Driving in on the toll road this afternoon, I had the radio on and was half-listening to a commercial for some Shell credit card, when I realized (with a start -- which is probably the anti-cliche for the NYT
Metropolitan Diary's overused saw "without skipping a beat") that the voice-over was coming from none other than
Dr. Thaddeus Venture, the ineffectual, developmentally-arrested, amphetamine-addicted scientist-patriarch of
The Venture Brothers cartoon series.
Although the odds of me getting a Shell credit card were already approaching non-existence to begin with, hearing the voice of Dr. Venture as pitchman effectively bumped that down to zero.
As it happens, James Urbaniak, the voice of Doc Venture and others,
mentions the Shell gig in his blog.
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