We last saw Feldman’s character in Season 4, but after he attempted to kiss Sam on his way out, he didn’t leave Woodstone on the best of terms. Understandably, Jay is not Kyle’s No. 1 fan, but the ghosts, for their own selfish reasons, are desperate to keep Kyle around.
“We need Kyle to become friends with Jay, so we devise this plan,” Long says. “Trevor knows a lot about football and Jay’s watching football, so we’re like, ‘All right, let’s get these guys to bro out, have some beers, talk about fantasy, whatever.’ We get Man Sam spouting off all these cool stats from back in the day. And then Jay sniffs it out. ‘Oh, wait, hold on dude, do you know anyone current?’ Then the whole thing comes crashing to the end. You can only keep a wolf in sheepskin for so long before everyone figures it out.”
After struggling to recall his favorite bit from the episode (to be fair, the episode was filmed long ago, with multiple installments having been filmed since), the actor worries he’s turning into his ancient Viking character, who he says only has “a couple brain cells left.”
“Maybe I’m turning into Thor, I don’t know, dude,” jokes Long. “I might start speaking like that guy. Sometimes I think like him. I just start cutting out words. If we should go for another five years, I don’t know if I’m gonna be able to talk to people properly. Probably never work again. [In Thor’s voice] ‘I, Devan. Devan like job. Devan work actor, for job show. Movie?'”
By the show’s end, Kyle admits to not having many friends because of his, uhh, condition? So Jay relents, and once Sam and Pete finally make it back to the mansion, they invite Kyle to eat Thanksgiving dinner with them.
