Endnote 176: Himself's ONANtiad
It’s also where Mario’s most derivative of Himself, whose own ONANtiad was more centrally concerned with doomed high-office claymation romance than with political comment, though the love thing in Incandenza Sr.’s film had concerned not Tine and a Québecois fatale but an alleged doomed and unconsummated affair between President J. Gentle and the equally hygiene-and-germ-obsessed wife of Canada’s ‘Minister of Environment and Resource-Development Enterprises,’ […]
Context
JOI-film content gloss hung on Mario's Interdependence-Day puppet film (roster 081): the note names where Mario is "most derivative of Himself" and then summarizes the original — Himself's ONANtiad as "doomed high-office claymation romance," Gentle and the Minister's wife driven to breakdown by a weaponized yeast infection. Filmography texture: a whole JOI feature exists here only as a son's adaptation source, and the note ranks the two versions — "The ONANtiad was not Himself’s strongest effort by a long shot," Mario's parody "funnier and more accessible… if also a bit heavier-handed" (cite spans the same raw).