-Cole Sprouse.
-Hey.
-You look great. Are you in the studio?
Because we're -- I'm not doing the show from the studio.
-Yeah, well, I was invited to the studio
only to find out that it was just me
and these two guys up there in the corner.
-Hey, let me see that stache.
Can I pull on it?
-Do you want to twist it?
-Yeah. I do.
-Yeah, I figured I'd dress up like a young Chef Boyardee
for you today to really scare my entire audience.
-[ Laughs ] Why --
I like it. I think it looks good. Why the stache?
-I was growing it out. I was growing my hair out
and my mustache for a role,
but then quarantine hit, and I figured, you know what?
I'm going to be playing 17 for the next 80 years of my life.
I might as well give myself a second
to actually figure if I can grow a mustache.
-Yeah. And you can.
Now, I know from growing a mustache
that this part takes --
That's what takes the extra couple months, that thing.
-Oh, this has taken me about the fullness of the quarantine
thus far. I've been trimming.
I've been making sure it all looks kosher.
My brother and I have been in a violent competition
for whose facial hair is more robust.
-Mm. You've got to be in the lead, I'm assuming.
-Well, he's got this sort of devilish --
-Like a Van Dyke type of deal?
-Yeah, a kind of Shakespearean point to his chin.
I was sort of going for the Victorian man
that's trying to tie a woman to the train tracks,
and he's going to go for, like, full Viking mode.
-Yeah, Snidely Whiplash type of vibe.
But do you have any wax in there?
-Oh, yeah, I do. In fact,
I have it here.
-Yeah. Dude, that's what I'm talking about.
You got to get the mustache wax.
-Oh, dude, it's the only way to go.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I'm talking about.
Oh, my gosh.
-Whoo! -Ooh, ooh, ooh.
Hey, you know what's a good gift for you,
if you know somebody that wants to give you a gift --
-Clearly, you're not proposing to get me a gift, but --
[ Laughs ] "Hey, you know what's a good gift for you,
if someone wants to get you one."
-[ Laughs ]
I can mail one to you, but --
-Yeah, are you going to give me the gift,
or you need someone else to buy it?
-I think someone else should be involved.
-[ Laughs ]
But is it -- There's a mustache comb.
Do you have one?
-No, I don't.
Look, this is uncharted territory for me.
I'm learning how to do this for the first time in my life,
okay? I haven't gotten all the accoutrements yet.
-By the way, I have a question
about "Suite Life of Zack & Cody."
-It was just -- It's the 15th.
-It's the 15th --
Wow.
This is me?
Is that me? -Yeah, that could be,
if you keep shaving.
-[ Laughs ]
Dude, what I was going to ask you is,
do you know why everyone's so obsessed with "The Suite Life"?
-I would hope it had something to do with me.
No, I think --
You know, it's the 15-year anniversary of it.
And it's interesting.
I think even the way I remember a lot of those kids' shows
that I grew up on watching in this regard,
they sort of fit within this golden, nostalgic little bubble.
So there's always this tendency
to glorify the things that we grew up with,
especially the programming we grew up with.
And I think thankfully our show sort of held the test of time.
I think the audience has been revived in a couple cases.
In places like Disney Plus,
I think it was airing for a little bit
and some other --
You know, people are just searching up
all the compilations on YouTube and things, but --
-Are people trying to get you to go back
and do another thing or a special or something?
-Yeah, it's funny.
I've had the privilege
of being a part of a lot of fun TV shows when I was younger
that kind of became cult classics or fan favorites
like "Suite Life" or "Friends,"
and there's always that question that pops up.
You know, there's always that, "When are you going to go back?"
or when are you going to renew it?"
But I don't think it should be done.
if I'm being honest -- I think it's really incendiary.
There's a huge potential to kind of demolish
that perfect, little, golden memory of a program
if you go back and you revive it.
-No. No, do not do that.
-Yes, I --
Look, I'm not the biggest fan
of, like, the sequel and the spin-off thing.
And I think also if enough time elapses,
everyone who comes back to a program like that
doesn't -- They're not really in the same head space,
so they're trying to capture the same feeling
that it was in at least my childhood...
-Oh, yeah, I agree with that. -...that sort of strange age
of sitcom when we were four-camera, live-audience,
and filming in Hollywood.
I don't know how it would feel.
It kind of --
I think it would be enjoyable to find a way to do it
that has a lot of respect and captures the feeling
that people are actually desiring from that.
But I don't know. I think it can be quite incendiary.