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Thanks! I think that's the only "demo" song I have where the music had to be "pitched" to the client for approval...for some reason the client wasn't too picky with all the other songs in the series and they usually accepted the first version of the other songs we did. I do have some "vox" versions of song without dialog that are interesting because you can hear the music better.

@@offmodel genuinely - that’s super interesting! I wonder why they were more chill with the other songs. The vox versions def have my attention - would love to hear em someday!

@@K2SonicFan ok, I will digitize the tapes and upload some vox versions soon. Regarding the guitar in the song...I think the studio musician at Cinar was named Daniel Ranallo and he did a lot of recordings for us in the Montreal area. Besides 'Arthur' he worked on a lot of other obscure cartoons that no one watched like Pig City and What's With Andy. th-cam.com/video/UQ387Tb4Llc/w-d-xo.html

@@offmodel awesome! No pressure :) you put out a lot of content that imho isn’t getting enough attention considering how many people love bts stuff - and that sounds amazing! I’m gonna have my hands full looking into this show. Never heard of it til now but the guitar work sounds like his work on Arthur.

@@K2SonicFan a lot of the voice actors on Arthur also worked on those shows...the 'Buster' voice is pretty obvious in What's With Andy. th-cam.com/video/4Qrpbjddr3c/w-d-xo.html

I'm sorry, I don't think I have anything from the xmas movie.

yes, the voices are recorded first and the visuals and music are added at the next stages of production. I thought people would like to hear these rare voice records, kind of like listening to a podcast.

Yeah, that voice is great...I'm not 100% sure but it sounds like Walter Massey who did Mr. Haney's voice.

⁠@@offmodelI could be wrong, but I’m guessing it could be Dan Hennessy who voices Braveheart Lion from the Care Bears. It sounded like him.

@@josephharrington4502 oh, yeah, you're right! he has the same gruff sound. I'll have to ask Debra Toffin, the voice director, if she remembers. Whoever it was, he had a good voice!

@@offmodel Let me know if you hear from her.

@@offmodel Doesn't Sound Like Walter Massey

Yes, you're right...I probably should have just wrote Joe Fallon's name, but Marc Brown wrote the original book on which this episode was based so I included his name for that reason. I think Marc Brown would send notes on the scripts that the writers submitted and may have suggested storylines but, as you said, I wasn't involved with the scripts other than drawing the visuals to them.

yeah, Luke Reid was the kid with the least amount of professional acting skills but his voice seemed suited for Brain...Originally Brain was a very minor character so not a lot of thought was put into the choice of the voice actor....and Luke had to rhyme off a lot of science tech jargon which was tough for any voice actor.

I'm glad someone likes this episode...I thought it was one of the stranger ones when I worked on it...like, what is the message? 'Not all old men are creeps', I guess. It kind of goes against the message kids are always fed that all strangers are danger. Well, I actually had a crossing guard like this guy when I was a kid, so I could relate to the story...maybe other kids could too?

@@offmodel I'm guessing the message is somewhere along the lines of "everybody can be gullible," mainly because it starts off with Arthur mocking D.W.'s fear of monsters under her bed, only for him to believe the most unserious "threat" that even she knows is a joke.

yes! a couple years ago I saw one of his hilarious videos and I realized there must be some people out there that remember 'Arthur!' Matt Neff wrote a comment on the 'DW Rides Again' video recently...at least I think it was him...I'm old so I don't know what's going on most of the time.

Thanks! I worked on the first 5 seasons in the 90's as a Storyboard and Layout Artist and found a box of cassette tapes in my basement from the show...I guess technically these are called "Nat Pause" recordings, not true 'voice record sessions', since all the voice actors' chatter between lines has been removed...these tapes were given out to the storyboard artists to begin drawing the visuals. :)

@offmodel Thanks for taking the time to read and answer my comment. I collect those retail “Arthur” VHS tapes (Random House/Sony Wonder) with two classic episodes per tape (then three in the Sony Wonder era, apparently) like “Arthur’s Baby”, etc, I never really paid much attention to the end credits before but next time I watch an episode I’ll see if I can identify your presence as a crew member from back then. “Nat Pause” recordings, you say? I had never heard that term before. How are they different from a voice acting session besides the banter between the cast being cut? I get the part about them being used so the storyboard artist can draw the visuals based on the lines said by the characters, if I’m understanding correctly, but it’s still interesting to discover something about “Arthur” I never knew.

@@PaperbackWriter92 I guess "Nat Pause" is a term that isn't used much anymore because I'm old :)...it was just the voice cast reading their lines through without much regard to the big paragraphs of action notes in the script...later a "Timed Edit" would be made so if there was, for example, a long fantasy sequence with no dialog in it, then there would be a long pause of 10 seconds of silence to allow for that fantasy sequence. The 'Nat Pause' version is just all dialogue with no pauses between the lines.

yes, you're right, that's him! There's an ab lib line there by Holden "Oh, I should get paid by the laugh! Ha ha ha." (the inside joke is the voice actor DOES get paid by the laugh!)

@@offmodel haha, that's a great ad lib by Holden!! I love his voice acting and he was cast perfectly as Mr Ratburn, as well as the other small roles in the show :) Thanks for the response!

@@sheepletears yes, he's amazing! he will appear in a show I worked on recently called "Millie Magnificent." He played an elderly Asian man named "Mr. Lin." A very interesting performance!

@@offmodel I'll have to check that one out! I remember hearing him in The Aviator as well! Do you have any other media with Arthur Holden or Daniel Brochu you'd recommend watching?

​@@sheepletears Thanks, I will check out The Aviator. Daniel Brochu played the character 'Danny' in 'What's With Andy' which is kind of a forgotten cartoon. th-cam.com/video/4Qrpbjddr3c/w-d-xo.html

Hi! Yes, I worked on the first 6 seasons at Cinar Studio in Montreal as a Storyboard Supervisor and Layout and Posing artist. I'm sorry, I've only found the Reddit Arthur site so far but i will check out the Podcast site now! Wow, how did I miss this? I will go though it now. Thanks.

LOL! Tommy Tibble: "Hi Arthur! Go away."

I'm not sure I have that one but I'll keep checking...

@@offmodel ARTHUR" VOICE RECORDING SESSION Ep. 16b Arthur Makes the Team

Hi, I'm not 100% sure how that came about but I think I remember hearing the Backstreet Boys contacted PBS about doing it for some reason...you'll have to ask Greg Bailey about that to confirm...if you leave a comment on Greg's TH-cam channel I'm sure he'll reply.

I didn't see it but I heard it was weird...I guess they were trying to avoid from being seen as a Barbie clone because of the Mattel lawsuit a few years earlier.

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Amen, Brother!

I've always really liked this episode as well. It's a really good lesson on hard work and not giving up.

"There! That's some 'ore! Ha, ha ha, ha! Oh, I should get paid by the laugh!" (it's an inside joke: the voice actor DOES get paid by the laugh!)

"Oh, I'm Hysterical! I Should Get Paid By The Laugh!" I Love That Line Holden Did!

yes, I can't remember for certain but it's probably something the client changed after the storyboard or animation was finished...maybe it implies something horrible about Grandma Thora so they wanted it toned down. We would get several pages of revisions at the storyboard stage and some of these would be dialog revisions like this.

Hi! I'm sorry I can't remember any bumpers for a vote-a-rama countdown being made at the animation studio, Cinar...perhaps WGBH made these using some New York ad-agency animators which they did from time to time with very weird results... But I left the series in 2001 to work on 'Sagwa' so if it was after 2001 I wouldn't have known about it, so maybe it exists. How did the audience vote on the episodes in those days? I remember something with a 'red button' scheme that WGBH was promoting in 1999 where you'd press a button on a remote to get some interactive pop up window with trivia or a lesson. I'm sorry I only vaguely remember the Arthur travelling stage play for kids around 1999 but we weren't involved with it at Cinar...although someone brought in a tape of it and we made fun of it a lot! 😅 In that era it was common to have those kinds of "Disney on Ice" type events for kids...I guess they don't do that kind of thing anymore since kids only like to watch other kids playing video games on TikTok these days. You could try asking the Director, Greg Bailey, if he can remember the voting thing. He usually likes to answer questions from fans. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. www.youtube.com/@3arwig

@offmodel Thanks! I had no idea that you left Arthur to work on Sagwa. I am familiar with Greg Bailey, though. And I remember that even the show itself would joke about him sometimes lol

Wow, good catch! that's weird because I remember a shot where Arthur is being sucked down a drain in a big water vortex...maybe it was a "drowning issue" so had to be removed. It's strange that they kept the shot of him falling from a building, though, as this is something kids could imitate so those kinds of things are usually not allowed today...it must have been a change by the client after the animation was finished and I had moved to another production by that point. The date on the tape is April 17, 1998.

yeah, the background department did a nice job with the autumn backgrounds on this one...I remember the Director, Greg Bailey, was happy with how the show looked, even though the script is kind of weak.

yes, those are good ones! I'm searching for them but unfortunately the tapes only have production numbers written on them not titles so it will take a bit of time to find them...my 40 year old tape player is on its last legs.

@offmodel Oh ok.

I used a copy posted on Dailymotion that seems to be from "The Spot."

​@@offmodelOh, neat.

Well, sometimes from another station.

@@tylernicholas7217 I guess once Arthur hit 65 episodes it could be sold in syndication to stations other than PBS. That was the magic number in those days for TV shows...once you hit 65 episodes you hit the cash cow of syndication and there often was no reason to make more episodes...luckily Arthur started winning Emmy awards so PBS decided to order more.

"The Spot" is a block on a channel known as BBC Kids in Canada, it has been defunct since 2019

She was probably busy voice performing Jonas's younger sister, LouLou on 'Wimzie's House' on that day.

Thank you! I will keep uploading over the next couple weeks...I'm not sure I have 'Christmas'...many tapes are unlabelled or just have production numbers, not episode titles. I've just been grabbing random ones out of a box I found in my basement. Although, I only have episodes from the first 6 seasons since I only worked on those. Thanks for listening!

yes, it was 29 years ago so I can't remember exactly what happened but maybe Michael Yarmush was sick that day.

@@offmodel Oh Dear

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I'm sorry, I didn't see it...I only worked on the 2004 movie that was in 2D. I know Mattel was suing the Bratz owner for a long time for being "a barbie rip off" but Bratz ultimately won the lawsuit in 2011 so I guess they were free to experiment with a reboot after that point.