#Harvey Atkin

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have More Animation Greats 1998 It Has Cactus Swing 1995, La Salia 1996, 64 Million Years Ago 1981, Evolution 1971, Hot Stuff 1971, Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety 1986, The Family that Dweft Apart 1973, The Dingles 1988, The Old Lady's Camping Trip 1983, and Every Child 1979

#More Animation Greats #Jay Brazeau #David Wilkie #Stewart MacDougall #Sam Payne #Michael Mills #Don Arioli #Paul Brown #Harvey Atkin #Luba Goy #Henry Beckman #E.B. White #Derek Lamb #Henry Ramer #Michel Labelle #Sandra Suissa #Marina Tamara #Bernard Carez #Sophie Cowling #Raymond Pollender

[badgaymovies]

Joshua Then and Now (1985)

Joshua Then and Now by #TedKotcheff starring #JamesWoods and #AlanArkin, "a flawlessly entertaining exploration of the mysteries of love"

TED KOTCHEFF Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB Canada, 1985. Films RSL, Moviecorp X. Screenplay by Mordecai Richler, based on his novel. Cinematography by Francois Protat. Produced by Robert Lantos, Stephen J. Roth. Music by Philippe Sarde. Production Design by Anne Pritchard. Costume Design by Louise Jobin, Hazel Pethig. Film Editing by Ron Wisman. Ted Kotcheff returns to the success of The…

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#Alan Arkin #Alan Scarfe #Alexander Knox #Andrew Powell #Anne Pritchard #Canada #Cannes 1985 #Chuck Shamata #Eric Kimmel #Films RSL #Francois Protat #Gabrielle Lazure #Gordon Michael Woolvett #Harvey Atkin #Hazel Pethig #Jack Rider #James Woods #Kate Trotter #Ken Campbell #Linda Sorensen #Louise Jobin #Michael Sarrazin #Mordecai Richler #Moviecorp X #Paul Hecht #Philippe Sarde #Robert Howard #Robert Joy #Robert Lantos #Ron Wisman

[davealmost]

Two Evil Eyes

#Two Evil Eyes #horror #anthology #2023 Halloween #cats #inheritance #alcoholism #adrienne barbeau #tom atkins #george a. romero #dario argento #harvey keitel

[keeperofdarkness22]

Due occhi diabolici (1989)

#Due occhi diabolici #movie #horror #horrormovies #film #movies #dead #kill #zombie #edgar allan poe #george romero #dario argento #adrienne barbeau #Ramy Zada #harvey keitel #John Amos #tom atkins

[jackbatchelor3]

Mother, Son, And A Bag Full Of Cash! 💰 Walford REEvisited EastEnders

#EastEnders #Walford REEvisited #The Taylors #Keanu Taylor #Mitch Baker #Sharon Watts #Sheanu #Baby Albie #Albie Watts #Rocky #Tom Cotton #Harvey Monroe #Bernadette Taylor #Bailey Baker #Mia Atkins #Mackenzie Atkins #Phil Mitchell

[fatehbaz]

"defending civilization against bugs"

lol the mosquito sculpture

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Sir Ronald Ross had just returned from an expedition to Sierra Leone. The British doctor had been leading efforts to tackle the malaria that so often killed English colonists in the country, and in December 1899 he gave a lecture to the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce [...]. [H]e argued that "in the coming century, the success of imperialism will depend largely upon success with the microscope."

Text by: Rohan Deb Roy. "Decolonise science - time to end another imperial era." The Conversation. 5 April 2018.

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[A]s [...] Diane Nelson explains: The creation of transportation infrastructure such as canals and railroads, the deployment of armies, and the clearing of ground to plant tropical products all had to confront [...] microbial resistance. The French, British, and US raced to find a cure for malaria [...]. One French colonial official complained in 1908: “fever and dysentery are the ‘generals’ that defend hot countries against our incursions and prevent us from replacing the aborigines that we have to make use of.” [...] [T]ropical medicine was assigned the role of a “counterinsurgent field.” [...] [T]he discovery of mosquitoes as malaria and yellow fever carriers reawakened long-cherished plans such as the construction of the Panama Canal (1904–1914) [...]. In 1916, the director of the US Bureau of Entomology and longtime general secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science rejoiced at this success as “an object lesson for the sanitarians of the world” -- it demonstrated “that it is possible for the white race to live healthfully in the tropics.” As Timothy Mitchell writes: “In 1915, the year after the canal’s completion, the newly established Rockefeller Foundation took over the mosquito campaign from the U.S. Army and launched a worldwide program" [...]. The [...] measures to combat dangerous diseases always had the collateral benefit of social pacification. In 1918, George Vincent, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, candidly declared: “For purposes of placating primitive and suspicious peoples, medicine has some decided advantages over machine guns." The construction of the Panama Canal [...] advanced the military expansion of the United States in the Caribbean.

Text by: Fahim Amir. "Cloudy Swords." e-flux Journal Issue #115. February 2021.

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Richard P. Strong [had been] recently appointed director of Harvard’s new Department of Tropical Medicine [...]. In 1914, just one year after the creation of Harvard’s Department of Tropical Medicine, Strong took on an additional assignment that cemented the ties between his department and American business interests abroad. As newly appointed director of the Laboratories of the Hospitals and of Research Work of United Fruit Company, he set sail in July 1914 to United Fruit plantations in Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama. […] As a shareholder in two British rubber plantations, [...] Strong approached Harvey Firestone, chief executive of the tire and rubber-processing conglomerate that bore his name, in December 1925 with a proposal to conduct an extensive biological and medical survey of the interior region of Liberia. Strong found a receptive ear. Firestone had negotiated tentative agreements in 1925 with the Liberian government for [...] a 99-year concession to optionally lease up to a million acres of Liberian land for rubber plantations. [...]

Nearly all of the [Harvard tropical medicine] department’s expeditions were to industrial plantations in the making. […] [I]nfluenced by the recommendations and financial backing of Harvard alumni such as Philippine governor Gen. William Cameron Forbes and patrons such as Edward Atkins, who were making their wealth in the banana and sugarcane industries, Harvard hired Strong, then head of the Philippine Bureau of Science’s Biological Laboratory, and personal physician to Forbes, to establish the second Department of Tropical Medicine in the United States [...].

Strong and Forbes both left Manila for Boston in 1913. Strong began assembling a team of researchers and a course of instruction to take advantage of the increasing overseas presence of US firms. Forbes became an overseer to Harvard University and a director of United Fruit Company, the agricultural products marketing conglomerate best known for its extensive holdings of banana plantations throughout Central America. […] In 1912 United Fruit controlled over 300,000 acres of land in the tropics [...] and a ready supply of [...] samples taken from the company’s hospitals and surrounding plantations, Strong boasted that no “tropical school of medicine in the world … had such an asset.” “It is something of a victory for Harvard,” he argued. “We could not for a million dollars procure such advantages.”

Over the next two decades, he established a research funding model reliant on the medical and biological services the Harvard department could provide US-based multinational firms in enhancing their overseas production and trade in coffee, bananas, rubber, oil, and other tropical commodities. [...] As the expedition set sail for Monrovia, Strong wrote in his diary that he hoped their efforts would push the United States to “exert a more stimulating influence upon the development of the … country and its people” as it had in the Philippines, Panama, and Puerto Rico. [...] Harvard’s Department of Tropical Medicine was thoroughly entangled in the material relationships – transportation infrastructure, labor regimes, and commodity production – that were instrumental in advancing the interests of firms like United Fruit, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, and the American Chicle Company as they transformed landscapes across the globe.

Text by: Gregg Mitman. "Forgotten Paths of Empire: Ecology, Disease, and Commerce in the Making of Liberia's Plantation Economy." Environmental History Volume 22 Number 1. January 2017.

#literally that post i made earlier today about frustration of seeing the same colonial institutions and leaders showing up in every story #about plantations and forced labor my first draft i explicitly mentioned the harvard school tropical medicine and kew royal botanic garden #abolition #ecology #imperial #colonial #bugs

[ojchartoonzsstuff]

how you draw sam makes me think he would sound like how he is voiced in the cartoons. also, if you had to choose a favorite character from the franchise that isnt sam or max, who would you choose?

THANKS FOR THE COMPLIMENT MAN!! ((love hearing that my design for him matches his voice in the cartoons((Harvey Atkins’s voice for Sam is definitely my favorite))

And for a favorite character for the franchise other than Sam and Max!!! It’s a tie between Sal, Dr Norrington, Charlie Ho-Tep from the Devils Playhouse

((Sal because he’s just a nice and chill guy, Dr Norrington because I like his design and voice, and Charlie Ho-Tep because he’s oh so silly and I LOVED the idea of one of the toys of power being revealed as an antagonist))

#sam and max #sam and max freelance police #your fave is

[brokehorrorfan]

Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its Funeral Home Blu-ray. Originally due out on January 30, it will now be released on February 6. The 1980 Canadian slasher film is also known as Cries in the Night.

William Fruet (Killer Party) directs from a script by Ida Nelson. Lesleh Donaldson, Kay Hawtrey, Jack Van Evera, Alf Humphreys, and Harvey Atkin star. Mark Irwin (Scream, The Fly) serves as director of photography.

Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historians Jason Pichonsky and Paul Corupe (new)

Isolated score selections & audio interview with music historian Douglass Fake (new)

Audio interviews with actor Lesleh Donaldson, first assistant director Ray Sager, and production assistant Shelley Allen (new)

Interview with director of photography Mark Irwin (new)

Interviews with art director Susan Longmire and set assistant Elinor Galbraith (new)

Interview with Premier Drive-In Theatres president Brian Allen (new)

Original filming location footage (new)

Theatrical trailer

Video trailer

TV spots

Radio spots

Still gallery

Young and easily frightened Heather (Lesleh Donaldson) is called to stay with her grandmother in the hopes of helping her turn an old funeral home into a bed-and-breakfast. But strange happenings and unexplained murders around the home quickly make this vacation spot a “dead-and-breakfast.” It is up to Heather to investigate the eerie and creepy corners of the former funeral home to unlock a decades-old secret. Will she survive long enough to solve the mystery?

Pre-order Funeral Home.

#funeral home #horror #80s horror #1980s horror #slasher #canadian horror #canadian film #scream factory #dvd #gift #80s slashers #killer party #scream #the fly #Lesleh Donaldson

[formulalfc]

VVD is a serial cheater and has been cheating on Rike since his Celtic days, in fact the tabloids caught him coming out of a flat with a pornstar and it was a pretty big story. Every time he gets time off he goes partying in Ibiza - typically without his family, and you can guess what happens. He has a reputation of a good family man but it really isn't true, he's a good father but that's about it.

Trent tried to cheat on his ex Hannah Atkins with a British YouTuber’s (WillNE) girlfriend, Mia Mon by dming her.

Harvey and Curtis have both been spotted in "parties" aimed at footballers/other celebrities which are just events with lots of girls who are influences, models and the such, so that footballers can take them back home for sex. It's not confirmed they've cheated for sure, but why else would you go to these parties while you have a girlfriend?

Macca cheated on his girlfriend of around 10 years... with her best friend. He then left that girlfriend and is now dating the best friend.

There are also rumours of Salah cheating but I'm hoping and praying it's fake because nothing is very substantial, it's just speculation and rumours put together by people.

I'm sure there are some more, but these are the major ones. See, I think none of them are bad people - but they are footballers, and dumb as fucking rocks, and their wives/gfs all put up with them and some even allow their partner to sleep around as long as they stay with their partner. It's sad how almost every athlete is expected to cheat and then actually does it.

my mouth is agape

what the ever loving shit

i actually don't have words to say

i knew about the trent one and had heard bits about the virgil stuff but the rest i'm like absolutely gobsmacked really

wow

#formulalfc

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Psycho Analysis: Bowser

(WARNING! This analysis contains SPOILERS!)

Most of the time, saying a character needs no introduction is a bit of an exaggeration, because there is always the chance, however slim, that someone has not heard of that character. That’s not the case here, though; you could go to the deepest, most isolated jungle tribe on Earth, ask the villagers if they’ve heard of Mario, and they’ll all start singing out the Mario theme music. With that in mind, today’s subject absolutely needs no introduction, but out of respect for the King of Koopas I’ll give him one anyway: This is Bowser.

Bowser is not simply a video game villain. Bowser is THE video game villain. Like Mario, Peach, and Luigi, this big old turtle is pretty much a household name, loved far and wide for his iconic design, simple yet effective boss battles, and his inexplicable yet somehow still understandable sexiness. The question is, can I make it through this review without making some sort of crude comment about the raw sexuality the King of Koopas exudes? Lets find out!

Motivation/Goals: Bowser from day one has always been a pretty simple man. All he wants in life is those peaches, peaches, peaches… And I mean, really, can you blame him?

Yes, his motivations and goals are pretty simple and shallow, but he always manages to make something as trite as rescuing a damsel in distress fun and refreshing. His strict adherence to basic formula leaves a lot of room for mixing things up though, and this same adherence makes the times when he breaks tradition and does something like fight on Mario’s side all the better. And sometimes it’s clear Bowser just wants to relax and fuck around by karting, playing board games, or competing in some sort of sport.

It’s a fun little twist on that old “Knight rescues a princess from a dragon,” except the dragon is a giant turtle and the knight is an Italian plumber (a more powerful force than any knight could hope to be). Of course, the fact Bowser is incredibly obsessed with a woman despite her wanting nothing to do with him means that Bowser is—you guessed it—a

Performance: Hoo boy, are there a lot of Bowser voice actors.

The cartoons used Harvey Atkins, who delivered a fun and cartoonish take on Bowser; Marc Graue voiced him in Hotel Mario, but this isn’t shocking as he was basically every male character in that game; Peter Cullen technically voiced him from 1996 to 2006 due to archival roars he provided for the 1976 remake of King Kong being repurposed for Bowser’s own roars; Charles Martinet provided his iconic evil laughs for 64; Kenny James is his current voice actor; Jack Black turned in a very against type performance in the Illumination movie; and Dennis Hopper of all people portrayed him in the live action film from the 90s. And these are just the ones I wanted to highlight! There are a few English voice actors I skipped as well as his extensive Japanese voice cast! Here’s the complete list, just so I’m not here all day:

The point I’m trying to make is this: Bowser’s iconic status is completely a group effort, and each of these dudes helped contribute to Bowser’s status in our hearts and minds in their own unique ways.

Final Fate: It really depends on the game or movie or whatever, but he is always defeated by Mario at any rate. Sometimes he’s simply defeated and sent on his way; sometimes he’s captured and imprisoned, like in the animated movie; and sometimes he just fucking dies, like in the live action movie and New Super Mario Bros. Don’t worry, he gets better.

Best Scene: Bowser in the earlier games had rather simple boss fights, though they weren’t completely unmemorable. Still, out of his early days it’s hard to deny his epic battle against Yoshi in the finale of Yoshi’s Island, where his child self is grown to gargantuan size and ominously lumbers towards you from the background while a hardcore boss tune blasts through your speakers, is the peak of his NES/SNES days.

Then we have his early forays into 3D, and it’s inarguable that the boss fights he has against Mario in the timeless classic Super Mario 64 are some of his best, even if they are rather simplistic. I mean, this is where we got “So long, Gay Bowser!” from, can you really deny its place in Mario history? And those are just a couple! We could probably sit here all day talking about his great battles in games like Odyssey, New Super Mario Bros, Galaxy, and so on.

Bowser’s most impressive showing outside of the games is The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The initial teaser for the film, which showcased his opening fight against the penguin kingdom, really helps establish Bowser as the threat he is, and the final battle and the wedding scene in the movie are some of his greatest villain moments to date. But I’m going to be cliché and give the spotlight to his villain song, “Peaches.”

Here’s the thing, though: As a song, “Peaches” kind of sucks. It’s just Jack Black saying “Peaches” fifty times in a row and then making Jack Black noises. But that’s also what makes it so genuinely great; in the hands of a lesser actor/musician, this really would just be the dumbest shit imaginable, but in the hamtastic hands of Jack Black the song has become an instant legend. I think the visuals and the beautiful piano playing really help, not to mention the official music video where JB dresses up as Bowser and tosses peaches around. Lyrically it’s nothing to write home about, but man does the performance really sell it.

Oh yeah and there’s this too:

Final Thoughts & Score

It is near impossible to overstate how iconic, important, and downright awesome Bowser is.

Like, this guy is the final boss. He pretty much codified what that means in terms of video games, being one of the first iconic big bads of gaming and the first adversary a lot of gamers fought. It’s kind of hard to believe today, but the original Mario games were genuinely some of the most groundbreaking games of all time, and the only reason it’s hard to believe is because video games have been building off the groundwork they laid down back in the 80s. Bowser is no exception; every single video game villain, especially platformer villains, owes a debt of gratitude to the king of the Koopas.

I think part of the reason Bowser has managed to survive and thrive through console generation after console generation is because he, much like the rest of the core Mario cast, is extremely versatile as a character and can slip into any situation with relative ease. He can be an evil overlord, a bratty child, a loving father, a kart racer, an Olympic champion, a platform fighter combatant, the owner of a Coney Island disco palace, a giant skeleton, a board game player, it doesn’t matter! Bowser can do it all! He can be a goofy, bumbling comedy villain or he can be a galaxy-destroying threat that would make Thanos shit himself, he has range like you wouldn’t believe!

It helps that both times he has shown up in a movie he has managed to be a scene-stealing smorgasbord of ham and cheese. Dennis Hopper’s madcap, in-it-for-the-money-but-not-half-assing-it performance in the live action film is so delightfully over the top that he manages to make the mere act of saying “Monkey” and “Bob-Omb” memorable and meme-worthy. While he’s a bit far off from what you’d totally want from Bowser, and his saurian form gets relegated to a two second cameo before his death, it’s hard for me to really give him less than a solid 7/10. He’s just too damn fun.

Meanwhile, Jack Black delivered a performance so good that it makes it easy to overlook the many problems the movie has (like its terrible needle drops). He’s just so fun, funny, and even genuinely intimidating, perfectly mixing all of the traits that make people love Bowser into one big, juicy package. I think everyone knew this was going to be a 10/10 performance right from the moment it was announced, but still it was pretty impressive just how well Black was able to slip into Bowser to the point he was almost unrecognizable at times.

No one would argue that Bowser deserves less than an 11/10; he is genuinely one of the single most important characters of the 21st century, and has made a mark on gaming that very few villains could match. He is to final bosses what Dracula is to vampires, what the Wicked Witch is to witches, and what Fu Manchu is to racist caricatures of Asian people. Other villains have more depth and complexity than Bowser, but that doesn’t really matter when he kidnaps Peach for the thousandth time and throws an army of freaky mushroom men and crazy turtles at you, because you’re gonna be there helping Mario stomp those Goombas to get to him. Bowser is just an icon, and his place in video game history is absolutely, utterly gargantuan.

JUST LIKE HIS DICK!

#Psycho Analysis #Bowser #Jack Black #Dennis Hopper #Super Mario Bros. #Youtube

[dear-indies]

Could you please suggest some plus size men of colour? Other than Harvey Guillen, all the ones I know are white. Thanks!

Alec Butler (1959) Métis of Mi'kmaq heritage - is a two-spirit intersex trans man.

Cedric the Entertainer (1964) African-American.

Lam Suet (1964) Hongkonger.

Taylor Wily (1968) Samoan.

Craig Robinson (1971) African-American.

Adrian Martinez (1972) Mexican.

Kiku Sharda (1976) Rajasthani Indian.

Tedashii (1977) Samoan and African-American.

Danish Nawaz (1978) Pakistani.

Uchiyama Shinji (1981) Japanese.

Demetrius C. Savelio (1981) Samoan.

Brian Tyree Henry (1982) African-American.

Quinton Aaron (1984) African-American.

Dexter Mayfield (1984) African-American - is queer.

Tyrone Lindo / Big Narstie (1985) Afro-Jamaican.

Yogi Babu (1985) Indian.

Adam Briggs / Senator Briggs (1986) Yorta Yorta.

Atkins Estimond (1987) Afro-Haitian.

Samson Kayo (1991) Nigerian.

Nataanii Means (1991) Oglala Lakota Sioux, Navajo, Omaha.

Travis Thompson (1996) Navajo / Irish and German.

Cosme Flores (1996) Mexican.

Ali Adel (1998) Egyptian.

Rico Rodriguez (1998) Mexican.

Jovan Armand (2000) Salvadorian and Mexican.

Nathan Alexis (?) Nakota Sioux.

Bappie Kortram (?) Black Dutch - is trans.

Larry Owens (?) African-American - is queer.

Tevin “Milo” Evans (?) African-American.

Dane Simpson (?) Unspecified Australian Aboriginal.

Syed Sohail (?) Pakistani.

+ here's my body diversity masterlist!

I also would not suggest Harvey for his pro-Israel views and please note that I would not consider some of these plus size but Hollywood likes to think so!

#fc help #rph #rpc

[garadinervi]

«Rampike», Vol. 21, No. 2, 'Poetics – Part Two', Edited by Karl Jirgens, Windsor, 2012 [UWindsor Institutional Repository, University of Windsor, Windsor. room 3o2 books, Ottawa]

Contributions by Michael Winkler, Leonard Cohen & Judith Fitzgerald, Charles Bernstein, Susan Gold & Mike Dyer, George Bowering, Frank Davey, Katie Solbeck, Terry Trowbridge & Alexander Brown, Richard Kostelanetz, Peter Jaeger, Jesse Ferguson, Cathy Wagner, Tim Atkins, Amy De'Ath, Brenda Francis Pelkey, Richard Parker, Marcus Slease, Edward Nixon, Christian Burgaud, Susan Holbrook, Louis Cabri, Brian Ang, Harvey L. Hix, Kevin McPherson Eckoff, Stephen Remus, Eric Schmaltz, Travis Kirton, Kelly Mark, bill bissett, Judith Copithorne, Gregory Betts, Hallie Siegel, Matt Donovan, a.rawlings, derek beaulieu, Steve McCaffery, bill bissett, Cyril Dabydeen, Babar Khan, Norman Lock, George Elliott Clarke, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Denise Desautels & Norman Cornett, Amanda Earl, Nick Power, Lindsey Bannister, Paul Lisson, Raquel Torres, Camille Martin, Stephanie McKenzie, Justin Langlois, Robert Anderson, Andre Narbonne, Tray Drumhann, Eric Zboya, Mat Laporte, Nico Vassilakis, Robert Dassanowsky, rob mclennan & Sachiko Murakami, derek beaulieu, & Ottarormstad, Britt-Marie Lindgren, Michael Basinski

Front Cover Art: Reed Altemus Back Cover Art: Andrew Topel

#graphic design #typography #art #poetry #concrete poetry #visual poetry #magazine #cover #magazine cover #rampike #karl jirgens #reed altemus #andrew topel #uwindsor institutional repository #room 3o2 books #2010s

[h-worksrambles]

  I’m delighted to hear that people seemed to like my comparison of Max’s voices. And when I floated the idea of doing a similar comparison for Sam’s voices, people seemed keen. Now, Sam has had less voices than Max over the years, three currently, but fortunately, I have a lot to say about all of them. Sam is probably my favourite character in the series, and his voices over the years have given him a lot of charming little nuances. I will do my best to keep this to a voice comparison and not a shameless Sam appreciation post, but we’ll see...   I want to start by summing up one of the key things that I think makes Sam tick, and what I believe makes a good Sam voice. And that is that Sam is NOT the straight man of the duo...but he LOOKS like he is. Everything about Sam’s design makes him look relatively normal compared to Max. He’s a big dog which people associate with affection and friendliness. Sam wears clothing like every other character while Max is canonically nude, specifically a full suit which also doubles to make him look like a consumate professional. He’s also slightly more humanoid in appearance, compared to Max’s stumpy shaped body and massive head. All of this makes you think, ‘oh, this guy’s a sensible, professional detective compared to the insane rabbit next to him’.    Then he opens his mouth and tells you cheerfully about how Max made a clown choke on his own wig during their last case and it was the funniest, most adorable thing he’d ever seen. And THAT’s when you know this guy is a total enabler every bit as unhinged as his partner. A good Sam voice is able to make Sam sound perfectly normal at first glance, but all it takes is a minute’s conversation to learn that he’s ABSOLUTELY not.

  Anyway, let’s start as we did last time at Hit the Road. I don’t think it’s a bold statement to say that Bill Farmer is a terrific voice actor, but he does a splendid job here. Sam & Max has always had an element of noir parody, and a tongue in cheek take on detective fiction. The second Sam opens his mouth, you can instantly spot the Humphrey Bogart-esque voice he’s going for. Sam is supposed to put you in mind of a stoic, by-the-book noir detective. He sounds like he could have walked right of a black-and-white movie from the 50s. More than that, he sounds like a professional. Then you listen to what he’s actually saying and you realise...

Oh my god, this guy is a jerk!      Farmer’s Sam is absolutely Sam at his snarkiest. Most of his dialogue slips in some subtle dig at whoever he’s talking to. He and Max’s banter is quite dry and cutting, but still feels very natural (especually in the classic ‘lousy golfer’ exchange, which I think pretty much everyone in the fandom has memorised after that one fan animation). Just listen to how many roasts he dishes out in this game.   “Excuse us, but we need some help and although you seem dangerously unequipped brain wise, we’ve come to you for advice.”

  It means that he can shrug off everything, no matter how bizarre, as perfectly normal, which sells you further on that deceptive lunacy.   Sam also keeps up that air of faux-professionalism even when he’s being as un-professional as possible. Whether’s he shrugging off the flirtatious advances of a bungee-jumping instructor or getting into silly fights with a kid in the line, Sam never stops acting like he’s the star of his own personal movie. He’s got a severe case of ‘protagonist entitlement’, which makes his propensity to steal everything that’s not nailed down kind of fitting. I love the accent, I love the performance and I love his snark. I really wish we’d gotten that 2004 game so we could hear him for a little longer.

“This is so degrading.” “Shut up and dance.”

  Then we have the late, great Harvey Atkin from the cartoon, probably the most different and unique take on Sam, but still a very good one. Everything in the animated series is more cartoonish and over-the-top. So Sam’s pretence of professionalism becomes more of a jolly sense of bluster. He’s still very much a man (er, dog) on the case, but he’s much less dry and much more upbeat. That’s a lot like what I noticed with Rob Tinker’s Max, and it does help to give them a mutual high energy as they bounce off each other. While I personally like Sam to be a little quieter, and to hide that mad streak a little more, I still really enjoy this approach. It’s certainly the kind of voice you’d expect from a giant talking dog and fits very well with the fast-paced nature of the cartoon.

What Atkin absolutely nails, more than any other voice, is Sam’s temper. Being much louder and cartoonish in general means he can go hard on the moments where Sam gets mad. And that’s great because Sam has always been the more short tempered of the two. Max may be very violent but he’s not exactly one to get angry. Like I said last time, he’s more guarded with his emotions and more easy going. Sam is a lot more insecure and has much more things that set him off. Imply he’s bad as his job? Make fun of him for being a dog? Make a crack about his weight? Hurt Max in any way? All of those things can leave you with a very angry, 6ft tall dog with VERY large teeth.

‘Pinkbellies. I hated those. To this DAY I hate those. CURSE YOU MELON HARGAVES!!!”     Atkin sells ‘angry Sam’ very well, especially when it contrasts with how jovial he is the rest of the time. Atkin’s Sam is certainly a sharp contrast coming directly off of Farmer, but it’s an excellent performance in it’s own right.

  Last of all we have David Nowlin, by far the longest-running Sam voice, between all three Telltale games, Poker Night 2 and This Time It’s Virtual. And this is probably my favourite voice for Sam. Now if you listen to his first few performances, you can really hear a resemblance between Bill Farler’s performance and David Nowlin’s. And that’s partly because, if you read the interviews on the Sam & Max website, you’ll see Nowlin was actually a huge fan of Farmer’s performance and consciously tried to emulate it.   But overtime, his performance morphs into something distinct. In TTIV especially, his performance becomes a little less stoic and a little more upbeat. Ther’s a charming quiet affability to his voice somewhere between Farmer’s casual snark and Arkin’s cheerful enthusiasm.  And I really like that for Sam. It’s like he’s able to treat the most bizarre scenarios like they’re a typical Tuesday event. Being in this line of work alongside Max of all people for so long means nothing can phase him. His quiet delivery also re-captures a quirk of Farmer’s Sam. It’s one thing to sarcastically insult someone, it’s another to do so in a perfectly nice and civil tone. He can be biting or downright sinister in the most pleasant voice possible. A classic case of ‘beware the quiet ones’. “Max, do you have a piece of paper handy?” “You want to write down the phone number?” “(perfectly level tone) I remember the number. I want to write myself a reminder to smother you with a pilow in your sleep.”   The other key difference is that his Sam is a lot less confident and a lot more vulnerable. His tone is quieter, he’s a lot more easily flustered, and, much like Atkin’s version, it’s much easier to make him mad. And that’s honestly really interesting because, when you think about it, Sam is very insecure. No-one’s asking him to dress up in a suit or carry himself like a detective. That’s something he does himself because he so desperately wants to be cool. The best example of that is the Noir Sam segment. Sam narrates to himself on long, impassioned tangents out of his despair for Max, only for others to call him out for doing so, and he has to sheepishly apologise before gettng back to the point. “You. Me. The guy who delivers your deep dish pizzas...all of us bubbling over with sin and corruption and-” “Is there a point to any of this? Or are you just trying to get me depressed?” “(pleasant rational tone) Sorry, just thinking out loud. (furious again) WHERE WERE WE?!”

  And speaking of, 303 is probably Nowlin’s best performance. I think Atkin still has the best ‘angry voice’, but I love the growl of Nowlin’s delivery here. It’s a very dog-like angry performance if that makes sense, that walks a line between being aggressive but still funny, and his instant swaps from grief-stricken rage to calm conversation are hillarious.   The best way I can say it is that, much like how Rob Tinkler is my favorite Max because he was able to capture the essentials of the character while still adding his own dimension, Nowlin does the same for Sam. He hits all the beats of what I’d want from a good Sam: the business-like detective caricature, a quiet, pleasant, demanor that masks an unhinged enabler who can say the most nonsense stuff with a straight face. A barely concealed temper that boils up when you say the wrong thing to him. All whle giving the character a layer of subtle insecurity that works well both for comedy and sincere character development. Sam is a self conscious dork playing at being a cool, capable detective. Always putting up an act, and not doing a very good job maintaining it. And I think that especially helps in Season Three. It’s very easy to feel sorry for this more vulnerable Sam when he’s going through hell, but it never gets so overdone that he stops being funny.

  Ok, if this goes on much longer, it IS just going to be spiel on why I relate way too hard to a talking dog. So I’ll just say this. All three of these voice actors do a splendid job and they all have their strengths. I love Farmer’s effortless noir parody and merciless snark. I love Harvey Atkin’s jovial energy masking a fierce temper, and I love Nowlin’s quiet brand of madness and extra layer of humanity. They’re all funny and likable while still being complete jackasses in their own ways.   So many years, and not one dud performance along either of these leads. If you ask me, that’s pretty impressove. A lot of talented people put a lot of effort into bringing this duo to life, and I think it more than paid off.

#wow i had more to say than i thought #can you tell how much i love this character yet? #sam and max #sam and max hit the road #sam and max save the world #sam and max beyond time and space #sam and max the devil's playhouse #sam and max this time it's virtual #poker night 2 #voice acting

[wiihtigo]

What's your favourite voice actors for sam and max

all of them are so perfect and capture the essence of S&M so well...but my absolute favorite has to be the cartoon voices, harvey atkin and rob tinkler Especially rob as max. its what i hear in my head whenever i imagine them talking

#im even mutuals w rob tinkler on twt which horrifies me sometimes when i remember it #grahhhhhhhh but i love david nowlin as sam too thats a super close second. and nick jameson as max i love his new yawker accent #im flip flopping on my favorite sam voice now help . help me

[tanzanite-zircon]

#sam and max #sam and max freelance police #poll

[stinkysdiner]

For the cancelled LucasArts game there was gonna be a pair that were suppose to be Sam and Max’s rivals. As well as wanting Harvey Atkin and Rob Tinkler to play them.

This is a personal thought but I’m 100% sure they used the Flint concept art for that game for the TellTale version. He shares a lot of design elements from those pieces. Not until the remaster where his design got tweaked even more.

YEAH i do remember reading something about some rivals! that would’ve been hilarious if they got atkin and tinkler to play them holy shit LMAO

AND I AGREE!! it’s so interesting to see the train of thought among the sketches, because in most cases you can see ideas floating from one project to the next. i’ve felt the same as you where i think they used his art from that to inspire his design in the telltale games (which makes sense)!

me being Me i’ve also had similar thoughts in regards to stinky’s design. there’s this small recurring design in some sketches of “annoyed looking woman with pulled back ponytail” that never fully materialized until girl stinky in season two.

ONE THING THAT’S WEIRD TO ME THOUGH, and i only discovered this several days ago, but in the model designs for TTiV, the concept art for the female player character is just TOO SIMILAR to girl stinky to be coincidence imo. like even a waitress outfit?? WHAT!!

keep in mind this is Not by purcell but i think it’s interesting regardless!

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