Dexter and Johnny: What's up with their voices?

[Sisto Kid]

OK, guys, maybe I should remember that "They're just cartoons" and should remember that whole "suspension of disbelief" thing, but this is something that has made me scratch my head.

Johnny Bravo and Dexter...what's up with their voices?

First of all Johnny: His mother sounds like she's from Hoboken, New Jersey and all his neighbors (Carl, Suzy, Pops, et. al.) have no trace of any dialect (if anything, they sound midwestern), BUT...Johnny sounds like he's from Tupelo, Mississippi (a la Elvis) Wassup with dat?

AND, Mom and Dad, and Dee Dee all sound American, but Dexter has this strange accent that seems to have it's origins in Eastern Europe. Mighty strange for a kid that's supposedly American.


MY theory is, since Dexter is such a devotee of Einstein and Johnny probably digs Elvis, they have such an extreme case of hero worship, they decide to talk like their idols too.

What do YOU think?


(And please no smart ***** answers like"I think you need to stop watching so much tv, I already KNOW this! LOL!!)

(However, much props to Christine Cavanaugh and Jeff Glenn Bennett, who makes both these characters so funny)

[CookieS]

I don't think the accents explain their origins much, but are mostly used for effect. By having Johnny have some Elvis type voice and having Dexter sound like he's eastern European, just makes the characters more funny.

[Sisto Kid]

Oh, I know, CartoonFridays, and if laughs is the overall reasoning, believe me, it works, because both Dexter and Johnny are hilarious!

It was just one of those rhetorical questions, like how did the Castaways have so much stuff on the island if it was only supposed to be a three hour tour, what happened to Richie Cunningham's brother Chuck, how did the Far Out Space Nuts breathe on all these planets they traveled to, etc., etc.

You know, that sort of question where you know you should suspend your disbelief, but you ask anyway.

[Lonestarr]

Chicken's Brooklyn accent in a family that possesses no accents. Though how the parents (especially with lower halves that are obviously human) could come up with a cow and a chicken (let alone one with an accent) for children deserves its own thread.