Monday Mix-Up: ‘Family Guy’ meets ‘The Incredible Hulk’
While the rest of you were watching the Golden Globes, Seth McFarlane was going back to mining his childhood for laughs. Boy, it sure seems like that new Hulk TV series is getting more and more inevitable, ain’t it?
Useless trivia/weird coincidence of the day: the narration of the original credits were done by Ted Cassidy, who, although best known for saying “You rang?” as Lurch in The Addams Family TV series, had other connections to Marvel Comics– he was the voice of the Thing in the Fantastic Four animated series from 1978, and the voice of Galactus in the series before that. And if that’s not enough comics work, he also did the voices for Black Manta and Brainiac in Challenge Of The Super Friends.
Don’t forget that Cassidy had another Thing connection besides voicing the Marvel one. Cassidy often “lent a hand” on the show by being “Thing.” (It would’ve been so easy to set up an X-rated joke there–and given the “Family Guy” episode, it wouldn’t have been out of place.)
Also, I have to credit my ears. When the new jingle introduces the Channel 5 News team, my first thought was of Helen Reddy, but then I figured that it was just Alex Borstein. But the more I listened to it, the more I was certain it was Helen Reddy. And sure enough, Reddy’s name appeared in the credits.