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Speaking of Netflix: Pop-Tarts!

Speaking of Netflix: Pop-Tarts!

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by: mypeez 1610k+ OP 
~ 4 years ago   Oct 3, '21 9:22am  
Speaking of Netflix: Pop-Tarts!
 
Although its been a few years, frosted strawberry all the way!
 
Jerry Seinfeld to Direct an Extremely High-Concept Movie About How Pop-Tarts Are Kinda Cool
www.vulture.com/2021 /06/netflix-greenlig hts-jerry-seinfeld-p op-tart-movie.h
What's the deal with movies? Seems like Hollywood will adapt any bankable IP it can get its grubby mitts on these days, be it a book, a TV series, or a highly processed foodstuff. Or, in this case, a stand-up bit about a highly processed foodstuff. Deadline reports that Jerry Seinfeld will star in, direct, and co-produce Unfrosted, a comedy film about the invention of the Pop-Tart. He's already co-written the script, which is based on a riff from a recent stand-up routine that isn't exactly a joke, per se, but is more of a short ramble about how Pop-Tarts made him happy as a child. (The Corn Pop vibes are deafening.) Netflix won the rights to the project and has committed to starting production next year.
 
"Stuck at home watching endless sad faces on TV I thought this would be a good time to make something based on pure silliness," Seinfeld told Deadline. "So we took my Pop-Tart stand-up bit from my last Netflix special and exploded it into a giant, crazy comedy movie." Regardless of the subject matter, which sounds as thin as the delectable breakfast pastries, we're thrilled that we get to see Seinfeld star in a movie. Not since he voiced Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie have we had the pleasure. We hope the movie starts with voiceover saying, "According to all known laws of gastronomy, there is no way that a tart should be able to pop."
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Mahkno 1910k+
~ 4 years ago   Oct 3, '21 8:11pm  
Pop tarts really are an example of marketing genius. How to sell hardtack at a mark up? Put some sugar on it, in it! tada... a staple of soldiers for thousands of years made fun.
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SAM1096 2500+
~ 4 years ago   Oct 3, '21 10:20pm  
He has also done a movie where he is a Lego. He must be bored. LOL
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mypeez 1610k+ OP 
~ 4 years ago   Oct 5, '21 5:15am  
@SAM1096 : Was it a movie or the new Netflix promo for their run of all 180 episodes?
 
Watch Netflix trap Jerry Seinfeld as a living Lego to celebrate Seinfeld on streaming
ew.com/tv/jerry-sein feld-lego-video-netf lix/
You've never seen Seinfeld like this. And maybe that's a good thing - because Jerry Seinfeld as a living Lego is actually pretty disturbing!
 
But to celebrate the fact that Seinfeld is now available on Netflix, the streaming service decided to trap the comedian in an alternate-universe Seinfeld set where everything is made out of Legos… including Seinfeld himself.
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SAM1096 2500+
~ 4 years ago   Oct 6, '21 11:44pm  
@mypeez : You're probably right. I didn't pay that much attention.
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mypeez 1610k+ OP 
~ 4 years ago   Oct 7, '21 4:50am  
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For those wanting to play along at home, Lego has a 30th Anniversary Set:
www.lego.com/en-us/p roduct/seinfeld-2132 8?CMP=AFC-AffiliateU S-PPkX79/c*b0-1
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