Doug Walker credited as playing...
Nostalgia Critic • Older Boy • Watcher #1 • Chester A. Bum
- Nostalgia Critic: Wow, that is not the voice I expected to come out of that kid. You know, because, a 12-year-old boy should always be voiced by a 26-YEAR-OLD MAN, right?
- Nostalgia Critic: So, the Once-ler, of course, tells the story about what happened to all the trees, naturally keeping his face hidden throughout the story so, like I said before, he can represent how this can happen to anyone. Anyone watching right now-
- [this Once-ler is a young man with a visible face]
- Nostalgia Critic: Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you! Maybe I'm overexaggerating. After all, it is an hour and a half long movie, an hour and a half is a long time to go without seeing your... kinda main character. I mean, it's an adaptation, I got it. There's gonna have to be changes from an adaptation. Fair enough. At the very least, they're making him timeless, somebody that everyone can look back on years later, and not laugh at for being so incredibly dated and dumb-
- [the Once-ler sings a pop song]
- Nostalgia Critic: FFF- I don't care for that. This Once-ler is a super young, electric guitar playing, tight clothes wearing, fedora hat toting, pop cultural referencing, Zach Braff-ing, completely dated product of the times!
- Nostalgia Critic: You can't just like someone because he's really nerdy, into retro media, wears a bunch of half-professional half-grungy clo-
- [He realizes he fits that exact description]
- Nostalgia Critic: You think you can get away with dumbing-down Dr. Seuss like you did with The Cat in the Hat and The Grinch? ... Follow-up question: Didn't I kill you two?
- Analyst 2: We're like mononucleosis. We never fully go away.
- Analyst 1: And we often put you to sleep.
