In the special features for "Comic Book: The Movie", you can see Maurice LaMarche performing "Frozen Peas" at Comic Con, live and uncensored. It's pretty fantastic.
When I watched this show as a kid, one of the things I liked about it was that I knew it was somewhat over my head. I remember being especially confused by this segment - I knew there was something I was missing... many years later, I finally get the reference.
@GodfatherXXI really, not being enthusiastic about someone else's ignorance is more common in faggots than non-faggots? faggots must be good people then
@CaptKirby18 Faggots are bundles of sticks used as kindling, so while they are good, they are not people. The go-to insult, especially for Yanks, is 'faggot'. The reason they use that is that it is still 'OK', in the 21st f**king Century, to be bigoted against queers. How sad, that these hate-filled cretins (most of whom are repressed homosexuals themselves, as seen by their exaggerated and pathetic attempts at machismo) can't abuse blacks or Jews anymore, huh? The good old days. (spit)
@CaptKirby18 I'm not anti-gay at all. What two adults do behind closed doors is their own business. I'm referring to the fact that you act like an old gay queen. I don't know if you think you're being funny being extremely sarcastic, but honestly it's just plain dadgum annoying. All I did was state an interesting fact that some of the viewers might not of known, and I get some smart-ass comment from you. Grow up!
I remember watching this segment as a child. I was very bored. No anvils, no injuries, and went "THAT'S IT? I don't GET IT." Now I live for segments like this.
@CaptKirby18: Try looking up the show "The Critic" with Jay Sherman. Maurice does some wonderful voices on it is as well as some great Orson Welles commercial spoofs. Like with "Rosebud frozen peas: Full of country goodness and green pea-ness...wait, that's terrible." It's quite brilliant. XD
"You'll just have to find an actor who does... [with loathing] impressions." Absolutely brilliant, considering an impressionist is performing his voice.
What I cannot stand is that people seem to believe that cartoons such as this and all the other classics are suddenly "BAD" for children. As if we are going to hit some dude with a bat because I saw it on TV. Well let me tell you something, if I were to hit a man with a bat, its because I wanted to hit someone with a bat not because I saw it on the tube.
@Blehhh49 Let's be fair: you didn't see stuff like this from cartoons before then, either. Animaniacs, Freakazoid, and, to a lesser extent, Toonsylvania, Hysteria!, and Pinky and the Brain were situated in that entertainment sweet spot: Warner Bros. animation had come back enough that the quality was there, but not enough that the suits were interfering with their marketing nonsense. The makers were free to experiment and play, which rarely happens in this industry.
@ESKIM0Bob yes, he does. as a kid I didn't know who Orson Welles was, but after watching this now, I can't hear this without knowing that is who is being imitated. He also did the voice of Welles for Calculon on Futurama.
@shootthekitty -- He did his Welles voice in a couple episode of TAZ-MANIA as well ("Taz Like Dingo" and "Amazing Shrinking Taz")...as well as Taz's dad and uncle (imitations of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, respectively), one of the Platypus Bros. (Rob "Pinky" Paulsen was the other), and Willie Wombat. I believe he was also the voice and body model for the Canadian genie. He was also one of the brighter spots of that "Wacky World of Tex Avery" mishmash (Mooch, Genghis, other incidental voices).
@ESKIM0Bob He's also voiced Orson Welles in Futurama and The Simpsons (an excellent Treehouse of Horror segment parodying the War of the Worlds broadcast).
In the original clip I thought it was a little sad that (@ the time) a living legend like Orson Wells was a pea commercial v.o. But @ the same time, he really was going OVERBOARD w/ the Shakespeare... meaning: "much ado about nothing". I have also started an acting career & I know how difficult (& @ times tedious) it is to get the words just right. But simultaneously, every actor should watch the "ego" & check themselves b4 they wreck themselves.
@robynsegg: This clip should serve as a reminder to every actor out there that they should (to quote Quincy Jones) "check your ego @ the door", because every1 can be easily replaced! (Basically, to quote my beloved grandmother: "Yesterday's peacock will be tomorrow's feather duster!".)
@CaptKirby18 Turns out I don't know my head from a hole....
I found shortly after shooting my mouth off, that Welles did indeed say almost every word of this clip on a voice over he was doing for commercials. It is Orson Welles Frozen Peas.
@bashfulbrother Orson Welles will usually make an appearance on any show that Maurice LaMarche is on--including the most recent season of Futurama. I heard somewhere--probably on a DVD commentary--that Maurice always quotes Orson Welles commercial outtakes to warm up his voice before he records.
@thespecialneedsgroup Like they say, you learn something new every day. I never knew that Orson Welles even knew about this. That is interesting. It must be very weird for both of them.
On a completely different tangent, MAN DO I MISS THIS CARTOON.
It was one of the most intelligent programs that have ever been shown on air.
@bashfulbrother I'm pretty sure thespecialneedsgroup was speaking metaphorically, that LaMarche brings Orson Welles "back to life" with his dead-on imitation. Orson Welles died in 1985, while Animaniacs didn't premiere until 1993, and this episode didn't air until 1994. There's no way that Welles possibly have known about this clip, let alone have literally been there when it was recorded.
@bashfulbrother I'm sorry, bashfulbrother, I meant that the character of Orson Welles as voiced by Maurice LaMarche makes an appearance in most of the shows that LaMarche works on, because he is so well-known for the impression. LaMarche was even nominated for an Emmy for the Futurama performance I mentioned. I can't say for sure if Orson Welles was aware of LaMarche's impression of him, though by the time he died in 1985, LaMarche was a fairly prominent stand-up, so it is possible.
@thespecialneedsgroup my favorite episode was Billy Joe Bob Brain. Another great one was the Minnesota Flemish and all the Barn raisings. I still laugh thinking about that episode.
@oetpay which is pointless, this was a parody, of course it has a lot of similiarities...the real welles rant is much funnier than trying to match it up with this
@CaptKirby18 um... i think you misunderstood. "it", in the sentence above, is an anaphoric reference - it refers to the same thing as "this" does, in other words. THIS video was made, by its creators, to sync up to the audio of Welles' rant.
now i realise parsing standard english grammar isn't as much of a strong suit for you youtubers as needless hostility, but still.
@oetpay I think that your ranting to a reply that you misunderstood about how I misunderstood shows more about you than anything I said shows anything beyond my unnecessary belligerence, which has nothing to do with youtube. I could not give less of a shit about the video that syncs the real speech, since I can have the real speech without cartoon characters. Your it emphasized "another version", it could only have emphasized "another version", I gave the right reading!
@CaptKirby18 you might want to look up rant in a dictionary. also, "your it emphasized" is nonsensical, but mainly; the emphasis is your own. "another version of this" is a noun phrase, which must be read as a whole, not separated so you can avoid error.
it's fairly easy for me to realise you gave the incorrect reading, because i wrote it. if you want any more proof that under standard english, the way i intended is the only interpretation - i'll send photos of my linguistics textbooks.
@CaptKirby18 wait, you mean your "it" emphasized! okay, that's not nonsensical. still wrong, since it has no emphatic functions and still refers to the whole phrase "another version of this", but hey.
@CaptKirby18 hahah, um woops - have just noticed the ambiguity. am not familiar enough with videos that i accounted for the possibility of adapting a video to sync with speech, which does indeed mean the it could have referred to a different video. sorry; it turns out your grammar is as good as your rage!
Goodness, we watched this as children? I admire the respect the creators had in presenting us with such a brilliant homage. Not that that many of us got it when we were children, mind you. :)
@ZippermouthDune "I always think Vincent Price with Orson's enunciation"
Well then he's doing a good job, because LaMarche has been quoted to say Brain is like "65% Orson Welles, 35% Vincent Price" ;)
I love the self-referential "You'll just have to find an actor who does......impressions" joke at the end. (as das81 pointed out, LaMarche has played Welles multiple times). Such a goddamn smart show....the next generations of kids won't experience anything like this :(
@TheBilly I love it when shows pull self-referential jokes. Simpsons would be another example. On "Bart Gets Famous" Bart says that being repetitive is his job 3 times!. At the end of the episode they lampoon every catchphrase on the show. Second, on that episode where they reveal Skinner is an impostor, everyone in Springfield receives it quite negatively just like the viewers did.
I remember always skipping over this from my Animaniacs video tape thinking it was boring. It's interesting actually knowing the backstory of Orson Welles's downward turn doing advertising.
This is the kind of stuff cartoons don't have anymore. Humor that has longevity.
@BlackScarabZ the only assumption I made was that your insulting VanAngelic made you a fucking asshole; I reiterate, your reading comprehension is terrible, I am not telling you why because it is a lot funnier to see you not get it
@samuraikarasu I agree...they don't, Pinky and The Brain were awesome the only other one I can think of is The Tick. That show (the cartoon) was brilliant. I can still remeber the first episode and the guy saying "I can't do plaid!" Funny stuff!
@BoogsterSU2 That is not unbelievable, that is disappointing; repeating your act and running it into the ground in a worse medium (like this disaster of a Futurama season) is disgusting, and the act was not funny at all (although I think unfortunately that is what is currently sending my video semi-barely-viral right now).
@CaptKirby18 Wow, dude, chill out. the latest season of Futurama is on-par with the others and the voice actor for Brain (Maurice LaMarche) already is part of the cast in Futurama (he voices Kif). To call Maurice LaMarche's impersonation of Orson Welles "Running your act into the ground" is completely ridiculous seeing how he's a talented voice actor.
@CaptKirby18 Protip: insulting someone after claiming you're perfectly calm sort of harms your argument.
Seriously, chill out, man. It's all good. Maurice LaMarche does a great Orson Welles Parody, so of course he ought to make money off it. But he isn't running his act into the ground.
As for Futurama dropping in quality? I'm not convinced here. Maybe your tastes changed, It had been cancelled for a couple years. My personal opinion is that the "revived" futurama is consistently produced.
@GabeMorris I insult anyone any time for saying something like "chill out" or "calm down" over a situation that involves anything short of shouting. As opposed to responding to your inaccurate claims in depth, deleting your comments, or blocking you, all I am going to do is insult your dumb ass until you stop commenting now. I do not take anyone who says chill out or calm down seriously.
@CaptKirby18 You know that might be your problem... You do need to chill out. Calm down. it's all okay, man, we're all friends on the internet. Just, you know, chill out and enjoy your stay, man.
@CaptKirby18 Well, I don't think I'm a troll, but aren't trolls usually in the same subset as dumbasses/fuckasses? Not to make a venn diagramm, but I'm fairly certain there's a lot of overlap between troll, dumbass and fuckass.
They certainly aren't mutually exclusive.
Also, i'm wounded by your insults. Why are you so rude, Captain Kirby Eighteen?
@GabeMorris Sorry, I was in a bad mood...Peter Parker chose Gwen Stacy over Mary Jane and it kind of upset me. Fortunately I know that the Green Goblin is going to kill that bitch any time now.
@GabeMorris Yeah something from the early 1970s can definitely be spoiled. I went back in time to the 1970s and knocked up your mom, SORRY TO SPOIL IT.
No, Spider-Man does not kill her, stop being ridiculous.
@Bobzeaux I think part of it was probably network censorship (go down on you is not "humorous", so much as blatantly sexual) and also that they did come up with a good joke to replace it...it is hard to guess which came first, the censorship or the joke!
wow they pulled the dialogue of most of this DIRECTLY from the actual event. Which is funny but wayyy out of my league when i was watching this show. I had no idea who Orson Welles was much less knowledge of his "Frozen Peas" ad. Still, i think this is hilarious and they get big props for being so savvy. Im sure me and alot of other kids at the time wud've tuned this out tho lol
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fanatic709 2 weeks ago
3:31 - This is a lot of shit, you know that?
AngelofMusic04 4 weeks ago
Okay, so watch this, then look up, "Orson Welles-Frozen Peas." Brilliant.
Waking2Dreams 1 month ago
@Waking2Dreams Actually, one should watch these in reverse order.
patiomkin2001 3 weeks ago
Great show
crow672008 1 month ago
In the special features for "Comic Book: The Movie", you can see Maurice LaMarche performing "Frozen Peas" at Comic Con, live and uncensored. It's pretty fantastic.
edmundog 2 months ago
When I watched this show as a kid, one of the things I liked about it was that I knew it was somewhat over my head. I remember being especially confused by this segment - I knew there was something I was missing... many years later, I finally get the reference.
plushsnail 2 months ago
"I can't believe this guy! I Taft-Hartley'd him on his first job!"
"I heard that!"
Hilarity, man.
TB4000 2 months ago
Pinky and the Brain, full of country goodness and green pea-ness.
HotsumaLaizenJou 3 months ago
@HotsumaLaizenJou Wait, that's terrible. I quit. Just a handful for the road...Oh what luck, there's a French Fry stuck in my beard.
OxyMauron 2 months ago
GREEN PEANESS.
DustinOffAClassic 4 months ago 2
He said "I'll make cheese for you" and reality Orson Wells said "I'll go down on you".
GodfatherXXI 4 months ago 3
@GodfatherXXI we had no idea, thanks for letting us know
CaptKirby18 4 months ago
@CaptKirby18 You are faggot? Because you sure act like one.
GodfatherXXI 4 months ago
@GodfatherXXI really, not being enthusiastic about someone else's ignorance is more common in faggots than non-faggots? faggots must be good people then
CaptKirby18 4 months ago 10
@CaptKirby18 Faggots are bundles of sticks used as kindling, so while they are good, they are not people. The go-to insult, especially for Yanks, is 'faggot'. The reason they use that is that it is still 'OK', in the 21st f**king Century, to be bigoted against queers. How sad, that these hate-filled cretins (most of whom are repressed homosexuals themselves, as seen by their exaggerated and pathetic attempts at machismo) can't abuse blacks or Jews anymore, huh? The good old days. (spit)
ProjectFlashlight612 3 months ago
@CaptKirby18 I'm not anti-gay at all. What two adults do behind closed doors is their own business. I'm referring to the fact that you act like an old gay queen. I don't know if you think you're being funny being extremely sarcastic, but honestly it's just plain dadgum annoying. All I did was state an interesting fact that some of the viewers might not of known, and I get some smart-ass comment from you. Grow up!
GodfatherXXI 2 months ago
@GodfatherXXI Congratulations GodfatherXXI! You've been nominated for YouTube's stupidest reply award!
flamingmonkays 4 months ago
@GodfatherXXI Ah! I accidentally clicked thumbs up on that! Don't pay attention to that, it was unintentional.
edmundog 2 months ago
@edmundog Thanks for the thumbs up!
GodfatherXXI 2 months ago
I love the self awareness in the "actor who does impressions" line.
ThePastPenguin 4 months ago
NARFFFF! ZORT! POIT!
DTMENACE62 4 months ago
You *KNOW* Maurice LaMarche must have pushed for this... and only he could get away with a verbatim duplication of Orson Welles..
sirstrongbad 5 months ago
RIP Orson Welles and your fat-ass drunk last days
blackbeard246 5 months ago
Wonder if any new cartoon is brave enough to parody the Christian Bale rant XD
zetsuei18 5 months ago
@zetsuei18 I don't know about a cartoon, but Duke Nukem Forever parodied that rant.
Poharex 5 months ago
I just love that insult. In the depths of your ignorance what is it YOU WANT? He remains so calm without resorting to swearing!
kerrpy24vim 5 months ago
@kerrpy24vim why do people mix up resorting with love of swearing? fucking sheesh
CaptKirby18 5 months ago 6
@CaptKirby18 why are you a dick
Vortigaunt501 2 months ago
@kerrpy24vim For the record, Welles "resorted" to swearing twice in the actual clip.
edmundog 2 months ago
I like how at the end, the Brain says that he wants to take over the world (again).
davrukin 5 months ago
NARF!!!!!!!
TheC4p0 7 months ago
Its funny because I know someone who speaks like Pinky
sueyking 7 months ago
these are cartoons when mymom waslittle and am ten and my momis 28
JENNIFERMCCLAIN123 7 months ago
I wonder if peas are growing at Mrs. Buckley's farm.
SBAnimaniacs 7 months ago
I'll make cheese for you. I love how they even made that pause, as if you know that LaMarche was thinking in his head "Go down on you"
adamtheskunk 7 months ago
LOL, sound techs call themselves "engineers" now?
dinnerandashow 8 months ago
I remember watching this segment as a child. I was very bored. No anvils, no injuries, and went "THAT'S IT? I don't GET IT." Now I live for segments like this.
knuclear2010 8 months ago
we must go deeper!
agile52 8 months ago
This is proof that Animaniacs had better writing than 90% of 'comedy' programs of its day. Hell, it's still better than most of today's material
bookeater 8 months ago
@CaptKirby18: Try looking up the show "The Critic" with Jay Sherman. Maurice does some wonderful voices on it is as well as some great Orson Welles commercial spoofs. Like with "Rosebud frozen peas: Full of country goodness and green pea-ness...wait, that's terrible." It's quite brilliant. XD
MortalAnonymous 8 months ago
"You'll just have to find an actor who does... impressions"
May I suggest Babs Bunny?
CJPrime931 8 months ago
"You'll just have to find an actor who does... [with loathing] impressions." Absolutely brilliant, considering an impressionist is performing his voice.
fleebness 8 months ago 2
Cartoons were SOOOO much better in the 90's.
camotophat 8 months ago
What I cannot stand is that people seem to believe that cartoons such as this and all the other classics are suddenly "BAD" for children. As if we are going to hit some dude with a bat because I saw it on TV. Well let me tell you something, if I were to hit a man with a bat, its because I wanted to hit someone with a bat not because I saw it on the tube.
Jerks.
DrClay999 9 months ago
You don't see stuff like this from cartoons today.
Blehhh49 9 months ago
@Blehhh49 Let's be fair: you didn't see stuff like this from cartoons before then, either. Animaniacs, Freakazoid, and, to a lesser extent, Toonsylvania, Hysteria!, and Pinky and the Brain were situated in that entertainment sweet spot: Warner Bros. animation had come back enough that the quality was there, but not enough that the suits were interfering with their marketing nonsense. The makers were free to experiment and play, which rarely happens in this industry.
Deekay723 8 months ago
Why did you leave out Tiny Toons and Taz-Mania?
click4mychannel 8 months ago
this is alot of tripe
MO77H3W 9 months ago
the voice of the brain always does the best orson welles. he always does in the critic
ESKIM0Bob 9 months ago 14
@ESKIM0Bob tell me more!!!!!!!!!
CaptKirby18 9 months ago
@ESKIM0Bob "OH what luck, there's a french fry stuck in my beard."
cyanidemaiden 9 months ago
@ESKIM0Bob yes, he does. as a kid I didn't know who Orson Welles was, but after watching this now, I can't hear this without knowing that is who is being imitated. He also did the voice of Welles for Calculon on Futurama.
shootthekitty 6 months ago
@shootthekitty -- He did his Welles voice in a couple episode of TAZ-MANIA as well ("Taz Like Dingo" and "Amazing Shrinking Taz")...as well as Taz's dad and uncle (imitations of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, respectively), one of the Platypus Bros. (Rob "Pinky" Paulsen was the other), and Willie Wombat. I believe he was also the voice and body model for the Canadian genie. He was also one of the brighter spots of that "Wacky World of Tex Avery" mishmash (Mooch, Genghis, other incidental voices).
HaggisMcCrablice 2 months ago
@ESKIM0Bob He's also voiced Orson Welles in Futurama and The Simpsons (an excellent Treehouse of Horror segment parodying the War of the Worlds broadcast).
flamingmonkays 4 months ago
@ESKIM0Bob
Maurice LaMarche. Amazing voice actor. He did another Orson Welles impression on Futurama, which was also hilarious.
GoaGreena 4 months ago
@GoaGreena He also voiced him in the movie "Ed Wood."
Ironbat92 3 months ago
@Ironbat92 Although he only dubbed over Vincent D'Onofrio (the live action actor).
ilikeamazon 3 months ago
@ESKIM0Bob He even dubbed over Vincent D'onofrio's performance as Welles in Ed Wood.
EponymousKid 1 month ago
You, you're fired. You're fired. And you're fired! Everybody's fired! I'm fired!
DarthRaukrist 9 months ago
2:28-2:30 I'M POUTING!!!!!
SSdetectiveagency 9 months ago
wow i never realized how much brain sounds like welles
xjustin523x 10 months ago
I remember seeing this as a kid. I only understood so much, but I had heard about Orson Welle's famous anger issues: and it cracked me up.
battybuddy 10 months ago
This is all anyone needs to prove this is the most brilliant cartoon ever on TV. To throw in this reference is genius.
UncleDeluxe 10 months ago
In the original clip I thought it was a little sad that (@ the time) a living legend like Orson Wells was a pea commercial v.o. But @ the same time, he really was going OVERBOARD w/ the Shakespeare... meaning: "much ado about nothing". I have also started an acting career & I know how difficult (& @ times tedious) it is to get the words just right. But simultaneously, every actor should watch the "ego" & check themselves b4 they wreck themselves.
robynsegg 10 months ago
@robynsegg: This clip should serve as a reminder to every actor out there that they should (to quote Quincy Jones) "check your ego @ the door", because every1 can be easily replaced! (Basically, to quote my beloved grandmother: "Yesterday's peacock will be tomorrow's feather duster!".)
robynsegg 10 months ago
There is just so much care and respect in this.
Up until about 4:18, they have interpreted it almost EXACTLY word for word, as it happened...
dean0waterz 10 months ago
i read some where that someone called this episod "a $250,000 in joke". but this was so well done
popguru85 11 months ago
It's amazing how mature this show was like the Simpson
supermanXL 11 months ago
Man this show was brilliant. Who knew Pinky could direct?
bdpickett 11 months ago
And this is why I love this show. I wouldn't haven't have gotten this as a kid, but as an adult this is f'ing hilarious!
AngelAteem 11 months ago 2
What episode is that?
jamesbonddarthvader 1 year ago
@jamesbonddarthvader because I never blatantly pointed out which it was
CaptKirby18 1 year ago 2
@jamesbonddarthvader Sorry, thougyt that was the name of the rant.
jamesbonddarthvader 1 year ago
Welles never did anything with Animaniacs. He was superbly imitated by Maurice LaMarche.
bashfulbrother 1 year ago 4
@bashfulbrother "This is an intelligent adaptation of an angry real life rant by Orson Welles" holy shit thanks for catching my error
CaptKirby18 1 year ago 13
@CaptKirby18 Turns out I don't know my head from a hole....
I found shortly after shooting my mouth off, that Welles did indeed say almost every word of this clip on a voice over he was doing for commercials. It is Orson Welles Frozen Peas.
Sorry, my mistake.
bashfulbrother 1 year ago
@bashfulbrother Orson Welles will usually make an appearance on any show that Maurice LaMarche is on--including the most recent season of Futurama. I heard somewhere--probably on a DVD commentary--that Maurice always quotes Orson Welles commercial outtakes to warm up his voice before he records.
thespecialneedsgroup 7 months ago
@thespecialneedsgroup Like they say, you learn something new every day. I never knew that Orson Welles even knew about this. That is interesting. It must be very weird for both of them.
On a completely different tangent, MAN DO I MISS THIS CARTOON.
It was one of the most intelligent programs that have ever been shown on air.
Thanks for the update.
bashfulbrother 7 months ago
@bashfulbrother I'm pretty sure thespecialneedsgroup was speaking metaphorically, that LaMarche brings Orson Welles "back to life" with his dead-on imitation. Orson Welles died in 1985, while Animaniacs didn't premiere until 1993, and this episode didn't air until 1994. There's no way that Welles possibly have known about this clip, let alone have literally been there when it was recorded.
zazelby 7 months ago
@bashfulbrother I'm sorry, bashfulbrother, I meant that the character of Orson Welles as voiced by Maurice LaMarche makes an appearance in most of the shows that LaMarche works on, because he is so well-known for the impression. LaMarche was even nominated for an Emmy for the Futurama performance I mentioned. I can't say for sure if Orson Welles was aware of LaMarche's impression of him, though by the time he died in 1985, LaMarche was a fairly prominent stand-up, so it is possible.
thespecialneedsgroup 7 months ago
@thespecialneedsgroup my favorite episode was Billy Joe Bob Brain. Another great one was the Minnesota Flemish and all the Barn raisings. I still laugh thinking about that episode.
bashfulbrother 6 months ago
i found this from another version of this - it synchs to the audio of Welles' speech!
oetpay 1 year ago
@oetpay which is pointless, this was a parody, of course it has a lot of similiarities...the real welles rant is much funnier than trying to match it up with this
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 um... i think you misunderstood. "it", in the sentence above, is an anaphoric reference - it refers to the same thing as "this" does, in other words. THIS video was made, by its creators, to sync up to the audio of Welles' rant.
now i realise parsing standard english grammar isn't as much of a strong suit for you youtubers as needless hostility, but still.
oetpay 1 year ago
@oetpay I think that your ranting to a reply that you misunderstood about how I misunderstood shows more about you than anything I said shows anything beyond my unnecessary belligerence, which has nothing to do with youtube. I could not give less of a shit about the video that syncs the real speech, since I can have the real speech without cartoon characters. Your it emphasized "another version", it could only have emphasized "another version", I gave the right reading!
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 you might want to look up rant in a dictionary. also, "your it emphasized" is nonsensical, but mainly; the emphasis is your own. "another version of this" is a noun phrase, which must be read as a whole, not separated so you can avoid error.
it's fairly easy for me to realise you gave the incorrect reading, because i wrote it. if you want any more proof that under standard english, the way i intended is the only interpretation - i'll send photos of my linguistics textbooks.
oetpay 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 wait, you mean your "it" emphasized! okay, that's not nonsensical. still wrong, since it has no emphatic functions and still refers to the whole phrase "another version of this", but hey.
oetpay 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 hahah, um woops - have just noticed the ambiguity. am not familiar enough with videos that i accounted for the possibility of adapting a video to sync with speech, which does indeed mean the it could have referred to a different video. sorry; it turns out your grammar is as good as your rage!
oetpay 1 year ago
@oetpay no hard feelings, I just like arguing and being belligerent ^_^
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
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CaptKirby18 1 year ago
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There making fun of william shatner. lol.
lashkaretoiba 1 year ago
@lashkaretoiba not actually
killpineapple 1 year ago
@lashkaretoiba No, "there" (they're) not, they are spoofing Orson Welles; read the description. Shatner sounds nothing like Welles, btw.
RossiniSoprano 1 year ago
Brain, please take over the world already!
craneywatch 1 year ago
Goodness, we watched this as children? I admire the respect the creators had in presenting us with such a brilliant homage. Not that that many of us got it when we were children, mind you. :)
SchizoSchematic 1 year ago 7
this show took me back
youngtimmy59 1 year ago
This was perfect, if you play the Orson Welles version, "Brain/Maurice LeMarche" is dead on, great job, Lol
septemberwn 1 year ago
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septemberwn 1 year ago
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this is fucking censored ass hats get a tv. or ask your parents.
Trumanime 1 year ago
@Trumanime damn dude you have some fucking issues
CaptKirby18 1 year ago 23
That woman doesn't happen to be based off the show's voice caster Andrea Romano would it?
kerred 1 year ago
@kerred Yep. Voiced by her too.
Xyrsk 1 year ago
XD "Like a NARF but from outside"
Beautiful!
SliceOfDog 1 year ago
3:30 Orson: "This is a lot of shit, you know that?" xD
Calick 1 year ago
NARF!!!!!
bobbyewing311 1 year ago
They replaced "Go down on you" with "Make cheese for you", classic
VentMultimedia 1 year ago 76
@VentMultimedia: I know right! LOL! Awesome!
robynsegg 10 months ago
this show was and is still shall I say: "genius"
islespatrick 1 year ago
Brain's voice is pretty awesome!
arandomperson3 1 year ago
everyone compares The Brain's voice to Orson Welles but whenever I hear it I always think Vincent Price with Orson's enunciation
ZippermouthDune 1 year ago 4
@ZippermouthDune Funny that Maurice Lamarche also voiced Orson Wells in the critic and Ed Wood.
das81 1 year ago
@ZippermouthDune "I always think Vincent Price with Orson's enunciation"
Well then he's doing a good job, because LaMarche has been quoted to say Brain is like "65% Orson Welles, 35% Vincent Price" ;)
I love the self-referential "You'll just have to find an actor who does......impressions" joke at the end. (as das81 pointed out, LaMarche has played Welles multiple times). Such a goddamn smart show....the next generations of kids won't experience anything like this :(
TheBilly 1 year ago 5
@TheBilly I love it when shows pull self-referential jokes. Simpsons would be another example. On "Bart Gets Famous" Bart says that being repetitive is his job 3 times!. At the end of the episode they lampoon every catchphrase on the show. Second, on that episode where they reveal Skinner is an impostor, everyone in Springfield receives it quite negatively just like the viewers did.
Great stuff.
RobochaoXX 1 year ago
You're such pests...
jruwing87 1 year ago
what luck, theres a french fry stuck in my beard
drroxxo1 1 year ago 3
Spielberg needs to go back to producing cartoons. I'd rather watch his works of art than the drivel that's on television today.
PancakesoftheLove 1 year ago
This basically tells kids not to follow their dreams.
EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb 1 year ago
Brilliant, never gonna see stuff like this again folks
jamesofalltrades 1 year ago 2
this and Popeye are my favorite shows in the world
lilgantz251 1 year ago
This is one reason why cartoons more than 10 years ago are so amazing, compared what you get today.
ThatBoringAccount 1 year ago
@ThatBoringAccount So true, same goes for the Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM show, that and Animanics where some of the best shows ever made.
MercenaryX21 1 year ago
I remember always skipping over this from my Animaniacs video tape thinking it was boring. It's interesting actually knowing the backstory of Orson Welles's downward turn doing advertising.
This is the kind of stuff cartoons don't have anymore. Humor that has longevity.
LilLuna1985 1 year ago
@LilLuna1985 You're an idiot for passing over Pinky and the Brain. I'm sorry :)
VanAngelic 1 year ago
@VanAngelic YEAH YOU'RE A FUCKING IDIOT GO READ YOUR TWILIGHT OR SOMETHING, HOW DARE YOU BE A KID AND MAKE KIDDY DECISIONS AT ONE POINT
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 Lol wow, calm down buddy. What makes you think i read twilight?
VanAngelic 1 year ago
@VanAngelic dear god your reading comprehension is terrible
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 lol you're funny :)
VanAngelic 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 wow..................your making assumptions so doesnt that make you the kid? after all kids never read into the whole truth
BlackScarabZ 1 year ago
@BlackScarabZ the only assumption I made was that your insulting VanAngelic made you a fucking asshole; I reiterate, your reading comprehension is terrible, I am not telling you why because it is a lot funnier to see you not get it
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 also you are watching PINKY AND THE BRAIN! SERIOUSLY!
BlackScarabZ 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 1: it was VanAngelic insulting LilLuna. 2: this is not a reply to either of those people.
these two facts lend your comments about reading comprehension a subtle irony that i really doubt you'll appreciate.
oetpay 1 year ago
We must be done be 6:00 P.M. lol
CamdenDear 1 year ago
thats very clever
MrAngelpulido 1 year ago
Here under protest is beef burgers.
ClueSign 1 year ago 3
@ClueSign Ironic, because at that stage of his life, I don't think Orson Welles would have protested the prospect of beef burgers.
ninjast4r 1 year ago
It's beautiful how this is only for adults watching with their kids, but it can still be funny to the kids. They don't make shows like this anymore.
samuraikarasu 1 year ago
@samuraikarasu You need to watch The Marvellous Midadventures Of Flapjack, my friend.
doogdoogdoog 1 year ago
@samuraikarasu I agree...they don't, Pinky and The Brain were awesome the only other one I can think of is The Tick. That show (the cartoon) was brilliant. I can still remeber the first episode and the guy saying "I can't do plaid!" Funny stuff!
mikkigg 1 year ago
Now this was rather amusing.
mathislimitless 1 year ago
I can't believe the actor who did Brain also did Orson Welles on the recent Futurama episode. Has anyone seen it?
BoogsterSU2 1 year ago
@BoogsterSU2 That is not unbelievable, that is disappointing; repeating your act and running it into the ground in a worse medium (like this disaster of a Futurama season) is disgusting, and the act was not funny at all (although I think unfortunately that is what is currently sending my video semi-barely-viral right now).
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 Wow, dude, chill out. the latest season of Futurama is on-par with the others and the voice actor for Brain (Maurice LaMarche) already is part of the cast in Futurama (he voices Kif). To call Maurice LaMarche's impersonation of Orson Welles "Running your act into the ground" is completely ridiculous seeing how he's a talented voice actor.
GabeMorris 1 year ago
@GabeMorris do not tell someone to chill out when he says reasonable things you small minded fuckass
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 Protip: insulting someone after claiming you're perfectly calm sort of harms your argument.
Seriously, chill out, man. It's all good. Maurice LaMarche does a great Orson Welles Parody, so of course he ought to make money off it. But he isn't running his act into the ground.
As for Futurama dropping in quality? I'm not convinced here. Maybe your tastes changed, It had been cancelled for a couple years. My personal opinion is that the "revived" futurama is consistently produced.
GabeMorris 1 year ago
@GabeMorris I insult anyone any time for saying something like "chill out" or "calm down" over a situation that involves anything short of shouting. As opposed to responding to your inaccurate claims in depth, deleting your comments, or blocking you, all I am going to do is insult your dumb ass until you stop commenting now. I do not take anyone who says chill out or calm down seriously.
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 You know that might be your problem... You do need to chill out. Calm down. it's all okay, man, we're all friends on the internet. Just, you know, chill out and enjoy your stay, man.
GabeMorris 1 year ago
@GabeMorris You know, your problem is that you think you are a troll. You are just a dumbass/fuckass.
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 Well, I don't think I'm a troll, but aren't trolls usually in the same subset as dumbasses/fuckasses? Not to make a venn diagramm, but I'm fairly certain there's a lot of overlap between troll, dumbass and fuckass.
They certainly aren't mutually exclusive.
Also, i'm wounded by your insults. Why are you so rude, Captain Kirby Eighteen?
GabeMorris 1 year ago
@GabeMorris Sorry, I was in a bad mood...Peter Parker chose Gwen Stacy over Mary Jane and it kind of upset me. Fortunately I know that the Green Goblin is going to kill that bitch any time now.
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 Well, that's spoileriffic, but cool.
Plus, you can't overlook the fact that Spider-man plays a pretty big role in her death. you could say... Spider-Man kills her.
GabeMorris 1 year ago
@GabeMorris Yeah something from the early 1970s can definitely be spoiled. I went back in time to the 1970s and knocked up your mom, SORRY TO SPOIL IT.
No, Spider-Man does not kill her, stop being ridiculous.
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
@BoogsterSU2 Maurice LaMarche yah
BlackScarabZ 1 year ago
Even if you don't get the Orson Welles reference, its hilarious to watch Brain act like a douche! lol.
NYG4LIFE123 1 year ago 2
When I first saw this episode I didn't know what was being referenced but it was hilarious none the less.
RiseofMarine 1 year ago
AHHH the french!
Hethrin 1 year ago
i dont know whats funnier the "ill go down on you" on the orsen wells real out take or "ill make you cheese"
halloweenfan92 1 year ago
epic! he does it so good!
"if you want it you must find an actor who does impressions" - great!
LtDanw 1 year ago
I love how LaMarche always does this bit to prepare himself for Welles mode. *lol*
"And I'll... make cheese for you."
Even as risque as this show got, there's NO WAY they could get Brain to say the REAL line there. *lmao*
Bobzeaux 1 year ago
@Bobzeaux I think part of it was probably network censorship (go down on you is not "humorous", so much as blatantly sexual) and also that they did come up with a good joke to replace it...it is hard to guess which came first, the censorship or the joke!
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
Hmm.. so "make cheese for" means "go down on"?
Dimbnd 1 year ago 5
@Dimbnd I'm sure that if you are a mouse it does.
brifitz1980 1 year ago
@Dimbnd @Dimbnd I'm sure that if you are a mouse it does.
brifitz1980 1 year ago
OMG! the memories! After school! Ditch the homework! Animaniacs is on!
PhantomLyric 1 year ago
I read somewhere that the writer's of the sketch called it "a $250,000 inside joke", which if you know the joke makes total sense.
reginaroadie 1 year ago 2
@Peeteb74 what if I like my tits with artifacts?
CaptKirby18 1 year ago
@CaptKirby18 That was pure genius. I hope enough people get it (:
darkjumpy 1 year ago
wow they pulled the dialogue of most of this DIRECTLY from the actual event. Which is funny but wayyy out of my league when i was watching this show. I had no idea who Orson Welles was much less knowledge of his "Frozen Peas" ad. Still, i think this is hilarious and they get big props for being so savvy. Im sure me and alot of other kids at the time wud've tuned this out tho lol
tjlittle87 1 year ago 2
...Is the voice actor for Brain the one that does the voice of The Critic's depiction of Orson Welles?
zed617 1 year ago 14
@zed617: Yes, Maurice LaMarche.
thunderstruck665 1 year ago