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RIP to Lloyd Robertson, the longtime chief anchor of the national version of CTV News, who has died at 92.

(There is no particular reason why I chose that day, I just wanted a typical broadcast from some point in the middle of his career as chief anchor.)
 
Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 is the 25th anniversary of the death of the greatest "man of a single voice" voice actor of all time, Lorenzo Music, the "original" voice of Garfield*, the voice of Peter Venkman on the Real Ghostbusters, and the voice of Carlton the Doorman on Rhoda (and in his own animated special), plus "Super Pac" on Hanna-Barbera Pac-Man, Tummi Gummi on Disney's Gummi Bears, and many more roles.

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Here's my favourite Garfield special, Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985).







* not counting Scott Beach as Garfield on a few short segments on the 1980 CBS-TV special The Fabulous Funnies.


As a kid it irrationally ANNOYED me that he was the voice of Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters. Because WHY THE HELL is Garfield voicing him?!?!?!?! And then I came to realize that Frank Welker voiced Ray, Slimer, Fred from Scooby-Doo, and about 153,843 other different characters. Same with Maurice LaMarche as Egon, The Brain, and a hundred thousand others. The cartoon voice actor industry really is just one small inbred community, isn't it?
 
As a kid it irrationally ANNOYED me that he was the voice of Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters. Because WHY THE HELL is Garfield voicing him?!?!?!?! And then I came to realize that Frank Welker voiced Ray, Slimer, Fred from Scooby-Doo, and about 153,843 other different characters. Same with Maurice LaMarche as Egon, The Brain, and a hundred thousand others. The cartoon voice actor industry really is just one small inbred community, isn't it?
Tara Strong, Billy West, Richard Horvitz (Invader Zim, Dagget from Angry Beavers) Kevin Michael Richardson, John DiMaggio.
It's connected, man!
 
As a kid it irrationally ANNOYED me that he was the voice of Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters. Because WHY THE HELL is Garfield voicing him?!?!?!?! And then I came to realize that Frank Welker voiced Ray, Slimer, Fred from Scooby-Doo, and about 153,843 other different characters. Same with Maurice LaMarche as Egon, The Brain, and a hundred thousand others. The cartoon voice actor industry really is just one small inbred community, isn't it?
When I was a very little kid, I wondered why Robin from Superfriends (and reruns of the Filmation Batman seasons that didn't have Burt Ward) and Mark from Battle of the Planets (the kiddy TV dub of Ninja Science Team GATCHAMAN) all sounded pretty much exactly like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo and then I also wondered why they all sounded kind of like that guy that was on the radio on Saturday afternoons (Casey Kasem). I think that was the first time I figured out that voice acting was a thing people do (instead of cartoon characters just naturally having their own voices).
 
When I was a very little kid, I wondered why Robin from Superfriends (and reruns of the Filmation Batman seasons that didn't have Burt Ward) and Mark from Battle of the Planets (the kiddy TV dub of Ninja Science Team GATCHAMAN) all sounded pretty much exactly like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo and then I also wondered why they all sounded kind of like that guy that was on the radio on Saturday afternoons (Casey Kasem). I think that was the first time I figured out that voice acting was a thing people do (instead of cartoon characters just naturally having their own voices).
It comes to us eventually how this was. Seem like many VA's often had more well known avenues they traveled down like Kasem with being a disk jockey.
 
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