Bob Parr’s boss, that irritating weirdo (don’t know his name), did Wallace Shawn (who is the voice of Rex in
‘Toy Story’ 1 & 2) play him? Cuz it sounds like him…
Yeah, it is him, I think. It’s one of the first things I noticed when I heard Gilbert Huph’s
(Bob’s boss) voice- it’s very similar. If my research is correct, the guy who voiced both of them is Wallace
Shawn.
You’re correct! 
I love Wallace Shawn. He always uses the same voice, but
he can play different characters just by giving them a different attitude.
~~=oP
I remember listening to Bob’s boss in
theatres thinking “my gosh, he sounds sooooo familiar! Who IS he??” And everything clicked when I found
out it was Wallace Shawn, hehe.
I recognized his voice, but I
never figured out that he played Rex in TS and TS2. I sorta remembered him from the Princess Bride.
My 1st impression was “It sounds quite familiar…” but the main problem is that I never knew the
character’s name so I have no clue who voiced him
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I recognized his voice, but I never figured out that he played Rex in TS and TS2. I sorta remembered
him from the Princess Bride.
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Thanks to The Princess Bride (one of the best movies of our
generation) and Toy Story, I “spotted” Wallace Shawn almost right away.
(The first time, I was
too engrossed into the story to pay much attention.)
I guess when I first really
got into the characters, I went into some in-depth research of the movie. I guess that was how I figured out what
Wallace Shawn played in Pixar’s Toy Story.
THAT’S his name! I’ll never remember it though. he’s
always that one guy who I hear a lot but can never recall his name…
Wow, that is Wallace
Shawn? It took me a while to find the resemblence.
I noticed this also whilst watching the movie, and as a
result I had to go and immediately research it, good old Wikipedia. 
Well, this is slightly off-topic, but it is about Mr.
Huph…
I realized this not too long ago while just walking from class to class at school today, but
something that had bugged me for a while about the film is the fact that the four clocks in Mr. Huph’s office
aren’t right, that is, the hour hands aren’t at the correct position between numbers in relation to where the
minute hand is. I’d wondered for ages why the good folks at Pixar would have done this, since they’re such
sticklers for details, but finally today it struck me: Huph makes his whole clock analogy, about cogs having to
fit together perfectly to make the clock run perfectly. The clocks in [i]his own
office[/i] do not run perfectly. Ergo, he himself is a faulty cog. That, my friends, is known by the
wonderful term of “symbolism.”
Deep.
It took a little while for me to realize that it was him, until my mom said that Mr. Huph
sounded tremendously like Rex. 
DElf4242 - Wow – I never thought about it
that way before. I also wondered about those clocks in Mr. Hugh’s office, but I will now be puzzled no longer!
Wonderful reasoning, DElf4242. 
I love Wallace Shawn’s voice. It is perfect for every role he contributed at
Pixar.
DElf4242-
Wow. That’s very good reasoning, but the scary thing is, that the
people at Pixar actually thought about such little details to create irony that only very few people would ever
think about. 
lizardgirl: I often on-purposefully look for little things like that in Pixar’s
films now-a-days, just to see what else they have attempted to surprise us with. It just goes to show how much
fun they really have there at Pixar.
Mitch- I can just imagine them, randomly coming up with strange little ideas every
five minutes, and going, ‘oh, we MUST include this one! That’s a great idea!’
lizardgirl - Heheh – my point exactly. Pixar is amazing – they achieve the
incredible.
An interesting note: On the Pixar official website, there is
a section entitled Artist’s Corner. If you go there and click on
Gini’s picture, you’ll be transported to a page with photographs of her work and
lists of her likes and dislikes. If you click on Read the Interview on her page, and
go down to the question entitled [b]"What do you do to put yourself in the mindset of your
character?"[/b], I think you’ll learn some interesting things concerning how Pixar puts
themselves into the minds of their creations.
The entire interview itself is an interesting read, as are
the interviews of the other Pixar artists as well. Have a look if you’d like.
Oooh, thanks for the tip, Mitch. 