Watch the clip below and then let us know what you think. Of all the Bill Clinton impressions out there, where does Jim’s rank?

But if you are waiting for the DVD to come to a store near you, it’s going to be a long wait! The DVD is being released exclusively through Shout! which means that there is no plans to put it in stores. But if you want a copy, you can grab it now from Shout! right here.

You can read their product description below:

He goes a hundred miles an hour, he’s green dynamite
His name is Mr. Bumpy, he goes Bump In The Night!

Mr. Bumpy (Jim Cummings) is a wild green guy living under the bed, gobbling up dirty socks, rocking the night away and getting into adventures with his pals Squishington (Rob Paulsen), the neat-freak bathroom monster and Molly Coddle (Gail Matthius), a comfort doll who consoles those in need. A classic Saturday morning cartoon that aired from 1994 to 1995, this claymation program was highly creative and featured fantastic karaoke songs.

This set includes all 26 episodes form the two-season series, including the iconic fan favorite “Night Of The Living Bread”.

Mr. Bumpy is the role Jim Cummings received his Annie Nominations for so you don’t want to miss this classic from his earlier career.

In this series, Jim Cummings M.O.D.O.K. (sometimes written out as MODOK) which is an acronym for Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing.

You can read a review of this DVD release here.

(If anyone has a copy of Iron Man on DVD already, would you mind taking some screenshots of Jim Cummings’ M.O.D.O.K.? I can find versions of him from every version of Iron Man except this one, unfortunately.)

If you order the DVD from Amazon, they are offering several discounts and combination offers so you should be able to get a really good deal.

He and Launchpad aren’t even speaking?

Gosalyn’s miserable in a new school?

Darkwing Duck hasn’t been seen for a year and a half while Quackerjack is trying to get all the old villains back together?

That’s how things will start out in the newest issues of the Darkwing Duck comic series coming this June. The scribes behind this newest series are the same ones behind the popular Muppet comic books so fans of the show have a lot to look forward to. Read an interview with the creators of the comics for more info here.

If you don’t have a local comic book shop or simply prefer when they reissue the comics in longer lasting paperback, you can preorder the comics in paperback format on Amazon. Or stop by your local comic book shop this June and pick up a copy.

Either way, it sounds great to me as a fan of DW and gang!

In a rural and remote corner of Felucia, Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka form an uneasy alliance with four deadly bounty hunters to protect a local village from Hondo Ohnaka and his band of pirates. But Hondo – always the opportunist and never willing to play fair – has plans of his own in “Bounty Hunters,” an all-new episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS airing at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT Friday, April 2 on Cartoon Network.

Though he may be unprincipled, corrupt, self-serving and deceitful, Hondo represents a return to classic Star Wars archetypes – including rogues and scoundrels such as Han Solo and Lando Calrissian. These intergalactic icons forged their reputations – within that galaxy far, far away as well as among fans – by playing by their own rules and distorting perceptions of right and wrong.

“People want to be seduced. People like a rascal. People like pirates…sort of, as long as they’re not totally pillaging and wreaking havoc,” says Jim Cummings, the voice of Hondo in The Clone Wars. “There’s a certain fascination we have with these bad guys – bikers, pirates, scoundrels, all the Robin Hoods of the world. And Hondo’s so much fun; I really dig him. He’s not a master villain, but he won’t be growing a halo anytime soon, either. The lovable rogue, the lovable rascal. You don’t mind inviting him over for dinner, but you’d better count the silverware after he leaves.”

Though he tends to cause problems for the Jedi Knights and the heroes of the Republic, Hondo is nonetheless a relatively sympathetic baddie – despite his penchant for double-crossing, cheating, back-stabbing and outright wickedness. Besides, that’s all just part of his charm.

“Hondo’s P.T. Barnum. He’s got a little Charles Bronson in him. He’s Harry Mudd, always glad-handing – and the next thing you know, you’ve lost your watch. He’s a conjurer and a maneuverer, and he gets the job done. If he has to a do a little heavy lifting now and then, so be it – but rather than go the way of the bicep, he prefers to develop a little craft. At the end of the day, when everyone counts their stacks, his will be a little bigger than yours – and you won’t even know how it happened. He’s an opportunist, but if there’s a nickel holding up a dime, he’ll move on. He weighs his results against the effort it takes to get them; if one outweighs the other…NEXT!”

Cummings – whose voice-acting credits run the gamut from Winnie the Pooh (and Tigger, too) to Robot Chicken and comic book superheroes – found himself reveling in the Clone Wars production process, which has allowed him to fully articulate, expand and embellish what might otherwise have remained a mere supporting role in the Star Wars galaxy.

“The process in Clone Wars is so great; I just love it. It’s unique, because there aren’t too many productions that put the whole cast in the room. It’s so rare. Sometimes there’s a production assistant, but they’re just reading the lines off the page – like a robot. But when you have other actors in the room and you’re really working it, you can bounce back and forth. It makes the process what it should be and what it is – which is a live, organic thing. If you can come up with something within the story, which contributes to the story, that’s always welcome. This is gumbo where everyone gets to put in an ingredient. Coming from the theater especially, coming from a million plays – well, it’d be tough to do Okalahoma standing on the stage alone. This is simply so much more rewarding.”

As for honing in on Hondo’s signature voice – that cool and confident combination of snake-oil salesman and hardened mercenary – Cummings looked to the icons of his childhood for inspiration.

“There are indistinct accents that are familiar, to an extent, but still sound foreign – like when Roman centurions have British accents in gladiator movies. It lets the audience know that this is an Other, and yet we can still identify. It’s relatable,” he says. “Coming up with Hondo’s voice, I looked to one guy who had always fascinated me: Yul Brynner. As a kid, I’d think, ‘Where the HECK is this guy from?’ But you could buy him as the King of Siam, or as a cowboy in The Magnificent Seven, or as a robot in Westworld. I don’t do a great impression of Yul Brynner – but if you do a bad impression of someone, it becomes a new voice, a new character. So I just poured a lot of sand on my bad Yul Brynner – for texture – and that’s Hondo. But I don’t try to think about it too much; I always say that instincts are the best-stincts.”

Look for Jim Cummings as Lionel the Lion (dressed like a skeleton for most of the episode).

Happy Halloween!

I’m sorry for getting “The Day the Spooky Circus Came to Town” stuck in your head.

Since we just rolled into July, it’s pretty safe to say that everyone who is attending school is definitely out for the summer. Please enjoy this fantastic version of Jim Cummings singing School’s Out as Mr. Bumpy from Bump in the Night.

As Ashley says:

I was an avid fan of Bump in the Night back in the day (I recorded literally every episode on VHS), and today I unearthed Mr. Bumpy’s Karaoke Cafe cover version of “School’s Out” by Alice Cooper. It’s pretty awesome and, at eight years old, it was my introduction to rock ‘n’ roll. If anybody wants to hear Jim Cummings being a total rock star, I highly recommend this.

You can listen to the MP3 of this song in our Media Section soon when I fix it back up (it was lower on the list of priorities than, say, the homepage). In the meantime, enjoy the music video below:

I must confess that Rob Paulsen’s background singing raises this song to a whole new level of hilarity.

Jim Cummings was announced today as a nominee for the daytime Emmy of Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for his portrayal of Tigger in Disney’s My Friends Tigger and Pooh. See the full list of nominees here.

This is Jim Cummings’ first Emmy nomination so this is very exciting news for him and for us fans. He is up against some serious competition though so we’ll have to keep our fingers crossed.

It seems sort of crazy that of all the roles he’s had, he finally gets nominated for this one, especially since it is neither a role he originated nor Pooh which he has been playing longer. Either way, it is fantastic to see him get this recognition.

OUTSTANDING PERFORMER IN AN ANIMATED PROGRAM
Joan Rivers as Bubbe on “Arthur”
Jim Ward as Eyemore the Crusher on “Biker Mice from Mars”
Jim Cummings as Tigger on “Disney’s My Friends Tigger and Pooh”
Vanessa Williams as Mama on “Mama Mirabelle’s Home Movies”
Amy Poehler as Bessie Higgenbottom on “The Mighty B!”

• Hellboy II: The Golden Army – While you won’t see JC’s trademark beard in the new installment of the Hellboy franchise this summer, you will hear him as Tom Manning in Hellboy – Blood and Iron. This animated prequels (which even my mom enjoyed, a rarity!) sets the stage for the film currently in theaters and also feature nearly the entire cast of the feature film reprising their roles.
• The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor - While Rick O’Connell and family will not be getting any help from Jim Cummings against the undead armies of the Dragon Emperor in theaters this summer, they will go head to head with Jim Cummings when he stars as Imotep (the original Egyptian mummy from the first two films) in The Mummy – Quest for the Lost Scrolls. This short lived animated series is available on DVD and has a popular cult fan following.
• Batman: The Dark Knight – How can Heath Ledger’s performance of The Joker possibly be better than Jim Cummings as Jekko the Clown on the Batman animated series?

Save yourself the ten spot that most movies cost now a days and rent one of the movies above for the summer movie experience, Jim Cummings style.

As any JC fan worth their salt knows, Jim Cummings was not only the lovable air pirate Don Karnage but also Louie as well as several other characters (including Louie’s aunt who fell in love with Don Karnage much to Louie’s dismay making for one high quality episode with triple the Jim Cummings punch).

Last we come to Negaduck, the leader and most psycho of probably any villain Darkwing ever faced. Depending on which episode you watch, Negaduck is either Darkwing’s dark side manifested into an evil clone, or a parallel Darkwing from the Negaverse who rules Nega St. Canard. Either way, he is the exact opposite of Darkwing, as unlike DW, he’s a borderline psychopath who hates friends and anything Good. He also carries around a chainsaw as his main weapon. He usually dresses up as Darkwing to frame him for crime sprees and such, while his most infamous act was stealing the powers of the other four members of the Fearsome Five for himself to become an abomination that was defeated within a half hour.

I am not sure how you can even begin to compile a list like this and leave out Don Karnage, Fat Cat AND Pete but I guess he was trying not to give Jim a monopoly.

Who is your favorite Jim Cummings villain? Post your votes below and we will do a big list of all of them next week.

PS: I too had that Megavolt action figure and only just sold him on eBay a few weeks ago and would like to attest that the sparks that flew out of his chest were HUGE. You seriously could have burned your house down. It added that whole extra element of "Let’s Get Dangerous" to playing with your Darkwing Duck figures.

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