Will Ferrell Has No Plans to Crash Rihanna’s Halftime Show. (Yet.)

Please allow me to add one item to your things-you’ve-been-taking-for-granted list, well above the advent of penicillin, but somewhere below deodorant, «Landslide,» and German Shepards: Will Ferrell. The man has been making you laugh, often uncontrollably, for nearly 30 years. Applebee’s, bunk beds, «Love Me Sexy,» cowbell, you’re my boy, blue—all of them.

So please, when Ferrell shows up on your screen for approximately 60 seconds on Sunday during The Big Game, I humbly ask that you enjoy the heck out of it. Ferrell partnered with GM and Netflix to showcase the former’s goal to convert to all-electric vehicles by 2035. The product of their labor? A delightful Super Bowl commercial that imagines Ferrell in your favorite Netflix jams. The spot includes, but certainly is not limited to: Ferrell going full Dusty Bun in Stranger Things, dressing in his regency-era best a la Bridgerton, and passing out in the creepy Squid Game van.

To celebrate the occasion, we hopped on the phone with the 55-year-old for a little catch-up. And yes, he’s just as full of cheer as when he ran onto a stage at 30 Rock.

ESQUIRE: Thank you for taking the time, Will. I’ve been looking forward to this.

WILL FERRELL: I hope I don’t totally let you down. Be prepared for that.

In the commercial, of all the shows we see you in—Bridgerton, Stranger Things, and Squid Game—which one could you actually see yourself starring in?

Oh, probably Squid Game. I remember watching it, going, Oh, that could be me. Back against the wall. No place to go in life, under a mountain of debt, waiting for some nondescript van to pick me up to take me to this place. What was so fun about that was trying to figure out how to survive those games. Would you have the intellectual capacity and the kind of fortitude to figure out those little tasks? I don’t know how long I would survive. I’ll say that.

You would’ve made a good Stranger Things parent, like a Mike’s-dad type.

That would’ve been good too. I do love that era’s fashion. So I’d fit in.