One of Darby's favorite books is The Spooky Old Tree, the story of the three bears that go in the tree and a bunch of mildly scary stuff happens. When it gets to the part where they have to go over the Great Sleeping Bear, for some reason, I find myself doing a Gregory Peck impression, this really low gravelly voice when I say "Great Sleeping Bear. Do they dare go over Great Sleeping Bear?" It makes it sound more ominous or something. Except, it's not really a Gregory Peck impression at all. It's my impression of Robert Downey Jr. doing an impression of Gregory Peck, which he did some years ago in a silly romantic comedy that I can't remember the name of now. I think Marisa Tomei was in it? Anyway. I'm not sure why this is the way it is. I've seen Gregory Peck himself in several movies. But the voice I'm channeling is Robert Downey Jr.'s. But only when I'm reading The Spooky Old Tree.
Now Darby knows pretty much every word in The Spooky Old Tree and sometimes insists on saying the words himself (it's a pretty short book). When he gets to that page, he does the low gravelly voice like I do it. So ... as I told Chris, that's Darby doing an impression of his mom doing an impression of Robert Downey Jr. doing an impression of Gregory Peck. He thought that was amusing and that I should share it.
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