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And to think the Cowardly Lion would go on to appear in Star Trek

posted 2 years ago by [deleted]
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Yeah, the specific Star Trek movie in question was No. 5: The Final Frontier, and he chose to speak with Yosemite Sam's voice as well. It's uncanny!

[–] duckofprey (1538) 2 years ago

OK. I’ll bite.

Huh?

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

The alien at the climax of Star Trek: The Final Frontier, "God", looked very much to me and others like the Cowardly Lion, and when it was going nuts, it was making eerie sounds like Yosemite Sam's voice when he was fuming at Bugs Bunny. Honestly, I'm not the only one to notice it.

[–] PaladinNJ (20316) 2 years ago

I'm missing the joke. Bert Lahr had been dead for more than 20 years when Final Frontier was made.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

So what? The Cowardly Lion only has to LOOK like Bert Lahr's depiction, as "God" did in Star Trek: The Final Frontier. Don't you get it, now?