RIP Peter Cullen

[deathlynx]

You may not know the name, but I am positive you know the voice.

As a voice actor, he was auditioning for the role of an alien in a movie. He didn't particularly want the part, so he tried to throw the audition by making a series of clicking sounds. Joke was on him because they thought it was perfect for The Predator.

You might know him as Murky from Rainbow Bright, or Venger from D&D. He was Eeyore from the late 80s through the teens (only when Christopher Robin came out did they have another).

But most people know him as Optimus Prime.

 

[CalBishForNow]

This fucking week!

 

[Duil2]

This fucking week!

Well, all I can say is that wherever they're all gone they're having one hell of a party!

 

[Bamagan]

Well, all I can say is that wherever they're all gone they're having one hell of a party!

Great, now I have an audio hallucination of Optimus Prime singing Jolene at karaoke.

Thanks for that.

 

[Writer61]

Christopher Robin came out

Christopher Robin is gay?

 

[Duil2]

Great, now I have an audio hallucination of Optimus Prime singing Jolene at karaoke.

Thanks for that.

He and Dolly would do a mean duet.

 

[AchtungNight]

Another great voice actor who I heard often in my childhood is gone.

 

[WhoDunIt77]

He and Dolly would do a mean duet.

Just imagine “Islands in the Stream”!

Still bummed we didn’t get a version of that song with Barry Gibb and her before she passed. I wasn’t aware he was the one that wrote it, but I knew he did his duet with Olivia Newton John.

 

[UnexpectedLuggage]

This fucking week!

Yeah, I'm officially calling bullshit on this whole year. Of all the fucking people we lose Dolly, Tim, and Peter in 72 hours?

 

[deathlynx]

Yeah, I'm officially calling bullshit on this whole year. Of all the fucking people we lose Dolly, Tim, and Peter in 72 hours?

Actually, they were all the same day. Tim's family just waited to announce because of Dolly and Peter's family because of both of the others.

 

[UnexpectedLuggage]

Actually, they were all the same day. Tim's family just waited to announce because of Dolly and Peter's family because of both of the others.

I didn't know that. That's even worse.

 

[ColtonWrites]

Hayden Panettiere died last week and I didn't even hear about it.
No official cause of death released, but it sounds like it was probably drug related.

 

[deathlynx]

Hayden Panettiere died last week and I didn't even hear about it.
No official cause of death released, but it sounds like it was probably drug related.

From what I hear it was, but is still being investigated. Especially as she just got out of rehab, and made suggestions that she was ready to come forward with some accusations along the "Me Too" lines. Which would be quite the parallel to Daveigh Chase's (Lilo from the original Lilo and Stitch) death back in June.