lori alan did the voice of pearl on spongebob.
who does the voice of pearl on spongebob?
lori alan
fagerbakke voices spongebob's best friend, a starfish named patrick star. he auditioned for the role after kenny had been cast as spongebob. fagerbakke said, "steve is such a lovely guy, and i had absolutely no feeling for the material whatsoever." he described his experience in the audition, saying "i was just going in for another audition, and i had no idea what was in store there in terms of the remarkable visual wit and really the kind of endearing child-like humanity in the show. i couldn't pick that up from the audition material at all. i was just kind of perfunctorially trying to give the guy what he wanted." carolyn lawrence provides sandy cheeks' voice. when lawrence was on a sidewalk in los feliz, los angeles with a friend who knew "spongebob squarepants" casting director donna grillo, her friend said to the director that lawrence had "an interesting voice". grillo invited lawrence to audition and she then got the role. mrs. puff's voice is provided by american actress mary jo catlett, who is known for her live-action roles on television programs from the 1970s such as "diff'rent strokes" and "m*a*s*h". as of 2017, voicing mrs. puff has become her only remaining regular television role; catlett described herself as "basically retired" in 2013, since she feels that voicing mrs. puff requires less preparation than her performances in person. lori alan voices pearl. during her audition for the role, she was shown an early drawing of pearl and took note of how the character was much larger than the rest of the cast. she decided to reflect the character's size in her voice by making it deep and full in tone. she aimed to make pearl's voice invoke the sound of whales’ low vocalizations while also sounding "spoiled and lovable." in an interview with afterbuzz tv, alan said that she knew pearl "had to sound somewhat like a child," but at the same time needed "an abnormally large voice."
list of spongebob squarepants cast members
the characters of "spongebob squarepants" have appeared throughout popular culture. in 2007, the amsterdam-based company boom chicago created a "spongebob" parody called "spongebob squarepants in china", in which a stereotypically chinese patrick refuses to go to work and advocates freedom of speech, rights of leisure, and income. during the same year, production company camp chaos created a "spongebob" parody titled "spongebong hemppants", which features five of the series' characters parodied in the form of various drugs. the show was seen on vh1 and comedy central, both owned by nickelodeon's parent company viacom. comedy central's "drawn together" also features a parody of spongebob named "wooldoor sockbat" whose theme tune is inspired by "spongebob"s hawaiian-style background music. two animated series that former "spongebob" writer dan povenmire worked on have incorporated references to the characters; the "phineas and ferb" special "" features a joke in which phineas flynn holds up inanimate representations of spongebob and patrick, and the "family guy" episode "road to rupert" includes spongebob's "campfire song song" from "the camping episode". spongebob, patrick, mr. krabs, pearl, and squidward all appear in "major league of extraordinary gentlemen", an episode of the sketch comedy "robot chicken". a segment of the episode, animated in stop motion with "spongebob" toy figures, features mr. krabs using crab legs as the secret ingredient for krabby patties. spongebob has also made cameo appearances in "the simpsons", "mad", "the loud house", "south park", and "futurama".
list of spongebob squarepants characters