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PUDDY cast as Fox's TICK!
SPOON!!!
Greetings, meat popsicles! ROBOGEEK here with an example of metaphysically perfect casting. This is a rare beast in Hollywood, which is populated by far too many people who think that, oh..., say, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin would make a good Hellboy, for instance. But every once in awhile planets align, execs are struck by a moment of brief lucidity, and fans' dreams become more than a wish their hearts make (like Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier, for instance). But let me back up first...
Many of you probably first became aware of Ben Edlund's inspired TICK through the Fox Saturday morning cartoon, which debuted in 1995 and ran for three years (and has since enjoyed a noble late-night existence on Comedy Central). But some of you, like me, have been TICK fans for a long, LONG time -- since the original black-and-white comics first came out years earlier. In fact, I'm proud to say that I was a member of the _original_ TICK fan club, and still have my official membership kit to prove it (which includes such priceless treasures as the official TICK straw, still in its paper wrapper).
Anyway, I've missed the big blue guy, and have been eagerly awaiting word on the recently announced LIVE-ACTION half-hour TICK series coming to Fox this fall from Barrys Sonnenfeld and Josephson, who will executive produce alongside TICK creator Ben Edlund.
Now, it's no secret that this site has taken a pretty hard line against Sonnenfeld and Josephson in the past, but personally I like them more than dislike them I'll never forgive Jamie Tarses for these crimes-against-humanity).
So I am very happy to hear that they landed at FOX with the new TICK series, as this seems like a very good match. FOX has the potential to become the coolest network _ever_ next season, with the TICK, THE LONE GUNMAN (a pilot of which has recently been ordered), and _hopefully_ BUCKAROO BANZAI. The only thing missing would be for them to steal away BRUCE WAYNE from the WB (which I hear they're itching to do), and they'll rock really, really hard -- even if they don't manage to bring "X-Files" back for another season.
About an hour ago, Variety broke the news that none other than PATRICK WARBURTON will play THE TICK.
Best known for playing Puddy, Elaine's boyfriend on "Seinfeld," Warburton has become fairly ubiquitous thanks to stuff like "Scream 3" and those M&M's ads (you know, the cannibalism one). I, for one, want to be among the first to applaud Sonnenfeld, Josephson, Edlund, et al on this unfathomably brilliant choice.
Production on the pilot is scheduled for early April. For (a little) more info, check out the Variety story at http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000209/en/television-tick_1.html
And remember, EVIL IS JUST PLAIN BAD!
- Robogeek
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Its cool they're making a movie of the Tick I just hope it doesn't turn out to be another wank cartoon to live action type thing.
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truth. it is an admirable casting , though.
personally, i'd much rather see them invest in another animated series. but with /much/ better animation than the first one. -
Finally! A casting decision that makes perfect sense! It's good to see that something can be done right every now and then.
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I can seriously picture this guy as Tick. I wonder if a live action could possibly be even better than the cartoon, just to capture that slight edge of reality that the original comic book had. Now, for the Arthur casting! I pick Jason Alexander, any comments?
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Rick moranis, nuff said,
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Dude...sweet...just listen to him talk! This is PERFECT voice casting! But Jason Alexander is too old--get..um...someone else. Although maybe you could have Julia Louis-Dreyfus as American Maid?
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Sorry. Just had to be said.
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Rick Moranis is inspired, but maybe a little old. I'm thinkin' Andy Richter. He's got spare time coming up.
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Personally my favorite episode is the one where the Tick finds a strange rat-dog and hallucinates that it is speaking to him. He names the "dog" Speak, although it can do no more than drool. What's really fucked up is that he hallucinates that the dog is saying things like, "I love you." Gotta have this in the show.
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Mickey Dolenz for Arthur!
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What's this? A talkback where some moron doesn't start squealing "it's gonna suck"? What's the world coming to? :)
When I first heard about the Tick live action, I thought Warburton would be perfect, but never really figured he'd be cast. Well, since _that_ worked after all, here are some other choices:
Arthur: Dave Foley (Andy Richter? Isn't Arthur supposed to look kinda like a scrawny wuss?)
American Maid: Linda Fiorentino (she's worked with Sonnenfeld before ...)
Die Fledermaus: Bruce Campbell (as if there could be anyone else)
Sewer Urchin: In an ideal world, Dustin Hoffman. :)
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Throw this around amongst yourselfs.... Woody Alan as Arthur??? huh ? whatcha think??
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Robogeek, I've been a fan of the original Tick comics for years, too! Remember the one where Tick and Arthur finally leave The City for New York and when they get there the place is just over-flowing with superheroes? And there's that great bit right before they leave when they encounter The Tick Society! Hee-hee!! I cannot wait to see Patrick Warburton in full Tick regalia. This is inspired casting. As for the casting of Arthur...this IS a quandry! I think Jason Alexander would be perfect.
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Dave Foley as Arthur, Lord that was inspired .. As for Die Fleider Maus and The American Maid I am not sure but they must do, have to do, Barry and The-Evil-Midnight-Bomber-What-Bombs-At-Midnight.. Barry being played by the Jerry, since we are in a Seinfeld vein, it appears, and that of course leads to Michael Richards playing T.E.M.B.W.B.A.M..
Say.. couldn't that leave an opening for Janeane Garofalo to play American Maid?? Maybe drag Paul Reiser in to play Die Fleider Maus ?? And as far as bringing in Villains, whaich one from the animated series brought as many laughs as the aforementioned bomber as the appearance of that extradimensional cloning fool, Thrakama Zog .. Comic genius in that and every comic book of the series .. Say .. Michelle Yeoh as Oedipus ?? endless possibilities .. and you know Wayne Knight would have to voice the Zog by the way .. just some thots .. -
Rick Moranis needs work. Who cares how old he is? Dave Foley already has a project in development at NBC. Andy Richter is probably going to star in the pilot "HUD," by Steve Koren & the Zucker Bros, also at NBC. If anyone is interested in reading a network fall development report with this and other information, send a request to me at developmentreport@yahoo.com. I can send the file as an excel attachment. I sent this weeks ago to El Cosmico & Harry, but none of that information has appeared. I'm happy to send it to anyone who is interested.
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Rick Moranis needs work. Who cares how old he is? Dave Foley already has a project in development at NBC. Andy Richter is probably going to star in the pilot "HUD," by Steve Koren & the Zucker Bros, also at NBC. If anyone is interested in reading a network fall development report with this and other information, send a request to me at developmentreport@yahoo.com. I can send the file as an excel attachment. I sent this weeks ago to El Cosmico & Harry, but none of that information has appeared. I'm happy to send it to anyone who is interested.
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Dave Foley would be perfect for Arthur as someone pointed out... God I love this show. Anyone see the episode where Tick wakes up with a pencil 'stache that he's incredibly proud of, but it turns out to be a symbiotic life form?
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Agreed about casting Andy Richter for Arthur. In fact, I wager that I might've been the first to suggest him when the live-action Tick story first broke some months ago. I dunno, gimme a prize or something. For American Maid, the clear choice is Janeane Garofalo. She slings the sarcasm like no other. Playing opposite her as Die Fliedermaus - none other than fan-favorite Bruce Campbell. Alright, Bruce gets suggested for every movie that comes down the pike, but here's a role he'd be damn near perfect for.
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This is good, no great, news.
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Is someone going to take credit for this? I remember someone on Talk Back suggesting this casting long ago and since then I have felt there was no better casting possible. I'm glad to see that it has come to pass, it will probably be very entertaining.
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Ray Park could do Chairface. Just look at him in Sleepy Hollow. Janeane Garafalo, Bruce Campbell, and Woody Allen for Arthur are dead on. I'm not sure about Puddy for the Tick, but it might be able to work. Elaine from Seinfeld could also be American Maid, but it just wouldn't be as good as if Garofalo did it. But oddly, that Linda Fiorentino suggestion wasn't that bad either, because A.M. is sort of attractive in a Lara Croft kinda way.
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Linda Fiorentino would be PERFECT as American Maid, but so would Tea Leoni, and she's probably more available. All those Arthur suggestions suck, though. Jason Alexander? Get your heads out of your asses, people. David Herman (from the original MadTV cast and Office Space) would get my vote. If he's not free, then Andy Dick is. And if Bruce Campbell is still tied up with Jack of All Trades, then Thomas Hayden-Church would make a damn fine Der Fledermaus. (Jason Alexander? Andy Richter? Dave Foley??? What are you guys smoking?)
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nuff said.
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Feb 09, 2000 6:10:53 PM CST
"Ladies and gentlemen, do you get my drift? Do you...DIG?"
by jacob corbin
This is the best news I've read all day. Count me as a big fan of the notion of putting Andy Richter in the moth suit. But now I wonder: who will play Carmelita?
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MockingbirdGirl, if your suggestion for Arthur was Mickey of the Monkeys, I would love to see him get a second chance to "be" Arthur again. After Fox dumped his voice talent post-1st season, the "new" Arthur was never the same... Of course, we could use a profile photo with glasses and the moth suit, first.
Didn't someone mention Kelsey Grammer as Chairface? Andy Dick would make a better Chameleon Boy and Bruce could also function as BigShot [Punisher wannabe -- I think]. Personally, they should make "Stone Cold" Austin play Proto-Clown and put Leo DiCapprio in for Brain-Boy (name?). -
Rick Moranis is great and he could use the work. Too old? Besides, Dave Foley has a project in development at NBC. Andy Richter is starring in a pilot called "HUD," by Steve Koren and the Zucker Bros, also at NBC. (Very funny script!) If you are interested in reading a network fall development report with this information and more, email me at developmentreport@yahoo.com and I'll send it to you. I'll tell you what's really going on in tv - none of this "what's coming out on DVD" crap that's usually on Coaxial News.
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...for the fact that by the time this show airs he will almost certainly be dead.
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None of my posts seem to be showing up...curious...
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Perfect choice. I'd like to see Elaine as American Maid. Hootchie Mama!
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Stone Cold Steve Austin as Proto Clown? Are you nuts? You Rudy Poo! The ONLY wrestler for that role is Rikishi! Check him out at wwf.com and tell me I'm wrong--I double dog dare ya!
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While BC would make a perfect Der Fleidermaus, I'm afraid that he will be too busy filming the latest project to which he has committed. THAT'S RIGHT FOLKS -- BRUCE CAMPBELL HAS JUST SIGNED ON TO STAR IN THE BIOPIC ON THE LIFE OF LEONARDO DICAPRIO.
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Bacon? Hmmm... tasty. -
Sorry to berak it to you all, but TICK live is going to suck rocks. It's going to be cheaply made and won't have much action. It's a
-half-hour-sitcom- Not a major motion picture. There won't be money in the budget for big action sequences. Remember the first episode of the cartoon? Well I can promise you that you'll see none of the physical humor on this show. You can't get a man leaping from building to building on the kind of budget that this show's going to have. While this dosen't necessairly mean it won't be funny (Odds are it will) It does mean that it won't be much like the cartoon and comic. It'll be...(Harry moment)adapted.
Remember lois and clark? Who were the standout villians from Superman lore? John Shea as Luthor(wee) and...Broncent Pinchot as the prankster?!? What the hell? What was that shit?
I'm sorry to be a "wet blanket" but it seems that people are psyching themselves up for this great action packed adventure half hour and what they're going to get is "Ally" with cheap costumes left over from "Nightman." Just realize the limitations set by the choice of medium and don't get your hopes up. -
Two words....Rosie O'Donnell. Oh wait, she'd be snack-eating cow. Maybe Courtney Love...no...she'd be husband-killing bitch. Man, let's see....
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This show had better have the Human Bullet! Michael Richards would be my choice, even though the Seinfeld motif seems to be plaguing this talk-back.
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Now if my second wish will come true, and they cast Noah Wyle as Peter Parker, I'll actually have something to look forward to...
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Now if my second wish will come true, and they cast Noah Wyle as Peter Parker, I'll actually have something to look forward to...
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Puddy was the worst part of the worst episodes of Seinfeld (basically the entire last two seasons). Granted it was almost all because of the writting, and overall uselessness of the character,but I really honestly can't see this guy being good as the Tick. I read that he is a fan, so that so cool, but people forget that the tick isn't just a big dumb guy. He is like a big dumb excited six year old with super strength. I can't see this guy getting excited and screaming "Spoon!!!" with the glee of a sugar rushed kindergartener. I would rather see the guy who plays Jerry on ER and Kubiak on Parker Lewis Can't Lose. Him I could see as the big blue lunk. Never the less I don't know about this show. I'll wait and see. If only they would just make that long awaited Tick animated film that they announced so long ago. Animation is the way to go with The Tick. Isn't that obvious from how exceptional the first series was?
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This is going to be fun-I'm not saying it will be to 2000 that BATMAN was to 1966,but could come close!
Who would have guessed? I worked for "New England Comics" back in the mid 1980's and Thought Ben drew some cool stuff for the store newsletter in his pre-TICK days,never thought he'd get his own book-expecially with the post-TMTN black & white comic backlash!
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I am still speechless about all
this. I will take the wait and
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Why would anybody want the Seinfeld ensemble re-tooled for the Tick? So you don't go too far from your 'comfort zone'? Everybody step back and say to yourself 'Phantom Menace'. I am a big Tick fan, but to expect ANYTHING remotely resembling the comic or the cartoon would be foolish. I will remain hopeful, but expect shit.
Evil is afoot! -
The actor you are thinking of that was in the M&M's ad was none other than Diedrich Bader, from the Drew Carey Show, but also known as The Searcher (a segment from an early Fox comedy also featuring Don Adams and Adam West).
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You are an idiot. There is more than one of those stupid M&M commercials. Puddy starred in one as well. How dare you accuse someone of confusing the actor from Drew Carey with the actor from Seinfeld. I'd understand it if you accused someone of confusing Michael Richards with that guy who melted the army men on Fridays (ABC -- early 80's). Ha, ha -- that was a trick, it was Michael Richards. Now do you understand? Know of what you speak before you open your mouth. You and your ilk ruin talk-back because you are so excited to have something to post that you don't stop to think --- "Am I right? Is what I'm saying relevant or correct?"
Enough, I say.
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Maybe if Dolph Lundgren is sick of doing piss poor direct to video flicks, he could come back to be the RED SCARE. That'd kick ass. And they NEED some imposing African American guy to play everyone's favorite private eye/punching bag--TAFT. And whatever they did, they'd have to put in Taft's background singers.
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...hmmm. I guess not.
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Patrick Warburton has the kind of square-jawed look and ramrod-serious-but-addled nature that will definitely bring a hilarious parody of a square-John superhero. When he shifts from that deadpan manner to full-tilt "SPOOON!!!", I feel that fans will get their ample money's worth.
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Never got to catch too many of the Tick cartoons on Fox or Comedy Central, but what I did see was hilarious. This might be enough to make me watch television again. Kudos to those who recognized the fact that Bruce Campbell IS Die Fleidermaus. Maybe we can squeeze in Jeffrey Comb somewhere, hmmm. He has the right attitude for the show. Oh yeah, Kelsey Grammar as Chairface would be kinda cool, though I always saw it as John Cleese.
Oh yeah, and BOW BEFORE ME, FOLLISH DARK ELDAR! YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD HIDE FROM THE FLEDGLING GOD OF YOUR OWN TWISTED DESIRES! NO TALK-BALK CAN HIDE YOU FROM MY HUNGER! ACKNOWLEDGE ME AS YOUR LORD, JASON! -
Sorry, Warhammer thing. Meant Jeffrey Combs by the way, not Comb.
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Oops, sorry Bout that, hit enter instead of Tab...
Hello, American Maid....Sean Young...What other actress looks exactly like her, with the same attitude? And the rest, well, I got dibs on Danny DeVito as the Midnight Bomber, Louis from the Drew Carey Show as the Human Bullet, (Sorry can't remember his name right now) Lou Ferrigno as Proto Clown, and Kevin Pollack as Arthur....he's got the comic timing, the height, the shape, and he's just damn funny. Maybe they'll come up with an extra 70 million bucks, and cast Tom Cruise as Die Flatermaus. We'll see in a few months! And Puddy not being able to be as silly as the Tick gets...it's called acting folks, they make it up! -
*Definitely* Dave Foley for Arthur. No one's done deadpan disbelief that well since Jack Benny.
*Definitely* Bruce Campbell as Die Fledermaus. Actually, he'd have been a pretty good Tick if Puddy hadn't had the job.
But Andy Dick is perfect for...Sewer Urchin!
Janeane Garofalo couldn't be American Maid, much as I love her. Janeane's just too soft looking. She would be perfect, however, as all-new character BitterWoman. -
This is still a silly phrase at my house as we get ready to head out on a road trip. I loved that TV show so much. Puddy is perfect for the Tick, but only if he plays it will enthusiasm and innocence. Arthur must be pudgy. Don't give me a skinny moth-man.
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The commercial wherein Diedrich Bader is asked to imagine what it would be like if the M&M was eating a bowlful of Diedrich Baders is the one I was referring to, you fucking ninny. It's actually people like YOU that ruin talkback, because you're in such a hurry to be an asshole that you forget to think-- "Am I a dick?" or "Maybe should I quit having sex with my father?"
When I read the description, that's the ad I thought of. Now shouldn't you run along now? I think I heard your Dad get out of the shower... -
Sheesh, point out what an idiot someone is and he goes and helps you prove it.
P*Bert, you didn't say that there was another one staring the guy from Drew Carey, you said that he was wrong about the guy from Seinfeld. You were wrong, you are an IDIOT, and you should really watch your mouth.
I'm going to refrain from responding to the rest of your post because I'm shocked that it takes so little to set you off. I guess you win this little battle of the wits. -
"I can't...do....plaid!"
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For Arthur,Dave Foley, Andy Richter, Rick Morainis, and Jason Alexander as possibilities for Arthur, but it was also noted that Foley and Richter already have projects, and that Moranis and Alexander are both too old. And besides if Richter didn't have a project, I doubt he'd want to play a sidekick role. I thought that was kind of WHY he's leaving Conan... Anyway I'd like to nominate Dave's KITH cohort, Kevin McDonald for Arthur. I think he'd be perfect! Also Ryan Stiles ("Whose Line Is It Anyway?", "The Drew Carey Show") would be a pretty cool Chair-Face.
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