Summary
- Jon Hamm returns as Don Draper in a hilarious Pop-Tart movie cameo, connecting to a classic Mad Men episode.
- Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story sets before "Waldorf Stories," featuring Don Draper's second cereal pitch.
- Despite the fun comedy, the Mad Men cereal pitch was a bigger disaster than the movie scene.
John Hamm has returned as Don Draper from Mad Men, with his new movie cameo being a follow-up to this episode from 14 years ago. Mad Men is one of the most beloved shows of all time, with Jon Hamm's role as Don Draper being the actor's defining character. Because of this, it is a big deal that he has returned as his Mad Men character, following up on a classic episode from the AMC series.
AMC's Mad Men is one of the network's most critically acclaimed shows, and despite its popularity, the series sadly ended in 2015. Mad Men follows Don Draper, an agent at an advertising firm that can be found on Madison Avenue in New York City. While he has pitched campaigns to some pretty weird companies, Jon Hamm's newest movie cameo features one of the weirdest Don Draper pitches.
Jon Hamm's Unfrosted Cameo Is An Unexpected Follow-Up To Mad Men's "Waldorf Stories" Episode
The Cameo Has A Weird Connection
Jon Hamm finally returns as Mad Men's Don Draper in a cameo role in Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story, with this unexpected return being one of the highlights of the film. Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story tells the origin story of the Pop-Tart, with the film chronicling Kellogg's race to develop a breakfast toaster pastry. At one point in the film, Don and Roger are brought in by Kellogg's to pitch an advertising campaign for the Pop-Tart, leading to a hilarious Mad Men parody.
However, it turns out that the gag is an unexpected follow-up to Mad Men season 4, episode 6, "Waldorf Stories." In the episode, Don pitches a campaign to Quaker for their LIFE brand of cereal. Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story would then be Don's second cereal company pitch, connecting the two stories in a humorous way.
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Mad Men's Life Cereal Pitch Was Even More Of A Disaster Than Unfrosted's Fake Don & Roger Scene
The Pop-Tart Pitch Was Better
Although Jerry Seinfeld's Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story is a fun comedy, the cereal pitch in Mad Men is even more of a disaster than the movie's Don and Roger scene. In the Mad Men episode, Don and Roger are drunk at the pitch meeting. This leads to the meeting going pretty poorly, with Don pitching a bunch of bad slogans and Roger dancing around the room.
In Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story, Don's overly sexual Pop-Tart pitches aren't a hit, but it isn't nearly as bad as being drunk in front of Quaker. Interestingly, the timeline of Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story would actually set it before "Waldorf Stories," meaning that the Kellogg's pitch may have made them confident for Quaker in Mad Men.
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Mad Men is the award-winning show created by Matthew Wiener that stars Jon Hamm as Don Draper, a masterful ad man in the high-speed advertising world. Set between the 1960s and 70s; Mad Men explores this "Golden Age" of advertising, where everyone has something to sell, and those who don't score a quick win are out of the game. The series also examines the world from a few other character's perspectives, such as Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss), a young woman who starts as a secretary for Don despite the difficulty for women to be taken seriously in business during this time, rises to the challenge to become an ad woman of her own.
