That joke about Jack Valenti makes me wonder if whoever wrote that was a fan of Freakazoid! -- that show (about the antics of an insane superhero, created by the same people as Animaniacs and Tiny Toons) famously brought in Valenti (and his cheeks) on a lark to narrate the episodes dealing with Freakazoid's origin. He even interrupted to demonstrate to the audience how the movie-ratings system he invented worked. (Valenti outright admitted at the end he was only there because he was friends with EP Steven Spielberg.)
That show was incredibly hilarious and clever and Valenti's role was just one of the many reasons why.
Funny enough, despite The Onion's crack about Valenti, he's probably the only MPAA leader I could possibly name (Chris Dodd doesn't count because he was a Connecticut senator the first 28 years of my life). Valenti had some name recognition, somehow!
That joke about Jack Valenti makes me wonder if whoever wrote that was a fan of Freakazoid! -- that show (about the antics of an insane superhero, created by the same people as Animaniacs and Tiny Toons) famously brought in Valenti (and his cheeks) on a lark to narrate the episodes dealing with Freakazoid's origin. He even interrupted to demonstrate to the audience how the movie-ratings system he invented worked. (Valenti outright admitted at the end he was only there because he was friends with EP Steven Spielberg.)
That show was incredibly hilarious and clever and Valenti's role was just one of the many reasons why.
This is a dream comment, thank you. I love how that's Valenti's only acting credit on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0884122/
Funny enough, despite The Onion's crack about Valenti, he's probably the only MPAA leader I could possibly name (Chris Dodd doesn't count because he was a Connecticut senator the first 28 years of my life). Valenti had some name recognition, somehow!