Dub over The Moto Moto Song
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Take over every line of The Moto Moto Song and see how close you can get.
The scene
Moto-Moto's entrance in Madagascar 2, fifty-one seconds of the smoothest hippo in Africa announcing his preferences. A bystander hippo gets two lines of warning, Gloria gets three, and Moto-Moto gets nine — the first four of which are a sung, half-rapped list of what he likes, all of it a variation on big. Then he compliments Gloria's size to her face, she asks whether his friend is actually his backside, he explains that his name is good enough to say twice, and she calls him a name that he takes as a compliment.
It is body-positive flirting delivered in a voice so deep it is practically a sound effect, and that voice is the whole point of dubbing it. The sung lines have a lazy, bouncing rhythm rather than a melody, so you do not need to be able to sing — you need to be able to rumble. Gloria's lines are the counterweight: sharp, amused, a little insulting, and she gets the last word in the exchange even though he gets the last line. Short, silly, and one of the few scenes where a laugh is written as a super-deep-voice cue.
Who you'll be playing
Lines you'll be taking
Look out! I think Moto-Moto likes you
Here he comes
I like em Big. i like em chunky
There are 11 more waiting in the studio.
Performing it
Drop your voice as far as it will go before you start; Moto-Moto is a bass part and going low after the first line is too late. The four sung lines share a beat — find it on the first and ride it. The deep laugh cue is a separate moment, not a throwaway. Gloria's backside line is quick and dry and the one people rush; land the pause before the second half. Her final jab should sound fond. The name-said-twice line is the memorable one, so give it room. In a two-player room Gloria versus Moto-Moto is the obvious split; solo, the swing between bass rumble and sharp retort is the challenge.
The dialogue is muted and everything else stays — the score, the room, the picture. You record each line over the silence and the scene plays back with you in the cast. How a dub is made · what the score measures.
From the gallery
30 dubs of this scene have been posted so far. The most voted, in the performers' own words:
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Heehee with 2015 minecoin meme —
Moto moto ahh
13 votes · in English · September 2026- Heehee Wow! You did so good!
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Sheeny
voice-match 61 · 4 votes · in English · September 2026 -
Baki
voice-match 54 · 3 votes · in German · September 2026 -
nigbi with gmail
voice-match 56 · 2 votes · in English · September 2026 -
Suchi_Man-Creations —
I like em chunky 😎
voice-match 59 · 2 votes · in English · September 2026
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