With a career spanning over 45 years and almost 200 different roles, Mel Blanc is the undisputed king of voice actors. He did all the voices on The Flintstones, including Barney Rubble and Betty Rubble, which suggests he might have been able to do Homer Simpson as well. But imagine if he had: would he have done the voice deeper or higher? And what would The Simpsons sound like with other characters played by other voice actors who are also dead?

We know what The Flintstones sounds like with other actors—and I think it sounds pretty good. This is because in this clip, Wilma has a deep, throaty voice that reminds me of Betty Boop. And Betty Boop’s original voice actor, Mae Questel, was also Jewish.

What would Homer Simpson sound like if he’d been voiced by Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck? What if Daffy had been voiced by Dan Castellaneta, something of a vocal chameleon who also happens to give voice to Homer and dozens of other characters?

In the video above, YouTuber C. Martin Croker—best known as the creator of Space Ghost Coast to Coast—has re-voiced some classic cartoons with different actors. He’s given Mickey Mouse the voice of Donald Duck and Kermit the Frog the voice of Elmer Fudd.

Croker created these videos by taking original audio from cartoons and re-recording new dialogue over it. “All these scenes were rerecorded in one take,” Croker says. “I never looked at their mouths to see if they were synched correctly. The characters are not lip-synching to anything. I just matched the inflections and emotion as best I could.”

**Scooby Doo**

Instead of Don Messick, he would be voiced by Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc was the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.

He was also the voice of Barney Rubble on The Flintstones and Mr. Spacely on The Jetsons. He even voiced Woody Woodpecker and a few other cartoon characters that I can’t think of right now. While Don Messick did a great job as Scooby Doo’s voice actor, I think it would’ve been fun to see what Mel Blanc could’ve done with the role.

**Popeye**

Instead of Jack Mercer and William Costello (who voiced Popeye during different points in his career), Popeye would be voiced by Daws Butler. Daws Butler was the voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss and Quick Draw McGraw. He also provided additional voices for many cartoons including Looney Tunes and The Flintstones.

If a different voice actress had voiced Ariel, the mermaid princess, she would have sounded more mature, and less of a damsel in distress. The original voice actress was 16 when she auditioned for the role. She had a distinctive soprano voice, and was able to sing the songs for it without much difficulty.

Ariel’s real-life appearance was modeled after the cover girl of Alyssa Milano’s fashion doll collection. If Alyssa Milano had voiced Ariel, she would have sounded a lot younger than she did in Who’s the Boss?. In fact, several people have noted that Ariel and Samantha Micelli are very similar in temperament.

If Renée Zellweger had voiced Ariel, she would have sounded like Bridget Jones… but with an American accent. That could be interesting…

Ah, cartoon voice acting. The art of making a living by speaking in funny voices and telling jokes to children. The actors who do this are really talented people; you may not realize it, but giving life to an animated character is a lot harder than it looks. And the cartoons you see on TV today would sound a lot different if not for the specific talents of the actors who voiced them.

But what if, for some reason or other, these roles were recast? What if some other actor got the chance to voice your favorite characters? Would it be weird? Or would it be cool?

Well, wonder no more. Here are some famous characters and their “new” voices:

If you grew up in the United States during the 20th century, you know certain voices. You can’t remember the first time you heard them, but they are so familiar that it feels like you’ve known them forever. They are the voices of cartoon characters.

One day, I decided to look up who does these voices. I found a site called Behind the Voice Actors and discovered that there is a whole world of voice acting that I knew nothing about. Here are some things I learned:

(1) The voice actors are mostly based in Los Angeles. The entertainment industry is not evenly distributed across space.

(2) There are many more male than female voice actors. We don’t know yet why, but my guess is it’s similar to why there are more men than women in comedy writing rooms in real life: because male voice actors have historically been more valued than female voice actors and therefore more likely to get work, which means they get better at doing their job, which makes them more likely to get more work, and so on. It’s hard to fix such problems without outside intervention because they tend to be self-reinforcing.

(3) A lot of famous people do this

If you had a time machine, would you kill your enemies before they could hurt you? What if you’re morally opposed to murder? Would it be okay if the enemy in question was Hitler?

What if, instead of going back in time and killing Hitler, you went back in time and prevented his parents from ever meeting? Or maybe you just use your time machine to transport Hitler into the vacuum of space.

If your answer to all these questions is “yes,” then congratulations—you’ve got an evil streak. I mean that as a compliment: These sorts of moral quandaries are a lot more interesting than, say, “Should I kick this puppy?”

Anyway, here’s another one for you: If there was a device that would allow us to replace the voices of every cartoon character with that of Gilbert Gottfried, should we use it?