Rob Paulsen is an American voice actor, comedian, and singer, who has done countless voice roles in various films, TV shows, and video games. He is best known for providing the voices of Yakko Warner from Animaniacs, Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Carl Wheezer from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Donatello in the 1987 series and 2012 series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and much more.
However in Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island!, he voices Coconut Fred, Teddy and Mr. Melonsworth.
Trivia[]
- There has been a false rumor circulating around the internet on how Rob hated voicing Fred alongside Bubsy, and thought it was a shameless SpongeBob rip-off.
- However, this has been debunked by Rob himself. He did think the show was a SpongeBob rip-off, however he never hated voicing Fred. According to a YouTube Comment on a video titled KidsWB: Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island Intro by someone who met him at San Diego, Comic-con, He thought it was a gig he got paid for, by no means was he a fan of the show but he wasn't mad about it.[1]
- To back this up, At a book signing event for Rob Paulsen's newest release "Voice Lessons" during a Q&A session, he says "I don't have any problem with Coconut Fred either. Coconut Fred by the admission of the producers was nothing short of their version of SpongeBob." when asked if he disliked voicing Fred more than Bubsy.[2]
External links[]
- Rob Paulsen at Wikipedia
- Rob Paulsen at the IMDB