Unfrosted and The End of Curb
What's the deal with our obsession with Seinfeld and Larry David?
What’s the deal with Clip Shows?
Like the penultimate Seinfeld, this is a clip show. Fire up your YouTube machine and watch some clips!
Spoiler warning: Unfrosted. I loved it. It's an uncomplicated, silly goof of a movie from director Jerry Seinfeld. Cameos overflow like oh-so-many bowls of Corn Flakes poured by nervous five-year-olds.
Way back in 2013, Jerry teased a Pop-Tart movie on Howard Stern. However, his protestations in the interview about directing were obviously curtailed by looking for something to do during the lockdown.
Last night, Jerry was on SNL talking about his presser tour for the Netflix movie for a fun Weekend Update gag. And he’s right. There’s been a lot. I’ve been obsessed with all of these YouTube clips, sometimes with co-star Jim Gaffigan, from Rich Eisen to Collider to Blocks Podcast with Neal Brennan to even Club Random these past few weeks. If only Bee Movie got so much 'buzz’.
Though not a direct rebuttal to my good pal, creative partner, and Commander of LeaguePodcast, Matt Dursin’s post about Seinfeld and Curb, this post is not a review, but a chance to let you know, “Hey, I’m Still Out Here”, myself. It has been a while, Substack. But we’ve been busy, podcasting, and we just hit 500 episodes (LeaguePodcast Est. 2009 - Print The Legend). Plus, I recently spent the night in the ER with gallstones. “The gallbladder - why do we even need it?”
Last year, at a standup show, Seinfeld teased the “No Lessons Learned” Curb Your Enthusiasm finale and boy, did something happen. We loved the way they ended the series, and with Richard Lewis making an appearance in the last episode, it was very sweet.
Unfrosted was a great sugar rush to ween us off of 12 seasons of Curb. I don’t know what much else to say but go watch it.
Does anyone remember laughter?
There’s not much to it. Sit back and laugh and be silly.
Watch Hugh Grant be a Shakespearean actor relegated to playing Tony The Tiger. They make a near impossible January 6th joke work. They make a funeral seriously funny. This is For All Mankind for the ‘people that fill out the puzzles on the back of cereal boxes’ set. Streaming on Netflix now.
Seek some goddamn joy in your life, would ya?
My lovely girlfriend (partner? wife that is not my wife?) Stacey (notable hater of the “show about nothing” and the “incredibly unfunny” Curb) had a blast. Max Greenfield and Amy Schumer head up Kellogg’s rival Post company, two of her favorites. Mine too. At one point she said, “Man, the only thing that would make it better is if Fred Armisen was in this”!
She didn’t have to wait long for the star of her personal comfort food TV - a bootleg YouTube channel streaming full episodes of Portlandia - to show up.
Am I sick of watching Larry and Seinfeld do pressers for their work in 2024? Nope, I’m about to click play against my better judgement on Club Random for “crying out loud”.
When we got back to the car, Headed north then south
I needed a drink I had a cotton mouth
We had so much food didn't know where to start
At the Häagan Daas or Kellogg’s Pop Tarts
Big bags of chips, gallons of dips
It took me weeks to get the taste of my lips
I ate so much miserable is how I felt
Almost busted out my pants had to loosen my belt
Kickin at the tube, watchin' none better than
You know the king of late night, Yeah Dave Letterman
Not too hilarious, jokes kinda plain
But everything is funny when you're smoking Mary Jane.....
— Cheeba Cheeba - TONE LOC
Unfrosted somehow passed me by so far (maybe I'm, not as "obsessed" as you are), but I will definitely check it out. Thanks to you for sharing some info on it, and for sharing my Curb post and the podcast, as well. Your commander approves.