Explosive Pizza!

Trivia

1. All the shots of Dale the dog were video clips of my dog Wally. And many of Dale's traits that were mentioned were his. For example, Jeremy talks about Dale growling when someone comes near his food. That's exactly what Wally does. If someone comes near him when he's eating dinner, he'd growl because he doesn't want to share. There was a time where he flashed his teeth at my mother. 

2. Brer Fox hallucinates a dragon that he names Mal, after Maleficent's daughter in the Disney channel original trilogy, Descendants. It also makes sense because Maleficent turns into a dragon in the original Sleeping Beauty.

3. Chad's line in this book "what the spec is going on here" was changed to "what in the world is going on here" for the movie because we were unable to make Jeremy, Burt and Patty wear glasses.

4. To get my dog Wally to bark at Jeremy, I had my mother knock on our front door and open the garage because it always gets him going.

5. This is Brer Vulture's first appearance since the first Jelly Side Up!.

6. The glasses I put on Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear are ones that I got in a valentines day card in eleventh grade. I call them my Chad glasses because in the card, my mother pretended he signed it and wrote 'now you have glasses like me'. Now I wear them every December 10th through 20th to honor Chad's life. 

7. The Bunk'd episode this installment follows is titled There's No Place Like Camp. 

8. Dale Doggenport is named after the school bully in season 1 episode 10 of JESSIE, Dale Davenport. Like how in the original Bunk'd episode, they name a baby goat Gilbert Goatfried after the late Gilbert Gottfried. 

9. Patty's inability to cook takes after an episode of The Patty Duke Show where Richard keeps ditching Patty for Gloria's cooking because Patty can't cook. So Patty asks Cathy to teach her to cook because she took classes. 

10. This marks Jill's debut on my YouTube channel (unless you count the clips of her with Chad and Jeremy on Hullabaloo and Shindig!).

11. Burt mocks Chad's 'fear of dogs' and acts like he's never seen it before. In real life, he has seen it before because he was longtime friends with Frank Gorshin, who was terrified of dogs.

12. Chad being scared of dogs is a lie in real life too. He actually loved dogs and hated people who were mean to them. 

13. Brer Fox telling Jill to put her number in the phone book is a reference to the first Jelly Side Up!. In the referenced scene, Burt gives Chad the phone book saying he can call his wife whenever he needs to, to which Chad responds "her number's unlisted" and Brer Fox said "Then list it!".

14. The shot with Dale carrying a shoe was improvised. When we needed Wally for that scene, I called for him and he ran upstairs carrying one of my Nikes. This resulted in Chad's improvised line, "Good, Dale. You've got your galoshes."

15. I had attempted to make this one the second installment of Jelly Side Up! but the story made no sense to my dad, so I put more thought into the changes we'd make here while making Peanut Side Down! and Iced Gingerbread. 

16. The opening credits song is Dolly Parton's version of The Cruel War. I picked that song because Jill sang it with Chad in 1965 and she's in this. I couldn't use Chad's version because it was hard to figure out how to crop it so it would start and end at a certain point. 

17. Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear kept their southern accents in the family dinner scene because my dad couldn't do his Brer voice with a British accent. 

18. Brer Vulture's lines "If you're back in the laughing place, how come you aren't laughing?" and "So, Chad, you're still sitting and starving eh?" are references to lines he actually says in the Splash Mountain ride. The original lines are "if you finally found your laughing place, how come you aren't laughing?" and "so you're looking for a laughing place, eh?".

19. Another nod to The Patty Duke Show is Patty saying she set snare traps to keep Paul O'Keeffe out of her slumber parties. Paul O'Keeffe is the actor who played Patty's comic relief brother Ross Lane. 

20. The story about Jeremy going to Scotland for a year is true. One of his first acting jobs was in a stage play in Scotland and he needed to go there for a year.