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Like everyone else, the SpongeBob SquarePants cast were initially afraid of Mr. Krabs voice actor Clancy Brown
The SpongeBob cast found themselves intimidated by Mr. Krabs voice actor Clancy Brown. He played Lex Luthor opposite Superman, after all.
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Clancy Brown has faced down mobsters, serial killers, and Superman himself. Is it any wonder that other actors are intimidated by him? For the past 25 years, Brown has voiced Mr. Krabs, the greedy but loveable fast food manager on SpongeBob SquarePants. While Brown has a close relationship with his castmates, the actors admitted that they were initially intimidated by him.
During a SpongeBob SquarePants anniversary panel at New York City Comic Con, the cast spoke about how they initially feared (yet respected) Clancy Brown. “This keeps coming up Clancy, about how everyone was terrified of you,” Tom Kenny said. “Yes, apparently,” Brown replied with a smile.
“Only at first,” Douglas Lawrence Osowski meekly admitted.
“Except me! I was like, he’s a wimp! That guy is a wuss! I could beat him up! Come on,” Kenny joked.
When pressed on the matter, Kenny admitted it didn’t quite go down that way. “No, no, I didn’t say that. But later I found out how everybody was so intimidated by Clancy. They’re like, ‘That guy is scary.’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t know, he seemed nice to me.’ But people still have PTSD from the first time they met Clancy,” Kenny recalled.
“They don’t want to get Shawshanked,” Bill Fagerbakke joked, alluding to Brown’s role in The Shawshank Redemption.
In fairness to the SpongeBob cast, Clancy Brown can seem a bit scary. Have you seen him in Dexter: New Blood or The Penguin? Mr. Krabs is one crustacean you don’t want to cross.
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