Casey Kasem

"The group Bananarama has such a light, cutesypie sound that they make The Go-Go's sound like Led Zeppelin by comparison."

- Casey Kasem, America's Top 40

Casey Kasem (né Kemal Amin Kasem, April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was a Lebanese-American broadcaster and animation voice actor. Besides his radio program, American Top 40, Kasem has done character voices for Saturday morning cartoons, most notably Scooby Doo (as Shaggy) and Filmation's version of Batman (as Robin, a role he carried over into Superfriends). He portrayed Cliffjumper and Bluestreak in the generation one Transformers tv series and reprised Cliffjumper in the 1986 film. He was also the off-camera quizmaster on the U.S. version of 100%, and the announcer for NBC's Saturday Morning Ad Bumpers.


 * Cluster F-Bomb: One notorious incident being when he went fuming mad over a dedication to a dying dog.
 * Named After Somebody Famous: Kasem was named after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, whom Casey's father admired.
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Kasem, who voiced several characters in Transformers Generation 1, quit the show as he took umbrage at the grossly stereotypical depiction of fictional Arab state called "Carbombya", which from the name alone is a laughably racist caricature. He further elaborated that he didn't mind villains of Arab descent per se, but he would balk at when the villains are the only Arab characters in the story without any positive portrayals to balance things out.