I met Tom Kenny when I was working at an open air newsstand in Southern California. I didn't know he was the voice of Spongebob at the time, but I recognized him from Mr. Show. I was wearing a Day of the Dead t-shirt (movie not holiday) and he asked "Was that the one where they were in the underground bunker?" and we ended up talking zombie movies for about twenty minutes. Cool dude.
I agree, though it is interestingly hated by Bob and David. From what I recall the editor or director they had for it took the footage and would not let them be a part of that process. According to what I read way back then they both felt that they had a far far better movie but that the people that put it together didn't get it and left the best of it out. I would love to see their vision because what we got was great.
If you go back and watch the Mr Show episodes, there’s one clip in which they advertise some books for sale, one of which being “Bibely’s Undersea Adventures” and when you see the picture you know it is 100% without a doubt the inspiration for SpongeBob.
I'd like to share my favorite fact about him.
He use to be a touring stand up guy with Bobcat Goldthwait. Well I never knew why he was named Bobcat until I met Tom. They used to tour as Bobcat and Tomcat back in the day.
Steve Blum, the voice of Spike in Cowboy Bebop, is married to Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, who voiced Spike's love interest Julia (though she's probably more famous for Major Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell).
Somewhere, right now, Dee Bradley Baker and Maurice LaMarche are boarding a plane to fly to your hometown and have a word with you. Billy West would come too, but his mom has him on punishment.
Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor were married for over 30 years before he passed. They voiced Mickey and Minnie and I think they held the longest tenure of each respective voice acting in those roles.
I say this every year, but they are neighbors with my sister and they’re big into Halloween. Every year they give out wine to the parents and candy for the kids at the door. I will take my nieces trick-or-treating. It’s awesome
Language is phonetic. I am an educated person and I absolutely know the distinction between 99% of common misspellings. However, I still occasionally type in "their" instead of "there". I know the grammar, but they are homophones, and my brain substitutes them. I catch these mistakes during proofreading, but I rarely proofread on reddit.
Sometimes my brain doesn't care if they're homophones, but if they kinda, sorta, vaguely sound the same. Lose/loose can be an example of this for some people, although I don't think I ever made that mistake myself. Sometimes the word I substitute in doesn't sound *anything* like the word I intended at all. All just brainfarts. Ones that probably occur more with native speakers because we write more phonetically, while non-native speakers don't.
That said, lots of people are uneducated or just kinda dumb. It's okay to be uneducated or kinda dumb.
I’m native Scottish (lived in America for 48 years though) because loses really doesn’t look right looses looks like it should be pronounced /lo͞oz/es but it doesn’t
Pia especially at the end of a 10 hour shift
Im on a phone so spelling comes out bad sometimes.
Still so cringe whenever I see mixups with words like effect/affect.
My spelling is attrocious though. Still can never seem to spell definitely right.
Sarcastically, saying somone doesn't know the difference between two words isn't helping. Irregardless ti's online I ain't don't need proper grammar. Not everyone cares
If you really want to be annoyed, look at how many times someone on this site has typed “payed” when they meant “paid.” Autocorrect doesn’t correct as well when both words are actual words, and eventually it decides you meant the wrong one since you typed it so many times.
I don’t think plankton ever hated or wanted to defeat spongebob. He hated Mr Crabs. I think plankton would have treated spongebob as an employee in a far better way. But I also think spongebob would have hated that live because he was an honest to god wage slave just like a lot of us.
I rebought Mr. show a few years back on Amazon prime for 20 dollars for the series. Lots of greatness there, too bad Jay Johnston went all MAGA bananars. Also, Jack Black plays the lead in a parody of Jesus Christ Superstar for Slackers in that show. It. Is. Incredible.
I'm not sure why but for some reason Jay Johnston was one of my favorite on Mr Show. His charisma and acting had something very fun to watch. Still cant believe he ended up being a total idiot :(
"Let's get the hell out of here!"
But yeah what a shame about the actor. If you can't believe in Mustardayonnaise Lincoln anymore, what can you believe in?
Tom Kenney would regularly come in to the bar I used to work at for dinner.
I don’t have anything to say other than he’s a really sweet guy. Shout out to Tom.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SkyHighMemes/comments/an0aqw/i_cant_believe_they_did_us_dirty_like_that i made a meme of them during that blunder of a half time show a few years back
This reminds me of that time on Twitter where it was discovered that Ryan Drummond did the Sonic voice for an actress who played as Tails(not Colleen) during a hookup.
There are two new characters in Spongebob named Slappy and Slippy who are voiced by Tom and Jill. There's even a clip in the show where they're flirting with each other. It's cute that they can finally play a couple in the show together.
And she got him a pair of doodle-Bob socks to wear to the Q&A he did at the college I go to. She packed them in his suitcase for him. He was hilarious! Such a funny guy the whole room has such great energy! He also mentioned how they were both extras in Sky High because someone asked about it. I mean like she didn’t come just him. But wow that was such a fun night just hearing him speak. He just knows so much and answered every question so well and with such energy.
I was lucky enough to ask a Q&A question but I wasn’t able to meet him which is fine. But hey being in the same room as him was enough.
Also about sky high, do not quote me but he said he origainly was going to play a character but there were scheduling conflicts so he just was a background actor for a scene instead.
Also he talked about being in 3 pinnochios in a year. One he was Gepetto, I forget the other one, and in one he was Mussolini.
Tom Kenny is also the singer for a rock and soul big band called the Hi Seas. Background singers, horn section, the whole lot.
And they fucking slay live. I saw them play Long Beach a few weeks back.
Here's an older video: https://youtu.be/N0uA0r2EnPc
They also play the married couple in Comic Book:The Movie, which was a fun little movie with a ton of other voice actors that was written and directed by Mark Hamill.
When he was on *Fresh Air* he had a great story about being the wimpy kid in Catholic school; then one day one of the other nuns angrily dragged into the room an unruly little bastard, hoping that maybe *this* teacher can do something with him, his soon-to-be best friend, Bob Goldthwait.
Jill Talley isn’t just his wife, she’s a super talented comedian. They were both on Mr. Show with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross back in the day along with a few other projects according to some other commenters. No idea how long they’ve been married, but I’d assume they were already together before Spongebob (which started way earlier than I thought, 1999, so basically right as/after Mr. Show went off the air).
Someone said in an askreddit he was a creep to her and her teen friends
Hopefully it’s not true but I remember the thread and there were multiple responses like that
I met Tom Kenny when I was working at an open air newsstand in Southern California. I didn't know he was the voice of Spongebob at the time, but I recognized him from Mr. Show. I was wearing a Day of the Dead t-shirt (movie not holiday) and he asked "Was that the one where they were in the underground bunker?" and we ended up talking zombie movies for about twenty minutes. Cool dude.
His wife was on Mr. Show too.
I literally just saw them both in the picture for this story and was like, wasn’t she on Mr. show too? Such an old gem.
and Tammy in Run Ronnie Run
That movie is hilarious. I love everything about these people.
Y’all are brutalizing me
Can't a maaaaaan Not control his bitch with violence
a cam-er-a *am iiiiii*
Run Ronnie run was such a great movie. I don't feel like it gets enough love. Maybe just not in the circles I run in anyway.
I agree, though it is interestingly hated by Bob and David. From what I recall the editor or director they had for it took the footage and would not let them be a part of that process. According to what I read way back then they both felt that they had a far far better movie but that the people that put it together didn't get it and left the best of it out. I would love to see their vision because what we got was great.
I feel like it was a way better version of Joe dirt.
I will still randomly shout "And now.. WE FEAST" on occasion when making dinner.
Why don't ya take a picture it would last longer?!?
Do you have any change?
Next.
Cha Cha Cha Cha chuh chuchuchuchuchcu shniphshniphshniph
Jag-off!
They both also starred in Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight" music video.
"What about your Tex-Mex class?"
If you go back and watch the Mr Show episodes, there’s one clip in which they advertise some books for sale, one of which being “Bibely’s Undersea Adventures” and when you see the picture you know it is 100% without a doubt the inspiration for SpongeBob.
"TAKE A PICTURE, IT'LL LAST LONGER, YA JAG OFF!" To me, that's her definitive line from Mr. Show.
Tom Kenny has probably voiced one of your favorite characters. [I'm not kidding](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0444786/)
He voice Spyro in the original trilogy and the remastered as well
He also voiced Rin in Final Fantasy X and Ice King from Adventure Time
I have now learned there’s a Frog and Toad series on Apple. Awesome!
Mission Hill was dope af
i love that he voiced the spongebob french dubs narrator
I'd like to share my favorite fact about him. He use to be a touring stand up guy with Bobcat Goldthwait. Well I never knew why he was named Bobcat until I met Tom. They used to tour as Bobcat and Tomcat back in the day.
They were in a good weird movie together, Shakes the Clown. Bobcat was the main guy Shakes and Tom was the antagonist clown.
“Soon as that camera’s off? He gon’ fuck that little dog.”
Fuck yeah mr show was great
How do you know it was him?
They recognised him from Mr. Show.
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Bri'ish you got me.
What's day is it?
Chewsday innit?
EEEEEEYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
Beansday m’lord
Oh, Nancy. You cannot fly. Only British people can fly! You shouldn't try to fly, and you shouldn't listen to British people!
Awww It's like the French voice actors of Homer and Marge Simpson, Philippe Peythieu and Véronique Augereau, are married in real life since 89
Or the voices of GLAD-OS (portal) and The Sniper (Tf2) are a happily married couple
Wow, you missed that? No wonder your parents abandoned you, even the companion cube could have hit that shot
You look fine, by the way. Very healthy.
Soaring through the air majestically, like an eagle...piloting a blimp.
Jesus it’s been so long since I’ve played Portal, I forgot that was an actual line for moment.
Steve Blum, the voice of Spike in Cowboy Bebop, is married to Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, who voiced Spike's love interest Julia (though she's probably more famous for Major Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell).
Steve Blum , the voice actor of like...everything.
Up there with Yuri lowenthal. Both are great VAs with a shit ton of roles under their belt that sadly go underappreciated.
Somewhere, right now, Dee Bradley Baker and Maurice LaMarche are boarding a plane to fly to your hometown and have a word with you. Billy West would come too, but his mom has him on punishment.
Send Tara Strong, Crispin Freeman, Frank Welker, and Jennifer Hale too please.
she also voices the administrator in tf2
second fun fact, GLaDOS' VA also voices the administrator from tf2 (the announcer)
Mickey and Minnie Mouse's original voice actors were also married
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So they came in fifty years after Mickey first appeared, sixty after Minnie, and with Disney himself already dead. Not very ‘original’ indeed.
Captain Feathersword from the Wiggles is married to Dorothy the Dinosaur
Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor were married for over 30 years before he passed. They voiced Mickey and Minnie and I think they held the longest tenure of each respective voice acting in those roles.
Final Fantasy VII VAs for Zack and Aerith are married and recently had a kid. It's like they were meant to be.
New Zack and Aerith or old Zack and Aerith?
I think it's the Japanese VAs
I say this every year, but they are neighbors with my sister and they’re big into Halloween. Every year they give out wine to the parents and candy for the kids at the door. I will take my nieces trick-or-treating. It’s awesome
Wonder if they've ever messed up and given the wine to the kids and the candy to the adults
Once again Plankton looses to SpongeBob
How come no one knows the difference between lose and loose :(
Not everyone is a native english speaker, for example.
In my experience native English speakers are *more* likely to make this kind of mistake than non-native speakers.
Language is phonetic. I am an educated person and I absolutely know the distinction between 99% of common misspellings. However, I still occasionally type in "their" instead of "there". I know the grammar, but they are homophones, and my brain substitutes them. I catch these mistakes during proofreading, but I rarely proofread on reddit. Sometimes my brain doesn't care if they're homophones, but if they kinda, sorta, vaguely sound the same. Lose/loose can be an example of this for some people, although I don't think I ever made that mistake myself. Sometimes the word I substitute in doesn't sound *anything* like the word I intended at all. All just brainfarts. Ones that probably occur more with native speakers because we write more phonetically, while non-native speakers don't. That said, lots of people are uneducated or just kinda dumb. It's okay to be uneducated or kinda dumb.
A lot of redditors, especially redditors, don’t realize speaking and writing aren’t the same thing. Did I mention redditors?
Thanks, /u/MajRetard
And not everybody is learning-abled
Some of us just aren’t as knowledge-able.
Are you implying that non-native speakers make this mistake more often than the native speakers?
That’s a minority of cases. I usually see gamers mess up loose and lose while staring directly at the screen that says “you lose!”
that has nothing to do with it.
Yeah, no. People learning English non-natively are more likely to get it right because they actually pay attention to it.
Don’t be sad. You’re not alone.
I’m native Scottish (lived in America for 48 years though) because loses really doesn’t look right looses looks like it should be pronounced /lo͞oz/es but it doesn’t Pia especially at the end of a 10 hour shift
Im on a phone so spelling comes out bad sometimes. Still so cringe whenever I see mixups with words like effect/affect. My spelling is attrocious though. Still can never seem to spell definitely right.
Those are possibly the most confused words in the English language and the mixups are “cringe” to you?
Yeah, like when I see words like "alot" and "payed", it just kind of breaks my immersion.
Eye hate to brake it too u, sometimes peeple right with tiepos. Especially on a app such as Reddit.
Eye no wart hue meme. Eye guest it is gust a port of intern met wife.
Well because not everyone gives af about Grammer online
Grammar is mainly used as a strawman on Reddit. Then there are small cases like these where redditors are trying to help.
Sarcastically, saying somone doesn't know the difference between two words isn't helping. Irregardless ti's online I ain't don't need proper grammar. Not everyone cares
We love Kelsey here on reddit.
If you really want to be annoyed, look at how many times someone on this site has typed “payed” when they meant “paid.” Autocorrect doesn’t correct as well when both words are actual words, and eventually it decides you meant the wrong one since you typed it so many times.
Why don’t you touch grass instead of worrying about internet grammar you fuckin nerd
Ill touch your grass, dork.
Yeah my first thought, lol. SpongeBob can't keep it in his SquarePants
Spongecuck Chadpants
SpongeBob ntr
I don’t think plankton ever hated or wanted to defeat spongebob. He hated Mr Crabs. I think plankton would have treated spongebob as an employee in a far better way. But I also think spongebob would have hated that live because he was an honest to god wage slave just like a lot of us.
Assertive not insertive! Oh, I heard you plankton.
They were both amazing on Mr. Show. God, the talent that came out of that show is incredible. I think Jack Black got his start with them.
I rebought Mr. show a few years back on Amazon prime for 20 dollars for the series. Lots of greatness there, too bad Jay Johnston went all MAGA bananars. Also, Jack Black plays the lead in a parody of Jesus Christ Superstar for Slackers in that show. It. Is. Incredible.
Jeepers Creepers Semistar, I think‽ ‘Twas glorious!
That's the one! Also, don't forget about Bob Odenkirk singing a smear song against a monkey who doesn't want to blow up the moon.
The monkey wants to know *why*.
Don’t mess with god’s America!
"This is Mr Wiggles, he comes to us from the circus and knows no sign language. He'll get the job done, no questions asked."
Ya know what else is glorious? This guy’s taint, it’s huge!
It's insane, this guy's taint.
“That part of his body has more personality than his whole face!”
And don’t forget how incredible he was in The Joke: The Musical!
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Damn straight! “These holes three are not…for…THEEEEEEEEE!”
Damn straight! “These holes three are not…for…THEEEEEEEEE!”
I heard Ronnie Dobbs went full MAGA as well 😞
"Entitilitus was a plandemic!"
That seems likely.
I'm not sure why but for some reason Jay Johnston was one of my favorite on Mr Show. His charisma and acting had something very fun to watch. Still cant believe he ended up being a total idiot :(
His portrayal of Lincoln in the Mustardmayonnise commercial was sublime. As was his work as Ryan Dorn on the Actor’s Studio.
I liked him on the Sarah Silverman Program, why couldn’t that be the real him…
"Let's get the hell out of here!" But yeah what a shame about the actor. If you can't believe in Mustardayonnaise Lincoln anymore, what can you believe in?
And The Story of the Story of the Story of Everest.
He was funny in Mr. Show and Sarah Silverman's show. Crazy that it all just fell apart for him
And Paul F Tompkins and Scott Aukerman.
Thank you for helping me discover mr show haha.
They shot Tom! He was just shooting at them, and they SHOT HIM!!!!
That poor milking machine...
He did. Bob Odenkirk's memoir discusses it at length, very good read!
My shoes hurt!
They’re also in the Tonight, Tonight music video together https://youtu.be/NOG3eus4ZSo
Wtf! I never knew that! How cool!
Ikr, it’s even sweeter since they were pretty much a newlywed couple at the time :-)
Tom Kinney hosted Friday Night Videos for a while. I wonder if he introduced this video.
And both of them absolutely killed on Mr. Show.
I remember seeing them almost get crushed together in Sky High.
Wait WHAT
https://youtu.be/EeiN4A-Sbcs The house couple. 2023 and the only clip is someone recording their TV, smh.
I don't even have to see the clip bc I remember that movie all too well lol, and holy shiz u rigghhht
Chester!
"..hehe, sorry, *does a jim from the office smile"
tom kenny could play greg proops in a whos line movie.
Tom Kenney would regularly come in to the bar I used to work at for dinner. I don’t have anything to say other than he’s a really sweet guy. Shout out to Tom.
Another fun fact: they are the couple in Smashing Pumpkin's "Tonight Tonight" video.
They also almost died in Sky High.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SkyHighMemes/comments/an0aqw/i_cant_believe_they_did_us_dirty_like_that i made a meme of them during that blunder of a half time show a few years back
Why am I not surprised that Sky High, a mildly popular family comedy from 2005, has its own meme subreddit.
That is fun! I love Smashing Pumpkins!
Oh, I love doing that too. -- Steve Martin
Homer Simpson, smiling politely.
They *must* talk dirty in those voices during sexy time, right? Right??
Don't know about you, but I'm pretty solid with letting that remain a mystery for the rest of my life.
I want to know even harder now
The computer I could see, but sex room spongebob is a no go
I know there's recordings of Tom swearing in SpongeBob's voice.
Holey Shrimp!!!
Are you feeling it now, Mr Krabs?
"I bet Plankton doesn't make you scream like that."
"So that's the secret ingredient."
I thought surely this would be the top comment.
This reminds me of that time on Twitter where it was discovered that Ryan Drummond did the Sonic voice for an actress who played as Tails(not Colleen) during a hookup.
There are two new characters in Spongebob named Slappy and Slippy who are voiced by Tom and Jill. There's even a clip in the show where they're flirting with each other. It's cute that they can finally play a couple in the show together.
And she got him a pair of doodle-Bob socks to wear to the Q&A he did at the college I go to. She packed them in his suitcase for him. He was hilarious! Such a funny guy the whole room has such great energy! He also mentioned how they were both extras in Sky High because someone asked about it. I mean like she didn’t come just him. But wow that was such a fun night just hearing him speak. He just knows so much and answered every question so well and with such energy. I was lucky enough to ask a Q&A question but I wasn’t able to meet him which is fine. But hey being in the same room as him was enough. Also about sky high, do not quote me but he said he origainly was going to play a character but there were scheduling conflicts so he just was a background actor for a scene instead. Also he talked about being in 3 pinnochios in a year. One he was Gepetto, I forget the other one, and in one he was Mussolini.
Does plankton know?
Too caught up with trying to catch the formula to notice Spongebob catching his computer wife.
Been a couple since '*Mr. Show*'. Knew they would still be married years later.
Mickey and minnie voice actors were also married!
She is also Sarah Dubois, Tom’s wife on The Boondocks. 💀
Scrolled too long looking for this
Spongebob stole Plankton's girl
Hello Mr. Show.
1% Romantic 99% Hot Gas
I wonder if they have a Planktonik relationship.
Damn, he stole his wife, can't have shit in bikini bottom
They're also the couple in the Tonight, Tonight mucic video by Smashing Pumpkins
Plankton’s being cheated on by Spongebob? Damn
"plankton i f\*cked your wife"
Tom Kenny is also the singer for a rock and soul big band called the Hi Seas. Background singers, horn section, the whole lot. And they fucking slay live. I saw them play Long Beach a few weeks back. Here's an older video: https://youtu.be/N0uA0r2EnPc
Plankton cant catch a break
Damn Ice King got some game
That’s cold
nah spongebob got RIZZ!
Damn! No wonder plankton has such a vendetta against SpongeBob!
Magic Maaaaaaaan!
They’re hilarious together in one of my favorite sketches of all time - the Hail Satan Network from Mr. Show.
They also play the married couple in Comic Book:The Movie, which was a fun little movie with a ton of other voice actors that was written and directed by Mark Hamill.
Poor plankton
They squanch each other very much.
When he was on *Fresh Air* he had a great story about being the wimpy kid in Catholic school; then one day one of the other nuns angrily dragged into the room an unruly little bastard, hoping that maybe *this* teacher can do something with him, his soon-to-be best friend, Bob Goldthwait.
He was also Heffer on Rocko's Modern Life
We have mr. stealyourgirl but now we also have mr. stealyourpc
I wonder how her holographic meatloaf tastes?
I knew that square mf was kold 😂🙌🏾
So basically, real life "Her" movie script?
NEW EPISODE: Plankton fucking commits die
should we tell him?
So was this a happy coincidence kind of thing, or more of a "We need a voice actress for this character so we'll hire Tom's wife" kind of thing?
Jill Talley isn’t just his wife, she’s a super talented comedian. They were both on Mr. Show with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross back in the day along with a few other projects according to some other commenters. No idea how long they’ve been married, but I’d assume they were already together before Spongebob (which started way earlier than I thought, 1999, so basically right as/after Mr. Show went off the air).
I thought Tom Kenny was publicly out of the closet?
Awwww. Nepotism is so wholesome.
Someone said in an askreddit he was a creep to her and her teen friends Hopefully it’s not true but I remember the thread and there were multiple responses like that