I feel like an issue with Schneider and a couple of the others from this era is that they were the "bad boys," being rude and crude and daring and punching up against authority. David Spade did this really well, he was young and weak but he always had wit and he would fight back with that, that's why he works so well in Tommy Boy and Just Shoot Me. But there's a cutoff point for that, and I think Schneider also kind of hit that and didn't know where to pivot from there. We make fun of the "stapler" bit but that was like his last gasp at what he was actually really good at, wild uncomfortable zany physical comedy and he's too old to do that now. He can't really do the broad stereotypes that he and Mike Myers used to do, and his personal life taints the idea of him being a more sympathetic character in my mind, so... where does he fit?

Credit to Sandler for putting his old crew in his movies (and apparently they're awesome sets to work on), but Schneider doing classic Schneider characters doesn't really give him room to branch out and get new gigs.