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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 Cartoon|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]].
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* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: One notorious incident being when he went [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDYK2H0ldbo 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.
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