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Rob Reiner on 'The Bear' ©FX Networks/Courtesy Everett Collection The Bear paid tribute to legendary director and actor Rob Reiner during its final episode.
In the last episode of the hit FX series, “The Original Beef of Chicagoland,” line cook Ebra (Edwin Lee Gibson) calls restaurant consultant Albert Schnurr (Reiner) to deliver good news about the eatery’s future. “Albert, we are in business,” Ebra says into his phone. “It’s perfect. I will have all the documents, email it to you immediately. Anything else I can do?”
While viewers don’t hear Albert on the other end of the call, Ebra pauses and then says, “As you wish,” quoting Cary Elwes’ Westley in the Reiner-directed 1987 classic The Princess Bride.
Before his tragic death, Reiner appeared as Schnurr in a three-episode arc during Season Four of The Bear.
In December 2025, new broke that Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead in their California home. Their son Nick, was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing the filmmaker and his wife to death.
