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We're in a bar and someone comes up and goes, "So you're together in real life?"
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Yeah, the guy was like, "You're Spongebob and I go, yeah, and that's Patrick."
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And they're like, "Oh my god, hi!"
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I'm Bill Fagerbakke and I'm Tom Kenny.
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This is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
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Here we go.
0:32
What is Tom Kenny doing now?
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Man, just, uh, just working from home every day on various stuff, everything from Spongebob to Rick and Morty to everything in between.
0:49
What is Tom Kenny?
0:53
What is a Tom Kenny?
1:04
A Tom Kenny is a 58-year-old geek.
1:04
What is his favorite Spongebob episode?
1:04
Oh, favorite Spongebob episode, that is way out there on the internet, that is uh, "Bad Geeks," of course.
1:04
I believe it, I've heard him say it.
1:04
What is Tom Kenny good at?
1:04
He's a good adhesive.
1:04
What is his phone number?
1:04
Grab your pens and paper, everyone.
1:04
My phone number is uh, is a closely guarded secret, because I hate talking on the phone.
1:02
If you want to sail a paper airplane, uh, through my window, I'll read your message.
1:08
What does Tom Kenny look like?
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He has a face made for voiceover.
1:25
We know that.
1:25
Tom Kenny basically looks like every other schlubby Caucasian man you've ever seen, and that's why voiceover is awesome.
1:22
I'd be playing like confused dads on TV right now.
1:26
You call that a bathing suit?
1:26
Nice.
1:26
Read, what does Tom Kenny sound like?
1:32
Well, it depends on the day.
1:32
Um, let's see, Tom Kenny sounds like a lot of things.
1:35
He sounds like sponges, snails.
1:38
He sometimes sounds like French guys saying, "Two hours later."
1:43
Sometimes he sounds like the mayor, "I'm a Powerpuff Girl!"
1:45
Sometimes he sounds like the narrator on the Powerpuff Girls.
1:49
Basically, Tom Kenny has multiple personality disorder and he's managed to make a living from that.
1:52
Nice work if you can get it.
1:59
What is Tom Kenny's favorite voice that he does?
1:59
You know, I love you, Spongebob, you've been very, very good to me.
2:00
I love Spongebob and some of the ones that you don't get to do as much like, uh, on a show called Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, it was a Cartoon Network show, oh, there was a big purple monster named Eduardo and I got to be him.
3:18
The only problem was doing that for four hours, uh, was like gargling Drano.
3:18
We call this one, "How Bill Fagerbakke."
3:18
So question one, how do you pronounce Bill Fagerbakke?
3:18
You can't mispronounce it.
3:18
I accept "finger bacon," "fake and bake," they're all, they're all good.
3:18
I'm sure you heard them all by the time second grade rolled around, you had kind of psyched.
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That's right.
3:18
How old is Bill Fagerbakke?
3:18
Can I rephrase that, how young is Bill Fagerbakke?
3:18
I am 63 years old.
3:18
I was born on the day the Russians sent up the Sputnik, and my parents called me Sputnik for about six weeks.
3:18
They came to their senses and gave me an actual name.
3:18
How tall is Bill Fagerbakke?
3:18
I am six, six and a half.
3:18
One of the first movies I worked on was Secret of My Success and, and I was so excited to meet Fred Gwynne, who played Herman Munster and Car 54, Where Are You?
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Yes, yes, double genius.
3:18
I went up and introduced myself to him, the only thing he said to me was, "You're too tall for this business," and he walked away.
3:21
Nice to meet you.
3:25
How did, how did Bill Fagerbakke get, uh, get cast in Spongebob?
3:25
Pretty standard audition, well, no, I can't say that because it was Stephen Hillenburg and nothing he did was standard.
3:34
So actually, the first thing he said is, "I want you to listen to this," and he played me a tape of Tom.
3:39
It was called Spongeboy at the time.
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He said, "This is what Spongeboy sounds like," and so he said, uh, "I want you to read for his friend Patrick."
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What a fantastic way to audition for something.
3:48
And, uh, and yeah, I got lucky there.
3:50
How do you, oh, how do you meet Bill Fagerbakke?
3:56
If you're making me food, we'll meet.
3:56
Or if you're dropping off a delivery at my house, as you can see from Bill's background, he actually lives in a tent.
4:14
That's right.
4:17
We're accessible at Comic-Cons, when those start up again.
4:17
Bill and I will do the occasional Comic-Con and fans come out to say hi to us, but the bad news is you might have to meet me too, so that's kind of good news, bad news.
4:17
Last question on this page, Bill, how Bill Fagerbakke does the Patrick voice.
4:21
Well, I does it the way I do most voices, I take a deep breath and then sound comes out.
4:27
I guess everything's down in my torso.
4:29
I guess there's a lot of room in there, it's down here as opposed to Squidward, who's up here.
4:35
We all wonder who Tom Kenny, but let's take a look.
4:39
Daddy wonders who Tom Kenny.
4:40
Who does Tom Kenny?
4:42
This is like the Match Game.
4:48
Who does Tom Kenny voice in Rick and Morty?
4:48
Michael says, "I've been everybody from, um, like, 'I'm squanching here, dude!'" Squanchy, uh, to Mr.
4:53
Jellybean, to, you know, alien prison guard number four.
5:00
You never know who you're gonna get when you walk in the door.
5:01
He just goes, "You're this, this, this and this."
5:04
Who does Tom Kenny voice in Futurama?
5:08
Futurama, wow, that was a long time ago.
5:10
Again, that was one of those shows where they had their main cast and they would just bring you in and you were somebody that they ran into.
5:17
I know I was Abner Doubledeal, the commissioner of robot boxing.
5:15
The episodes that most people know me or remember best from Futurama with me is where I was Yancy Fry, which is the brother of Billy West's main character Fry.
5:29
That was really fun.
5:29
People say me and Billy sound kind of alike anyway in our nat, our just regular speaking voices.
5:36
It's fun to be Billy's brother and you know, Matt Groening, come on.
5:36
Who was Tom Kenny in Pokemon?
5:36
This comes up every so often, I don't think I've ever done Pokemon.
5:36
There's stuff that I don't remember, like I did it and, and my kids will go, "Hey, that's your voice," and I'll go, "I never did that show."
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And then they'll point to the credits and they'll go, "Yeah, Dad, that was you."
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And I guess it was.
5:36
I think with Pokemon there was a guy named Tom Kenny who, no, bought the series and somehow got re-dubbed it, you know, and got the rights to it or, or something and made a bazillion dollars on Pokemon.
6:10
I wish I was smart enough to have gotten a hold of Pokemon.
6:14
No, not, not that smart, so I don't think I have any Pokemon history.
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If there is, the internet will slap me around and go like, "Don't you remember?"
6:22
Wow, I wonder if there's another Bill Fagerbakke out there that's gonna do something.
6:27
Okay, who is Tom Kenny married to?
6:27
My wife is named Jill Talley.
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She's an actress.
6:27
I met my wife on a show called The Edge.
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Then we did a show called Mr. Show with Bob and David.
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And she also plays various characters on, on Spongebob in the Spongebobverse.
6:27
She is Karen, uh, Plankton's computer wife, and that's, that's who I'm married to.
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She was crazy enough to marry me.
6:50
They are a fantastic couple, I can attest to that.
6:53
The folks on the internet say, "Who is Tom Kenny?"
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Why would they ask if they didn't talk?
7:01
I have to answer that question myself.
7:06
I will say that Tom Kenny is the Mel Blanc of our day and we are very, very lucky to have him.
7:09
Who does Tom Kenny voice in Spongebob?
7:15
Oh, wow, let's see.
7:21
Well, oh, you know that pink sea star this one hangs around with?
7:21
I don't do him.
7:21
And now it is time to move on to our ding, what Bill Fagerbakke round.
7:33
What happened to Bill?
7:33
What the hell happened to you, Bill?
7:33
Well, I, I stepped into a big bucket of awesome good fortune, stumbling into voiceovers, um, in the nineties and, and oh my God, what a fortuitous route that was.
7:33
What is Bill Fagerbakke like?
7:33
I'm a sports fan, I'm a music fan, oh, and I have, I have two daughters that are amazing and they're in their twenties now.
7:33
Bill's daughters are incredible people and super talented in their own right, which is surprising because as children they were horrible.
8:04
No, I'm kidding, they were great kids too.
8:06
What does, what does Bill Fagerbakke sing?
8:12
Uh, I'm a baritone.
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I actually, none of this performing stuff would have happened to me if it hadn't been for high school choir.
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I had a fantastic choir director in high school.
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I had the great good fortune to actually reconnect with that choir director just a few years ago and, uh, we had a nice long talk and I was able to express my, my gratitude.
8:26
Was he like, "Why are you wasting your talent on that silly cartoon?"
8:36
What voice Bill Fagerbakke do besides Patrick?
8:36
Oh, nothing, this is all I'm good for.
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What you see is what you get.
8:41
That is not true, you started out on the cult animated series Gargoyles.
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Disney's Gargoyles still, when you go to Comic-Cons and stuff, has a devoted cult following.
8:47
And you did Clifford the Big Red Dog.
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You did the, you did, uh, didn't you, did you do something Clifford?
8:56
No, you did Beethoven.
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Yeah, I did Beethoven.
8:58
Yeah, so I knew it, I knew it involved a large canine.
9:05
What is Bill Fagerbakke's favorite Spongebob episode?
9:05
I think I know this one.
9:05
Aha, yes, he does.
9:08
Mine is the pilot.
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That's where Spongebob gets his, his job at the Krusty Krab because it opened my mind to what Stephen Hillenburg created, you know, when Dorothy wakes up after the house lands and awes.
9:23
That was me watching the pilot that I'd already recorded.
9:26
I didn't get it when I was recording it, but watching that pilot it was, "Wow!"
9:30
Are you saying that your life up until then had been kind of sepia toned and brown?
9:36
Just yeah, dusty and windblown, you know.
9:39
What it turns out that when people turn on their computers they often say, "When did Tom Kenny start voice acting?"
9:48
I kind of, um, began my career in stand-up where I did a lot of characters and things like that and then sketch comedy with The Edge and Mr. Show and, you know, it all kind of led towards just the, that pure theater of the mind where in cartoons if you can sound like the character you can be the character and that's, that's really freeing to not have, not have any of this.
10:06
When is Tom Kenny's birthday?
10:14
My birthday, July 13, 1962.
10:14
When did Tom Kenny start voicing Spongebob?
10:14
Uh, let's see, we did the pilot in 1997 and went to series in 1999 and now it's, uh, 2021, so Spongebob has been a part of my life for at least what, two-thirds?
10:26
Yeah, maybe, I don't know, I'm not good with fractions.
10:31
Nobody becomes an actor because they're great at math.
10:32
When did Tom Kenny stop voicing Spongebob?
10:36
Well, um, today I'm announcing my retirement.
10:40
Um, thanks, Bill, for, no, I'm never gonna stop voicing Spongebob, I hope.
10:48
Um, I never want to retire, I love what I do and Spongebob brings so much positivity and fun and great people like Bill and everybody else on the show, creativeness, creativity.
10:48
I'm still recording Spongebob.
10:48
Maybe, hopefully they're not just being nice to me and then dumping my, my recordings and bringing in another guy.
10:48
This one is called, "Is Bill Fagerbakke the first one?"
11:03
Is Bill Fagerbakke nice?
11:08
Oh, well, I try to be.
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I think it's important to be nice to our fellow humans, so I do my best.
11:13
It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice.
11:16
Yeah, I can say Bill Fagerbakke is very nice.
11:23
One of the nicest people ever.
11:23
He never phones it in, he always brings his A-game and, uh, and that's no lie.
11:23
Is Bill Fagerbakke in Coach?
11:23
I would think you could afford first class by now.
11:23
First class, tonight.
11:23
Is Bill Fagerbakke?
11:34
That was me.
11:34
That I was living in New York and, uh, got that, uh, job and, uh, nine years later, yeah, I was a full-time resident in California and there's still people, in fact, we ran, we ran into somebody with somebody who was interviewing us or something the other day that had just put it together that you, that's right, we're on Coach, right?
11:53
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:53
And then they're like, "Wait, what?"
11:55
And you're like, "Wow, who doesn't know that?"
11:57
But, but this guy didn't and he, uh, it made him very happy.
12:00
It was nice to watch.
12:05
Is Bill Fagerbakke and Tom Kenny friends?
12:05
Oh, I think so.
12:05
As far as I'm concerned, we're friends.
12:08
Frenemies?
12:08
Would you say we're friends?
12:12
Is Bill Fagerbakke on Cameo?
12:12
So Cameo, of course, being the service where people pay you to do greetings and shout outs for birthdays and Bar Mitzvahs and things.
12:17
Who knows, maybe someday, but no, I, I am not.
12:20
It's crazy, like, during the pandemic, like we're just recording all the time and there's multiple Spongebob series and projects plus all the other non-Spongebob stuff, so it's like I feel like I'm, I'm up in my cave.
12:32
And you're Bill, you're in your cave enough.
12:36
I do enough greetings just through people I know and friends of friends and stuff.
12:44
Is Bill Fagerbakke on Instagram?
12:41
No, I'm not on social media.
12:44
I am just out of the loop.
12:47
My social media is the texting I do with the people I know and my friends and family.
12:55
I'm not on social media either.
12:55
I, I've never, I've never tweeted, if people find that mind-blowing.
12:59
Bill, people just expect that of actors now, you're supposed to be a one-man PR department and I just, uh, I'm too busy screaming.
13:04
Hey, all you Googlers, we appreciate the Googling, thank you, internet, stay wired.
13:14
Oh, that was smart, he's smart, you.