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This One Gag in Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart Movie Is Like an Intrusive Thought


What’s the deal with that January 6 bit?

No, the damnedest thing about Unfrosted is that there’s a scene in which Hugh Grant, playing disgruntled actor Thurl Ravenscroft, addresses a mob of fellow cereal mascots from the steps of the Kellogg’s headquarters while wearing face paint and a striped horned headpiece and you realize that the movie is attempting a bit about January 6. Aside from the reference to a TV series that ended nine years ago, the only indication that Unfrosted was made recently is the sequence about storming the Capitol, which is why the cursed image of Grant as a Tony the Tiger variation on the QAnon Shaman has been haunting me like an intrusive thought. Like it does with a nod to the Kennedy assassination a few minutes later, the movie treats the insurrection as just a thing that happened with no indication that it might have continued to bear on the public’s awareness in the time since — a reference floated without any sense of how the people who wrote it feel about it or how those of us watching are supposed to react.

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