You’ve got to be one tough puppy to make it in Starfleet Academy. So when we wanted to recreate a scene from J.J. Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek on our Alpha series Talkin’ Toons, we needed a voice actor, not a doctor! And who better to fill in for Bones than the creator of Nickelodeon’s T.U.F.F. Puppy, Butch Hartman.
Hartman, who also created The Fairly Oddparents and Danny Phantom, joined host Rob Paulsen to talk about his long career in animation, and the two also read the scene when Karl Urban’s Dr. Leonard McCoy first met Chris Pine’s James Kirk. Rob filled in for Kirk as his character Carl Wheezer from Jimmy Neutron, and Hartman read for Bones as T.U.F.F. Puppy‘s stuttering scientist Keswick, who was voiced by Jeff Bennett on the show.
Normally on Talkin’ Toons, guests read scenes in the style of characters they have voiced themselves, but since Hartman literally created the character and does such a good impression of him, we figured this would work just as well.
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What other character from Butch Hartman’s cartoons would you like to hear in the Academy? Fly into our comments section below and let us know.
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