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Related Roles: Corey Burton and E.G. Daily

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I was thinking of what to draw when it occurred to me that three shows I watched as a child (to varying degrees) all involved two of my favorite voice actors, Elizabeth Daily and Corey Burton.

Elizabeth and Corey both happen to have played roles in several cartoons I grew up with as well as some that I watched as an adult.

My favorite E.G. Daily roles are Tommy Pickles from Rugrats, Rudy Tabootie from ChalkZone, and Buttercup from The Powerpuff Girls.

My favorite Corey Burton roles include V.V. Argost from The Secret Saturdays, Ranger Smith in the John Kricfalusi Yogi Bear shorts, Brainiac in the DCAU, being the current voice of the Disney characters Dale and Professor Ludwig von Drake, and several others.

All these shows I've noticed the relation roles in happened to have E.G. Daily voice one of the main characters, while Corey Burton voiced a minor or one-shot character in each show.

It's fun when you notice these little things, so I made this picture showing all the relation roles played by Elizabeth Daily and Corey Burton.

1. ChalkZone

As mentioned earlier, E.G. Daily voiced the main protagonist Rudy Tabootie, a young boy armed with magic chalk who is also made protector of the titular ChalkZone, a place inhabited by living chalk drawings where everything erased on a chalkboard in the real world comes to life.

The show also had Candi Milo as Rudy's friend and ChalkZone inhabitant Snap as well as the school bully Reggie Bullnerd and Hynden Walch as Rudy's intelligent classmate Penny Sanchez.

Corey Burton once guest-starred on the show in the episode The Big Blow-Up, where he voiced King Mumbo Jumbo. King Mumbo Jumbo doesn't say a lot, unfortunately, but his entrance is still pretty awesome. He just pops out of his shell and asks Rudy to give him the flute so he can hold off the Inflatermaus swarm for a bit. Did I mention that The Big Blow-Up is one of my favorite episodes of ChalkZone?

And it's not just for having Corey Burton guest-star, but the episode also had Malcolm McDowell as Barney the Encyclocentipedia, Frank Welker as the Goola Monster, and the episode's plot was rather dark, what with the Inflatermaus swarm infecting the inhabitants of ChalkZone with Baloonemia, a fatal illness that makes Zoners inflate until they pop.

In addition to King Mumbo Jumbo, Corey Burton also voiced the stick figure baker at the end of the episode who pesters Barney over a pie recipe he wanted to look up.

Corey Burton must really love his work if he's willing to play characters even when they have little dialogue. Then again, he may have agreed to play King Mumbo Jumbo and the baker only for the money. I know for a fact that actors don't enjoy all of the roles they play.

2. The Powerpuff Girls

Of course, Buttercup was voiced by E.G. Daily, and Elizabeth reprised her role in the 2008 special The Powerpuff Girls Rule and the 2014 CGI special Dance Pantsed, both of which I have very mixed opinions on.

I've also heard about the upcoming reboot. The art style will be like the original show, except Bubbles has blue scrunchies and Buttercup's hair is slightly messier, both of which are changes I am willing to put up with. I'll admit that I am a bit disappointed that Catherine Cadavini, Tara Strong, and E.G. Daily won't reprise their roles as Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, and I don't even recognize the girls' new actors, but as always, I believe it would be premature to say the reboot will be bad when it hasn't even aired.

Anyway, Corey Burton had a guest appearance on the show in Burglar Alarmed, which was an episode from the seasons made without the guidance of series creator Craig McCracken. Nevertheless, I consider it one of the better episodes of the later seasons, though I can't say the same for the episode it aired alongside, Shotgun Wedding, and the less said about Shotgun Wedding, the better.

The premise of Burglar Alarmed is that a burglar tries to rob the Powerpuff Girls, having no idea who they are or that they can easily beat him up with their powers. Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, however, get into a pickle because they can't make any noise since Professor Utonium is sleeping for his dissertation tomorrow. In case you don't know what that means, a dissertation is an essay written to earn a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

The burglar, however, soon figures out that the girls have powers when he finds a picture of Bubbles using her heat vision on Mojo Jojo, and he resorts to threatening to scream so loud to wake the Professor, but Utonium just bolts up while still asleep and knocks him out!

The main reason I enjoyed this episode was because the humor wasn't relying solely on the burglar not knowing that the three five-year-old girls at the house he was robbing could have beaten him senseless if they had the chance.

In my opinion, one of the later seasons' saving graces was the running gag where the girls act like they are the parents and their father and creator Professor Utonium acts like the kid. And that gag turned up in Burglar Alarmed. When the girls wait to be tucked in and find out that Utonium feel asleep because he was staying up studying for his dissertation, they decide to tuck him in for a chance and when doing so act like parents putting a baby or toddler to bed.

If you'd like to know another example of this running gag, there was that scene in the Christmas special where Professor Utonium begs his daughters/creations to get up so they can open presents, much like an excited child waking his parents on Christmas morning.

From the episode Burglar Alarmed, it was also pretty funny when Utonium randomly said foods beginning with a "kuh" sound, like "cabbage" and "kumquat", while having a silly grin on his face.

3. Quack Pack

Quack Pack was a highly-contested spinoff to DuckTales, most of the disdain for it being because the inhabitants of Duckburg included humans when DuckTales exclusively used anthropomorphic animals. People also aren't very fond of Huey, Dewey, and Louie becoming teenagers and being voiced by people other than Russi Taylor.

I've seen every episode of both shows and I actually like both DuckTales and Quack Pack equally.

While I do prefer Russi Taylor's portrayal of the triplets, that's not to say that I liked the actresses that played them in Quack Pack.

Huey was played by Jeannie Elias, who I know best for playing Pugsley Addams in the 1992 Addams Family cartoon. Dewey was played by Pamela Adlon, and of course, E.G. Daily voiced Louie.

Tony Anselmo played Donald Duck again, and he remains his current voice actor to this day, while Daisy was played by Kath Soucie (Quack Pack predates Mickey MouseWorks, which was the first Disney work where Daisy got her current voice actress Tress MacNeille).

Ludwig von Drake appeared in a few episodes of the series, and since he's been his standard voice actor for some time, it's obvious that Corey Burton played him in Quack Pack.

While I had the pictures for ChalkZone and PPG represent scenes from the actual episodes, I decided to have the Quack Pack scene be an original situation.

I felt nothing would be funnier than Huey, Dewey, and Louie abusing time travel and accidentally altering history so that their uncle Donald doesn't wear a shirt and Mickey Mouse doesn't wear pants, rather than the other way around. Now Louie's turned to Ludwig so that he can help him and his brothers set things right.

My favorite episode of Quack Pack was Ducky Dearest, since it had Donald's nephews try to plan a surprise party for their uncle, but because they're so sneaky about it, Donald becomes paranoid that the boys are doing illegal things behind his back, so he gets conned with phony parental advice by a Dr. Homer, and in the end Huey, Dewey, and Louie had no choice but to give their uncle his birthday presents early and say "Happy Birthday, Uncle Donald".

Too bad Corey Burton never had a guest appearance on Rugrats or its contested spinoff series All Grown Up. Of course, just because he's a good actor doesn't mean he has to be in everything!

ChalkZone (c) Nickelodeon

The Powerpuff Girls (c) Cartoon Network

Quack Pack, Donald Duck, and Professor Ludwig von Drake (c) Disney
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