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Twenty Thousand Hertz

Stay Tuned: The new voices of the Looney Tunes

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Design, Music, Music Commentary, Arts

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Nearly a century after they first appeared, the Looney Tunes are back in an all-new series. To bring this iconic franchise into the present, the creators are looking to its past, taking it back to the look and feel of the 1940s. But filling the shoes of legendary voice actor Mel Blanc is easier said than done. Featuring voice actors Eric Bauza and Jeff Bergman, and showrunner Pete Browngardt. Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced by ⁠Defacto Sound⁠. Subscribe on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to see our video series. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mystery.20k.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Support the show and get ad-free episodes at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠20k.org/plus⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Dallas on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠⁠, and⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join our community on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Reddit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get a 4-week trial, free postage, and a digital scale at Stamps.com. Just click the microphone at the top right corner and type the promo code 20k. Hiring? Sign up at Indeed.com/Hertz and get a $75 credit to sponsor your first job post for better visibility, more applications, and quicker hiring times. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/staytuned Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

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0:09.8

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0:24.1

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0:30.4

You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.

0:45.3

Way back in the early days of cinema, movie theaters would often play animated shorts before the film. This is actually how audiences were first introduced to Disney characters, like Mickey Mouse

0:50.3

and Donald Duck.

0:51.3

Another studio in town called Warner Brothers jumped on this bandwagon in 1930

0:56.0

with a series called Looney Tunes. It was an immediate hit, and that success continued all the way into the 50s,

1:03.0

when Looney Tunes started to appear on television. By this point, Looney Tunes had developed lots of its most

1:09.2

lovable characters. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Marvin the Martian, Yosemite Sam, and the list

1:16.4

goes on and on.

1:20.7

Amazingly, back then, almost all of these voices were performed by one single person, Mel Blank.

1:29.9

And over the span of his career, Mel was the voice of nearly 400 different characters. Here are just a few.

1:34.1

E, what's up, Jack?

1:36.0

I'm a... all set, your hero ship, sir.

1:39.5

Buster, it may come as a complete surprise to you to find that this is an animated cartoon.

1:45.8

I told I told a easy, baby, poody cat.

1:49.4

What's going on? I say, what's going on here?

1:51.7

Get out of here, rabbit!

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