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In 2012, Jerry Seinfeld appeared in a New York Instances video the place he’s seen breaking down how he wrote his well-known “Pop Tart Joke.”
Whereas he referred to the snack (in true “Seinfeld” trend) as “one thing meaning completely nothing” within the Instances video, it seems Pop-Tarts imply quite a bit to the legendary comic, since over a decade later, he’s now directing and starring in “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story,” an upcoming Netflix movie that illustrates the genesis of how the long-lasting sugar-coated breakfast merchandise got here to be.
Billed as a Nineteen Sixties-set “story of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen,” the movie’s trailer – launched on Thursday – packs a fully-loaded forged, together with Melissa McCarthy, Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer and comic Invoice Burr, who’s seen enjoying President John F. Kennedy.
The clip options McCarthy and Seinfeld teaming as much as create a cereal different that may guarantee “completely satisfied childhoods for tens of millions of American children,” with clips of Grant dressed as Frosted Flakes mascot Tony the Tiger, an offended Schumer monitoring her rivals and pictures of cereal factories that really feel like scenes out of “Willy Wonka.”
In accordance with an official synopsis, the movie follows rival cereal firms Kellogg’s and Put up as they “race to create a pastry that can change the face of breakfast.”
There really couldn’t be a greater individual to steer the cost in telling a breakfast-related Pop-Tart story than Seinfeld, who was notoriously usually seen consuming a bowl of cereal throughout his “Seinfeld” run and even joked concerning the foil-wrapped snack in his 2020 Netflix particular “23 Hours to Kill.”
It’s clear that all through time, the Pop-Tart stays related. And as Seinfeld mentioned on the finish of his 2012 Pop-Tart joke: “They’ll’t go stale, as a result of they have been by no means recent.”
“Unfrosted” will probably be obtainable to stream on Netflix on Might 3.