Rod, Todd, this is God.

What are you doing on our radio?

I invented the universe, stupid kid.

I've got a job for thee.

Bring forth all the cookies.

But those are our parents cookies.

Do you a happy god or a vengeful god?

Happy god, happy god.

- Ay, caramba.

- I'm learneding.

- My house, my house.

- Ha ha.

- Hi, I'm Nancy Cartwright and you may recognize my voice.

Hi, I'm Bart Simpson.

Who the hell are you?

Ralph Wiggum.

I'm Idaho.

Nelson Muntz.

Ha ha.

Todd Flanders.

I get to anoint their feet.

Chuckie from "The Rugrats."

Oh no, it's clowns.

I don't like clowns.

[wails]

[laughs]

And one more, doesn't talk much,

Rufus the naked mole rat from "Kim Possible."

[mimics rat]

Did you get all that?

I'm here today with "Vanity Fair"

and I'm gonna listen to some up and coming artists

do some impressions of the characters that I do.

Let's check it out.

- Why, where's he working?

- The Kwik-E-Mart.

[Bart laughs]

- Maggie.

[laughs]

I don't mean to be bad.

I don't know why I do the things that I do.

[laughs]

- That's pretty good.

You know, the challenging thing about

doing a voice is that there has to be a consistency.

She touches on it just a little bit

and she's got the ability to do...

To do that sound.

But you have to be able to maintain a consistency

in a certain sound.

Even--

[laughs]

when you're laughing.

I've never really thought about the placement of my voice

when I do Bart Simpson.

He's really easy to just slip into

and I think it's kind of in the back of my throat.

It's not nasal.

If it was nasal, it would be like that.

She had an open

but again, it's just that finding the exact, right placement

for it so she can maintain that sound

throughout the show.

You go all the way back to the beginning of "The Simpsons,"

we had no idea we were still gonna be on the air

after all these years.

And some of my characters have evolved.

And Dan doing Homer, same thing.

When you're on as long as we've been on,

it becomes an evolution.

Bart at the beginning was one note.

He's like,

"Lisa, come on, man--"

and he was angry

he was a rascal.

But as it developed into a half hour show,

there was more opportunity for him

to become a fleshed out character.

So I had more range and freedom in

like the sound of it.

So instead of being like, down here

and being like that all the time,

there was like,

"Mom, aww."

♪ Happy birthday Lisa ♪

And you know, and you got to see a softer side

of Bart Simpson, which was great.

So Mom, what's our plan?

- What are you doing up there?

- Looking through peoples' luggage.

I'm the mascot of an evil corporation.

- So Mom, what's our plan?

- What are you doing up there?

- Looking through peoples' luggage.

I'm the mascot of an evil corporation.

[laughs]

- Oh wow.

You could tell immediately that she loves

what she's doing.

She is having so much fun.

Various characters here.

She's doing Bart, she's doing Marge.

Even putting the nose on to help her out.

The first thing she did, it sounded a little--

it did sound a little bit like Bart.

Her Marge, I think, was the best

of the ones that she did.

Her enthusiasm and her passion

to be able to have the opportunity to entertain people

on YouTube, you gotta admire that.

Practice, practice, practice.

The more that you do, the better that you will get.

I believe that there's innate talent

and there's also talent that you can develop.

You don't necessarily have to have innate talent

in order to succeed in what it is that you're doing.

You know, it's interesting, people have asked me

this question before about the difference between

doing voiceover work and doing on camera work.

In terms of development of a character,

I don't see a whole lot of difference.

The biggest difference is that in voiceovers,

you don't have to do makeup unless you're doing

a photo shoot or a video shoot for "Vanity Fair,"

and then you have to like, doll yourself up.

But when you go to do a regular job,

there's no makeup, there's no hair,

you don't have to hit your mark for the camera.

In that regard, it's a lot less pressure.

But in terms of development of the characters,

honestly, I don't really see a whole lot of difference.

You have to commit 100% to what it is

that you're doing, the decision that you made.

So for you, again,

consistency and commitment to that particular sound.

[dramatic music]

- Did you replace me with this tinker toy?

- Replace is such an ugly word.

We upgraded.

- Bart, we can be friends.

- Eat my shorts.

- Here we go.

Ay, caramba eat my shorts.

Oh.

- Oh my gosh, are you kidding?

She is such a fan.

She's got a lot of enthusiasm,

she's got a lot of passion in what she's doing,

she's cute as a button.

I think she's got the makings of doing

a Bart Simpson impression.

Bart Simpson, his normal voice is like this.

I'm gonna make him go down to two years old.

So this is Bart Simpson age 10 years old.

What's happening, man?

Now this is Bart Simpson at eight years old.

Hi, hi.

As we get a little bit younger,

you can hear my voice it's getting,

it's getting a little bit like a helium balloon

so when I get to be like two years old,

this is Bart Simpson.

Mommy.

Bart at 40.

Okay, we bring it way down into a low register.

You can get a bass.

And if I'm doing Bart Simpson and I decide

to do another character like that.

Hey Ma,

ma, what's going on?

Where's the grits?

I'm hungry.

That would be Bart Simpson, you know, from Tennessee.

It's all the same voice.

In order to build a house,

you have to have a good foundation.

And right now, I don't quite see the foundation.

So I think by listening more

and listening to me do it over and over again

with a good ear, she can start to develop that even more.

You know, today, with modern technology,

gosh with YouTube, anybody can just take it

and repeat, and repeat, and drill, and drill, and drill

and that's the main thing.

But I don't want to discourage,

I think she's got a lot of passion

and that's the main thing that you have to start with.

You really, really have to want it.

And with training, she can get there.

- Come on, Chuck, how long does it take

to copy your butt?

- I wasn't sure if I was letter or legal size.

- Well, I just sat here in the car,

listening to my dad blab on and on

about some tach-savvy lenders business.

Blah blah blah.

Recording himself with a stinkin' video camera.

- That's pretty good.

She's got a good attitude for Chuckie.

I'd say she's about three fourths of the way there.

She's almost got it.

She needs to tighten, again, it's almost like

you got something caught in your throat.

I'm pinching the side of my vocal cords right now.

It's almost like getting the idea

of holding like a cherry

in the back of your throat.

If you can do that, I think you can do Chuckie.

Sometimes when you're doing a show,

you can come up...

It can just be blurted out as some sort of an ad lib.

And you'll see behind the booth

where the producers and the engineers are,

they're totally cracking up.

And a smart director will say,

"Bam, that's it!

"Do that again!

"Say that again!"

Here's the difference between a professional

and an amateur.

A professional can come up with a voice,

even it's just a little voice like this,

it's just a little six year-old girl

that I was inspired by Mrs. Doubtfire,

this actress that played this part, Mara Wilson,

and she had a little split in her tooth

and so I took that and I sort of created a char--

this character has never been cast.

I've never done this voice professionally.

So I still have this like, in my cadre

of characters that have been undiscovered yet.

By having improvisational skills and just letting yourself

be able to just say whatever you wanna say,

keeping who that character is in mind,

you can help to really establish a recognizable,

someday maybe icon.

[laughs]

- Chuckie, at my house we do stuff like this all the time.

- My house, my house, my house.

Let me tell you something, Tommy,

this isn't my house.

It's my house.

- My house, my house, my house.

Well let me tell you something, Tommy,

this isn't my house.

It's my house.

[Nancy laughs]

- Oh my gosh, super cute.

I think she's got the basis.

It's my house, it's my house.

She's open, her voice is too open

to be distinguished as Chuckie.

He's got some sort of an adenoidal problem.

Chuckie's got a sore throat all the time

and a stuffed nose.

It's sort of stuck right back here

and you just wish that...

[coughs]

if he could just cough it out, he would sound much clearer.

But the more adenoidal, the more he's Chuck-ified.

Christine Cavanaugh was the original voice of Chuckie.

She did Chuckie for about eight years,

eight or nine years.

One of the most, if not, the most challenging jobs

I ever had was to take what Christina had done

and duplicate that.

There's some things that I have found in doing it