.
I'm always polite, always polite.

748
00:49:55.760 --> 00:50:00.800
So all right, then, working
working alongside Lucky You sure had its speed

749
00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:04.800
bumps. But tell us what were
some of your favorite memories of riding around

750
00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:07.079
in that old police car with mister
Bicall. Oh, well, I had

751
00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:09.800
my friend Toots and I would put
him on top of the ceiling of the

752
00:50:09.880 --> 00:50:13.559
car there and I would say okay, God's okay, and he would go

753
00:50:13.639 --> 00:50:15.480
bye bye baby. He would come
here and it was very fun. Lucky

754
00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:22.679
loved it. I'm just kidding.
It can't drive him crazy. Did you

755
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:27.119
miss having Lucky around once? Around
it? I mean, God, bless

756
00:50:27.159 --> 00:50:28.639
it. We love him, Miranda, But did you did? Did you

757
00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:31.559
miss Lucky once he went off to
the FBI. Well, you know it's

758
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:36.039
crazy because I used to show up
at his work every day, so I

759
00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:38.519
couldn't miss him. But apparently he
didn't miss me either, because he would

760
00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:42.360
say, it's nice to see you. Now. I can't miss you if

761
00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:45.760
you don't go away, so I
can't end to go and I'm not sure

762
00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:50.400
what he meant by that. Well, we have got a surprise for you,

763
00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:52.519
mister Bonkers, because our friend Jim
comings here. You know, he's

764
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:54.400
pulled a few strings. You know, he knows a few people, and

765
00:50:54.440 --> 00:50:59.000
he's managed to track down your old
pal Lucky. So Bonkers for the first

766
00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:02.599
time in nearly two years, say
hello to Lucky Picau Hello, Unlucky big

767
00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:05.840
hell. Yeah, yeah, by
all means do it? Well, you

768
00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:07.800
know, Barkers, it's only been
thirty years, and I don't see any

769
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:10.679
reason to rush things. I'm kidding. We did get over here, you

770
00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:15.920
a little knucklehead. I love this
kid. What's up? You gotta go?

771
00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:17.920
He's gotta go. No, I
don't. I could stay. No,

772
00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:22.920
you gotta go, but no,
seriously, I could buy be honest,

773
00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:25.159
Lucky, you've missed him before you
go there, Bunkers, I gotta

774
00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:29.719
ask you know, Lucky, you
gave Bunkers your police badge before heading to

775
00:51:29.800 --> 00:51:32.119
Washington. Bunkers, did you did
you keep that police badge at all?

776
00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:36.599
If he's manage to hold onto it
all these years? Or did Bunkers keep

777
00:51:36.679 --> 00:51:40.199
it? Of course I did?
After all, it said made by the

778
00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:45.599
cracker Jack Corporation. It's very near
and dear to me. And yeah,

779
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:49.920
okay, I gave him one from
cracker Jack. Barks. Let's not talk

780
00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:54.559
about this right now. Well,
it's no, it's obvious that the chemistry

781
00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:58.039
is still there between the two of
you. So well, what would you

782
00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:00.800
two, what would you two say? The idea of recording some audio commentaries

783
00:52:01.119 --> 00:52:07.440
of Bonkers episodes for our tuned in
Patrion channel. Oh that sounds like a

784
00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:08.760
good idea. I was just going
to think of it, but you thought

785
00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:10.679
of it before me, and then
I was going to think of it after

786
00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:14.599
you did. But it would be
redundant, which I am mature what that

787
00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:19.760
means. But sure, no,
I think there's something to work with the

788
00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:22.599
amazing So I'm sure you guys have
a lot to catch up on. So

789
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:25.320
go on and enjoy the bright lights
of La once once more, and we'll

790
00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:28.679
wrap up the show. So thank
you gentlemen for joining us, but we'll

791
00:52:28.679 --> 00:52:30.960
see you off. We're plenture dig
it later. That was fun, wasn't

792
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:34.519
It's always having bonkers around. I
mean, I couldn't live with the guy,

793
00:52:34.519 --> 00:52:36.960
but he's always fun to have around
for two minutes. Yeah, yeah,

794
00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:39.000
yeah. A nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live

795
00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:42.719
there. Yeah, and I have
good news. He doesn't do books on

796
00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:45.239
tape. It's kind of like when
you're an archer or an uncle and they

797
00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:46.480
handed kids. Oh I love kids, here, take them back now,

798
00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:52.079
bah bah yeah yeah, yeah,
oh yeah, this has been fantastic.

799
00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:53.920
I'm bonkers. Like I said at
the start, of this podcast. One

800
00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:57.679
of those shows that you never hear
people talking about it anymore. It's a

801
00:52:57.719 --> 00:53:00.719
real shame, and I'm glad that
we finally got some true proper insight into

802
00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:02.360
the show. I guarantee you there
are so many fans out there that are

803
00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:07.199
just clamoring to hear your stories about
this gym M not good. Yeah,

804
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:09.960
I mean, I you know,
Rob Poulson has a way of putting it.

805
00:53:10.079 --> 00:53:15.480
He says, you know, people
like to go to the circus and

806
00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:19.599
then every now and then sneak over
and lift up the tent and lift up

807
00:53:19.639 --> 00:53:22.039
the you know, the flap of
the tent and see what's going on in

808
00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:24.039
there. What are they really doing? You know, And that's kind of

809
00:53:24.079 --> 00:53:27.360
what you're doing here. So it's
a beautiful thing. It's funny you brought

810
00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:30.679
up Rob Poulson. I'm pretty sure
he sang the the intro for Bunkers,

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did he not? No? Huh. I don't know who that was.

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It was a sped up voice.
He had something to do with the intro.

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It says on all the various Bonkers
Wiki pity pages Rob Poulson intro theme

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for Bonkers Wow. Underneath it says
edited by Rob Poulson. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, and the liner notes by
Rob Paulson. No, I didn't

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know that. I mean I feel
like I would have had it. I

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had Okay, now you want to
call him, let's call him. Let's

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go find out. Well, we'll
do that on the next one. We'll

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do that on the next one.
But of course, guys as Bonkers and

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Lucky just said they're gonna be doing
some audio commentaries of Bonkers episodes. I

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feel like we should do the new
Partners on the Block episode. The one

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was the transitional one where Lucky leaves
the show. We'll do that one with

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Lucky in Bonkers on our Patreon channels. So if you want to get access

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to that, there's got to be
a supported on our tuned in Patreon channel

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at patreon dot com slash Jim Cummings
Podcast. You can find the link for

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that in the description of this podcast. Also, don't forget to follow us

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TikTok, YouTube and Facebook. And
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the show, it's just Jim Cummings
Podcast at gmail dot com. Well,

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gentlemen, once again, Thank you
so much for joining me this week.

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It's been absolute blasts to go back
and revisit one of my favorite shows from

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when I was a kid, Bonkers
and we'll see you all in the next

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episode. I've tuned in with Jim
Cummings and it's just that easy.