CarTalk guys… Switched?
Okay, so this is going to be a boring post.
Up until last week I thought the squirrelly sounding “main brother” hosting CarTalk was the skinny, Brillo-haired, ’stache/bearded guy and the hefty sounding, slightly slower “sidekick brother” was the heavy guy. I associated the voices so fiercely with their appearances that seeing them on TV gave me a major shock: all this time I’ve had it backwards. Can you believe it? The heavy guy is the “main brother” and Brillo Boy is the “sidekick.”
Argh… The voices don’t fit, like, at all. I can’t unwrap my brain and rewrap it around this new information. It’s quite a dilemma.
I’ve never seen a picture of the brothers, but in my mind’s eye I always kind of assigned them Mario- and Luigi-type images. Not only did it amuse me personally, it also appears I was mostly right.
Comment by jenny — May 17, 2006 @ 6:43 pm
My mental image of those two matches their actual appearances as well. I’m trying to figure out where I went wrong with the way they sound, though. The skinny guy shouldn’t sound fat and the fat guy shouldn’t sound skinny, at least in my view. It’s like hearing my voice coming out of your face. It just doesn’t work for me.
I’ll get over it.
Comment by erat — May 17, 2006 @ 8:10 pm