Corpus Christi movie theater 'Popcorn Guy' offers entertainment before the main event

Millions of people online have seen a Corpus Christi Century 16 Theatre employee showing off some smooth moves while preparing customers popcorn.

Jason, better known as "Popcorn Guy," (it is even on his name tag), offers entertainment before the main event and so many on social media were impressed with his skills.

"Forget Salt Bae, we have Butter King," one TikTok commenter said. Another said "Whoa... it's Jason Courne!"

Oscar Leal, who posted the video on his TikTok page, said it was his first time back at the theaters since the pandemic and he didn't expect to be so entertained.

3NEWS caught up with Jason Grosboll at Century 16 during his Wednesday shift.

"Whenever somebody asks for butter, I always make sure to layer it," Grosboll said.

Grosboll has been working for Century Theatres for 10 years. Meeting people is a joy for him.

"I love interacting with new customers, seeing the smiles on their faces and joy on them," Grosboll said.

Grosboll takes his job to a whole new level by putting on a show before 'the show'.

"At first, no one really understood it, but as time passed on, people loved it."

3NEWS was able to talk with Leal about how spontaneous the social media video was, and how fast it caught traction online.

"He already had prepared one tub of popcorn for us," Leal said. "And I decided to just to pull out my phone when he started the second one, and it was just magical."

The video quickly skyrocketed two million views. Cinemark Theatres even reposted the video on their Instagram page.

"It went from like 100 to 200, and then by yesterday it just kept going up by the thousands, it was very surprising," Leal said.

12 thousand comments on the post later, Grosboll was happy to read through them.

"Last night, I read about 3 or 4 hours of comments," Grosboll said. "It brought my heart joy to read comments like that."

Grosboll didn't know the video went viral until one of his friends told him about it.

"A lot of his fans you know, wanted him to know that we love him that he's our hero," Leal said.

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