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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: aaron sica on October 08, 2014, 01:56:39 PM
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So one of the characters, Connie, is obsessed with Pat Sajak.....I wonder if the writer of the storyline ever stopped through here. :)
http://www.cc.com/shows/brickleberry
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I've seen Brickleberry once. I don't know why it exists, for any other reason than to give Daniel Tosh another star vehicle.
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At the beginning of the episode, there was a disclaimer stating that "all celebrity voices are impersonated".
The Simpsons has one of these as well on occasion (but buried at the end of the credits - occasionally it will also list who did a specific celebrity voice; I have seen "Jay Mohr as Christopher Walken" and "Jerry Seinfeld impersonation by Dan Castellaneta"). I wonder if certain celebrities pretty much demand this, or if the producers just feel that they need to do this for certain celebrities.
Note that Pat Sajak has voiced himself in cartoons - in the early 1990s, he voiced himself in an episode of Rugrats (he was the celebrity face of a sweepstakes, similar to Ed McMahon and American Family Publishers). This is not to be confused with Alex Trebek's role on the same show as a game show host, although his character's name there was "Alan Quebec" (he would later voice himself on a Simpsons episode).
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The Critic had a similar disclaimer at the end of every episode... {Jon Lovitz/Jay Sherman}"Celebrity voices are impersonated...no celebrities were harmed during the filming of this episode."{JL/JS}
South Park also has (had?) one at the beginning of each episode. In the early days of SP, the producers wanted a celebrity to do a cameo (might've been Seinfeld), but the celebrity backed out when finding out he was going to be the voice of a pet or something. FWIW, George Clooney and Jay Leno both did voices of pets.
All in all, prolly more of a legal/CYA move to avoid lawsuits.
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Personally, I wouldn't want to see my name associated with Brickleberry in any way either...