Chapo Trap House: Reviewing Jerry Seinfeld's Pop Tart Movie "Unfrosted" (Ft. Bryan Quinby)
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]
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"Stop laughing its not funny" Funniest thing Jerry Seinfeld ever said
@schizophrenic_AI
25 күн бұрын
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.
@keanuxu5435
24 күн бұрын
“What’s the deal?”
@bp1991able
24 күн бұрын
Ironically the best advice for watching "Seinfeld."
@GrahamBarth
16 күн бұрын
Just wanna say, Stan, I'm a huge fan of your inventions, the skrateboard & pizza oven.
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.
@willtor
25 күн бұрын
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.
@Tacom4ster
20 күн бұрын
I would like a Breadtube essay on that
@nickthomas6827
18 күн бұрын
"The world has moved past that sentiment." Oh yeah? I assume more people watch his show today than any sitcom currently on the air.
@Tacom4ster
18 күн бұрын
@@nickthomas6827 stop bootlicking
@MJH-kr4zg
17 күн бұрын
@@nickthomas6827 Don't assume. When you assume you make an a$$ out of you and me.
Why did it take so long for everyone to figure out that Larry David was the talented one?
@anthonyrowland9072
23 күн бұрын
He's just one of the 58 hacks from the 80s who got a sitcom, his just happened to work.
@andreimileti
19 күн бұрын
I knew it from season 8 of Seinfeld. Abysmal
'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'
"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."
@cat_city2009
28 күн бұрын
Did he actually say that or are you doing a bit?
@raven_g6667
28 күн бұрын
Literally me.
@raven_g6667
28 күн бұрын
@@cat_city2009American Psycho
@mattgilbert7347
28 күн бұрын
This confession means.... nothing
@RancorousSea
28 күн бұрын
What's the deal with that?
To paraphrase Kissinger - Jerry Seinfeld has no real friends, he only has interests.
@mj.l
28 күн бұрын
and victims
@joshmccollen700
24 күн бұрын
That quote goes back to Palmerston.
@AnthonyBurback
23 күн бұрын
@@joshmccollen700 Pitt. The. ELDER!
@mrpink99
19 күн бұрын
@@AnthonyBurbackok you asked for it, Boggs!
Jerry Seinfeld’s career will be remembered by the IDF photo and then doing a commercial for pop tarts. What an artist.
@p_ind
27 күн бұрын
He's the voice of his generation.
@3dartxsi
26 күн бұрын
@@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.
@ince55ant
26 күн бұрын
@@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
@pugisolation
26 күн бұрын
What a country!
@superfarful
25 күн бұрын
Probably for the tv show mostly
He never sleeps, the Seinfeld. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
@bighomiegayass1917
28 күн бұрын
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.”
@adamelliott2302
28 күн бұрын
😂
@french.toastman
26 күн бұрын
@@bighomiegayass1917 [bass riff]
@pugisolation
26 күн бұрын
Whats the deal with war?
@bighomiegayass1917
25 күн бұрын
@@pugisolation Before man was, stand-up awaited him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
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.
@Freddisred
28 күн бұрын
New Rule: don't leave me alone with Jerry Seinfeld.
@dand1253
27 күн бұрын
I support this, not because of woke concerns, but because I wish harm upon Bill Maher.
Cynical at young people while worshiping corporate brands, Jerry is now officially the lamest comedian now
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.
@wyattrierson3967
28 күн бұрын
You need serious mental health
@justcommenting4981
27 күн бұрын
I think that reviewer might be more like the wife from In the Mouth of Madness.
@IMelkor42
25 күн бұрын
@@wyattrierson3967 Everything floats down here
@michaelbailey8850
19 күн бұрын
The Act of Killing lol
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.
@Saturnia2014
25 күн бұрын
Bobcat was perfect as the disgruntled employee in Scrooged
@drewsollars2239
25 күн бұрын
@@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.
"Ready Player One" for Boomers.
@Tacom4ster
20 күн бұрын
More like "Food Fight" to me
@Eli_B3000
19 күн бұрын
Ready Pop-Tart One
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
@georgekerscher5355
27 күн бұрын
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
@sickjuicysjamshack3580
26 күн бұрын
"What's the deal with society not being perfectly ordered and free from filth?"
@honestabe411
25 күн бұрын
You will own nothing, and Jews will be happy
@grahamistearingup
25 күн бұрын
@@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.
@georgekerscher5355
17 күн бұрын
@@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
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 “KZread” 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 🤔
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
The good review he found on Rotten Tomatoes has to be from Gregg Turkington
@crisismethodactor
28 күн бұрын
There’s some real meat for Hobbit-heads in this movie, 5 bagger for sure.
@servomoore
27 күн бұрын
Turkington has been identified and can now be brought to justice.
@09daniscool
27 күн бұрын
Five bags of popcorn and a, packet of pop tarts.
@sealwheat1681
26 күн бұрын
I thought this until I realized the review didn't mention the movie's run time (93 minutes).
@harvesterofeyes8813
25 күн бұрын
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…
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?
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.
@nickthomas6827
18 күн бұрын
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.
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?"
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.
This was the best chapo movie ep in recent memory. Felix was killing it
@cablehogue599
27 күн бұрын
The movie episodes are always special.
@Fucyallfr
26 күн бұрын
Always does #FelixSquad
@dirrdevil
26 күн бұрын
I actually thought it was mid. No doubt the film is terrible, but I feel their criticisms were lackluster at points.
@bighomiegayass1917
17 күн бұрын
@@dirrdevil 🤓
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
@anthonyrowland9072
23 күн бұрын
Amazing Majority Report segment the other day...
(Seinfeld voice) "I shot Andy Warhol? More like Andy Warhol shot ME!"
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.
@willtor
25 күн бұрын
*looks at camera* I think you're really gonna like it.
@avapingbaby
22 күн бұрын
5 bags of popcorn and he'll throw in a little, uh, Poptart. And a glass of Tang to wash it down
@remymcreigns7253
18 күн бұрын
This movie made me feel like an Empty Bottle.
Holy shit "Amy Schumer looking like the Fruit Brute" still has me rolling.
Jerry Seinfeld must have been raised in the same fashion as The Cable Guy
It's funny because you could also ask the ibm computer what it was doing in the 40s
Almost want to draw Jerry Seinfeld as a comedic dictator.
@ianmichael5628
27 күн бұрын
"and what's the deal with these uprisings? are they up? or are they rising?"
@suzbone
19 күн бұрын
Springtime For Seinfeld?
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
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
@Goatchild90
9 күн бұрын
This
I hate to say it but Walter White and Jesse cooking pop tarts sounds pretty funny honestly
Pop Tarts are disgusting. And I have thought this since I was 6 years old.
@christopherperson1939
24 күн бұрын
The only good Pop tarts are the cinnamon ones.
@Goatchild90
9 күн бұрын
Same
17 shots, no .38!!!
Without Batman and Robin there would be no Batman Begins. And without Unfrosted this podcast wouldn’t exist. Thank you, Jerry.
36:40 MY FUCKING GOD THIS COULD LITERALLY BE A SKIT IN THE SHOW He really is the person he played on screen
This review gives off the vibes of a group that just watched Movie 43.
@sickjuicysjamshack3580
25 күн бұрын
The celebrity cameos in that movie were less degrading
@TheSpecsShow
25 күн бұрын
Movie 43 is incredible. Weirdest viewing experience ever
@AwesometownUSA
25 күн бұрын
someone’s jealous oooouuuuu!
My favorite clip is that exact same thing happening on Letterman
@MrLFJ7
28 күн бұрын
Stop laughing
@HarrisonHollers
28 күн бұрын
And this is why Jerry hates people
@endtimessupportgroup5685
28 күн бұрын
@@MrLFJ7 like Leno would ever have a spectacle like that. I don't trust people who don't like Letterman
@willywonka7812
28 күн бұрын
@@endtimessupportgroup5685fck Letterman. Team Pekar all the way
@09daniscool
27 күн бұрын
My favorite clip ever is this one I'm about to explain completely inaccurately.
Pop Tarts? I'm surprised Stav wasn't in this.
@jack_rabbit
25 күн бұрын
His 15 minutes are up
@vitaminwater9662
24 күн бұрын
@@jack_rabbit im gonna assume youre one of those weird obsessive mullen fans
@therealspiroagnew818
20 күн бұрын
Can pop tarts freeze?
Boots Riley could have made the premise interesting
@Goatchild90
9 күн бұрын
Facts
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
To be fair,Jerry looks good for 70.
@campfortson4387
27 күн бұрын
He looks alright.
@bighomiegayass1917
17 күн бұрын
Semites don’t crack
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.
This was pure joy. From start to end. Thank you.
This movie felt like a Eugen Ionesco play adapted by the Disney channel.
Was Kenny Bania how Larry David saw Seinfeld? If so, it works.
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.
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.
Carmen Sandiego: Port of Call Lisbon
"What's the deal that Im gay???"
@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf
25 күн бұрын
"I think he's cuteeee!"
Seinfeld is the living embodiment of a 1990s screensaver.
I don't understand the evil milkmen's motives. Don't people drink milk while eating Pop Tarts?
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.
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.
Idk why but from the description all I could think of was that this would be Doug Walker's favorite movie ever made.
@ratsoff5948
25 күн бұрын
I dunno, I can see a very solid Nostalgia Critic Episode were he just rips into this movie
@plantain.1739
23 күн бұрын
@@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.
@claytonandres1194
21 күн бұрын
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.
@johnrains2339
20 күн бұрын
He REALLY loved Thank You For Smoking which was just an above average 2006 movie
@bighomiegayass1917
17 күн бұрын
@@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
Cronkite thing seemed funny. Perhaps because he's closest to Jerry's heartlike mass.
I guarantee Matt loves the movie
@raskassputin7408
25 күн бұрын
I doubt it, no sqibbs
What kind of psycho wants to go watch public apologies?
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.
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.
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)
@honestabe411
25 күн бұрын
Stern back in the 90s saved my life
Someone I know went to a stand up tour he did 15 - 20 years ago and described it at a waste of money.
The Blackberry movie is great
@Nickelicious7
25 күн бұрын
Facts.
Hold up. This is a real movie?
bobcat also made that found-footage bigfoot horror movie. how could they forget that.
Kyle Dunnigan plays Walter btw
Kyle Dunnigan as Walter Cronkite was the best part of the movie
To all Coppola heads, I got to see Megapolis at Cannes and it’s *okay* Unique to say the least.
Bryan is so goated man love to hear the takes
Shouts out to BobCat!
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?
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.
This movie review is everything I thought it would be and more.
A new Chapo review!!!!!!!
Never had a pop tart in my life Look at them!
38:58 Kyle Dunnigan was Walter
The beginning statement....that would be for good reason...
the seinfeld kramer apology happened on letterman not leno. get your imaginary memories correct lol.
@freakyzed8467
12 күн бұрын
So was it imaginary or not?
Also clearly Jerry never seen Bottoms from last year
Roger Ebert gives it 6 million thumbs down.
luckiest guy in showbiz
Pop tarts, for people who like bread and gum
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.
@Grogeous_Maximus
26 күн бұрын
kthx
@honestabe411
25 күн бұрын
They make my tongue swell up
Please see dollop like 49 or something the cereal men
They watched it so u don't have to.
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.
@campfortson4387
27 күн бұрын
That Guys Podcast is brutal, hate the effete snooty guy's voice.
Jerry Draddledildofield
What man would not be a comic if he could? It is a great thing Comedy. Suppose two comics on a stage with nothing to wager save their jokes. Who has not heard such an open mic? A turn of the punchline. The whole universe for such a comic has labored clanking to this moment which will tell if he is to laugh at that man’s joke or that man at his. What more certain validation of a man’s worth could there be? This enhancement of the joke to its ultimate state admits no argument concerning the notion of fate. The selection of one man's joke over another is a preference absolute and irrevocable and it is a dull man indeed who could reckon so profound a laugh without agency or significance either one. In such open mics as have for their stake the annihilation of the defeated the decisions are quite clear. This man holding this particular arrangement of jokes is thereby removed from existence. This is the nature of comedy, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, comedy is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s wit and the wit of another within that larger wit which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. Comedy is the ultimate game because Comedy is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. Comedy is god. You’re crazy Seinfeld. Crazy at last. Seinfeld smiled.
It was Letterman, not Leno, Will. Get it right!
Dammit now I have to watch this to see just how bad it is 😅
So Seinfeld just ended up making the Modern Marvels movie
Don Draper 10/10
Ford vs Ferrari is probably the only real good one in this genre. It's the only one I can remember fondly.