One of the vital shocking themes within the just lately launched Comfortable Gilmore 2 needs to be loss. With the 2025 film paying tribute to legacy forged members who’re not with us, there’s a good quantity of heartbreak blended in with the laughs. Nonetheless, there’s an easter egg in an early scene from Adam Sander’s Netflix subscription driver I completely didn’t spot – till followers began to level it out.
As Comfortable Gilmore decides to attempt to golf once more in his Netflix revival, there’s a second the place a golf shack attendant is watching some TV. On first blush you wouldn’t assume a lot of it, however a consumer from Twitter made a discovery that noticed this inclusion of the late Cameron Boyce:
In line with one other report from Parade, the second included in Comfortable Gilmore 2 was recognized as coming from an episode of the Disney Channel sequence Jessie. Seemingly pulled from Season 2, Episode 11, “A Ache within the Rear Window,” the sequence exhibits a younger Boyce spying on a neighbor with a pair of binoculars.
The late actor who performed Adam Sandler’s son within the Grown Ups motion pictures, Cameron Boyce’s premature passing in 2019 was a shock to followers who had additionally adopted his profession via different Disney Channel originals just like the Descendants motion pictures. Via the years Sandler and others have provided fond reminiscences within the honor of Boyce, offering a loving reminder that this expertise gone earlier than his time remains to be very a lot in individuals’s hearts.
That is one more entry into the bittersweet lineup of references to Comfortable Gilmore actors who’ve handed over time, however whose presence can nonetheless be felt within the new image. Our personal Corey Chichizola even spoke to the forged about Comfortable Gilmore 2’s touching memorials, a dialog that highlighted how Comfortable and nemesis Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald) takes place in a graveyard that actually highlights these dearly departed pals.
I don’t assume anybody would have anticipated the return of Comfortable Gilmore to be this reflective on mortality. Then once more, the story about how rewrites prompted by Carl Weathers’ passing modified Comfortable Gilmore 2 from its authentic type does make much more sense now. Which solely makes Adam Sandler saving a particular spot for Cameron Boyce’s reminiscence much more acceptable.
What might have been a return to simply jackassing round on a golf course bought a bit bit deeper over time. Which signifies that the Comfortable Gilmore 2 you have been anticipating may not be the film you meet in your streaming system of selection.
Which may be a part of why the important reception for the image has been a blended bag, so maintain that in thoughts as you make your option to the golf green. For these with an open thoughts, Adam Sandler and firm have teed up this expertise many years within the making, solely on Netflix.