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Often, when you've got a pretty good and recognizable actor or actress, there will be another actor/actress who is awfully similar except that he/she is not quite as good, famous, busy, expensive, or whatever. This can be very handy when you've been asked to cast a TV series based on a movie, since the actors from the movie often won't be willing to do a weekly series, at least not for what you're willing to pay. Such pairings can also be used to effect The Other Darrin, but when the former actor is much more famous than the replacement, this is a recipe for disappointment. The good news for the actors is that by the end of the show's run, if its a hit, they're sometimes more famous than the film actor they replace. The Trope Maker for the Poor Man's Substitute was Jayne Mansfield for Marilyn Monroe. In fact, 20th Century Fox hired Mansfield for just that purpose after Monroe famously walked out on her contract in 1955. On Mystery Science Theater 3000, Joel and the Bots call this the "Wayne Rogers Effect", after the actor who replaced Elliott Gould in the TV adaptation of M*A*S*H. Often goes hand-in-hand with Not Quite Starring. There are scripts that acknowledge this as Hypothetical Casting (only to somehow get the real deal!). PLEASE NOTE: This trope is about actors who can pass for each other in bad light and/or can fill the same type of roles. For actors who have played the same character, you want The Other Darrin instead. If the Poor Man's Substitute is a different character in-universe, they're a Suspiciously Similar Substitute. If you're looking for objects that are inferior versions of brand names, see Shoddy Knockoff Product. |
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In the TV version of Harry and the Hendersons, Bruce Davison and Molly Cheek were substitutes for John Lithgow and Melinda Dillon. | |
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In Carry On Cruising, Lance Percival and Dilys Laye filled in for Charles Hawtrey and Joan Sims. | |
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After the success of A Hard Day's Night and Help!, TV producers wanted to create a sitcom based on The Beatles. Of course, the band was far too busy touring, and later recording full-time, to commit to a weekly show. Out of this idea came The Monkees, a foursome who looked quite a bit like the Beatles, from the appearances to the songs. The group, dismissively referred to as the "pre-fab(ricated) Four" in an era where the real Beatles were leading a musical revolution, had an uphill battle to be recognized as a legitimate band, not helped by the fact that they didn't play their own instruments or write their own songs early in their career. | |
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After Chuck and 24: Live Another Day, Yvonne Strahovski was put on the career path of a poor man's Cate Blanchett. However, she's had some high-profile roles since, including a lead role in The Handmaid's Tale. | |
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There's a moment in the Skins series 4 finale where - prompted by a drunk Naomi - Cook realises that his latest random squeeze (Arcia) is a Poor Man's Substitute for Effy. He ditches her as soon as he twigs what he's doing. | |
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Famous voices in the Disney Animated Canon are usually replaced with Poor Man's Substitutes most of the times in Direct to Video and TV Series sequels. Dan Castellaneta replaced Robin Williams as the voice of Genie from Aladdin after Williams cut ties with Disney for using his voice in advertising. They eventually reconciled with Williams returning for Aladdin and the King of Thieves. The Lion King (1994): While all the cast of the original movie reprised their roles in the sequels (except Rowan Atkinson as Zazu, so Edward Hibbert filled in the role), only Pumbaa, Ed, and Rafiki retain the same voice actor in Timon & Pumbaa and, joined by Banzai, Kingdom Hearts II. (Mufasa had a different voice in House of Mouse, and was "voiced" by archive recordings of James Earl Jones for Kingdom Hearts II). Simba had the same voice in both movies (save for his singing voice, which was different in both— Joseph Williams vs. Cam Clarke), as did Nala. (For all of the two lines she appeared in it.) Cam Clarke also did Simba's speaking voice in Timon and Pumbaa, House of Mouse, and Kingdom Hearts II. A single archive recording of Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Young Simba was also used for Kingdom Hearts II. Timon's voice casting in Kingdom Hearts II is kinda funny - he's played by Bruce Lanoil, but they already had another of Lane's substitutes in the cast: Quinton Flynn, who was already playing a supporting role. Lanoil would reprise his role as Timon in Disney Think Fast and Wild About Safety, educational shorts played at various Disney Parks. Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World replaces Mel Gibson with his brother Donald. In games and merchandising for Disney/Pixar's Toy Story, Woody is not voiced by Tom Hanks but his brother Jim (who has carved a niche in Hollywood as the go to guy for those who can't afford his brother). Likewise, voice actor Mike MacRae does a spot-on Tim Allen impression, and has been voicing Buzz Lightyear in all Toy Story spinoffs (Kingdom Hearts, Disney Infinity, etc) since 2010. Mulan II has Mark Moseley replacing Eddie Murphy as Mushu. The Emperor's New School had to substitute David Spade and John Goodman (although, in the latter's case, just for one season). James Arnold Taylor replaced Michael J. Fox as Milo Thatch for Atlantis: Milo's Return (the sequel to Atlantis: The Lost Empire; Cree Summer was involved in both the movie and its video sequel). Even people who don't like Telltale Games' Back to the Future: The Game series are blown away by AJ Locascio's Michael J. Fox impression. On Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Patrick Warburton was Poor Man's Substitute for Tim Allen as the voice of Buzz Lightyear (although Allen did reprise the role in Buzz Lightyear: The Adventure Begins; Warburton revoiced Buzz when the movie was shown as episodes of the series). Actually, this happens quite a bit in Kingdom Hearts, probably due to the nature of the whole thing - Tate Donovan apparently turned down the role of Hercules for the first game, so Disney hired Sean Astin. However, once it took off, Donovan reprised the role for II. Susanne Blakeslee fills in for the late Eleanor Audley as Maleficent and Lady Tremaine and the late Lucille LaVerne as the Evil Queen. Nowadays, they still have four major Darrins, the voice actresses for Kairi and Naminé, presumably because Hayden Panettiere was doing Heroes and Brittany Snow was off doing... somethingnote Panettiere herself was, in turn, The Other Darrin to Alyson Stoner when she replaced her as the voice of Xion; Stoner had previously been The Other Darrin to Panettiere as Kairi and is now the current voice actor for Kairi and Xion. Got it memorized?, Corey Burton who filled in for Christopher Lee as DiZ/Ansem the Wise in a couple of the spinoff games before taking over the character fulltime after Lee's death, and the voice actor for Ansem, Seeker of Darkness (Richard Epcar replacing Billy Zane). Also, all of the voices of the Hollow Bastion Restoration committee (plus Sephiroth) were replaced for II (resulting in Mandy Moore, Aerith, being replaced and resulting in a hugely amusing voicing situation for Yuffie). And the game RE: Chain of Memories offers Darrins for the entire Castle Oblivion party because all their voice clips in the original game were of Japanese actors simply with any sentences or spoken phrases removed. There are, however, quite a few surprising aversions for this trope, regardless; the original game had Kathryn Beaumont, the original voice actress of Alice and Wendy. Corey Burton is basically the Patron Saint of this trope for Kingdom Hearts having filled in for Hans Conried as Captain Hook, Bill Thompson as the White Rabbit, Paddi Edwards as Flotsam and Jetsam, Joseph Kearns as the Doorknob, Miguel Ferrer as Shan Yu, David Warner as Sark and the MCP, Robin Williams as the Peddler, Edward Ivory as Santa Claus, Christopher Lee as DiZ/Ansem the Wise, Tony Jay as Claude Frollo, Rip Torn as Zeus, and Michael Rye as Yen Sid!... Whew. Keith Ferguson replaced Owen Wilson as the voice of Lightning McQueen in the Cars Toons series of shorts (Larry the Cable Guy still reprises his role as Mater, however). Carlos Alazraqui can pull off a scarily accurate Billy Crystal impression, making him the go-to Mike Wazowski substitute for every Monsters, Inc. spin-off. Inverted in Frozen II where King Agnarr and Queen Iduna, voiced by Maurice LaMarche and Jennifer Lee, respectively in the first movie, are now voiced respectively instead by Alfred Molina and Evan Rachel Wood. |
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Ral Donner sustained a modest career based on the fact that he sounded almost exactly like Elvis Presley. No less than Robert Plant has cited Donner as an influence. Donner even did first-person narration in the voice of Elvis for the documentary This is Elvis in 1981. Related to this was a few cases of singers having hits with a Cover Version of Elvis album tracks that he didn't release as a single himself, in which they tried to copy his vocal style ("Wooden Heart" by Joe Dowell, "Suspicion" by Terry Stafford). | |
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The Carry On... Series occasionally had to deal with absent castmembers in this manner: In Carry On Cruising, Lance Percival and Dilys Laye filled in for Charles Hawtrey and Joan Sims. In Carry On Up the Khyber, Roy Castle fills in for Jim Dale. In Carry On Girls, it's really obvious that the Cecil Gaybody role was meant to be played by either Hawtrey or Kenneth Williams. Jimmy Logan winds up doing a pale imitation of both. Also, for the first time since Carry On Regardless, someone other than Hattie Jacques is cast as the Matron character. Brenda Cowling does a fine job in her one scene, but one can only think of how Jacques would have performed the role. Carry On England: Patrick Mower plays the kind of romantic leading man role that Jim Dale used to. Diane Langton plays the type of role that is usually filled by Barbara Windsor, and seems to be trying to copy her voice. |
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The Simpsons: Parodied in "A Star Is Burns". When Mr. Burns requests for Steven Spielberg to direct his movie. Upon being told that he was unavailable, Burns then requested Señor Spielbergo, his non-union Mexican equivalent. Also, when Bart opened a casino, he hired a Liza Minelli impersonator but needed another kind of show when he found out the "impersonator" was Liza Minelli. Also occurred in The Simpsons when they told the story of how Krustyland came to be. Krusty the Clown wanted to hire the cast of The Poseidon Adventure to make celebrity appearances at the park's opening, but attorney Lionel Hutz was able to sign only impersonators of those celebrities, including a Shelley Winters imitator who was obviously a man and hadn't even bothered to shave. When Krusty sees the faux celebrities, he tries to strangle Hutz. |
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Due to high demand with popular AAA video game roles and motion capture work since The Last of Us in addition to wanting to become a musician, Troy Baker is unable to lend his voice in anime and JRPG titles anymore. Fortunately he’s got a perfect double in Matthew Mercer. Even AAA game developers call him up if Troy isn’t available or is too expensive for their budget. | |
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Thomas & Friends has had three notable examples of this trope: When Michael Angelis started narrating the original UK version, he was this to original narrator Ringo Starr (of whom Michael's brother Paul voiced in Yellow Submarine). Angelis went on to narrate the show for close to a decade, with his 21-year stint outlasting George Carlin and Alec Baldwin's stints as the narrator for the US version. Angelis retired from the show after season 16, and was replaced by Mark Moraghan, who became the poor man's substitute for Angelis, as he sounds almost exactly like him. Moraghan also took over from then-US narrator Michael Brandon at the same time, and narrated both the UK and US versions of the show up until the Big World! Big Adventures! retool. Robin Smith — who did voicework for many of the series' US DVD promos, video games and merchandise between the late-90s and 2009 — sounded very similar to the show's third US narrator Alec Baldwin, who held those duties at the time Smith was hired. |
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The spider in the Merrie Melodies cartoon "Meatless Flyday" calls the fly he's trying to catch and eat "A poor man's Bugs Bunny." | |
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Friday the 13th composer Harry Manfredini can be considered the poor man's Bob Cobert of Dark Shadows, Burnt Offerings, Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Trilogy of Terror due to their similar scoring styles in general. | |
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Beavis And Butthead, when watching an angry-sounding Henry Rollins video: | |
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Similarly, in the Justice League Unlimited episode "The Greatest Story Never Told", Booster Gold spends the beginning of the episode teamed with the Elongated Man, who complains about being the League's poor man's Plastic Man. He is indeed used for that purpose by the end of the episode. | |
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The Weeknd has also been compared to Michael Jackson, in particular his song "I Feel It Coming". | |
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Morton Stevens was also the poor man's Jerry Goldsmith (who was Stevens' mentor). | |
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For The War Lord, Charlton Heston wanted the very acclaimed Shakespearian John Gielgud for the role of the priest, but Gielgud refused. The similar-looking Maurice Evans was cast instead. It should be noted Evans was an experienced Shakespearian as well, just less towering than Gielgud in that field. | |
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In The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Julius Carry seems to be filling in for Mr. T, especially with frequent exclamations of "sucka!" | |
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An episode of The Big Bang Theory had Sheldon and Leonard playing a trivia game where each guessed the name of a famous person based on clues given by the other player. For every clue Leonard gave Sheldon about Nikola Tesla, Sheldon assumed Leonard was talking about him, until finally Leonard got annoyed enough to play along with Sheldon's hubris and describe Tesla as "the poor man's Sheldon Cooper," whereupon Sheldon got it immediately. | |
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For music within the video game industry, Wilbert Roget, II is their poor man's John Williams, Michael Giacchino, James Horner, Alan Silvestri and to a lesser extent Jerry Goldsmith. Inon Zur also fits, though he's seen as both a poor man's John Williams and Mark Snow. | |
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This is a much older example, but on Broadway, if you couldn't get Paul Ford (due to his TV and film commitments), you could hire David Burns. Funnily enough, Burns opened on Broadway in characters that Ford would play in films, even though Ford was the original choice of most of the Broadway directors. Ford actually replaced Burns as Mayor Shinn in The Music Man for a few months of the Broadway run, and later appeared in the movie. | |
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In Carry On Up the Khyber, Roy Castle fills in for Jim Dale. | |
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Can't get Tony Anselmo to voice Donald Duck? Get Daniel Ross. | |
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Given a weird twist in Girl Genius, when Agatha, who's on the run from the Baron's forces, joins a traveling show, and in one performance of a "Heterodyne play," fills in for actress Pix. The twist? The character she's playing is her own real-life mother. | |
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Robert Costanzo (Die Hard 2, Total Recall (1990), Sewer Shark) definitely looks like a poor man's Danny DeVito. He sounds like him as well, considering he replaced DeVito as Phil in the Hercules Recycled: The Series and the Kingdom Hearts games, and even voiced DeVito in a few episodes of Family Guy. | |
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Downplayed in the pilot of DuckTales (2017) where Flintheart Glomgold is described as "the poor man's Scrooge McDuck... which to be fair, still makes him insanely rich." | |
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In Turning Red, Mei shows up to Tyler's birthday party not in her giant red panda form but in her cardboard red panda costume meaning she manages to be her own Poor Man's Substitute. Tyler is not impressed. | |
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Arthur B. Rubinstein can himself qualify as the poor man's Bruce Broughton. | |
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He's also an excellent stand-in for Hans Conried, having taken over as Captain Hook's offical voice actor in all Disney's Peter Pan media. | |
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Rare fictional example - in the Marvel Universe, USAgent is treated by everyone as a poor man's substitute for Captain America. This was lampshaded in an issue of Mighty Avengers, by Loki of all people. Disguised as the Scarlet Witch (long story), he attempts to recruit Captain America for his new Avengers team and on discovering that Cap is dead goes to USAgent and effectively says "You'll have to do". | |
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According to the The Nostalgia Critic, Jean-Claude Van Damme is this to Chuck Norris. | |
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Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World replaces Mel Gibson with his brother Donald. | |
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One of many running gags in CinemaSins, where the poor man's substitute is referred to as "discount [A-list actor]". They'll also refer to an actor as a discount themselves if they're spotted in cheap pre-fame roles, such as a pre-Rocky Sylvester Stallone in Death Race 2000, or if it's a currently famous actor they think are in a bad movie, like Channing Tatum in Jupiter Ascending. | |
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock has Robin Curtis as a poor woman's Kirstie Alley. | |
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Since Tomb Raider fans obviously have no way of getting Keeley Hawes to voice Lara in their fanmade works, they use Tomb Raider Forums mod Greenkey 2 (Jenni Milward) who sounds very similar to both Keeley and a previous voice actress, Judith Gibbins. | |
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The band Journey hired Filipino singer Arnel Pineda as a replacement for former lead Steve Perry. Obviously, being Filipino, Pineda looks nothing like Perry— but his voice is incredibly similar. | |
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Monster House, Trick 'r Treat and Krampus composer Douglas Pipes can be considered the poor man's Michael Giacchino too. For his brassy instrumentations, Pipes is also considered to be the poor man's Alan Silvestri. | |
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During Michael's peak, within the R&B community El DeBarge was often compared to Jackson. | |
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Aussie actress Marta Dusseldorp, who among other minor roles played Officer Yal Henta (an old friend of Aeryn Sun's from her Peacekeeper days) in parts I and II of the Farscape episode "Into the Lion's Den", bears an uncanny resemblance to Bridget Fonda. | |
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Keith Ferguson replaced Owen Wilson as the voice of Lightning McQueen in the Cars Toons series of shorts (Larry the Cable Guy still reprises his role as Mater, however). | |
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Jonathan Lloyd Walker, when he was in the role of Rankol in Flash Gordon (2007), was a Poor Man's Gary Oldman. | |
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Also amongst video games, Garry Schyman of BioShock is the industry's poor man's Elliot Goldenthal, while Dead Space's Jason Graves was their poor man's John Ottman and Brian Tyler. | |
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Stan Helsing is notable only for having at least three Poor Man's Substitute - Diora Baird and Steve Howey are uncanny substitutes for Rachel Bilson and Ashton Kutcher and while Desi Lydic doesn't especially physically resemble Christina Applegate (other than being blonde and pretty in a kooky sort of way) her voice is absolutely identical. | |
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Mojo Nixon said that his role as Toad in Super Mario Bros. (1993) came from being pitched as this by a casting director: "They said we gotta have Tom Waits for this role, but he wants too much money. Well I can get you a third-rate Tom Waits—for half-price!" | |
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Also occurred in The Simpsons when they told the story of how Krustyland came to be. Krusty the Clown wanted to hire the cast of The Poseidon Adventure to make celebrity appearances at the park's opening, but attorney Lionel Hutz was able to sign only impersonators of those celebrities, including a Shelley Winters imitator who was obviously a man and hadn't even bothered to shave. When Krusty sees the faux celebrities, he tries to strangle Hutz. | |
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In games and merchandising for Disney/Pixar's Toy Story, Woody is not voiced by Tom Hanks but his brother Jim (who has carved a niche in Hollywood as the go to guy for those who can't afford his brother). Likewise, voice actor Mike MacRae does a spot-on Tim Allen impression, and has been voicing Buzz Lightyear in all Toy Story spinoffs (Kingdom Hearts, Disney Infinity, etc) since 2010. | |
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Nigel Bennett (Lexx, Forever Knight) can fill in for Malcolm McDowell in a pinch, and Malcolm can fill in for Sting (as shown in Captain Planet) given the right wig. The same goes for Terence Stamp for live action and Corey Burton for voiceover, as well as Michael Des Barres. | |
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In The Dukes of Hazzard movie, James Roday Rodriguez is basically the typical "jock sports rival" Ben Stiller portrayed in films such as DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story. | |
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The Lion King (1994): While all the cast of the original movie reprised their roles in the sequels (except Rowan Atkinson as Zazu, so Edward Hibbert filled in the role), only Pumbaa, Ed, and Rafiki retain the same voice actor in Timon & Pumbaa and, joined by Banzai, Kingdom Hearts II. (Mufasa had a different voice in House of Mouse, and was "voiced" by archive recordings of James Earl Jones for Kingdom Hearts II). Simba had the same voice in both movies (save for his singing voice, which was different in both— Joseph Williams vs. Cam Clarke), as did Nala. (For all of the two lines she appeared in it.) Cam Clarke also did Simba's speaking voice in Timon and Pumbaa, House of Mouse, and Kingdom Hearts II. A single archive recording of Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Young Simba was also used for Kingdom Hearts II. | |
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CollegeHumor goes to Hell: it's revealed that Hell the second best of everything, just to frustrate sinners. | |
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Carry On England: Patrick Mower plays the kind of romantic leading man role that Jim Dale used to. Diane Langton plays the type of role that is usually filled by Barbara Windsor, and seems to be trying to copy her voice. |
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Another older example is Simon Oakland (best known as the psychiatrist who gives the long speech at the end of Psycho), who basically spent his career being the younger, more affordable Edward G. Robinson. Robinson himself twice filled in for Spencer Tracy (Cheyenne Autumn, The Cincinnati Kid) when Tracy had to leave a film due to illness. | |
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Jason David Frank was set to play Len/Wing Knight in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. And then the producers decided to make the show succeed on its own merits rather than piggybacking on JDF's popularity from Power Rangers, making replacement Matt Mullins a poor man's Jason David Frank. | |
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For comedies and other film and television work, Robert Folk can count as the poor man's Bruce Broughton and Michael Kamen during the mid-to-late The '80s up to The '90s up to the dawn of the Turn of the Millennium. One of Kamen's proteges and Brian Tyler's former conductor and orchestrator Christopher Lennertz can be now considered to be the poor man's Robert Folk for recent comedy projects. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Joel and the Bots have a discussion about this trope at the end of Hercules Against the Moon Men. Joel calls it the "Wayne Rogers Effect", after the actor who replaced Elliott Gould in the TV adaptation of M*A*S*H. The conversation gets a bit awkward when Crow points out that Gypsy's Celeb Crush Richard Basehart (from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) was really the replacement for Walter Pidgeon from the original film. Ironically the replacement that prompted all this discussion in the first place—Steve Reeves from Hercules Unchained getting replaced by Alan Steel for Hercules Against the Moon Men—was actually an example of Dub Name Change and Dolled-Up Installment, not this trope. Against the Moon Men was originally a Maciste film; it was the American distributors who changed Alan Steel's character to Hercules and tried to pass the film off as a sequel to the Steve Reeves films. | |
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Mulan II has Mark Moseley replacing Eddie Murphy as Mushu. | |
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Daria once referred to her teacher, Mr. O'Neil, as "the poor man's Kathy Lee Gifford." | |
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Film critic Drew McWeeny argued on the '80s All Over podcast that a more literal example of this trope was Larry Cohen, who could effectively bring Spielberg-style premises to life on pinchpenny B-Movie budgets (as in It's Alive, Q: The Winged Serpent, and The Stuff). | |
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In The Venture Bros., Rusty refers to Baron Underbite as a "dime store Doctor Doom." | |
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On Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Patrick Warburton was Poor Man's Substitute for Tim Allen as the voice of Buzz Lightyear (although Allen did reprise the role in Buzz Lightyear: The Adventure Begins; Warburton revoiced Buzz when the movie was shown as episodes of the series). | |
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During the 1980s, Paddy Kingsland, Giorgio Moroder, Jan Hammer, Harold Faltermeyer or Vince DiCola filled in nicely when Tangerine Dream or Vangelis wasn't available. | |
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According to Bryan Danielson, Michael Cole is a poor man's Jim Ross. | |
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Matt Sloan (the voice of Chad Vader) and Scott Lawrence are the go-to VA stand-ins for James Earl Jones as Darth Vader | |
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Spider-Man: Parodied. In The Amazing Spider-Man (Lee & Ditko) #14, Stan Lee is credited as "the poor man's Shakespeare"; Steve Ditko is "the poor man's Da Vinci"; and letterer Art Simek is "the poor man's rich man". | |
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Scooby-Doo examples: After Don Messick's death, Hadley Kay and Scott Innes took turns voicing the titular dog until Frank Welker (the voice of Fred since the beginning) became his new permanent voice. When the series made its Channel Hop from CBS to ABC, Nicole Jaffe was replaced as the voice of Velma with Pat Stevens. Stevens left in the middle of the 1979 season and was replaced with Marla Frumkin. Scott Innes and Matthew Lillard have voiced Shaggy when Casey Kasem was unavailable, with Lillard eventually taking over the role after Kasem retired from it. |
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The success of Modern Family has created a demand for a more affordable Ty Burrell, a niche capably filled by Mather Zickel. | |
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The Emperor's New School had to substitute David Spade and John Goodman (although, in the latter's case, just for one season). | |
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The Simpsons had an amusing case where they actually got Michael Jackson to play as a fat white guy who was in a mental hospital who thought he was Michael Jackson. However, his contract stipulated he would only speak (credited as John Jay Smith), and his singing voice would be performed by a soundalike (apparently because Jackson wanted to play a joke on his brothers, fooling them into thinking the impersonator was him), and thus singer Kipp Lennon served as a poor man's MJ. | |
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Nowadays, McNeely, Giacchino and Alan Silvestri are the poor man's John Williams. Silvestri can also be seen as the poor man's James Horner and Jerry Goldsmith. |
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Olivier Rabourdin in Taken plays a convincing Kevin Spacey acting as a French cop. | |
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Worried that we'll never get a voice like Freddie Mercury's ever again? Don't worry, call Marc Martel! | |
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Also from Battlestar Galactica (2003), Matthew Bennett (Aaron Doral) has been dubbed "a poor man's Kevin Spacey". | |
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Jon Bailey showcases in Honest Trailers how he is capable of narrating previews. His Peter Cullen impression even landed him gigs in actual Transformers works. | |
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Pokémon: The Series is notorious for pulling this on the entire main cast of the dub from the Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon special onwards when the Pokémon Company took over from 4Kids and replaced most of the longstanding cast with soundalike VA's to cut costs. While the replacements did improve over time (generally agreed to be around the second season of Diamond & Pearl), some older fans are still understandably bitter about this and the shabby way the original cast was treated. | |
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Music editor-composer Kenneth Wannberg was also seen the poor man's John Williams that precedes McNeely and Giacchino for this title to the point he's been complimented as "John Williams' composer" then just his editor for works like A New Hope. | |
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In Carry On Girls, it's really obvious that the Cecil Gaybody role was meant to be played by either Hawtrey or Kenneth Williams. Jimmy Logan winds up doing a pale imitation of both. Also, for the first time since Carry On Regardless, someone other than Hattie Jacques is cast as the Matron character. Brenda Cowling does a fine job in her one scene, but one can only think of how Jacques would have performed the role. | |
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South Park: When pee-wee football team South Park Cows played against Middle Park Cowboys, the entertainment hired for the halftime was John Stamos' brother Richard Stamos. | |
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Armored Core 2 gives us Eight Ball/Hustler Two, poor man's substitute and claimed descendant of the series' Nine Ball/Hustler One. He's very low ranked and pilots a vastly inferior mech. Nine Ball was also an AI. | |
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According to the first Family Guy Star Wars parody, Danny Elfman is now the poor man's John Williams. | |
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There's a reason some fans of Breaking Bad refer to Jesse Plemons' character Todd as "Meth Damon". Plemons in fact was cast as a younger version of Damon's character in the film adaptation of All the Pretty Horses. | |
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Developing a racing game and Porsche won't license their models to you? Don't worry, Ruf Automobile is awaiting your call! Ruf models often filled in for their Porsche counterparts in games like the Gran Turismo series and Driver: San Francisco during the period in which Porsche had an exclusive licensing deal with Electronic Arts. | |
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Most people's reaction on seeing Kerr Smith in Charmed is to think he's Julian McMahon (who played a different recurring character earlier in the series). | |
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If anyone ever wants an animated Frasier, Maurice LaMarche could easily pass for Kelsey Grammer and he already is the world champion Orson Welles. | |
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Don Davis in general during The '90s and the Turn of the Millennium can be considered the poor man's Bruce Broughton and Michael Kamen. | |
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Actually, this happens quite a bit in Kingdom Hearts, probably due to the nature of the whole thing - Tate Donovan apparently turned down the role of Hercules for the first game, so Disney hired Sean Astin. However, once it took off, Donovan reprised the role for II. Susanne Blakeslee fills in for the late Eleanor Audley as Maleficent and Lady Tremaine and the late Lucille LaVerne as the Evil Queen. Nowadays, they still have four major Darrins, the voice actresses for Kairi and Naminé, presumably because Hayden Panettiere was doing Heroes and Brittany Snow was off doing... somethingnote Panettiere herself was, in turn, The Other Darrin to Alyson Stoner when she replaced her as the voice of Xion; Stoner had previously been The Other Darrin to Panettiere as Kairi and is now the current voice actor for Kairi and Xion. Got it memorized?, Corey Burton who filled in for Christopher Lee as DiZ/Ansem the Wise in a couple of the spinoff games before taking over the character fulltime after Lee's death, and the voice actor for Ansem, Seeker of Darkness (Richard Epcar replacing Billy Zane). Also, all of the voices of the Hollow Bastion Restoration committee (plus Sephiroth) were replaced for II (resulting in Mandy Moore, Aerith, being replaced and resulting in a hugely amusing voicing situation for Yuffie). And the game RE: Chain of Memories offers Darrins for the entire Castle Oblivion party because all their voice clips in the original game were of Japanese actors simply with any sentences or spoken phrases removed. There are, however, quite a few surprising aversions for this trope, regardless; the original game had Kathryn Beaumont, the original voice actress of Alice and Wendy. | |
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Played for laughs in Friends when Rachel breaks up with nerdy paleontologist Ross (played by David Schwimmer) and hooks up with nerdy periodontist Russ (played by David Schwimmer). | |
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James Franciscus was cast in Beneath the Planet of the Apes specifically because he looked like Charlton Heston (who is also in the movie, but for much less time). | |
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After her roles in Superbad, The Rocker, The House Bunny and Zombieland, Emma Stone seemed to have become an uncannily perfect substitute for Lindsay Lohan. For a few years, this was inverted when Lohan's career was hit with personal struggles caused by drug addiction, while Stone had a more successful career, but by the end of the 2010s Lohan had regained popularity thanks to the continuing popularity of Mean Girls and had staged a comeback of sorts with the hit Netflix film Falling for Christmas. | |
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Inverted in Frozen II where King Agnarr and Queen Iduna, voiced by Maurice LaMarche and Jennifer Lee, respectively in the first movie, are now voiced respectively instead by Alfred Molina and Evan Rachel Wood. | |
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