I'll tell you what bugs me about that show The Wonder Years. The voiceover narration by grownup Kevin Arnold, performed by Daniel Stern, sounds nothing like the voice of childhood Kevin Arnold, performed by Fred Savage. I could let it slide in the early episodes, when Kevin Arnold was still prepubertal and his voice hadn't changed yet, but how do you explain the later seasons, when the mid- and post-pubertal voice of Fred Savage remained far from that of Daniel Stern?
They could have easily thrown in an explanation somewhere. Like towards the end of an episode, after Winnie Cooper had committed her weekly bit of frustrating cockteasery, but before whatever Baby Boomer anthem started playing over the credits, Daniel Stern could say, via voiceover, "All of this happened before I had the nodes on my vocal cords removed." Bam. Cue The Byrds or the Archies or whoever.
Would that have been so hard?
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My short review of The Fine Print Theatre Company's Christmas in Chicago is in this week's Chicago Reader.
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