Furthermore, Schneider was also working on a stand-up tour. The production window for Grown Ups 2 (May–September 2012) overlapped with commitments he couldn’t easily break. In a 2013 interview with The A.V. Club , Schneider shrugged it off: “It just didn’t work out. Adam and I are brothers. We’ll do something else.” And they did—Schneider would later pop up in The Ridiculous 6 and Hubie Halloween .
Schneider, for his part, has never expressed public bitterness. He has repeatedly praised Sandler, appearing in The Ridiculous 6 (2015), Sandy Wexler (2017), and Hubie Halloween (2020). The two remain friends. In a 2018 interview with The New York Post , Schneider laughed off the Grown Ups 2 question: “I was busy. Adam called and said, ‘We’re doing it on these dates,’ and I said, ‘I can’t.’ He said, ‘OK, next one.’ And that was it.” why wasn't rob schneider in grown ups 2
At first glance, the answer seems trivial. Rob Schneider was a card-carrying member of the Adam Sandler repertory company. He’d appeared in Big Daddy , The Waterboy , Little Nicky , Mr. Deeds , Eight Crazy Nights , The Longest Yard , Click , You Don’t Mess with the Zohan , and the first Grown Ups . By 2013, the year Grown Ups 2 hit theaters, the phrase “Sandler-Schneider” was as reliable a comedic pairing as peanut butter and jelly—albeit a slightly louder, more manic version. Furthermore, Schneider was also working on a stand-up tour