Chapo Trap House: Reviewing Jerry Seinfeld's Pop Tart Movie "Unfrosted" (Ft. Bryan Quinby)
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2024
- We’re joined by Bryan Quinby to review Jerry Seinfeld’s new Netflix film Unfrosted, about the invention of Pop Tarts. We dive into this bizarre & joyless cultural artifact which is a parade of humiliation for the numerous comedians featured in it, and a window into the seemingly bottomless well of misanthropy underneath Seinfeld’s banal observational humor. A romp!
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[Chapo Trap House Ep.833 "Fruit Brute", Released: 5/16/2024]
"Stop laughing its not funny" Funniest thing Jerry Seinfeld ever said
100%! It was easily his best bit! He and Michael's delivery, along with the crowd reaction, still cracks me up every time I hear or watch a clip. It's one of those truly funny TV moments that I end up rewatching at least once a year. I couldn't tell you a single joke from either his 2 standup specials that I watched over the last 10 years, but I can almost quote that whole Letterman segment from memory.
“What’s the deal?”
Ironically the best advice for watching "Seinfeld."
Just wanna say, Stan, I'm a huge fan of your inventions, the skrateboard & pizza oven.
'I've always felt that there was a strong tendancy among Toaster Strudel eaters to deny the connection Jews have to the land of Israel'
Jerry Seinfeld was truly the perfect comedian for the 1990s. It was “The End of History” and his material resonated due to that popular sentiment “There are no more large changes coming” so let’s talk about airline food or whatever else. Obviously the world has moved past that sentiment while he hasn’t.
This is a good insight. "It's all minor tweaks and optimizations on what basically works from here on out." And his humor embodied that.
I would like a Breadtube essay on that
"The world has moved past that sentiment." Oh yeah? I assume more people watch his show today than any sitcom currently on the air.
@@nickthomas6827 stop bootlicking
@@nickthomas6827 Don't assume. When you assume you make an a$$ out of you and me.
Jerry Seinfeld’s career will be remembered by the IDF photo and then doing a commercial for pop tarts. What an artist.
He's the voice of his generation.
@@p_indthere really is something to be said for the tendency of boomer celebrities(actors, musicians, authors, etc.) to make some decent or even really good movies/books/music/etc, and then turned out to just have the most atrocious politics later in life.
Like, there really weren't all that many "greatest generation" actors or directors who decided in the sixties that support for segregation or napalming Cambodian children was something to base their whole public persona around.
@@3dartxsi maybe its always there, but theres a combination of not being powerful enough to be honest and execs keeping things quiet to protect investments. seinfield is at a point where he's more rich than the vast majority of people on the planet and he's not involved in anything substantive, so he can say what he likes and theres nothing for him to damage
What a country!
Probably for the tv show mostly
I am imagining a scene in which Bill Maher is bound Clockwork Orange style with his eyeballs held open and forced to watch the Poptart Movie to be cured of his lingering Wokeness.
New Rule: don't leave me alone with Jerry Seinfeld.
I support this, not because of woke concerns, but because I wish harm upon Bill Maher.
"There is an idea of a Jerry Seinfeld, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there."
Did he actually say that or are you doing a bit?
Literally me.
@@cat_city2009American Psycho
This confession means.... nothing
What's the deal with that?
To paraphrase Kissinger - Jerry Seinfeld has no real friends, he only has interests.
and victims
That quote goes back to Palmerston.
@@joshmccollen700 Pitt. The. ELDER!
@@AnthonyBurbackok you asked for it, Boggs!
You know, a documentary about the making of this movie would be amazing. I envision a scene where a journalist drives out to the mass grave where Jerry dumped all the celebrities he tortured and executed and trying to count the bodies, only to keep losing track, and finally go back and sit in her truck and just have a mental breakdown from the sheer horror. Maybe, like, another scene where they interview one of the movie's fans, who goes on about how much respect he has for Jerry Seinfeld, and then shows off the bag full of human ears he's cut off college students protesting on behalf of Palestine that he's going to mail to Jerry as a gift. Stuff like that.
You need serious mental health
I think that reviewer might be more like the wife from In the Mouth of Madness.
@@wyattrierson3967 Everything floats down here
The Act of Killing lol
He never sleeps, the Seinfeld. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
Judge Seinfeld: “The freedom of the Palestinians is an insult to me. If I had it my way, I’d put them all in cages.”
Michael “the Priest” Richards: “That’d be one hell of an open-air prison.”
Judge Seinfeld: “Yes.”
😂
@@BigHomieGayAss1917 [bass riff]
Whats the deal with war?
@@pugisolation Before man was, stand-up awaited him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
Cynical at young people while worshiping corporate brands, Jerry is now officially the lamest comedian now
I do wish that they had gotten Bryan Cranston to say something like, “I AM THE ONE WHO POPS”
Bobcat has, by any metric, had a far more successful big screen career than Jerry.
Bobcat was perfect as the disgruntled employee in Scrooged
@@Saturnia2014Very true. And I wasn't even thinking about Scrooged. I forgot about a movie he was in that's better than any movie Seinfeld's done.
Why did it take so long for everyone to figure out that Larry David was the talented one?
He's just one of the 58 hacks from the 80s who got a sitcom, his just happened to work.
I knew it from season 8 of Seinfeld. Abysmal
Hearing an interview with Jerry where he describes his inspiration for Bee Movie as the depiction of a “perfect society” was absolutely psychotic. In the first 15 minutes the main characters are told that as soon as they graduate from school they will work the same job until the exact moment they die. Incredible
In fairness, Barry does explicitly think that system is shit and goes out of the hive.
Assuming that Jerry Seinfeld quote is real, I assume Seinfeld was talking about American capitalism
"What's the deal with society not being perfectly ordered and free from filth?"
You will own nothing, and Jews will be happy
@@georgekerscher5355 Quote was from his recent interview on CBC's Q with Tom Power (respect for asking for sources). What was insane about the movie is how nature becomes thrown out of balance after Barry successfully argues that bees should not be forced to work. The blame is placed squarely on him, even by the human woman WHO HELPED HIM THE ENTIRE TIME (I remember thinking: "Lady, it's not like he did this alone."). The ending of the movie has Barry reaching a compromise with the hive where he's allowed to work a job he likes (pollinating), even though he will be working it until the moment his name on the job board is flipped over and another bee takes his place.
@@grahamistearingup
...What are you talking about? Barry becomes a co-partner with the human woman at a small law firm at the very end. Barry temporarily does pollination in order to save the world
"Ready Player One" for Boomers.
More like "Food Fight" to me
Ready Pop-Tart One
Jerry it's not rocket science she was 17!!!
maybe they're trying to set the bar real low so that AI written movies seem watchable by comparison
I was born in 1954, but even I was like, “OK, OK, OK, BOOMER! ALRIGHT ALREADY!!!” 😩
I couldn’t even make it past the “We’re here for the Goo” scene before bailing out, knowing that podcasts like these would be funnier than the entire movie!
And you did NOT disappoint!!
But here’s a little context
You gotta get that the very concept of “modern breakfast“ was still a fairly new invention itself in the early 50s. The whole idea of something called “Breakfast Cereal“ was an unparalleled marketing breakthrough. Like “The iPhone” of American eating habits.
It’s true. Pop Tarts was the first cereal UPGRADE. It was for OUR generation, what “RUclips” is for YOUR generation.
Something happened that flipped the paradigm of what was previously happening. That’s all it was. 🤷🏾
No Doubt 60 years now, films may spoof the idea of “Podcasts Pioneers” in ways that ONLY YOU will get, while your grandkids are playing with their holograms 😝
That being said, I find that the History Channel’s coverage of pop tarts to be far more entertaining than Seinfeld’s.
I think the main reason is because Seinfeld IS a basket case!!
You nailed it!
He’s such a snooty, venomous, narcissistic, insecure, arrogant smarty-pants, who thinks he can bully the world into agreeing that he’s funny.
And this insipid film simply exposes the contrary.
In fact, this movie may have stood a chance if it was made by ANYONE else.
But the reaction to it seems more like the ultimate backlash against Seinfeld himself.
Unfrosted feels like a sub-par film being force-fed to us from someone more obnoxious than (Martin Short’s interpretation of) the aging Jerry Lewis 🙄
Like Michael Richards, Seinfeld seems to have lost the capacity to have us all rooting for him. (at least for now.)
It will be very interesting to hear his take on this catastrophe 🤔
This felt like those low-quality 90s live-action adaptations of cartoons like Inspector Gadget or Dudley Do-Right, but written for 8-year-olds who are incredibly familiar with Walter Kronkite and Wheel-O’s.
The good review he found on Rotten Tomatoes has to be from Gregg Turkington
There’s some real meat for Hobbit-heads in this movie, 5 bagger for sure.
Turkington has been identified and can now be brought to justice.
Five bags of popcorn and a, packet of pop tarts.
I thought this until I realized the review didn't mention the movie's run time (93 minutes).
Careful you may be swamped by angry greggheads
When it comes to making movies, UNFROSTED proves Seinfeld is no Woody Allen.
When it comes to his dating history however…
This was the best chapo movie ep in recent memory. Felix was killing it
The movie episodes are always special.
Always does #FelixSquad
I actually thought it was mid. No doubt the film is terrible, but I feel their criticisms were lackluster at points.
@@dirrdevil 🤓
Four stages in a showbiz career:
1. Who is Jerry Seinfeld?
2. Get me Jerry Seinfeld.
3. Can you get me a young Jerry Seinfeld?
4. Who is Jerry Seinfeld?
I don't care what anyone says, it's an incredible bit to do the podcast promotional rounds talking about how the youth of today can't handle your brutal no-holds-barred tell-it-as-it-is acerbic uncut raw realness, and then the project turns out to be "whaaaaats the deeeaaaal with pop tarts?"
Unfrosted proved Seinfeld isn't funny without Larry David. Where Larry has seemed to change with the times Jerry seems to be stuck in 1995.
Bullshit. Seinfeld in seasons 8 and 9 were funny despite Larry having left after season 7. There's also that little thing about him being one of the big stand-ups in the country in the 80s.
He wrote a book in the 90s titled Sein Language where he describes how good "the little behinds" of the US Olympic gymnasts looked - this while SIMULTANEOUSLY being a 38 year old man dating a 17 year old. CRINGE
Amazing Majority Report segment the other day...
44:44 That one guy who gave this 5 stars along with almost every other movie he’s seen has a name. And his name is Gregg Turkington.
*looks at camera* I think you're really gonna like it.
5 bags of popcorn and he'll throw in a little, uh, Poptart. And a glass of Tang to wash it down
This movie made me feel like an Empty Bottle.
(Seinfeld voice)
"I shot Andy Warhol? More like Andy Warhol shot ME!"
Jerry Seinfeld must have been raised in the same fashion as The Cable Guy
Holy shit "Amy Schumer looking like the Fruit Brute" still has me rolling.
It's funny because you could also ask the ibm computer what it was doing in the 40s
makes me think about that Seinfeld episode where he drugs his girlfriend so he can play with her toy collection
The seamonkey guy was an actual Klansman which I am sure is where the joke of him being a Nazi scientist comes from
Without Batman and Robin there would be no Batman Begins. And without Unfrosted this podcast wouldn’t exist. Thank you, Jerry.
Almost want to draw Jerry Seinfeld as a comedic dictator.
"and what's the deal with these uprisings? are they up? or are they rising?"
Springtime For Seinfeld?
47:00 wrong the founder (idk if that counts as a brand movie) is Matt Chrisman verified banger
I’m not sure that Bill Hicks hated humanity so much as he hated humanity’s apathy
This
17 shots, no .38!!!
Pop Tarts are disgusting. And I have thought this since I was 6 years old.
The only good Pop tarts are the cinnamon ones.
Same
I hate to say it but Walter White and Jesse cooking pop tarts sounds pretty funny honestly
36:40 MY FUCKING GOD THIS COULD LITERALLY BE A SKIT IN THE SHOW
He really is the person he played on screen
the show is about awful people, he's the only one playing himself
The hardest I’ve ever seen Jerry laugh was being told he had an unrivaled contempt and hatred for humanity by bill burr.
Pop Tarts? I'm surprised Stav wasn't in this.
His 15 minutes are up
@@jack_rabbit im gonna assume youre one of those weird obsessive mullen fans
Can pop tarts freeze?
This review gives off the vibes of a group that just watched Movie 43.
The celebrity cameos in that movie were less degrading
Movie 43 is incredible.
Weirdest viewing experience ever
someone’s jealous oooouuuuu!
My favorite clip is that exact same thing happening on Letterman
Stop laughing
And this is why Jerry hates people
@@MrLFJ7 like Leno would ever have a spectacle like that. I don't trust people who don't like Letterman
@@endtimessupportgroup5685fck Letterman. Team Pekar all the way
My favorite clip ever is this one I'm about to explain completely inaccurately.
Boots Riley could have made the premise interesting
Facts
The first Police Academy Bobcat was in was Police Academy 2. He was one of two main villains in it, basically a deranged gang leader, and I guess audiences must have liked him so much they decided to flip the script with his character and have him try to become a cop in Police Academy 3.
I didnt realize that bill bur was the person doing the awful jfk impersonation. How bad it was is why it was funny. Only thing that made me laugh
The Guardian review reads like it's AI generated. As if the writer sat down, watched the first scene, decided it was so unwatchable it was worth getting fired for to not watch it, and cracked open the laptop.
This movie felt like a Eugen Ionesco play adapted by the Disney channel.
This was pure joy. From start to end. Thank you.
The fact that The Basement Yard Podcast Boys were never included in this movie after their viral pop tart rant in 2022 shows how out of touch and disconnected Jerry Seinfeld is younger generations and current pop culture.
I don't understand the evil milkmen's motives. Don't people drink milk while eating Pop Tarts?
I feel a decent background joke could have been made out of how many real products are in there and they made 1 up and you have to guess which one. Like the Kelloggs Dog Food was fucking real.
Seinfeld is the living embodiment of a 1990s screensaver.
Carmen Sandiego: Port of Call Lisbon
"What's the deal that Im gay???"
"I think he's cuteeee!"
Was Kenny Bania how Larry David saw Seinfeld? If so, it works.
To be fair,Jerry looks good for 70.
He looks alright.
Semites don’t crack
What kind of psycho wants to go watch public apologies?
Idk why but from the description all I could think of was that this would be Doug Walker's favorite movie ever made.
I dunno, I can see a very solid Nostalgia Critic Episode were he just rips into this movie
@@ratsoff5948I think the thing with Doug is that he has such a strange particular taste in... I mean everything frankly, I couldn't tell if he'd hate it, or enjoy it. It seems like it's kinda similar to his humor, but I think he's shat on things you'd otherwise think he'd like in the past. So I dunno.
Or he’d make a two-hour-plus “parody” of this movie with extended homages made with paper-thin criticisms as justification but you can tell he just loves it so much he wanted to remake the whole thing himself.
He REALLY loved Thank You For Smoking which was just an above average 2006 movie
@@johnrains2339 I am at the ready to carry out a permanent fatwah against Doug for his unforgivable and quite frankly, baffling review of The Wall
Unfrosted goes in my collection of movies/works of art that say so much more about who made it than anything else, like Lady Ballers or Nostalgia critic's The Wall reveiw.
If you want to understand Seinfeld, try and sit through that godawful documentary he did that was half patting himself on the back and half trying to make a star out of this terrible, mean-spirited comedian named Orny Adams. This guy had that same maladjusted, autistic approach to comedy where he operates under the assumption that being funny is just knowing the right funnyman formulas and rewriting skills. Seinfeld and Adams both represent a sociopath trying to emulate people who have actual personalities and viewpoints using humor and being entertaining. I mean, have you ever met someone who's favorite character on Seinfeld was...Jerry?
Cronkite thing seemed funny. Perhaps because he's closest to Jerry's heartlike mass.
I guarantee Matt loves the movie
I doubt it, no sqibbs
Someone I know went to a stand up tour he did 15 - 20 years ago and described it at a waste of money.
The Stern and Gilbert stuff is utterly brilliant and luckily for non-Stern/Gilbert nerds like me who have had MP3s for decades they're all on the youtubes
Gilbert Gottfried and Howard Stern goof on Jerry Seinfeld (three parts, this is the call to the woman that went on a date with Jerry)
Filling Jerry Seinfeld's Answering Machine (i think it's about 49ish minutes in)
Stern back in the 90s saved my life
Have you seen “The Road to Wellville”?
Bobcat Goldthwaith's Misfits & Monsters is such a hidden gem. And in 2nd ep an outspoken Werewolf becoming the president, eerily foreshadowing^^ Seinfeld, meh... Happy pride
31:10 Another Felix masterpiece.
Hold up. This is a real movie?
Seinfeld was definitely on Carson, I'm pretty sure multiple times. There's speculation that the entire reason Seinfeld the sitcom was commissioned was to keep him under contract at NBC to cover the reshuffling that would be caused by Carson's retirement. CGI Carson must just be in the movie out of nostalgia for those days.
11:50 Bill Burr was there. Idk, there are so many in the it's hard to say what the incentives were for everyone. Some people may have liked the challenge of doing a good performance in those circumstances. Or they were there to phone it in cuz Jerry called in some favors from them like a Mob boss except he did it for a stupid PopTart movie.
Kyle Dunnigan plays Walter btw
The Blackberry movie is great
Facts.
bobcat also made that found-footage bigfoot horror movie. how could they forget that.
38:58 Kyle Dunnigan was Walter
Bryan is so goated man love to hear the takes
Kyle Dunnigan as Walter Cronkite was the best part of the movie
Shouts out to BobCat!
To all Coppola heads, I got to see Megapolis at Cannes and it’s *okay*
Unique to say the least.
This movie review is everything I thought it would be and more.
A new Chapo review!!!!!!!
Roger Ebert gives it 6 million thumbs down.
Never had a pop tart in my life Look at them!
Also clearly Jerry never seen Bottoms from last year
The beginning statement....that would be for good reason...
Not even saying this to rag on him, but it baffles me that Bryan has been podcasting longer than almost any other person in the game and perpetually sounds like it’s his first time doing it. I like the dude, and again not trying to hate on him, but it’s legitimately sort of impressive to have been doing something nonstop for almost 15 years and never have made an iota of improvement.
That Guys Podcast is brutal, hate the effete snooty guy's voice.
They watched it so u don't have to.
Pop tarts, for people who like bread and gum
luckiest guy in showbiz
Ford vs Ferrari is probably the only real good one in this genre. It's the only one I can remember fondly.
Please see dollop like 49 or something the cereal men
Jerry Draddledildofield
For your algorithm
Don Draper 10/10
My parents wouldn't buy Pop-Tarts, so I only ate them if I stayed the night at a friend's. Thus, they seem special to me.
kthx
They make my tongue swell up
It was Letterman, not Leno, Will. Get it right!
You hear that RLM
So Seinfeld just ended up making the Modern Marvels movie