Casey Kasem

He also wants to know what happened to the pictures he was supposed to see this week!

Casey Kasem (born Kemal Amin Kasem on April 27, 1932) is an American voice actor. Among other roles, he has been known as Shaggy from Scooby Doo, Robin from Superfriends and Alexander from Josie and the Pussycats. He also had some kind of radio show or something. Chances are you've heard of it.

He really hates it when people dedicate songs to their dead pets. He also hates offensive stereotypes.

Roles

The Transformers cartoon

• Bluestreak
• Cliffjumper
• Doctor Arkeville
• Robot slave ("Chaos")
• Teletraan I

Notes

• Mr. Kasem left the original Transformers cartoon during production of the third season episode "Thief in the Night" because of its depiction of the highly stereotypical Abdul Fakkadi as dictator of made-up Arab state Carbombya. Kasem's family is Lebanese Druze, which is not quite Arab, but zoinks. It's not that he doesn't mind Arabs being portrayed as villains per se; it's just when the villains are the only Arab characters in a story and there are no positive counter-examples that he feels offended. He supposedly didn't have a problem with "Aerial Assault".

• In deference to Mr. Kasem, Doctor Arkeville should be assumed to be a vegetarian. I don't think we have to worry about the Autobots.

External links

• Casey Kasem at the Internet Movie Database