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Fake Shemp
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Every once in a while, you want to bring back a guest star or former recurring character, and you want this so much that the fact that the appropriate actor isn't available (i.e. unwilling, busy, or dead) doesn't stop you. Or perhaps they are a regular but they unexpectedly quit or died or you had to abruptly fire them or are just unavailable temporarily and you need to buy time to write them out or replace them. Pulling off The Other Darrin is tricky under the best of circumstances. Trying to do it for a one-shot appearance is pretty much impossible. So you pull off something dicey: use a stand-in, and don't show their face. You can combine this with a little Stock Footage to improve the effect. Not bad, as long as the audience doesn't get wise. Starting in the late 2010s, some film studios have experimented with motion-captured effigies of actors who are either too old or too dead to reprise their roles, but it's rarely passable (and ethically dubious). The 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike was sparked in part by concerns about studios proposing using artificial intelligence to scan and own actors' likenesses forever. This method has also been used to allow two characters normally played by the same actor to appear in the same frame. This is somewhat easier to do with animation — after all, the characters look the same no matter what actor you use, and sometimes you can even get away with a silent cameo. Just... if they have to talk, be very careful of which voice actor sound-alike you hire. Even moreso if you decide to splice and reuse some of their voice clips. Can sometimes overlap with Obvious Stunt Double and Stock Footage Failure. See also Digital Head Swap and The Dead Rise to Advertise, which often overlap with this trope. |
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In Persona 4: The Animation and Persona 3: The Movie, Igor's lines in the Japanese version are all reused recordings from the original games due to the death of his actor Isamu Tanonaka. | |
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Occurs frequently on Sesame Street and various Muppet productions, usually for scenes in which multiple characters performed by the same puppeteer have dialogue. Normally, another puppeteer will perform the character with less dialogue in the scene, and the principal performer will loop his or her voice in post-production. One episode of Sesame Street done in tribute to the late Jerry Nelson (in which Count von Count, Nelson's signature Sesame character, is receiving a medal) has the Count appear in the end, with his dialogue stitched together from Nelson's recordings. Frank Oz was unavailable for much of production on Muppet Treasure Island and Muppets from Space. Other puppeteers played Oz's characters, and Oz dubbed their voices in post-production. Muppets Most Wanted opens immediately after the final scene of The Muppets (2011)... with Gary and Mary only seen from the back. |
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Screen Rant Pitch Meetings: In the SHAZAM! episode, the Screenwriter promises to end the film by showing Superman "in all his glory," but after learning that Henry Cavill will not be available, he amends it to showing Superman "from the shoulders down." | |
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When the latter half of Mazinger Z was finally dubbed in Italian in 2015, Tetsuya Tsurugi's appearance in the final episode was partially voiced by recycled recordings of his now-deceased original voice actor Piero Tiberi from the dub of the Great Mazinger anime (mainly when he calls for the Great Mazinger attacks), with a soundalike filling in for the remainder of his lines. | |
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Continuing her post-Gilligan boycott of the television show, Tina Louise refused to allow her likeness to be used in the Gilligan's Island pinball. As a result, Ginger only appears twice — once on the playfield and once on the backglass — with her face heavily obscured. | |
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Played for Laughs in universe in Carnival Phantasm. Since Assassin can't leave the temple gate, his Master, Caster, replaces him with a Cardboard cutout during the Holy Grail War gameshow. | |
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Hardees (or Carl's Jr., depending on the area) ran a special ad for an X-Men: Days of Future Past tie-in burger that featured a silent and uncredited actress in Mystique's trademark blue makeup and prosthetics, since they couldn't actually get Jennifer Lawrence to appear. | |
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In Ronin Warriors, many of the English voice actors were sick for the recording of episode 2, and due to the fast recording schedule, sound-alikes filled in. | |
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Muppets Most Wanted opens immediately after the final scene of The Muppets (2011)... with Gary and Mary only seen from the back. | |
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Cars 3: Doc Hudson in the original Cars was Paul Newman's final role before his death: this necessitated his character being written off in the sequel. When writing Cars 3, the screenwriters realized they had a lot of recordings of Newman, not in character, speaking off-the-cuff between takes. Since Newman was a racing buff just like Doc Hudson, they realized they could repurpose the chatter into racing advice Doc gave Lightning in flashbacks. With his family's blessing, Newman made a posthumous appearance nearly a decade after his death. | |
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Toy Story 4 was still in development when Don Rickles, who played Mr. Potato Head, died of kidney failure in April 2017 at the age of 90. Pixar confirmed that they didn't have a script written when he died, and the script they were working on at the time of his death was jettisoned anyway due to internal strife in the studio, making it impossible for Rickles to reprise the role... but then a dedicated group of Pixar audio engineers scoured a quarter-century of various recordings Don made as Potato Head over the years, everything from outtakes to video games, and compiled a film's worth of dialogue, allowing Rickles to play Mr. Potato Head one last time. | |
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The Gumdrops: "Miss Lucy" has a scene where Lindsay introduces Pete to the house. Notice how Sadia never interacts with anyone beyond Lindsay shooting her a cold look after she walks in. Kaireht Yovera couldn't be on set until much later, so they shot around her and filmed the shot of her walking into the kitchen, quickly followed by Pete and Lindsay at the very end of the day to disguise it. She had two lines in the scene that were initially dubbed in but cut. Similarly Nora's scene in "That's Gas" was filmed on a completely separate day to avoid bringing Sandi Brown down from Belfast for just one short scene. As she's on the phone the whole time, this is a marginal example. Similar is Lindsay's appearance at the end of "Cuffed", which was filmed on a different day to avoid bringing Ellen Jones down for such a brief bit. |
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Anatoly Papanov, who voiced the Wolf in Nu, Pogodi!, died in 1987, and they recycled his existing lines for episodes 17 and 18. | |
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Homestar Runner: The Strong Bad Email "original" parodies this (along with The Other Darrin). Strong Bad claims that after Original Bubs left the show, the next few episodes pretended that he was still around, just obscured behind conveniently-placed boxes. And a toothpick model of the Eiffel Tower, far smaller than Original Bubs himself. Show Within a Show Cheat Commandos has this in the short "The Next Epi-snowed", after Crack Stuntman (the main character's voice actor) gets fired: However, it's averted when Crack Stuntman is re-hired as Gunhaver's VA in time for "Two Part Episode". |
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The Strong Bad Email "original" parodies this (along with The Other Darrin). Strong Bad claims that after Original Bubs left the show, the next few episodes pretended that he was still around, just obscured behind conveniently-placed boxes. And a toothpick model of the Eiffel Tower, far smaller than Original Bubs himself. | |
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Sgt. Frog: Many minor characters, like aliens created for specific episodes, return later in minor roles. Unless they were voiced by one of the show's main voice actors, this usually means they either get random voice actors replacing them or just appear mute. This happens more rarely with minor human characters, but there are still some examples, like Natsumi's and Fuyuki's teachers in later episodes. Sumomo is probably the most obvious example. The last time her VA returns to do her character's voice is in the beginning of the third season. Afterwards, Sumomo only makes minor silent cameos or uses old audio. There's also an example with Danceman in the 5th season. He's shown in a far away shot of a concert, which uses stock audio. |
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Pokémon Journeys: The Series was able to get Unshō Ishizuka to narrate "The Distant Blue Sky" by splicing together fragments of his old narrations (of which he narrated 1030 episodes, dozens of specials and 22 movies before his death in 2018). | |
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