tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post3007831757274022326..comments2024-03-28T11:45:24.378-07:00Comments on Tralfaz: Flynn No FailureYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-16202370797010171072019-02-01T20:55:38.089-08:002019-02-01T20:55:38.089-08:00Yes, reportedly Flynn did not like Borgnine. Not s...Yes, reportedly Flynn did not like Borgnine. Not sure what Borgnine thought of Flynn (he was briefly complimentary to him in his Archive of American Television interview, but he might have just been being nice). Outtakes of the show reveal Borgnine's frustration with Flynn goofing around in takes. All this made the dislike of the characters for each other<br />pretty believable!TV Fanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04626398667578335785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-60475026281157071092018-07-05T10:14:17.615-07:002018-07-05T10:14:17.615-07:00It seems like after " McHale's Navy "...It seems like after " McHale's Navy ", the Binghamton character was his persona from them on. No nonsense, explosive. The formula that worked for Flynn. Before McHale, the majority of his movie and television appearances had him playing mild mannered, amiable characters, clerks, scientists, even gas station attendants. His character of Mr.Kelly, law partner of Dobson and Kelly on " Ozzie and Harriet " was very amiable. Kind of faded into the woodwork. I remember it was on a Friday in 1974 that he died. I found out about it the following morning in " The Daily Press ", our Saturday morning newspaper. Funny, his last performance was released close to three years after his passing. Disney's " The Rescuers " His Dean Higgins character in Disney's whole " Medville College " saga was pretty much Binghamton 2.0. Errolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-85600020916757470252018-07-04T18:49:26.683-07:002018-07-04T18:49:26.683-07:00I read that,too, in the 1989 "The Art of Hann...I read that,too, in the 1989 "The Art of Hanna-Barbera"(Ted Sennett), and I've heard the old 1970 Jay Ward King Vitamin cereal ads, with Joe as King V., and he doesn't even sound like John Stephenson's Flynn (heard first on the next season's "Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch", the series Yowp refers to notby name. John repeated that for 1973's "Inch High Private" eye and after Mr.Flynn's death in 1974, in `1978's "Yogi's Galaxy Goof ups," the only good, very good in fact, Yogi reboot as it returned the character to one part (two one part cartoons) cartoons as a bumbler, and with Huck! (Amng other shows John did the Joe Flynn voice.)Pokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-64938879386439692282018-07-04T16:43:59.987-07:002018-07-04T16:43:59.987-07:00"Producer Mark Evanier once related how Joe B..."Producer Mark Evanier once related how Joe Barbera wanted to hire Flynn to, basically, repeat his McHale’s Navy characterisation on a cartoon series but then hired John Stephenson instead because Stephenson sounded more like Flynn than Flynn did."<br /><br />I recall reading, too, that Barbera had to coach Paul Lynde on how to sound like Paul Lynde (another voice Stephenson eventually took over). It's the difference between an impressionist and the actual person. An impressionist highlights the individual's extremes to get laughs, but the original person is considerably more nuanced, even if, as in the cases of Flynn and, to a lesser extent, Lynde, he seems to be something of a one-note character. Hiring the original person for his voice gets you more variety but less of his signature vocal mannerisms, which is probably not what you want when you're looking for a voice for a limited-animation show for kids.Mike T.noreply@blogger.com