Looney Tunes Voice Actor Facts!

 Here’s Some Looney Tunes Voice Actor Fact!

Speaking of Mel Blanc's Looney Tunescharacters being vocally replaced, The Looney Tunes Show only has June Foray playing Granny. Stan Freberg was going to voice Pete Puma, but was replaced at the last minute with John Kassir, and the difference is very noticeable. The rest of the characters (most of which were voiced by either Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Kent Rogers, or Bea Benaderet — all of whom have died) now have these actors as their voice artists:

• Jeff Bergman as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester, and Tweety.
• Fred Armisen as Speedy Gonzales.
• Kristen Wiig as Lola Bunny.
  • Space Jam: A New Legacy featured Lola voiced by Zendaya.
• Bob Bergen as Porky Pig. He would also voice Tweety later on.
• Eric Bauza (John K.'s replacement for Billy West on Ren and Stimpy's Adult Party Cartoon) as Marvin the Martian. He would later take over Bergman's roles as Bugs and Daffy and Bergen as Porky in the late 2010s-early 2020s.^note 
• Jim Cummings as The Tasmanian Devil (continuing his role as Taz since Taz-Maniaand Duck Dodgers) and Beaky Buzzard, with Fred Tatasciore occasionally filling in for Cummings as Taz, save for Looney Tunes: Back in Action where Cummings was overdubbed by Brendan Fraser during post-production.
• Jennifer Esposito as Tina Russo (who herself was Darrined by Annie Mumolo in the second season).
• Jess Harnell as one half of the Goofy Gophers (with Rob Paulsen as the other half).
• Maurice LaMarche as Yosemite Sam, with Fred Tatasciore once again filling in for him when need be.
• Billy West as Elmer Fudd.
• Jim Rash as Cecil Turtle.
• Ben Falcone as Henery Hawk.
• Looney Tunes: Rabbit Run, a movie that acts as a spiritual successor, has writer/actress Rachel Ramras voice Lola. Jess Harnell also replaces John Kassir as Pete Puma.
• The same thing happened with the Looney Tunescharacters, who have had many different voice actors after Mel Blanc died (aside from Granny and Witch Hazel, of course).
  • An interesting example involving Blanc. The character of Elmer Fudd was originally voiced by (and physically modeled after) portly actor Arthur Q. Bryan. In the classic "What's Opera Doc?" Bryan voiced Fudd as usual, except, during the part where Fudd summons various types of weather to attack Bugs, the word "Smog!" was done by Blanc. Hal Smith took over for a while following Bryan's passing, and then Mel Blanc took over permanently, and is now voiced by a number of voice actors in different media.^note 
  • Porky was originally voiced by Joe Dougherty, who actually had a stutter and was fired because he couldn't keep it under control long enough to stay in character; said stutter also resulted in several audio tracks running on so long that they were thrown out for being unusable. When Mel Blanc took over, the character kept his trademark stutter but in a much more restrained fashion, allowing Blanc to remain in character.
  • Granny and Witch Hazel were originally voiced by Bea Benaderet before June Foray stepped in (Benaderet had done many shorts as Granny, but only did "Bewitched Bunny" as Hazel). June Foray herself was replaced as Granny in the 1960s by Joan Gerber and Ge Ge Pearson for one short each, but returned as the character in all further productions until the aforementioned Looney Tunes Show, after which Candi Milo took over as the character.
  • "Dork Age" characters Merlin the Magic Mouse and his sidekick Second Banana were voiced by Daws Butler in their first short, then by Larry Storch in the other four.