Speaking of cameos, I love seeing that Sinbad has a small role in this movie, and based on the credits, I believe he’s the guy on the phone who tells Dexter that all the money is gone and he’s out of business, right?
Seifert: Well done.
Can you talk about bringing him back in that way? I presume this is really all he could do because he’s still recovering from his stroke, correct?
Kopelow: Well, again, that was kind of — we shot it in Rhode Island, so it was just the schedules and everything. We just couldn’t quite get him there.
Seifert: We would’ve loved to have used him a little more.
Kopelow: We had a scene for him, but…
What would that scene have entailed?
Kopelow: When [Kel] backed into the car [early in the movie,] he was going to pull away and Sinbad was going to be the driver.
Oh man, that would’ve been so good.
Seifert: Think it when you’re watching it.
Traill: But it was great to be able to have him in it, and he was really stoked to be in it. He really enjoyed it.
Seifert: Yeah, it was important for us to have him participate in some way.
Yeah, that was a great throwback. Now Kevin, when you’re on set, do you ever have a tendency to shout out a little, “Five minutes, five minutes!”
[everyone laughs]
Kopelow: No, I do not. It did end up in the script, though. Someone yells “five minutes” in there, and it was almost a coincidence.
Seifert: Cat Bozwell shouts “five minutes,” and it is a little similar to how Kevin shouted “five minutes.”
Speaking of which, did you guys come up with the orange soda reference or is that something that Kel snuck in there?
Seifert: Wrote it in script.
That was great.
Kopelow: We were doing crossovers from all the shows. There’s like four things that we were taking from. “Kenan & Kel,” “Good Burger” one…
I love that. As a Nickelodeon kid, it was great to see all that stuff come together, and it’s just so awesome that this happened so much time after the first one.
Seifert: Yeah, it’s amazing. We thought it might be a record, but I guess Bambi had a sequel 50 years after the first or something.
Well, I think “Good Burger 2” is better, though.
Seifert: Thank you. That’ll be the blurb: “Better than ‘Bambi 2.'”
[everyone laughs]
Kopelow: Unless you just really, really, really hated “Bambi 2.”
Traill: That’s true.
Kopelow: Yeah, We’ll take it.
“Good Burger 2” is definitely better than “Bambi 2,” and it’s available to stream now on Paramount+.