Orson Welles | Frozen Peas Animated

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  • "YES ALWAYS"
    In the godfather of all outtakes, Orson Welles struggles under the pressures of doing the voice over for Findus frozen foods commercials. Brought to life in this animated short
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  • @SoleaGalilei
    @SoleaGalilei ปีที่แล้ว +674

    As funny as these outtakes are, what really strikes me is that the only reason he's annoyed is that he's actually paying attention to the copy and the visuals. I'm sure many actors doing a commercial would be completely tuned out and would just read the copy no matter how stupid it was and not care a bit.

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  ปีที่แล้ว +124

      He was the greatest film director of all time, and naturally he couldn't help himself. He was just operating on a whole other level. All the mistakes with the copy and visuals just leaped out at him. But still, it's hilarious to see just how much it got under his skin and pushed him over the edge.

    • @wdavem
      @wdavem ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@drmoonrat yeah he actually wanted it to work!

    • @Johnconno
      @Johnconno 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      This is a genius.
      Tell me different and I'll go down on you.

    • @Renorick1
      @Renorick1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​@@Johnconno
      Um. Do you want to rephrase that?

    • @h.p.lovecraft936
      @h.p.lovecraft936 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Johnconno what?

  • @economicist2011
    @economicist2011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1166

    AAAAAAH the Lincolnshire frozen peas have always been celebrated for their excellence.

    • @matthewgray469
      @matthewgray469 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      "Duz'nt he do anythin'?

    • @micahchambers5096
      @micahchambers5096 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Therizagaliforniafieldthatstrives... for that samelincolnshire excellence

    • @gspendlove
      @gspendlove 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Wahaaa the peas.

    • @1lobster
      @1lobster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      But there is a farm in Delaware which strives for that same excellence.

    • @aniquinstark4347
      @aniquinstark4347 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      "these were not grown in Lincolnshire but they have a date on them so they are good"

  • @concerned1
    @concerned1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +785

    Only Orson could make a timeless drama out of a peas commercial.

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      When you hire someone, you hire the whole person. Orson was so very right about the god-awful writing of the ad copy; I'd have argued it out as well, being somewhat of a stickler for the English language and the never-ending battle against poor writing. The scripts were offensive to his very being as well, and being the voice talent he obviously was, he had every right....nay, a duty! to protest the shoddy abomination that the world would know he had a hand in. That would be like having Sir Winston Churchill read bad ad copy or scripts; he'd have none of it, and either re-written it himself on the sport, or demand it be put right instanter.

    • @man.inblack
      @man.inblack ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ​@@markh.6687 This was the early era of the corporate state, so its the first generation of executive management and their desperate need to play a part in what is going on.
      They cannot have the talent think they are beyond criticism, because it allows the 'employee' to think he's more valuable than they are willing to pay for. I've watched them ruin efficency and performances thru micromanagement

    • @tommyblack7998
      @tommyblack7998 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@markh.6687 Churchill was a megalomaniac responsible for the deaths of tens of millions in WW 1 and WW 2. He was too drunk to do those famous radio speeches. They were done by an actor who did Winnie The Pooh. Churchill should have been strung up after WW 2. Anyway, he went to hell in 1965, so now he knows.

    • @kenlieck7756
      @kenlieck7756 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@man.inblack OTOH, if this obsessively nit picky egomaniac had been chosen to direct the great cinematic masterwork that was Monty Python's "Great Frozen Pea Relaunch of 1971" [th-cam.com/video/tnsFO-rgOys/w-d-xo.html] it would likely never have even been completed!

    • @mindriot91_96
      @mindriot91_96 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@man.inblack Mio Dio, you take forever to say nothing. 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @179cpv
    @179cpv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1185

    “In the depths of your ignorance, what is it you want?” My favorite part of the whole thing.

    • @pyroicarus1203
      @pyroicarus1203 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Time Stamp: 4:35

    • @gabrielboorom9778
      @gabrielboorom9778 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      My relationship with my whole family, summed up by Orson Welles. 😋

    • @user-qj9en1kp1m
      @user-qj9en1kp1m 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      "I am recording this for you guys and I played Othello. Good God!"

    • @NancyDrewe
      @NancyDrewe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      It’s all that crumb crisp coating!! lol I watch this and Paul Masson when I need cheering up. :)

    • @matthewgray469
      @matthewgray469 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@NancyDrewe MaaHaa The French!

  • @Rodshark75
    @Rodshark75 ปีที่แล้ว +297

    I love the sheer insanity that Animaniacs took this line for line for a Pinky and the Brain throwaway cartoon.

    • @rpelzer
      @rpelzer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      "Yes, Always" was HARDLY a throwaway Animaniacs cartoon.... Maurice LaMarche executed that perfectly! (Of course he would, since Brain is essentially Orson Welles' voice)

    • @popculturehero
      @popculturehero 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I think that was the critic.

    • @rpelzer
      @rpelzer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@popculturehero nope... the OP just added a snippet of The Critic at the beginning for funsies
      th-cam.com/video/7uWW--w4SRs/w-d-xo.html

    • @GELTONZ
      @GELTONZ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@rpelzer Because that was his warm up! I forget where I heard it, but before voicing Brain he would recite Frozen Peas so eventually they just said "Heck with it" and animated it. So uhh...yes. Yes he practiced it.
      The best part was that I had seen that episode like a decade and a half before finding out about Frozen Peas. Weirdest feeling of Deja Vu, lemme tell ya'!

    • @lawrence142002
      @lawrence142002 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Maurice LaMarche would re-enact the commercial word perfect as a warm up exercise during Anamaniacs, because the Brain's voice is based on Welles'.

  • @rwdplz1
    @rwdplz1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +714

    What luck, there's a french fry stuck in my beard...

    • @sabatino1977
      @sabatino1977 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      rwdplz1 mmmm, they’re even better when you’re dead!

    • @RealGateGuardian
      @RealGateGuardian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Filled with hardy goodness and green penis, no wait, that's terrible! I quit!

    • @TiroDvD
      @TiroDvD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I really wish and hope that at a Con somewhere, someone just approaches Mr. Lemarche and asks him to tell the audience his thoughts about frozen peas. Then everyone applauses. Then he goes on for about 10 minutes with whatever he wants.

    • @MrPjw5
      @MrPjw5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      TiroDvD Oh he’s talked about Welles before, many times in fact.

    • @TiroDvD
      @TiroDvD 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrPjw5 But did he talk about Frozen Peas?

  • @ATM180
    @ATM180 4 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    I love how "This is a lot of shit, you know that" was said as a statement, not a question.

  • @Sincopare
    @Sincopare 5 ปีที่แล้ว +436

    “I take direction from one person, UNDER PROTEST, but for two I don’t sit still...but who the hell are you anyway?”

    • @peterandreyev
      @peterandreyev 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      "Well I'm the engineer."

    • @Brainwave101
      @Brainwave101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@peterandreyev "Well why the hell are you asking me for another one?"

    • @peterandreyev
      @peterandreyev 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@Brainwave101 "...Well I felt that there was a slight gunk and I would like-just like it to be safe."

    • @samkessel5411
      @samkessel5411 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@peterandreyev "Jesus!... What is a gonk? Do you mind telling me what that is?"

    • @peterandreyev
      @peterandreyev 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@samkessel5411 "Well, a bang from outside."

  • @frasertones8519
    @frasertones8519 2 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    "We're talking about them growing and she's picked 'em." Too funny!!

  • @leroy_jenkenz1541
    @leroy_jenkenz1541 6 ปีที่แล้ว +589

    This is how the voice actor auditioned for brain on pinky and the brain. They even wrote this into the show

    • @UntouchableMonkey
      @UntouchableMonkey 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      They're even better when you're dead!

    • @jdmaine51084
      @jdmaine51084 6 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      For the longest time, I always thought the Rosebud Frozen Peas scene from "The Critic" was the funniest thing ever. Then I learned that this whole thing had ACTUALLY happened, and the guy from The Critic sounded JUST LIKE WELLES!

    • @Kevinschart
      @Kevinschart 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      i grew up on animaniacs and only recently found out that brain was supposed to sound like orson welles. I don't think brain really sounds like him though

    • @luccafortestoledo1300
      @luccafortestoledo1300 6 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Kevin Schart
      Maurice says that Brain's voice is 70% Orson Welles, 20% Vincent Prince and 10% someone else he himself can't figure out.
      I only hear Vincent Prince in Brain's voice.

    • @Kevinschart
      @Kevinschart 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      yeah i definitely hear Vincent

  • @igottwopeepees
    @igottwopeepees 6 ปีที่แล้ว +384

    I feel like Orson Welles recording a frozen peas commercial in my day to day life.

    • @SmallSpoonBrigade
      @SmallSpoonBrigade 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thanks to TH-cam, I now know where they got the idea for him doing a pea commercial on The Critic. full of country goodness and green pea-ness.

    • @peterandreyev
      @peterandreyev 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@SmallSpoonBrigade Wait that's terrible. I quit!

    • @idontknow164
      @idontknow164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same.

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Life is made much more difficult by all the idiots and incompetents we deal with daily. I mean, how do some of these people dress and feed themselves, let alone drive to work??

    • @iamathousandapples
      @iamathousandapples 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@peterandreyevwell maybe just a few for the road

  • @doodelli
    @doodelli 5 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Love the way he pauses and says ”...your FRIEND.” My god, what shade.

  • @Diggy22
    @Diggy22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    You know what goes good with frozen peas? Aaaahhh, a French champagne by Paul Masson 🍾🥂😁

    • @ProjectFlashlight612
      @ProjectFlashlight612 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      It's known for its excellence

    • @matthewgray469
      @matthewgray469 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@ProjectFlashlight612 Love it when he taps the label on the bottle

    • @ProjectFlashlight612
      @ProjectFlashlight612 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@matthewgray469 Yeah lol

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "We will sell no wine, before you pay for it." -- parody seen years ago on TV.

    • @timmy841212
      @timmy841212 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Funny thing about the Paul Masson wine was that Orson thought it tasted cheap as fuck. 😂

  • @ericad8616
    @ericad8616 2 ปีที่แล้ว +363

    I have seen Orson Welles acting in Citizen Kane, I have watched him relay stories of his childhood to1970s era daytime talk show hosts, I have heard him arguing about peas in July and the gathering of cod in Norway, but no matter what the setting or the subject matter, If Orson Welles is speaking about it, he makes it sound infinitely more important and interesting than anyone else possibly could.

    • @RED01SEA
      @RED01SEA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      True

    • @williambasham796
      @williambasham796 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I just know him as Unicron.

    • @HassoBenSoba
      @HassoBenSoba 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Except maybe Charles Laughton

    • @victorm152
      @victorm152 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      even when he's drunk while doing a literal wine commercial?

    • @Mordecrox
      @Mordecrox ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The way you phrase that makes you sound like the 10 Thousand Year Man from an old Brazilian pop song by Raul Seixas, where the eponymous character relates how he bore witness to great and not so great events in mankind's history

  • @flatscan1978
    @flatscan1978 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    On the set of "Star Wars", Harrison Ford once said to George Lucas (less eloquently than Orson, I might add):
    'George! You can type this shit, but you sure can't say it! Move your mouth when you're typing!'
    The prequels (and Hayden Christensen's performance) proved him right.
    This situation seems a little bit similar to me.

    • @MegaAstroFan18
      @MegaAstroFan18 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It didn't really. Hayden Christiansen was performing that way on purpose, because he was playing a socially awkward and very confused young man. And the prequels are great. People have conflicts on set, it's normal, what you ultimately end up hearing may not be what was originally written.
      I didn't know "guh huh huh, George Lucas bad" types like you still existed though. Glad to be disappointed.

    • @timothyfinch7295
      @timothyfinch7295 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@MegaAstroFan18 Stop sucking the Prequels off just because the Sequels were also bad. They're still bad.

  • @gabrielboorom6196
    @gabrielboorom6196 3 ปีที่แล้ว +408

    Orson Wells, who helped make & broadcast the radio version of War of the Worlds, which almost caused a nationwide panic due to how it convinced radio listeners that the invasion was real, decades later is being told how to read a script for a commercial about fish sticks. Life laughs at us all sometimes.

    • @user-wj8tf3kq4m
      @user-wj8tf3kq4m ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Why degrading himself to fish sticks level

    • @deadmeatjb
      @deadmeatjb ปีที่แล้ว +25

      The story of war of the world's mass panic is completely fictional

    • @a-nus
      @a-nus ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@deadmeatjb dilate

    • @deadmeatjb
      @deadmeatjb ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@a-nus agreed

    • @SakuraAvalon
      @SakuraAvalon ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@deadmeatjb Funny to see how the newspapers lied even back then.

  • @huverdoose
    @huverdoose 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I like how he doesn't ask if he knows it's a lot of shit. He _tells_ him.

    • @nate_river_
      @nate_river_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's a very matter-of-fact declaration. I love the way he puts the emphasis on the word "shit", too. Just exactly like you can't emphasise the "in" when saying "in July". 😂

  • @Rubberman202
    @Rubberman202 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I can't help but feel like this is a situation where Orson Welles thinks he's above this kind of thing but desperately needs the money, and yet still can't help but be incredibly critical of the material and direction he's given.

    • @RichardX1
      @RichardX1 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      That's almost certainly what was going on.

  • @SkullThunder
    @SkullThunder หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "Too much directing around here" says Orson Welles. Now that's really funny. If the most prolific director of all time is telling you that you're doing too much directing, you're probably doing a bad job.

  • @mcmuggin8075
    @mcmuggin8075 5 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    3:55 "This is a lot of shit y'know that" his delivery killed me

  • @eleanoretc6751
    @eleanoretc6751 5 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    "Get me a jury and show me how you can say 'In' July and I'll go down on you."
    WHAT??

    • @thisismyname3928
      @thisismyname3928 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Exactly what I want people to answer for me. Nevermind all that "In in July" bullshit.

    • @annereilley4892
      @annereilley4892 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I think it's meant like bow to you, like how the conquered chieftans would kneel to the victor. Just a guess, since he thinks on a grand, mythical level.

    • @thisismyname3928
      @thisismyname3928 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@annereilley4892 Lol...yes, I'm quite sure Orson Welles wasn't propositioning his sound engineer for oral sex...but that's what makes it so hysterical now isn't it?

    • @annereilley4892
      @annereilley4892 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@thisismyname3928 Yes, expressions from the past can sound funny in the context of today's language, like the british word for cigarette. It's also sad to see how far he sunk, debasing himself by doing these commercials for money just to live. it'd be like Einstein doing preparation H commercials, "It is ironic I used preparation H in los alamos while developing the H bomb."

    • @thisismyname3928
      @thisismyname3928 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@annereilley4892 Glad we didn't pull a boner.

  • @JewandGreek
    @JewandGreek 3 ปีที่แล้ว +316

    All ego and nonsense aside, the man had an incredible voice.

    • @bluegum6438
      @bluegum6438 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      It's quite an interesting situation: a man who is by all rights one of the most gifted film makers ever in a diminished state, taking direction from hacks. He's not exactly throwing a tantrum, but he's frustrated at the absurdity of having some idiot jobsworth trying to tell Orson fucking Welles how to read a line. Even if the director was correct, the balls to actually assume that because Welles is collecting a paycheck he can tell his grandmother how to suck eggs is ridiculous.
      His ego is earned, this is like a university lecturer questioning Einstein on whether he used the appropriate math to arrive at his answers.

    • @extenebrislux
      @extenebrislux 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@bluegum6438 Exactly!

    • @CoolGobyFish
      @CoolGobyFish ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@bluegum6438 Orson's ego was bigger than his 400 pound body. He was hired to do a frozen peas commercial. Just read the damn lines and have some respect for the production crew)))

    • @a-nus
      @a-nus ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@CoolGobyFish those hacks deserve no respect.

    • @OuroborosChoked
      @OuroborosChoked ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I think it only seems like he has an ego since we're not getting the full story. These are just snippets of a much longer recording session. We're not seeing how (or if, to be fair) the recording team are trying to micromanage his performance. He's spot on with his criticism of the copy and the direction. For example, there was in "IN July." It was always "every July, ..." and it's awkward as hell to try to emphasize "every" at the start. It makes it seem like you're upset about the event. Just say it to your self and you'll see what I mean: _Every_ July sounds like it should be followed by "that damned Mrs. Buckley and her peas!"

  • @briandelaney9710
    @briandelaney9710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    “We’re talking about them growing and she’s picked them “

    • @davidjames579
      @davidjames579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He's not wrong. Talking about it after we've seen renders the monolog meaningless.

  • @andyspiegel4877
    @andyspiegel4877 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    In my ad agency career -- I was a copywriter -- I first heard this in the 60s on a bootleg tap. It's classic. Still makes me laugh.
    I once bumped into Welles, one of my lifelong heroes, at an LA recording studio and was too flummoxed to say anything. I still regret that.

  • @danielscissorhands
    @danielscissorhands 5 ปีที่แล้ว +265

    Only Christopher Walken could emphasize "In" and "beef." :D

    • @mushroomhead3619
      @mushroomhead3619 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Brain: No! Anything but Christopher Walken!

    • @MkeKen67
      @MkeKen67 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Your comment needs more cow bell.

    • @mikekazz5353
      @mikekazz5353 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Christopher Walken: good night Room, good NIGHT moon, good Night COW jumpimg OVER the moon.

    • @brettrockford2564
      @brettrockford2564 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      danielscissorhands And Kirk Douglas.

    • @Rbills02
      @Rbills02 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Mike Kazz
      Children...please...scooch forward. Don’t make me tell you again...about the scoooching. You in the red...chop, chop.

  • @tomservo5007
    @tomservo5007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    "How was your day, Honey? How was working with Mr. Wells? I know he's your hero since childhood, you make me watch that movie with you at least twice a year."

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      darling* ;-)

    • @azmiraclegirl441
      @azmiraclegirl441 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why is this so goddamn funny? I'm literally ugly-laughing

  • @theeNappy
    @theeNappy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +512

    To be fair, the Engineer should NOT EVER give acting notes, that's the director's job.
    To also be fair, the actor should take the director's notes.

    • @obscureentertainment8303
      @obscureentertainment8303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      I once acted in a radio production and for two whole recording sessions, the director and the sound engineer constantly argued and tried to take control away from the other. It was troublesome.

    • @watson-tv
      @watson-tv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      The engineer should have input, but to the director. He shouldnt be talking to the actor.

    • @benjaminsmarzynski734
      @benjaminsmarzynski734 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      But its orson welles

    • @blazingblight2706
      @blazingblight2706 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @LiveOkie Fame/recognition doesn't however give someone the right to be a dick.

    • @joeyshoe9095
      @joeyshoe9095 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      He didn't "give notes." The engineer asked him to repeat the line as he felt he had flaws in the sound recording - That's a perfectly reasonable request however he should have explained it to the director first before talking. Also Welles is being difficult instead of reading the line - Its a frozen peas commercial not a movie script.

  • @stilesbentley1701
    @stilesbentley1701 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I don’t know what I like better… When he offers to go down on the guy, when he asks what is a gonk or crumb crisp coating. From the depths of my ignorance I can’t decide which I like better.

  • @jamestackettvideo
    @jamestackettvideo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Here, under protest...is BEFF BURGERS

    • @dielaughing73
      @dielaughing73 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Every July, BEEF GROWS THERE!!!

    • @trenn1
      @trenn1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      This is a lot of S**T, you know that....!

    • @NancyDrewe
      @NancyDrewe 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      LMAO. Thanks, so funny!!

    • @HandOfKwll
      @HandOfKwll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They’re even better RAW!!!

    • @kevinbouchard7107
      @kevinbouchard7107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's the phrase I use for mic checks and I've yet to see any recognition at all for it. So disappointing.

  • @mattpurvis927
    @mattpurvis927 5 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    They paid Mr. Wells in crumb crisp coating...but his agent got 15%
    He was NOT happy.

    • @thalivenom4972
      @thalivenom4972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      can you put more emphasis on the IN please.

    • @movinginsilence1254
      @movinginsilence1254 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@thalivenom4972 why? That doesn't make any sense.

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      According to the story of "Frozen Peas", Orson finally walked out rather than deal with the incredibly bad writing and clueless director.

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thalivenom4972 Kind of like Bill Clinton's infamous "That depends on how you define 'is'".

  • @jerryhenson3916
    @jerryhenson3916 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    3:38 actually makes a lot of sense.
    Dialogue in movies and TV often sound like it isn't written as a conversation, and I never figured out how to deserve how describe it until Orson Welles said it however many decades ago.

    • @stevej.1428
      @stevej.1428 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      100% agree. If they had a clue they'd have taken his advice and applied it and been thankful for the critique like they were 1st year know-nothing students and he was their professor.

  • @SallySallySallySally
    @SallySallySallySally 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    The man was so devoted to his craft and so driven to finance it that he ... did this! That's someone I respect. Welles is The Master. And such great pipes too!

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nope it's not fine drama it's just a f****** commercial read the copy get your check and go if you were such a great actor you wouldn't be doing a commercial

  • @lelandfranklin3487
    @lelandfranklin3487 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    "Your friend..." always gets me.

  • @cha5
    @cha5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    The animation here reminds me of Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python animation, which is a good thing.😄

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      cha5 I will take that as a compliment for sure. Gilliam is my favorite

    • @lunaracc914
      @lunaracc914 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what I was thinking too

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Dear Sir or Madam! I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about all these Monty Python's Flying Circus references in the comments. Your fictionally, Biggles, Algy (deceased) and Ginger.

  • @latenightcashews
    @latenightcashews 6 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    "WHAT IS A GONK YOU MIND TELLING ME WHAT THAT IS?" LOL

  • @DocJamesH
    @DocJamesH 6 ปีที่แล้ว +298

    I never watched this Angela Anaconda episode

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      What an obscure reference. Too funny

    • @alejandromolina7270
      @alejandromolina7270 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I never expect that show ever to be reference.

    • @RealGateGuardian
      @RealGateGuardian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's show sucks ass SO BAD, i never thought a reference to it would be funny

    • @TiroDvD
      @TiroDvD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And then Orsen will say:

    • @jamesoffutt2801
      @jamesoffutt2801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Haha!! I loved that show!!

  • @AsitorCorporation
    @AsitorCorporation 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    I thought the clip of him getting drunk on Champagne was all I'd get to see. I want more of these behind the scenes clips now.

    • @harrodsongs
      @harrodsongs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do a search for "William Shatner" "sabotage." You're welcome.

  • @craigkleber9316
    @craigkleber9316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    I am a retired ad executive and I remember, not fondly, the absolutely pretentious and puffed up ‘creative’ people who believe they are writers in the truest sense and see their work as small film… no it’s just selling that uses creativity (just). It’s fabulous the way Welles cuts them up and excoriates them. Bravo.

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 ปีที่แล้ว

      The problem here is it's just a f****** commercial read the goddamn copy get your check and go

    • @Cheapiebeepie
      @Cheapiebeepie 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Verily

    • @stevej.1428
      @stevej.1428 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      My father used to be an ad writer, both freelance and for firms. If Findus frozen foods knew any better, they'd have skipped the ad firm altogether and just hired Welles to write the copy, direct the accompanying video and do the voice. Would have gotten a better product and spent a lot less money than the story boarding alone probably cost them.

  • @RumbleFish69
    @RumbleFish69 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This man was a perfectionist to the end! Many people confuse perfection with being difficult. People also forget that his name was attached to all of these commercials, so he wanted to protect his reputation, as well.

  • @rockmanx20
    @rockmanx20 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    A talent like him, wasted only because Hollywood was evil with this man.

    • @davidemmet7343
      @davidemmet7343 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Watch the documentary about Orson Welle's last unreleased film
      The making of the other side of the Wind, and you might come to think that Orson Welles himself played a part in it as well

    • @michaelmakes1225
      @michaelmakes1225 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      He was often his own worst enemy, couldn't budget,and wouldn't see projects through..having to rely on "other people's money", the bane of his existence..

    • @The-Demon-Cola
      @The-Demon-Cola ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Maybe it was just a mixture of both.

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh I think he had quite a part of why he was treated like s***

    • @KairuHakubi
      @KairuHakubi ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@hankkingsley9300 it takes two to tango. I don't think anyone but him could truly untangle it all, and even then probably not. That's why the true mark is being kind and understanding even when it's totally undeserved.

  • @scowlfarm3061
    @scowlfarm3061 6 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Mwaw haa it's the Paul Mason can of peas

    • @SuperWolsey
      @SuperWolsey 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Matthew Kaprutus the most sexualence peas

    • @dielaughing73
      @dielaughing73 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      MwAAAaa the Frrrnnnch

    • @noisepuppet
      @noisepuppet 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ....... Champagne

    • @bunnyfeet123
      @bunnyfeet123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      isz fermended in duh boddle

    • @Triumph2024.
      @Triumph2024. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ..hasalwaysbeenknownitsexcellence...

  • @Bobsheaux
    @Bobsheaux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    IT'S!
    Orson Welles' Flying Circusssssssssssssssss!

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Bobsheaux hahaha yes

    • @trollskullkid69
      @trollskullkid69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bobsheaux!!

    • @Bobsheaux
      @Bobsheaux 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@lordgazimus5662
      And there was much rejoicing.
      "Yaaaaayyyy...."

    • @RealGateGuardian
      @RealGateGuardian 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Bobsheaux then they ate the sound engineer. And there was much rejoicing.
      Yay...

  • @Douglas-nj5cr
    @Douglas-nj5cr หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you
    I never realized that Orson Welles was such a huge😂 comedian

  • @james5460
    @james5460 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    This is beyond brilliant, Orson was mad as hell and he wasn't going to take it any longer!

  • @GhostPlanetFilms
    @GhostPlanetFilms 6 ปีที่แล้ว +287

    How much of it is Orson being a diva, and Orson being right?

    • @ThatGuyNamedJoe
      @ThatGuyNamedJoe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      GhostPlanetFilms 100% both

    • @HC-cb4yp
      @HC-cb4yp 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      IT'S A FROZEN FOOD AD!! AN AD!! FOR FROZEN... FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

    • @MarkBelll
      @MarkBelll 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      feefty/feefty

    • @ouchiegiverjr
      @ouchiegiverjr 6 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      GhostPlanetFilms both, the man wasn't some stuck up prick who didn't know anything, he was a legend. It's true he was very obnoxious but when your that good. You kinda have that right.

    • @alainjames9556
      @alainjames9556 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      We are hearing Orson coping with the crap he had to do in order to raise money for his film projects.

  • @TerrenceNowicki
    @TerrenceNowicki 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    We know a remote moon orbiting Cybertron; every July Autobots grow there.

    • @NevrSilent
      @NevrSilent 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How deflating it must have been to shuffle off your mortal coil with the voice of Unicron being your final performance.

  • @curtisleblanc5897
    @curtisleblanc5897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    " He isn't thinking. "
    Damn, Orson.

  • @SbsGrinth
    @SbsGrinth ปีที่แล้ว +8

    He can't get over the 'green peaness' when it shows up.
    If you know that reference you are among the gods.

  • @Astrithor
    @Astrithor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    You know what, as someone trying to break into voice acting, I can totally understand Orson's frustration here. Man was an acting legend by this point, and he's got the most inane directing notes being thrown at him by some peon on a food commercial

    • @scrubbingdoubles8585
      @scrubbingdoubles8585 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jesus loves you

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You want the paycheck you do it the way the boss says

    • @johnstitt2615
      @johnstitt2615 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@hankkingsley9300 yes. The way Orson wanted it.

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@scrubbingdoubles8585 actually Jesus hasn't arrived yet will let you know when he does

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cute read so much misspelled crap Bi-Lo Ranch sales weasels used to beat the s*** out of all of them

  • @roxybrooks6937
    @roxybrooks6937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Since I adore Orson Welles, I find this hilarious 😜

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Me too. He was truly a genius. But man was he ever having g a hard time

    • @feloria1862
      @feloria1862 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Seems like a prick to me, the recording guys were calm but Orson was losing his shit over nothing.

    • @blightedgrounds
      @blightedgrounds 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well, I'm sure that in the depths of our ignorance, he'd despise all of us

  • @marlabeard5352
    @marlabeard5352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    This segment from 3:02 to 3:18 is so true. When I recorded narration for instructional videos, I found out very quickly that what works on the page doesn't work well when reading it out loud.

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because the idiots who write it have never had to voice it professionally

    • @KairuHakubi
      @KairuHakubi ปีที่แล้ว +3

      When I went to radio college, I was astounded to find that even things from the _associated press_ had major mistakes, spelling problems, things that would throw you off
      I then had a job for years where I'd assembly-line read and record hundreds of little short clips a day, alternating with writing and assembling them, and the other writers would just.. frequently put zero thought into how they did it, make it so difficult to read without jumbling it up, leaving my numbers lower from all the retakes. diversity hires, natch. but not exclusively.

  • @LinXGUA
    @LinXGUA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "The right reading is the one that I'm giving you!"
    "At the moment."
    oof

  • @andyjay729
    @andyjay729 7 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Well, he was right. You usually don't emphasize "in" when you're saying "in July".

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      "Get me a jury and prove me me how you can say it. . . "

    • @ThatGuyNamedJoe
      @ThatGuyNamedJoe 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      *IN* july
      Did it

    • @HC-cb4yp
      @HC-cb4yp 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Can you emphasize "suck" and "me?"

    • @ouchiegiverjr
      @ouchiegiverjr 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That Guy Named Joe it still does sounds weird

    • @jasonmnosaj
      @jasonmnosaj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I guess the point was that even if you did it would sound weird. As if you are emphasizing the idea of being the month itself rather then inside of it. It's a passage of time rather then a place to be. You can emphasize being IN the hospital and it makes sense, but you try emphasizing that you are IN 12:45pm and you sound like a lunatic.

  • @hyperpowerfulform5132
    @hyperpowerfulform5132 6 ปีที่แล้ว +469

    As funny as this is. He has a point, why _would_ you emphasize "in" instead of "July" or "beef" instead of "prairie-fed"? You emphasize "July" to show what month you are talking about. You emphasize "prairie-fed" instead of "beef" to show that the cows are fed from a prairie!
    I could see why this hurt his brain, it hurts mine! IN july, prairie-fed BEEF. Urg. That's not how well-constructed sentences work.

    • @feartactics
      @feartactics 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      ironically findus was found to use horsemeat instead of beef decades later

    • @lillybeach2391
      @lillybeach2391 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Philip Wow...

    • @MkeKen67
      @MkeKen67 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You should check out Norm MacDonald making fun of the Man Grate ad copy.

    • @mikekazz5353
      @mikekazz5353 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      He's a diva, but he's a correct diva.

    • @mikekazz5353
      @mikekazz5353 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Or a snowy field in July, or show already pick peas and describing a field that's not harvested yet.

  • @suzieqtruth6377
    @suzieqtruth6377 3 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    This actually makes me love Orson Welles even more. The copy is idiotic and he’s right they are fools.

  • @ron8675309
    @ron8675309 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Pinky and the Brain brought me here after 26 years of living in ignorance.

  • @TheMATMAN316
    @TheMATMAN316 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    There was a NARF from outside

  • @BennyLlama39
    @BennyLlama39 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Orson: "There's too much directing around here."
    Me: I know the feeling.

  • @ObsidianDragon7030
    @ObsidianDragon7030 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Half expecting to hear a "Mr. Wells, this is Clem Fandango, can you hear me?"

  • @richardenglish2195
    @richardenglish2195 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I grew up in Lincolnshire and I'm a big fan of Orson Welles, so hearing him refer to my natal patch gives me a real buzz every time.

  • @allys744
    @allys744 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    “I’ll go down on you” BRO WHAT 🤣😳

  • @PS3DJ09
    @PS3DJ09 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    For your last day on the job how fun it would be to take on the Orson Welles mentality everytime a coworker or supervisor crosses you.

    • @A-Nonnie-Mouse
      @A-Nonnie-Mouse ปีที่แล้ว +2

      To your boss: "One more word out of you and you go!" 😂

    • @mikidelasislas
      @mikidelasislas 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "This is a lot of shit, you know that" is honestly something I may or may not want to say when I'm handed a pile of paperwork, while "In the DEPTHS of your ignorance what is it that you want?" is when I'm about to snap.

  • @davidjames579
    @davidjames579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Orson should have given Peas a chance.

  • @HC-cb4yp
    @HC-cb4yp 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Boy, did John Candy nail this one on SCTV.

  • @essa6315
    @essa6315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He knows far more about creating something engaging than them. If Orson Welles gives you advice, you listen.

  • @theyearwas1473
    @theyearwas1473 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's like listening to a drunk uncle at the holidays

  • @braziliantvhd2768
    @braziliantvhd2768 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What a shame this man couldn't portray The Judge in the movie version of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

  • @benprewitt4600
    @benprewitt4600 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "We're talking about them growing and she's already picked 'em."
    I DIED.

  • @EgbertWilliams
    @EgbertWilliams 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This is like Einstein teaching a toddler to count to 10.

  • @AndorianBlues
    @AndorianBlues 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Presumably the only reason we have this recording is because of the engineer

  • @davidhoffman6980
    @davidhoffman6980 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This guy is getting tripped up by the plot holes in a frozen peas commercial.

  • @davidemmet7343
    @davidemmet7343 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Some of Orson Welles best work since Citizen Kane

    • @FlopFlap1
      @FlopFlap1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Citizen Can

    • @mikidelasislas
      @mikidelasislas 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Citizen 'Pagne.
      Ahhh, theFrenchhhchampagneee

  • @lwnf360
    @lwnf360 5 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    Understand that by this point in his career, Orson Wells was a living legend. Imagine taking say, Jack Nicholson into the booth to do VO for frozen food and then giving him BAD tedious notes and commentary about every minute detail. It would be super rude.
    Orson Wells wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the greatest film ever made. They should have been thankful that he agreed to do it at all, and left him to it. His version would have been just fine.

    • @jonathancampbell5231
      @jonathancampbell5231 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I would literally kill someone to see Jack Nicholson do this.

    • @frauleinmona
      @frauleinmona 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Jonathan Campbell I don't believe you for one minute! You would really shoot somebody to death? Stab them to death? Strangle them to death? Poison them to death? Take an innocent life just to see Jack Nicholson do a commercial?

    • @thisismyname3928
      @thisismyname3928 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We get it, asshole.

    • @nathaniliescu4597
      @nathaniliescu4597 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He shouldn't have blown all his money then should he, it was his choice to work with mere mortals and do this.

    • @davidjames579
      @davidjames579 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The dir should have acted it out for Orson in Orson's voice.

  • @mikekazz5353
    @mikekazz5353 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    1:24 this is a man that is so sure that he knows he's right, that he put this on the line.

  • @elwoodjacobs4353
    @elwoodjacobs4353 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love the animation in this. Very Terry Gilliam.
    What got me laughing was him rolling his eyes & saying _"Crumb-crisp coating"_ in such a loathing way. 😆

  • @stargazer3424
    @stargazer3424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I feel like Terry Gilliam animated this

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's a big inspiration

  • @afterlife697
    @afterlife697 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If orson Wells tells you the way somethings should be read then you will listen.

  • @PhillipRottingham
    @PhillipRottingham 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I've never heard this before but I love the animation you use that brings it to life. Bravo!

  • @mvader7188
    @mvader7188 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is as glorious as the buddy rich tapes😅

  • @mercster
    @mercster 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "You don't know what I'm up against."

  • @petepallett4639
    @petepallett4639 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thank-you, Dr. Moon Rat. We've known and loved the audio outtake for decades, but you truly have given new life to a timeless classic. Thanks again!

  • @1lobster
    @1lobster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    “One more word out of you, and you go!” “Yes sir!” As if Orson is is the one in charge? Lol

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      At that point it was time somebody took charge of this fiasco; Orson did. Leadership is action, not position.

    • @timmy841212
      @timmy841212 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well they definitely weren’t in control! Lol

  • @blason56
    @blason56 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    For context, he took the money, but he didn't even want to do the commercial. He is trying to get out of it.

  • @ChronoTango
    @ChronoTango 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “Without Music, there is simply an idea.”

  • @MrPjw5
    @MrPjw5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What’s even funnier than the transcript is the story leading up to it. Long story short, Welles tricked the directors into paying him in advance, then had them chase him all over Europe because he was pissed they asked him to audition for the commercial.

    • @timmy841212
      @timmy841212 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well that says a lot about how he handled this lmao you don’t tell the legendary Orson Welles to AUDITION!

  • @ameliawagus6248
    @ameliawagus6248 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This just makes me love him even more 🖤

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Right?!

  • @c.m.8158
    @c.m.8158 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think this could be the greatest comeback/insult ever, "In the DEPTHS of your ignorance, what is it exactly that you want!" Bloody brillliant!

  • @bogard84
    @bogard84 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This guy was a planet eating transformer.
    Brilliant!!

  • @spockboy
    @spockboy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    3:57 Never fails to make me smile.

  • @LiverAndOnions69
    @LiverAndOnions69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I would of shrank up in this mans mighty presence

  • @Pangloss6413
    @Pangloss6413 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There's a pretty dramamtic difference between what Orson sounded like and what most people think he sounded like

  • @thoughtfuldevil6069
    @thoughtfuldevil6069 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This man was born to play Baron Harkonnen.

  • @flindude2681
    @flindude2681 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    That critic joke was totaly based of reality.

  • @romeysiamese6712
    @romeysiamese6712 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These are so much better than the actual ads.

  • @chazchillington7266
    @chazchillington7266 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is splendid. Loved every moment.

  • @dielaughing73
    @dielaughing73 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    "Wearying and unrewarding"
    Ya think, Orson?

    • @notsure4746
      @notsure4746 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This Crumb Crisp Coated Cod Commercial is unrewarding.

  • @NancyDrewe
    @NancyDrewe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    No matter what’s going on, this can cheer me up. Orson, we love you, even with peas in July! :)

    • @agiar2000
      @agiar2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *_IN_* July...

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can't plant frozen peas in July; they'll defrost! Wait...what??

  • @fenrir7878
    @fenrir7878 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "You didn't say it... HE said it. Your FRIEND!!" LOL so much shade.

    • @jeffreyreed9865
      @jeffreyreed9865 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are friend? well thank thank you

  • @drlegendre
    @drlegendre 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wells' Frozen Peas
    "We will sell no vine, before its time."

  • @brianhackert8513
    @brianhackert8513 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    brilliant, best version