Hello! My name is Eli. Some communities may remember me by my old handle, GameBreaker64. This is my "dumpster" channel, so to speak. I upload whatever, whenever. Enjoy your stay!
This clip isn't the best example, but John K's voice is funnier. The accent is stronger and his tone was more dynamic even though he's not a professional voice actor like Billy West. West's voice is inconsistent and his tone is more nasal and hammy, and lacking that emotional range.
It’s so infuriating that John had to not only be an insufferable asshole, but also be a pedo sex pest groomer. Part of me thinks “he could have done so much more and gone down as an undeniable legend” but then, I’m not so sure that animation and cartoons really needed more Spümco influence than it already had in the 2000s. It was always very obvious when an artist was an acolyte of his, and that influence in their style and work would just kinda feel like a knockoff. I’m kinda at this very moment realizing that Ren & Stimpy’s only lasting and worthwhike contribution to animation was its pioneering of the “gross-out shot” that SpongeBob was the absolute pinnacle of.
I think the best compliment I can give Belly West here is that, when I was a kid, I had *zero* idea that John was replaced. I didn't learn about it until many years later when I read about it on Wikipedia. Even now, if you didn't tell me, I don't think I'd know. Billy was, and is, just *that* good at impressions.
same for me! never even knew that Ren voice changed during S3-5 until late 2022, when i did a Google Drive document on Ren & Stimpy and found out that Billy West voiced Ren mid through the show air-time!
I really feel like in the reboot, Billy really just put on an accent and still sounds just like himself. Him redoing the voice in 1993 he really did a good imitation for the most part, but now I feel like he kind of forgot how he made the accent and now it's just putting off a different tone overall
