I didnt watch every episode becuase I thought that this show was an insult to black people , but every now and then I turned in and noticed the voice was different and figured it wasnt Murphy , then I looked on here and see 2 actors have done the voice besides Murphy , one being a white guy?
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There are some that say that there was a dispute between Murphy and Fox over unfavorable scheduling of the show and he stopped doing the voice. Others say that he was busy doing a movie project and couldn't juggle the two.
shareThat is weird, I've watched a lot of episodes (though mostly only on Adult Swim), but I've never noticed a different actor. Either the ep's I've seen have all been Eddie Murphy, and the other guys are really good at imitating his voice.
shareI know this is an old thread but I just watched the episode "The HJs", and I noticed that the voice of Thurgood was different. It doesn't feel right :-(
shareAVC: It’s funny that, in Atlantis, you kind of preceded Eddie Murphy, whereas not long before that, you’d sort of succeeded him on The PJ’s.
PM: Yeah, you know, I’ve got this kind of reputation for some reason as doing an Eddie Murphy thing, but I’m not doing Eddie Murphy. I do what Eddie Murphy’s character voice might do, but I don’t do Eddie Murphy. But I got called to come in on The PJ’s because Eddie was in New Jersey and didn’t want to come out for every episode, and if they could find somebody to fill in for him for Thurgood Stubbs, so be it. So they hired me, and then I’d record with the other cast, but I would be in a separate booth, so that if Eddie chose to be in the episode, they could just lift my voice right out.
Eddie’s Thurgood is a lot more nuanced than mine. He’s a genius, first of all, and this was his character that he created. He flat kills it. And I did my best to try and approximate that voice, which I did. I did well. But if you listen to the two, to me, there’s no comparison. I would pick Eddie’s every time. And I know the difference. Mine is far more bombastic and has less subtleties and fluctuations. His has far more. And since he created the character, he knows the character better. But, again, I worked with some amazing talent: Ja’net DuBois, Kevin Michael Richardson, Shawn Michael Howard, James Black, crazy talented voiceover people. It was an amazing experience. I really wish that show had gone on and on, because I thought it was hilarious.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/phil-morris,65746/2/