Hoover the talking seal, who lived at the New England Aquarium in the 1980s, blows the talking beluga out of the water (sorry). He sounds way more like a person. In fact, he sounds enough like a person that it’s kind of scary.

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Here’s Hoover:

Hmm, sounds kind of like Charlie Brown’s teacher doing an impression of Teddy Roosevelt. Can we find one where he sounds exactly like Scorpion from Mortal Kombat?

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Yes. That’ll do the trick.