Ernie Fosselius

Carl Ernst Fosselius (born October 23, 1945), better known as Ernie Fosselius, is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his satirical spoofs of popular films, including the Star Wars parody Hardware Wars. Film career Fosselius' film career began in the early 1970s when he co-created 20 original animated films for Sesame Street. Fosselius is known for his satirical short films. The first one appeared in 1976 in Mother's Little Network, a Pythonesque sketch comedy show for WGBH-TV in Boston; it was The Hindenburger, in which a flying Big Mac burst into flames over New Jersey while a radio announcer (voiced by Fosselius) emotionally sobbed: "Oh, the humanity, Oh, the cheese!" Porklips Now was a send-up of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now which starred Billy Gray of TV's Father Knows Best.