It was a cartoon about Brain being asked to do voiceovers for frozen food commercials.
In this instance, it was nothing ordinary. Usually, Pinky and the Brain were known for going on nightly adventures thanks to Brain’s overly elaborate attempts to take over the world. The 52nd episode of Animaniacs featured a short cartoon called “Yes, Always” starring Pinky and the Brain. Yet there was another LaMarche performance that was far stranger.
These short gags played up the ideas that Orson Welles was a has-been and a glutton. It helped to know the source material, but it wasn’t necessary. LaMarche actually lampooned the Findus situation a few times on The Critic, where he portrayed Orson Welles both in a disastrous peas commercial and a video where he introduced a will reading, only to go on a tangent about fish sticks. LaMarche was very much aware of the commercial recordings and basked in the ridiculousness of it all. LaMarche’s specialty is his Orson Welles impression, which not only pops up when he is playing the actor himself (as he did when he provided a voiceover for Tim Burton’s masterful Ed Wood), but when he’s playing the megalomaniacal mouse the Brain. He’s been Egon on The Real Ghostbusters, Kip on Futurama, Duke Nukem on Captain Planet, Elsa and Anna’s father in Frozen, and so on. Maurice LaMarche has had a long and storied career as a voice actor. Somehow, the audio was bootlegged and the situation became a ridiculous moment of legend. He and the directors didn’t see eye-to-eye, he didn’t appreciate any notes about his delivery, and eventually, he stormed out of the session, claiming that no money was worth this. Once upon a time, Welles was tasked with recording lines for a peas commercial and things started to go off the rails.
Yes, it’s one of those things that’s just too weird to exist. One of the more obscure episodes in his life was when he was hired to record voiceover ads for Findus and their frozen food products. He died voicing the planet-eating robot Unicron in Transformers: The Movie. He schemed to the tunes of zither in the Third Man. He gave the world the groundbreaking film Citizen Kane. His narration of War of the Worlds on the radio is legendary. Orson Welles is remembered for many things.
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