Orson Welles - Findus frozen food commercial

[@uishy340]

"We know a certain fjord" is such an underrated ridiculous line

[@Johnconno]

In a conspiratorial voice...😂

[@sarinenjoyer946]

Jerma

[@farkrits]

So it begins.

[@absurd5452]

That notification was so long

[@TheOneAndOnlyZelenkaGuru]

erma

[@NoahNelson-Smith]

A compact streamer sent me here.

[@reoire843]

1:14 "Get me a jury an show me how you can say 'IN July' and I'll go down on you."

[@bobgomez9481]

"this is a lot of shit you know" & "get me a jury to show me how you can emphasize IN in IN July and I'll go down on you" - best quotes ever

[@KendraAndTheLaw]

He should have just said, _Maaaaaaaa haaaaaaaa the peas!_

[@tiadaid]

This is not a talent throwing a tantrum, this is a director directing himself.

[@CassiePumpkins]

2:57 We all know what you probably came here for.

[@farkrits]

Jerma's fanbase moves quickly

[@superlordify]

Too fast

[@zOMGGaiaOnline]

@@farkrits we're a little short on patience

[@Dmc63613]

It's almost been a year

[@themega10046]

MUHAAAH THEFINDUSFROZENPEASHASALWAYSBEENCELEBRATED...

[@HunterShows]

...for their excellence. There are frozen peas by Paul Masson, inspired by that same Findus excellence. They're fresh frozen, and like the finest Findus peas, vintage dated. They taste so good because they are grown with such care. What Paul Masson said nearly a century ago is still true today. We will sell no peas before their time.

[@christopherclark279]

Mwa-haaa The prairie -fed Beef Burger has always been celebrated for its excellence ...

[@madProgenitorDeity]

@@HunterShows i'm dyin

[@777Nny]

This is the greatest thing I've ever heard. It makes sense that Welles co-wrote and directed the greatest film of all time. His was a brilliant mind.

[@GrigoryanFilm]

"Ah, that's tough. Crumb, crisp coating." I love this part.

[@HunterShows]

Crumb crisp...ooh, crumb crisp coating.

[@Bouncybon]

Orson Welles was doing voice-overs for a range of Findus products at the time. This was probably around 1968. The agency was JWT, London. Orson challenged the agency producer to tell him how to emphasise IN and still sound good. If he could do that, said Welles "I'll go down on you." It was a story that got repeated in the ad industry for years.

[@AxiomRazor]

So I see you commented like over a decade ago but the date has been narrowed down to January 15th-19th 1970. Just figured you might like that info.

[@NotVance]

"What luck! There's a French fry stuck to my beard."

[@Ben-bb7mi]

They're even better raw

[@SailorMaxie]

The fact that I can’t find the finished commercial makes this even better

[@michaelwinchester5003]

Did he ever actually finish the commercial? 😂

[@Spaseebo]

Brilliant! This has kept me laughing for decades. What a character.

[@Sansouci1000]

"Get me a jury to show you how to say 'IN' July and I'll go down on you." Orson Welles more than willing to give all he can for his art.

[@Ton369]

"I take direction from one person...under protest..." I'm the same way at work.

[@spockboy]

3:06 so satisfying to hear.

[@jimmybritt9537]

He really found it all humorous and loved giving them a hard time . In the end he always delivered 😄👍👍🇺🇸

[@dennismatthews7994]

What's rewarding? Hearing Orson say crumb crisp coating a few times in a row.

[@phooeyfudge]

YES, always!

[@timmy841212]

This isn’t even a rant, it’s a director that was correcting another one lol and apparently this was recorded in January 1970.

[@em_birch]

I love this man.

[@chelsthegameruiner8669]

Unironically, this guy made my childhood great as the voice actor for Unicron in the 1986 Transformers movie. He didn't like the role though to my knowledge

[@totallyfrozen]

"...and I'll go down on ya" starting @ 1:14 is SOOOOOOO hilarious!

[@hashyfingers420]

"show me how to emphasize the word 'in' and I'll go down on you." lol!!!

[@SirHatchporch]

John Candy did a funny parody of this on SCTV, reading "Good King Wenceslas."

[@petulia67]

Welles by a knockout...and oh how we need more like him today.

[@mrfreakyinastar]

"Full of country goodness and green PEA-ness. Wait that's terrible. I QUIT. What luck! There's a fry in my beard!"

[@michaelbyrne5606]

Incompetence is the root of all comedy…and Orson nails every hint of it with the commercial writing. :D All this fuss over frozen peas and burgers, I don't even want to think of what his political conversations went like. :P I also loved the parody of this in Animaniacs. Maurice LaMarche is simply the best Welles impersonator in the VA business.

[@meio4744]

'every July peas grow there'

[@spenzalii]

I've been watching the Animaniacs episode with my daughter where Pinky and the Brain do this bit. Absolutely fantastic...

[@Trigger_000]

*This dude's really funny. He should make another one.*

[@Scavenger82]

Rick He's been dead since '85.

[@Trigger_000]

*He can't be. How could he do a voice-over if he was dead?*

[@Scavenger82]

Rick Cause this audio bit was recorded before he died.

[@Trigger_000]

*You keep saying he died in 1985, yet this recording was uploaded in 2010. So how do you answer, that, then, eh? Nice try, but no cigar.* *You must think I'm a bit simple.*

[@Scavenger82]

If the shoe fits. A thing can be recorded then not posted/published until many years later.

[@SmoothRiker]

He was absolutely right. "Crumb crisp coating" is an awful description.

[@thefonzkiss]

I don’t think it’s the description, it’s the annoying alliteration. Altering an absurd alliteration is always an arduous art, hence his acumen in addressing the aspect of annoyance.

[@thefonzkiss]

Is the actual finished thing lost to time?

[@okrajoe]

Thanks for the subtitles.

[@johnmellor2153]

My audio engineering tutor told me about this story, as he was the engineer who recorded it. Which is what brought me here. By the way, it was a terrible script!

[@girlishgamer1]

No wonder Orson Wells made these remarks, the script is terrible.

[@bobboboogaloo]

The script isn't that bad compared to many. Orson's just having difficulty following his own line of thought and recording because he's so damn blotto. He's not giving productive feedback.

[@a-nus]

@@bobboboogaloo it's a bad script.

[@siftwram]

Saw the Animaniacs parody today on teletoon retro lol

[@sandrabonner8208]

Amazing! He sounds just like the Brain of "Pinky and the Brain!"

[@basil33]

😂

[@petermetcalfe6722]

Who can dare argue with the genius Awesome Welles.

[@RonMotta1972]

Yes, always!

[@terr777]

Yesss, always!

[@gingerninja79]

"you don't know what I'm up against!" :D lol

[@brainrunnethout]

"This is a lot of shit, you know that?"

[@TheSnowballEarth]

lulz haven't seen "The Critic" in awhile...

[@reoire843]

Imagine having Orson Welles criticize the copy you wrote for a commercial. I would hate to be these guys 😂

[@chrpike1]

Yes! Always!

[@danburycollins]

here under protest is beef burgers

[@mushroomhead3619]

Yes! Oh yes! They're even better on old grey scale film!

[@Gencoil]

Orson Welles was right, though. Something that looks good on paper doesn't necessarily sound good when spoken out loud.

[@MrFunsocks]

1 person emphasised "In" before "July".

[@OhMyRoystone]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH the frozen food

[@jacoblucas4259]

These poor guys. I love it.

[@dylaninpieces2]

*C R U M B , C R I S P C O A T I N G*

[@timmy841212]

When was the year for this? The timeline given here is some time in the late 1970s, early 1980s, so this was really near the end of his life. He shot the Masson champagne commercials around that same time and there's that infamous blooper real of him being hammered during that shoot.

[@HunterShows]

MuaaaaHAA.

[@chrpike1]

"Your FRIEND." :-D

[@kamalmanzukie]

he is right about everything

[@HerrSpuzzmacher]

lol oh my god i'm crying

[@beaniethecorgioverlord6061]

To be fair, "crumb, crisp coating" sounds terrible

[@DrApocalypse]

Come on fellas, you're losing your heads!

[@PlayNiceFolks]

yes always

[@mgtash1]

Love it! But I am pretty sure these were TV commercials, not radio. Two reasons: (a) I am 62 and I think I can remember seeing them in the 70s, possibly, or early 80s; (b) in the peas one he complains that his script does not fit the pictures, eg: 'It's so nice that you see a snow-covered field . . .'

[@Davidkevin]

The copy for the products does seem written by writers who really had no idea how poorly their copy sounded to the human ear -- Mr. Welles sounded to me completely correct in his criticisms. If the "director" (if one can really dignify him with that title) had deferred to Mr. Welles, he would have had commercials probably superior to the actual quality of the factory-food products described.

[@PrivateAckbar]

Even if he''s nuts he is right.

[@turbot9]

As the great man says, 'This is a lot of shit'.

[@pandaeyes42]

AAAAH, THE PEAS!

[@AABB-zb6dv]

Findus asked Welles to audition for the commercial and that made him very irritated from the beggining. But he needed money and agreed.

[@timmy841212]

Money for a film I believe

The critic brought me here

[@angryvet42]

Crumb crisp coating!

[@Aggedor1959]

Anyone whose ever done any kind of voice work can identify. I'm laughing my bum off. :D

[@jazzalex22]

Maurice LaMarche bought me here.

[@creekandseminole]

"Aww yes, they're even better raw!"

[@ahoneyman]

A rich, full bodied wine sensibly priced at a dollar a jug.

[@TheSnowballEarth]

Love the photo @ 1:52, looks like he's crushing someones head... ;-]

[@ValerianDec]

BONK 😁

[@arricammarques1955]

I know Gary Garver, Welles DoP was looking for this outtake years ago at Cinemateque Ontario lecture on Orson Welles. Classic excerpt with Welles and poor script. 'This is a lot of shit., you want one more?'

[@todtubetod]

Crumb Crisp Coating

[@BLFulle]

Oh for Pete's sake Orson just emphasize "in" and be done with it.

[@restcure]

(I think BLFulle meant "Do the proper thing, director: change the emphasis to 'July'")

[@PigGuy2301]

I have to wonder if the people recording Wells are used to this shit

[@Ben-bb7mi]

mwaaaaaaah the French

[@atarirob]

I cannot fucking believe this is the same man that made Citizen Kane.

[@hankkingsley9300]

Alcohol is a powerful drug.

[@thunderstruck665]

Crumb crisp coating! HAHAHA! Those scripts DID suck! Who talks like that???

[@MokkaMatti]

The Bri'ish of the 1960s and '70s, perhaps?

[@videotaperenaissance]

Findus Djupfryst

[@KenfromDublin]

@thunderstruck665 lol!

[@ElleKelsheimer]

Unrewarding.

[@flatcapman]

0:49 A cigar is Def . his trademark look. As much as a tobacco pipe is my look

[@mindfloww8834]

this is a lot of shit, you know that.

[@offrampt]

At 1:57 he says NARF - just like Pinky.

[@PlanBModels]

Unrewarding.