You might remember him as that heart-melting blond moppet with the glasses, who charmed Jerry Maguire with his bizarre facts about the human head weighing eight pounds.
But those days are far behind actor Jonathan Lipnicki – as this inspired video ‘tribute’ to his screen dad from YouTube channel Screen Junkies proves.
The actor, who is now 24 – yes, we did say 24 and you are really that old – marked this weekend’s Father’s Day by making his feelings about the Tom Cruise character known.
‘I’m here to thank you, Jerry Maguire, for everything you did for me,’ he insists, ‘from drunkenly brooding on my mum’s couch having a nervous breakdown, to dropping completely unnecessary F-bombs when I wanted to go to the zoo.