Baby Rowlf's Voice [Archive] - Muppet Central Forum

Frogpuppeteer

04-04-2005, 09:27 PM

acctually dont know if it was ever brought up but baby gonzo's voice is done by that same actor for nelson,she also does the voice of bart and many other simpsons characters

Xerus

04-05-2005, 06:36 PM

acctually dont know if it was ever brought up but baby gonzo's voice is done by that same actor for nelson,she also does the voice of bart and many other simpsons characters

No, Bart and Nelson are done by Nancy Cartwright.

Gonzo and Martin Prince from the Simpsons are done by Russi Taylor.

And Katie Leigh does Rowlf.

Xerus

04-05-2005, 06:40 PM

Muppet Babies voice artists.

FRANK WELKER: Kermit, Skeeter(second voice), Beaker
LAURIE O'BRIEN: Piggy
GREG BERG: Fozzie and Scooter
RUSSI TAYLOR: Gonzo
KATIE LEIGH: Rowlf
HOWIE MANDEL: Skeeter, Bunsen, Animal(In the 1st and 2nd seasons.)
DAVE COULIER: Animal, Bunsen, Bean Bunny, Waldorf, Statler(For the rest of the seasons.)
BARBARA BILLINGSLEY: Nanny

Frogpuppeteer

04-05-2005, 08:14 PM

could swear i heard somewhere it was nacy who did the voice of gonzo she also did the voice of minnie mouse in older cartoons

lowercasegods

04-05-2005, 08:39 PM

Actually, you're close. Russi Taylor did the voice of Minnie Mouse as well as baby Gonzo.

T-Bird Chick

04-07-2005, 09:20 PM

Hey Isnt Dave Coulier From Full House? Im Pretty Sure He Is And Nancy Cartwright Is Rufus On Kim Possible

lowercasegods

04-08-2005, 10:08 AM

Correct on both counts. Dave did a lot of voice work before his days on Full House. He started off voicing Mork on the old (and very brief) Mork and Mindy cartoon. Once Full House hit, he became an even hotter commodity in voice work with Muppet Babies (replacing Howie Mandell who left the show before it ran its course) and Ghostbusters (replacing Lorenzo Music, the voice of Garfield, as Peter Venkman). I've always liked Dave, but as a voice actor, he always seemed like a poor man's Frank Welker to me.

Xerus

04-08-2005, 08:54 PM

Dave Coulier was also the host of a short lived comedy on Nickelodeon called, OUT OF CONTROL. He was pretty funny on that show. :)

lowercasegods

04-09-2005, 09:40 AM

I know, that show rocked.

T-Bird Chick

04-09-2005, 03:13 PM

What Else Was He In Cause This Stuff Was Way Before My Time.....i Was Born In The 90's........

lowercasegods

04-10-2005, 12:12 AM

Well, after he hit it big with Full House, Dave co-hosted the America's Funniest Home Videos spin-off, America's Funniest People. That lasted a few years. Since then, he hasn't done too much that's caught the public attention that Full House did, but he's still working.

Kimp the Shrimp

04-10-2005, 10:00 AM

Dave Coulier was also the host of a short lived comedy on Nickelodeon called, OUT OF CONTROL. He was pretty funny on that show. :)

i loved that show CUT, IT, OUT those who know will laughOUT OF CONTROL (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-3102/) IMDB.com "Out of Control" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0145627/)

man it started in 1984 i am old now

Kimp the Shrimp

04-10-2005, 10:01 AM

Greg Berg .... Fozzie (1984-1991)/Scooter (1984-1991) (voice)
Dave Coulier .... Uncle Waldorf (1988-91) (voice)
Katie Leigh .... Rowlf (1984-1991) (voice)
Howie Mandel .... Animal (1984-1991)/Bunsen (1984-1991)/Skeeter (1984-1986) (voice)
Laurie O'Brien .... Piggy (1984-1991) (voice)
Russi Taylor .... Gonzo (1984-1991)/Robin (198?) (voice)
Frank Welker .... Kermit (1984-1991)/Beaker (1984-1991)/Skeeter (1986-1991) (voice)
Barbara Billingsley .... Nanny (1984-1991) (voice)

lowercasegods

04-10-2005, 10:08 AM

I guess in jumping the shark terms, Muppet Babies took the leap once they brought Janice aboard as a pre-teenager and Statler and Waldorf as uncles. I think it's just a coincidence, but the downward spiral came after Howie Mandell left and Dave Coulier came aboard.

Kimp the Shrimp

04-10-2005, 10:17 AM

MUPPET BABIES "Jump The Shark"

Jumped The Shark when... Votes
Never Jumped 7
Bean Bunny 2
Bunsen and Beaker 1
Singing 1
Death (Jim Henson) 1
It was used to pilot
other shows 1
Skeeter 1
The seventh season 1
Too much live action 1
Janice as a Teenager 1
Uncle's Waldorf & Statler 1
Drug Bust & Sex Scandal 1

Kimp the Shrimp

04-10-2005, 10:21 AM

"Watched it all the time, but never liked it. Was upset that you could never see who Nanny was, just her striped stockings. Basically, she was an old woman who locked up these animal freaks (a frog, a pig, a bear, a dog, and these orange lizard looking freaks (skeeter and scooter) and used them for slave labor. No, seriously, the whole "use your imagination" thing SUCKED! They made it seem like you could be "in" Star Wars, or turn into Indiana Jones..wow looked like fun. What a disappointment when I tried to "imagine really hard" on my own and nothing happened. I did not become Indiana Jones..This show sucks!" - Except from Jump the Shark ( Not Me i Love the Muppet Babies)

WHY DID HE TAKE TIME TO WRITE

lowercasegods

04-10-2005, 07:50 PM

Wow. I dig your thoughts, Kimp, but watch out for irate replies from hard-core Muppet Babies fans. They don't take such dissention lightly. For the record, I was a "Babies" fan from their cameo in The Muppets Take Manhattan 'til the end of their run on TV, and whenever I need a fix these days, I'll just pull out my old Muppet babies soundtrack LP and soak in the nostalgia from my lost youth.

FISH'N'WOLFE

04-10-2005, 10:56 PM

That isn't Kimp's opinion, it's a comment that was posted on Jump The Shark. Kimp says right on the end it's an excerpt from the site, and was wondering why the guy bothered to post such a negative comment on there about the Muppet Babies. I know, I had to go back and re-read that post, with a couple of typos it looks like it was Kimp's opinion at first glance. Just a suggestion Kimp, in the future use the quote funtion on MC when posting a quote.

lowercasegods

04-11-2005, 08:15 AM

Whew! Thanks for the clarification. I was afraid we'd be having to notify his next of Kimp! (Insert sarcastic heckling from Statler and Waldorf here).

Kimp the Shrimp

04-11-2005, 08:23 AM

thanks

unclematt

04-11-2005, 09:07 PM

Dave Coulier was recently in the third season of The Surreal Life on VH1

lowercasegods

04-11-2005, 10:19 PM

Yeah, he was the best thing on that show. After the sensory overdrive provided by Bridget and Flav, Dave was a much needed dose of mellow goodness, y'know?

Uncle deadly

04-12-2005, 03:42 PM

I have never noticed the similarities

lowercasegods

04-12-2005, 04:24 PM

Similarities to what?

Gonzo14

07-28-2005, 11:48 PM

Hey Isnt Dave Coulier From Full House? Im Pretty Sure He Is And Nancy Cartwright Is Rufus On Kim Possible

Muppet Babies Voice Connections are

Frank Welker (Kermit/Beaker/Skeeter) - Fred from Scooby Doo/Nibbler from Futurama
Dave Coulier (Animal) - Joey from Full House
Russi Taylor (Gonzo) - Martin from Simpsons/Minnie Mouse

Ernie101

07-28-2005, 11:54 PM

Wow, I didn't even know that some many noticable actors did the voices on this show. Howie Mandel was on the show? Does anybody remember his show Bobby's world? Great show. ..well at least I thought so when I was a child. I watched it every morning before school.

Drake.

Gonzo14

07-29-2005, 12:02 AM

I remember it, but I think it was kinda dumb, like Louie Anderson's cartoon. Anyone remember that?

BEAR

07-29-2005, 01:01 AM

Ernie101

07-29-2005, 02:53 AM

Yeah Gonzo, I remember that show. Both shows aired on Fox.

lowercasegods

07-29-2005, 06:51 AM

interesting that in the Muppets Take Manahattan (during the Muppet Babies dream) all the Muppeteers performed their own baby versions of their characters except I believe Steve Whitmire did Kermit's voice. I wonder why Jim Henson didn't do it.
Actually, Jim did do baby Kermit's voice in the movie. Just goes to show how talented he was that he could pull off a voice that even the fans wouldn't recognize as his.

BEAR

07-29-2005, 02:36 PM

Actually, Jim did do baby Kermit's voice in the movie. Just goes to show how talented he was that he could pull off a voice that even the fans wouldn't recognize as his.

Then maybe it was Richard Hunt that didn't perform Baby Scooter. i know there was one of the Baby counterparts that was voiced by Steve Whitmire.

lowercasegods

07-29-2005, 03:01 PM

Actually, I'm about positive all the original puppeteers performed and voiced their baby counterparts.

MWoO

07-29-2005, 03:23 PM

Someone said that Steve performed Baby Kermit in an old post, but it is not true. It is most certainly Jim Henson. They all peroformed their own baby characters.

BEAR

07-29-2005, 03:39 PM

Someone said that Steve performed Baby Kermit in an old post, but it is not true. It is most certainly Jim Henson. They all peroformed their own baby characters.

I actually realized that baby Kermit did sound just like Jim Henson. Maybe it is just because Scooter's voice sounds so completely different. I mean, all the others still sound like their characters but Scooter's voice is so not what the Adult Scooter sounds like.

Ernie101

07-30-2005, 06:07 AM

BEAR

07-30-2005, 06:29 AM

I am seriously amazed at how well the muppeteers pull-off these voices, whitch is one of the first things I liked about the muppets.

BEAR, good point about baby Scooter. That's cool that you noticed it sounded like Jim Henson.

BTW, do you think the baby looney toons is a rip-off of this show?

No, no. I wasn't saying Baby Scooter sounded like Jim Henson. I said Baby Kermit sounded like Jim Henson correcting myself from before when I didn;t think it was Jim's voice. I am thinking it was Scooter that was not done by Richard Hunt.

Gonzo14

07-30-2005, 08:06 AM

I think it was Richard as Baby Scooter in TMTM, he kinda sounded like Janice

lowercasegods

07-30-2005, 11:15 AM

I always felt like Richard's Baby Scooter voice was similar to the "Frank Welker" voice, which is the cute, gurgly voice he created for tons of cartoon characters (such as Glomer from the Punky Brewster cartoon), and which was subsequently adopted by several voice artists like Dave Coulier, Howie Mandel and Chris Sanders, the director of Lilo and Stitch and the title character's performer. It's a pretty common voice, easy to do (just about any kid on a playground can pull it off) and fits a baby character very well, so i can see why Richard would use it for Baby Scooter. It's interesting to note that Frank used the voice on Muppet Babies when he took over as Skeeter after Howie Mandel left the show. I doubt there's a connection between his useage of it on the cartoon and Richard's performance in the movie, which came out a year earlier, but it's still interesting.

BEAR

07-30-2005, 05:37 PM

I think it was Richard as Baby Scooter in TMTM, he kinda sounded like Janice

I don't think it sounded like Janice at all. But it was significantly a different voice than the adult version. All the other Baby characters sounded like they do as adults only with a tiny childish tweak to them. Scooter sounded very similar to how Skeeter sounded in his first line "Helloo" buyt then listen to his singing line "And she's gonna learn to fly a plane..." its kinda raspy. I think it sounds cute.

Baby Rowlf sounded the same accept with a babyish impediment "She'll be a doctor wif diseases and help you wif your shneezes.." And wearing that doctor play hat and stethascope "examining" the toy Big Bird. It was sweet.

Gonzo14

07-30-2005, 08:43 PM

Fozzie and Gonzo also sounded a lot like the adult versions

BEAR

07-30-2005, 10:00 PM

Fozzie and Gonzo also sounded a lot like the adult versions

Yes, that is what I was saying, they all sounded like their adult counterparts except Scooter!

tinweirdo

07-31-2005, 05:38 PM

I do think Disney should stop screwing around and put the muppets into full blast! Starting by putting the Muppet Babies on Playhouse Disney, that would Terific!!!! :o

unclematt

07-31-2005, 10:25 PM

I couldnt agree with you more tinwierdo

Vic Romano

08-01-2005, 10:42 AM

I've always liked Dave, but as a voice actor, he always seemed like a poor man's Frank Welker to me.
A metaphor for life if ever I've read one :)

BTW - Feel like I haven't seen you around in a while, Jay! Good to see you!

lowercasegods

08-01-2005, 04:23 PM

Good to be back, Vic, and thanks for the warm welcome! I moved to a new apartment back in late May and have only recentlly got my internet back up again. But I see there's been lots of cool Muppet discussions that I've been missing out on, and I'm anxious to get back on the boards.