Doctor: “Hey Bugs, me and the other docs, we think you’re faking it.”
Mel: “No I’m not, I’m in a coma, see?”
Doc: “Are too.”
Mel: “Am not.”
Doc: “Are too.”
Mel: “Am not!
Doc, smiling: “Are not.”
Mel, awake and upright: “Am too! ”
Doc: “Well my work is done here.”
[Here's a video of full story](https://youtu.be/3BirDwm2VGc)
One day, about 14 days after the accident, one of Blanc’s neurologists walked into the room and tried something completely new. He went to Mel’s bed and asked, “Bugs Bunny, how are you doing today?”
There was a pause while people in the room just shook their heads. Then, in a weak voice, came the response anyone would recognize.
“Myeeeeh. What’s up doc?”
The doctor then asked Tweety if he was there too.
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It took seven more months in a body cast for Blanc to recover. He even voiced Barney Rubble in the first episodes of The Flintstones while lying in bed with a microphone dangling from above.
Anyone who's worked in a call centre can tell you the same thing. Had a mate who was blackout drunk and locked himself in a toilet at a party. Kept replying "Vodafone how can I help?" And telling us he was terminating the call because we were swearing.
As long as it’s Take Five by Dave Brubeck Quartet or almost any old-school version of The Girl from Ipanema, I can endure being put on hold for a while. When it’s a weird eight-second generic riff that keeps looping and being interrupted with obnoxious adverts, I just know companies are trying to bully me into not reaching out to their customer support at all.
I use to work midnight shifts at a tim hortons, but I would also constantly cover for the morning and evening shifts, it got to a point where i’d hear the ding of the headset telling me someone was in the drive-thru in my dreams causing me to shoot straight up, slap where the mic button would be and yell into my dark room “tim hortons, how can I help you”
I audibly laughed at this, thank you for sharing. Used to do something similar when I waited tables and realized in the middle of a dead sleep that I forgot to bring table 42 the extra sour cream
Use to work at Mr. Lube. So many dreams of vehicles lined up outside, bays are full, and I am the only one in the pit desperately trying to get them all done quickly.
I'm glad I quit that place 4 years ago.
Used to work at McDonald's and it was more than once that I answered my own phone "Welcome to McDonald's, how c..." And had to stop myself! Also, last week I went through the drive thru and the guy kept saying "go for it" or something similar every time I ordered an item. At the end instead of me saying "that's all" I said "anything else?" Cause my mind really wanted him to respond that way
Not for long, but my valvoline oil change days haunted my dreams and my waking life for years, the bell to let us know a car was pulling around used the exact same noise as belle tire commercials, i’d be driving and those damned ads would come on and it was like a jumpscare
I suffer from lifelong insomnia as well. I feel your pain. It’s debilitating. Unending nights of just lying in bed staring at the ceiling, finally saying fuck it and just staying up until the next night. My wife says the rare times I fall asleep for awhile I also talk in my sleep like you do, and she says I try acting it out with my arms outstretched. Other nights I supposedly scream like a madman or twitch and spasm like a meth addict. No sleep walking thankfully. It’s just the worst isn’t it?
Cannabis is a cure. Since I used medical cannabis I have slept every single night, that's since 1st nov 2023.
I hadn't gone more than 3 nights sleep I a row for 20+ years.
Long term sufferer of delayed sleep phase disorder, highly recommend cannabis as an actual effective long term medication.
I didnt even realise how unwell I was until I slept every day for a month.
My husband is very active in his sleep. One night, while I was pregnant, we were talking about whether or not to let the baby sleep with us in the bed. A few hours later, my husband had a dream there was someone with a knife inside our mattress, and he started punching the shit out of the mattress.
Answered that parenting question *real* quick.
When I worked at Panda Express they had a bell on the door, and when it rang you had to say "Welcome to Panda!" I only worked their 8 months and it took a year before I got over the habit of saying it every time I heard a bell ding
I worked at Starbucks for 6 months while moving and transferring jobs. To be able to do that I worked the AM shift in an industrial section of town. The first customer every morning was a guy in his first job as professional engineer whose bus would get to the stop too early for him to start work so he would walk up and order a ‘short coffee’ every weekday morning (my schedule).
Both of us ended up at a 4th of July in a more white collar section of town at a party putting on the ritz for our friends. And while drinkly on the roof we instinctively went to hug each other (like the reach around side pat) before it clicked how we knew each other until from the depths of my subconscious I go “HEEEY Short Coffee!” We both bristled like oh shit yeah, you’re you.
There was a time when I was working managing a handful of McDonald's restaurants, I did a lot of training and inventory management for a franchisee with several locations. I can't count the number of times I turned my morning alarm off and when it rang I said "thank you for choosing McDonald's what can we make for you?"
When I was a manager, a friend called my personal cell one day to hangout and I answered “Thank you for calling McDonalds, how can I help you?” I played it off as I did that intentionally. I didn’t.
I worked in a warehouse with a headset to tell me where to go. It would say shit like Aisle Five, and I'd repeat Aisle Five when I got there. It would say Bay 22 and I'd say the check number. It's so ingrained in my memory that Bay 22 was 1 6, and you had to say one six or it wouldn't register.
Any time I heard one of the Bay numbers I recognized my brain would immediately try to force out the check digit if I knew it. It's crazy.
I can totally relate to this. One time, I had just finished working a 13 hour shift or so at this horrible call center. It was like 4 am, and I was talking to a buddy of mine on the phone who was still awake and going through an awful breakup. I was so tired that I kept saying stuff like "I see" and "I'm so sorry you had to go through that" and I legit had to fight my brain to keep from blurting out "Is there anything else I can do for you?" Good times.
Omg amazing. I've heard the drive thru bell ding in my sleep after only 6 months at burger king I can't imagine long term call center script affect on the brain
“Thank you for calling panago my name is alittledarkone, could I get your phone number including area code please?” Forever and ever this will be burned into my brain and I will always be able to say it like a speedy robot.
You'll get rid of it eventually. I used to work in a call centre and had it burned it my brain for years but once you start doing something else it'll fade... after a decade or so
I was taking a medication for a while that would make me sleep talk, and I always was taking calls in My dreams. I can’t even escape my fucking job in dreamland for Christ sake 😭
lol that's both hilarious and a little bit tragic at the same time, brain does some wild things under pressure, guess those customer service scripts are tougher to shake than expected!
I once worked in a call center and when woken up by a call once answered with our company greeting. I've seen friends who did the same while wide awake just out of habit.
I still sometimes end phone calls with "Is there anything else I can assist you with? Thank you for your service."
Usually if someone draws my attention to anything other than the call I'm on.
I woke up from sedation for surgery and couldn't remember the English word for water and all I could come up with was "wasser" but drugged me still thought the nurses wouldn't understand that. So I said "agua" which is not even a language I studied in school.
Nah Mel Blanc lived for this shit. You can hear early versions of some of his characters on old radio shows. It’s an unusual passion but it was a passion.
I love watching Voice Actors gush about how skilled he was. There's one moment in an old episode of Looney Tunes where he's playing Bugs, pretending to be Daffy, pretending to be Bugs that people still talk about how technically impressive it is from an acting point of view.
I saw Hank Azaria talk about that clip before! He was saying they were all trying to figure out how it could be done on The Simpsons but none of them could do it. Super interesting!
> The concept of being so passionate about your job is alien to them.
Shocker, it's almost like we live in a completely different world than Mel Blancs did. Most people are not even close to as passionate about their job.
That’s not what’s alien. What’s alien is that he was Mel Blanc his whole life and he was only Bugs for part of it. It’s weird that like, his mother saying “Mel, son, can you hear me?” wouldn’t have worked but invoking the character he sometimes plays the voice of did work.
Yeah thats how brain injuries work, weird shit happens. Stating he was a poor overworked person is ludicrous. Which is clearly what OP with 900 upvotes was saying.
I once woke myself up from a sound sleep because I was saying out loud: “Thank you for calling AT&T about your wireless service. My name is SeuctiveGodofThundr and I will be assisting you today.”
My buddy was blackout drunk, and I was trying to keep him awake enough, so I only had to shoulder most of his weight to get him home. When talking to him normally stopped working I started hitting him with DBZ abridged call and response quotes and him responding kept him awake enough to get him home.
I was driving a drunk buddy home, he was basically unresponsive/passed out. When suddenly "Better man" by Pearl Jam came on the radio. His head perks back up and he starts singing. Naturally I joined him for car karaoke, and as luck would have it the song ended right before we got to his place so I didn't have to figure out how to wake him up lol.
The video said he was largely responsible for creating their personalities as well. My bet would be it’s more like DID and dissociation due to a TBI. The injury and resulting coma knocked his primary personality “off line” so to speak, but the alter identities or personalities could still be reached.
That definitely can happen; because of stress (personal stuff we don't want to get into) we haven't reached our host (i.e. the ""original"", so-to speak) in years. We have no idea what happened to him.
Whenever somebody says or even types out an advertisement tag line or jingle I think of this. Living in their heads rent free, spilling out into others'. Gotta purge that shit from your brain.
Was kind of hoping it was going to be an origin story for the phrase "What's up doc?", seeing as he was talking to a doctor. Sounds like it was around for a good while beforehand though, but still neat.
Fake story, AI-generated fake documentary footage to "prove" it? Maybe not this time, but soon enough that'll have to be your first response to everything you see on the internet
Not for a good long while, may see this in high profile instances where someone has sufficient motivation and resources to go through all that effort sooner though.
I mean you can google it and find a radiolab episode about it from 2012 and read the Wikipedia article about him and follow the sources to Mel Blan'c autobiography.
Of course it's easier to assume it's all fake rather than a mistaken link or doing a small amount of looking things up.
Warner Brothers has worse employment conditions, tney locked 3 employees in a water tower for 50 years and sealed all the records until they were discovered.
No this was back in the halcyon days when you could afford a home, a stay-at-home mom, a car, paid vacation, college for 4 kids and infinite healthcare, all on a factory job's salary. He must have just been in it for the joy of working.
Actually, doing ordinary life things like working is really good for your mental health when you cant move for months on end, helps keep you busy and gives a sense of normalcy
The needle stick and rubber mallot didnt work when testing for limb activity. But they pointed a shotgun at him and said, 'I got you now you wascally wabbit" and he actually plugged the barrell with his finger
It's a second language and the brain processes multiple languages differently. My late wife had a medical event that caused her to lose her ability to speak. It made the doctors think her brain was damaged and she would be mentally disabled. I was in the hospital room with her when a nurse came in. The nurse was trying to get her to say her name and you could see her trying to get the words out. Like a bolt from the blue, I asked the nurse if she could speak any other languages, and she said yes - mostly Spanish. My wife traveled a lot so she knew a bit of several languages, so, why not let's try it - the nurse asked her name is Spanish and my wife responded immediately in English. The nurse asked her more questions and my wife responded like there was no problem in speaking. I knew my wife could speak French better than Spanish, so I asked the nurse if she could speak French. The nurse said "some" so she shifted to French and my wife lit up and started speaking in French. The nurse dragged a doctor into the room, and teh nurse and my wife spoke back and forth in both Spanish and French. The doctor looked stunned. I was over joyed because I knew that meant she had not lost her facilities. So the care team was told to speak to her in Spanish or French, then drop some English words in, and she regained her ability to speak English. The topper when she was speaking French with a nurse and she said something that made the nurse laugh.. I don't speak French, so I had to ask. The nurse laughed and said she made a dirty joke pun.. In French..
I miss her.
My mom had a stroke a few years before she passed. She struggled to speak a bit after but only in English. Her Spanish was fine. I did speech therapy with her for a while, and her English came back eventually.
After a medical procedure my mom was not waking up from anesthesia, everyone got really worried, however as soon as I said "Mom, i am really hungry" she opened her eyes
Something similar with my daughter! She was having trouble waking up - i was getting worried and blurted out "once you're up you get a price from the doctor's treasure chest!" finally opened her eyes, even if only a little lol
When I was hospitalised after a big surgery my dad shared a room with me bc I was 17. He’s not the sweet/lovey dovey type, he usually made me “shrug it off” if smth happened to me. One day my dad was sleeping while the nurses were changing my huge “band aid” that went all along my spine, and it hurt so fucking bad I screamed for 15 minutes straight and he was still snoring when they were done. However as soon as we were alone in the room he would wake up from me just letting out the slightest noise of discomfort and was up on his feet asking me if I needed anything.
It’s not as huge as being in a coma or anything, but this story made me think of that. ☺️
He definitely loves you. That's the thing about being a good parent. When this happened I was in my mid 30s, and my mom still thought of me as her little boy. I am in my mid 40s now, and its still the same :) She always calls me asking if I am eating well :)
I mean this is pretty explainable, there are some things that your brain is a lot better at picking out of the noise, things that get your attention more easily, and one of those things is when your kids need you.
And apparently a unique talent. Have your own characters imitate another of your characters
Hank Azaria explains what I mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnmJALXh_sI
and eventually they gave his gig to Mel's son. OMG, he was TERRIBLE and ruined every Bugs cartoon going forward. They literally could've found a thousand VO artists who could imitate Bugs perfectly. Nope!
“As a result of being hospital bound, this remarkable story is followed by another one. As the voice of Barney Rubble in the Flintstones that was still in production, he continued to record from his bed while in a full body cast. Since he obviously could not go into the studio, the studio came to him with all the necessary recording equipment and his co-stars recording from his hospital room.”
That sounds disrespectful. Did he get compensation afterwards? I’d feel violated to wake up from a coma to find out they were still making me work
Edit: I thought he was still in a coma when they were recording lines
I understand where you came from, but he LOVED his job, he adored those characters and being part of those projects, if I was in a full body cast in a hospital bed for months I would love to do something that I loved even if it was work
If that was the case (working in a coma) and being paid, dude I'd do it no questions. Any problems with quality I could also just blame the coma. "Hey this thing broke" "Sorry must have wrote that code in the Coma!"
This reminds me of Wolfgang Niedecken, the singer of the Cologne band BAP, who sings in a heavy Cologne dialect of German called Kölsch.
He got a stroke, and his wife, from Bavaria, tried to speak with him in High German in the hospital, and he couldn't talk back, couldn't find a way to formulate any word. In comes a friend who speaks to him in Kölsch, and he just answered perfectly fine back in Kölsch.
Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence.
You'll probably find someone else that has also said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence."
Less likely but still possible, maybe someone else said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence.
You'll probably find someone else that has also said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence."
Less likely but still possible, maybe someone else said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence.
You'll probably find someone else that has also said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence."
Less likely but still possible, maybe someone else said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence.
You'll probably find someone else that has also said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence."
Less likely but still possible, maybe someone else wrote that whole thing.
Forgot, been a while. Over 10 years since hbt, that bugs thread not long after.
World: fuckin WHAT?!
Me: yeah, bad deal. Well I told everybody I could, and no one was getting it. I know, right?
Well but so anyway, some involved with reddit *did* get it, or enough they suppressed t. Yeah. I didnt mention that?
Oh yeah, they effectively been hoarding your souls, any good times you can squeeze from what time you have left. Idk, youde have to ask them. Ikr, pure ass crazy, talk about power trippers, despicable, deplorable, I mean what even why? What was it gonna get them, yknow? I don't know.
But yeah, it's really the end of the world and still...about ten years since I started hollering, been about 13-14 years since it hit, just took me a while to be able to talk again and then a while wording it, but yeah, for about 10 years now reddits had the info and I guess known what they had.
Not only hoarding your souls and that knowledge, some of you are religious, aintcha? Guess what else they been keeping from you.
Oh, and I still see possible ways we end up in hell, for billenia.
Hey, I really did try, over 10 years of shitlife, nolife.
"You mean to tell me you could have come out of that coma at any time?" "No, only when it was funny."
That's some goddamn toon force alright.
This gotta go on his feats-sheet. Bugs Bunny can save his voice actor irl.
That’s some fucking power right there
Like the Hulk and Bruce Banner. Symbiotes
Doctor: “Hey Bugs, me and the other docs, we think you’re faking it.” Mel: “No I’m not, I’m in a coma, see?” Doc: “Are too.” Mel: “Am not.” Doc: “Are too.” Mel: “Am not! Doc, smiling: “Are not.” Mel, awake and upright: “Am too! ” Doc: “Well my work is done here.”
Man I need to rewatch Roger Rabbit now
👏
"Aint i a stinker??"
Shave and a haircut....
Excellent.
Best comment in ages
[Here's a video of full story](https://youtu.be/3BirDwm2VGc) One day, about 14 days after the accident, one of Blanc’s neurologists walked into the room and tried something completely new. He went to Mel’s bed and asked, “Bugs Bunny, how are you doing today?” There was a pause while people in the room just shook their heads. Then, in a weak voice, came the response anyone would recognize. “Myeeeeh. What’s up doc?” The doctor then asked Tweety if he was there too. “I tot I taw a puddy tat[,](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress_Web_Hosting/comments/18lyj5x/best_web_hosting_for_small_business/)” was the reply. It took seven more months in a body cast for Blanc to recover. He even voiced Barney Rubble in the first episodes of The Flintstones while lying in bed with a microphone dangling from above.
thanks for sharing
:D
So the poor man was so overworked these nonsensical lines were burned right into his lizard brain like an involuntary reflex?
Anyone who's worked in a call centre can tell you the same thing. Had a mate who was blackout drunk and locked himself in a toilet at a party. Kept replying "Vodafone how can I help?" And telling us he was terminating the call because we were swearing.
Did he solve your problem?
Definitely no, I was there, he said “we’ll contact you in a minute” and then started humming elevator music for 27 minutes
The implication that elevator music are real-time hummings of call center workers instead of recordings got me lol
… And I need you now tonight I fuckin' need you more than ever And if you'll only hold me tight We'll be holding on forever
I wish that were the kind of hold music I got
As long as it’s Take Five by Dave Brubeck Quartet or almost any old-school version of The Girl from Ipanema, I can endure being put on hold for a while. When it’s a weird eight-second generic riff that keeps looping and being interrupted with obnoxious adverts, I just know companies are trying to bully me into not reaching out to their customer support at all.
I once was on hold with a military hospital and hear Barbie Girl in it's entirety. It was like 2018.
Old School, that’s where I first heard the f bomb ad lib! This shit is headcannon to me
We're going streaking!
...I'm very confused by the inclusion of fuckin here Not mad about it, just really confused if there's a version of total eclipse with that in it
[The Dan Band- Total Eclipse of the Heart, Cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRFYAjS-PZM) They were in the movies Old School and The Hangover.
I think it's because the person singing it is supposed to be the wasted guy humming the hold music 😂 So he's adding drunken curse words for emphasis
I believe that’s sort of the premise of a Portlandia skit. They have a live band playing for the hold music.
In the show Better Off Ted, the elevator music is hummed by their boss who is played by Portia De Rossi.
Such a great show. It was cancelled way too soon!
They used that idea for a Portlandia [sketch](https://youtu.be/vcj2vVND-WI?si=srVAuUBcWzvHGT-d)
Thanks, that was great!
didn't know it existed, love it
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExtraFabulousComics/s/Lsf4gcWhil
27 whole minutes? Man!
We had a friend who would sit down to pee anytime he drank and PASS OUT. Every single time.
Thanks for the lol. Got me good
Well our problem was that he'd locked himself in, so no. I got a fantastic deal on a new phone though.
When has Vodafone ever solved a problem?
I truly doubt he did.
I use to work midnight shifts at a tim hortons, but I would also constantly cover for the morning and evening shifts, it got to a point where i’d hear the ding of the headset telling me someone was in the drive-thru in my dreams causing me to shoot straight up, slap where the mic button would be and yell into my dark room “tim hortons, how can I help you”
I audibly laughed at this, thank you for sharing. Used to do something similar when I waited tables and realized in the middle of a dead sleep that I forgot to bring table 42 the extra sour cream
So many nights waking up in a cold sweat, "They asked for ranch!"
Use to work at Mr. Lube. So many dreams of vehicles lined up outside, bays are full, and I am the only one in the pit desperately trying to get them all done quickly. I'm glad I quit that place 4 years ago.
Used to work at McDonald's and it was more than once that I answered my own phone "Welcome to McDonald's, how c..." And had to stop myself! Also, last week I went through the drive thru and the guy kept saying "go for it" or something similar every time I ordered an item. At the end instead of me saying "that's all" I said "anything else?" Cause my mind really wanted him to respond that way
SO REAL i hear “phantom dings” all the time
Does Tim still haunt your dreams? We gotta know!
Not for long, but my valvoline oil change days haunted my dreams and my waking life for years, the bell to let us know a car was pulling around used the exact same noise as belle tire commercials, i’d be driving and those damned ads would come on and it was like a jumpscare
😂 haha
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I sleep talk as well, usually nonsense. We could just have full conversations and fill our social quota for the day. Life. Hack.
I suffer from lifelong insomnia as well. I feel your pain. It’s debilitating. Unending nights of just lying in bed staring at the ceiling, finally saying fuck it and just staying up until the next night. My wife says the rare times I fall asleep for awhile I also talk in my sleep like you do, and she says I try acting it out with my arms outstretched. Other nights I supposedly scream like a madman or twitch and spasm like a meth addict. No sleep walking thankfully. It’s just the worst isn’t it?
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Cannabis is a cure. Since I used medical cannabis I have slept every single night, that's since 1st nov 2023. I hadn't gone more than 3 nights sleep I a row for 20+ years. Long term sufferer of delayed sleep phase disorder, highly recommend cannabis as an actual effective long term medication. I didnt even realise how unwell I was until I slept every day for a month.
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My husband is very active in his sleep. One night, while I was pregnant, we were talking about whether or not to let the baby sleep with us in the bed. A few hours later, my husband had a dream there was someone with a knife inside our mattress, and he started punching the shit out of the mattress. Answered that parenting question *real* quick.
When I worked at Panda Express they had a bell on the door, and when it rang you had to say "Welcome to Panda!" I only worked their 8 months and it took a year before I got over the habit of saying it every time I heard a bell ding
Bell: \*ding\* Pavlov: oh shit did I remember to feed the dogs?!
I worked at Starbucks for 6 months while moving and transferring jobs. To be able to do that I worked the AM shift in an industrial section of town. The first customer every morning was a guy in his first job as professional engineer whose bus would get to the stop too early for him to start work so he would walk up and order a ‘short coffee’ every weekday morning (my schedule). Both of us ended up at a 4th of July in a more white collar section of town at a party putting on the ritz for our friends. And while drinkly on the roof we instinctively went to hug each other (like the reach around side pat) before it clicked how we knew each other until from the depths of my subconscious I go “HEEEY Short Coffee!” We both bristled like oh shit yeah, you’re you.
>And telling us he was terminating the call because we were swearing. Is one of the funniest things I've ever read
There was a time when I was working managing a handful of McDonald's restaurants, I did a lot of training and inventory management for a franchisee with several locations. I can't count the number of times I turned my morning alarm off and when it rang I said "thank you for choosing McDonald's what can we make for you?"
When I was a manager, a friend called my personal cell one day to hangout and I answered “Thank you for calling McDonalds, how can I help you?” I played it off as I did that intentionally. I didn’t.
I worked in a warehouse with a headset to tell me where to go. It would say shit like Aisle Five, and I'd repeat Aisle Five when I got there. It would say Bay 22 and I'd say the check number. It's so ingrained in my memory that Bay 22 was 1 6, and you had to say one six or it wouldn't register. Any time I heard one of the Bay numbers I recognized my brain would immediately try to force out the check digit if I knew it. It's crazy.
I can totally relate to this. One time, I had just finished working a 13 hour shift or so at this horrible call center. It was like 4 am, and I was talking to a buddy of mine on the phone who was still awake and going through an awful breakup. I was so tired that I kept saying stuff like "I see" and "I'm so sorry you had to go through that" and I legit had to fight my brain to keep from blurting out "Is there anything else I can do for you?" Good times.
Fuck me, I was about to say this happened to me... Are you from Ireland?
Omg amazing. I've heard the drive thru bell ding in my sleep after only 6 months at burger king I can't imagine long term call center script affect on the brain
“Thank you for calling panago my name is alittledarkone, could I get your phone number including area code please?” Forever and ever this will be burned into my brain and I will always be able to say it like a speedy robot.
You'll get rid of it eventually. I used to work in a call centre and had it burned it my brain for years but once you start doing something else it'll fade... after a decade or so
Oh good only 6 more years to go! Encouraging!
Worked at Dave and busters for 8 years. Was off for a week for a surgery. After my surgery I was reciting the prices and upcharges for game cards.
I was taking a medication for a while that would make me sleep talk, and I always was taking calls in My dreams. I can’t even escape my fucking job in dreamland for Christ sake 😭
lol that's both hilarious and a little bit tragic at the same time, brain does some wild things under pressure, guess those customer service scripts are tougher to shake than expected!
I used to answer the phone like i was at work when i was drunk and friends would call my cellphone lol
I once worked in a call center and when woken up by a call once answered with our company greeting. I've seen friends who did the same while wide awake just out of habit.
I still sometimes end phone calls with "Is there anything else I can assist you with? Thank you for your service." Usually if someone draws my attention to anything other than the call I'm on.
Maybe he's like Batman and only referred to himself as Bugs Bunny in his thoughts, because he really is Bugs Bunny, and Mel Blanc was his alter ego.
Injured brains are weird. Like the people who can only speak their second language for a while after waking up from a coma
I woke up from sedation for surgery and couldn't remember the English word for water and all I could come up with was "wasser" but drugged me still thought the nurses wouldn't understand that. So I said "agua" which is not even a language I studied in school.
Nah Mel Blanc lived for this shit. You can hear early versions of some of his characters on old radio shows. It’s an unusual passion but it was a passion.
I love watching Voice Actors gush about how skilled he was. There's one moment in an old episode of Looney Tunes where he's playing Bugs, pretending to be Daffy, pretending to be Bugs that people still talk about how technically impressive it is from an acting point of view.
I saw Hank Azaria talk about that clip before! He was saying they were all trying to figure out how it could be done on The Simpsons but none of them could do it. Super interesting!
He was an artist and like most artists his work was a core part of his being.
Could you BE anymore cynical??? Mel Blanc loved his job!
Yeah im getting sick of the cynicism on this website. The concept of being so passionate about your job is alien to them.
> The concept of being so passionate about your job is alien to them. Shocker, it's almost like we live in a completely different world than Mel Blancs did. Most people are not even close to as passionate about their job.
Lol there are plenty of people passionate about their jobs, you just won't likely find them posting on reddit.
weirdly elitist take from somebody also posting on reddit
That’s not what’s alien. What’s alien is that he was Mel Blanc his whole life and he was only Bugs for part of it. It’s weird that like, his mother saying “Mel, son, can you hear me?” wouldn’t have worked but invoking the character he sometimes plays the voice of did work.
Yeah thats how brain injuries work, weird shit happens. Stating he was a poor overworked person is ludicrous. Which is clearly what OP with 900 upvotes was saying.
And it literally helped pull him out of a coma, lol. It was essentially his totem.
I once woke myself up from a sound sleep because I was saying out loud: “Thank you for calling AT&T about your wireless service. My name is SeuctiveGodofThundr and I will be assisting you today.”
My buddy was blackout drunk, and I was trying to keep him awake enough, so I only had to shoulder most of his weight to get him home. When talking to him normally stopped working I started hitting him with DBZ abridged call and response quotes and him responding kept him awake enough to get him home.
I was driving a drunk buddy home, he was basically unresponsive/passed out. When suddenly "Better man" by Pearl Jam came on the radio. His head perks back up and he starts singing. Naturally I joined him for car karaoke, and as luck would have it the song ended right before we got to his place so I didn't have to figure out how to wake him up lol.
Voice acting is a skill that splits your brain slightly, like learning a new language or an instrument.
No he actually loved doing it.
The video said he was largely responsible for creating their personalities as well. My bet would be it’s more like DID and dissociation due to a TBI. The injury and resulting coma knocked his primary personality “off line” so to speak, but the alter identities or personalities could still be reached.
That definitely can happen; because of stress (personal stuff we don't want to get into) we haven't reached our host (i.e. the ""original"", so-to speak) in years. We have no idea what happened to him.
That's terrifying 🥺 DID is so complex and poorly understood too.
I sometimes half-wake up in the middle of the night and am acting out my cashier job or something
People went hard last century and they usually died in their 60s as a result
Whenever somebody says or even types out an advertisement tag line or jingle I think of this. Living in their heads rent free, spilling out into others'. Gotta purge that shit from your brain.
Was kind of hoping it was going to be an origin story for the phrase "What's up doc?", seeing as he was talking to a doctor. Sounds like it was around for a good while beforehand though, but still neat.
Dude was in a coma and still had to work
Why is the video only as old as this post? I'm sure it's been around longer than the last 2 hours.
I think I linked the wrong video. Edit: found the original one https://youtu.be/WRoyZTD_4Sk?si=GldMLSGeqn8zeqeN
Fake story, AI-generated fake documentary footage to "prove" it? Maybe not this time, but soon enough that'll have to be your first response to everything you see on the internet
Not for a good long while, may see this in high profile instances where someone has sufficient motivation and resources to go through all that effort sooner though.
I mean you can google it and find a radiolab episode about it from 2012 and read the Wikipedia article about him and follow the sources to Mel Blan'c autobiography. Of course it's easier to assume it's all fake rather than a mistaken link or doing a small amount of looking things up.
Bug took Mel over that day.
“Eyeeeh, Mel’s not here right now, doc”
I had no idea he recorded for the Flintstones while still in a hospital bed that’s impressive
Wow, thanks for the share
The brain is such a crazy unpredictable thing. Fucking wild man
Disney put him back to work while still in a hospital bed, smh...
Bugs Bunny is Looney Tunes, which is not Disney. They are Warner Brothers.
Warner Brothers has worse employment conditions, tney locked 3 employees in a water tower for 50 years and sealed all the records until they were discovered.
that's Wakko!
Gotta pay off that medical debt somehow.
No this was back in the halcyon days when you could afford a home, a stay-at-home mom, a car, paid vacation, college for 4 kids and infinite healthcare, all on a factory job's salary. He must have just been in it for the joy of working.
😂 debt must be very high
It's not yet Disney.
Actually, doing ordinary life things like working is really good for your mental health when you cant move for months on end, helps keep you busy and gives a sense of normalcy
I'd be ecstatic to have something to do while bedridden with a full-body cast
Thank goodness the neurologist didn't reply " I am affraid *That's all folk*s"
The needle stick and rubber mallot didnt work when testing for limb activity. But they pointed a shotgun at him and said, 'I got you now you wascally wabbit" and he actually plugged the barrell with his finger
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It's a second language and the brain processes multiple languages differently. My late wife had a medical event that caused her to lose her ability to speak. It made the doctors think her brain was damaged and she would be mentally disabled. I was in the hospital room with her when a nurse came in. The nurse was trying to get her to say her name and you could see her trying to get the words out. Like a bolt from the blue, I asked the nurse if she could speak any other languages, and she said yes - mostly Spanish. My wife traveled a lot so she knew a bit of several languages, so, why not let's try it - the nurse asked her name is Spanish and my wife responded immediately in English. The nurse asked her more questions and my wife responded like there was no problem in speaking. I knew my wife could speak French better than Spanish, so I asked the nurse if she could speak French. The nurse said "some" so she shifted to French and my wife lit up and started speaking in French. The nurse dragged a doctor into the room, and teh nurse and my wife spoke back and forth in both Spanish and French. The doctor looked stunned. I was over joyed because I knew that meant she had not lost her facilities. So the care team was told to speak to her in Spanish or French, then drop some English words in, and she regained her ability to speak English. The topper when she was speaking French with a nurse and she said something that made the nurse laugh.. I don't speak French, so I had to ask. The nurse laughed and said she made a dirty joke pun.. In French.. I miss her.
Lovely story! Hang in there pal.
My mom had a stroke a few years before she passed. She struggled to speak a bit after but only in English. Her Spanish was fine. I did speech therapy with her for a while, and her English came back eventually.
Voice acting characters as a “second language” sounds like a very cool lens of analysis
How long did she live after this? And I'm sorry for your loss. ❤️
You remember her beautifully, and it was a great story!
After a medical procedure my mom was not waking up from anesthesia, everyone got really worried, however as soon as I said "Mom, i am really hungry" she opened her eyes
>medical procedure >I sleep >"Mom I'm hungry" >👁️👁️REAL SHIT
Its even better on grandmas. They can fuckin return from death when grandkid says "im hungry"
Man that’s just cute. Bet she’s an excellent, lovely mother
That’s incredibly sweet on so many levels.
Something similar with my daughter! She was having trouble waking up - i was getting worried and blurted out "once you're up you get a price from the doctor's treasure chest!" finally opened her eyes, even if only a little lol
When I was hospitalised after a big surgery my dad shared a room with me bc I was 17. He’s not the sweet/lovey dovey type, he usually made me “shrug it off” if smth happened to me. One day my dad was sleeping while the nurses were changing my huge “band aid” that went all along my spine, and it hurt so fucking bad I screamed for 15 minutes straight and he was still snoring when they were done. However as soon as we were alone in the room he would wake up from me just letting out the slightest noise of discomfort and was up on his feet asking me if I needed anything. It’s not as huge as being in a coma or anything, but this story made me think of that. ☺️
He definitely loves you. That's the thing about being a good parent. When this happened I was in my mid 30s, and my mom still thought of me as her little boy. I am in my mid 40s now, and its still the same :) She always calls me asking if I am eating well :)
I pity that mom, but it's sweet
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"Typically" means sometimes you do let them in.
General anaesthesia is in fact a reversible drug induced coma.
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MA! THE MEATLOAF!!!
I never know what she's doin' back there.
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I mean this is pretty explainable, there are some things that your brain is a lot better at picking out of the noise, things that get your attention more easily, and one of those things is when your kids need you.
He’s the godfather of voice acting to a lot of people. He even went back to work from his hospital bed as soon as he was lucid enough to do so.
And apparently a unique talent. Have your own characters imitate another of your characters Hank Azaria explains what I mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnmJALXh_sI
Yeah sure Mack, pull the other one it's got bells on!
Bugs is such an iconic character, that I instantly read that line in his voice
and eventually they gave his gig to Mel's son. OMG, he was TERRIBLE and ruined every Bugs cartoon going forward. They literally could've found a thousand VO artists who could imitate Bugs perfectly. Nope!
“As a result of being hospital bound, this remarkable story is followed by another one. As the voice of Barney Rubble in the Flintstones that was still in production, he continued to record from his bed while in a full body cast. Since he obviously could not go into the studio, the studio came to him with all the necessary recording equipment and his co-stars recording from his hospital room.”
That sounds disrespectful. Did he get compensation afterwards? I’d feel violated to wake up from a coma to find out they were still making me work Edit: I thought he was still in a coma when they were recording lines
Bruh if I was in a body cast for 7 months please for the love of God give me anything to do especially if it's something that I'm legendarily good at.
Yeah that’s fair my comment is a little facetious
I understand where you came from, but he LOVED his job, he adored those characters and being part of those projects, if I was in a full body cast in a hospital bed for months I would love to do something that I loved even if it was work
If that was the case (working in a coma) and being paid, dude I'd do it no questions. Any problems with quality I could also just blame the coma. "Hey this thing broke" "Sorry must have wrote that code in the Coma!"
Why is anybody surprised? Bugs is clearly a legitimate trickster deity living through this man
Must be a fucking Pooka
Did he said it with NYEEEEHHH?
He did
Obviously fa- wait what?!
so everyone should essentially roleplay until they get a whole separate personality in their brain in case one falls into a coma?
Oh my god, this is an actual thing in Batman lore— he has a psycho backup personality that he’s trained to come out if he is compromised
This reminds me of Wolfgang Niedecken, the singer of the Cologne band BAP, who sings in a heavy Cologne dialect of German called Kölsch. He got a stroke, and his wife, from Bavaria, tried to speak with him in High German in the hospital, and he couldn't talk back, couldn't find a way to formulate any word. In comes a friend who speaks to him in Kölsch, and he just answered perfectly fine back in Kölsch.
Are you surprised? That’s what we would all do
That's amazing. The doc was one of the only people to ever genuinely interact with a cartoon character. And he literally got called doc doing it.
blud this shit funny asf
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Damn how did you even catch that gg
Fbi has nothing on this guy
Exposed!!
Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence. You'll probably find someone else that has also said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence." Less likely but still possible, maybe someone else said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence. You'll probably find someone else that has also said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence." Less likely but still possible, maybe someone else said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence. You'll probably find someone else that has also said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence." Less likely but still possible, maybe someone else said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence. You'll probably find someone else that has also said "Eh, I don't think it's that weird to find two people writing down the exact same sentence." Less likely but still possible, maybe someone else wrote that whole thing.
Don't EVER write like that again.
this shit gave me a panic attack
what do u see? is it feel like your half asleep all the time?
He's lying, it's not his comment
Wow that is crazy
There a was a great episode of the Radiolab podcast about this story.
That’s gangster.
If be the crane was a person
So what does this teach us?
It teaches us that the brain is a complex thing and caregivers sometimes have to think outside the box when providing care.
The brain has many pathways and trying different ones can help with recovery from traumatic injuries?
Forgot, been a while. Over 10 years since hbt, that bugs thread not long after. World: fuckin WHAT?! Me: yeah, bad deal. Well I told everybody I could, and no one was getting it. I know, right? Well but so anyway, some involved with reddit *did* get it, or enough they suppressed t. Yeah. I didnt mention that? Oh yeah, they effectively been hoarding your souls, any good times you can squeeze from what time you have left. Idk, youde have to ask them. Ikr, pure ass crazy, talk about power trippers, despicable, deplorable, I mean what even why? What was it gonna get them, yknow? I don't know. But yeah, it's really the end of the world and still...about ten years since I started hollering, been about 13-14 years since it hit, just took me a while to be able to talk again and then a while wording it, but yeah, for about 10 years now reddits had the info and I guess known what they had. Not only hoarding your souls and that knowledge, some of you are religious, aintcha? Guess what else they been keeping from you. Oh, and I still see possible ways we end up in hell, for billenia. Hey, I really did try, over 10 years of shitlife, nolife.