the VO is clearly tongue in cheek, not "real".

The reporting of the 80s:
VO: "What they lack in grey matter between the ears, they make up for in colour on top" ?!
"It's hard to know who stands a greater chance of contracting an infectuous disease, the punks or the rats"
*rocknroll

Bra-vo!

*clap*
*clap*

>> ^Mavmike:
Wow, I laughed myself to tears when the Demoman lost his 2nd eye! (poor Demo!)
...
10 minutes later I'm still laughing when I watch that part...


When I first saw that part I laughed real good all the way through the video. Then I immediately watched the video 3 more times and nearly laughed myself to tears.

I have to agree though, that the accent is a bit odd sounding. Real Aussie voice-over or faked? The in-game VO's sound better for some reason.

Marilyn Vos Savant was able to recreate similar results with random people - still I love the coincidences.

^ I really like that idea, but what the hell is an iced vovo?

[edit]Ah, iced vo vo.

Artist: Gotan Project
Album: Lunático
Year: 2006
Title: Mi Confesion

(Feat. Koxmoz)

(Apolo Novax)
Proyecto Gotan... desde el Koxmoz para el mundo...si, soy yo… y la voz de mi pensamiento...mis pensamientos... pensamientos del corazón.
Cómo es la clave, cuál el secreto? Para estar en paz por completo, dos pies en la tierra y un relato desde hace rato me tienen sujeto. El mundo es mi suelo, el cielo mi techo, Buenos Aires donde cosecho mis anhelos y mis pasiones, pero solo hay vacío y no estoy satisfecho.
Si hablo de amor... se que la extraño, de mis actos en vida soy dueño, pero me calla el dolor por el daño, es como un sueño dentro de otro sueño. Apuesto a pleno pero de callado, cada uno en la suya, yo ando rayado, sigo esperando sentado... que esta vez el destino no me deje plantado... que no me deje plantado... no nena.
Escuchame bien... no es chamuyo...es amor.

(Chili Parker)
Me la batió un gomía che, la culpa no fue mía, de amor yo no se nada, lo mío es la astronomía, vos sabias bien que yo era un mamarracho, vos lo sabias bien...soy un borracho. Así que ya no me reclames, no me esperes flaca ya no me llames, todos lo saben prefiero ser MC, hasta el farolito de la calle en que nací. Tengo una balada para un loco, que la compuse yo, para mi, porque estoy loco, y eso me provocó que en vos pensase, y así un poema nace. Los más hábiles dejamos pasar los abriles, inmóviles para no quedar como giles, así ya no me enamoro de nuevo... así ya no me enamoro de vos de nuevo.

(Apolo Novax)
Pensamientos del corazón … son mi confesión..."¿que?"... tampoco mi inspiración.
Pensamientos del corazón … son mi confesión..."que se yo, pero sé que no es chamuyo"... tampoco mi inspiración. ( Bis X2)

(Chili Parker)
... y es así, todos tropezamos con la misma piedra.

(Apolo Novax)
No es chamuyo...es amor.

VO is always a tough thing, especially when you are trying to get the Vo and the facial animations to sync up. VO also sounds worse when the lip syncing is not perfect.

There is video of the planes hitting the pentagon.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/16/pentagon.video/index.html

here is after

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2006/05/16/vo.pentagon.911.wusa

Here is a case study

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7012348216203301215&q=Video+flight+77&total=661&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

And if that last one didn't do it for you... then we are just going to have to agree to disagree here.

MySpace

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://lads.myspace.com/videos/myspacetv_vplayer0005.swf" id="vplayer" name="vplayer" bgcolor="#000000" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="m=2055862498&a=0&ap=1&v=2&culture=en-US" height="281" width="350">

query: http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/rss.ashx?type=video&videoID=2055862498

response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss" xmlns:myspace="http://myspace.com/">
<channel>
<title>...</title>
<description>...</description>
<link>...</link>
<lastBuildDate>...</lastBuildDate>
<docs>...</docs>
<generator>...</generator>
<myspace:friendID>...</myspace:friendID>
<item>
<title>...</title>
<pubDate>...</pubDate>
<media:thumbnail url="http://myspace-498.vo.llnwd.net/02055/89/42/2055862498_thumb0.jpg" />
<media:content url="httphttp://content.movies.myspace.com/0020558/89/42/2055862498.flv" type="video/x-flv" medium="video" status="Unknown" duration="127" />
<myspace:mediaID>...</myspace:mediaID>
<myspace:mediaSource>...</myspace:mediaSource>
<myspace:itemID>...</myspace:itemID>
<myspace:itemType>...</myspace:itemType>
<myspace:friendID>...</myspace:friendID>
<myspace:version>...</myspace:version>
<myspace:translatedStrings AddToProfile="..." By="..." Comment="..." MoreFromUser="..." PlayAgain="..." Ratings="..." RemoveFromProfile="..." Views="..." />
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

I guess some of those other sources have been found since MetaCafe.com worked when I did findthumb, but I'll offer this for break.com if you need it:

Where src=http://embed.break.com/MzU4ODU3

GET /Embed/Redirector.aspx?Contentid=MzU4ODU3 HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:14:31 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Location: http://media1.break.com/static/app/v1/global/swf/ghost_player_embed.swf?sVidLoc=http%3a%2f%2fmedia1.break.com%2fdnet%2fmedia%2f2007%2f8%2fchicago
-candy-factory-blown-up.flv&sThumbLoc=http%3a%2f%2fmedia1.break.com%2fdnet%2fmedia%2f2007%2f8%2fchicago-factory-blown-up.jpg&bEmbedded=1&showExpand=0&
contentURL=http%3a%2f%2fview.break.com%2f358857&sShareURL=http%3a%2f%2fview.break.com%2f358857%23TellAFriend&vo&bIsStatsActive=1&bIsReplayStatsActive=
1&volumeControl=20&sStatsUrl=http%3a%2f%2fstats.break.com%2finvoke.txt&debugFlag=1&iSiteID=1&iContentID=358857&autoplay=0&embed=2&contentidencoded=MzU
4ODU3
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 806

<html><head><title>Object moved</title></head><body>
<h2>Object moved to <a href="http://media1.break.com/static/app/v1/global/swf/ghost_player_embed.swf?
sVidLoc=http%3a%2f%2fmedia1.break.com%2fdnet
%2fmedia%2f2007%2f8%2fchicago-candy-factory-blown-up.flv&
sThumbLoc=http%3a%2f%2fmedia1.break.com%2fdnet%2fmedia%2f2007%2f8%2fchicago-factory-blown-up.jpg
&bEmbedded=1&showExpand=0&contentURL=http%3a%2f%2fview.break.com%2f358857%23TellAFriend&vo&bIsStatsActive=1&bIsReplayStatsActi
ve=1&volumeControl=20&sStatsUrl=http%3a%2f%2fstats.break.com%2finvoke.txt&debugFlag=1&iSiteID=1&iContentID=358857&autoplay=0&a
mp;embed=2&contentidencoded=MzU4ODU3">here</a>.</h2>
</body></html>

MySpace seems unlikely also.. (eg #1)
(vid/embed) -> http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=14725309
(thumbnail) --> http://myspace-500.vo.llnwd.net/02049/00/58/2049218500_thumb1.jpg

(eg #2)
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=16324436
http://myspace-876.vo.llnwd.net/02054/67/85/2054095876_thumb1.jpg

http://divx-879.vo.llnwd.net/stage6vid/1350842.divx (direct link -- 872 MB).

I know people always applaude Bill Watterson for not selling out and merchandising his creations (including tv shows), but god damn, I love Calvin & Hobbes and ALWAYS wanted MORE !
this film was a great go at bringing them to life in true Watterson fashion. great job I think (i didn't even mind the Italian VO )
Robot Chicken has a funny take on Calvin in Hobbes too, but in obviously a style of comedy

Great game and intro, but what was with Mr. VO's voice? I think he was trying too hard.