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    Posted: 20 Nov 2018 at 4:51pm

Doesn't the voiceover guy sound like he's a little slow and not that smart? How do they advertise for this job? "Need a voice that sounds like you're borderline retarded?"

I swear I wonder how some of these people get work. They couldn't find anyone with a better voice? Or do companies purposely get annoying people to annoy us? If you met this guy in person, you'd most likely be like, "Please stop talking. No one wants to hear it." Angry
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Yeah!  That guy sounds like he rode the short bus to commercial school.  What I don't get, this commercial has been out for years, What does "Hey, me towel, Sue towel" mean?

Me and you and a dog named Sue?  Confused
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He sounds like he has a stuffy nose and also just took a big hit off a doobie LOL
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote DarkRealmStar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Nov 2018 at 7:45pm
It's a play on "Mi casa es su casa" which is Spanish for "My house is your house," another way of saying, "Make yourself at home."

Gain Guy should've said, "Mi toalla es tu toalla."

Baha Men's "Who let the dogs out?"

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote tikibagger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 Nov 2018 at 3:44am
I addressed this exact thing on a separate forum topic and MAN i hate this bumbling vocal doofus--i think he is a really ugly character actor that used to pop up on sitcoms in his youth. Highly mutable
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Thank you. I made a post about it too but I wasn’t able to describe my hatred for it like you did. You described my feelings for this voiceover perfectly
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according to ute oob....
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440846/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
THIS is the culprit!!
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Originally posted by tikibagger tikibagger wrote:

according to ute oob....
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440846/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
THIS is the culprit!!


I just looked up an interview of his on youtube. It doesn't sound like him at all.
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This guy sounds EXACTLY like the late Lorenzo Music who voiced Garfield and Peter Venkman in the Real Ghostbusters cartoon. If they ever do a reboot of it or make another Garfield movie or TV show they should hire this guy!!
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i don't think hes Garfield--i know my search failed-for some reason its HIDDEN..i can picture the doofus from some shows(probably QUALITY viewing like Saved By The Bell or Single Guy) where he showed up--he seems to have been smacked in the forehead by a 2x4 a few times and WOW-VOCAL TALENT!!
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I did not say he voiced Garfield, I said that Lorenzo Music voiced Garfield, and that the Gain Commercial guy sounds exactly like Lorenzo Music, so now that Lorenzo Music is dead, they should hire the Gain guy to do Garfield.
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"I resemble that remark." --Garfield

But seriously, I don't hear a resemblance between Lorenzo and the Gain guy. Maybe it's the inflection. I agree with the O.P.
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Originally posted by jinkies jinkies wrote:

I did not say he voiced Garfield, I said that Lorenzo Music voiced Garfield, and that the Gain Commercial guy sounds exactly like Lorenzo Music, so now that Lorenzo Music is dead, they should hire the Gain guy to do Garfield.

OR just let Lorenzo lay in peace & NO MORE GARFIELD
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I actually love that guy's voice. Good job Gain!
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Dr Dan said:

"But seriously, I don't hear a resemblance between Lorenzo and the Gain guy. Maybe it's the inflection. I agree with the O.P."

That would be fair enough but agreeing with the OP has nothing to do with whether the Gain guy sounds like the Garfield guy. I think you may have experienced cognitive dissonance whereby your dislike of the Gain guy's voice prevented you from acknowledging that he sounds like Garfield because you likely don't hate the Garfield voice.  So you decided that since you hate the Gain voice, and you don't hate the Garfield voice, they can't possibly be similar. But they ARE very similar, whether you want to acknowledge it consciously, subconsciously, or otherwise. They're not exact, the Gain guy has a bit more of a 'phlegmmy'' tone than the Garfield guy, but take away the phlegm and I doubt anyone would be able to tell the difference in a double-blind test.  
 
Incidentally, I hated Lorenzo Music's voice from the first time I heard it (as Carlton the doorman on Mary Tyler Moore) and for the next 20 years after. Gradually it stopped bothering me, and I can accept it now, which is probably why I can accept the Gain guy as well. 
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Originally posted by jinkies jinkies wrote:

Dr Dan said:
"But seriously, I don't hear a resemblance between Lorenzo and the Gain guy. Maybe it's the inflection. I agree with the O.P."
That would be fair enough but agreeing with the OP has nothing to do with whether the Gain guy sounds like the Garfield guy. I think you may have experienced cognitive dissonance whereby your dislike of the Gain guy's voice prevented you from acknowledging that he sounds like Garfield because you likely don't hate the Garfield voice. <snip>

An interesting article on a related phenomenon, the confirmation bias (which probably everyone has, myself included):
This Article Won't Change Your Mind
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Originally posted by Dr. Dan Dr. Dan wrote:

[QUOTE=jinkies] Dr Dan said:

An interesting article on a related phenomenon, the confirmation bias (which probably everyone has, myself included):
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/-article-wont-change-your-mind/519093/ - This Article Won't Change Your Mind

Wow I was expecting you to come back with a volley of insults, but instead you posted something interesting, well done! Who would have thought the most reasonable people would be found on the "Commercials I Hate" forum??!
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Someone gave me a bunch of shirts that had been washed in Gain. I couldn't get the stench out of them. 
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Originally posted by Sirfidemindblower8 Sirfidemindblower8 wrote:

I actually love that guy's voice. Good job Gain!
hopefully this is ironic OR..
umay bee wee todd id
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Well thanks to COVID I've been stuck inside watching way more TV than I ever have before. Simultaneously, the Gain people seem to have decided to run every commercial with this voiceover guy they have ever made, over and over again. I now absolutely hate the voice and I don't think I'll ever get back to accepting it... Thanks a lot COVID!!
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I hate that guy's voice so much. He sounds like he has brain damage from a head injury.
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Sounds sort of like the voice of Garfield
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His name is Robert Vincent Sims aka The Garden Rebel.
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