Jerry Seinfeld Says He Wanted to Make His Pop-Tarts Movie the Opposite of ‘Barbie’

We really wanted to be the opposite of Barbie,' Seinfeld said during a SiriusXM town hall on Thursday. We wanted to be, Kelloggs would not make this to promote their product. Unfrosted tells the true story of how Kelloggs came up with the PopTart. The cereal giant competes with Post and a warring band of food marketing mascots while racing to be the first to come up with the next big thing in breakfast. Seinfeld added in the town hall that their fix for the legality of making this true story was to simply not mention it to the brand. Kelloggs had no idea we were making the movie, he said. We got a shady Valley lawyer to write a page to send to Netflix. And you know, I have a good relationship with Ted Sarandos, the head of Netflix content, and he said, You got, you know, you got legal, sign off? I go, Absolutely. Yeah, we got it. And we never showed Kelloggs the movie. And they saw it a few weeks ago. Still havent heard anything, but they did, they started making PopTarts with our pictures on them, so we assumed theyre OK with it. The comedian has had plenty to say while on the Unfrosted press tour. A lot of it about the state of comedy today and how he thinks politics are hurting the quality. It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, Oh, Cheers is on. Oh, MASH is on. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All in the Family is on, Seinfeld said on the New Yorkers Radio Hour. You just expected, Therell be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well, guess what where is it? This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people, he continued. Seinfelds thoughts didnt stop there. The soundbites kept coming on the press tour when he also expressed his thoughts to GQ on making a movie after working for so long in TV. He said everyone working now was dead serious and replaced with malaise and depression. Disorientation replaced the movie business, he explained. Everyone I know in show business, every day, is going, Whats going on? How do you do this? What are we supposed to do now? Unfrosted popped up on Netflix on May 3.