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I was a little distracted watching Archer because JZ took a class with the guy how is the Number One Hollywood Voiceover Person For Animal Noises, and he taught her how to properly do a dog panting. And it was exactly the way Kazak was doing it.
(Side note: Laraine Newman is the Number One Hollywood Voiceover Person for doing baby cries. That's her gig.)
Not the Number One guy (I'm pretty sure that is Dee Bradley Baker), but definitely a very good one -- he grew up in a small town in Iowa (or possibly another one of the vowel states) and used to entertain himself on his way home from school by picking a field or backyard that had animals wandering around within earshot, and then practicing their sounds until he hit the one that made everyone on the other side of the fence stop grazing or pecking, lift their heads and look around to see who was missing. And his greatest moment of triumph came the day he did a lost, hungry calf so well that a whole field of usually placid dairy cows looked up anxiously at once.
He was also really good at ineffectual grownups (he claimed that he and his wife could afford a kid and a house pretty much solely on the basis of his ability to yell, "Hey, you kids, you keep out of there!" and then sound like he'd just fallen in a hole or walked into a closed door or taken a frying pan to the head), and had a technique he called The Oscar Winning Drippy Nose.
But his panting dog was genius, it's true.
Well, HIMYM took a turn for the creepy.
Pam Poovey, ISIS Field Agent? DO WANT.
Well, HIMYM took a turn for the creepy.
No lie.
Creepy how?
It turned out, the whole episode took place in Ted's head as he sat in the bar alone and friendless. And it included several possible shorter- and longer-term future scenarios, all of which turned out to be imaginary.
That was all disturbing, in the sense that it made me feel like Ted is much more fucked up than I had previously thought, but then his last time-travel scenario was "if I could go back to that night for real I'd go see your mother" which probably sounded sweet as a concept but, seeing it on screen, it played out as way creepy.
SUPER CREEPY.