Here's a classic commercial for Parkay Margarine. The man on-screen is Vic Tayback, who is best known for his role on the long-running sitcom, Alice. The voice from the little margarine tub is Michael Bell, who will be among the participants in a Cartoon Voice Panel I'm hosting one week from today (on July 22) at the Comic-Con International in San Diego at 2 PM. Mr. Bell has had an impressive career as an on-camera actor but we don't care about that. We care about his countless voiceover jobs over the years. He was Plastic Man. He was Opus on the Bloom County cartoon special. He was about eight Transformers and four or five G.I. Joes. He was many a Smurf. And as you can hear below, he was a tub of margarine. He'll tell you all about it at the con.
